Dizraeli is a rapper, multi-instrumentalist and sometime singer taking hiphop to new terrains.
After six years pushing boundaries with his band Dizraeli & The Small Gods, winning the
Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, receiving regular radio play and spellbinding crowds
at festivals across Europe, in September last year Dizraeli left the band to explore new possibilities.
“Touching, funny stories of riots, atheism and Englishness...
Dizraeli embodies 21st Century folk”
The Independent
The exploration took him to unexpected places: first, he composed the soundtrack for a new
parallel-worlds comedy on E4 (Tripped); next he toured France with producer and turntablist DJ DownLow; then he spent a week in the refugee camp at Calais, giving workshops and listening to the migrants there. At the start of 2016, he travelled to Senegal to study West African music with an albino master, and in a remote fishing village covered in dust and music, he finished six new songs.
“Folk or hip hop? I don’t know, but Dizraeli makes me realise how wonderful it is to
hear real English – fluent, witty and arresting”.
The Times Saturday Review
Carrying these pieces home to London in his head, he decided to record them in a completely new way. Instead of shutting himself in a vibeless, carpeted studio where the impulse of the songs would be lost, he would invite an audience of close friends to the basement of a cafe, play live for those friends and record what he played - no editing; no studio tricks: in the words of one of the tracks
...Through the lens to the substance.
The result is the Eat My Camera EP; six songs about migration, injustice, the ghosts on
Walthamstow Marsh, the brutal nonsense of consumer London, lost and found love,
Palestine and the singer’s Dad...It’s head nod-heavy, beautiful, unsugared songwriting unlike
anything you’ve heard before.
After six years pushing boundaries with his band Dizraeli & The Small Gods, winning the
Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition, receiving regular radio play and spellbinding crowds
at festivals across Europe, in September last year Dizraeli left the band to explore new possibilities.
“Touching, funny stories of riots, atheism and Englishness...
Dizraeli embodies 21st Century folk”
The Independent
The exploration took him to unexpected places: first, he composed the soundtrack for a new
parallel-worlds comedy on E4 (Tripped); next he toured France with producer and turntablist DJ DownLow; then he spent a week in the refugee camp at Calais, giving workshops and listening to the migrants there. At the start of 2016, he travelled to Senegal to study West African music with an albino master, and in a remote fishing village covered in dust and music, he finished six new songs.
“Folk or hip hop? I don’t know, but Dizraeli makes me realise how wonderful it is to
hear real English – fluent, witty and arresting”.
The Times Saturday Review
Carrying these pieces home to London in his head, he decided to record them in a completely new way. Instead of shutting himself in a vibeless, carpeted studio where the impulse of the songs would be lost, he would invite an audience of close friends to the basement of a cafe, play live for those friends and record what he played - no editing; no studio tricks: in the words of one of the tracks
...Through the lens to the substance.
The result is the Eat My Camera EP; six songs about migration, injustice, the ghosts on
Walthamstow Marsh, the brutal nonsense of consumer London, lost and found love,
Palestine and the singer’s Dad...It’s head nod-heavy, beautiful, unsugared songwriting unlike
anything you’ve heard before.