☆ Black String

Clandestino

Korean world music

The music of Black String based on Korean musical traditions, will offer a fresh, new sound to audiences. And Black String will offer an experience that broadens the appreciation of the world music audience by presenting an "ancient" tradition within a modern setting.

Black String

Black String is founded on Korean traditional music but guided by universal emotions, freely crossing generic borders while actively working to create a new level of improvisational performance. They present a repertory which is both contemporary and filled with Black String’s distinctive aesthetic. Led by master geomungo (traditional Korean six-string zither) player Yoon Jeong HEO, the band is further made up of guitarist Jean OH , daegeum (traditional Korean flute) and yanggeum (hammered dulcimer) player Aram LEE, and percussionist and vocalist Min Wang HWANG. Black String was selected for the 2016 World Music Expo Official Showcase, and was the first Korean band to win the Asia & Pacific Award from renowned world music magazine Songlines in 2018, demonstrating the excellence and artistic potential of traditional Korean music to the world. Following on from an invitational tour at a series of prestigious international festivals, Black String was the first Asian band to sign with ACT, Europe’s largest jazz label, so far releasing two studio albums, Mask Dance (2016) and Karma (2019), as well as a live album, Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic (2020).

07 - Karma  44k - 16b

06 - Exhale - Puri  44k - 16b

03 - Elevation Of Light  44k - 16b

02 - Hanging Gardens Of Babylon  44k - 16b

01 - Surena  44k - 16b

Endè Iyèrusalém

FUMAÇA PRETA’s hard hitting, free-wheeling debut LP brings together elements of tropicalia, psychedelic rock, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics, hair metal, voodoo and African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. Beaming down from another planet and sonically stretching across decades, ‘FUMAÇA PRETA’ will be released on Soundway Records on 15th September.

FUMAÇA PRETA (pronounced Foomassa Pretta – meaning Black Smoke) started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer and percussionist, invited some old friends to join him in the tiny analogue studio he built on the back of his house in Amsterdam.

After producing 2 critically acclaimed 45s, Fumaça Preta continued to work in the Barracão Sound Laboratory, swiftly producing their debut album. All musical boundaries collapsed during recording as the band drew upon their vast array of varied influences.

Live, FUMAÇA PRETA becomes a quintet that swerves in and out of endless musical avenues but never loses the rock solid heavy psychedelic groove that drives them.


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Fumaça Preta - Tire Sua Máscara

From the upcoming album 'Jaiyede Afro' by Orlando Julius and The Heliocentrics, out September 8th on Strut. 
Pre-order now via iTunes and receive "Buje Buje" instantly: http://geni.us/JaiyedeAfro

Jake Ferguson of The Heliocentrics on "In The Middle:"
"We’ve all been big fans of James Brown since we’ve been involved in music and have played ‘In The Middle’ regularly on our live tours. It felt like a natural fit for the Orlando project, particularly as we have added an Afro swing to the track. We first played the track with Orlando at a London gig last year and he got into it in the studio straight away – his sax solo here was the very first take. James Brown and his band loved Orlando when they saw him play in Ibadan back in the ‘60s and the two of them met up and talked at J.B.’s hotel. So, for lots of reasons, this felt like a natural one to include.”

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Jaiyede Afro

In The Middle

Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics - "In The Middle"

Yermande

Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force: Yermande (Prophet 5 Mix) (clip)

Emanative Feat' The Pyramids
"Hum Allah Hum Allah Hum Allah" 
(Written by Pharoah Sanders)

Taken from the forthcoming album 
"The Light Years Of The Darkness"
Available here: https://stevereidfoundation.bandcamp.com/
Steve Reid Foundation/Brownswood Recordings

Idris Ackamoor: Chant, Alto Saxophone  & Percussion
Kenneth Nash: Chant & Percussion
Suman Joshi: Upright Bass
Nick Haward: Upright Bass
Phillip Harper: Percussion
Mally Harpaz: Percussion
Tamar Osborn: Bass Clarinet & Flute
Ben Hadwen: Tenor Saxophone
Liz Elensky: Backing Vocals
Andre Espeut: Backing Vocals
Jessica Lauren: Piano
Nick Woodmansey: Drums & Percussion

Vocals/Chant Written and Arranged by Kenneth Nash
Kenneth Nash - Kenade Music, BMI
Idris Ackamoor - Aomawa Music, BMI
Recorded by Mamiko Motto w/ Etienne Railu 
All proceeds to The Steve Reid Foundation

Hum Allah Hum Allah Hum Allah

03 처용 MASK DANCE

02 결 GROWTH RING

01 칠채 CHIL CHAE

04 4+2

달에게서 전해 들은 소리 Sounds Heard From The Moon

Composed by_Park Jiha
Yanggeum_Park Jiha
recorded at WOMEX 17 Oct. 28th, Katowice, Poland

<Park Jiha Communion> band camp👉🏼https://goo.gl/F1NYhR

Communion

달에게서 전해 들은 소리 Sounds Heard From The Moon_WOMEX 17 live

Globally Acknowledged Korean-style World Music As a Korean performance, DULSORI was the very first to be:
★ invited at the Roskilde Festival (2010) ,  one of the five biggest annual music festivals in Europe
★ selected as the official showcase at WOMEX (2009), the largest world music trade fair
★ selected as the official showcase at New York globalFEST (2008)
★ performed at 7 successive events of WOMAD(since 2005), one of the biggest worldwide festival of music, arts and dance 


DULSORI remix

31 Oct. 2017 Live @Teatr Polonia, Warsaw, Poland
Composed by_Park Jiha
Saenghwang_Park Jiha
Saxophone_KimOki
Vibraphone_John Bell
Bass_Jeon Jekon

Impulse_Live at Teatr Polonia, Warsaw, Poland

Requiem from album "Requiem for Haegum" - HyeLyung Cho