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Ethiopiques

Ethio Funk

Akalé Wubé

Ethio - Jazz Modern

From the liner notes of our 2-disc Ebo Taylor retrospective, Life Stories:

Ebo acknowledges the influence of US jazz rockers Blood Sweat & Tears and
– less obviously, perhaps – Deep Purple on this easy going mid-tempo
piece, written a few years before it was recorded, when Osibisa and
various ‘blaxploitation’ themes were hip. “I was trying to fuse rock and jazz together with highlife,” Ebo recalls. “This kind of music was ahead of its time – not very popular when we recorded it!”

Life Stories

Peace On Earth

Ebo Taylor- Peace On Earth

Dodo (Ruben Valdez remix)

Maryé (Blundetto remix)

Akalé Wubé songs from the album "Mata" available for streaming.

Sabyé

From the first album, "This is Marijata", Ghana 1976. With hints of its Highlife origins to the evolution of Afro-funk, by way of James Brown, this is one of the greatest funk albums to come out of West Africa.

No Condition Is Permanent - Marijata

Akalé Wubé songs from the album "Sost" available for streaming.

Alègntayé (feat. Genet Asefa)

Mother Africa - MARIJATA

Gilles Peterson's 'Havana Cultura Mix – The Soundclash' (Brownswood) is released on 27th October and we've got a tune from the album available for you to download for absolutely nuthin'.

The product of a remix competition which brought 10 unsigned artists to Cuba to work in the studio with local musics and vocalists, the fifth Havana Cultura project infuses electronic styles less prevalent in Havana — house, footwork, trap and trip-hop — with traditional rhythms such as rumba, salsa and so on.

An ambitious project with impressively refined results, one of the many stand-out talents on the compilation is London's Rukaiya Russell, who fuses UK funky beats with the rich brass and soulful vocals from Los Niches & Charly Mucha Rima on 'Ritmo Sensorial'. 

Pre order the album: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/havana-cultura-mix-soundclash/id920068473

www.Havana-Cultura.com

FREE DOWNLOAD: Rukaiya Russell - Ritmo Sensorial Feat. Los Niches

Introducing the up-and-coming Melbourne producer, with a first listen of his new EP on Bradley Zero’s Peckham imprint, Rhythm Section.

For more info head to: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/gpww-premieres-prequel-the-test-dream/

Pre-order link: https://wearerhythmsection.bandcamp.com/album/polite-strangers

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Prequel - The Test Dream (Worldwide Premieres)

Kidus à Cent Dix

Akalé Wubé songs available for streaming

Jawa Jawa (remixed)

Kokob / Metche Dershe

Mata

Metche New

Netsanet (remixed)

Nebyat (Live in Paris)

Ayalqem Tedenqo (remixed)

Kokob / Metche Dershe (Live in Paris)

Dodo

Maryé

A musician since the age of six, Ebo Taylor is one of the most achingly honest voices in African music.  His songs have a timeless quality to them, and continue to reach new audiences worldwide.  His album Love And Death on Strut will be his first internationally distributed solo album.  Backed by Berlin's Afrobeat Academy, the album is packed with pure fire from a true original.  Enjoy the title track.  More info at http://www.ebotaylor-loveanddeath.com

Love & Death

Love and Death

Ebo Taylor- Love And Death

Happy New Year!

Grab yourself 10 free tracks. Some of our favourites, things to look forward to in 2013, and a final track tribute to the late great Terry Callier.

Get it from http://vibedeck.com/mrbongo

1. Ebo Taylor - Heaven
2. Hollie Cook - Crying Dub
3. Tom Ze - Sao Paulo
4. Incredible Bongo Band - Last Bongo In Belgium
5. Novalima - Machete
6. Salvador Trio - Tristeza
7. Prince Fatty - Kung Fu Battle Ina Brixton ft. Horseman
8. Joyce - Aldeia De Ogum
9. C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7 - Asafo Beesuon
10. Terry Callier - Lazarus Man (Live)

Ebo Taylor - Heaven

Akalé Wubé - "Bazay"
Live at La Maroquinerie (Paris), 2012

Bazay (live)

Here's an explosive version of the original composition 'Zafari' live at the Blue Whale on February 24th, 2013.

Zafari Live at the Blue Whale

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