This is our little label out of Brooklyn NYC. Homegrown music with lots of diversity for speakers EVERYWHERE! www.wonderwheelrecordings.com Alsarah and the Nubatones, Chancha Via Circuito, Nickodemus, El Búho, Thornato, Novalima, The Spy from Cairo, Gitkin, Populous & more...

Shika Shika is a global collective without owners for music without borders. 

We are inspired by nature, by tradition, by the past and by the future. Our direction is fresh, different, genre hopping organic-electronic-digital-folk.

One of the amazing things about the deeply Jamaican music called Dub is its ability to act as a conduit. From its early days as stripped down versioning of popular Reggae tunes to its indoctrination into late 80 / early 90s UK Soundsystem & Dance Music culture, to its current massive mutation (with the “Step” planted firmly in its behind); Dub has shown itself to be not only a musical art form that stands strongly on its own, but also a vehicle of sorts that can transport and connect disparate musical universes. And it’s at the unique nexus of Dub and Arabic music that the Spy From Cairo sits the most comfortably. 

The Spy From Cairo aka Zeb is the kind of musician that fits perfectly in with the downtown NYC music scene – Italian by birth, Gypsy by heritage, and Brooklynite by residence, he has been closely associated with the Turntables on the Hudson scene for close to 12 years – producing dozens of albums as Zeb, the Spy From Cairo and the Organic Grooves project, as well as remixing for everyone from Baba Maal to Tosca to Billie Holliday to Novalima, steadily garnering a worldwide collective of fans and followers 

The Spy’s new album, “Arabadub” is perhaps his most realized vision of deep Middle Eastern and Jamaican sounds coalescing into something that sounds right and natural – because it was conceived and produced in just that natural way. There are no samples used on the album, and Zeb has programmed everything, as well as playing traditional Middle Eastern stringed instruments called the Oud, Chifteli and the Saz himself. Check the opener “Alladin Dub”, with its echoed out skanks, pulsing bassline, and majestic strings – and the deepness that is “Taksim Square”, complete with swirling, psychedelic accordion. Other highlights include the tense four-to-the-floor stomper “Desert Tears”, the rolling dub of “Sons of Hannibal” with it’s beautiful Middle Eastern vocal chants, the nostalgic “Egyptian Pulse” with its Steppers sound and melancholy vibes, and the dancehall vibes of “Prince Ahmed” – sounding like 3AM Kingston wrapped in a Bedouin Tent!
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”A taste of a next-generation Norwegian free-jazz-injected artistry, sounding good, deep and true, and against the grain of more commercial concepts. There is hope for artful jazz yet.”
Downbeat - Josef Woodard

«Mestertyven byr på musisering med både skråblikk og alvor, nærhet og distanse. Den er akkurat passe fin, rar og full av krumspring til at Moskus må ses som vår mest interessante pianotrio akkurat nå.»
- Morgenbladet - Svein Magnus Furu (N)

Spellemannsnominerte Moskus har etter utgivelsen av det kritikerroste debutalbumet "Salmesykkel" spilt en mengde klubb- og festivalkonserter i inn- og utland. Med stor iver fester Moskus lytternes ører på en stilk, og tar dem med på en musikalsk, miljøvennlig reise. Gjennom oppfinsomme øyeblikkskomposisjoner og sterk tilstedeværelse gjør musikken at både trioen selv og publikum går hjem med en unik opplevelse. John Fordham i The Guardian kalte Moskus ”Norway’s latest young cult-status candidates”. 

Moskus kombinerer et personlig og modent uttrykk med ungdommelig energi og fordomsfri åpenhet. De er et veldig dynamisk band, som veksler helt uanstrengt mellom utagerende lek og innoversøkende alvor, mellom egenartet improvisasjon og komponerte låter.

På Moskus sitt andre album, “Mestertyven”, tar trioen store steg i ny retning. Her er de uredde, instinktive og finurlige - litt som mestertyver flest.  

They certainly steal your attention, and I’d say their scent is pretty sweet.
- The Politician / Jazz Notes


Moskus er:
Anja Lauvdal - piano
Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson - kontrabass
Hans Hulbækmo - trommer

Jeff McIlwain has been producing his diverse, melodic strain of abstract electronic music as Lusine for a decade-and-a-half. Originally a Texas native, McIlwain moved to the West Coast in the late '90s to study electronic music and sound design at CalArts. It was during this time in L.A. that he would meet Shad T. Scott, who subsequently put out Lusine's self-titled debut on his Isophlux imprint. McIlwain relocated to his current home of Seattle in late 2002 and began steadily releasing his music on Ghostly International. He has also contributed tracks to various compilations and remix releases from Mute, !K7, Kompakt, Asthmatic Kitty, and Shitkatapult.

As Lusine, McIlwain has performed throughout the US and abroad, including sets at London's esteemed Fabric nightclub, Tokyo's Unit, Berlin's Watergate, and Melbourne's Electric Owl. Recent tour dates include appearances with electronic luminaries like Tipper and Blockhead, as well as playing at 2016's Further Future festival with a live drummer (Trent Moorman).

In addition to his Lusine productions, McIlwain has been involved with various film projects that include The Sitter (Jonah Hill, 2011) and two other David Gordon Green movies, Snow Angels (featuring Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell, 2007) and Joe (Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, 2013) with music writing partner David Wingo. McIlwain is also currently collaborating with Wingo on the film score for Meredith Danluck's upcoming State Like Sleep. Following Lusine's acclaimed The Waiting Room from 2013 and 2014's Arterial EP (which was accompanied by a groundbreaking video from Christophe Thockler), comes the new full-length, Sensorimotor, released in March of 2017 on Ghostly International.

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