Ye Huang - Podium

Madness and chaos

Those who know the aggressive drive of Rap Tirade know about the infectious vibes of the emotional and wordy waterfalls. Ye Huang also knows this drive and has just translated it into jazz. Inspired by Drake rapping his heart out on a podium, he took his saxophone and did the same. What came out was a sound I've never heard before in jazz. We call it hip hop/trap fusion jazz.

Ye Huang is a bit of a prodigy. He plays clarinet (once the youngest Backun clarinet player), saxophones, piano, composes and is the founder of Consci Music LLC, a creative and support center for music lovers. He wrote his first sonata at the age of 13, followed by duets, other sonatas, pieces for piano and clarinet. He can call more than a hundred his. Someone lives for music...

Various performances - be it at festivals or in different Halls of Fame ( Birdland, Metropolitan Museum, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts) - brought his art to a growing fan base. Album productions also piled up. His debut album Starlight was released in 2019, followed a year later by number two (Unlock), and in 2021 'Vanward is the new classical'. Always in search of unique compositions, classical, jazz, pop and other genres merge under his hands into a work of art. Someone is in his element.

This is also noticeable in his new single Podium. The sound pearl seems a bit like a colorful play box for the exceptional artist. The melody of the saxophone replaces the rap vocals and resembles an emotional outburst. Quite well succeeds this with rhythm and finger use. In between it gets briefly softer and more relaxed, the jazz comes through. The piano is also allowed to say something - the part almost seems like a 'friendly' but 'forceful' discussion among friends -aka argument. Sequences of notes spiral upwards, it's an emotional mess. Only for the rapping chaos to break out again on the podium at the end. There one would like to look almost deliberately quarrel....

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