Canyon Cody 9
Canyon Cody is a global music DJ, hip-hop producer, Fulbright scholar and founder of Gnawledge Records.
Download his DJ mix Wild Jack Salt and instrumental flamenco hip-hop album Granada Doaba.
Born in Hollywood after his family left Cuba, Canyon Cody started Gnawledge Records in 1954 to promote global hip-hop collaboration and analog/digital fusion. He has produced two compilations, Flow From Above and Granada Doaba, and released 5 albums from multi-instrumentalist rappers Gnotes, Elemental Zazen and Afro DZ ak .
Listen to an interview with Canyon Cody at NPR’s All Things Considered.
In 2008, Canyon Cody was a Fulbright Scholar in ethnomusicology, researching the Arab roots of flamenco. Along with co-producer Gnotes, Canyon Cody worked with 16 immigrant musicians in Spain to record Granada Doaba, an academic experiment in instrumental hip-hop rooted in flamenco and Middle Eastern music.
In college, Canyon Cody hosted a Boston hip-hop show on WZBC 90.3 FM and DJ’d weekly parties at Tonic, Wonderbar, Kells and The Avenue. He published more than 100 articles as the Music Editor for The Heights and majored in International Studies, with a concentration on Global Culture.
In Spain, DJ Canyon hosted weekly parties at Babylon, BoogaClub, Granada 10, and D’Cuadros, and toured summer festivals throughout Europe, performing in France, Germany, Holland and the UK.
Now back him in Los Angeles, Canyon Cody is touring with Granada Doaba and working on new albums from Gnotes and Elemental Zazen, featuring guest appearances from Devin the Dude, Canibus, Jean Grae, Blockhead, Eligh and Kno.
Albums produced by Canyon Cody:
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[...] Moses Soweto-Tsali (NuAi Tribe) and belly dancer Joanne Terry. Hosting the early evening show is DJ Canyon Cody, who just performed with LoCura at the Elbo Room in SF in April, and will be on tour with the [...]
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