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BIXIGA 70 (2011)

01. Grito de Paz (Mauricio Fleury / Ben Lamar) 04’26”
02. Luz Vermelha (Mauricio Fleury) 04’26”
03. Tema di Malaika (Mauricio Fleury) 04’07”
04. Mancaleone (Marcelo Dworecki / Kika) 04’58”
05. Zambo Beat (Décio 7 / Kika) 06’16”
06. Balboa da Silva - homenagem a Nilson Garrido (Cris Scabello) 04’19”
07. Desengano da Vista (Pedro Santos - EMI) 06’45”
08. Balboa Dub (Victor Rice / Bixiga 70) 04'25
09. Dub di Malaika (Victor Rice / Bixiga 70) 02'53"
10. Dub Vermelho (Victor Rice / Bixiga 70) 05'02"
(Tempo Total 47'40")

Décio 7 - bateria;
Marcelo Dworecki - baixo;
Cris Scabello - guitarra;
Mauricio Fleury - teclado e guitarra;
Rômulo Nardes - percussão;
Gustavo Cecci - percussão;
Cuca Ferreira - sax barítono e flautim;
Daniel Nogueira - sax tenor;
Douglas Antunes - trombone;
Daniel Gralha - trompete.

Produção musical: Victor Rice, Decio 7, Cris Scabello e Mauricio Fleury - Produção artística: Thiago Cury - Gravado no estúdio Traquitana e Mixado no estúdio Copan por Victor Rice - Masterizado no

Zambo Beat (Décio 7, Kika e Bixiga 70)

Dub Vermelho (Bixiga 70 e Victor Rice)

New wave rumba disco crossover, recorded in Paris in the mid 80s. 

4 tracks spanning rumba, disco, new wave and reggae experiments from Congolese singer Albert Siassia and his group Tokobina, including two previously unreleased tracks taken from original demo tapes. 

Originally from Pointe Noire in Congo, Albert Siassia came to Paris in the early 80s as part of the Ballet Nationale du Congo and joined forces with a young French reggae group called Dread Lion – a band he re-christened “Tokobina” (Lingala for “let’s dance”). Keen to broaden their audience the group played a mixture of reggae, rumba, disco and new wave styles, often using drum machines and synths. 
They released one 12” EP, further altering the spelling of the name – “Tokobina” was phonetically anglicised to “Talk-Hoby-Night” in an unsuccessful effort to increase international sales. The record failed to make much of an impact and soon after Albert Siassia moved back to Pointe Noire to become an evangelical preacher. He passed away in 1999. 
Dancefloor sureshots Mama Africa and Pointe Noire are taken from the group’s only 12” release. In the world and Sangui are taken from demo cassettes from the archive of drummer Franck Benhamou. Sangui was originally scheduled for release on a 7” but the release was withdrawn due to a pressing fault.

SIASSIA & TOKOBINA - SANGI (B2) *previously unreleased*

Paris DJs followers should be aware by now, we're not joking, every 6th of the month is Kologbo day! Later this year on upcoming 6ths of the month we'll unveil some brand new productions recorded this summer, but until then we're proud to keep on revealing new tunes from Fela's tenor guitar player in Afrika 70 brand new album "Africa Is The Future", to be released at the end of this month.

Today we're presenting "You No Lie", a majestic Nigerian/Ghanean/French/American/German afrobeat collaboration, starring no less than Tony Allen on drums (do we really need to present Tony Allen? Fela's drummer and afrobeat rhythm master), Pat Thomas (the golden voice of Ghana, who recently released on Strut Records an essential album with the Kwishibu Area Band and an extensive compilation of his 70s/80s works) and Ayo (the Nigerian singer from the Adunni & Nefretiti band) on vocals, Ben Abarbanel-Wolff on tenor and baritone saxophone and Stu Krause on trumpet (both from Ebo Taylor's Afrobeat Academy and Poets Of Rhythm), Martin Perna on flute (from Antibalas), and Ogehne Kologbo playing keys, bass, percussion and guitars. Recorded and produced by Loik Dury (former Radio Nova programmer in the 1990s, now movies soundtracker for Cedric Klapish among others), who mixed it with Grant Phabao (the unstoppable man behind the Paris DJs sound).

You No Lie" opens the "Africa Is The Future" album that's currently being crowdfunded on the Kiss Kiss Bank Bank website. You have until the end of the month to take part in this release, there's still time left to grab a limited edition translucent green vinyl (250 copies only!) or a marvelous made in France T-shirt (3 different designs are available, the kind of high-quality clothing you'll wear again and again). Don't hesitate to share the campaign around, it's just passed over the 50% of its goal, and Kologbo needs your support now more than ever!

http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/kologbo-africa-is-the-future-cd-lp-t-shirts

Africa Is The Future

You No Lie

01 You No Lie

Azúcar y limón-Son Palenque

“KonKoma is the name of a tribe in Northern Ghana. They are very colorful and the rhythms are wonderful. This band is like a live rebirth of Ghana’s music from the 70s and 80s, it feels like very authentic and rhythmic Ghanaian music.” Alfred ‘Kari’ Bannerman

London based Afro-funk outfit KonKoma will release their self-titled debut on Soundway Records on June 25th.  Rooted in 1970s Ghana the group was produced and formulated by saxophonist Max Grunhard and producer Ben Lamdin (Nostalgia 77). The idea was to create a band around two highly esteemed Ghanaian musicians - Alfred Bannerman and Emmanuel Rentzos. Both are mercurial talents who over the years have graced the stage with the likes of Bobby Womack, Hugh Masakela and Peter Green as well as being long term members of the Afro-rock band Osibisa, but it wasn’t until KonKoma that the two old friends have had a band built around the two of them.  

The English-speaking West African country was the destination of Soundway’s acclaimed compilation series Ghana Soundz Afro-Beat, Funk And Fusion in 70’s Ghana. It has been a long held ambition for the label to work with a contemporary Ghanaian band who can push the country’s unique take on Afro-beat and highlife forward.

KonKoma adds a progressive edge to their rich blend of Afro-funk, jazz, soul and traditional African rhythms as well as acknowledging the 70s recordings that spawned the sound. Produced by Max Grunhard and Ben Lamdin, the album was recorded and mixed by Mike Pelanconi (aka Prince Fatty) in Brighton. 

Guitarist Alfred Bannerman, founding member of teenage Afro-rock band Boombaya (featured on the Soundway compilation Ghana Special) has remained one of the mainstays of the UK’s African music scene for more than 20 years. Keyboardist Emmanuel Rentzos has been playing alongside his fellow Ghanaian since the early 1970s when he was the lead singer of the young Ghanaian outfit Santrofi. Once Max and Ben had won the support of Alfred and Emmanuel, Ghanaian musicians and now key members of KonKoma, Nii Tagoe and Reginald ‘Jojo’ Yates came on board. As Nii explained in a recent interview with Soundway, it didn’t take much to persuade him. 

“If Alfred and Emanuel say, “Jump!” I would say, `’How high?” 

Nii Tagoe, a member of the Pan African Dance Troupe for over 20 years and the most natural frontman on stage, takes lead vocals on ‘Kpanlogo’ a ferocious up-tempo Afro-funk number that took it’s inspiration from a traditional Ghanaian dance where the movement of a dancer mimics the movement of a snake. Likewise Nii Tagoe found his inspiration for ‘Sibashaya Woza’ in a traditional dance from Zululand.  

Celebrating their 10 year anniversary this year, Soundway’s Ghana Soundz compilation featured amongst others, Ebo Taylor, who inspired a young Alfred Bannerman in his formative years growing up in Cape Coast. Alfred fondly remembers breaking out of his house as a child to hear the big highlife bands of the 60s play in his home town in Central coastal Ghana. 10 years on from that inaugural release Soundway have signed a living, breathing live re-birth of the music found on their seminal Ghanaian compilations. 

KonKoma make their live debut at The Rich Mix in London on 1st June.

KonKoma - Kpanlogo

Sost

Fikratchen

Fu Chronicles

Koto

Guasa, Cununo y marimba
afrocolombian music in the pacific coast of colombia 

compiled by lucas silva y  philippe noel


double Vinyl

coming Soon !!

Gertrudis Bonilla Y Jimmy Puche - Manuela La Bullanguera / New Compilation Vampisoul y Palenque

Cera Perdida

Llegamos los Montañeros

Sé Sa Ki Bigin-la

Simou (Le Son des Moulins) - Sé Sa Ki Bigin-la

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BIXIGA 70 (2015) por Ronaldo Evangelista

Cinco anos depois de sua formação em São Paulo, a big band dançante Bixiga 70 viaja mais longe para se encontrar mais em casa em seu terceiro disco. Mala adesivada, desenhando os próprios mapas, o tenteto explora, escuta, cria, se reinventa a cada disco, a cada música, a cada show, dentro da inconfundível linguagem própria desenvolvida e conquistada em sua história, carregados de energia e sinergia. Expressões individuais e o todo maior que a soma das partes.
Dez músicos em suas identidades pessoais, dentro de um coletivo que engloba jazz, funk e música afrobrasileira, a partir de uma gama de fortes influências que passa por dub e reggae, cumbia e carimbó, ethio-jazz e samba-jazz. Empolgante máquina de ritmo, construindo-se em frases e solos, harmonias e dinâmicas, claves e improvisos. Altamente dançante, entre senso de humor e pensamentos políticos, o som da unidade formada por dez elementos é música instrumental, mas profundamente eloquente.

No terceiro disco do Bixiga 70, novamente produzido pela própria banda (novamente
com mixagem de Victor Rice), todas as composições surgem assinadas e arranjadas por todos. Não é mero detalhe de ficha técnica: o processo de criação é descentralizado e o entendimento é a importância de cada um presente. O nome do álbum, assim como nos dois anteriores, é simplesmente “Bixiga 70”. Não-título, senso de continuidade: não é uma criação a cada ponto, mas uma linha constante de criação e evolução – conceitual, artística, musical, espiritual, pessoal. 
Um intenso laboratório conjunto gerou as músicas e a gravação ao vivo em estúdio do
disco, criação coletiva filtrando as melhores possibilidades, equilibrando as referências mais 
recentes e mais antigas de cada um e vivendo cada uma das diversas influências e individualidades.

Não passaram impunes as apresentações em lugares como França, Bélgica, Holanda,
Alemanha, Dinamarca, Suécia, EUA, Marrocos, além de Pernambuco, Bahia, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Paraíba, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul - pra não citar as próprias ruas do Bixiga. Ao longo das nove faixas do álbum, fundem-se estilos e nascem sincretismos autorais em forma de afrofunk moderno, cumbia marroquina, spiritual jazz, adaptações de 
pontos de terreiro, blaxploitation cubano, movimento Black Rio em SP, dub árabe, tambores malinké com guitarra angolana e banda de pífano.

Se hoje há uma cena nacional instrumental e dançante, autoral e criativa, múltipla de gêneros e autosuficiente, o Bixiga 70 é influência e influenciado, desbravando as rotas à sua frente. Sem se preocupar com os caminhos estabelecidos, a banda trilha os percursos em que naturalmente cabem, encontrando espaços vazios clamando por ser ocupados. 
Acompanhando tudo, uma legião, divertindo-se junto embaixo e em cima do palco.

Dub Vermelho (Bixiga 70 e Victor Rice)

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