prod and freestyle by me :3

the sample Grow Forever - Lizette & Quevin:
https://soundcloud.com/lizettequevin/grow-forever 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5ekAMqdW0


9-27-25grow forever flip/its the damn phone

Bola "Volume 7" ATFA002

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Bola — Abayetidu Ma

Le titre "Le Conflit, L'Attaque, L'Amour" est extrait de "Billy & Bess", deuxième EP du groupe nancéien The NCY Milky Band et offert gracieusement par l'équipe de BMM Records, en exclusivité pour Free&Legal.

La chronique de l'EP: http://ptitbazar-free-legal.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-ncy-milky-band-le-conflit-lattaque.html

Achetez l'EP: https://thencymilkyband.bandcamp.com/album/billy-bess

Support the artists! @the-ncy-milky-band @blackmilkmusic

Billy & Bess

The NCY Milky Band - Le Conflit, L'Attaque, L'Amour (LesExclusF&L)

The 2018 World Cup welcomes 5 African teams -- Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Morocco, and Nigeria -- that have waited for about a decade or more to compete again on the world's biggest football stage. Along with the good folks at Habibi Funk Records, Radio Martiko, Hive Mind Records, and Palmwine Records, we've put together a mixtape featuring sounds from across the 5 proud countries representing the African continent in Russia. This soundtrack to Africa's World Cup covers a majestic blend of Senegalese Mbalax, Nigerian Fuji, Moroccan Gnawa, Tunisian Disco, and Nubian sounds from Egypt. Here's hoping an African team finally takes the trophy home!

Artwork Copyright: Robert Slingsby's "The Midas Touch"

World Cup 2018 Mixtape: Africa Edition

Asnakech Worku — Kand Yerega Deg New

LP/CD/Tape/Digital available: https://asnakechworku.bandcamp.com

Asnakech Worku — Baynelay Yidal

Playing back to back with Keenan (WNYU 89.1 FM). Recorded live 19th of October, 2019 at Le Mellotron. Tracks from Jazzanova, Kit Sebastian, The Karminsky Experience Inc, David Axelrod, Todd Rundgren,  Cyro Baptista & more!

Keenan: 'Frozen'

New album out now https://smarturl.it/yene_mircha
It's been a long, winding road to Hailu Mergia's sixth decade of musical activity. From a young musician in the 60s starting out in Addis Ababa to the 70s golden age of dance bands to the new hope as an emigre in America to the drier period of the 90s and 2000s when he mainly played keyboard in his taxi while waiting in the airport queue or at home with friends. More recently, with the reissue of his classic works and a re-assessment of his role in Ethiopian music history, Mergia has played to audiences big and small in some of the most cherished venues around the world. With his 2018 critical breakthrough "Lala Belu" Mergia consolidated his legacy, producing the album on his own and connecting with listeners through his vision of modern Ethiopian music. Extensive touring after the record revealed an artist who is in no way stuck in the nostalgia for the “golden age” sound. The press agreed, including the New York Times, BBC and Pitchfork, calling his music “triumphantly in the present” in its Best 200 Albums of the 2010's list. 

Mergia's new album "Yene Mircha" ("My Choice" in Amharic) encapsulates many of the things that make the keyboardist, accordionist and composer-arranger remarkable—elements that have persisted to maintain his vitality all these years, through the ebb and flow of his career. The rock solid trio with whom he has toured the world most recently, DC-based Alemseged Kebede (bass) and Ken Joseph (drums), forms the nucleus around which an expanded band makes a potent response to the contemporary jazz future "Lala Belu" promised. "Yene Mircha" calcifies Mergia's prolific stream of creativity and his philosophy that there is a multitude of Ethiopian musical approaches, not just one sound. 

Enlisting the help of master mesenqo (traditional stringed instrument) player Setegn Atenaw, celebrated vocalist Tsehay Kassa and legendary saxophone player Moges Habte from his 70s outfit Walias Band, Mergia enhances his bright, electric band on this recording with an expanded line up on some songs. Mergia produced the album which features several of his original compositions along with songs by Asnakesh Worku and Teddy Afro. An artist still reinventing his sound every night on stage during his marathon live sets, this 74-year-old icon refuses to make the same album twice. His creative process in the studio—starting with the core band, then after listening extensively over weeks and months adding more sounds and instruments—is as urgent and risky as his concerts can be, pushing the band to the outer limits of group improvisation and back with chord extensions during his exploratory solos. "Yene Mircha" captures this live experience and fosters an expansive view of what else could be in store for this tireless practitioner of Ethiopian music.

Hailu Mergia — Yene Abeba

Huw Marc Bennett creates a warm, deep, retro groove, the sound of sun kissed vinyl. He draws on Tim Maia, Augustus Pablo and Idris Muhammed as much as he does the Jazz scene and community he has found in South East London, with a streak of ‘Sain Records’ brand welsh phycyedlia running through the whole thing. 

Tressilian Bay started out as a long lost live session recorded at the  Total Refreshment Centre studios, featuring Chelsea Carmichael (Sax), Rosie Turton (Trombone) Shirley Tetteh (Guitar) Jake long (Drums) with Huw at the helm on bass and compositions. Huw utilised his human style of production and multi instrumentality seen in his project Susso (Soundway Record) as well as the glorious vocal contributions of Miryam Solomon, to mold these recordings in to this mature and emotional debut, with a subtle nod to hedonistic summer nights, whether spent on the glamorgan coast or the hot lewisham streets.

Huw Marc Bennett - In My Craft

MIMS is over the moon to share the unnervingly beautiful sounds of "Self-Acting" by multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer, Dave De Rose. 

"Self-Acting" is taken from De Rose's 9th EP, 'Activate', where we find him uncovering further layers of his deep production and songwriting skills. This time coupling his voice with the lush tones and harmonic orchestrations of rising artist, Jaelee Small (Metronomy, Seb Rochford, Ibibio Sound Machine).

On 'Activate', we find Dave De Rose lyrically pursuing subjects around the active healing and power of meditation, human reliance on material facts, contemplations on self-destruction and an abstract take on the natural course of love. All this playfully coloured by masterful sound craft, original rhythms, and sonic texture amalgamations.

Initial versions of these tracks were composed and produced in an instantaneous, spur of the moment way in the aftermath of the end of a personal relationship which left much space for internal reflection and external contemplation. Conversations with friends, photo, audio exchanges could offset a whole track. 

"Self-Acting" was a combination of all three of these inspirations as a conversation about internal peace and meditation ensued, with friend and collaborator Nefeli Papaioannou. Nefeli messaged Dave her guitar part phone recorded from a beach on the Island of Gavdos (Crete). When prompted for a title she simply replied "Self-Acting". 

Connecting the dots, Dave drew the rest. In addition to Jaelee's vocals the track post-production also features the large and sea-rocking drum kit playing of Jon Scott (Mulatu Astatke, Sons of Kemet). Jon is the first ever drummer to feature playing kit on one of Dave's solo records, since he normally plays all drum parts himself.

An Anglo-Italian multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, educator & sound engineer based in London, Dave De Rose moved to the UK from Rome in 1996 to study Jazz at Guildhall, graduating with distinction & winning their artist development award, whilst working on both live and recordings. 

De Rose has self-released 17 records on his own label (Dave De Rose Records), whilst having toured  & recorded with artists such as Electric Jalaba, Moloko, Roisin Murphy, Bastille, Mark Ronson & The Business International, Mulatu Astatke, Rokia Traore, Jamie Cullum, Scroobius Pip, Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos, Forest Binary, Vula Viel and Trio Trekke. 

De Rose's recent project, Agile Experiments, has caught the imaginations of musicians and the underground experimental jazz community world-wide. Releasing 7 LPs over three years, the project features leading improv and jazz musicians from London and Athens in particular. 

The 'Activate' EP is released on November 20 on digital and an extremely limited edition of 10" lathe cut vinyl records. Just 25!!  Available to pre-order on Bandcamp now!

Head to the website to see a teaser video for "Self-Acting" taken from handycam footage on Gravdos island in Crete, by Nefeli Papaioannou: https://bit.ly/32gnV5q

Pre-Order

Exclusive Premiere: Dave De Rose "Self-Acting"

A remix commissioned by the absolutely amazing Janice Iche. First one I've made and I'm pretty proud of it.

here's the link to her stuff. Support ya girl! 
https://janiceiche.bandcamp.com/album/maajabu-ya-musa-ep

I also did the cover art :)

Janice Iche - Maajabu Ya Musa (Nabalayo Retouch)

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