Magalhães e sua Guitarra- "Xangô"

I SHOT THE SHERIFF

An official remix of "Kossa Kossa" by Ottawa's mightiest soul outfit, The Souljazz Orchestra; a cut from their massive new record "Resistance". This remix is released exclusively on  limited edition (300 pressings) 10' vinyl courtesy of Memeplex Records, celebrating 10 years of TIMEKODE in Ottawa.

Buy on Bandcamp: https://timekode.bandcamp.com/album/timekode-x-vol-1-the-souljazz-orchestra-x-bonjay-ott
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From The Souljazz Orchestra: "Kossa Kossa" was inspired by late 70s/early 80s West African disco and boogie music.  "Kossa" was initially a type of Duala dance in  Cameroon, which later became "Makossa", the style popularized by Manu Dibango, but we really flipped the genre around and made it our own.  It's probably the Souljazz tune with the most "electronic" elements ever, since we used an old analog monosynth and a Roland 808 drum machine for the first time, along with our usual acoustic instruments."

From TIMEKODE: "For this song we really picked up the tempo a lot from the original to take it from the disco/boogie world and give it more of a house / broken-beat feeling.  We also brought the full palette of sampled and synthesized drums and bass to give the SJO a boom and rattle that only drum machines can provide. Leaning heavily on the original parts, this remix takes the song and the listener on a journey from a club in West Africa on a Saturday night circ. 1976, to an after-hours in the UK on Sunday morning circ. 2016, and back."

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Produced by TIMEKODE
Drum programming by Memetic
Additional drum programming by Zattar
Space Echo by Zattar
Pre-mixed by Memetic and Don Charette at The Memeplex, Ottawa
Final mix by Alister Johnson at The Hive, Toronto
Mastered by Jason Jaknunas at Metropolis Studios, Ottawa

Original song "Kossa Kossa" is written by Pierre Chrétien and performed by The Souljazz Orchestra

The Souljazz Orchestra - Kossa Kossa (TK Kossa Remix)

Space Echo - The mystery behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde finally revealed!

In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was getting ready to leave the port of Baltimore with an important shipment of musical instruments. Its final destination was Rio De Janeiro, where the EMSE Exhibition (Exposição Mundial Do Son Eletrônico) was going to be held. 

It was the first expo of its kind to take place in the southern hemisphere and many of the leading companies in the field of electronic music were involved. Rhodes, Moog, Farfisa, Hammond and Korg, just to name a few, were all eager to present their newest synthesisers and other gadgets to a growing and promising South American market, spearheaded by Brazil and Colombia.

The ship with the goods set sail on the 20th of March on a very calm morning and disappeared from the radar on the very same day.

One can only imagine the surprise of the villagers of Cachaço, on the Sao Nicolau island of Cabo Verde, when a few months later they woke up and found a ship stranded in their fields, in the middle of nowhere, 8 km from the sea. 
After consulting with the village elders, the locals had decided to open the containers to see what was inside but the news had travelled fast and before they knew it, colonial police had already arrived and secured the area. 

Portuguese scientists and physicians were ordered to the scene; and after weeks of thorough studies and research, it was concluded that the ship had fallen from the sky. One of the less plausible theories was that it might have fallen from a Russian military air carrier. The locals joked that the government had wasted their tax money again on a useless exercise, as a simple look at the crater generated by the impact could explain the phenomena. “No need for Portuguese rocket science to explain this!” they laughed. 

What the villagers didn’t know, was that traces of cosmic particles were discovered on the boat. The bow of the ship showed traces of extreme heat, very similar to traces found on meteors, suggesting that the ship had penetrated the hemisphere at high speed. That theory also didn't make sense as such an impact would have reduced the ship to dust. Mystery penetrated the event.  

Finally, a team of welders arrived to open the containers and the whole village waited impatiently. The atmosphere, which had been filled with joy and excitement, quickly gave way to astonishment. Hundreds of boxes conjured, all containing keyboards and other instruments which they had never seen before: and all useless in an area devoid of electricity. Disappointment was palpable. The goods were temporarily stored in the local church and the women of the village had insisted a solution be found before Sunday mass. 

It is said that charismatic anti-colonial leader Amílcar Cabral had ordered for the instruments to be distributed equally in places that had access to electricity, which placed them mainly in schools.
This distribution was best thing that could have happened - keyboards found fertile grounds in the hands of curious children, born with an innate sense of rhythm and these children picked up instruments that were easy to use and would become instrumental for modernising local rhythms such as Mornas, Coladeras and the highly danceable music style called Funaná, banned by the Portuguese colonial rulers until 1975 probably due to the fact that it was too sexy!

Observation was made that the children who came into contact with the instruments found on the ship had prodigious capabilities to understand music and learn instruments. One of them was the musical genius Paulino Vieira who by the end of the 70s would become the country´s most important music arranger. 

8 out of the 15 songs presented in this compilation had been recorded with the backing of the band Voz de Cabo Verde lead by Paulino Vieira, the mastermind behind the creation and the promulgation of what is known today as “The Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde”. 




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Dia Ja Manche  - Dionisio Maio (Leave a comment for Dionisio, tell him how much you love his song !)

Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed!

Abel Lima - Corre Riba, Corre Baxo

Mam Yinne Wa

Released on the 'Radio Mawimbi Volume 1' compilation, along with edits from The Busy Twist, Nomad (Africaine 808), Umoja, Aroop Roy, Around The World and more. 

Amadou Balaké was from Burkina Faso and an amazing. Do check out his back catalogue! 

The full set of edits is only €1 --> https://wearemawimbi.bandcamp.com/album/radio-mawimbi-volume-1

Amadou Balaké & L'Orchestre Super Volta - Johnny (Cervo Edit)[Mawimbi]

AMANHÃ JÁ ERA, #1 - EP 4²
Lyrics : Igor Ribeiro & Nicola Són - Music : Nicola Són
Arrangments : Márcio Arantes

Dia Ja Manche - Dionisio Maio (Leave a comment for Dionisio, tell him how much you love his song !)

Analog Africa