Bliss n Eso

Nominated for the MTV Good Karma Award. For their South African Fund Raising Efforts, Including The “Bullet And A Target” Charity Single

With all the bling, glint and gun sheen that radiates from modern hip-hop, it’s easy to be blinded from its roots in social protest, and forget that damn good music can reach beyond the primal posturing. Not so for Sydneysiders Bliss n Eso, who along with DJ Izm, invigorated antipodean hip hop with less of the “hip hip chin chin”, and more straight shooting from the hip.

Breaking novel musical and social boundaries, the boys first met the Connections Zulu choir, a 21 piece choir formed of teenagers and young adults affected by HIV/AIDS, in Sydney. They recorded music together, before travelling to South Africa, where in conjunction with MTV and The Oaktree Foundation, the guys saw the Choir’s situation at ground zero, and used their experiences to rework Citizen Cope’s highly controversial original version of “Bullet and a Target”.

100% of the proceeds from “Bullet and a Target” were delivered to The Oaktree Foundation, Australia’s only youth-run international aid and development organization, and then channeled through to the Connections Zulu Choir and the funding of other projects in developing regions of South Africa with the hope of creating awareness and a brighter future for those in need.