Abya Yala – Cambia
Abya Yala
“Cambia”
A Reggae Band from Chile. Little is known. The release is from 13.04.2011. But the music is timeless.
posted 19 November 2022
music tagged with: world
PISITAKUN – Kongkraphan
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PISITAKUN
“Kongkraphan”
Thai musician and visual artist Pisitakun releases his new album “Kongkraphan”. The album will be released for free download on November 24th, 2022 by the Indonesian label Yes No Wave Music, which has released music from Gabber Modus Operandi, Raja Kirik, Senyawa, and Zoo.
In 2010, there was a protest by the Red Shirts, or United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), to oust the government from the coup d’etat that occurred in 2006. At the protest, the rally was dispersed by armed soldiers, causing a large number of injuries and deaths.
The upcoming album ‘Kongkraphan’ —meaning Invulnerable— was made to present the forgotten voices and sounds of unjustified wrath. The sound used was taken from the video clips recorded by the demonstrators from the actual incidents. All video and audio clips are testimonies used in court proceedings to find the culprit at the time, so as to reveal the truth and restore justice to the deceased demonstrators. It’s a mix of Noise music: the confusion and sadness occurring at the protesting sites, the rhythm that shakes the nerves, the rhythm of intense rage.
In short, this album of Pisitakun contains a variety of anger, sadness, confusion, as well as the power of joy and hope to change the country —the driving force of the demonstration in 2010.
‘Kongkraphan’ is the name of a type of Thai talisman that gives the power to be invincible. In this album, the term stands for the ideology and battle of the people in the protest that has never faded. It’s still invulnerable, passing down the philosophy from generation to generation until today. There are 8 tracks with titles taken from the date of the protest events and arranged chronologically according to the time span of the incident.
posted 18 November 2022
Rorschack – This Includes Me
Rorschack
“This Includes Me”
released July 22, 2022
posted 24 July 2022
Lapkričio dvidešimtosios orkestras – Antroji pamaina
Lapkričio dvidešimtosios orkestras
“Antroji pamaina”
released March 31, 2022
Micius – vocals, shakers
Andreika – drums, shakers, glockenspiel
Justas – tuba, shakers
Zbigas – bass guitar, ukulele
Zaicas – double bass
Valdemaras – electric guitar
Titas – trombone
Rapolas – trumpet
Andrius – trombone
posted 26 May 2022
Ghobi – Amba
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Ghobi
“Amba”
Composed between 2020 and 2021, dreamlike and rarefied atmospheres in which the French horn
still colors most of the tracks.
Rhythms mix with the sandy distortions of guitars, drums and reverberations.
Melodies are always sparse and hypnotic. An unpolished sound is always preferred
but anyway intense, rather enhancing and “cradling” the “noise” created during the recordings.
With the aim of keeping the emotion and inspiration of the moment intact and crystal clear.
Credits:
ghobi are:
– lele : guitars, cetra, french horn, keyboards, percussions, effects
– giro : bass, effects
– palla : drums, percussions, udu
Recording end mix by ghobi
Master by simone giorgi ( downtown studio)
Thanks to Anna (Wollstonecraft Air) for vocal contributions on Etruria and Toroide
posted 17 May 2022
Nomadic – Karma
Nomadic
“Karma”
released March 15, 2022
posted 24 March 2022
Vitesse et Précipitation – Vitesse et Précipitation
Vitesse et Précipitation
“Vitesse et Précipitation”
released March 20, 2022
Enregistré entre octobre et décembre 2021 par Vitesse et Précipitation a Marseille.
Mixé en février 2022 par Richard Cuvillier a Lille.
Laura : violon alto et chant
Lucien : banjo et chant
Emil : bendir
posted 20 March 2022
Nvbe Trip.Pop – Quetzalcōatl EP
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Nvbe Trip.Pop
“Quetzalcōatl EP”
“Quetzalcōatl” Nvbe Trip.Pop’s most recent material, combines pre-Hispanic music with different nuances of contemporary electronics, in addition to showing a clear evolution in the artist’s sound.
posted 27 February 2022
Chebeen Teriya – Douhaou
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Chebeen Teriya
“Douhaou”
Chebeen Teriya is a unique 5 piece band lead by singer/multi-instrumentalist Dramane Bakwan, who brings original music from his homeland of Burkina Faso. From a young age, Dramane participated in the sacred musical traditions of the Gourounsi people of Burkina Faso (West Africa). His insatiable appetite for music drove him to study the myriad of rhythms and melodies of ethnic groups throughout the region. A love of country and continent has inspired him to write over one hundred original songs with lyrics in five languages. His work explores social, environmental, and political themes with the aim of inspiring people to take care of one another and the planet they share.
The album Douhaou is their second release on the label. Nevertheless, this album was chronologically written before the EP Ajabro, which was released last year. It was written in 2018 and was the first time we got connected with Chebeen’s music. It is written in the Djula language (spoken in Burkina Faso, Mali and Ivory Coast) and includes nine tracks in an afro-fusion style, sung by the band’s frontman Dramane Bakwan.
Dramane explains: “Douhaou means benediction or blessings and the album is about social issues. Sabary talks about forgiveness as the way forward in life. Diy is about remembering your roots and honouring your culture as well as those of others. Bimogo is about hypocrisy in politics. Pogo-nere is a love song and Africa is for the whole continent, to unify behind our causes.”
CREDITS: All songs written by Aime Bakwan / bass: Francois Hien / Josue Banazaro (guitar) / Jean-Bosco Sorogo (batterie) / Lassina Dembele (djembe) / Jean Eudes Zoungrana (synthesizer) / Aime Bakwan (castagnetes) / Armelie Metta (choeurs) / Recorded in Ouagadugu 2018 / Artwork by Amanda Deibert
posted 31 January 2022
Various Artists – Virtual Essentials, Vol. IV
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Various Artists
“Virtual Essentials, Vol. IV”
Finally, after a chaotic 2021, the Virtual Essentials comp is up celebrating 3 years of Virtual Soundsystem Records. Mexican electronic artists featuring deluxe international guests. Music for all tastes!
Artwork by Soslow
Artwork by Soslow
posted 16 January 2022
vvaa & ethernet orchestra – Oceans Reimagined
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vvaa & ethernet orchestra
“Oceans Reimagined”
Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel is pleased to present “Oceans Reimagined”, a remix album of intercultural online jamming by Various Artists and the network music ensemble Ethernet Orchestra.
Oceans Reimagined is a tele-collaborative remix project that seeks to further open the borders of telematic music making to encompass asynchronous telematic post-production. Selected artists were invited to reimagine one or more recordings, from Ethernet Orchestra’s 2020 album, Oceans between Sound (pn150). The aim was to extend the concept of the oceans and waterways separating geographically displaced performers, as a metaphor for the ebb and flow of networked data that traversed the Internet in the making of the work. Each track on this album is a digital reconfiguration of distributed audio streams captured as data pinging around the network.
Oceans Reimagined illustrates the creativity that can be shared and re-imagined through geographically dispersed collaboration between artists of different cultures.
For further information about the artists, their approaches and processes in reimaging the works, visit: oceansbetweensound.wordpress.com/oceans-reimagined
To stream or download source material from Oceans between Sound visit:
pueblonuevo.cl/oceans-between-sound
Roger Mills
(Sydney, Australia. January 2022)
posted 12 January 2022
Abu Ama – TOTEM
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Abu Ama
“TOTEM”
“TOTEM” is Abu Ama’s most personal and most varied release to date, a heavy trip through his musical ways, moments and directions, a stunning album that has been in preparations and waves of reiterations for almost as long as the earliest incarnations of some of the songs were done and, finally, towards the end of 2021, reached the stable form, monumentized on a limited edition of two c90 tapes.
released December 24, 2021
“Abu Ama’s new album TOTEM is a feast for the ears and eyes. Abu Ama, the driving force behind Arabxo, brings dub, experimental, Arabic and Sufi dub in one. On this beautiful double binding he gives an overview of his work. A beauty of an album. As I have known Abu for a long time, full of dedication, always innovative, he takes this album to an amazing height.” — Pedro Maras a.k.a. BedouinDrone
“Abu Ama is an uprising worldwide artist in dub kind of music but presented in his very unique way and style. He’s giving it many names. Lets point out “arabxo”, as an abstract mixture of futuristic middle eastern scapes, voices and instruments with subsonic echoes of dubbed out bass. Sound manipulations far beyond the known in all its features. New and retrospective sounding at the same time. Messages in pads and atmospheres brought in a dub manner. All tunes recorded in one shot, one version at a time. Far further and further in dub science innovation his own way, Abu gladly represents his gypsy roots and creates his own roots mixture of beats and sounds that takes you on a journey with each tune. Each track has individual soul that can be literary felt from the speakers. Each tune carries different specific message, either spiritual, soul, social, ecological, political or related to many different things of today’s earth life he cares about. Abu is displaying a channel of communication between his soul and you, the receiver, whose radio is set to receive this frequent waves of music. Music at its best. Music representing earth and universe at the same moment. All computer made, all dubs and overdubs compiled and arranged as perfect matter wall of sound. Welcome to the world of Abu Ama and dance till you get excited and incredibly overjoyed with warmth and wealth.” –esoundc a.k.a. Autonomaton
All music and production by: Abu Ama
Additional music and production by: Zyontific Impact (track 7), Xiao Quan (track 13), BedouinDrone (track 21) and Autonomaton (track 25)
Artwork design: Ivo Petrov and Angel Draganov, utilizing public domain photos and bird photo by Ivan Ivanov
posted 25 December 2021
Vziel Projet – ‘Strange properties of Diogenes Death, 7, 77 A:.D:.’
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Vziel Projet
“‘Strange properties of Diogenes Death, 7, 77 A:.D:.'”
posted 19 December 2021
Radio Krimi Records – Free Is A Magic Number V5
Radio Krimi Records
“Free Is A Magic Number V5”
released October 27, 2021
posted 18 December 2021
QTN Beats – Ethnofonik 2021 – Someday (qtnbeats edit)
QTN Beats
“Ethnofonik 2021 – Someday (qtnbeats edit)”
Mix traditional music with electronic by using the multitrack of wonderful Ethnofonik project live concert.
posted 07 December 2021
Free Balkan Quintet – Parvo
Free Balkan Quintet
“Parvo”
releases November 30, 2021
posted 24 November 2021
WUKIR SURYADI – Menolak Tunduk
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WUKIR SURYADI
“Menolak Tunduk”
Instruments:
Kentongan serie A and B,
Guitar, Industrial Mutant, Solet, Senyawa x Benchlab Pedal serie R prototype
Recorded in Senyawa Mandiri, 2021
Mastered by Joseph Lamont
Selama masa pandemi Wukir banyak menghabiskan waktu bersama keluarganya di Salatiga. Sesekali Ia ke studionya di daerah Patangpuluhan, Yogyakarta untuk mengerjakan hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan Senyawa. Situasi pandemi yang tidak menentu akibat kebijakan pemerintah yang tidak memperhatikan kesejahteraan dan keamanan bagi masyarakat membuat siapapun geram. Ketahanan hidup dinisiasi secara mandiri dan berkelompok melalui aksi-aksi solidaritas masyarakat, termasuk protes. Ironisnya, aksi tersebut tidak direspon sebagai aspirasi bagi pemerintah untuk berbenah dan justru ditanggapi dengan represi. Sikap Wukir untuk menolak tunduk tidak hanya pada kondisi sosial-politik saja, namun juga pada semua hal yang membatasi dan mengekang kebebasan berekspresi.
Sikap tersebut tercermin dalam komposisi musik di album ini. Ia tidak melodius seperti biasanya. Kelam, agresif, abrasif, transendental, dan yang pasti tribal. Elemen perkusi sangat dominan. Hal ini muncul dari instrumen barunya berupa kotak kayu dengan lubang berbentuk garis. Album purbawi-futuristik ini menandai sebuah masa baru lintas dimensi yang penuh gejolak untuk menegaskan sikap kita. Sikap menolak tunduk.
posted 10 November 2021
Various Artist – Mukambo presents Global Afrobeat Movement 2
Various Artist
“Mukambo presents Global Afrobeat Movement 2”
Radio support by
* Los Ultrasonicos on Radio Nacional de España in Madrid (ESP)
* The Good, The Dub, The Global on RRR in Melbourne (AUS)
* In The Pocket on The Face Radio in Brooklyn, NYC (USA)
* Afro Base on Totally Radio in London (UK)
* Radio UEL FM (BRA), Totally Wired Radio (UK), Avopolis Radio (GRC), Soul Power Radio (UK), Radio Alhara (PAL), …
21 tracks for 2021. For the second year in a row, Mukambo and NYP Records team up to prove the global afrobeat scene is more alive than ever! 21 bands from the four corners of the earth, bringing their own blend of afrobeat to pay tribute to the Black President Fela Kuti and maestro drummer Tony Allen.
From Nigerian artists in the diaspora like Femi Koya (South Africa), Dele Sosimi (UK), or Okwei Odili (Brazil) to bands really creating their own sound like the Japanese afrobeat rockers Stepak-Takraw or Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos (Venezuela/UK),
‘Mukambo presents Global Afrobeat Movement Volume 2’ proves that #AfrobeatNoGoDie !
Since Fela passed away, France has been one of the main afrobeat producers. Emil Abossolo Mbo, Jumbo System and Break Ya Bones Afrobeat Orchestra make sure #felaliveson in France while this compilation also desires to pay tribute to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry through a dub mix of a track by The Anthronauts from Switzerland. Eastern Europe is slowly showing up on the Global Afrobeat Map and with The Mabon Dawud Republic from Hungary that process is accelerating. Germany also tries to get its share of the pie with Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble from Cologne and Renegades of Jazz remixing a track by Haitch & Rhabdomantic Orchestra.
Latin America really discovered afrobeat the past few years, this compilation highlights Luka Afrobeat Orquesta and Afro Iná from Argentina, He K Tombe from Mexico and Tabó Afrobeat from Uruguay. Àbáse from Hungary smoothly bridges the gap between the Nigerian and Brazilian yoruba cultures.
The compilation finished strong with a few remixes of original Fela Kuti tracks by Makala (Spain), smallFall & AmazeMe Breaks (Greece) and a maloya dedication to Fela by Lindigo (Reunion Island).
credits
released October 14, 2021
posted 27 October 2021
Minuk – Aurora Remixed
Minuk
“Aurora Remixed”
“I have known Alejandra (one half of Minük) for many years, back from her days with Lulacruza and she always struck me as having one of the most beautiful voices in our scene. I’ve been lucky enough to work with her over the years on different projects, from Lulacruza’s participation in the first Birdsong album to collaborative tracks like ‘Corazón de Rubi’ and ‘Mirando el Fuego’.
When I heard Aurora, the debut album by Minük (the duo she formed with husband Marcus) I instantly asked if I could do a remix but not of one track… the whole album! It is rare when you have the opportunity to work with such finely crafted, quality and beautiful material. As a producer, this project was a dream and, luckily, Ale and Marcus agreed to the idea. The whole album happened effortlessly and I think there is just a fit between my own production style and Ale and Marcus’ songwriting, singing and instrumentation.
The album is meant to sit side by side with the original, showing the tracks in a new context, reimagining them for a sound system or a dreamy dancefloor without straying too far from the original intentions.”
El Buho, December 2020
“We started working on Aurora, right after meeting in Bali in 2016, while we were touring with our personal projects (Lulacruza and Markandeya). The making of the album was a deep journey of weaving our musical landscapes into a single tapestry of sound.
Aurora took us three years to complete, with production seasons in Peru, Ecuador, Bali, India, Sweden and finally Colombia. During that process, we had a strong intuition about collaborating with El Búho, and even gave him a raw version of “Corazon de Rubi” in 2017, which ended up being part of his debut album Balance.
We have been fans of El Búho’s melodic sensibility and deep sounds for years now, and its a true honor to have him work on this material for a full-length album. In many ways, El Búho’s version of Aurora is a true expansion of our expression.“
Minuk, December 2020
credits
released December 14, 2020
All music by Minük & El Búho
Robin Perkins: Electronics & production
Alejandra Ortiz : Voice, cuatro, percussion
Marcus Berg : Voice, guitars, synths, percussion
posted 29 September 2021
Hideor Tild – Home Directory
Hideor Tild
“Home Directory”
Member of the band Blue Haired Girl, which supported him in the recording of this first solo effort touched by a similar spirit of musical nomadism, Hideor Tild started “Home Directory”, published by IRM Netlabel and Les Disques Normal, with songs composed on his acoustic guitar.
From that breadcrumb’s thread and without losing any of this initial spontaneity, the French musician has woven unique and varied atmospheres, mixing pastoral ballads and electrified cavalcades, western folk elements and instruments from Africa and Asia (from Mali to Uzbekistan), intoxicating strings and percussions of all kinds, hints of electronic music and unusual sounds ranging from vocoder to drum machines through field recordings and mystical chants coming from multiple geographical origins : voices from Mexico to Japan, Touvain and Inuit songs, etc.
As a result, the mostly instrumental “Home Directory” is an album filled with spirituality that invites you to travel far but also to make your own inner journey, summoning previous adventurers of acoustic guitars such as Mice Parade, Gustavo Santaolalla, Ry Cooder or Tunng’s early records.
released June 11, 2021
Didier Loth : classical & electric guitar, bass, keyboards, samples, voice (1, 2, 5, 10, 11), kora (1), marble (1), kalimba (3), drums (5), uzbek rubab (5), citara colombina (6), hang drum (7, 12), tibetan bowl (7), teponaztli (9), melodica (10), épinette des Vosges (12)
Joseph Roumier : cello (3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12)
Verónica Pereda Loth : voice (6, 8, 9)
Tycho Brahé : drums, pans, voice (8)
Maya : voice (1, 11)
Christophe Gay : voice (3)
Osbaldo Amauri Gallegos de Dios : voice (6)
Emmanuel Pidoux : voice (9)
Mixed by Thomas Rozes
Mastered by Rémi Salvador
Cover & artwork by Paul de Toytot
posted 17 September 2021
Various Artist – Querencia
Various Artist
“Querencia”
Shika Shika is very happy and proud to share with you “QUERENCIA” our 2021 compilation introducing 14 tracks by artists from 14 different countries.
The theme of this compilation was migration in the broadest sense – how music, people and culture expands and goes beyond borders – and each artist approached that in their own way, in their own context. You can find out more about the inspiration by clicking on the individual tracks.
Querencia: ‘a place where you are your most authentic self; a place from which your strength of character is drawn, where you feel safe, where you feel at home’.
For the artwork, we invited Argentinean visual artist Gala Berger to collaborate with us with one of her pieces. She is co-founder of La Ene (New Energy Museum of Contemporary Art), an experimental museum based in Buenos Aires, and the Paraguay Printed Art Fair, a fair born with the aim of creating alternative platforms of exchange and circulation of independent publications without the traditional restrictions and regulations faced by the mainstream press.
credits
released August 12, 2021
Ancestral Beats (COL)
Dengue Dengue Dengue & Prisma (PER + ARG)
Elzy (RU)
Eat My Butterfly feat. Syna Awel (Reunion Island + ALG)
Expe (JP)
Hajna feat. Fayssal Naseur (FR + ALG)
Isami (JP)
LDLP (NL)
Lilium (US)
Maggie Tra (CAM)
Nuri (TUN)
Penya (UK – FL)
Sidirum (ARG)
Terror/Cactus & Pahua (ARG + MEX)
Artwork: Gala Berger (instagram.com/galaberger)
Design: Clau Smith (instagram.com/clau._.smith)
Mastering: Rob Small
posted 15 August 2021
Rien virgule – Trente Jours A Grande Echelle
Rien virgule
“Trente Jours A Grande Echelle”
Vinyle 12 pouce tiré à 500 exemplaires.
Enregistré par Manuel Duval & Stéphane Torre-Trueba.
Masterisé par Mathieu Berthet
Pochette : Anne Careil
Musiciens :
Mathias Pontévia
Jean-Marc Reilla
Anne Careil
Manuel Duval
credits
released November 1, 2015
Co-produced by :
La République Des Granges – Les Potagers Natures – Permafrost – micr0lab – Animal Biscuit – Attila Tralala – Phase! Records and Do It Youssef !
posted 26 July 2021
Vziel Projet – The circle of praxis is a flow and phantasm of function
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Vziel Projet
“The circle of praxis is a flow and phantasm of function”
posted 18 July 2021
Vitas Guerulaïtis – Le Tigre
Vitas Guerulaïtis
“Le Tigre”
released June 15, 2015
Vitas Guerulaitis is
Célia Jankowski (voice, keyboards, programming)
Ismaël Colombani (voice, guitar, programming)
David Costenaro (voice, drums)
The band comprises three french activists who sought refuge in Brussels. Their music is impossible to classify.
Etienne Foyer – Enregistrement, Mixage @Les ateliers Claus – Bruxelles – Décembre 2013
Christophe Albertijn – Mastering
Cover by Ismaël C.
Co-prod’ :
Tandori records – Cheap Satanism records – Whosbrain records – Rock n’ Roll Masturbation records – Aredje – S.K records – Attila Tralala and Do It Youssef !
posted 18 June 2021
Numa Gama – Memorias de Oneyda
Numa Gama
“Memorias de Oneyda”
Memórias de Oneyda was created during the residency held by São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP) in celebration of the 85th birthday of the public record library “Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga” which has one of the biggest archives of latin america and is named after the director and founder Oneyda Alvarenga.
Percussions, beats, harmonic layers, and almost all details were extracted solely from the vast collection of the library, with exception of a few field recordings and instrumentals I’ve recorded for other occasions. These additional audios are also used as sound collage. I took most of the vocals from the historical 1938’s folklore research mission, which aimed into recording traditional music from the north and northeast of Brazil.
I’ve adapted the sonority of the tracks to the quality and texture of the oldest recordings, seeking a sound in between contemporary and a 30’s recording – as it was an old dirty recording of a parallel reality. The são paulo musician and engineer Bruno Palazzo helped me to enhance this feeling with an analog tape master.
Minimum suggested donation is 5.50€ + vat. 50% of the profits will be donated to the movement of the indigenous woman of Xingu – ATIX Mulher. Depending on how much is raised, other indigenous ONGS will be included.
released February 4, 2021
Criação e Mixagem: Numa Gama
Design: Numa Gama
Masterização: Bruno Palazzo
Fonte desenhada: Clau Smith
posted 07 June 2021
