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MP3 Chadio & Aalo Guha - Underestimated Raindrops
16 MP3 Songs
HIP-HOP/RAP: Hip Hop, JAZZ: Free Jazz
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Chadio & Aalo Guha - Underestimated Raindrops
The Underestimated Raindrops project is the first album of the Imaginations Treetrunk Movement Series featuring Chadio & Aalo Guha. The project is broken into four parts, four songs each, with an underlying theme behind each....umm, for lack of a better word, lets use chapter. 16 Raindrops total, clocking in at just over 50 minutes, the Vancouver, BC duo once again manage to capture and portray the Imaginations Treetrunk sound so effortlessly, its not hard to see why this up-and-coming crew are growing to be one of the biggest buzzes in the Canadian underground Hip-Hop scene.
Chadio has been rapping a real long time; first he started rapping on the radio around ‘97 and gained a tiny bit of credibility there, In 2003 came up with the name and helped co-found Imaginations Treetrunk and since has been featured on both Imaginations Treetrunk compilation albums, opened for people like Raekwon, Devin The Dude, and Josh Martinez, toured western Canada twice, as well as numerous other features on local mixtapes and albums. The girls think hes cute too.
Aalo Guha’s organic instrumentals provide a great landscape for Chadio to plant the trees, his signature snappy-crackley-bop is evident in almost every song. Definitely with a style and sound all his own, he also likes jazz records and makes some of the freshest beats in Canada.
Outside recruits enlisted are as follows: on the cuts are our good homies Dj Marvel and 2006 Canadian DMC Champion Dj Wundrkut, also memorable and inspirational performances by none other than Josh Martinez(Camobear records), Moves & Cee!!!!!!!!!!(the Drunken Arseholes/ Low Pressure Records), 2006 Vancouver Battle Champion Mike Murder, 2005 Vancouver Battle Champion Aspire, and of course your favorite Treetrunk poster boys, Azrael and Kaboom Atomic.
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Best songs:
-Gone Fishin’
-Oppressed Together
-Solitude Song
-Raindrops
-Overshine
-Sickest Nikes
Quotes/Press:
-“Underestimated Raindrops appeals to a diverse audience with lyrics that are intellectual without coming across as pretentious”
“Highly recommended for underground hiphop enthusiasts”
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-“His style may have been inspired by several artists, but it’s hard to say Chadio sounds like anyone in particular. He has a style all his own…”
Michael Kwan, Beyond The Rhetoric, online weblog
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-”Gone Fishin” featured on CBC Radio3 podcast #118, “Ogopogo” – August 2007
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Chadio & Aalo Guha
Underestimated Raindrops
By Thomas Quinlan
The latest collaboration from the Imaginations Treetrunk collective teams MC Chadio with their primary producer, Aalo Guha, who presents a darker, harder soundscape than usual for the middle two quarters of this four-piece concept album. Chadio has grouped the 16 songs into four different categories — optimism, anger, confusion and confidence — blending and giving each part a title. The album starts on a positive note with four pretty much upbeat songs for “Part I: Underestimated Raindrops” (optimism), especially attention-grabbing opener “Gone Fishin.” The samples and subject matter become darker for “Part II: Staggered Elation” (anger) and “Part III: Confusual Mysconceptions” (confusion), and sometimes even pick up the pace, like with “Overshine.” “Part III” also contains show stealing guest appearances from Cee!!!!!!!!, one of the most unique voices in Canadian hip-hop, on “Being Blind (Seeing Everything)” and DJ Moves, with his intimidating but funny don''t-give-a-fuck raps, on “Racists.” Things smooth out on “Part IV: Anticorp” (confidence), where Chadio is joined by two of the West Coast’s most singing-ish rappers: Josh Martinez on “The Life & Times (Time of my Life)” and Kaboom on “End of the Beginning.” “Part IV” is comfortable territory for Imaginations Treetrunk but it’s the former three parts that make this album so enjoyable. (Imaginations Treetrunk)
exclaim magazine, June 2007
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Chadio and Aalo Guha
Underestimated Raindrops
Imaginations Treetrunk
"Underestimated Raindrops" is the debut solo release from Chadio and Aalo Guha, two members of the Vancouver hip hop collective known as Imaginations Treetrunk. For the past couple years Imaginations Treetrunk''s rappers have managed to fly under the radar, but "Underestimated Raindrops" or any other release by these guys for that matter is well worth seeking out.
The album is divided into four parts and features guest appearances from the likes of Kaboom, Josh Martinez, and Moves. Chadio''s talent as a rhyme writer is showcased throughout the album and he brings his skills to the mic with rapid fire raps that are often delivered in a tongue and cheek manner. "Underestimated Raindrops" appeals to a diverse audience with lyrics that are intellectual without coming across as pretentious.
Aalo Guha ties the four movements of the release together with seamless production. Each of the album''s four section, Optimism, Anger, Confusion, and Confidence are distinctively different, but incorporate elements that allow the pieces to flow into each other. Somehow Guha managed to only sample four records on the entire release adding to the cohesive nature of the album. Guha''s production, instrumentation, and beats are decidedly lo-fi but quality is definitely not sacrificed.
"Underestimated Raindrops" is highly recommended for underground hip hop enthusiasts or listeners looking for an alternative to stale mainstream rap. Check it out.
Paul Borchert, https://www.tradebit.com - April 2007
4.25/5
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Chadio & Aalo Guha - Underestimated Raindrops
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Location: Vancouver, BC
This CD appeared unexpectedly in my mailbox. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the beats, catering to the underground with a nice organic sound highlighed by the intro ''Gone Fishing.''
The flow of Chadio & Aalo is well refined, quick and impressive, especially on tracks like ''Pancakes,'' but unfortunately that often comes at the expensive of the message. The content seems more artsy than my liking, as I often found myself struggling to figure out what it was they were trying to say with their raps, but that could due to their rapid-fire style of delivery.
''Solitude Song'' is probably my favorite track as it incorporates a nice sample into the chorus. And the final track ''End of the Beginning'' is a seemingly nice ode to The Doors.
May 2007
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