Get the album here: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/

Aminata Wassidjé Traoré is a rising voice in Mali. Tamala is her debut album, recorded in Bamako and released in 2009. Born in Diré, near the fabled city of Timbuktu, Aminata was raised within northern Mali’s rich cultural brew. From an ethnic Songhai family, Aminata started singing as a young child. Her music, like the environment that surrounded her growing up, incorporates various cultures and traditions. On Tamala, an album she self-produced with the help of the artist Mamadou Kelly and arranger Baba Simaga, she sings in Songhai and Tamasheq.

While northern Mali still suffers the repercussions of religious and ethnic warfare, Tamala sends a message of reconciliation and inclusion. Aminata believes people can work together for a solution, and sees the vast potential of Mali’s diverse north. Moving to the Southern capital of Bamako not only enabled her to develop as a musician, backing up well known artists like Baba Salah, Khaira Arby and Afel Bocoum, it also enhanced her vision of a diverse and connected Mali.

Tamala is considered a neo-traditional album in the context of the Malian music scene: it is rooted in northern folk musical traditions, but arranged in a contemporary way and mixes drum programming and synthesizers with the banjo-like n'goni and the sokou, a one-string violin. Hints of Hip Hop and electronic dance music sit side by side with the pentatonic sounds of the interior Niger delta.

Afropop Worldwide wrote this about Tamala:
“And then there’s the music—in a word, sublime…solos burst forth with forthright clarity and consistent eloquence. Western sounds and production techniques have been appropriated here, but the melodic phrasing, rhythms and modalities in the music are 100% local.”

In 2013, Aminata began a collaboration with Glitterbeat Records when she appeared on the album Troubles by the Austrailian/American group Dirtmusic. The Guardian (UK) noted in their enthusiastic review of the album that »La Paix, an impassioned cry against the terrorist invasion of Mali, is voiced thrillingly by Aminata Traore.”

Glitterbeat Records is releasing Tamala in a limited vinyl version of 1,000. It will be pressed on 180g vinyl with a gatefold sleeve. The album is coming out in cooperation with Studio Mali, a Bamako based label.

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Aminata Wassidjé Traoré - Tamala

broken airconditioner

Ever since she migrated from pitching editors on the little-known music of Robert Nesta Marley to becoming one of the foremost chroniclers of the perfect storm of reggae, punk, hiphop and Afro-Beat, the London-born, New York-based Vivien Goldman has made documenting music her primary life work.  But between 1979-82, Goldman was also a working musician, creating songs that, years later, would be sampled by The Roots and Madlib. These rare girl grooves are now collected for the first time on 'Resolutionary', courtesy of Staubgold Records.

Vivien Goldman: Launderette

From the album "WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK"
available from Thin Wrist Recordings
http://www.thinwrist.com/

75 Dollar Bill - I'm Not Trying To Wake Up

20 August 2016 - Gravesend Recordings 
Carlos Hernandez : Engineer, Co-producer
Gina Birch : Co-producer


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Chris Cohen shares a demo and a cover for a limited edition tour 7" ahead of his Winter 2016 and 2017 Tour Dates. The B-side, featured here, is an NRBQ Cover that features Hand Habits guitarist, Meg Duffy.

The pressing of this 7” is limited to 300 copies. We are selling 50 on our webstore: https://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/one-demonstration-and-one-cover

Chris Cohen will have the remainder on his upcoming Dates.

Chris Cohen // It's Not So Hard (NRBQ Cover)

Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas
11.15.2015 @ The Hideout
Chicago, IL

Joshua Abrams - clarinet/guimbri/bells
Lisa Alvarado - harmonium
Mikel Patrick Avery - percussion
Cooper Crain - keyboards
Dan Quinlivan - keyboards
Rob Frye - flute/sax
Jim Baker - violin/ARP 2600
Emmett Kelly - guitar
Ben Lamar Gay - cornet/vocals
? - flute/whistles/vocals 

download: http://sweetblahg.tumblr.com/post/153272236888/bitchin-information-society-the-hideout-2016

Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas - 11.15.2016 @ The Hideout

75 Dollar Bill
Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
Order: https://goo.gl/lgr7Iq

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a glitterbeat label
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The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic, pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York.

“New York’s 75 Dollar Bill are an astonishingly potent next stage in an ongoing cultural exchange…magnificent; like a gnawa ritual that’s been convened by Junior Kimbrough.” – Uncut (75 Best Albums of 2016, #32)

“The instrumental duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown have been blowing minds on the East Coast live circuit with little more than an electric guitar and a wooden crate rhythm section.” – The Wire (Releases of the Year, #16)

"Gloriously mind-frying, ritualistic splatter of Zen blues and Arabic and African music-influenced riff-rock repetition that shows Brown and Chen expanding their lineup with sax, violin, bass and second guitar. The sound may be bigger with a sweeter shine yet it remains unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill: epically shambolic, thrifty and jazzy guitarscapes dripping of ecstatic hypnotism." 
– The Observer (The Best Experimental Albums of 2016 - So Far)

"It’s hard not to slip into ridiculous hyperbole when it comes to 75 Dollar Bill. Best band in New York City? Best band in the USA? Best band in the universe?...they’ve definitely nailed down a thrillingly original sound. -- Aquarium Drunkard

Wood Metal Plastic Pattern Rhythm Rock 

Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock

75 Dollar Bill - Beni Said

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 Hour 10 Minutes except it's tripled and one is played .1% faster and one is played .1% slower

In The Air Tonight Drum Fill for 1 hour 10 minutes at 99.9%, 100%, and 100.1% speed

Bill Orcutt

Christmas on Earth

Christmas On Earth

V-Effect plays Albert Ayler's "New Generation" at the MAK Festival in Zurich, 1982

David Zhonzinsky - alto sax and vocal
Ann Rupel - bass and vocal
Rick Brown - drums

New Generation

I play drums, percussion, electronics and some crude, mostly homemade horns.  Occasionally, I sing.

current musical activities: 75 Dollar Bill (percussion and crude horns), Two Mule Team (percussion, vocals, tapes), Rattle (drums, electronics, voice, perc and plus +), brownout (solo, quiet-ish, noises, voice, improvisation, tapes, what I find), Love Layers (drums, perc and horns)

some past bands: Les Batteries, Run On, Timber, Inconvenient Music, Fish & Roses, V-Effect, Red Dark Sweet, Information, Blinding Headache

I played a gig or two or jammed or recorded a bit with: Fred Frith, Tortoise, God is My Copilot, Sue Garner, Mofungo, Dump, Chris Stamey, The Scene Is Now, Yo La Tengo, Ferdinand Richard, Angel Dean, The Hat Shoes, Elliott Sharp, Mark Cunningham, Hi Sheriffs Of Blue (though they might remember it as well or less than I do...)

New Generation

brown.battery

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