SessionLab
Casey (Ausgang), outraged rapper
Audio 48:34
Ausgang in SessionLab.
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By: Hortense Volle
2 mins
For SessionLab, Hortense Volle met the one who is "burning the stage" at the moment with the rap/rock fusion group Ausgang, Casey.
Portrait of a hardcore rapper who still has "cartridges to spit".
An original podcast with strong rap, rock and zouk.
Listen with headphones (3D audio).
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In 2020, 10 years after the release of
Unleash the Beast
, his 2nd solo album, Casey made a sensational comeback with Ausgang.
A group that the rapper with acerbic rhymes and an angry flow formed with Sonny Troupé (ka drum player, here on drums), Marc Sens (guitar) and ManuSound (machines).
Together, they delivered
Gangrène,
a dark and radical rap/rock fusion album.
Ten texts and as many
"
spitting cartridges"
to use the terms of Casey, who digs here the path taken for more than twenty years now: a constant questioning of questions of identity, the weight of colonialism, social immobility and the hexagonal frustrations.
To understand the Ausgang project, I went to the Dynamo de Pantin, in the northeast of Paris, where the group was in rehearsal before resuming a tour that had been interrupted for too long.
And it is in the garden of this former industrial factory rehabilitated into a concert hall, that Casey offered us a conversation in complete privacy and in 3D audio.
A podcast to listen to with headphones in which she looks back on: her childhood between Rouen, the capital of Normandy where she was born, and Martinique;
his first musical emotions (from Kassav' to Public Enemy via Rage Against the Machine);
the northern suburbs of Paris where she refined her style and where she still lives today or her relationship to the African continent.
To follow Casey and Ausgang
Casey's Facebook page / Casey's Instagram / Casey's YouTube
Ausgang Facebook Page
Titles broadcast:
Excerpts from the album
Gangrène
(2020) / Ausgang:
Good Conduct, Chuck Berry, Gangrène, Like a Shadow, Help Me, Rage Calls Me, Crapule, My Accomplice, Elite, Bastard
Excerpts from the album
Unleash the Beast
(2010):
Unlimited Dreams
Excerpts from the album
Tragedy of a trajectory
(2006):
Not for sale, Tragedy of a trajectory, At home, Follow my pen, My hatred, Northern suburbs
And also: Kassav' (
Siwo
), Gerard Lockel (
Independence
), Jimi Hendrix (
National Anthem USA
), Chuck Berry (
Johnny B. Goode
), Public Enemy (
Hollywood Burns
), Rage Against the Machine (
Bombtrack
), Silver Bullet (
20 seconds to comply
), excerpts from France24 newspapers on the 2005 riots and a special flash on September 11, 2001 by David Pujadas for France 2.
During our conversation Casey mentioned, among other things…
"The mythical group of a diaspora", Kassav'
The
"music that translates the noise you have in your head"
, like the first album (1992) of the American rock band Rage Against the Machine
The author of
Black Skin, White Masks
and
The Wretched of the Earth
, the psychiatrist and essayist born in Martinique in 1925, Frantz Fanon.
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