Motherland - Mulatu Astatke (Mulatu Steps Ahead)

Here is a story written & narrated by Kenya's Akoth Jumadi on the forthcoming extended play, Seasons. Weche, produced by Under Bridges's Punk Mbedzi & Gondwana Ke's Euggy, loosely translates to issues or troubles in Dholuo.The song is a sort of lamentation of a young woman about her troublesome lover to her parents, friends and all those who care for her.She seeks to be set free from the reigns of this lover who brings only 'Weche' to her and does not uphold the promise to honour their union.

Her infectious East African strings & lead melodies drives through the drums & horns in the record, backing her rich dholuo & swahili vocals.

Credits.
Guitar & Vocals - Akoth Jumadi
Bass  - Collen Mmotla 
Producer - Joseph Mbedzi & Eugene Onyango
Executive Producer - Eugene Onyango 
Mixing - Joseph Mbedzi & Nicholas Mboweni
Mastering - Key Snow at Othic Studios - South Africa.
Cover Art - Ojin Ngode

Seasons EP

Weche

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Punk Mbedzi, Euggy & Akoth Jumadi - Weche (Radio Edit)

Mi na we' Swahili for me and you is a jazz fused love song that a young woman sings to implore wanting to get to know a potential LOVER. The song appreciates the beauty and rumors spread about this lover and seeks to get contact to truly show the essence and extent of Admiration felt.

Mi Nawe

Mi Na We

Recorded Live at Neue Heimat in Berlin (05.02.2015)
Audio Engineer : Jochen Ströh 
Picture : Carolin Saage

Personnel :
Andrea Benini - drums
Pasquale Mirra - vibraphone
Alex Trebo - keys
Danilo Mineo - percussions
Messico - bass

Phantom Of The Panther Live At Neue Heimat - Berlin

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.

100% 13

Bixiga 70 - 100% 13

Born out of an impromptu studio session in New York, Touristes brings together Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré with American vocalist Julia Easterlin. 'A B'ashiye' is one of the album's most powerful illustrations of Touré's reputation as the 'Hendrix of the Sahara' and Easterlin makes no qualms in letting it take centre stage. 

Read more: http://www.stampthewax.com/2015/10/29/premiere-vieux-farka-toure-julia-easterlin-a-bashiye-its-alright/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/a-bashiye
Buy: http://www.touristesmusic.com/sounds/

Follow:
@sixdegreesrecords

Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin - A'Bashiye (It's Alright) (STW Premiere)

Thanks to everyone involved. Now this music is here and will continue to arrive. I work with traditional music from Zimbabwe alongside original compositions. Enjoy and stay tuned. Hakunamatata

Bukai

from the new EP 'Antiphon'  - https://alfamist.bandcamp.com 
Alfa Mist - Keys
Rudi Creswick - Bass
Jamie Houghton - Drums
Maria Medvedeva - Sax
Johnny Woodham - Trumpet
Jamie Leeming - Guitar

Antiphon

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Every 6th of the month is Kologbo day at Paris DJs, even when nobody's really around or available ! Credits, artwork, official bandcamp release, etc. will all happen later this week... but that won't stop us from making this November 6th a new Kologbo day, just a month after the release of his 2nd LP, with a new tune to listen to, recorded and produced at Paris DJs by Grant Phabo this summer, featuring some musicians and singers from Chilean band Newen Afrobeat...

Look Around

Kologbo - Look Around feat. Newen Afrobeat & Les Freres Smith

IWALA WALA is a luo word meaning you are just messing around.
It tells the woes of a jilted lover.

IWALA-WALA.

The official audio for my new single 'So Tired'.

Written & Performed by: Janice Iche
Produced by: Afamefuna
Mixed & Mastered by: Chris Wamae (Benzonit)

Check out the original freestyle here to witness the transformation of an idea into the song:
https://soundcloud.com/janiceiche/so-tired-prod-afamefuna-original-freestyle
Send a private message for any conversation about it.

Thank you to The Universe for seeing the production of this song and video through.

Much love,
Janice

So Tired

Janice Iche - So Tired (Prod. Afamefuna)

I am a healer,art lover and creator. An architect of the future.
Love costs all we are and all we'll ever be.
It is setting me free.

IWALA-WALA.

Akoth Jumadi.

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