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NEW RELEASES NR. 3 – 2016

Now available! Chimurenga Renaissance: Girlz with Gunz GBEP 30 / 4030433603079 / label: Glitterbeat / format: 12” EP / USA/Zimbabwe – Hiphop/world Otherworldly hip-hop meets Shona rhythms, Congolese guitar ambiance and political resistance. Chimurenga Renaissance is a Seattle-based duo made up of Tendai Maraire and Hussein Kalonji (in Shona “Chimurenga” means revolutionary struggle). Tendai is one-half of the visionary hip-hop group Shabazz Palaces and has family roots in Zimbabwe while guitarist Hussein’s family hails from the Congo. The 11-track EP “Girlz With Gunz” will be their debut release with Glitterbeat Records and will be followed by a full-length album in autumn of 2016. Listen to the teaser.

Ukandanz: Awo BUDA 860282 / 3341348602820 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / France-Ethiopia – Popular uKanDanZ: Awo DDLP 11 / 3760238260382 / label: Dur et Doux/ format: LP / France-Ethiopia – Popular uKanDanZ is an unusual meeting between an electric quartet and Asnake Guebreye, the charismatic lead singer originating from the vibrant music scene in Addis Abeba. Their music is inspired by traditional and popular Ethiopian songs. uKanDanZ has a real crunch energy, ranging from rock to jazz and noise. Guitar, saxophone, bass, drums and vocals shuffle our ears. The stage presence of uKanDanZ swings alternately between energy and emotion, making the audience dance and shiver. Listen to a song here!

Mbaraka Mwinshehe & Orchestra Super Volcano: Zanzibara 9 – Masika – A Fresh Breeze from Tanzania 1972-74 BUDA 860279 / 3341348602790 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Tanzania – Popular Mbaraka and Super Volcano rose to become the most popular dance music act in East Africa in the 1970s, with frequent touring across Tanzania, but also in neighboring countries, like Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zaire (Lubumbashi), and Ethiopia. Masika was the new danceable style Mbaraka invented. Listen to their Music here!

Various: Outlier: Recordings from Madagascar SUBFLP 102 / 0613505290021 / label: Sublime Frequencies / format: LP / Madagascar – Trad. Limited-edition LP with full-size insert of text and photographs by compiler Charles Brooks. This collection is an impeccable and crystalline assortment of beautiful music from the deep southwestern provinces of Menabe and Tulear in Madagascar. Brooks has made many friends in these lesser-travelled regions since the 1990s. The album represents a compilation of his encounters from 2011-2012. "… heavy air, summoned spirits, and a transformative energy collapse natural constraints of place. The Malagasy call this mingling of forces 'maresaka' -- a permeating vibrational aura. Maresaka pulls you in and places you in the moment, to participate through a saturation of sounds, smells, and colors. " --Charles Brooks, 2015.

Various: Music of Xinjiang: Kazakh and Uyghur Music of Central Asia SUBFLP 101 / 0613505500052 / label: Sublime Frequencies / format: LP / China – Traditional Limited-edition LP with full-size insert of text and photographs by compiler Laurent Jeanneau. Xinjiang (Eastern Turkestan) is China's biggest province. The musical landscape here is one of the world's richest. The Uyghur and the Kazakh are the two main ethnicities represented on these recordings. The Kazakh (nomadic) and Uyghur (agricultural) have multiple linguistic ties. Much of this music shares many influences from the Arab world, Turkey, and Persia. The sound is that of the Islamic tradition stretching from Turkey to the most eastern frontier of the Chinese empire. These recordings and performances feature some of the area's greatest musicians playing instruments like the satar, tanbur, dotar, rawab, rushtar, and dongbra, among many others. Some excerpts here.

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The Nile Project: Aswan NP 2013 / 0887516988738 / label: Nile Project / format: CD / North-Africa – Popular In January 2013, the Nile Project brought together 18 musicians from Uganda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt to experiment with a collaborative creative process that would last 10 days. Each musician brought 2 songs. In the mornings, they taught one another their respective musical languages; in the afternoons, they played musical chairs in duos, trios, and quartets. On the 5th day, they performed for each other. The puzzle was all there. It was time to organize the piece into one seamless tapestry and perform it in Aswan and Cairo 4 days later. This recording from their first live concert showcases the result of this rich encounter. With: Alsarah, Dina el Wedidi and many more. New album expected in 2016!. Listen to ‘Salaam Nubia’.

Viviane: Confidencias ZR 32015 / 5600384982227 / label: Zipmix Records / format: CD / Portugal – Popular This ‘best of’-album includes 12 selected songs from her four Cds released since 2005, and two more inedit songs, one original "Fado do Beijo" and a version "Cantoras do rádio", an old song from Carmen Miranda. Viviane - Portuguese singer and composer, started her career in the pop-rock band Entre Aspas in the early 90th. She started her solo career in 2005 and during the past decade, it has been marked by a firm and coherent musical path. Her music has no frontiers, it´s a music where tradition walks along with modernity where fado, chanson française, jazz manouche, bossa nova or latin music get together under a pop sensibility, refined, elegant and sophisticated. Also available: Dia Novo (ZP 22014, € 8,95) Watch the clip of ‘Fado do Beijo’.

Mr Zarko: Electric Gypsy Disco Noise PYR 22 / 8712618001462 / label: Pyromusic / format: CD / Serbia – Balkan Beats Mr Žarko was born in the city of Čačak in the heartland of Serbia. In the Balkans, people from the Čačak area enjoy a peculiar reputation, partly explained by Mr Žarko as “folkloristical madness”: a very special form of insanity which he imported to Berlin several years ago. There the Serbs unique musical blend proved a hit with the club crowds and festivalgoers. Together with his five (or more) band members from Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Germany he performs his own compositions- “songs of laughter, pain, dances and tears” – often adding a psychedelic twist. Authentic balkan brass-riffs and melodies are built on grooves drawing from all corners of the globe. Electric Gipsy Disco Noise! Check out the album teaser.

Joaquin de Sola: Principio FDLI 2 / 8435383620330 / label: Flamenco de la Isla / format: CD / Spain – Flamenco Joaquim de Sola is a young singer with a voice that reminds us of old times. He has a way of charming his audience with grace, by expressing both sadness and happiness in his voice. Not afraid of tradition he performs alegrías, bulerías, fandangos, solea and Chuflillas de Cadiz with a fresh air. Listen to a track.

Erik Marchand: 5ed Round INNA 11518 / 3521383433263 / label: Innacor / format: CD / France/Brittany – Folk Erik Marchand has initiated his Breton Kreiz Breizh Akademi. The compositions of this academy orchestra corresponds to the western classical music tradition, but also connects the middle-Eastern string orchestra’s aesthetics to the Breton vocal repertoire, thanks to micro-tonality. With this atypical orchestration and an artistic process involving improvised music, the 12 musicians create a new genre, rearranging geographical and temporal marks. Arrangements and compositions were undertaken in collaboration with great masters from other musical cultures: Fawaz Baker, Iiad Eymour, Ross Daly, Philippe Le Corff, Loukas Metaxas, Jacky Molard, Dominique Pifarély, Camel Zekri, Erik Marchand. Watch the beautiful intro for the project.

Lefteris Moumtzis: Now Happiness LD 5 / 0702811531222 / label: Louvana / format: CD / Cyprus – Popular This is the first solo album by Lefteris Moumtzis. With this recording he is attempting a more acoustic, minimal approach, giving more attention and care to the songs and their stories. It is a soothing record that flows effortlessly from beginning to end, leaving the listener with a calming and positive feeling. Stylistically, the songs borrow elements from folk, jazz, ambient and classical music. Lefteris sings and plays guitar, piano and synth while Dimitris Hadjizisis lends guitar on a few tracks. Listen to the title track.

Davide di Rosolini & Tonino Cavallo: Sicilia SA 141276 / 3700089412769 / label: Air Mail Music / format: CD / Italy - Traditional Sicilian artistic sensibility, which is still very much alive, finds its expression in music and the tradition of street singers. Davide di Rosolini and Tonino Cavallo exemplify the art of the street musician.

Available from stock – back catalogue Mountain Records

Denagan Janvier Honfo Kini Kana (2002) MOU 4336 4026702433621 Audrey Motaung Colours Can’t Clash (1994) EWM 41412 4015434414121 Various Cape Jazz 2 (1997) MOU 7502 4026702075029 Schalk Joubert Kayamandi (2006) MOU 4494 4026702449424 Jive Nation Under African Skies (1996) MOU 222 4026702002223 Amampondo & the Solid Brass Quintet Intsholo (1996) AM 282 4026702028230 Jonathan Butler 7th Avenue MOU 4355 4026702435526 Sea Weed Culture Shock MOU 4475 4026702445723

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EXPECTED

Expected 4 March: : Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31 / 4030433603123 / label: Glitterbeat / format: CD / – Popular

Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBLP 31 / 4030433603116 /label: Glitterbeat / format: LP / Western Sahara - Popular Western Saharan musician/activist Aziza Brahim’s new album Abbar el Hamada (Across the Hamada), is a commanding and compassionate musical statement about, and for, the tumultuous age in which we live. Raised in a Saharawi refugee camp in the Algerian desert, and living in exile for more than two decades (first in and currently in ), Brahim’s life and music embodies both the tragedies and hopes of the present-day migrant and refugee experience. Recorded with Soutak producer Chris Eckman (Bassekou Kouyate, Tamikrest), Abbar el Hamada, is a wholly persuasive example of Brahim’s pan-musical vision and is her most compelling and varied album to date. Listen to a track.

Expected 29 April: Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht: Dvojka GBCD 33 / 4030433603321 / label: Glitterbeat / format: CD / Bosnia-Herzegovina – Sevdah

Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht: Dvojka GBLP 33 / 4030433603314 / label: Glitterbeat / format: LP / Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sevdah The Huffington Post recently called Damir Imamovič : “The King of Sevdah.” Sevdah is Bosnia’s gorgeous and centuries old popular song form. While Damir and his pan-Balkan band Sevdah Takht are certainly the most important young proponents of sevdah, their approach is fueled by a fearless commitment to push this passionate music into contemporary, unknown territory. They are more revolutionaries than kings.

REVIEWS

Songlines #115 Feb 2016 & Vadiya Mint el Hanevi: Parool 28 January 2016 Baila Sahara Baila INN 1141 MAM: Human Swing Box BUDA 860280 Oratnitza: Folktron MK 57084 Smockey: Pre’volution OH 29 Transglobal World Music Chart February 2016 Dizu Plaatjies & Friends: Ubuntu MOU 4554 fRoots #392 Feb 2016 Bixga 70: III GBCD 26/GBLP 26 Bixga 70: III GBCD 26/GBLP 26 Erik Marchand : 5ed Round INNA 11518 Oratnitza: Folktron MK 57084 Oratnitza: Folktron MK 57084 Dizu Plaatjies & Friends: Ubuntu MOU 4554 Sahra Halgan Trio: Faransiskiyo Somaliland BUDA 4758652 Pevarlamm: Deltu PPR 18 Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 World Music Charts Europe February 2016 Oratnitza: Folktron MK 57084 Trouw 29 January 2016 Oratnitza: Folktron MK 57084

LIVE

Duo Bottasso 20 February De Doelen – Rotterdam (NL) Monsieur Doumani 14 April Art Base – Brussels (BE) UTZ 15 April ‘t Ey – Borsele (BE) 25 February Senghor – Brussels (BE) 16 April Korzo – The Hague (NL) 17 April Paradiso – Amsterdam (NL) Orchestre International du Vetex 26 February De Kreun – Kortrijk (BE) Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin 23 April Chapelle de Verre - Ronquières (BE) Che Sudaka 21 May Handelsbeurs – Gent (BE) 25 March Paaspop – Schijndel (NL) 12 June Eupen (BE) 3 April 2016 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels (BE) Zakouska Lakha Khan 21 May Kokopelli Festival – Gullegem (BE) 1 April 2016 Senghor – Brussels (BE)

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