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Fantastic Negrito – Grandfather Courage (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:55 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Storefront Records
Fantastic Negrito re-imagines tracks from his 2022 album White Jesus Black Problems in a stripped back, acoustic setting on Grandfather Courage. The previous album was inspired by Negrito’s search into his own ancestry, discovering that his 7th generation grandmother was a Scottish indentured servant who entered into a common law marriage with an African American enslaved man, defying the race-mixing laws on 1750’s colonial Virginia. Negrito channels that love story into an album that bears testament to love’s power to stand up against inhumane systems, especially those governed by ignorance, fear, and violence:
“The predicament of my 7th-generation grandparents was based on the notion of the highest bidder. People that wanted the best food, sex, drugs, best cars. Enslavement and indentured servitude both depended on the desire to achieve wealth and mastery over society and its inhabitants. Consumption, greed, materialism, and lies are the fuel to the nasty business of white supremacy.”
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Fantastic Negrito – The Last Days of Oakland (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:32 minutes | 930 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl
The Last Days of Oakland is the second album by American singer-songwriter Fantastic Negrito. Rayanne Pinna described the album as “an urgent, political record that grapples with the many changes Oakland has seen in recent years.” In 2017, it won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
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Fantastic Negrito – Please Don’t Be Dead (Deluxe) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:32 minutes | 680 MB | Genre: Blues, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl
The last album observed the world around us, this album is a call to arms. Fantastic Negrito is bringing the fight and confronting the challenges of our day full-on, with tracks like ‘ Plastic Hamburgers’ and ‘A Boy Named Andrew’.The title ‘Please Don’t Be Dead’ is a plea to all to keep alive everything that is and was good and important. For anyone who ever felt like it was over yet hoped it wasn’t, this is your music.
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Fantastic Negrito – Please Don’t Be Dead (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:40 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl
The last album observed the world around us, this album is a call to arms. Fantastic Negrito is bringing the fight and confronting the challenges of our day full-on, with tracks like ‘ Plastic Hamburgers’ and ‘A Boy Named Andrew’.The title ‘Please Don’t Be Dead’ is a plea to all to keep alive everything that is and was good and important. For anyone who ever felt like it was over yet hoped it wasn’t, this is your music.
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Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:28 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited
Although Fantastic Negrito’s first two albums, The Last Days of Oakland (2016) and Please Don’t Be Dead (2018) won Grammys in the “Best Contemporary Blues” category, the blues have steadily become a lesser flavor in the dynamic, iridescent blend that is his quest to be truly fantastic. Where he once channeled Jack White or Dan Auerbach, Xavier Dphrepaulezz aka Fantastic Negrito has added fluidity and wiggle and for the first time has stepped beyond his base musical inspirations (Prince, Sly, James Brown, George Clinton) into a more emotive and energized vehicle for messages like “eat less sugar, have more sex, have less stress,” and “It’s never too late to achieve your dreams.” With Have You Lost Your Mind Yet, Fantastic Negrito has certainly taken a large step towards realizing his.
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Fantastic Negrito – White Jesus Black Problems (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:03 minutes | 504 MB | Genre: Blues Rock, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Storefront Records
Fantastic Negrito’s upcoming album and short film “White Jesus Black Problems” was inspired by a search into his ancestry where he found that his 7th generation grandmother was a Scottish indentured servant who entered into a common law marriage with an African American enslaved man, his 7th generation grandfather, in open defiance of the racist laws of 1750’s colonial Virginia.
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