A couple of months ago, we picked out our <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/08/05/top-five-fela-kuti-reworks/" target="_blank">Top Five Fela Kuti Reworks</a> to mark the 16th anniversary of his death. The overwhelming response was confirmation of the feeling that had compelled us to write the feature; that Fela's musical legacy still resonates strongly today. Another testament of this is Red, Hot & Fela, a new compilation marking the 75th anniversary of Fela's birth, containing 13 interpretations by ?uestlove, tUnE-yArDs, Spoek Mathambo, Nneka, Tony Allen and Chance The Rapper. Our standout, however, was an interpretation of 'Sorrow, Tears & Blood' by a selection of names who were initially a little less familiar: Grammy award-winning string ensemble Kronos Quartet and TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe.

Read our thoughts at <a href="http://www.stampthewax.com/2013/10/09/kronos-quartet-sorrow-tears-blood/" target="_blank">Stamp The Wax</a>.

Kronos Quartet & Stuart Bogie - Sorrow, Tears & Blood (STW Premiere)

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Guitars: P-Gial
Saxophone & Flute: Fotis Athanasiou
Bass: Tasos Papapanos
Written by P-Gial
Remix produced by Panama Cardoon

Master by PS.K.
Artwork by Sigma Gamma 

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artist: BIXIGA 70
album: III
order here: https://glitterbeat.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Five years after their inception, the Sao Paulo based Brazilian group Bixiga 70 continues to travel musically forward, only to find themselves more and more at home. 

The band’s aptly named third album, “III”, is a luminescent and energized admixture of Atlantic cultures. The album’s hyper-contemporary dialogue journeys between the sounds and rhythms of Brazil and Africa, and between the band’s ten musicians and their distinctive musical identities.  Their collective influences include jazz, funk and Afro-Brazilian music, and stretch further afield into dub and reggae, electronics, cumbia and carimbó, ethio-jazz and samba.

Bixiga 70’s “III” is a breathtaking rhythmic storm where inspired solos, harmony and dynamics, beats and improvisation all mesh together in vital and unpredictable ways. Spanning between a joyous danceability, a sharp sense of humor and committed political reflections, the life-blood of this ten-piece unit is instrumental music, but it is an instrumental music that speaks profoundly.

Self-produced by the band in their own studio in Sao Paulo (and mixed by Victor Rice) all the compositions on “III” are written and arranged by the entire Bixiga 70 collective. There are no liner note details: the process of creation is decentralized and acknowledges the importance of each musician in the room. The album was recorded live in the studio to further assure the depth of this collaborative spirit and to accentuate the intensity of the band’s sonic experiments.

Following the global attention garnered by their previous album 2014’s “Ocupai” (Mais um Discos), Bixiga 70 headed out into the world. Their musical travels to Europe, the USA and Morocco, as well as the many varied regions of Brazil (including the streets of Bixiga) have all left a deep mark on the sounds and visions of the new album

Throughout the nine tracks found on “III”, styles merge and original syncretisms come to life. The album shape shifts contemporary afro-funk, Moroccan cumbia, spiritual jazz, adapted afro-brazilian chants, Cuban blaxploitation, sounds from São Paulo’s Black Rio movement, Arabian dub, Malinké drumming, Angolan guitar music and traditional bamboo fife bands.

There is no doubt that Bixiga 70 is one of the guiding voices of Brazil’s contemporary instrumental music scene and their new album “III” clearly demonstrates why. 

They are a band that deftly searches for untracked and thrilling musical spaces to occupy. 

And most importantly, they are a band that succeeds in finding them.

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soul sample demos! ep - mix of jazz soul & funk samples from 1970's & 1980's united states

sound design, production, mixing, & mastering via - stracct

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artwork - stracct

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A mediados del 2009 el FRENTE CUMBIERO invitó a Bogotá al legendario productor de dub Mad Professor, como parte del proyecto Incubator del British Council, con el objetivo de realizar un encuentro sonoro entre la cumbia y el dub. Durante 3 días y bajo la orientación de Mad Professor y su hijo Joe Ariwa, se grabaron en los estudios de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Javeriana varios temas para ser tratados bajo la estética del dub. Además de grabar composiciones originales del FRENTE, parte importante del proyecto buscaba reunir a músicos claves de la escena bogotana a improvisar y crear juntos en estudio.

De esas improvisaciones salieron 3 composiciones colectivas, que se suman a 4 originales del FRENTE para un total de 7 temas que fueron remezclados con técnicas propias del dub por Mad Professor en su estudio ARIWA en Londres. El resultado de este disco, además de convertirse en uno de los primeros encuentros tangibles entre la cumbia y el dub, aporta un nuevo sonido colombiano al poderoso movimiento de cumbia continental.

¡GUACHARACA TRANSNACIONAL! 
credits 
released 01 November 2010 
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Temas 1,4,5,6 
Mario Galeano Toro: Bajo, guacharaca / Pedro Ojeda: Batería, timbal / Eblis Alvarez: Electrónica / Andrés Martínez: Guitarra / Chongo Puello: Alegre, Caja / Marco Fajardo: Clarinete / Juan Francisco Duque: Trompeta / Oswald Macías: Trombón / Diego Tunjano: Saxo Barítono

Temas 2,3,7 
Mario Galeano: Guacharaca, melódica / Urian Sarmiento (Curupira): Alegre / Pedro Ojeda (Palanca): Batería, Timbal / Lucho Gaitán (Mojarra Eléctrica): Guitarra / Andrés Martinez (Monareta): Guitarra cortesía Nacional Records / Javier Morales (Jipijam y raspacanilla): Acordeón / Jose Miguel Vega "El Profe" (La 33): Trombón / Jairo Alfonso Barrera (Alerta Kamarada): Saxo Alto / Pablo Araoz (Alerta Kamarada): Bajo Eléctrico / Liliana Saumet (Bomba Estéreo): Voz / Javier Fonseca (Alerta Kamarada): Voz / Kiño (Kmusic): Voz / Shaun Turner: Voz

Temas 1,5,6 compuestos por Mario Galeano Toro; 6 por Mario Galeano y Sonido Martines; 2,3,7 Composiciones colectivas.

Versiones Dub (8-14) mezcladas y producidas por Mad Professor y Joe Ariwa en Ariwa Studios (Londres) 
Versiones limpias (1-7) mezcladas y producidas por Manuel Schaller en el estudio Oidos Contentos (Buenos Aires) 
Mural por Mateo Rivano (pintado en el barrio La Macarena-Bogotá) Foto: Juan Felipe Rubio

Grabado en Bogotá el 10, 11 y 15 de Junio del 2009 en los estudios de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Javeriana. 
Ingeniero de Grabación: Jefferson Rosas. Asistentes de Grabación: Nicolás Ramírez, Juan Diego Galvis y Tomás Arenas.

Agradecimientos: 
Al British Council Colombia, Incubator y Facultad de Artes U. Javeriana. A Martin Giraldo y Radio Cápsula por su apoyo incondicional. A Paula Silva, Mad Professor, Joe Ariwa y Manu Schaller. A Catalina y Luita. A todos los músicos que participaron en estas grabaciones. A Eblis, Pedro y Marco por darle tanto poder al FRENTE. A Mateo Rivano por tan tremendo mural. A Rob Ness, Leonor Convers, Oscar Hernandez, Subcopetón Cero, Lucas Silva, Juane, Sonido Martines, Propongo producciones y Names You Can Trust.

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Remixed by Bandura 
Original Version by Palov meets A.Angelides from the album "He Hecho Por Ti" from spang recordings

Audiophile Analogue Mastering by Angelos 'Timewarp' Stoumpos 
Cover Artwork and Illustrations by Lee Hodges

Buy: https://spangrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/he-hecho-mucho-por-ti-remixes-3

He Hecho Mucho Por Ti Remixes

Palov meets A.Angelides - Afrika Revisited (Bandura Remix)

Akalé Wubé songs available for streaming

Metche New

Netsanet (remixed)

Ayalqem Tedenqo (remixed)

03 Homenaje A Justino by Grupo Socavon

In their 6 years of existence, Akalé Wubé have never stopped widening the canvas onto which they lay their music, which keeps becoming richer and deeper just like the their primary source of inspiration: the popular Ethiopian repertoire of the 60s and 70s. The band started off covering music from the “Ethiopiques” series, after which they immersed themselves deeper into Ethiopian music, all the while multiplying their collaborations with musicians and dancers from Ethiopia, Africa and Europe. Slowly but surely, clocking in at around 200 concerts in Europe, Asia and Africa, the band has become one of the world’s leading ambassadors of Ethiopian groove.

Band members are :

Etienne de la Sayette: tenor & baritone saxophone, bansuri flute, washint
Paul Bouclier: trumpet, percussions, krar
Loïc Réchard: guitar
Oliver Degabriele: electric bass
David Georgelet: drums
Pierre Dachery: sound