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NEW RELEASES NO. 7-2017
Glitterbeat Records is started a new label. It is called - tak:til tak:til will be a Glitterbeat imprint that specializes in contemporary (mostly) instrumental music. Albums that loosely navigate Jon Hassell's idea of "Fourth World" musics, musics bravely and playfully blurring the divide between (so- called) futurists and (so-called) traditionalists
OUT ON FRIDAY April 14th: Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Simultonality GBCD 48 / 4030433604823 / label: tak:til / format: CD / USA – Popular GBLP 48 / 4030433604816 / label: tak:til / format: LP / USA – Popular The follow-up to Joshua Abrams's critically acclaimed 2015 album Magnetoception is here. Simultonality, credited to Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society (NIS), is the first recording in the project’s nine year, four album history made by a regularly gigging manifestation rather than a special assembly of friends. Recorded in 2014 & 2015 in single takes by the full ensemble during & after tours of the U.S. & Canada, Simultonality sets out new pathways for Abrams & the NIS to reach the next summit, and once more affirms the project's unique approach to joining traditional musics, American minimalism and jazz with the Gnawa ceremonial instrument the guimbri. Listen to a track here.
75 Dollar Bill: Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/ Rhythm/ Rock GBCD 47/ 4030433604724 / label: tak:til / format: CD / USA – Popular GBLP 47/ 4030433604717 / label: tak:til / format: LP / USA – Popular At last the European release of one of 2016’s most acclaimed albums. 75 Dollar Bill’s second full-length crashed onto many of last year’s most prestigious “Best Album” lists: The Wire, Uncut, The Village Voice/Pazz & Jop (and more). The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic, pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York. Featuring Carey Balch on floor tom, Rolyn Hu on trumpet, Cheryl Kingan on baritone & alto saxophones, Andrew Lafkas on contrabass and Karen Waltuch on viola. Listen to a track.
Danyel Waro: monmon BUDA 860309 / 3341348603094 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Reunion – Popular Danyèl Waro has always stayed faithful to the acoustic tradition of Maloya, the blues of the island of Réunion, and he is recognized as its "hero". As a musician and poet, he sings Creole with unparalleled emotion: “Maloya, for me, is first and foremost about the word," he says. "I'm looking for the cadence, the image, the rhythm in the word. Maloya has put me in touch with Réunion, with its people, with our language.” album, monmon (the lower-case “m” is deliberate as it is not only for his own mother but for all "monmons”), resonates with all the spirituality and commitment of this outstanding artist. Listen to a track.
Kala Jula: Mande Kulu BUDA 860307 / 3341348603070 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Mali – Popular The music of Kala Jula (Samba Diabate, Vincent Zanetti, Helene Labarriere & Jacky Molard) owes much to the rich traditions of Mandé. While it most often expresses timeless truths, its roots go a long way back in time. With its rich griot inheritance, it draws on the source of the epics and the myths of the donsow hunters, privileged custodians of the defining values of Mandingo culture. "Juru náani", four strings, could have been the title of this record: for the first time guitars, n'goni and zena are mixed with those of violin and double bass in a new kind of Mandingo quartet. Listen to the title track.
OUT NOW: King Ayisoba: 1000 Can Die GBCD 44/ 4030433604427 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Ghana – Popular GBLP 44/ 4030433604410 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Ghana – Popular Ghana’s ancient empire and the 21st century global express. The rhythms that created the past alongside the beats forging the present. In King Ayisoba, they all converge. Everything morphing into one. And on this new album they stand together, history and today, side by side. The tradition hewn from the future. The juxtaposition of the two on ‘1000 Can Die’ shows the irresistible drive of both sides. The thick, squelching bass and beats that push under the older rhythms of “Anka Yen Tu Kwai” are overtaken by the guluku and dundun drums that bring in “Yalma Dage Wanga,” its rapid-fire melody dictated by Ayisoba’s voice and two- Xango Music Distribution Release #7 – 2017 Pagina | 1
string kologo lute. Listen to a track.
Adedeji: Afreekanism DEJA 322986 / 0191061322986 / label: Dejafrique / format: 2CD / Africa – Popular Adedeji is a prolific singer, guitarist and composer, born and raised in the vibrant city of Lagos, West Africa. His music is an infusion of Traditional African music with a progressive attitude and modern sound of jazz, funk and soul music, creating music that is rhythmically and technically sophisticated, harmonically rich, and melodically compelling. Among his evident influences are George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, King Sunny Ade, and Fela Kuti. Afreekanism is a state of mind, it’s an embodiment of west African sound, it stays within the tradition while it systematically pushes its limbs and stretches without losing origin. Listen here.
Super Ska: Pow-Wow CCL 1 / 0705632072325 / label: Coucou / format: 2CD / Belgium – Ska Always ready to satisfy your desire to move, here is Super Ska which comes to deliver you with no less than twenty new compositions. Mixing styles to better blur the dance floor, they are biased to the swaying rhythms, the blissful melodies and funny solos. On disc 1 Super Ska has the honor to be backed up by the Belgian guitarist Jacques Pirotton. On disc 2 Super Ska jumps back into the puddle and plunges into the corners of imagination in search of the dancing cocktail, exotic and frantically dreamy. Listen to a track.
Nils Berg Cinemascope: Searching for Amazing Talent from Punjab HOOBCD 60 / 7320470217818 / label: Hoob Records / format: CD / Sweden – Jazz HOOBLP 60 / 7320470217801 / label: Hoob Records / format: LP / Sweden – Jazz Nils Berg Cinemascope is a swedish jazz trio, basing their music and performances around a movie projector. They came up with the idea of making music from, and playing together with, video clips of musicians and singers from different parts of the world. The project sprang from a wish of putting together a bigger band than he could afford, and resulted in fascination with how they and their fellow musicians could actually bring together seemingly odd clips and form a new whole. On the album, which was recorded with live audience in Stockholm last January, we can, apart from the encounter with Balwinder, participate in a French harp course and hear a Romany woman from the Stockholm street scene, among other things. Listen here.
Offshore: Shorewards PPR 23 / 3359340161511 / label: Paker Prod Records / format: CD / France-Brittany – Folk This is one of the musical decantations of which the musical alchemist Jacques Pellen holds the secret. This collective with variable geometry, is a perfect match between four talented artists: the guitarist Jacques Pellen, the bassist Étienne Callac, the Algerian drummer Karim Ziad and the illustrious flautist Sylvain Barou. All are brought together under the aegis of a stylistic "crossover", where they intersect with pleasure, with balance and harmony, Celtic sounds, brilliant jazz, rock energy, Maghrebian swirls and African rhythms with hypnotic virtues. This multi-voice exploration, called Offshore, is an feast of colors and influences that looks like a universal quest. Listen to a track.
Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundstrom: Svalan AKEROCD 17 / 6420114006066 / label: Akero / format: CD / Finland – Folk Accordion artist Maria Kalaniemi’s album Svalan (Swallow), produced in cooperation with harmonium wizard Eero Grundström presents a spiritual landscape where the Finnish-Swedes meets the awe-inspiring nature of Northern Karelia: a combination which can be experienced through both the music on the record and the photo-collage of scenes around Salonkylä which accompanies it. The music was recorded in Maria Kalaniemi’s childhood home, an old post-war house in the Kilo district of Espoo.
Ercilia Costa: Memorias do Fado MF 3 / 9789728644864 / label: Tradisom / format: CD / Portugal – Fado Ercilia Costa was born in 1902 in a small fishing community near Lisbon, but her natural talent as fadista brought her to the attention of a local fado house, where she sang already as a teenager. In the mid-20s she was already a well-known and admired fadista with a growing national popularity. Ercilia Costa was indisputably the first Portuguese international star and her status has since become legendary. Listen here.
Armandinho: Memorias do Fado MF 4 / 9789728644871 / label: Tradisom / format: CD / Portugal – Fado The Portuguese guitar belongs exclusively to Portugues culture and playing it virtuously has long been one of the most appreciated facets of Lusitanian music. Although the Portuguese guitar is frequently, and correctly, associated to fado, it is also a genre itself. Armandinho was one of the greatest Portuguese guitar players, and his career potential was far from being exhausted when, at the age of 55, he died in Lisbon in 1946. His influence was considerable then and still remains such today. Listen to a track.
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EXPECTED
Expected April 21st Soweto Soul: Soweto Soul JP 3 / 8712618001745 / label: Joep Pelt / format: CD + video download code + bonus 7” / South Africa – Popular Soweto Soul is a tribute to the musical soul of the South African townships. In cooperation with several South African artists combines the Dutch producer/guitarist Joep Pelt music as Penny Whistle Jive, Hip-Hop, Mbaqanga and Kwaito. Along with traditional Zulu rapper Mxolisi Majozi, also known as "Zuluboy" and artists like Penny Whistle legend Lemmy Special Mabaso, Soul Brothers organist Black Moses Ngwenya, Shangaan singer Penny Penny and Hip-Hop sensation Gigi Lamayne were a series of songs written, fusing different genres and generations. The covers of this first exclusive edition of Soweto Soul were designed by children of the Sekwati Primary School in Soweto. Besides album and documentary about this project, this edition includes a limited edition 7"vinyl. May 10th, 2017, release concert at Bimhuis, A’dam. Listen to a track.
Expected April 21st Lolomis: Boukane BUDA 860306 / 3341348603063 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Belgium – Balkan In this second album Lolomis follows the path that leads to the cursed wood, the one against which the grandmothers warn us, the one that frightens but which attracts ... To the Balkan trance that we knew was added a dark and quite fascinating poetry. A singer, a harp, flutes and percussion, they go from a song of Russian revolt to an incantation of black magic, from the lament of a wandering sailor to the katajjaq songs of the Inuit women, this opus is a tribute to the modern sorcerers. Here is Boukane, an album with a forbidden taste. Listen here.
Expected April 21st Ulas Ozdemir: Traces od Asik BUDA 860301 / 3341348603018 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Turkey – Traditional Ulas Ozdemir’s third solo album “Traces of Asık” contains asık (troubadour) lyrics from 19th century to today which are all composed by himself. His compositions are inspired by traditional folk music from Anatolia and specially Alevi music, which are the main musical sources of the asık music in Turkey, but they have the energy of Istanbul -the city that Ozdemir lives in for more than 20 years- as well. Özdemir plays various baglama sounds such as dede sazı, cura and divan in the album. He plays and sings all the songs. Listen to a track.
Expected May 26th Jan Wouter Oostenrijk: We are Connected MOU 4566 / 4026702456620 / label: Mountain Records / format: CD / Nethelands – Maghreb On this album he explores Rock Maghreb. That is progressive rock music inspired by the culture and music of the maghreb. In order to accomplish the technical requirements of this project he constructed an Electric Quarter tone Guitar This means the instrument was given a customised fingerboard with extra frets designed to allow the player to produce quarter-tones in Arabic music and Oriental maqam playing. Although trained as a western guitar player in the traditions of classical, jazz, blues and rock music, Jan Wouter has also studied some of the North African cultural styles and adapted his playing and compositions to accommodate these. This album may be the first rock album of its kind to present the electric Quarter Tone Guitar.
REVIEWS
Transglobal World Music Chart April 2017 Bargou08: Targ GBCD 45 / GBLP 45 World Music Charts Europe April 2017 Tamikrest: Kidal GBCD 43 / GBLP 43 Tamikrest: Kidal GBCD 43 / GBLP 43 Cemil Qocgiri: Zalal AHENK 4941011 Mokoomba: Luyando OH 30 / OHLP 30 Mokoomba: Luyando OH 30 / OHLP 30 Mamadou Kelly: Politiki (out soon) CLECD 16 The Nile Project: Jinja NP 2016 Gaye Su Akyol: Hologram Imparatorlugu GBCD 40 / GBLP 40 Girma Beyene & Akalé Wubé: Mistakes on Purpose BUDA 860303 Bargou08: Targ GBCD 45 / GBLP 45 BaBa ZuLa: XX GBCD 42 /GBLP 42 BaBa ZuLa: XX GBCD 42 /GBLP 42 Kanazoé Orkestra: Miriya BUDA 5722899 Young Iranian Female Voices: Songs in the Mist FXCD 431 Serendou: Zinder HIR 201105 Kazut de Tyr: Jorjuna - Out soon! HIR 930199 Gonzo Circus March/April. 2017 Various: An Anthology of Mongolian Khöömii BUDA 790383 Bargou08: Targ GBCD 45 / GBLP 45 Maes – Martin – Gruel: Feule Caracol BUDA 5736430 Young Iranian Female Voices: Songs in the Mist FXCD 431 Jazzism March/April. 2017 Girma Beyene & Akalé Wubé: Mistakes on Purpose BUDA 860303 Oor #3 2017 Shishani & The Namibian Tales MUNDUS 2016555 Compagnie Dounia: Alif DOUNIA 1 Bargou08: Targ GBCD 45 / GBLP 45 Lust for Life March/April. 2017 CaboCubaJazz: Corason Afrricano TBP 17005 Shishani & The Namibian Tales MUNDUS 2016555 Tamikrest: Kidal GBCD 43 / GBLP 43
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LIVE
CaboCubaJazz 19/04/2017: De Observant, Amersfoort (NL) Oum 21/04/2017: De Doelen, Rotterdam (NL) 30/04/2017: Restart, Brussels (B) 24/05/2017: De Observant. Amersfoort (NL) Katia Guerreiro: Jupiter & Okwess 02/05/2017: CC30, Leuven (B) 01-02/07/2017: Afrika Festival Hertme (NL) 03/05/2017: De Warande, Turnhout (B) 04/05/2017: CC Belgica, Dendermonde (B) King Ayisoba 07/04/2017: EKKO, Utrecht (NL) Refugees for Refugees 08/04/2017: Grounds, Rotterdam (NL) 04/05/2017: Festival van Vlaanderen, Kortrijk (B) 09/04/2017: Het Bos, Antwerpen (B) 12/10/2017: Arenberg Schouwburg, Antwerpen (B) 24/06/2017: Nuit Africaine, Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve (B) 19/10/2017: CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg (B) 21/10/2017: 30CC, Leuven (B) Bargou08 23/0220/18: De Warande, Turnhout (B) 07/04/2017: 4AD Club, Diksmuide (B) 21-23/07/2017: Welcome to the Village, Leeuwarden (NL) Soweto Soul 10/05/2017: Bimhuis, Amsterdam (NL) Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba 07/04/2017: N9, Eeklo (B) Georgos Dalaras 15/05/2017: Nieuwe Luxor, Rotterdam (NL) Mydy Rabycad 14/04/2017 : Paaspop, Schijndel (NL) Orkesta Mendoza 19/05/2017: Grignoux, Liege (B) Gaye Su Akyol 20/05/2017: Kokopelli Festival (B) 19/04/2017 : Vera, Groningen (NL) 21/05/2017: AB, Brussels (B) 21/04/2017 : Balkan Trafik, Brussels (B) 22/04/2017 : Korzo, The Hague (NL) Voxtra 23/04/2017 : Forum, Rotterdam (NL) 21/05/2017: Musik Marathon, Eupen (BE) 21-23/07/2017: Welcome to the Village, Leeuwarden (NL) 02/12/2017: Neimënster, Luxembourg (L) 03/12/2017: Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam (NL) Carla Pires 10/12/2017: De Doelen, Rotterdam (NL) 20/04/2017: Handelsbeurs, Gent (B) 21/04/2017: Muziekpublique, Brussels (B) Nils Fischer & Timbazo 02/06/2017: Cabrio Openluchttheater, Soest (NL) Baba Zula 21/04/2017: Balkan Trafik, Brussels (B) Girma Beyene & Akale Wube 28/04/2017: C-Mine, Genk (B) 04/06/2017: Music Meeting, Nijmegen (NL)
Tamikrest Noura Mint Seymali 20/04/2017: Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL) 06/06/2017: Bird, Rotterdam (NL) 21/04/2017: De Spil, Roeselare (B) 10/06/2016: Vooruit, Ghent (B) 22/04/2017: Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (B) 23/04/2017: Grounds, Rotterdam (NL) Maria Farantouri 05/05/2017: C-Mine, Genk (B) 11/06/2017: De Meervaart, Amsterdam (NL) 06/05/2017: Botanique, Brussels (B) Nile Project Besh O droM 24/06/2017: Holland Festival , Amsterdam (NL) 22/04/2017: Balkan Trafik, Brussels (B) Elza Soares Samba Toure 27/06/2017: Schouwburg, Rotterdam (NL) 28/04/2017: Pip, The Hague (NL) 29/04/2017: Grounds, Rotterdam (NL) Aziza Brahim 30/04/2017: Duycker, Hoofddorp (NL) 21-23/07/2017: Welcome to the Village, Leeuwarden (NL)
TOP 5 BEST SELLERS
1. Tamikrest: Kidal GBCD 43 / GBLP 43 2. Girma Beyene & Akale Wube: Ethiopiques 30 – Mistakes on Purpose BUDA 860303 3. Mokoomba: Luyando OH 30 / OHLP 30 4. Baba Zula: XX GBCD 42 / GBLP 42 5. Voxtra: The Encounter of Vocal Heritage MP 8
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