Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez- Sortilege
Sortilège is the new album from esteemed producer and DJ Preservation and ascendant talent Gabe 'Nandez. The two artists first linked on Aethiopes, Preservation's 2022 collaboration with billy woods, where Nandez was featured alongside Boldy James on one of the album's standout tracks. "Sauvage" became the catalyst for Sortilège, as the New Orleans-based producer and New York-based rapper gradually began exchanging ideas-first long distance, then in February 2024, when Nandez flew to New Orleans for two weeks, ready to work. "It was smooth, very synergetic," 'Nandez explains. "We listened to mad music-Boot Camp Clik, Scaramanga, Cuban Linx-and I was asking questions about all types of shit, trying to soak up game and history, which I did." The two also bonded over their shared francophone ancestry: Preservation is half French and 'Nandez is half Malian. These connections made their way into the music as well, via both aesthetics and sample sources, and that sort of exchange courses through Sortilège, bridging the generational, geographical, and cultural gaps between the two artists with a record that feels a world unto itself. Esoteric, yet blunt and uncomplicated as a fistfight, Sortilège erases the line between urbane and urban. It's a movie in a lucid dream, A Clockwork Négritude projected against the wall of a construction site. Mixed-use residential. Tracing this arc, fellow travelers Armand Hammer, Koncept Jack$on, Ze Nkoma Mpaga Ni Ngoko, and billy woods all make appearances. Oh, and there are drums everywhere: drums that will rattle a hooptie and drums that whisper threats. Somehow, over the course of 14 tracks, Preservation seems to find his way to every instrument imaginable-yet each beat has room to breathe. Amidst this breakbeat symphony, 'Nandez's unmistakable baritone glides purposefully, ever forward, a bristling warship in troubled waters. Every time the bass thumps, 'Nandez counterpunches. This is a record for heavyweight speakers and clunky headphones.
Track List
- Harmattan
- Spire
- Shadowstep
- Muay Sok
- Bascinet
- Morning Star
- Hierophant (Feat. Koncept Jack$On)
- War (Feat. Billy Woods)
- Ball ; Chain
- Nom de Guerre (Feat. Ze Nkoma Mpaga Ni Ngoko)
- Respected Calligraphy
- Mondo Cane (Feat. Armand Hammer ; Benjamin Booker)
- Kurtz
- Lotus Flower
UPC > 850063560283
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Rhymesayers
Release Date > Release Date: 10.10.25
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Sortilège is the new album from esteemed producer and DJ Preservation and ascendant talent Gabe 'Nandez. The two artists first linked on Aethiopes, Preservation's 2022 collaboration with billy woods, where Nandez was featured alongside Boldy James on one of the album's standout tracks. "Sauvage" became the catalyst for Sortilège, as the New Orleans-based producer and New York-based rapper gradually began exchanging ideas-first long distance, then in February 2024, when Nandez flew to New Orleans for two weeks, ready to work. "It was smooth, very synergetic," 'Nandez explains. "We listened to mad music-Boot Camp Clik, Scaramanga, Cuban Linx-and I was asking questions about all types of shit, trying to soak up game and history, which I did." The two also bonded over their shared francophone ancestry: Preservation is half French and 'Nandez is half Malian. These connections made their way into the music as well, via both aesthetics and sample sources, and that sort of exchange courses through Sortilège, bridging the generational, geographical, and cultural gaps between the two artists with a record that feels a world unto itself. Esoteric, yet blunt and uncomplicated as a fistfight, Sortilège erases the line between urbane and urban. It's a movie in a lucid dream, A Clockwork Négritude projected against the wall of a construction site. Mixed-use residential. Tracing this arc, fellow travelers Armand Hammer, Koncept Jack$on, Ze Nkoma Mpaga Ni Ngoko, and billy woods all make appearances. Oh, and there are drums everywhere: drums that will rattle a hooptie and drums that whisper threats. Somehow, over the course of 14 tracks, Preservation seems to find his way to every instrument imaginable-yet each beat has room to breathe. Amidst this breakbeat symphony, 'Nandez's unmistakable baritone glides purposefully, ever forward, a bristling warship in troubled waters. Every time the bass thumps, 'Nandez counterpunches. This is a record for heavyweight speakers and clunky headphones.
Track List
- Harmattan
- Spire
- Shadowstep
- Muay Sok
- Bascinet
- Morning Star
- Hierophant (Feat. Koncept Jack$On)
- War (Feat. Billy Woods)
- Ball ; Chain
- Nom de Guerre (Feat. Ze Nkoma Mpaga Ni Ngoko)
- Respected Calligraphy
- Mondo Cane (Feat. Armand Hammer ; Benjamin Booker)
- Kurtz
- Lotus Flower
UPC > 850063560283
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Rhymesayers
Release Date > Release Date: 10.10.25
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to ONE copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.