Green Street
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When Emcee Ani Sanyal (a.k.a. A-Live) and Producer Max Schneider (a.k.a. Renaissance) first began working together, they were just two high school sophomores “holding basement freestyle sessions and skipping class to have ciphers in the hallways.” Now the two work under the name Green Street, diving into progressive, jazz influenced jams that don’t leave much to be desired.
Skipping class didn’t do much harm to these Bostonians. “We borrow a lot from literature, for example ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ was instrumental for our progression, also philosophy from Friedrich Nietzsche and Plato are infused into our music,” Sanyal says.
Collaborating with guitarist Ken Ross and keyboardist Malcolm Campbell, Green Street performs everywhere and anywhere they can, and always with a twist. “Our shows usually feature live instrumentation and we like to reinvent our beats by having the musicians add their creative interpretation to our original compositions.” Green Street’s debut album “Livin’ on Green Street” was released in 2005 featuring artists RepLife, Buddah of 7th Syndicate, Phonte of Little Brother, and Oddisee from Halftooth.
