Name: The Boss by drymbago in Live and Direct
Duration: 4 min 33 s
Description: Five fresh flavours of a live recording session.

Five fresh flavours of a live recording session.

Live and Direct

Desert Boogaloo

Fragil is taken from the La Yegros album Magnetismo. Available from Soundway Records on pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/MagnetismoDirect. In all good record shops from 11th March. 

La Yegros - Fragil

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

RELEASE INFO
ARTIST: AKIZZBEATZZ
TITLE:  “I'M AN AFRICAN”
FORMAT: MP3/WAV
LABEL: SHANGO RECORDS
CAT. No: SHNG009
RELEASE DATE: LATE MARCH
GENRE: Afro-Blues/Afro-Tech
COVER DESIGN: 2.46 Design

Born in the dark streets of Cairo, grown to the unforgettable forests of Santa Esmeralda, spending its teen years in Bombay and Tangier markets, mature into the deep spacey Jungle of Ghana we proudly present you a new label from the land of the pyramids: SHANGO RECORDS invites you to an unheard world music psychedelic trip: like through a colorful kaleidoscope we will melt down Indian and Pakistani Vibes, Arab-Tek and Oriental groovy vibes, Afro-Beat rhythms n' pieces, Cumbia Tropicana flavors and cosmic Ghetto-Latin vibes into forbidden sounds of frenzied electronic dancefloor rituals. Outside traditional paths these driving grooves and polyphonic structures take the adventure seeking dancer to Dionysian highs and places never been before. 

I am the grandchild of the warrior men and women that Hintsa and Sekhukhune led, the patriots that Cetshwayo and Mphephu took to battle, the soldiers Moshoeshoe and Ngungunyane taught never to dishonour the cause of freedom. My mind and my knowledge of myself is formed by the victories that are the jewels in our African crown, the victories we earned from Isandhlwana to Khartoum, as Ethiopians and as the Ashanti of Ghana, as the Berbers of the desert. I am the grandchild who lays fresh flowers on the Boer graves at St Helena and the Bahamas, who sees in the mind's eye and suffers the suffering of a simple peasant folk, death, concentration camps, destroyed homesteads, a dream in ruins. I am the child of Nongqause. I am he who made it possible to trade in the world markets in diamonds, in gold, in the same food for which my stomach yearns. I come of those who were transported from India and China, whose being resided in the fact, solely, that they were able to provide physical labour, who taught me that we could both be at home and be foreign, who taught me that human existence itself demanded that freedom was a necessary condition for that human existence. I'm An African. 

1.AKIZZBEATZZ “I'm An African”
2.AKIZZBEATZZ “I'm An African (TIMBOLETTI remix)”
3.AKIZZBEATZZ “I'm An African (MR.LOOKMAN & PALE PENGUIN Afro-Tech remix)


Available Late March from selected major online retailers.
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composition : Suga, G. Poncelet
arrangement : Lucas Saint-Cricq, Mathieu Gramoli

texte : Edgar Sekloka
1er couplet
je leur réponds que je suis né ici
quand ils me disent qu’ils me veulent là-bas
mais un jour je sais bien qu’ici
je serai aimé comme là-bas
parfois je voudrais vivre là-bas
peut-être je ne mourrais pas ici
enterrez-moi dans du béton là-bas
ou dans un champ de coton ici
j’apprécie le confort ici
comme eux le tourisme là-bas
comme ma mère venue ici
récupérer ses richesses de là-bas
la reine Sissi se balade ici
avec les bijoux de là-bas
la reine Saba n’a plus rien là-bas
on sait tous pourquoi ici
les partis politiques d’ici
s’appuient sur les PIB de là-bas
la colonisation il n’y a qu’ici
qu’on croit qu’elle n’existe plus là-bas
les journaux font tout ici
pour qu’on sache rien de ce qui se passe là-bas
s’il y a un génocide là-bas
c’est la coupe du monde ici

refrain
hé, hé je viens d’ici
hé, hé je viens de là-bas…

2ème couplet
ils endorment les gens de là-bas
avec un Dieu bien d’ici
In God We Trust c’est ici
et l’argent fait des guerres là-bas
mes frères s’entretuent là-bas
ils ne se font pas confiance ici
dealers ici, soldats là-bas
mains d’œuvre ici comme là-bas
élevage bovin c’est ici
élevage humain c’est là-bas
on est des sous-hommes là-bas
des hommes en développement ici
le palu, le sida c’est là-bas
les centres de recherche ici
la malnutrition c’est là-bas
la surconsommation ici
les dictatures de là-bas
font les démocraties d’ici
et quand on me contrôle là-bas
j’exhibe mes papiers bien d’ici
pedigree immigré ici
prince dénigré là-bas
pour pas me perdre ici
je chante et ça résonne là-bas

refrain


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Written, produced and arranged by Panama Cardoon & Mister Kentro. 
Recorded between 2014 and 2016 at various locations around the globe.

Mixed by PS.K. for DiggingSounds
Audiophile Analog Mastering: Angelos Timewarp Stoumpos
Artwork: Ventral Is Golden

Supported by: KOSMOS 93.6 FM

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A little blues. Played by a broken machine. 
When blips and blops encounter an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. 

The Boss

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