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Smokey Hormel played with Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Beck, David Lynch ...

Groovadelic Ethio music
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Smokey Hormel: electric guitar
Nathan Daems: Baritone & Alto & Tenor saxophone, flute, composition
Jon Birdsong: Cornet
Wouter Haest: Keys
Simon Segers: Drums
Filip Vandebril: Bass

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Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power
Release date: April 24th 2015
Glitterbeat Records
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Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba’s fourth album Ba Power (and his first for Glitterbeat Records) is a striking, career defining record marked by mesmerizing songs, razor-sharp riffs and full-throttle emotions. Following two years of worldwide touring for the much heralded Jama Ko album, Bassekou’s band, Ngoni Ba, has turned up the volume and dynamics significantly and Bassekou’s masterful ngoni playing has achieved a new level of intensity that can only be called: afro-rock. Distortion and wah wah and propulsive rhythms are now the defining backbone of his songs and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko, more than ever serve as the passionate and perfect foil. This is not the same Ngoni Ba. This is indeed: Ba Power.

When asked what Ba Power means to him, Bassekou told us:
"Ba", in Bambara means "strong" or "great" and it also means "group.” I called the album Ba Power because I think the messages on it are very important and strong, and it is also definitely the album with the toughest sound I've ever made. I want these songs to grab as many people as possible.”

Without question Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba has revolutionized the sound and narrative possibilities of the ngoni, the lute-like instrument that is essential to Mali’s Griot culture. Griots are esteemed musician/storytellers whose lineage stretches back centuries. Bassekou was born into this resonant tradition but his relationship to it has been anything but static. From the beginning of his career, through his invention of a previously unheard repertoire built around the melodies and rhythms of four interlocking (and at times electric) ngonis, Bassekou has demonstrated his respect for the past by radically pulling it into the future. 

Ba Power contains all the swagger, precision and wide-eyed excitement that the title implies. It is the album where Bassekou’s music engages with the world in ways he could have only imagined 10 years before. It is the album where he confirms his status amongst the 21st centuries most relevant musical artists.

I think African music and culture deserve to be spread to the broadest audience possible.
That is what I want to accomplish with Ba Power.
--Bassekou Kouyaté


Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba - Siran Fen

M.A.K.U. Soundsystem: Mezcla
Order here: https://glitterbeat.lnk.to/Mezcla
Release date: May 27th, 2016
Glitterbeat Records

M.A.K.U Soundsystem’s Mezcla is Out May 27th on Glitterbeat Records

The immigrant experience is an opportunity to create, to find a voice that speaks loud and proud, to connect past and future. A chance to make history. That’s what the eight-piece M.A.K.U. Soundsystem does on their fourth album, Mezcla (‘Mix’). Through the eyes and ears of Colombians who’ve arrived and made their homes in New York City, it is, in every way, a mix, an invitation to think and to dance.

The band passionately elaborates, “The immigrant experience is complex. Though reasons and conditions for migrating vary greatly (modes of transportation, access to resources and language, fear of violence, health, etc.), one thing we can certainly say is that it is a life-changing, identity-shaping experience. As a group of curious and creative people, our immigrant experience manifests itself through the playful exploration of our musical roots and cultural heritage, while making commentary on our day to day realities, inevitably reflecting our times. For the past several years, M.A.K.U Soundsystem has come together week after week to practice communicating in multiple ways; musically, culturally, politically, and straight-up emotionally growing closer as we continue to develop a shared language. It’s not always a tight groove, but the point of our mixing is not to become homogenous. Our album “Mezcla” is about us coming together through and with our differences, to create a musical experience where we can all be truly present as unique and essential elements of that mix.”

Mezcla is a relentlessly honest record. The music hits the feet and the hips, powerful and overwhelming, while the lyrics reflect the lives the band members live. There’s the giddy flirtation of a summer Saturday night on ‘Haitiana’ and the thought that comes from looking around somewhere so different and asking ‘What Do You Wish For.’ But it also embraces darker political questions that don’t have easy answers. The opening track, ‘Agua,’ for instance, wonders why some people own the seeds that should be for everyone – who are those who have and who are the dispossessed? And ‘De Barrio,’ the warm, inviting waltz that closes the disc, examines the journey so many coming from Latin America to the US undertake.

M.A.K.U. Soundsystem is a powerhouse that’s been built over years of rehearsals and gigs, criss-crossing America from the Lincoln Center Outdoors -in their adopted hometown of New York- to Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Canada and around the globe to the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and onto the Atlantic Music Expo in Cape Verde. Everywhere they’ve won over friends: a storming appearance at globalFEST saw the band awarded a touring fund, while new outlets have kept heaping praise on them. 

Mezcla is a statement, an embrace. Think and dance. A way forward delivered with the urgency that’s become a hallmark of M.A.K.U. Soundsystem. It captures the live sound of the band, that thrilling rawness where the rough edges become a vital part of the whole, plenty of freedom but with the tightness honed by night after night of gigs. 

It’s passionate and blazing, turning from anger to tenderness, to endurance and hope. M.A.K.U. Soundsystem is the modern immigrant experience in a microcosm – and it’s not so different from all the generations that have gone before. People carrying their own mix of the past and the present, the old and the new, tradition and modernity. Mezcla reflects the lives they’re building.

“We try to keep it human,” Ospina says. “To give people something they can relate to.”

To think and dance.

Mezcla

M.A.K.U. Soundsystem - Thank You, Thank You

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La danse des Oiseaux

La Danse des Oiseaux - EP Schelpenman

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Introduisant l'arrivée du LP "Juguya" de Baba Commandant, sur le label Sublime Frequencies, Mawimbi est fier de présenter "Wasso", l'un des titres les plus frappants de l'album, dans une toute nouvelle version accompagnée de remixes dans l'esprit du label, signés Loya ou encore M. Boom.

Caractère excentrique et mystérieux de la scène underground de Ouagadougou, Baba Commandant a débuté comme danseur Bobo traditionnel avant de s'engager dans une riche carrière musicale et de rejoindre le célèbre burkinabé Victor Démé en tant que musicien de sa tournée. Influencé par Fela Kuti, King Sunny Adé et Moussa Doumbia, Baba Commandant joue au dozo n'goni, un instrument associé aux chasseurs traditionnels Donso, reliant les écarts entre les différentes générations et les strates de la société burkinabé.

Accompagné du Mandingo Band, Baba Commandant nous délivre un mélange d'afrobeat style Fela, de mandinka blues et de funk hard-hitting. Enregistré au Ouaga Jungle Studios, "Wasso" est un excellent exemple des sons bruts, qui fondent le Mandinka blues, le dub et l'afrobeat nigérian, le tout avec une touche de punk.

La face A se dote également d'un remix signé Loya du label Mawimbi, dont la réinterprétation provoque un rythme plus dense accompagné de subtiles couches de sons organiques.

La face B du disque quant à elle est composée de deux remixes friendly DJ, avec des samples impressionnants du producteur toulousain M. Boom. Dépouillant la piste originale jusqu'à en sortir ses éléments les plus animés. Les deux versions feront des armes parfaites pour les DJs world comme les DJs de house music.

[EN]
Following the release of Baba Commandant's debut album "Juguya" on the mighty Sublime Frequencies label, Mawimbi is proud to present "Wasso", one of the most striking cut from the album, in brand new mixing shape alongsides killer electronic remixes from the likes of Mawimbi signee Loya and rising producer Mr. Boom. 

A rather eccentric and mysterious character from the Ouagadougou underground scene, Baba Commandant started out as a traditional Bobo dancer, before engaging in a rich musical career and joining Burkinabé star Victor Démé as one of his touring musicians. Influenced by the likes of Fela Kuti, King Sunny Adé and Moussa Doumbia, Baba Commandant plays dozo n'goni, an instrument associated with traditional Donso hunters, bridging the gaps between different generations and strata of Burkinabé society. 

Accompanied by his Mandingo Band, Baba Commandant play a mixture of Fela-style afrobeat, mandinka blues and hard-hitting funk. Recorded at the notorious Ouaga Jungle Studios, "Wasso" is a prime example of the band's unpolished and raw sounds, melting Mandinka blues, dub and Nigerian afrobeat with a punk attitude. 

The A-side also features a remix by Mawimbi signee Loya, whose leftfield reinterpretation moves at a much higher pace with epic modular motifs and subtle organic layers of sounds.

The B-side of the record is made of two DJ-friendly remixes with impressive mixing work from Toulouse-based producer Mr. Boom. Stripping the original track down to its most lively elements, both mixes are perfect club-ready weapons for tropical-minded and house DJs.

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