A relentless non-stop 40 minute mix of the most ferocious tracks from the mighty Fatima Mansions. Originally conceived and sequenced as a mix-tape back in 1994 taking up one side of a C90 cassette, it has taken more than 20 years to be recreated digitally, with a few new samples sprinkled about here and there for good measure.

This can now be enjoyed (or endured) as a timely reminder of the absolute lyrical genius of the late FM vocalist and band leader Cathal Coughlan.....who can run the gamut of every musical style and mood from beautiful stately croon to eye-bulgingly splenetic snarling punk rock fury, from avant garde neo-classical to pure pop, from skewed folk to spoken word...and everything in between. His maverick talent transcended mere pigeonholing or simple genres.

This mix here collects and mashes together the best of the great man's most angry and scabrous moments.  Crank it up loud and bellow along with him at the shitty unjust state of the current world. Hopefully it doesn't give you a migraine.

Fuck Your Showbusiness! Keep Music Evil!

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Poesia Acústica 13 - MC Cabelinho, Tz da Coronel, Oruam, L7NNON, Chefin, N.I.N.A, Chris, Xamã, Luisa Sonza

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Poesia Acústica 13 - MC Cabelinho,Tz da Coronel,Oruam,L7NNON,Chefin,N.I.N.A,Chris,Xamã,Luisa Sonza

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misterG of greenarrowradio chats with Mariana Da Crux and Ane H. of Da Cruz about the new album, Baladas Da Luta.

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MENINO PERIGO foi produzida por Thiago Barromeo tem a participação especial de SOMBRA do grupo SNJ e será parte integrante do álbum O LEÃO DA TRIBO DE JUDÁ. 2024 em todas plataformas digitais!

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Saz'iso - At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me
The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song
Order: https://goo.gl/xU1M4z
Download / stream: https://glitterbeat.lnk.to/AtLeastWaveYourHandkerchiefAtMe
Artist page: http://glitterbeat.com/artists/saziso/
Release date: October 13th, 2017

Brazilian Samba, Bosnian Sevdah, New Orleans Jazz, Cuban son – and Albanian Saze! The turn of the last century saw mass migrations to the world’s cities with rural people bringing their music with them, adapting their traditions to new circumstances and modern instruments. Of all these great musical forms, the mesmerizing arabesques, joyful dances and heart-breaking laments of Saze are among the least recorded, and they remain largely unknown outside Albania.

Glitterbeat is proud to announce the release of “At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song” by Saz’iso, a group of virtuoso musicians and legendary singers assembled by veteran producer Joe Boyd (Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Cubanismo, Songhai) and his co-producers, Edit Pula and Andrea Goertler, and recorded by Grammy-winning engineer Jerry Boys (Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré, Orchestra Baobab).

The songs on this album tell of joy and sorrow, love and loss, heroism and tragedy. “Tana” is an ancient song about a shepherd whose flock is stolen by bandits that grant his wish to play his flute for the last time before they kill him. The plaintive melody conveys his terrible fate to his beloved in the valley below. A line from the beautiful “Penxherenë e zotrisë sate” gives the album its title; a boy yearns for the girl next door, pleading, “You keep going in and out of your gate. O poor me outside! At least wave your handkerchief at me.” Other songs are about partisans struggling against foreign invaders and men forced to depart in search of work, leaving behind grieving wives and families, a recurring theme in Albanian music to the present day.

The instrumental dances have deep roots in the region’s history. “Valle e Osman Takës” originated with a captured rebel leader dancing his way to freedom and is now a spectacular male dance that constitutes a test that only the most skilled attempt. Of all the region’s instrumental forms none has the resonance and emotive power of ‘kaba’. According to legend, the form originated when a dying wife told her husband not to cry, but to let his clarinet weep over her coffin instead. The album includes both, a clarinet and a violin kaba as well as a rare, freely improvised ‘avaz’. The melancholic improvisational lines of the clarinet or violin give it a mood often referred to as the ‘Albanian blues’. Kaba’s “melodies, ornamented with swoops, glides and growls of an almost vocal quality, sound both fresh and ancient at the same time”, observes author and musician Kim Burton, “and exemplify the combination of passion with restraint that is the hallmark of Albanian culture.” 

“This recording is a landmark in the history of Saze music. These performers are following in the footsteps of the great masters that have preceded them, while the careful and thorough production and wonderful sound quality allow us to experience recorded Saze as never before.”	
- Vasil S. Tole

“We set out to record these virtuoso singers and musicians like a Blue Note jazz session or a Deutsche Grammophon string quartet. Saze is, after all, a classical form, its essential elements unaltered over the decades. With its ancient roots, the intensity of this world-class music has the power to entrance any listener.”	
- Joe Boyd

Saz’iso are
Donika Pecallari, vocal
Adrianna Thanou, vocal
Robert Tralo, vocal
Aurel Qirjo, violin & vocal
Telando Feto, clarinet
Agron Murat, llautë/lute
Agron Nasi, dajre/frame drum
Pëllumb Meta, fyell/flute & vocal

At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me

Saz'iso - Tana

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