I couldn’t find any MP3 vendor that would sell a copy of Dante by Abd Al Malik in the UK.
Then I discovered that the album can be bought from Abd Al Malik’s website where you can also preview all the tracks.
I had heard two tracks from the album previously, C’est du lourd which I translated here and Gilles écoute un disque de rap et fond en larmes which I only ever heard on the TV due to not being able to buy the album.
I have just downloaded the album from the website and although it is too late here now to do a translation today I was so hit by the opening track Roméo et Juliette that I wanted to recommend you go to his website and listen to the preview.
Abd Al Malik is a rapper very different in style from the Hip Hop of, for example, Sinik who I translated in the previous post. The track Roméo et Juliette has the simple backing of an orchestra. Just strings, piano and flute without drums or heavy bass. And it sounds amazing.
Hopefully I’ll find time to do a translation of the track tomorrow.
