

ĭel Naja's work has been featured on all of Massive Attack's record sleeves. In the mid-1990s, his art inspired the future Banksy. He is also regarded as the pioneer of the stencil graffiti movement and one of those who brought hip hop and graffiti culture from the United States to Bristol in the early 1980s. Art work ĭel Naja was a graffiti artist before becoming a producer and vocalist, and was featured in the 1987 book Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff and in the 1988 film Bombin', directed by Dick Fontaine, alongside fellow artist and future drum and bass pioneer, Goldie.ĭel Naja is credited as being the first graffiti artist in Bristol.

In 2015 he also collaborated with Jean-Michel Jarre on the Electronica 1: The Time Machine album, resulting in the track "Watching You".
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The songs are available for free download. In February 2015, Del Naja and Thom Yorke released the soundtrack for documentary "The UK Gold". This new music material is also available for free download. The songs will be used by the site developers to make soundtracks for the games. In December 2014, Del Naja donated ten unreleased music tracks to the Game Jam site "Ludum Dare", for a game event taking place in December. He counted with the collaboration of artists such as Guy Garvey, Noel Gallagher, Jupiter Bokondji and the Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band. In December 2012, Del Naja released the first single of his new project called the Battle Box, which fuses music, art and discourse across one-off live events, exhibitions and exclusive vinyl releases. 'Herculaneum', the title track for Italian director Matteo Garrone's 2008 Palme d'Or winning film Gomorrah, based on the book by Roberto Saviano about organised crime in Naples, received the prize for best song at the David Di Donatello Awards – the Italian Oscars – the same year. ĭel Naja has co written a number of film scores and tracks for films with Neil Davidge and more recently with Euan Dickinson. In addition to his work with Massive Attack, he provided vocals to 'Invasion' on Unkle's album Never, Never, Land, and 'Twilight' on War Stories. In 1997–98, Del Naja was the band's main producer in the recording sessions that made Mezzanine, Massive Attack's most commercially successful album, selling nearly 4 million copies, with Neil Davidge as a sound engineer. The band first received critical acclaim with their first album "Blue Lines", released in 1991. He is one of the founding members of Bristol trip hop collective Massive Attack, with Grant Marshall aka Daddy G, Adrian Thaws aka Tricky and Andrew Vowles, as a music producer and the only vocalist to feature on all their albums and EPs. That is why all of our trips are flightless in destination, fully carbon offset - and we have ambitious plans to be net zero in the very near future.Del Naja started rapping with the Wild Bunch in Bristol in the mid-1980s. We are committed to go as far as possible in curating our trips with care for the planet. We know that many of you worry about the environmental impact of travel and are looking for ways of expanding horizons in ways that do minimal harm – and may even bring benefits. Our Sailing Trips invite you to spend a week experiencing the best of the sea and land in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Our Mini Trips are small and mighty - they squeeze all the excitement and authenticity of our longer Epic Trips into a manageable 3-5 day window. Epic Trips are deeply immersive 8 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and enough down time to really relax and soak it all in. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travellers and friends who want to explore the world together. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Epic Trips, Mini Trips and Sailing Trips. Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way.

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