{"id":42224,"date":"2018-10-12T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/discover-angolan-producer-nazars-rough-kuduro-echoing-the-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:07","slug":"discover-angolan-producer-nazars-rough-kuduro-echoing-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/discover-angolan-producer-nazars-rough-kuduro-echoing-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Angolan producer Nazar&#8217;s rough kuduro echoing the civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17157 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1208\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub.jpg 1208w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub-759x571.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub-1010x759.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub-661x497.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub-465x350.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Hyperdub-375x282.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Get to know Angolan producer Nazar&#8217;s unique\u00a0kuduro style\u00a0with his first single &#8220;Enclave&#8221;. Released on London-based label Hyperdub\u00a0his debut EP\u00a0is set to drop\u00a0on November 16.<\/h3>\n<p>Nazar\u00a0offers\u00a0his own unique take on Angola\u2019s\u00a0kuduro\u00a0music.\u00a0Discover\u00a0a tough and angry sound\u00a0infused\u00a0with\u00a0high\u00a0energy, lacing cold synths, club-ready beats and polyrhythmic percussions.\u00a0Nazar calls this \u2018\u2018rough kuduro\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>After the civil war ended in 2002,\u00a0the producer\u00a0who was raised in Belgium,\u00a0returned to his native Angola where he put his own\u00a0spin on the genre. Nazar states \u201csince people can\u2019t really criticise on the streets, they do it on the internet and through their art&#8230; I couldn\u2019t express my frustrations with what I was seeing on a daily basis and translate that uglier side, the existing kuduro was too upbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tk0Sw2Ascrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nazar\u2019s musical world centres around the violence, injustice and omnipresence of a repressive state during and after the 27 year Angolan civil war, simultaneously exploring hope, resilience and pride in a country torn apart by conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Enclave\u2019 references the thousands of unnamed dead lost in the conflict with his distorted vocals referencing the divide between the south and the north caused by colonialism and colourism. \u201cI sing about deserving respect, no matter how humble my<br \/>\npeople in the south are.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Preorder the EP\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/fanlink.to\/nazarenclave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0and listen the lead track &#8216;Enclave&#8217; in our Afro Club Exp. playlist\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/AfroClubExp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Read next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bonaventure-mentor\/\">Bonaventure blends Kizumba, Coup\u00e9-D\u00e9cal\u00e9 and European dance music<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17158\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Nazar-Enclave-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to know Angolan producer Nazar&#8217;s unique\u00a0kuduro style\u00a0with his first single &#8220;Enclave&#8221;. Released on London-based label Hyperdub\u00a0his debut EP\u00a0is set to drop\u00a0on November 16. Nazar\u00a0offers\u00a0his own unique take on Angola\u2019s\u00a0kuduro\u00a0music.\u00a0Discover\u00a0a tough and angry sound\u00a0infused\u00a0with\u00a0high\u00a0energy, lacing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5461,5854],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42224"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42224"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}