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NEW RELEASES NO. 7 – 2019
Ifriqiyya Electrique: Laylet El Booree GBCD 70 / € 10,45 / 4030433607022 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Tunisia – Fusion GBLP 70 / € 13,45 / 4030433607015 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Tunisia – Fusion Fusing the rhythms and invocations of the ancient Saharan Banga ritual with an electrical storm of contemporary sonics, Ifriqiyya Electrique’s second album both grips and awakens. 'Laylet el Booree' translates as the 'Night of the Madness'. It refers to the last part of the annual gathering of the adorcist ritual from the Banga of Tozeur – it is the night when the spirits actually take possession of the bodies. Like the ritual itself, the album is wild, frantic, and never caresses the listener’s expectations. But its purpose is also to heal; with sweat, spirituality, electricity and trance being central to the almost overwhelming sensory experience. With the band now joined by new member Fatma Chebbi (on vocals and tchektchekas hand percussion) one senses that the musical and cultural conversation is even deeper this time around. In fact, it doesn’t feel like a speculative conversation at all, but rather something fully formed and undeniable. An emergent ritual in itself. Listen.
Tita Nzebi: From Kolkata VOC 8684 / € 10,95 / 3760061286849 / label: Bibaka / format: CD / Gabon – Popular Tita Nzebi was in Kolkata for her first tour in West Bengal. During this trip she finalized some songs and created other ones. Coming back she knew what her second album would be like. Her wish to share and exchange has been present all along making this album. First with her usual musicians: Geroges Dieme - drummer; Ivan Rechard - bass player; Serge Ananou - guitarist. Then with the Bengali artists met in Kolkata: Titash Sen, Gobin Das Bairagya, Sandip Bag. She merges her incantatory voice with traditional music and songs of Bengal. Listen to a track.
Uptown Rhythm Collective feat. N’Faly Kouyate & Rene Lacaille: Different Places CDURC 1 / € 10,95 / 6009707283604 / label: Just Music / format: CD / South Africa – Popular The Uptown Rhythm Collective is a loose, project driven combination of diverse talents formed around the core axis of Neill Solomon and Dan Chiorboli, both founder members of the original Uptown Rhythm Dogs together with Greg Georgiades. Most of the artists involved in this unique collaborative experience have crossed paths with either Neill, Dan or Greg at some point in their colourful musical careers. The Collective’s recently released their debut album 'Different Places' features Neill Solomon, Dan Chiorboli and multi-string instrumentalist Greg Hadjiyorki Georgiades together with N’Faly Kouyate the great kora player and singer from Guinea, and Rene Lacaille the legendary accordionist from Reunion Island. Other musician's on the album include Sez Adams and Chris Tokalon. Listen to a track.
Mekons: Deserted GBCD 69 / € 10,45 / 4030433606926 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / England – Punk-Roots GBLP 69 / € 13,45 / 4030433606919 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / England – Punk-Roots This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music. Their new album was recorded in the desert environs of Joshua Tree, California and is drenched with widescreen, barbed-wire atmosphere and hard-earned (but ever amused) defiance. The return of one of the planet’s most essential rock & roll bands. For more than four decades they’ve been a constant contradiction, an ongoing art project of observation, anger and compassion, all neatly summed up in the movie Revenge of the Mekons, which has ironically brought an upsurge in their popularity around the US as new audiences discovers their shambling splendour. And now the caravan continues with Deserted, their first full studio album in eight years. Listen.
Gaiteros de Lisboa: Bestiario UGURU 6031145 / € 10,95 / 0645760311456 / label: Uguru / format: CD / Portugal – Folk Gaiteiros de Lisboa have a new album, featuring a renewed and refreshed line-up and material; they have not recorded since 2012 and their long-awaited new album of original material will be released on April 5th, 2019. Although their name means “the Lisbon Bagpipers” Gaiteiros de Lisboa do not and have never made pipe music through their 20-year career. Combining all sorts of percussions, wind and steel instruments and the power of the human voice, Gaiteiros de Lisboa have dragged folk music into the 21st century. Ever since the release of their first album, Invasoes Barbaras, the Gaiteiros have never ceased to amaze us and their albums have always had something new. This one is no exception. Listen to a track.
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Arcadia Roots: Arcadia Roots ARM 1 / € 9,45 / 5032796033325 / label: Arcadia Roots Music / format: CD / England: Rock-Reggae Arcadia Roots are a Worcestershire based band that deliver an exciting hypnotic blend of Trance, Dance, Reggae and Roots music. The bands vibe has been described as ‘earthy’, ‘psychedelic’ and ‘infectious’. This 4 piece dance band combine world, reggae and rock music to create a very unique & captivating sound. The lyrical content of the music reflects the band’s extensive travels. Themes cover some current political and environmental concern’s (fracking, trophy hunting, and religious indoctrination) to time- honoured topics such as love, lust and the search for meaning. These words are placed in between swirling delay and reverbed guitar melodies grounded with a pounding rhythmic backbone. Listen.
Il Civetto: Facing The Wall EBM 32 / € 11,95 / 4015698026955 / label: Eastblok Music / format: CD / Germany – Global-Popular EBM 33 / € 18,95 / 4015698027037 / label: Eastblok Music / format: LP / Germany – Global-Popular With 'Facing the Wall', written in Morocco, Greece and Andalusia, sung in English, German and French, recorded in Berlin, Il Civetto have carried their ecstatic-magical playground from the stage to the studio a second time with great attention to detail. The dreamy lightness of the self-titled debut album has given way to hard reality: 'Facing the Wall' is a deeply touching fragment of our time. The expression of a generation in upheaval, searching. An album between euphoria and melancholy - wallowing, sweating, dancing - with a tingling belly and wide open eyes. Il Civetto have become more serious, somehow more real, and yet have retained their very own, characteristic sound. Deeply touching, always danceable. Listen to a track.
Janusz Prusinowski Kompania: Po Sladach – In The Footsteps BUDA 860345 / € 11,05 / 3341348603452 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Poland – Folk This is a group of musicians who follows the traditions of the village masters they have learned the music from, but they are also an avant-garde band with their own characteristic sound and language of improvisation. They combine music with dance and the archaic with the modern. Kompania’s unique style is the result of their attempt to find new ways of interpreting the most important elements of village music from central Poland. It brings together mazurkas – sung, played, danced to, improvised live – and modern man. It turns out that traditional music of Polish villages can be a reference point for a variety of genres: reminiscent of Chopin in its melodic pattern and the use of rubato, sharing a love of improvisation with blues and jazz, evocative of contemporary music in its tone, and possessing the expressiveness of rock music. Listen.
Carlo Maver: Volver VM 3024 / € 9,95 / 8392347030249 / label: Visage Music / format: CD / Italy – Folk 'Volver' is the new album by Carlo Maver. Recorded live in May 2018 in the small church of Casola (BO), solo bandoneon and flute. This musical presentation of Carlo Maver is the transformation of a feeling, where listening inside and outside is a goal, thanks to which listener and performer find themselves together in a total experience. 'Volver' is music that comes from silence and that is attracted by silence. It's not only entertaining, it exposes. The choice to play solo allows Carlo Maver to keep the sounds of the instruments pure, working in subtraction and leaving the pauses an almost crucial role. Listen to a track.
Centolanza E Gli Spendidi: Il Giorno, Poi La Notte SQLCD 115 / € 9,95 / 9788885571204 / label:Squi Libri / format: CD / Italy – Popular Swing and ballads, manouche and jazz, waltzes and rock-blues atmospheres are so tied to this albums story that, another surprising anomaly, it rises far from any epic temptation as from any intimate drift singing with great irony doubts and malaise of an imaginary people, lost in some urban suburbs between "dull works and disappointed looks". Dreaming about the rubble of those who do not know or dare not dream, the musicians invent an alphabet of emotions to laugh at themself and the world and to try, with lightness, to ease the pain that everyone carries inside. Listen.
Mauro Palmas: Palma De Sols SQLCD 116 / € 9,95 / 9788885571211 / label: Squi Libri / format: CD / Italy – Folk From one piece to the next, a timeless journey along the ancient routes of a sea that witnesses multiple destinies and guards priceless beauties, is a theatre of unspeakable suffering and a vehicle for dreams and promises of life, both individual and for entire peoples. The Mediterranean once an enclave of different civilizations and now a mirror of fierce selfishness, becomes a story thanks to the text by Maria Gabriela Ledda that, written specifically for this work and entrusted to the voice of Simonetta Soro, winds like a seductive common thread between the different songs, revealing and naming what the music expresses but does not say. Listen to a track.
Christian Escoude: Django, Les Inedits CR 277 / € 10,45 / 0190759284421 / label: Cristal Records / format: CD / France – Gypsy Jazz Christian Escoude is a member of this small group of jazz guitarists from the Manouche community, his talent has allowed him to play with the greatest names such as McLaughlin, Martial Solal, John Lewis. A few unpublished masterpieces from Django Reinhardt's music found in the family attic are at the origin of the idea for this album. Discovering tracks composed by Django, which have never been recorded or even played associated with compositions by Christian Escoude and lyrics written by the singer Stephy Haik. This is an original new album dedicated to the work of the great Django Reinhardt.
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Nicolas Folmer: So Miles CR 288 / € 10,45 / 0190759306727 / label: Cristal Records / format: CD / France – Jazz It is always dangerous to challenge legends, but some, like Nicolas Folmer, have a natural legitimacy to do so, because the trumpeter is one of the few artists to have been produced by Miles Davis' producer, Teo Macero. All the more legitimate as some renowned artists supported him and congratulated him for having tried this difficult exercise. Nicolas Folmer and his musician friends recently created a tribute to Miles Davis. This tribute to a musician whose music has touched so many lives, has been beautifully conceived and performed. Nicolas, in particular, plays wonderfully on this album. His performance shows that he lived with Miles' music and absorbed it into his soul. Teaser. EXPECTED
LP out on Friday April 19th, 2019 – CD out on Friday May 31st, 2019 Benin International Musical: BIM #1 WTRCD 2 / € 12,95 / 3516628288524 / label: World Tour Records / format: CD / Benin – Popular WTRLP 2 / € 16,95 / 3516628288518 / label: World Tour Records / format: LP / Benin – Popular The music of Benin was born from voodoo worship dances. However, it is the source of major musical currents of the 20th century, from jazz to rock through blues, gospel, Afrobeat, rap. It is to tell this legacy that the BIM project is born! Benin International Musical pays tribute to the music of the forebears of Dahomey. It reflects as much the traditional ceremonies as the trendy clubs of Cotonou, through to the Evangelical churches and the convents where voodoo deities are invoked. The meeting of voodoo rhythms and traditional songs, electric melodies with Beninese sauce well spiced Afro groove, this collective of Beninese artists has something to make you travel. Listen.
Out on Friday April 26th, 2019 Tristan Driessens: A Folk Dancer’s Journey 2GN 5 / € 9,45 / 0705632576229 / label: Seyir Muzik / format: CD / Belgium – Folk After many years spent deepening the classical Ottoman repertoire, it is quite naturally that Tristan Driessens (‘ûd) returns to his origins, the European folk, with his friend Robbe Kieckens (percussion). Accompanied by high-level musicians encountered during their career, Tristan and Robbe give us their interpretation of the folk ball. With the collaboration of Emre Gültekin (saz), Vardan Hovanissian (duduk), Muhittin Kemal Temel (kanun), Tom Callens (flute, bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophone), Grégory Jolivet (hurdy-gurdy), Simon Leleux (percussion) Ruben Tenembaum (violin), Vincent Noiret (double bass), Jowan Merckx (tin whistle, low whistle) and Isabelle de Spoelberch (harp).
Out on Friday April 26th, 2019 Hama Sankare: Niafunke CLECD 24 / € 9,95 / 0711574868223 / label: Clermont Music / format: CD / Mali – Popular CLELP 24 / € 17,45 / 0711574868216 / label: Clermont Music / format: LP / Mali – Popular Hama Sankare, legend of Mali's desert blues, releases Niafunke, his second brilliant album recorded March 2018 in Bamako. Sankare brought into the studio dynamic young headliners, Oumar Konate, Dramane Toure, and Makan Camara along with long time colleagues Afel Bocoum, Yoro Cisse, and Kande Sissoko to forge a set of blazing tracks that breath new energy into the genre, breaking old formulas all the while honoring traditional roots. Niafunke, a city in Mali along the Niger River near Timbuktu is where Sankare continues to live with his family. He, Bocoum, and Cisse were contemporary collaborators with Ali Farka Toure whose home was also there; they can be heard on many of Farka's albums. Sankare's spirit engages everyone he meets. He has absorbed musical influences from around the world which he brings to these ten tracks. Listen to a track.
Out on Friday May 3rd, 2019 Arifa: Secret Poetry MP 2019555 / € 9,95 / 8712618001883 / label: Mundus Productions / format: CD / Various – Fusion Ancient musical traditions from the Middle East and Balkans are blended with jazz and contemporary improvised music through a Western frame of mind. Arifa’s secret lies in the creative chemistry between its three members. Coming from Romania, Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany their music is just as diverse as their origins, moving from traditional Turkish and Balkan sounds to jazz and contemporary music. Although Arifa is based in the Netherlands, this quartet truly matches the spirit of the European Jazz Meeting with its members originally hailing from Romania, Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany. Their music is just as diverse as their origins, moving from traditional Turkish and Arabic orient sounds to jazz and classical music.
Out on Friday May 3rd, 2019 Baba Zula: Kizil Gozlum GBEP 71 / € 9,45 / 4030433607114 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: 12” / Turkey – Popular BaBa ZuLa - the legendary ensemble from Istanbul - have brilliantly established themselves over the past two decades as the missing link between Turkish Psych, Krautrock and dubwise stylings. The Kızıl Gözlüm EP, the first follow-up to their career spanning retrospective "XX,” finds the band more experimental and expansive than ever. The 3-track EP features exploratory versions of songs from their upcoming Glitterbeat album “Derin Derin” (due out in September). The A-side is a re-tooled version of Kızıl Gözlüm which is unique to the EP, on the B-side two transformative remixes of Kervan Yoldan - the first by the acclaimed German electronic producer Schneider TM and the second by Arastaman, a dubmaster from Istanbul.
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Best Sellers Top 5 1. Kel Assouf: Black Tenere GBCD 68 / GBLP68 2. Ustad Saami: God Is Not A Terrorist GBCD 67 / GBLP 67 3. Mekons: Deserted GBCD 69 / GBLP 69 4. Refugees For Refugees: Amina MP 11 5. 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