A fun mix of synthesized Cumbias, Chunchacas, and Pre-Sonideras ranging from 1967-1984. Psychedelic pads mixed with space arpeggios,  and atmospheric swells that all maintain the cumbia swing.

::Tracklist::
Los Kassino De Chucho Pinto - Cumbia De Encuentros Cercanos (Peerless)
Cumbias En Moog - Cumbia De Sal (Peerless)
Los Tiernos De Colombia - Cumbia De La Melochita (Latin Records)
Unknown Artist
Tropical Celeste Organizacion - Cumbia Del Mar (Discos Clave)
Grupo El Puente - Bailando Con Raquelito (Polydor)
Los Lunaticos De Juan - Cumbia En Azul (Disco Disco)
Rosita Bouchot - En El Tren De 6 (RCA)
Grupo Swing - Cumbia En Margarita (Musart)
Organización Santa Martha - Cumbia De Las Locas (Discos Lalo)
Organización Genesis - Cumbia De La Flauta (Arpon)
Afrosound - Cumbia China (Peerless)

Compiled By Rae D. Cabello

Cumbias En Moog

The Fifth Season (Versions)

The Stillness (Moor Mother Version)

A PAUSE FOR ANNIE G

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SAGESSE DES LIANES 3/3 - Visite de l'exposition 

Je vous propose une traversée sonore de l’exposition, à la rencontre des oeuvres présentées par les artistes, dans les bruits et les échos du paysage.
Vous allez entendre les voix de Nicolas Pirus, Myriam Mihindou, Jack Beng-Thi, Galadio Parfait Kaboré et Camille Varenne, L‘école des Mutants avec Hamedine Kane, Stephane Verlet-Bottero, Valérie Ozouf et Boris Raux, Florans Feliks Waro, Shivay la Multiples, Nicola Lo Calzo, Jean-Luc Raharimanana et Migline Paroumanou. 

Certains artistes ont marronné : Carlos Adaoudé, Carole Chausset, Hawad, Véronique Kanor, Eddy Ekete, Sylvie Sema, Florence Boyer et Hugo Rousselin… il vous faudra donc imaginer et espérer que l’exposition quitte le Plateau de Mille Vaches pour continuer sa route vers d’autres territoires. 

Merci à Dénètem Touam Bona pour son invitation à participer à cette grande fugue collective, et merci également à toute l’équipe du Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassivière pour l’hospitalité.

Bonne année, bonne écoute et bonne visite !

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OTOROKU is proud to present the first vinyl reissue of Blue Notes for Johnny - a defining statement by one of the greatest ensembles in the history of jazz. Recorded in mid-1987 by Blue Notes - then reduced to the trio of Dudu Pukwana on alto sax, Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums and Chris McGregor on piano - it encounters the band 25 years after their founding embarking on an inward meditation through collective music making dedicated to Johnny Dyani, their former bandmate and friend. 
Blue Notes were founded in Cape Town in 1962, and stand among the most important ensembles in the history of jazz. Artistically brilliant and groundbreaking - gathering, within a few short years, a devoted following that includedDon Cherry, Steve Lacy, Abdullah Ibrahim, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Drew, Keith Tippett, Evan Parker, John Stevens and numerous others - they were also the first widely visible multiracial band in South Africa.

As a mixed race band under apartheid, this group of friends and like-minded artists - Chris McGregor, Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana, Nikele Moyake, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo-Moholo -  existed within a context that viewed their mere existence as a dangerous and subversive act. In 1964 they joined an exodus of musicians leaving for Europe and eventually settled in London the following year. Sadly, not long after arriving and facing continued economic peril, the group buckled. Johnny Dyani left to join Don Cherry’s band. Moholo-Moholo and Dyani followed suit and joined Steve Lacy on tour, and the remaining members morphed into a number of ensembles that eventually grew to become Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath.   

Following the death of Mongezi Feza in 1975 the remaining members of the group had come back together to record Blue Notes For Mongezi, reigniting a sporadic period of activity over the coming years. Following the untimely passing of Johnny Dyani in late 1986, the last three members of the original line-up - McGregor, Pukwana and Moholo-Moholo - reformed to pay tribute to yet another of their fallen brothers. 

Blue Notes for Johnny, the group’s second musical memorial to a band member, incorporates a considerably broader range of touchstone and practices than its predecessor, nodding toward the band’s foundations in be-bop and post-bop without abandoning where they had journeyed along the way. Internalising equal elements of hard-bop, modalism, and free improvisation, it is a startling creative statement, imbued with a tension that renders an equally radical and sophisticated challenge; a furious tide - slow in pace and it slow to reveal itself - masquerading in gentler forms. 

A celebration and a memorial. Joyous and tragic. A real time resurrection of personal experience, Blue Notes for Johnny dodges, dances, and transforms across its two sides, refusing to be nailed down. As the trio pushes against each other, bristling tonal and rhythmic collisions leave the impression that something is bound to explode, without ever fully letting go. 

Blue Notes for Johnny’s memorialisation is unwittingly doubled by capturing the final time that the Blue Notes would come together in the studio. Both Dudu Pukwana and Chris McGregor would pass away three years later in 1990, leaving Moholo-Moholo - who continues to carve a groundbreaking trajectory across the world of jazz - as the last surviving member. The album remains as a journey between an imaged future and the beginning of it all. Six friends meeting and communing through sound. Six friends who had triumphed against the odds, becoming some of the greatest creative voices of their generation. Six friends who were five, then four, and then three, before they were done. Friends who never failed, in whatever form, to come together and play. It is a story begun 60 years ago that remains just as prescient today.

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DUDU PUKWANA / alto sax

CHRIS McGREGOR / piano

LOUIS MOHOLO / drums 

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ROKURE006 - Blue Notes "Funk Dem Dudu - To Erico"

one of the best song I record at sugar minor youth man promotion studio  when I was starting out my production 

determine - Born A Star

i make these so u have a place to go

https://www.nts.live/shows/ganga-blues/episodes/ganga-blues-13th-july-2023

Ganga Blues w/ Symrin 120723

Delude is a 5-track collaboration between Le Motel, a 25 year old producer and graphic designer from Brussels and Aliosha, a 25 years old Belgian singer based in Berlin. The tracks have a melancholic spirit, they are mellow and rhythmic with a twist if footwork including bass, hiphop and reggaeton influences. The creation of this project was spread over a period of two years, the lyrics illustrate fractions of  impressions and decisive moments from the singer in between Brussels and Berlin throughout  that period.

Delude

Aliosha x Le Motel - Purple Dress

Dominique Lawalrée (b. 1954) is a composer born and based in Brussels. First Meeting is Lawalrée's first archival release to date. Culled from four different albums originally self-published on his private label Editions Walrus, circa 1978-1982, this compilation highlights the composer's unique sense of ambient and minimal composition. Originally considered for release on Brian Eno's Obscure Records, Lawalrée's music is now no longer hidden. 

In this collection, the listener finds the sounds of piano, synthesizers, percussion, wurlitzer, organ, and voice, all performed by Lawalrée. Using these tools Dominique creates miniature themes that gallop across the speakers in slow motion, stretching our normal sense of dynamics and color, effortlessly widening the stereo plane. On “Musique Satieerique,” Dominique pays homage to the influence of Satie with simple repeated piano figures and a lush field of organs and flutes. And on other selections, like “Le Maison Des 5 Elements,” he takes a more wistful, ambient approach, layering keyboard lines, and invoking found/tape sounds to create a hypnogogic world of his own. Childlike in its playfulness and surreal to the bone, the music spins like a carrousel placed inside the Rothko Chapel. Lawalrée’s sense of timbre, tone, and overarching composition is like an impression of a home movie whose charm lies in its knowledge of intimacy, shared by few. An incantation of innocence.

First Meeting

Dominique Lawalree - La Maison Des 5 Éléments

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Afrotopiques est un podcast indépendant, réalisé et produit par Marie-Yemta Moussanang

" Penser les grandes questions contemporaines depuis les Suds en général, et les mondes africains en particulier "

Cultures, écologies, épistémologies, philosophies, économies, politique, technologies... Afrotopiques est un moment d'oralité et une invitation à poser notre attention sur les enjeux civilisationnels de notre époque, afin explorer les voies - et entendre les voix - en dissonance avec le discours dominant.

Marie-Yemta Moussanang conduit une série d'entretiens avec des intellectuels, des chercheurs, des militants, des artistes, des entrepreneurs, des citoyens, des paysans... qui partagent leurs idées ou initiatives, transforment nos imaginaires, et participent à la fabrication d'un présent radicalement différent.

Contact : afrotopiques@gmail.com

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