Chris Cape

Really a big week for releases not only have Chilled Vibes dropped one of the best instrumental EP’s of 2012, Gin’s debut his here!

Gin is a soulful hip hop hippy Goddess.

If people were rapping at Woodstock 1969, it would have sounded like this.

It just flows like honey. Organic. Often rap sounds like rap. Rock sounds like rock. This just sounds like music, art, expression …

Lyrically Gin is refreshingly positive, thoughtful and articulate also bringing in guest MC’s to add the diversity that takes this EP to the next level. I’ve had these tracks on loop now and they really take me to a place that very little hip hop does, it’s a place called hip-hop-folk land.

Today marks the release of the long awaited debut EP from Mother City duo Chilled Vibes. While eagerly waiting on this album to drop for last two years I’ve wondered…Will it be killed by it’s own hype? Have I built it up in my dome so much that it is bound to disappoint?

no.

This EP is everything I dreamed it would be and more.

Written and recorded in Cape Town the listener get’s a taste of live in the worlds most beautiful city. It’s diverse people, it’s endless summers, it’s early mornings, it’s late nights and most definitely it’s chilled vibes.

Six years ago I left Cape Town to become a rock-star in London. All in all it’s been amazing. I’ve toured the country, written and released some music I’m proud of and made great friends; but sitting alone in this Starbucks counting the minutes before I hand out flyers in the cold for money makes me wonder….maybe I should head home and live on the beach for the next 50 years. Warning to all you South African’s living abroad: THIS ALBUM WILL MAKE YOU HOMESICK.

In the world of the beach bum his/her one and only worry is, ‘what’s the surf looking like today’. If you want to know or at least get close to knowing what that feels like download the Chilled Vibes EP right now. It full of joy, melancholy and reality.

Downloading this EP is an opportunity to experience music powered by love and nothing else.

Big respect to Chilled Vibes for this one. Definitely my album of the week.

http://chilledvibes.com

@chilledvibessa

Stay tuned

Cape x

I got some of the Cadets together for an acoustic jam in the living room and this was the result.

She loves me like a hurricane
And I’m just tree
Baby slow it down
Please you know you’re smothering C
The storm is intense,
My thunderous retreat
Lit by the lightning
Between she and he
Bit by bit frighting
The future I see
*tick tock tick tock
Time seized to be
Like drops in the sea
No longer separate entities
I’m a part of you
And you’re a part of me

Breaking me apart, Lego block at a time
To build me up again, correct to your design
A version of C, me, that doesn’t exist
A few blocks hidden under the bed, still you insist
I’m everything I was before we met, before this
You’re everything thing I’m not and everything I miss
Truth be told I’m over you now I only wish
To vibe alone in my studio, bliss

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My 15min short film is now available on YouTube. Download the music for free here chriscape.bandcamp.com

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