Xango Music local music from all over the world Office: Singelstraat 1, 3513 BL Utrecht, NL www.xmd.nl - [email protected] - +31 6 50 999 123 Warehouse: Berenkoog 53 C, 1822 BN, Alkmaar (NL) e: [email protected] t: +31 (0)72 - 567 3030 EXPECTED IN AUGUST – SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2016 Expected 12 August: Graveola: Camaleao Borboleta MAISCD 32 / € 10,95 / 5052442009405 / label: Mais Um Discos / format: CD / Brazil – Popular Graveola’s third album Camaleão Borboleta is a musical pick-me-up with hope at the centre of the message, fired with socially conscious lyrics concerning the power of the internet, native Brazilian-Indian struggles and issues around marijuana legalization. Graveola’s unique brand of alt-pop sees tropicalia, samba, ‘rock Brasileira’ and Brazilian folk rhythms cannibalise international genres to create strange new hybrids they have labelled “psychedelic maracatu”, “shamanic funaná”, “weird salsa”, “schizo-rock-fake-reggae” and “melancholic internet love ballad” – all examples of Graveola’s ‘carnival cannabalism’ approach to making music. Listen! Expected 12 August: Nubiyan Twist: Siren Song WFLP 123 / € 17,95 / 3614598379843 / label: Wormfood / format: LP / UK – Afrosoul/Jazz London label Wormfood is proud to present the second full release from 12 piece afro/soul/jazz sensation Nubiyan Twist. Drawing on afrobeat, ska, jazz, soul and hiphop, it's a superbly refined and mature series of compositions that will cement their position as the UK's leading afrobeat/soul/jazz fusion act. The Guardian about their debut album: “A beautiful blend of uplifting horns and soulful female vocals”. Listen to a track. Expected 12 August: The Ukrainians: Evolutisya - 40 best and rarest tracks 1991-2016 EBM 27 / € 15,95 / 4015698005769 / label: Eastblok / format: 2-CD / UK-Ukraine – Popular The Ukrainians were founded by ex-Wedding Present guitarist Peter Solowka and his tenor-voiced, fiddle- playing friend Len Liggins in 1991, the year Ukraine regained its independence from the Soviet Union. The band about this compilation album: “It has been a long journey that has taken us 25 years by trains, planes and battered vans, and wherever we're going, it feels like we haven't got there yet - but it has been a fantastic ride! Our music is borne from the meeting of east and west, Ukrainian and British, and the genetic make-up of the band reflects this. Some members have a Ukrainian background and some don't. The result is a musical hybrid created from the meeting of different cultures.” This 2-CD album is a collection of their best and rarest tracks in their 25-year history. Listen to one of the 40 tracks! Expected 19 August: Various: Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You, If You Cry GBCD 36 / € 10,95 / 4030433603628 / label: Glitterbeat / format: CD / Cambodia – Traditional Various: Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You, If You Cry GBLP 36 / € 13,95 / 4030433603611 / label: Glitterbeat / format: LP / Cambodia – Traditional Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan (Zomba Prison Project, Tinariwen, Hanoi Masters) returns to Southeast Asia to record unheralded, traditional-based musicians from Cambodia, all of whom are survivors of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The result is heartbreaking, inspiring and sublime. Khmer Rouge Survivors "They Will Kill You, If You Cry" is a welcome introduction to an embattled musical tradition and an emotionally stirring followup to Brennan's previous recordings from Southeast Asia, the highly-accalimed Glitterbeat album: Hanoi Masters "War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar" (2015). Watch the album teaser. Expected 26 August: Waed Bouhassoun: La Voix de la Passion BUDA 4793666 / € 11,05 / 0602547936660 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Syria – Traditional In this second album for Buda Musique, after the success of "The Soul of the Lute", lute player and singer Waed Bouhassoun performs two different facets of the rich Arabic vocal art. The first is inspired by the Nabataean poetry of southern Syria, and the other by classical poetry such as that which emerged notably in Muslim Andalusia, in the eight centuries (711-1492) of the Islamic presence in Spain. She is accompanied on some songs by Moslem Rahal, virtuoso of ney flute, with whom she already had the opportunity to play, notably in Jordi Savall's Hesperion XXI ensemble. Listen to Soultan. Xango Music Distribution Release #14 – 2016 Pagina | 1 Expected 26 August: Mighty Sam McClain: Time and Change – Last Recordings FXCD 424 / € 10,95 / 7041889642427 / label: Kirkelig Kulturverksted / format: CD / USA – Blues Now, a year after his death, Kirkelig Kulturverksted presents Mighty Sam McClains musical testament: Time and change - last recordings. On the cover Knut Reiersrud says that McClain through 5 decades delivered some of the most majestic vocals in blues and soul music history. He was one of the few who managed to bring "deep soul" into the 21st century.His deep dark voice evokes emotion like no other. Expected 9 September: Mydy Rabycad: Glamtronic CD 12394 / € 10,95 / 8595026641044 / label: Indies Scope / format: CD / Czech Rep. – Popular Young band Mydy Rabycad presents their second album Glamtronic, gleaming with energy. The core quartet has been playing together since they were seventeen – at that time they were a new band with jazz background that surfed onto the electro-swing wave. Nothing lasts forever, not even surfing on electro- swing. So now, after three years, Mydy Rabycad are evolving their style daringly and confidently and head to open waters, but the band still keeps the arsenal of sounds and vibe which attracted listeners of all generations from the beginning with energy, joy and charm. Listen to a track live. Expected 16 September: Noura Mint Seymali: Arbina GBCD 38 / € 10,95 / 4030433603826 / label: Glitterbeat / format: CD / Mauritania – Popular Noura Mint Seymali: Arbina GBLP 38 / € 13,95 / 4030433603819 / label: Glitterbeat / format: LP / Mauritania – Popular The release of Noura’s debut album “Tzenni”(Glitterbeat/2014) launched her onto year-end top ten lists and the stages of renowned international festivals. Vice/Noisey hailed ”Tzenni” as "arguably the best psych / blues album of the year” and NPR noted: “the arrival of Mauritanian vocalist Noura Mint Seymali in front of Western audiences feels like the start of a new era.” In 2015, Noura was honored at the African Union's first-ever AFRIMA awards as the "Best Female Artist from North Africa” and this month, she joins Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians for a high-profile European tour presented by Africa Express. And now Noura returns with a blistering second album, an album that will surely vault her to the next level of international acclaim. Listen to the title track. Expected 30 September: The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society: Turn it Golden! GWRCD 9 / € 10,45 / 4260186743801 / label: Greywood / format: CD / Netherlands –Singer/Songwriter The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society: Turn it Golden! GWRLP 9 / € 13,95 / 4260186744112 / label: Greywood / format: LP / Netherlands –Singer/Songwriter The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society is a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands. After busking for two years on the streets of Canada and the United States, he came home to record a debut EP at New Ground Studio in his hometown, Utrecht. The full-length debut album ‘A New History’ was released in 2013 and unanimously praised in newspapers, music magazines and in the blogosphere. As a result, The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society toured The Netherlands for several months and played seven shows at the international showcase festival Eurosonic/Noorderslag. European tours, both alone and together with the folk-rockers of Town of Saints, followed in 2014 and 2015. Now the second album is released, and celebrated with a release party at EKKO, Utrecht on October 1. Watch a recording in a Utrecht city bus. Expected 7 October: Orkesta Mendoza: Vamos a Guarachar! GBCD 39 / € 10,95 / 4030433603925 / label: Glitterbeat / format: CD / USA – Cumbia/Mariachi/Popular Orkesta Mendoza: Vamos a Guarachar! GBLP 39 / € 13,95 / 4030433603918 / label: Glitterbeat / format: LP / USA – Cumbia/Mariachi/Popular This highly acclaimed band from Tuscon, Arizona is led by the musical polymath Sergio Mendoza, who is also a member and co-producer of Southwestern music legends: Calexico. Whereas some short-sighted politicos shout for a wall along the desert border between the US and Mexico, Sergio and his hot-wired band, smash that idea into pieces. Orkesta Mendoza fashion a borderless music that spans the Americas (North, Central, South) embracing mambo, cumbia and mariachi with same vigor as psychedelic pop, twang rock and analog electronics. Listen to a track here. Xango Music Distribution Release #14 – 2016 Pagina | 2 REVIEWS Songlines #120 Aug/Sep 2016 Articles: Transglobal World Music Chart July 2016 Chouk Bwa Libète: Se Nou Ki La BUDA 4723373 Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra: s.t. GBCD 35 / GBLP 35 Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht: Dvojka GBCD 33 / GBLP 33 Reviews: Elza Soares: The Woman at the End…. MAISCD31/MAISLP31 Kimi Djabaté: Kanamalu REDCD 1601 / REDLP 1601 Various: Every Song Has Its End GBCD 29/GBLP 29 Alma Afrobeat Ensemble: It’s Time SLW 105/SLWLP 105 M.A.K.U. Soundsystem: Mezcla GBCD 34 / GBLP 34 Basco: The Remarkable Return of Old Man Basco GO 1313 Kimi Djabate: Kanamalu REDCD 1601 / REDLP 1601 Felix Lajko: Most Jottum FA 3712 Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra: s.t. GBCD 35 / GBLP 35 Patrick Molard: Ceòl Mòr - Light & Shade INNA 11619 Jean-Luc Thomas & Kulur: Magic Flutes HIR 560078 Ensemble Marani: Polyphonies de Georgie BUDA 4782047 Sampo Lassila Narinkka: In Strange Lands NARI 2 Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra: s.t. GBCD 35 / GBLP 35 Mahsa Vahdat: The Sun Will Rise- A Cappella FXCD 422 Jazzism #4 June/July 2016 World Music Charts Europe July 2016 Article Bixiga 70 – album ‘III’ GBCD 26/GBLP 26 Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 Article Malted Milk & Toni Green – M.A.K.U.