Name: Echo Sound feat. General Smiley by Echo Sound System
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Description: Taken from the album "Tempo Vai Dizer" (ST2 Records)

DJ Coala - Bumboclat (feat. Alfina, Cidade Verde Sounds)

Taken from the album "Tempo Vai Dizer" (ST2 Records)

Echo Sound feat. General Smiley

Primeirdo disco de BNegão & Seletores de Frequência, em 2003. 
Formação: BNegão (voz), Pedro Selector (trompete e voz), Fábio Kalunga (baixo), Robson Riva (bateria e voz) e Fabio Moreno (guitarra e voz).

02 Nova Visão

Quinto Andar

Escrita por Espião, produzida por Dario DaReal Beats para a Coletânea "Primeiro Impacto"
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/5823j2ih5l46pp1/Espi%C3%A3o_-_Tudo_passa.mp3

Espião - Tudo Passa

Buy on Bandcamp

Ras Ninin - Weed (Live)

Freedom Ain’t Free

Música Preta (Remistura)
Prod. Rincon Sapiência
Ano: 2011

Link para download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y3ACGSYZ

Música Preta (Remistura)

Música das Músicas 
(Rans . Jef . Freeza)

Escuta a Música das Músicas, não enrusta a sua essência, não vista a carapuça, que cobre que cega, que expulsa, boas intenções vem de nossos corações. E bota pra fora e aflora e aguça, vivos, divinos sentidos, é frio é quente, energizante, onipresente, consciência pra escuridão, Luz pro inconsciente, nada te castra te prende, entende, compreende, somente o eterno presente, ainda que tardio fio, ainda que recente, o véu que se caí mil demônios e a mente.

Ativem seus sensores, desliguem seus televisores. Cabos conectores plugados em novos consoles. Bloqueiem os mentores e seus computadores. Observem o espetáculo das flores.

Escuta a música das músicas, 
escuta a música das músicas, 
escuta a música das músicas. 
Agucem seus ouvidos para as músicas. 
Escuta a música das músicas, 
escuta a música das músicas, 
escuta a música das músicas. 
Sintonizem suas antenas para a música das músicas.

Percepção divina que me guia pelo caminho do meio, não me deixando perdido meio a cego em tiroteio. Ver e não sentir, sentir e não ver. Conhecimento é poder. Perto do fim. E assim a música das músicas ecoa. A consciência plena. Essência boa. O simples despertar que o universo abençoa.

Ilusão Maya, por um fio por um triz, quem não viu dejavú e a falha na Matrix. A falsidade da realidade, veracidade e ilusão, prisão na caverna de Platão, mero reflexo do que há de mais belo, humanóides enfermos, internos, imersos no inferno astral, perdidos em conceitos entre o bem e mal. 
O mesmo temporal que irriga e nutre a vida proporciona o caos.

Escuta a música das músicas.....

Termômetros anacrônicos a mil grau. 
Elevadores pro cume da montanha espiritual. 
Torna-se uno, enquanto o mundo muda. 
Eis a música das músicas no silêncio de Buda.

Ficha Técnica: 
Rans – Voz; 
Jef – Voz; 
Freeza – Voz; 
Victor – Bateria; 
Ricô – Baixo / Arranjo / Órgão Hammond; 
Rodrigo Dalua – Guitarras / Órgão Hammond; 
Jahgga – Percussão; 
Gabriel Martini – Órgão Hammond

Música das Músicas

Faixa #4 do álbum Sorry Drummer & Friends Vol. 2

Sorry Drummer & Friends Vol. 2

Sorry Drummer - Cidade Dos Sonhos (feat. Rincon Sapiência e Silvera)

Música vencedora do concurso Rumos Itaú 2010 - categoria HOMENAGEM, gravada e mixada no Ital Studio Salvador - BA.
Esta canção inspirada no poema Navio Negreiro de Castro Alves retrata a diáspora negra em todos os seus aspectos, unindo a musica jamaica com a poesia do baiano Castro Alves que conta a brutalidade com que os africanos foram arrancados de sua terra para serem espalhados pelo mundo.
O resultado é a evolução cultural de todas as raças que se tornam uma só através da miscigenação dos povos de todo o globo. Voltamos ao começo de tudo!
Saiba mais: http://rumositaucultural.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/resultados-rumos-musica-2010-2012/

Song Winner of the contest Itaú 2010 - category TRIBUTE. Song written and arranged  by Soraia Drummond. 
Riddim: Wanted - Massive B Sounds Music 
Recorded and mixed at Studio Ital Salvador - BA.
Lyrics Inspired by poem Navio Negreiro by Castro Alves portraying the black diaspora in all its aspects, linking music from Jamaica with poetry by Castro Alves,which tells the brutality which the Africans were uprooted from their land to be around the world. The result is the cultural evolution of all races as they become one through mixing of peoples around the globe. Back to the beginning of everything!
More: http://rumositaucultural.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/resultados-rumos-musica-2010-2012/

STAMOS EM PLENO MAR - NAVIO NEGREIRO - Soraia Drummond

Roots, Sound & Power - since 2004

Formed by the producers Pedro Dubstrong, Gustah and Veiga, Echo Sound System is not just (another) reggae band, nor is only just a hip-hop group, but a collective production that reaches not only several Jamaican branches, but also many other influences.

“Do centro de SP mandando ver pro mundo inteiro / frequencias e efeitos em estéreo brasileiro”, which means something like “Stereo Brazilian frequencies and effects / sent from the heart of São Paulo to the whole world”, says Jimmy Luv  in “Todos Um”.

The trio’s name clearly shows their intentions. Inspired by the sound system’s culture and echoing several Jamaican musical styles, Echo Sound System uses technology to promote the re-gathering between reggae and rap, two musical genres very close to each other (after all the rappers descend directly from the Jamaican toasters). At the same time, the trio manages to show both the music from the smoky island and rap’s spectrum range.

Their debut album, “Tempo Vai Dizer” (ST2 Records), mixed by Ganja Man and Tejo (Instituto), matches all these several styles. From the rocksteady tune “Só d’eu ver(de)” to the hip-hop “Punnani”, the album brings also the reggae “Pas Tester” and the rub-a-dub “I & I”, among others. In addition to Veiga, responsible for the acoustic guitar, bass, flute and harmonica, Gema and Andrés Salazar plays the bass and the saxophone respectively.

Getting to know the Jamaican sound systems is crucial to the understanding of reggae’s importance to today’s world music. Since the Ska era, back in the fifties, till today’s dancehall, every night, in some corners of Kingston, powerful sound systems are assembled to promote the charge-free parties, held in open-air areas. These itinerant parties are the most respected way of musical propagation in Jamaica, serving as a test field for new singers and new songs.

Naturally, there has always been competition between the sound systems, each one trying to show the latest tunes. Not by chance, it was a Jamaican, DJ Kool Herc, who first brought speakers to play music at the streets of Bronx. After that, came Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and the rest is history…

Despite their respect for the past, “Tempo vai dizer” does not sound vintage at all. The fancy production brings actual references, mixing them with others to produce a very original sound.
“Echo Sound System, raiz com Futuro” which means something like“Echo Sound System, roots and Future” , as it is said in “Pas Tester”.

The smart drum programming, the distinguished timbres and the flying ambiances makes it evident. Another differential is the good use given to effects borrowed directly from Dub (such as delays, echoes and reverbs), which never sound exaggerated nor out of context. Not only in tracks like “Bom Filho” and “Kaya Monkeys (safari dub)”, where the influence of dubmasters like Scientist are obvious, these effects are used in the whole album. 

The hip-hop beats are either sustained by bass lines (“Leão de asas”) or by drum samples that come straight from the seventies’ reggae (“Pas tester”). The reggae tracks, however, follow the opposite way, accepting some rap elements. The MCs Funk Buia (Z’África Brasil). Jimmy Luv and Arcanjo (Familia 7 Velas) along with the Frenchman Pyroman (ex- Assasin), take turns on the vocals, mixing funny, spiritual and social speeches.

“Todos um”, a dancehall like hip-hop, already released on a vinyl compact in 2004, has got Funk Buia at the microphone. “Só d’eu ver(de)”, is the b-side of this very same compact, pressed on a 7-inch format, such as the classic Jamaican releases. While Arcanjo warns “um minuto pra explodir” “one minute until the explosion” in the strong track “Inna Babylon”, Jimmy Luv flood us all with his sincerity in the groovy “Replay”.

It is very common in Jamaica for singers to make different versions of the same song, using new lyrics and melodies created over the same musical background, what, in Jamaica, is known as riddim.  Following this tradition, in “Original style” Pyroman sings over “Stalag”, riddim immortalized by “Bam Bam”, in the Sister Nancy’s version.

In addition to the regular Echo’s collaborators, the Jamaican General Smiley, from the Michigan & Smiley Duo (famous in the 80’s for dancehall hits such as “Diseases” and “Rub a dub style”), also plays a part in “Tempo vai dizer”. Even though this was not the intention, the mix of languages internationalizes the sound, what makes it possible for the Echo Sound System to find it’s place abroad.

General Smiley took part in the project from a distance. His jaw breaking part, along with Funk Buia in “Rookie Rock” (co produced by the Swiss Romanowsky, from the collective Future Primitive Sounds) is one of the album’s highlights.

After 21 tracks, “Tempo vai dizer” is not tiring at all. “Favorite Song” closes the album in such a good mood that ends up making the listener to wish that the interludes were complete tracks, just to have a little bit more of its taste…. Or maybe wish that the CD was a vinyl record, so that after all the songs are played, you can play the other side as well.

Bruno Natal / November 2005

bookings/contact: echosoundsystem@gmail.com


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