Ahzumjot

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Ahzumjot

FRANCIS LIVE

Old date:
24.11.2024 Cologne, Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld

NEW DATE:
01.02.2025 Cologne, Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld
Admission: 18:00 hrs | Start: 19:00 hrs

Presenter: DIFFUS, MostDope

SUPPORT: Ulysse

It's 2024 - the music industry is upside down. While social media used to be a simple promotion tool for musicians, viral tiktoks take center stage and new releases are nothing more than a 40-second sample on Instagram. Albums are losing relevance, so Ahzumjot makes three of them and plays a one-off show in a different city for each one, where nothing is known about the album beforehand.

"FRANCIS" is the second part of this album trilogy. For this, the Hamburg-born rapper and producer slips into the role of a boy from the area where Ahzumjot grew up. Hamburg East - a problem district. While he himself was rather quiet in his youth and stayed away from stress or crime, Francis was loud, tough and full of hatred for a system that drives migrant families to the edge of the big city. At home, the family is falling apart because of quarrels, alcoholism and poverty, so Francis is out there with his boys, seeking happiness by hook or by crook, which is not given to boys like him.

The sound of the album, produced entirely by Ahzumjot himself, is much darker and angrier than on its emotionally stirring predecessor "Winter tat weh". But while the last 808 disappears under the confused modular synth sound, everything breaks apart again and soft guitars mixed with gospel choirs and Houston rap samples can be heard. "Francis" sounds hard, merciless and fragile at the same time. It's the story of a boy whose wasted youth, watching the failure of those around him, perhaps ends in quiet adulthood after all.

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