Songs recorded on my journey in Mexico and Costa Rica.

Original song by Amir Benayoun.
@NatanRabin

Mike Rauss, Natan Rabin & Roi Dror - Hakol Ad LeKan (Cover)

Curtis Radio is back!! After a short break and an improved website section (check check check !!!), today we proudly present a new episode of our beloved Curtis Radio Show. With 39 dope shows in our archive you know the formula by now. We reach out to DJs, musicians, diggers, collectors, and any other breed of vinyl aficionado from around the world and ask them to select 10 songs that they keep close to their heart. Here’s an impeccable selection, as you would expect, by none other than London stalwart and Wah Wah 45s co-owner Dom Servini. A DJs DJ, equally at ease in a club or festival booth, in radio format or as a highly knowledgeable music journalist, his energetic and open-minded mix of anything soulful, be it afro-beat, jazz, house or hip hop, make him a strong favourite in the groove-based music worldwide circuit.
We are grateful to have him on board today, presenting these 10 beautiful songs for our 40th episode of Curtis Radio. So sit back, relax, turn the volume up and enjoy the musical journey in ten songs from the massive and treasured record collection of Dom Servini.

CURTIS RADIO - DOM SERVINI. SHOW #40

The set that was first performed live at Nazlo Mame Dark Rainbow party in Tbilisi and then changed a little bit in El Cuyo (Mexico)

El Cuyo Set

A beautiful morning in Mexico City at SunDance Moon Dance

(dAnZa deL sOL) *mEX:cITy*

Capri Ambiente 🎶🍃

A track based on field recordings captured on the island of Capri. The piece is enriched by the mesmerizing sound of the bansuri, played by @almartinocapri.

🌿 Recorded in the beautiful setting of Pineta di Damecuta, Anacapri

Desiderando di tornare

Capri Ambiente

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Hermanito explores deep, cosmic jazz, before an exclusive vinyl mix from Ecuadorean artist Joaquín Cornejo.

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Puro Jugo - Episode 4 (Joaquín Cornejo Guest Mix) by Hermanito

Forest ecstatic dance with fire just for men as part of a special men's journey - the archetype of the lover. 💚

The guys created a strong dance tribe - let me tell you, it was a dedicated force! 🔥

Ecstatic Dance DJ set 4.8.2024 

Petr Toman
DJ @ Orlický Ecstatic
www.orlickyecstatic.cz
@orlickyecstatic
@petrtoman_dj

Orlický Ecstatic

100% kMEN Lover Ecstatic Dance in the Forest

Magical night in Ecstatic Dance Haifa ~ space I created with my beloved.
a journey around the world, through different feeling & emotions.
enjoy~
much love!

Artists: Shaman's Dream, PASAJE UNIVERSO, Susobrino, Huun-Huur-Tu, Yemanjo, an-ten-nae, Bwoy De Bhajan, Grupo Batuque, Da Iguana, Ali Farka Toure, Chancha Via Circuito, Baiuca, Inti Illimani, Issa Bagayogo, Angata, Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Uproot Andy, Sabo, Ribas Abbas, Polo & Pan, Captain Planet, Dos Flakos, Fungi x VHOOR, Branko, JLZ, Burland, Karol Conka, MORiLLO, Andrew Luce, Sansai, Gozar, SOOHAN, Porangui, El Buho, Adrian Freedman~

Art by Bernadett Bagyinka.

Spiritito @ Ecstatic World ~ Ecstatic Dance Haifa

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Gitkin’s music exists somewhere between primal, rootsy memory and distant exotic yearning — A dusty bordertown where the familiar blends imperceptibly into the enchantingly foreign. 

After a long and fruitful run as a bandleader with relentlessly touring party-rockers Pimps Of Joytime and a Grammy-nominated country blues collaboration with Cedric Burnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J set out to “explore tonalities I’d never messed with,” as he puts it. It was a release from “having to write lyrics or involve my voice,” he notes, and so the (mostly) instrumental sound of Gitkin came into being. 

Reviews of Gitkin’s first LP grappled with descriptors, tagging it vaguely as “cinematic” and comparing it favorably with Khruangbin. True, the music is largely wordless, emotionally evocative, and guitar driven. But it possesses an alluring alchemy all its own. 

Gitkin’s first release, 2018’s well-received Five Star Motel, amply demonstrated his ease with earthy funk and comfortably-cut rhythm. On his new full-length release Safe Passage, the itinerant guitar slinger broadens his already rich palette with melodies informed by Greek and Middle Eastern modalities, Peruvian Chicha and Tuareg Saharan guitar styles. No gimmick, this juxtaposition of gut-bucket blues and funk low-end with unexpectedly twisting lead phrases highlights the intense flavors found in each savory ingredient. 

Recorded at his home studio in New Orleans, Safe Passage showcases a new batch of immediately engaging, repeatedly satisfying cuts, ranging from surf exotica (“Cat Nip”) to raunchy roadhouse stompers (“Fools Gold” and “The Drive”) to dreamy vocal cuts “Foot Steps” and “Hold On” to the floating finale of “Safe Passage.” 

Gitkin’s production radiates character and warmth, leaning on soft-focus vintage mics, dubby spring reverbs and the quirks of an analog tape machine. Further enhancing the intimate vibe are distinguished guests like Carol C (of Si*Sé), who lends her striking voice to three tracks, including the strutting single “De La,” veteran Chauncey Yearwood (congas) and New Orleans local Clifton “Spug” Smith, who provides a sousaphone low-end on the cumbia-not-cumbia “Spug Life.” 

Safe Passage will be released by Wonderwheel on September 18th, 2020 and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally.

Safe Passage

Gitkin - Safe Passage

ANKA FOH - KOUNADY EP
out on JAN 28, 2021

Anka Foh is made up of multi-talented Malian singer/composer/songwriter and producer Dasmy Djo and French electronic music producer/DJ/composer and Curuba label head Ditti. The duo met at a series of culture mashing jam sessions between musicians from all over the world in Paris’ underground bars. The two artists clicked and came together to work on some of Dasmy’s compositions - within a few months they formed Anka Foh.

Shika Shika is excited to share their first EP, Kounady, four tracks of much needed upbeat, joyful, soul music that finds a magical sweet spot between Dasmy’s original compositions, inspired by Mandingue traditional music, and Ditti’s jubilant electronica.

Though the fours compositions are rooted in the West African mandingue tradition, they are taken into a whole new context. Dasmy’s vocals and instrumental lines sit alongside swirling, airy melodies, swaggering beats and Ditti’s trademark bleeps and psychedelic, dreamy synths - the recipe for an explosion of delicious flavours and colours.

This is summed up on opener Bara or the driving electro-blues track Tâtâ, a song about giving thanks to those that helped and supported us in our lives. The EP ends with the fittingly beautiful lullaby Kounady (a mandingue word that roughly translates as luck) about how we have to look after ourselves and avoid negativity.

On this celebration of borderless music, Anka Foh have created an uplifting and refreshing debut. Music that somehow combines the dancefloor, douceur (sweetness) and melancholy but, most of all, a big dose of fun. 

Original idea by Dasmy Djo
Composition, arrangement and production: Dasmy Djo & Ditti.
Artwork: Clau Smith
Mix/master: Soda Sound

SHIKA SHIKA 2021

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Anka Foh - Bara

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