Xango Music local music from all over the world Office: Singelstraat 1, 3513 BL Utrecht, NL www.xmd.nl - [email protected] - +31 6 260 263 60 Warehouse: Berenkoog 53 C, 1822 BN, Alkmaar (NL) e: [email protected] t: +31 (0)72 - 567 3030 NEW RELEASES NO. 6 – 2019 The Liberation Project: Songs That Made Us Free CDJUST 802 / 6009707283369 / label: Just Music / format: 3CD / South Africa – Popular The Liberation Project is driven from South Africa and features a unique collaboration of musicians mainly from South Africa, Italy and Cuba who have joined forces to celebrate their liberation struggles from various different corners of the world with the main focus being on music from South Africa, Italy and Cuba. Musicians from France, La Reunion, Guinea, Burundi, the USA, Brazil, the United Kingdom and from much more countries have also contributed. 34 songs plus 3 bonus tracks over 3 CD’s with 69 musicians from 17 different countries out of 17 studios all over the world contributing their passion and talent for the cause. Throughout history, music and protest songs have inspired and celebrated social change. This record includes well-known and traditional songs on the liberation theme, together with newly penned ones which share the same subject matter. Listen to a track. The Nile Project: Tana ZAM 3 / 0888295843317 / label: The Nile Project / format: CD / Various – Popular One of the tightest cross-cultural collaborations in musical history, the Nile Project brings together artists from the 11 Nile countries, representing over 450 million people, to compose new songs that combine the rich diversity of one of the oldest places on Earth. Tana is the Nile Project’s third album. Recording the album began at Manifold Recording in North Carolina as part of their residency with NC State Live at North Carolina State University in Raleigh during our 2017 US Tour, and know here's is 'Tana'. Listen to a track. Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba: Routes TERCD 6146532 / 0700261465326 / label: Twelve Eight Records / format: CD / Senegal-USA – Popular Anchored by the kora and vocals of griot kora player and singer Diali Keba Cissokho, Kaira Ba has created a singular cross-cultural statement with their 2018 album Routes. This album builds a bridge across the Atlantic, connecting worlds thousands of miles apart but intimately bound by a shared history. Over the course of two years, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba recorded Routes in North Carolina, USA, and in M’bour, Senegal. The collaboration grew to include 35 musicians, each of whom listened deeply to the others in this musical conversation. Sounds of Senegal intertwine with those of the U.S. South -- sabar and soruba orchestras, tama (talking drum), balafon, and fula flute weave through gospel organ and pedal steel, sax, trumpet, trombone and string quartet – musicians calling back and forth across continents, drawing each other close though an ocean away. Listen here. Mekons: Deserted (Out on Friday March 29th, 2019) GBCD 69 / 4030433606926 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / England – Punk-Roots GBLP 69 / 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. Los Pleneros De La 21: Live At Pregones TRR 45 / 0609311393728 / label: Truth Revolution Records / format: CD / USA – Latin Founded in 1983, Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21) is an intergenerational ensemble of today’s venerated Latino musicians and top Bomba and Plena practitioners. The ensemble, based in the heart of El Barrio (Spanish Harlem), is known for creating infectious sounds which combine the folkloric and raw percussion elements of Puerto Rican Bomba and Plena genres with contemporary and urban styles, like Son, Salsa, Jazz, and Hip Hop. Los Pleneros de la 21 recorded their latest musical album, LIVE at Pregones, a project which captured the next musical phase of the ensemble, while also tracing a historical trajectory of the group’s 35+ year-long musical journey. Listen to a track. Xango Music Distribution Release #6 – 2019 Pagina | 1 Ronnie Burrage & Holographic Principle: Dance Of The Great Spirit TRR 46 / 0609311393735 / label: Truth Revolution Records / format: CD / USA – Jazz Ronnie Burrage is considered one of the best jazz musicians on the world scene today. He is featured on more than 100 recordings. The purpose of this recording is to bring "Holographic Principle" to the world. It is an artistic statement, professing that love is at the root of our collective practices. We share a passion for changing the world through music, promoting the commonalities of diverse cultures and telling our stories of truth, as we understand them to be when juxtaposing the history of our species with what is happening in the world today. Listen to the title track. Rumbaristas: Rumbaristas VLR 16 / 5425021010176 / label: Via Lactea / format: CD / Various – Mestizo This pleasantly disturbed quartet releases their untitled debut album. The 'mestizo new style' band around the Spanish-Aragonese rumbero Willy Fuego (Amparanoia, La Kinky Beat), the French-Sicilian-Polish multi- instrumentalist Thomas Morzewski (Orchestre International du Vetex) and the punchy avant-garde Think of One duo Roel Poriau (drums, percussion) and Thomas de Smet (bass) wants to make people smile while they are hip wiggling between the Benelux, Barcelona, Catania and Calais.... Listen. Titi Robin: Rebel Diwana SUR 1820 / 5051083127523 / label: Molpe Music – Suraj / format: CD / France – Fusion With "Rebel Diwana", Titi Robin's music changes shape and instruments, without giving up anything of his language, his soul, his vision. Surrounded by three young musicians from the Parisian jazz scene, as well as a sarangui player and an Indian singer, the cosmopolitan musician intensifies his material, using for the first time an electric guitar and placing his voice on his own words. Between passion and exile, Titi Robin draws more deeply the groove of an expression of the most intimate, the contours of an inner universe watered at the sources of the Mediterranean basin, Central Asia or Rajasthan. Listen. Sakina & Friends: Bendewari – Intizar – Longing AHENK 14941347 / 8680114941370 / label: Ahenk Muzik / format: CD / Kurdistan – Fusion Sakina & Friends met each other for the first time two years ago in Vienna. They display their common repertoire on their first joint album ‘Longing’ on the label Ahenk. However, the words Longing and Expectation also have Kurdish and Persian names: Bendewari and Intizar. Multilingualism is here the key element. The Kurdish singer Sakîna Teyna breaks away from the style of her previous albums and moves on into jazzy terrain. She is accompanied by musicians who are at home in both world music and jazz: Ensemble director, guitarist and composer Mahan Mirarab has written most of the arrangements. They are rooms of encounter for violinist Efe Turumtay, clarinetist Oscar Antolí and drummer and Tombak player Jorg Mikula and where the incomparable Iranian singer Golnar Shahyar meets for a duet with Sakina. Listen. Waed Bouhassoun: Safar, Les Ames Retrouvees BUDA 6764181 / 0602567641810 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Syria – Traditional For this third album on Buda Musique, the remarkable singer and Syrian oud player Waed Bouhassoun is joined by the Turkish flautist Kudsi Erguner, the Syrian flautist Moslem Rahal, and Kurdish singer and saz player Rusan Filizek. Waed, who has already attracted the attention of Jordi Savall, sings of courtly love in Arabic, Turkish or Bedouin in the tradition of Oum Kalthoum and Asmahan, and has expertly put to music a poem by Clément Marot (1496-1544) whose elegance and humanism are in harmony with the tone of her repertoire. Waed leads us on paths, sometimes unknown, that we can take delight in discovering. Kyriakos Kalaitzidis: Exile BUDA 860340 / 3341348603407 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Greece – Mediterranean The history of humanity is a history of exiles. Millions of human beings have been led violently, by force or voluntarily into exile for political, religious or national reasons or simply in search of a better life. Exile is a state of the body, but also a state of mind. Kyriakos Kalaitzidis, composer, ud master, artistic director of En Chordais and one of the most important musicians and scholars in the field of Mediterranean music, was born into a family of exiles. His music for the homonymous project is an attractive blending of east and west, with a very special musicality as a common denominator. Using a wide range of instruments he has achieved a musical result with a very rich timbre, both sensitive and intelligent. Listen to a track. Mehmet Polat & Embracing Colours: Quantum Leap MP 63 / 7436907032074 / label: Aftab Records / format: CD / Turkey – Fusion Ud player and composer Mehmet Polat has brought jazz musicians together to form a brand new band with ud, drums, double bass and accordion. After years of touring internationally with his ensemble, inspired by the rich musical traditions of the Middle East, Africa, India, Europe and the Balkans, Polat is looking for a new jazzier sound. As always Polat likes to leave room for improvisations in his pieces, resulting in an adventurous sound and a rich viewing experience.