• Pin It      Erasing boundaries with Blitz the Ambassador
by thisday.com     posted Friday, 02 March 2012 21:05| 0
Comments      One of KDIC 88.5FM's current programmes is called
Erasing Boundaries, and it's a series of interviews with
artists, musicians and writers who strive to erase musical and
cultural boundaries.      Previous guest include Lupe Fiasco,
rapper Big Sean, and the band They Might Be Giants, and the
guest this week was Brooklyn-based Ghanaian rapper, bandleader,
artist and filmmaker Blitz the Ambassador.      If you've
listened to Blitz's most recent album Native Son, you'll
understand why he was a good pick for the show. It's a hip-hop
album all right, but you'll also hear Ethiopian funk jazz,
Afrobeat, R&B and more, and one minute he's flowing in Pidgin,
the next in Twi or English. (You get to hear some of the tracks
from that album during the show, specifically Accra City Blues,
Instrumentalude, Wahala, Akwaaba, Native Sun and Free Your Mind,
and Breathe from the previous album Ster