Toronto Rap Artist Chris Cachia Releases His New Album "My Re:Collection"
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Good art usually comes from difficult places. A Canadian emcee, Chris Cachia, has used his personal struggles to create his latest project, “My Re:Collection”. 13-tracks deep, the album collects previous EPs along with new material to create an emotional kaleidoscope full of hard-hitting and introspective rhymes that are sure to engage listeners who value classic-sounding beats and pure lyricism.
Charlie McEvoy, who has been friends with Cachia since childhood, produced the album. Cachia tells of how they first recorded music at eight-years old in Cachia’s basement on his father’s tape deck. Decades later, they’re still making music and honing their crafts.
McEvoy’s impressive musicianship is obvious, and his often-understated beats are the canvas on which Cachia uses wordplay as paint to create varied images of adventure, battle, and contemplation. The track list is well-planned, as in the sequence of songs titled “My Addiction,” “My Diagnosis,” and “My Resolve.” On “My Addiction”, Cachia gets philosophical: “Most would rather deny truth than like me/Pen on point and I swing my sword mightily/Might break givin’ sight to unsightly/Night break a new dawn I shine brightly/Strike thee down as God curse my verses/One life lived boundless like universes/Life revived and seen through two eyes/Night consumes one try or one lie.”
Cachia is open about how the project was first conceived after managing a particularly challenging period of obsessive-compulsive disorder. As the hook on “My Diagnosis” explains: “Ultimately on three, what I’m dreamin’ of/This is my plea I be, never me enough/Wait and see the key, we the meanin’ of/O-C-D, I never think it’s clean enough.”
And the opening of “My Resolve” attests to ongoing survival: “I beg your pardon, you mean he’s alive/Once seen in a grave, before that in a dive/Get away, I’m wanted dead no breaks/My style Notorious, why my wife keeps Faith.”
An engaging live performer who has charted on Canadian college radio and uses his love for Hip Hop in his work as an educator, Cachia's latest project figures the past as present and history as a living force that can be harnessed to reimagine and rebuild one’s self and surroundings.
Listen to “My Re:Collection” right now, stream it on your preferred music service and connect with Chris Cachia on his website and social media. Also, be on the lookout for our exclusive interview with this talented emcee coming soon!
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