Xango Music celebrating 24 years distributing 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. 10 – 2021 BLK JKS: Abantu / Before Humans GBCD 108 / € 10,45 / 4030433610824 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / South Africa – Popular GBLP 108 / € 13,45 / 4030433610817 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / South Africa – Popular Monster grooves meet guitar and brass driven afro-rock. Echoes of spiritual jazz, post-apocalyptic funk, renegade dub and kwaito. Features Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Beastie Boys accomplice Money Mark on the track 'Maiga'. 'Now with Abantu/ Before Humans' this present has a fiercely retro-futuristic fresh moniker: Afropunk. These brothers just want to jam. To say BLK JKS poured gas on the fire down below or lit the flames that created the soundtrack for the nascent Afropunk movement in their home country of South Africa especially... would not be too far off the mark. Listen to a track. Khaira Arby: Live In New York 2010 (LP release June 18th, 2021) CLECD 33 / € 9,95 / 0711574917822 / label: Clermont Music / format: CD / Mali – Popular CLELP 33 / € 17,45 / 0711574917815 / label: Clermont Music / format: LP / Mali – Popular As the lights dim and Malian diva Khaira Arby steps into the spotlight, the audience jumps up with shouts and cheers. People loved the late Khaira Arby for the fire and passion of her voice. Pushing boundaries, Khaira triumphs as this recently restored concert recording testifies. R at Khaira's first performance in North America. Her excitement and pride can be heard in the strength of her delivery. In complete control, she received standing ovations throughout the evening. Accompanied by backup singers and her hot rock band she showed people how cultures are blended while still preserving her Malian roots.Listen to a track. Various: Republicafrobeat Vol. 5 – Mujeres II KM 421 / € 10,95 / 8435307612243 / label: Kasba / format: CD / Various – Afrobeat KMV 151038 / € 13,95 / 8435307612250 / label: Kasba / format: LP / Various – Afrobeat After the success of the collaboration between Afrobeat Project and Kasba Music in 2017, when they published the first international compilation of women in Afrobeat, which in turn was the fourth Afrobeat Project compilation, now the release of "Republicafrobeat Vol.5 – Mujeres II" is a fact. A new album that gathers artistic proposals from countries as distant as UK, USA, Poland, Brazil, Chile, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa and Mozambique, with only two points in common, being led by women and being artistically dedicated to Afrobeat. Balkan Taksim: Disko Telegraf (release May 28th, 2021) BUDA 860364 / € 11,05 / 3341348603643 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Romania – Fusion BUDA 260321 / € 14,95 / 3341342603212 / label: Buda Musique / format: 2LP / Romania – Fusion Balkan Taksim is the corduroy-clad brainchild of Bucharest-based multi-instrumentalist artist Sasa-Liviu Stoianovici who, along with his electronica producer companion Alin Zabrauteanu, is on a quest to inform, educate and entertain audiences around the globe about Balkan psych, roots and grooves. Balkan Taksim are a band known for raising a groovy-balkan storm with their intoxicating blend of sharp contemporary electronic music with Balkan psychsounds & vocals! No banging overrated techno spiced up with darbuka samples here… Balkan Taksim’s music is sincere and deep. Listen. Rita Payes: Como La Piel 7612502 / € 14,95 / 8435307612502 / label: T-sunami / format: CD / Spain-Catalunya – Popular Rita Payes is worth betting on. She is only 21 years old, but her songs sum up duende, honesty, class and passion. As long as her talent grows and doesn't derail, she could - perfectly - end up playing in the same league as Sílvia Perez Cruz, Rocío Marquez, Maria Arnal or Andrea Motis, to name just four women who trace a similar path through some of the most venerable styles of our popular music. It seemed that this Catalan trombonist, born in Maresme, was going to be all about jazz. Her voice could also resonate at any festival of the genre. But it goes much further than that. It is much more than that. Listen to a track. Kolektivni Halucinace: Reality 2664564 / € 10,95 / 8595026645646 / label: Indies Scope / format: CD / Czech Republic – Popular The trio, Kolektivní Halucinace (i.e. The Collective Hallucination), releases an authentic album about the labyrinth of the present. The third album from these nu-folk alternatives named ‘Reality’ deals with the scenery of these special times. The band hunts in a wide range of music, from acoustic ballads through ambient moods to experimental electronics, thanks to which their songs hit you like an arrow. Xango Music Distribution Release #10 – 2021 Pagina | 1 Tarquim: A Cuba SIL 7 / € 11,45 / 8435307612663 / label: Say It Loud / format: CD / Spain – Cuban SLP7 / € 16,45 / 8435307612694 / label: Say It Loud / format: LP / Spain – Cuban Tarquim, is a musical project dedicated to the creation of new songs from the study of different folk and popular musical traditions. It is led by saxophonist, flautist, composer and producer Pau Vidal. 'A Cuba' stems from Vidal's admiration for the Cuban and Afro-Cuban musical tradition. This led him to spend several months in Havana to study with some of the island's best musicians, such as Jose Eladio Amat Medina, 'Julito' Padron, Lazaro Hernandez and Eduardo Rubio, flautist of the emblematic Orquesta Aragon. With the intention of getting to know, share and learn from the different cultural manifestations in their full dimension, not only through records. Son, guaracha, descarga, bolero, salsa? Pure Rhythm! Listen Extrano Weys: Rodrigo Lavina Y Su Combo SIL 10 / € 11,45 / 8435307612670 / label: Say It Loud / format: CD / Spain – Popular Extrano Weys presents Rodrigo Lavina and his combo. After 7 years Extrano Weys returns. With this work, the combo goes beyond the soul and jazz inspirations of the previous reference to venture into other textures such as sixties psychedelia, tribute to Catalan ye-ye pop or Brazilian music. Rhythm boxes, sampling and rhymes and crooning in a new -improved!- release by the already mythical group. Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the journey, no testimonies, no prisoners, no hostages! With the luxurious contributions of Joana Gomila and Laia Valles (Folk Souvenir, Paradís...), Marti Sales (Surfing Sirles) and Marta Garret (The Bop Collective...). Listen to a track. Patax: Plays The Beatles YOUKALI 196 / € 9,95 / 7427244783828 / label: Youkali Music / format: CD / Spain – Popular Picking up the baton of Jazz Fusion greats like Weather Report, Corea’s Elektric Band, Herbie Hancock, Sixun or Zawinul Syndicate, and directly flavored by the visionary & multi-colored sounds of Irakere, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Hermeto Pascoal or Paco de Lucía, PATAX takes “Fusion” genre into a completely new space. This album is Patax's musical tribute to the most influential band in history. In this ambitious album, recorded live, the most iconic Beatles hits are performed in a way that had never been seen before, giving a completely innovative approach. The listener will be taken to a coloristic paradise where the blend of flamenco, salsa, hip-hop and jazz will climax in a surprising musical orgasm. Teaser. Kerem feat. Diego El Cigala: Cuatro Naranjas YOUKALI 194 / € 9,95 / 7427244783798 / label: Youkali Music / format: CD / Spain – Flamenco Turkish flamenco guitarist Kerem presents his record, 'Cuatro Naranjas', in which maestros of the stature of Diego el Cigala, David el Galli, Israel el Pirana, Rafita de Madrid, Guillermo Manzano and Luis de Periquin have collaborated. The record is produced by Juan José Suárez 'Paquete', ex-member of the legendary group La Barbería del Sur and one of the most outstanding producers in flamenco today. "Cuatro Naranjas' presents a dialogue with traditional Turkish music, of which the performer is a profound connoisseur through family tradition. Some of the stars of Turkish music also collaborate on the album, such as Osman Nuri Ozpekel (ud and tampur) and Ayse Nur (vocals). The album includes tangos, bulerias, soleares, tarantas, seguiriyas, rumbas, bolero por bulerias and a traditional Turkish song. Listen to a track. Juan Antonio Sanchez: Dentro YOUKALI 195 / € 9,95 / 7427244783811 / label: Youkali Music / format: CD / Spain – Flamenco Juan Antonio Sanchez, composer and pianist, was born in Cordoba in 1981. He graduated in Piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Cordoba "Rafael Orozco", with the professor Juan Miguel Moreno Calderon and graduated in Teaching with a degree in Music at the Faculty of Education Sciences. 'Dentro' is a natural evolution towards its own way of telling what you feel, a search to find the most personal word or note, the one you most identify with. The piano is the instrument and flamenco the language in which it develops, its environment and its place of origin, its starting point, but not without leaving behind nods to styles such as jazz or Latin. Listen. Gianmaria Testa: Solo – Dal Vivo (New Edition) OTR 6 / € 9,95 / 8015948301487 / label: Odd Times Records / format: CD / Italy – Popular Gianmaria Testa's music makes you feel like you are on holidays in Italy. If you want to immerse yourself in the warm and intimate Italian ambiance, listen to this album of this charming singer. Testa's melodies are fairy-like. The singer writes a lot about women and he has a good reason to do so: 'For normal people like me, women are the most important thing: 'For normal people like me, without any means of power, love is the only way to reach paradise.' So now we have this little gem in our hands: eighteen songs (plus a prologue and a handful of verses by regular Pier Mario Giovannone) taken from his six studio albums (five, actually, because there's nothing from "Extramuros", his second album).