Sark's No pressure Album and Anything on it

 




Been feeling Sark's new studio album. No Pressure. It is his tenth. Evidence of his prodigious creativity and output. 10 albums💯💯💯👑👑👑.

Anyone in the production/creative process knows just how BLOODY HARD it is to do a work.

Dude has dug into his reservoir of creative juices to keep giving and remain relevant in a very fluid creative space where the sophomore album usually does not hit. And then the limelight recedes and its over. Sark has survived. Literally. For over ten years and now the 10th full album.

I love the track Anything on this album. I feel in that track a kind of overture to immortality. I think it ranks with some of the best hiphop I have heard. And I have been at this for over 30 years. I was here when the genre was invented by my generation and swept Accra off its feet. The night before Reggie dropped probably the most classic of 🇬🇭 rap albums, Maka Maka, I was with him and another dude. That is how I got the CD. We have become friends for life. So I have a bit of an informed view.

On Anything, Sark, allows the chorus ample space and then he waltzes in; same at the end. No pressure. His flow is atypical in its usual force here. He plays around with the effortless arrogance of a Meister who has earned his stripes. He literally stands atop the intricate instrumentation and chorus to drop his verses. No rush. No gidigidi.

The horns seem to hold it all together weaving, weaseling, bobbing, breathing, baying, baiting. The track has its telescopic sights on the world; Sark seeks it as his deserved footstool. Ghana. Africa. Both are history. The world is his next targetted even deserved footstool. Realisable ambition.
It is a velvety sonic explosion for just spacing out about self and world domination. That is the feel I get.

Wish him well. Will dig into the rest.
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Pix credit - Sark Facebook Post.

ps: this was the post on my Facebook wall that Sarkodie shared on his wall. It inspired this page.

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