Clap! Clap!
Italian musician Cristiano Crisci draws connections between global club styles and African musical traditions with his Clap! Clap! project. His work weaves the influence of Chicago's footwork scene and the U.K. bass continuum into a tapestry of West African percussion samples as well as frequent use of Crisci's own field recordings. His early EPs and 2014 debut album, Tayi Bebba, were supported by the likes of Gilles Peterson, Ninja Tune's Solid Steel, and even Paul Simon, who worked with Clap! Clap! in 2016. Subsequent releases like 2017's A Thousand Skies were heavier on live instrumentation and collaborations than his earlier material.
Coming from a background in jazz, where he sometimes worked under the alias Digi G'Alessio, Italian musician Cristiano Crisci made a transition into electronic music with the Clap! Clap! project around the beginning of the 2010s. Clap! Clap!'s 2013 debut EP, Gwidingwi Dema, and several singles were followed by a proper debut in 2014, with the eclectic Tayi Bebba on the Black Acre label. Crisci's profile expanded when he collaborated with iconic folk-rock songwriter Paul Simon on production for several tracks on Simon's 2016 album Stranger to Stranger. Sophomore album A Thousand Skies arrived in early 2017, finding the producer folding live instrumentation into the earthy samples that had come to define his style. Guests on the release included South African folk singer Bongeziwe Mabandla, Swiss/Ghanaian singer OY, and Cape Town duo John Wizards. After the album was released, Crisci took time to study mixing and engineering. Putting a stronger focus on sound design and field recording, he returned with third full-length Liquid Portraits in 2020.
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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Liquid Portraits
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 12 jun. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tayi Bebba
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 8 sep. 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Thousand Skies
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 17 feb. 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
TOROZEBU
Clap! Clap!, Domenico Candellori, TOROZEBU
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 25 feb. 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tambacounda - EP
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 24 feb. 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Camo Fever
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 31 jul. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ode to the Pleiades
House - Released by Black Acre Records on 6 apr. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Simple
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 2 okt. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ox
Clap! Clap!, Domenico Candellori, TOROZEBU
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 28 jan. 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Buck
Electronic - Released by Black Acre Records on 18 aug. 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory: Season 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Lakeshore Records on 24 sep. 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo