i didn't know who this patrick el-hag but i did know about ison since i'm a fan of ison & fille, and i heard about this track through a friend of mine who is real tight with him. he told me that el-hag and ison glasgow was childhood friends and that he was this jazz-dude.
but after doing my research a few years on after i found out that he started out in the late 90's and put out a record on his own in '97. it was in a more soul/r&b slant but with a poppy undertone and fact is that sans a few songs on that album, it was awful and el-hag did not have a good english singing voice. but it also had what i believe is ison's first appearance musically on recod when he does some quick complimentary raps on "new york".
but ten years after that he probably came to his senses and started singing in swedish and it fit him much better and he shifted sound for a more light smoky jazz sound. his '07 album was a collection of songs with jazz & latin feels.
it's a lot of versions of standards and some classics but a few of his own but this one is a version of the jerome kern/otto hernbach classic "yesterdays". in this one he keeps the touch of the composition but goes off with a hip-hop touch but still keeping the jazz and it's not like the acid jazz experiments or the hip-hop that samples jazz but just cool latin jazz with a touch of thump.
ison who is one my favourite rappers does two great verses and sets the tone really well with his flow. the way it contrasts to el-hag's smooth voice and slow delivery is a delight and it's just so good. ison does fairly fast rapping on the first verse and takes it down a notch on the second. i also like the way the play off each other in the vocal adlibs with el-hags deep voice on isons and the more sporadic but effective hiphop ones by ison on el-hag's verses.
this song is one those that a grew some buzz but it didn't really get the proper attention that it deserved. also don't sleep on the parametrial remixes, the dub in really good.
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