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O projecto Bike For Three! nasce de uma colaboração à distância entre a produtora belga Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê AKA Greetings From Tuskan e o rapper-indie canadiano Buck 65. Estes dois acabaram de lançar o álbum de estreia More heart than brains, sem se conhecerem pessoalmente. O álbum resulta da troca de ideias através da internet. Buck 65 com as suas letras detalhadas e com a sua capacidade de contar histórias e Greetings From Tuskan com a sua produção meticulosa e texturada, produzem um álbum que combina a electrónica, as paisagens sonoras downtempo, a IDM e a música ambiente com o hip-hop indie. Esta sonoridade não é propriamente uma novidade, mas o resultado é um dos melhores que eu já ouvi dentro do género. Do myspace do projecto veio o seguinte:

"Bike For Three! is the well-lucked and mysterious cross-continental duo of Canadian indie-rap legend Richard Terfry (Buck 65) and budding Belgian electronicist Joëlle Phuong Minh Lê (Greetings From Tuskan). Shrouded in strange magic, anchored by the heavy stuff of life, and lifted by a mutual magnetism still uncharted, their music is a bright/stunning combination of downtempo textures, smart pop, and exposed lyrical bones.

Bike For Three!’s constituent parts have never met in person, and they might not ever. She found him, and their story unfurls in real time along with their songs. Joëlle sends Rich music; Rich writes to the moods and movements that she’s designed; Joëlle nurtures each piece into an animate whole. Bf3! actually finds Buck 65 eschewing traditional narrative forms in favor of an intimate stream of consciousness (offset by tight rhyme cadence) that mines the craggier depths of romance both requited and out-of-reach, real and imagined (which perfectly befits Bf3!’s working relationship). The things Rich wouldn’t speak of in conversation thus become part of the conversation happening on record.

More Heart Than Brains, Bf3!’s album debut, is Buck 65’s first record to feature all electronic production. Of course, Joëlle has a few acoustic tricks up her sleeve—those music boxes from her youth, for instance—and an approach that seats her comfortably amongst such mercurial beat auteurs as Boom Bip, Modeselektor, Michna, and labelmate Alias. That Rich returns to Anticon a nearly decade later to release his most personal album yet is both an honor and the logical continuation of the label’s own story (Sage Francis did the same with Personal Journals in ’02). As for Bike For Three!, consider this Chapter One."

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