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Owusu & Hannibal
Biography
Danish modernists Philip Owusu and Robin Hannibal are among a handful of artists -- Jamie Lidell, Eric Lau, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, and Henrik Schwarz are some others -- working to find a way forward for soul music and R&B in the 21st century by blending it with house, broken beat, trip-hop, and other forms of electronica. Both Copenhagen natives, although they consider themselves international citizens first and Danish second, Hannibal (formerly of jazzy hip-hop collective Nobody Beats the Beats) and Owusu (a vocalist of Ghanaian descent, briefly part of the house duo Owusu & Green, who released one 12" on Naked Music) were introduced by a mutual friend, quickly hit it off over overlapping musical interests -- in particular their shared love of Sly Stone -- and began working together in early 2005. Their first collaborative production, the moody broken beat clunker "Delirium," caught the attention of the groove-centric indie Ubiquity Records, who released it as a 12" that November. The full-length Living With... followed a year later, featuring a dozen originals and a glistening cover of the Beach Boys' "Caroline No," produced and performed almost entirely by Owusu & Hannibal, who remain a completely studio-bound project.
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