DESCRIPTION:
Free Download: https://soundcloud.com/urbantreemusic/sets/foresta-foresta-ep

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TRACKLIST
01. Quiet Thoughts (feat. Kabaka Pyramid & Protoje)
02. Du Träumst Remix (feat. berge & Simon Grohé)
03. Money Man (feat. Danny Ranks)
04. Gelobtes Land Remix (feat. Benjie)
05. Give It To Dem Remix (feat. Longfingah & Danny Ranks)
06. Sing My Song (feat. Jaqee)

Titel: Foresta EP
Artist: Foresta
Datum: 28.02.2014
Fotografie: Jens P. Neumann
Design: Simon Grohé
Mastering: Ganjaman

CREDITS (Money Man)
Music: Foresta
Lyrics: Danny Ranks
Flute: Richard Pohl
Guitar: Tobias Thiele
Strings: Tanja & Sebastian Hotze
Mixing: Foresta

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Foresta's debut EP was released on the 28th of February 2014 and is available as a free download on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. Since the release of the „Youth Riddim, Foresta has been working on his own productions, some of which have been released on the albums of various artists over the past couple of years. This time around, he has not entirely distanced himself from a Reggae sound, but rather has found a way to combine it with Soul, Hiphop and jazzy elements. His instruments of choice are rhodes and piano. A number of musical guests graced his home studio where the programmed beats were enhanced with live instruments.

We now present to you six exclusive songs that will give you an insight into the producer's musical creativity. Foresta, the youngest member of the Urban Tree family, spent the last four months locked up in his home studio to finish his long awaited EP on time for the release date. A number of videos and small activities surrounding the EP are still to come.

The EP features a fusion of Hiphop and beats combining Soul, Jazz, Reggae, Dub and Pop. The vocals to be heard here are from artists that hail from precisely these genres, artists that he has met somewhere along on his musical journey through the years or that made it into his humble home studio.

For his EP Foresta had the pleasure of working with two of the most successful and promising artists in the Jamaican Reggae scene: Kabaka Pyramid and Protoje; Berge belong to the pick of what the German Pop scene has to offer, Foresta's label colleague Simon Grohé is currently working on his own release „Mamaoerf; Danny Ranks and Longfingah have both belonged to the German and Austrian Reggae and Dancehall underground scene for decades and have shared their music with crowds on both small and large stages all across Europe; with Benjie - another Urban Tree colleague - he has a veteran of the German dancehall scene on board; Jaqee from Rootdown Records shares her music with her fanbase from Denmark to Germany to France and Uganda.

Danny Ranks Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dannyranksreggae

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LYRICS:

Intro (Howlin' Wolf):

A lot of people wonder: 'What is the blues?
I hear a lot of people saying the blues, the blues'
But imma tell you what the blues is
When you ain't got no money - you got the blues
When you ain't got no money to pay your house rent, you still got the blues

A lot of people hola 'bout 'I don't like no blue'
But if you ain't got no money
and can't pay your house rent and can't buy you no food
You damn sure got the blues

Verse 1 (Danny Ranks):
My bredrin, living hard and tough
It no easy at all, you know bredrin, yeah man

Talking 'bout life my bredrin
Talking 'bout trying to make ends meet
It's such a hard thing to do, sister
It's everyday reality

Chorus:

Please Mr. Money Man
Won't you give the poor man a helping hand?
Life no easy down ina Babylon
We suffering, suffering
Please Mr. Money Man
Living down here is such a dreadful thing
It no easy down ina Babylon
Cause we're suffering, cause we're suffering, cause we're suffering

(Howlin' Wolf) We're talking 'bout the life of human being. How they live.

Verse 2 (Danny Ranks):

Crisis rising, rising
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