Koralle & Yawuh - Primo Quarto (LP)

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140g black vinyl
350 g/qm uncoated cardboard cover

Italian jazz beat maestros Koralle & Yawuh team up for their first collab album, 'Primo Quarto'.

'Primo Quarto' is a record full of late-night tales about beats and jazz (you guessed it) and a musical friendship that manifested itself in an apartment building in Bologna after dark. Thirteen tracks were produced and mixed on the first floor (where Yawuh lives) and on the fourth floor (where Koralle’s studio is located). With the help of an A-list of local musicians (Matteo Magnaterra, Piergiorgio Perrella, Giovanni Tamburini, Gianluca Arcesilai), three MCs from the US (Anti Lilly, Tiff The Gift, Physical Graffiti), and producer friends Saib (Berlin), Phlocalyst (Luz), and Lorenzo Morresi (Milan)

“'Primo Quarto' is an Italian expression that refers to the first quarter of the moon,” Koralle and Yawuh explain. “The lunar phase when the moon is half illuminated and half in shadow. For us, this moment captures the emotional core of the album: a balance between light and dark, the seen and the hidden, clarity and mystery.”

But how does the music actually sound? Listen to Shangri-La, one of the strongest cuts on this consistently very strong album. An earthy soul-jazz tune with a solid groove, but a chilled vibe and lush arrangement of guitar, bass, synth, flugelhorn, and trumpet, it borrows its name from the utopian Tibetan city of the same name.

“'Primo Quarto' is like our version of Shangri-La,” Yawuh says. “A peaceful, surreal city at night where urban life quietly merges with nature, stillness, and secrets.”

When Yawuh is not making music with Koralle, he runs the label collective Beats Tailors and is part of the jazz hip-hop group Unword.

Koralle needs no further introduction: he is one of Italy’s best beatmakers-turned-musicians, period. From 'Bassona'—his 2024 weird jazz/world music album with Francesco Giampaoli—to 'Eat The Kiwi Skin'—the best UK rap album produced outside of the UK with London MC Isatta Sheriff on mic duties—Koralle is our man from Bologna. On his three solo albums on Melting Pot Music, he has perfected his signature jazz beat sound and hooked up with artists like FloFilz, Turt (Summers Sons), Twit One, KeepVibesNear, Pachakuti, Kuranes, Kid Abstrakt, and Figub Brazlevič.

Tracklist

01. Irreversible
02. Three Steps (feat. Anti Lilly)
03. Eclissi (feat. Phlocalyst)
04. She's Lonely
05. Mind States (feat. Physical Graffiti)
06. Shangri-La (feat. Lorenzo Morresi)
07. Piramide
08. Moonlit
09. Until We Lift It (feat. Tiff the Gift)
10. Nuwa (feat. Saib)
11. Lift
12. Everything Is Floating

Credits

Produced by Koralle & Yawuh.
Vocals on ‘Three Steps’ by Anti Lilly.
Additional vocals on ‘Three Steps’ by Vivane.
Vocals on ‘Mind States’ by Physical Graffiti.
Vocals on ‘Until We Lift It’ by Tiff The Gift.
Co-production, guitar & additional synth on ‘Shangri-La’ by Lorenzo Morresi.
Co-production & trumpet on ‘Eclissi’ by Phlocalyst.
Guitar on ‘Fantasmi’ by Gianluca Arcesilai.
Guitar on ‘Three Steps’, ‘Moonlit’, ‘Until We Lift It’ & ‘Everything Is Floating’ by Piergiorgio Perrella.
Bass on ‘Irreversible’, ‘She’s Lonely’, ‘Shangri-La’ & ‘Nuwa’ by Matteo Magnaterra.
Trumpet & Flugelhorn on ‘Shangri-La’ & ‘Everything Is Floating’ by Giovanni Tamburini.

Cat No: MPM 362
Artist: Koralle & Yawuh
Title: Primo Quarto

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