Apr 17i

Track taken from the forthcoming album "La Vie Est Belle / Life is Beautiful," out September 11th 2015 World Wide. 

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The King of Anxiety

Chess

Brazil 45, number 26: http://www.mrbongo.com/products/georgette-kirie-b-w-claudia-com-mais-de-30

'Kirie' is one of ‘those’ tracks. It gets better with every listen and you hear something different every time. You won’t forget it, and you can’t get it - taken from the hard to obtain ‘A Moca do Mar’ LP on Tapecar in 1976, previously unavailable on 7”. Long championed by Gilles Peterson and co.

Tight uplifting guitar changes, layered percussion and super-subtle strings groove under Georgette’s vocal, backed by a chorus of male vocals.

We are delighted to release this track, just in time for summer. Special thanks to Gareth ‘The Knowledge’ Stephens for digging it up.


As if the A Side wasn’t enough… The AA side features one of Claudia’s best, ‘Com Mais de 30’ a cover of Marcos and Paulo Sergio Valle original version.

Fuzz guitars, piano, huge drums, percussion and Claudia’s soaring vocal make for a heavy yet uplifting MPB/funk track of the highest order.

Features on her hard to find ‘Jesus Cristo’ LP on Odeon in 1971. Also featured on the Fourtet and Floating Points Plastic People mix.

Claudia - Com Mais de 30

European Song

Kreidler - European Song (Snippets)

Oumou Sangaré's single "Yere Faga ft. Tony Allen" is out on all platforms
To stream/download the single and pre-order the album 'Mogoya' on iTunes [Out 19 May] 
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Oumou Sangaré - Yere Faga feat. Tony Allen

LIES-092
Tzusing-東方不敗 lp
to be released Feb 28th 2017

東方不敗

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Tzusing-東方不敗 lp Snippets (LIES-092)

Elegant, melancholic, sometimes menacing, with smoldering piano melodies, desolately whistling organs, and a jaunty jaw's harp loop; kissed by the golden Californian sun, or shrouded in gloomy, dreary fog: Sophia Kennedy is currently the most versatile composer in German pop music – not to mention the greatest singer. Her debut album "Sophia Kennedy" reveals her as a dramatic romanticist and distanced diseuse, as a deft lyricist and master of melody. In her eleven songs, she travels from doo-wop to dubstep, from classic crooning to breathless R'n'B, from Frank Sinatra to Beyoncé. Her talent for songwriting is deeply rooted in history, yet it seeks nothing but the present: both historically versed and timelessly beautiful at the same time.

Sophia Kennedy grew up in Baltimore. Upon arriving in Hamburg to study film, she instantly became a source of enchantment. On the single "Angel Lagoon", which she recorded in the autumn of 2013 with the keyboard-maestro Carsten "Erobique" Meyer, she sounded as lovely, enthralling and blasé like no other singer of the season. In the years that followed she mainly composed music for theater, feeling around for what would eventually become her own style: irony is not an important factor, it's more about appropriation and adaptation, and through effectively minimalistic means, to create space for the voice – for the singing.

Sophia Kennedy produced and recorded the album together with Mense Reents, best known for his work with Die Vögel and Die Goldenen Zitronen. Together they developed the spartan arrangements and electronic textures that determine the willfully dense sound of this album. Often, Kennedy's voice is the only instrument that pursues a harmonic development over the repetitive structures. Then she doubles and multiplies her voice and sings alongside herself in a choir. She shines with bold syncopation over a hobbling piano, as well as in the field of the melancholic lament that suggests a late Beach Boys ballad. This results in multi-dimensional, highly individual music, which easily escapes all the traps of inwardness: just as her lyrics unfold from seemingly simple wordplay to subjective confessionals without ever regressing into the euphuistic pathos of romantic self-reflection.

This is the first songwriting record to be released on Pampa Records, and yet "Sophia Kennedy" is perfectly at home on this label, which for almost a decade has been making the connection between tradition and modernity, avant-garde inventiveness and pop sensibility. One can detect different traditions and historical impressions in every track – yet you can forego all the analysis and simply enjoy the craftsmanship with which Sophia Kennedy creates an absolutely contemporary musical language from her knowledge of classic songwriting: "I want to take tradition to the limits, to where it becomes extreme," she says, yet it sounds so easy and not at all preconceived. The unheard-of refinement of this music lies in its apparent simplicity: "You just can’t be afraid," says Sophia Kennedy, "that it turns out to be pop music."

01 - Build Me A House

TRACKLIST : 

diakaridian : introduction ( private recording )
tinariwen : amasakoul
wally badarou : countryman
Orchestre baobab :  aduna jarul naawo
Mammane sani et son orgue : bodo
Fangool :Mariama
the hygrades : in the jungle ( instrumental )
Fatima Haryan : Calolyow
Zazou & Bikaye : Cy1
the toure -rachel collective : diaraby
Boubacar traore : je chanterais pour toi
 Mitinjalo / Uffud El-Nuweiri / Uffud El-Tom / Gafilli : In Khartoum There Is Plenty Of Money, Nevertheless He Had To Come Back (Because Of Family)
Bayaka Pygmies : Moukouté's Lament
Francis bebey : forest nativity
Francis the great : look up in the sky
William Onyeabor : body and soul
 Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud : Yalalela
Abdel Karim el Kably : Husenek Fa Masher ("My Love Is More Than The Sweet Perfume...")
eko roosevelt : attends moi
Black Blood : Avenue Louise
Le Super Borgou de Parakou : Wegne'Nda M'Banda
Orchestra Baobab : On Verra Ça
Sophia Ben & The Eagles Lupopo : See Serere
Festival dance of the Bena Luluwa of Angola (choir of women and girls)
Whispering song accompanied by inanga Burundi musiques traditionnelles

Rinse France Podcast

Radio Mawimbi # 35 W/ D.O.P & SKAT (Circus Company - Berlin)

DJ Seinfeld - Ruff Hysteria (Natural Sciences)

A Violent Noise (Four Tet Remix)

the xx a violent noise four tet remix

Mix 88

One of his greatest mixes

Unknown 'Tombax' (White Label)
Tonja Holma 'Loco' (White Label)
Eric Prydz 'Agag' (White Label)
Partial Arts 'Trauermuzik' (Kompakt)
Rick Mclelland 'Strung Out' (White Label)
Pryda 'Seadweller' (White Label)
Pryda 'Storm' (White Label)
Henrik B Feat.Terri 'Soul Heaven' (White Label)
D?Mallicious 'Alive (Eric's Edit)' (Wave Music)
Brett Johson 'It's The Underground (Dj Sneak Subdub Mix/Eric Prydz Edit)' (Magnetic)
Pryda 'Madderferrys' (White Label)
Paolo Mojo 'Paris' (White Label)
Antena 'Camino Del Sol (Joakim Remix)' (Permanent Vacation)
Sander Van Doorn 'Grashopper' (Oxygen Recordings)
Pig & Dan 'Monjon' (Weave Music)
Laurent Garnier 'Flashback' (Never Records)
Josh Wink 'Higher State Of Consciousness' (Strictly Rhythm)
Vangelis 'Chariots Of Fire' (Polydor)
Arno Cost 'Magenta (Eric's Edit)' (CR2)
Robin S 'Show Me Love' (Champion)
Pryda 'Genesis' (White Label)

Apr 17i

Achim Schlemmer