Nenor & Eyal Rob x ELi A Free - What Are You Waiting For? (EP)
Nenor & Eyal Rob (a.k.a Rabo & Snob) are longtime friends and colleagues who have been creating music and DJ’ing since the late 90s. Together, and under different aliases and groups, they’ve created and collaborated on music that spans from Jamaica to Ghana, from the US to Tel Aviv, and from disco to hip-hop and house.
One of their journeys led them to Accra, Ghana, where they were asked to lecture and DJ. The duo brought some recording equipment and some basic beats and asked around for some local talent. ELi A Free was highly recommended by a mutual friend and was invited to the hotel room, where they set up a makeshift studio and recorded the foundations of ‘What Are You Waiting For?’.
Eli's soulful vocals and conscious lyrics perfectly matched the duo’s raw and organic productions. Once returning home, Nenor & Eyal started working on the music, adding percussion they brought from Ghana, live drums and more from Nenor’s vast collection of analogue and quirky gear.The outcome is ‘What Are You Waiting For?,a four-track EP featuring two originals and two remixes.“It is a call to all who live under the sun to participate in bringing forth the change this old world so badly needs.“ELi A Free adds about the lyrical content. The Rabo & Snob remix of the title track sees the production duo return with a remix that strips the original to a hypnotic, dubby and raw club tune–with a faster tempo and heavy bass.
LTJ-Xperience is a veteran Italian producer who is played regularly by essential tastemakers all over the globe. His solid, steady-pace style perfectly complements ‘Pick & Choose’. Nenor (aka Obas Nenor) has released with Moody mann’s legendary Mahogani imprint, Strictly Rhythm, Universal Music and many more esteemed labels, and is one of Israel’s most in-demand producers. His hypnotic extended dub remix of Sefi Z isling’s ‘The Sky Sings’ on Tru Thoughts has become a club staple, amassing support from Bonobo, Gilles Peterson and more. Eyal Rob has a multidiscipline academic career as a lecturer of contemporary Israeli culture in various universities in the US and teaches creative writing at Tel Aviv University and other colleges. Eli A Free is a Ghanaian alternative singer-songwriter who creates honest music with an experimental demand, offering an introspective blend of soul, jazz, mellow highlife and smooth afro beat vibes.