Kalup Linzy Featuring James Franco - Turn It Up EP

Dutty Artz is proud to announce the debut of Kalup Linzy Featuring James Franco - Turn It Up. The EP will be available on July 19th, both digitally and as a limited edition 7”. Along with Kalup and Franco’s vocals, it features two songs produced by DJ Rupture, who in turn enlisted his Nettle bandmate, Brent Arnold, for co-production, and a third song written and produced by Linzy. Linzy created a music video for Rising. Rising (Both Sides Now) is an emotionally expansive song. It begins with cut ups of James’s fragile poetry to great, surprising effect. Then Kalup draws on his gospel roots as DJ Rupture’s sultry R&B beat kicks in (built with his partner in Dutty Artz, Matt Shadetek), and together Kalup and Franco shift the tone from world-weary to affirmative. Turn It Up (So We Can Turn It Out) is a more upbeat dance jam, adding driving guitar and cello around a propulsive neo-disco beat. James and Kalup share vocal duties here, doubling all the lines. Fly Away continues in a positive vein, evoking one of Linzy’s recurring themes -- strength through vulnerability, as James adds spoken word relationship realtalk. Finally Barcelona bass-weight don Cardopusher delivers a dancefloor remix of Rising that is all sliding synths and galloping percussion.

Tracklist:

1. Rising (Both Sides Now) prod. DJ Rupture w/ Brent Arnold and Matt Shadetek

2. Turn It Up (So We Can Turn It Out) prod. DJ Rupture w/ Brent Arnold

3. Fly Away prod. Kalup Linzy

4. Rising (Cardopusher Remix)

5. Rising (Cardopusher Remix Instrumental)

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