Cr-asia-ly Good.

Meet Onra, a parisian producer with a penchant for hip-hop and Vietnamese heritage. The combination of the two has led to his under-acclaimed album, "Chinoiseries", released in 2007 amidst a furor of praise from music bloggers.

Marrying the sounds of vintage chinese pop and traditional vietnamese melodies with Dilla beats may sound like an odd combination but Arnaud "Onra" Bernard has managed to combine the two into a sound that combines the wistfulness and whimsy of delicate flutes with rackety hip hop beats and a splash of soul. By paying homage to his past and heritage Bernard has managed to create the sound of his future. Long may it continue.

Check his myspace but I can't recommend the album highly enough mainly for the second to last track "Hope" which is an epic 2 minute flurry of violins with a killa dilla beat.

http://www.myspace.com/onra

ps. apologies for the awful pun in the title.