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Original Song is by the one and only Laura Veirs :)
http://www.lauraveirs.com/

Laura Veirs - July Flame (GAMPER & DADONI Remix)

Psychedelic folk solo album by Chelsea Smith. To download the album and liner notes visit www.bandcamp.com/sewblue.

Harbinger

We did a "headphone highlights" sesh 4 Red Bull Music Academy Radio featuring Sensation's Fix, Bagarre, Maurice Deebank, Pharaohs y mas! 

Here's the original link: live.rbmaradio.com

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/puro-instinct-headphone-highlights

enjoy xoxoxo

Puro 4 RBMA radio "Headphone Highlights"

Here's a little instrumental improvisation I did this morning dedicated to my friend Zach. 

This is similar to what I do when I play background music at a restaurant. The goal is to melt as many faces as possible without impeding dinner conversation. 

Maxime: Guitar, Bass, Banging on guitar and pretending I'm a drummer

Lyrics:
bwow bow buh doodoot doodely doodoot dooduh doot
squiggidilly deet doot doobuh dooba doot doo, etc etc

Improvisation Z (Instrumental)

Rocket (PRSN Blend) - Clima X Iman Europe

Ti Jan Pou Velo is a stellar gwo ka jazz fusion masterpiece recorded in 1988 by Edmony Krater, a former member of Gwakasonné (one of the most famous Gwo Ka modern group from Guadeloupe) with the help of the group Zepiss. Through this long time underrated album, Edmony pays a tribute to the heroes of traditional music from Guadeloupe, starting with Marcel Lollia better known as Vélo. With 3 tracks on each side this album strikes by the originality of the compositions, Tijan Pou Vélo the eponymous opening track is a soulful version of traditional song played in toumblak. Gwadeloup we compiled on Kouté Jazz is a uptempo groovy ballad transended by electric jazz arrangement. Crépuscule last track of side one is a kaladja (a slow rhythm) with Edmony Krater, strongly inspired by Don Cherry and Miles Davis, playing trumpet. On the B-side Chimin Spirit offers a lighter, more danceable view of the world led by the boulagyel (the traditional mouth drum that ka singers use to mark the rhythm) and silky arpeggios on the guitar, singing a message that couldn’t be any simpler: “Let’s follow nature; she will guide us!” In West Indies, Edmony Krater mixes a variety of Caribbean rhythms in with the lewoz rhythm, which is so warlike and mystical, tough and courageous. “We are all children of a common, shared history.” And this history even contains a sense of “terroir” or place, a notion that the Guadeloupian found in the work of Bernard Lubat. “That’s why I wanted to call this piece Occitan Dance. It’s a fusion based on my encounters with Bernard Lubat, with whom I share a common vision of music and its relationship to creation.” Like Lubat, Edmony Krater is incredibly open-minded to a variety of influences as well as a masterful player of numerous instruments (trumpet and drums as well as guitar and keyboards). He has managed to surround himself with a group of musicians who are well in sync with his vision: Eddy Lebouin, bassist and guitarist from Gwokasonné, the guitarist Freddy Tisseur, a childhood friend, the saxophonist Filip Augusty, the drum major Roger Raspail, the drummer Jean-Pierre Coco, the flutist Roseline Pougeol, whose brother played with Konket, and Jean-Claude Predantos on keyboards.

Reissued produced by Digger's Digest and Les Mains Noires. CD version available on Heavenly Sweetness with 2 exclusives tracks. Limited to 500 copies. Full liners note included. Pre-order now here : http://diggersdigest.com/shop/product/edmony-krater-ti-jan-pou-velo-official-reissue-1/

EDMONY KRATER & ZEPISS : OFFICIAL LIMITED REISSUE OUT 01/02/2016

Official remix of @leenaojala - Together We Have It No More 
Release date 12/02/16

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Leena Ojala - Together We Have It No More (FØRTE Remix)

From www.DavidByrne.com

John Fitzgerald is one of the most passionate collectors of music we here at Luaka Bop have ever met. He is one of those people who just cares about finding great music, and then genuinely wants to share it with as many people as possible. In the world of record collecting, DJing and working with obscure music from the past—this kind of feature is much more rare than you might think.

For this month's show, DJ Fitz, as most people know him, has put together a mix of his favorite songs from the Middle East and Magreb, focused on the golden era of disco and funk. The mix features a few very rare 7"s he found (under a fish bowl!) during his first visit to Turkey in 2006, and others he's come across since then: the great Ahmed Fakroun from Benghazi, Libya, is featured twice, while the brothers Ziad, Elias and Gassan Rahbani have a few songs, too. Their mother, the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, appears towards the end of the show. As always with our show, we don’t attempt to make a representative selection of a whole region or era, it’s just the favorite songs of whoever is making this month’s show… smile

Besides DJing and record collecting, Fitz works with a lot of artists from all over the world. His “day job” is as a booking agent (he recently had the fantastic Mamane Sani, an organ player from Niger, play at his house in London!), and for many years he worked as a tour manager, with bands such as Animal Collective, tUnE-yArDs, Gang Gang Dance, and others. Whenever we release something at Luaka Bop, we sometimes (get lucky?) and the release gets championed by various influential artists or DJs around the world. As time goes, I can usually trace many of those people back to Fitz. It's like a big family tree, with him as the roots. I’ve started calling him "the source of all things good". He is always turning me on to a lot great stuff I've never heard before, too! (Here's the most recent example of that.)

To hear more mixes by DJ Fitz, check out his page on mixcloud and his popular podcast called “the DOODCAST”. For upcoming DJ gigs, please visit his website (he is playing the Film Festival in Istanbul next week, if you are lucky enough to be there).

Hope you like the music!

And thank you to David Macleod for the sound editing! 

Love,
Luaka Bop

APRIL RADIO: MIDDLE EASTERN & MAGHREB DISCO FUNK FROM THE GOLDEN ERA (1975-1985) by DJ FITZ

Fear Of Tall Giraffes Fear Of Som

Cactus Moon is a western folk band from Boise, Idaho led by singer-songwriter Chelsea Smith and Freeman DeJongh on guitars, pedal steel and synth, Jacob Geier on Bass and Wade Ronsse on drums. Their debut album DAY FOR NIGHT is out August 15th, 2025.