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🏴☠️🏴☠️ This EP is the direct result of almost half a decade of genre-defying collaborations, musical creations, and group meditations, QNA's fleet has fully assembled, sails up, with sights set to the horizon, as we await their return for their feature-length debut album! 🏴☠️🏴☠️
Favorite track: Results.
The seven-track EP is a sonic snapshot of New York City today, an uncompromising blend of the multi-cultural and multi-genre artists that call it home. Grammy nominated artists Theo Croker, Roots Percussionist, and Mike Larry Draw highlight the thriving jazz, reggae, and hip-hop communities that make up the foundation of QNA’s unique sound. A sound that’s as much NYC as it is global.
QNA sees Above the Law as a representation of their “pirate” way of life. As Míng, the bandleader describes, the EP is “a call to pirates everywhere - those forced to carve out their own way of survival in this world. It’s a call to immigrants working multiple jobs, fighting for their visas. To those who started new businesses so they can put jobs in the hands of those who deserve them. It’s a call to those feeding their communities instead of waiting on their politicians.” Above the Law embraces this grassroots, immigrant-survival mentality and creates a sonic landscape that is equally self-empowering and exploratory.
credits
released January 29, 2021
QNA:
Benjamin “Ming” Chin: sax
Alix Goffic: drums, production
Dylan Kaminkow: bass guitar, upright bass
Marquise “Supe the Dude” Grant: vocals
With Special Guests:
Theo Croker (track 5): trumpet
Hector “Roots Percussionist” Lewis: vocals
Mike Larry Draw: production
Andre “Dretegs” Hawthorne: keys, production
Kavi “Coco” Forgie: bass
Additional Musicians:
Diego Cebollero: guitar (except “Me Me Me”, “Fuck’M”, “Results”)
Takahiro Izumikawa: keyboard, synth (except “Outlaw”, “Me Me Me”, “Fuck’M”)
Michael King: piano, synth (“Fuck’M”)
Will Hotaling: tenor sax, horn section arranger (“Above the Law”, “Get Money”)
Kai Sandoval: trumpet (“Above the Law”, “Get Money”)
Xito Lovell: trombone (“Above the Law”, “Get Money”)
Composed, Arranged, and Produced by Benjamin Chin, Alix Goffic, Dylan Kaminkow, Marquise “Supe the Dude” Grant, Theo Croker (“Fuck’M”), Mike Larry Draw (“Me Me Me”), Andre “Dretegs” Hawthorne (“Outlaw”)
Recorded at: Bunker Studios, Electric Garden Studios, Audubon Lab Recording, LoveLove Studios
Mixed by Will G. Radin
Mastered by Joe Lambert
Artwork by Mady G
Special Thanks to:
Victor Chin & Ying Lee
Damion “Damiedon” Hawthorne
Jermaine “Bama” Williams
Zaven Embree
Our amazing crowdfunding donors, friends and fam around the world
QNA is a band from New York City. With a cultural background that spans across American, Afro-Caribbean, South-East Asian
and European traditions, they make music that reflects their love of adventure. Their motto is simple: don’t try so hard. Stop overthinking, keep exploring, and stay listening....more