Claudio Montana returns to Madrid as the last addition to Roster de Russia Idk. The elusive artist is a rarity in the national hip hop panorama, offering a refreshing mixture of rap and ambient, and with a history of releases to accounts, to practically a song per year. This has made him accumulate a hype capable of exhausting three consecutive buty rooms earlier in April. ‘El Paseo’ is the song of the day.
Each song from Montana is received by its fans as a gift. Even more considering how short these are. Compagating his artistic creation with his work as a writer and researcher of contemporary art, it is normal for his songs to include cultural references, as in the titles of ‘Giovanni de Luca’ or ‘Carbone’.
In the latter, the Madrid Rapea about “bad gusts”, “antidepressants” and feel “in a hole like Federico.” As poetic as raw, Montana’s lyrics reflect nostalgia stories typical of Madrid’s life, resulting in something 100% native: «Today I go from Madrid, today I leave my floor / Today I put his name to my son / Today I go from Madrid, today I leave his floor», he exclaims in ‘Carbone’.
In ‘El Paseo’, Ultralagrima help Montana create a totally dreamlike panorama in which it is also their first launch in the Russian label and Ralphie Choo. On a sea of Sintes, Claudio Rapea on his return to Madrid: “I left Madrid for work / I returned by Clara, Juan and Diego.” He ends his verse with something that anyone who has lived in Madrid can understand: “Before we slept together and now I am shouting with my homemade.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8licr4no34https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzkaz1_bziohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txfdohut9bq
