{"title":"Confucius MC","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"somewhere","title":"Somewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eCited by Kae Tempest as \"a huge influence on my life, my character and my rhyme-style\", Confucius MC has been carving his own echelon in the UK hip-hop landscape alongside running creative workshops for young people in his community. A top tier collaborator, Con earned rave reviews as one half of Old Paradice with Blah Records producer Morriarchi and featured heavily on Jehst's 'Billy Green is Dead' LP and 2019 single 'Autumn Nights'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YNR Productions","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50475075305803,"sku":"1130181","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b0253234-b77b-4445-8292-4a6d608b2d3e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727442196"},{"product_id":"songs-for-lost-travellers","title":"Songs For Lost Travellers","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouth London rapper Confucius MC returns to Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel Recordings for a new project alongside producer and multi-instrumentalist Bastien Keb. Merging unexplored pathways between rap, folk, and jazz into a spiritual triumvirate, \u003ci\u003eSongs For Lost Travellers\u003c\/i\u003e,  is an album unlike any either artist has made previously, possibly unlike any record in existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonest and direct, the duo imbue \u003ci\u003eSongs For Lost Travellers\u003c\/i\u003e with knowledge and truth from their lived experiences. There is grief hidden in the notes, an inherent sadness that is balanced with an awareness that grief is a protest against the social machinery of remaining numb. The record lingers in a meditative state, unafraid of restlessness and embracing solitude, with the expectation that peace is just as imminent as death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither Con nor Keb bothered much with the professional studio in making \u003ci\u003eSongs For Lost Travellers\u003c\/i\u003e. Instead, they opted for the raw state of their home recordings and first takes, matching the intimacy of being alone and reflective in their creative energies. Room static on ‘Tell Me Lies’ makes it feel like you’ve entered their apartments. The immediacy continues on ‘Gutters’, as Keb plays guitar while watching the tele and Con hums along to the vocal melody in search of the proper pocket for his verse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore drawn to Keb’s recent folk recordings on the Songs For Lilla EP than his funk roots circa Dinking In The Shadows of Zizou or the cinematic soul of The Killing of Eugene Peeps, Con leaned into the spacial freedom he heard in Keb’s lo-fi production cobbled from field recordings and voice notes. Both artists placed their families into the tableau; Con wrote ‘Little Man’ for his son, hoping to add a positive contribution to the canon of parental rap songs. Later, his son appears at the end of ‘Paramount’ to deliver a passage from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. Keb secretly recorded his mum playing saxophone and sampled his cousin playing sax as well. The result is a near-drumless album (save for ‘Toulouse’ and light tapping on ‘It Would Speak’) in which Keb’s raw production (plus a few sessions with Kofi Flexxx on flute) gave Con a liminal zone, unencumbered by beats per minute, to craft melodies that turn his philosophical rhymes into mantras. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Tell Me Lies (feat. Kofi Flexxx)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Fairytale (feat. Kofi Flexxx)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Time Will Come\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. It Would Speak (feat. Kofi Flexxx)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Little Man\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Lemon Zest (feat. Kofi Flexxx)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Question Or Consume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Gutters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Paramount\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Bonsai (feat. Mark Millington)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Lattice of Coincidence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Eyes To See\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Toulouse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Care About (feat. Zemora Amour)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Native Rebel Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50899181535563,"sku":"2234472","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Packshot_LP_-_Songs_for_Lost_Travellers_5ebb755a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732717834"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/confucius-mc.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}