South Africa’s dangerous, romantic Afrikaans rapper, Jack Parow, will release his eagerly anticipated sophomore album, Eksie Ou, under his own label, Parowphernalia. The album will hit the shelves early December 2011 and his best goods yet can be expected. Eksie Ou follows in wake of his platinum selling album, Jack Parow, released in May last year.
Jack Parow is back with an album that will make you laugh, think, cry and basically get down. “I just want to give people something to laugh about. South Africa has so much kak for people to worry about, so when they listen to my CD they can laugh a bit. I also have some serious songs, but they have a light undertone,” says Parow about his lyrics.
Eksie Ou was produced by Justin de Nobrega. He also produced Parow’s first album, Jack Parow. Some of Parow’s kiefest friends collaborate with him on this album. They are Dawid Kramer, Francois van Coke (Fokofpolisiekar and Van Coke Kartel), Pierre Greeff (Die Heuwels Fantasties), Gazelle, Haezer, PH Fat and Sibot. Below he talks about his upcoming album.
The sound on Eksie Ou
“As with my first album, it is a mix of a variety of music. It moves from hard Hip Hop beats to Boeremusiek to Dub Step to Adult Contemporary music. I’m not sure what adult contemporary is, but it sounds heavy. So yes, it is a journey through various influences that grabbed me during the writing process en drunk nights. But I think it is lekker; something for everyone and everyone for something as the Three Musketeers said.”
How it differs from the first album
“Well, it’s different lyrics and different music, so that’s the first way it’s different. I think also because I am supposedly cooler than before (I’m not, but don’t tell anyone, otherwise my street cred will be destroyed), I can work with fancier and more radical musicians. On my first album there were pity collaborations, but this time everyone is more borderline happy to work with me, so the beats and lyrics are shmaarter.”
Collaborating with Dawid Kramer
“Dawid Kramer is like my hero. I am crazy about him. I grew up on his music and I still have all his records. So to do a song with him was heavy next-level and also intensely nerve-wracking, because I wanted to be cool. I thought so much about how to be cool, that I looked like a nerd and acted weirdly, but thank the lord he still did this track with me. He probably felt sorry for me.”
Catch Parow performing his new tunes at:
27th November – Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town
2nd December – Cool Runnings, Fourways
5th December – Durban Rage
8th December – Plett Rage
10th December – Big Top Arena, Carnival City
21st December – Struisbaai, MK Avontoer
23rd December – Langebaan, MK Avontoer
31 December – Jeffreys Bay beachfront
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