Rapaport Releases Video for nostalgic Big Village Records restrospective ‘Sandcastles’ ​

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Sydney rapper Joel Rapaport releases the nostalgic music video for ‘Sandcastles’ a song about the rise and fall of the independent label he formed with 12 other Sydney hip hop artists in in 2010. The Video was directed by film maker Maia Dal Berger and captures Rapaport playing the song to various members of the founding crew members interspersed with video from the record label between 2010 – 2018.

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The song and video are a love letter to youth, art & friendship and is a big high five to the amazing artists that founded and helped build the label out of a Surry Hill warehouse as well as the community that grew around it in Sydney and around Australia.

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Founded in 2010, Big Village has released 19 albums and 6 EPs, been nominated for an Fbi SMAC award, has had three albums nominated for Australian Music Prize and launched the careers of artists such as Tuka, Daily Meds, True Vibenation, Suburban Dark, Omar Musa and Mathas. The label ran as a collective from 2010 – 2017 and is now owned and managed by Joel Rapaport.​

‘Sandcastles’ was released on the self produced album Roadkill in July 2024, an eclectic but assured zigzag through folky rap, grime storytelling and jazz laced boom bap. Rapaport’s third solo album is a collection of nine discrete songs that are punchy, poignant, sardonic and unashamedly sentimental as they venture through territory of relationships, friendships, bad housemates, politics, mental health, and sexual assault.

The album also features the delicate piano love poem ‘The Gardener’ which was released in January 2024. This release follows on from the Dodo EP which was released in 2022 which featured songs ‘Dodo’ and ‘Ugly Mug’.

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Rapaport performed and recorded all raps, guitars, keys and bass, and handled all drum programming and production. The album was mixed by and received some additional production by Louis Isaac (aka Kid Fiction).