Serengeti & Polyphonic

Serengeti & Polyphonic, an avant-garde hip-hop duo from Chicago, didn’t officially form until 2007 using the launch of their debut full-length, Don’t QUIT, however the two music artists had always been an integral part of the city’s experimentally affluent music scene because the early area of the millennium. Polyphonic, delivered Will Freyman (also called Polyphonic the Verbose), was raised in Champaign, IL, playing traditional piano and jazz trombone, among various other instruments, executing in from Indonesian gamelan to Medieval choruses to a 12-piece hip-hop big music group he come up with himself. After learning classical musical structure at the College or university of Illinois, Freyman begun to delve into creation: within the group Dolce Stil Nuovo (who released albums in 2001, 2003, and 2004), as well as for Pugzlee Atomz’s 2001 record Using Matches, aswell as co-producing experimental rapper Wick’s debut, Locket within a Well in 2006. That same season, Polyphonic released his single debut, Abstract Data Ark, which highlighted several guest MC areas, including one from Serengeti, whom he previously fulfilled at party a year or two before. For his very own component, Serengeti was also a likewise prolific musician, though he didn’t really began saving music before early 2000s, after coming back from studying overseas in Japan. Delivered David Cohn, great-nephew of Count number Basie trumpeter Sonny Cohn, Serengeti was raised between Southside Chicago as well as the suburb of Olympia Areas. Although thinking about hip-hop and rhyming, Serengeti didn’t released his first record, Dirty Flamingo, until 2003, which unleashed an onslaught of documenting, culminating in the discharge of five full-lengths (Dennehy, Thunder Valley, Competition Trading, Fuel Rainbows, and Noticeably Negro) in 2006. Of these, only Competition Trading was made by Polyphonic, however the two got along therefore well that they made a decision to make a full-length. Following the discharge of Don’t QUIT (released on Sound 8, a label involved with lots of the duo’s aspect projects, aswell) Serengeti continued release a albums with Yoome (with vocalist Renee Louise Carafice and manufacturer Tony Trimm) and Fri Night (with similarly avant MC Hello there Fidel), while Polyphonic done his Brazilian-tinged digital task, Juba Dance (with Ben Lamar). Agreed upon to anticon in ’09 2009 by label cofounder Adam “Doseone” Drucker, the duo released Terradactyl in June 2009, and continued to tour with Dark Moth Super Rainbow, Deerhoof, and just why?.