Marius - Rounds

Bibio - Jealous Of Roses (bass cover)

From the upcoming album:
"How Can We Be Joyful In a World Full of Knowledge". 
Release date: 31 March 2014

Bruno Pernadas - Ahhhhh

2003 Wild Dub (Dread Meets Punk Rocker Downtown)

Wild Dub: Dread Meets Punk Rocker

Where There Is a Will

Taken from Laura's 'Committed Language' EP

Buy: https://deekrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/committed-language-ep


Laura Groves - Dream Story

2º Dia

Mastered Version
will initially be released as a free digital download 
with 12" to follow

for download 
https://twoflowers.bandcamp.com

Recorded/Mixed/Produced by Aaron Coyes
Music-Aaron Coyes
Words- Indra Dunis

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

Little Flower

Conga Blue

Little Flower 12

CONGA BLUE

Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/MariaUsbeckVinyl
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/MoaiYYoSpotify
Apple: http://smarturl.it/AmparoApple
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Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.

Amparo is released May 27 via Cascine in North America, Labrador in Euope and Rallye in Japan.
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Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo

The Conservation Of Energy is taken from the forthcoming Vanishing Twin album on Soundway Records. 

Vanishing Twin - The Conservation Of Energy

"Gender Studies," the title track from the new full-length album, now available from Hidalgo Records: http://goo.gl/LWlhjB
Written and produced by Kent Odessa and Rob Arbelo. Additional production by Hays Holladay and Robert Lux. Mastered by Jeremy Cox. Backing vocals by Taylor Stapleton.

Gender Studies

https://losporcos.bandcamp.com/album/jesus-luvs-u-baby

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