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Ltd. purple 2LP vinyl, handmade and handpainted purple cassette version ➥ EUROPE: http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/specials/barrio-lindo-menoko-project-mooncircle | http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=75905
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In the native tongue of the South American tribe Mapuche, there exists the word ‘MENOKO’. Deep within the Andean Forests there are sacred places, springs of purity known as Menokos. Hidden and untouched by man or animal, they are whispered, home of virgin water. Womb of the natural cycle from which plants and herbs of extraordinary medicinal abilities are nurtured.

@BarrioLindo feels a strong bond to the native tribes of his Argentinian home. Ancestral cultures are of great importance, providing a wealth of inspiration. An instrument maker by trade, using his bare hands he constructs many ethnical instruments like Andean flutes, African harps, string instruments from India and so on. This fascination with indigenous sounds is reflected within his music and themes with the use of samples and tribal instrumentation. While understanding his work is far from that of the native cultures, he finds ways to incorporate these influences through fusions of sounds. Drawing a parallel, worlds both old and new align.

'MENOKO' comes on limited purple double vinyl as well as a limited handmade and handpainted purple cassette edition.

Written & produced by Agustín Rivaldo. Mixed by Agustín Rivaldo, Ignus Zavalla and Jeronimo Escajal in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Vocals on Arrayanes by Agustín Rivaldo & Ignacio Perez. ‘Bombo Leguero’ on Libres played by Camilo Carabajal. Voice on Libres by Awka Nehuen. Mastering by Sven Friederichs. Original paintings, typography & design by Gordon Gieseking & Clarissa. A&R: G. Gieseking, Aine Devaney and Malte Tarnow.

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Barrio Lindo 'Garza bruja' (Menoko 2LP/Digital - Project: Mooncircle, April 4th)

From Where I Left

An honest track about love, limits and the courage to walk away — without resentment, without drama.
Explored through five different versions, each one reflecting a distinct emotional state of the same moment.

My Corner Mix
Introspective and personal. The most internal version, focused on reflection, space and emotional subtlety.

The Curly One Remix
Rhythmic and warm. Movement without losing depth, where melancholy meets groove.

Transparency
Stripped back and emotionally exposed. The core feeling, honest and unfiltered.

Jesse Strada Remix
A personal reinterpretation designed for the dancefloor while keeping the emotional weight intact.

Meditation Mix
Slow, organic and grounding. A contemplative version meant for stillness, breath and deep listening.

Strada - From Where I Left (My Corner mix)

AYA Records, imprint of the pioneering Latin American label, ZZK Records, transports listeners to Andean Amazonia with its first release, Respira, by Mateo Kingman. 

Kingman, 24, is a singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian Amazonian music that fuses traditional Latin American sounds with hip-hop, rock, and pop. Respira, his debut album, is an energy overload that sings of biodiversity, sketching natural landscapes of magic and water colors. It is infused with sounds guiding the listener from the jungle and to high mountains, between the tangle of trees and the meandering sound of the wind on the moors. 

Kingman's childhood was spent in Macas, a small town in the Amazon, where he was exposed to the cultural richness of the Shuar community and Amazonian mythologies. There his feet grew calloused on mountain grass, there he dove in the Amazonian rivers searching for ancient sounds of water devils. He walked narrow, muddy roads, hearing the cries of the wild, of the Amazonian nymphs, of the dense green. In this environment, Kingman began experimenting with the guitar, drums, and traditional instruments. He began exploring the universal nature of music, which ties the finite and small human condition, full of passions hard to understand, with the cosmic, the chaotic, and the infinite. 

After a brief interlude pursuing semi-professional sports (100 meter hurdles), Kingman moved to Quito in 2012 and launched his music career. Just a few short years later, he finds himself at the forefront of the Latin American music scene emerging out of Ecuador, both as a soloist and a member of the band EVHA. 

Respira exemplifies this sound, fusing electronic with organic and acoustic in order to create a musical oxymoron: chaotic harmony. Inspired by artists such as Simón Díaz, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Violeta Parra, Juaneco y Su Combo, Control Machete, Bomba Estereo, Sidestepper and Café Tacvba, the album combines samples and synthesizers, with organic sounds he records himself in rivers, forests, and mountains. Kingman's lyrics connect the concrete jungle with the past of four million years of human life historically tied to the natural world. His soundscapes are full of the spiritual energy of all that is good, of what makes us dance to scare away the demons. His fiery voice constantly stabs at the melodies, spilling out the verses with rap and timbres of traditional songs. 

With the swagger of Calle 13 and the groove of Manu Chao, Mateo Kingman is ready to show you his world. Respira is out on August 12 on AYA Records, and will be available everywhere.

Respira

Levanta

Spaced out composition by the French globetrotter Costa Rica based Maracuyá. (@maracuyacita) 

[ENG] The semiconscious state of the world of imagination, connecting without commitment facts and fictions, is the thematic-musical chosen to represent the sequences of release "Devaneio" (“Daydream”). Have you ever had the feeling of not knowing if you are awake or dreaming? We can concentrate our mental energy on the "here and now" but it can be healthy to allow ourselves the privilege to let our minds wander.

We thank the group of artists who kindly offered their compositions. It is an interesting mix of producers, pushing the sound in all sorts of new directions. We shared out the clipping among five releases, which tends towards the slow feelings. It seems like a vortex whose fluency explores elements of a fantastic world, which populates a dreamlike universe. This universe reproduces a little of the daydreaming’s wit, whose randomness is a striking fact. Therefore, the question that channels this whole plot is simple. What happens next?

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[PTB] O estado semiconsciente do mundo da imaginação, conectando sem compromisso fatos e ficções, é o recorte temático escolhido para representar as sequências de lançamento "Devaneio"("Daydream). Você já teve o sentimento de não saber ao certo se está acordado ou sonhando? Podemos concentrar nossa energia mental no "aqui e agora", mas pode ser saudável permitir-nos o privilégio de deixar nossas mentes vagarem.

Agradecemos ao grupo de artistas que gentilmente ofereceram suas composições. É uma mistura interessante de produtores, empurrando o som em todos os tipos de novas direções. Nós dividimos as faixas entre cinco lançamentos, que tendem para os sentimentos lentos. Parece como um vortex cuja fluidez explora elementos de um mundo fantástico, que povoam um universo onírico. Esse universo reproduz um pouco da sagacidade do devaneio, cuja aleatoriedade é um fato marcante. Assim, a pergunta que canaliza todo esse enredo é simples. O que acontece depois?

Artwork: Marco Noto (Meta Things)
Layout: craj
Master: Andreh Torres @ RD Studio, Brasil

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Maracuyá — Planète Rouge

Semilla Tropical es un proyecto musical que nace con la intención de hacer llegar a todos los públicos, y en especial a los más peques, sonidos tropicales, ancestrales, andinos y selváticos. 
Con el sello de Tierra Candela, y y con Kazike en Estado de Trance (Guacamayo Tropical) como instigador de este proyecto, reconocidos artistas de la escena tropical nacional e internacional, como Chancha Vía Circuito, El Remolón (Argentina), Caballito (España), ... que llevan años haciéndonos bailar, soñar y volar, reúnen sus temas en este compilado para toda la familia.

Chancha Vía Circuito - Infantes

Un primer encuentro poderoso y la belleza de un deseo naciente.
Capulí que nace del ritmo afroecuatoriano Bomba, del Valle del Chota.

Capulí

Capulí

An interest in ancestral Latin American cosmology has always run right through the music of Ecuadorian music producer Nicola Cruz. His creative process involves an attentive, careful search for the living roots and rituals that are part of South American identity—its Andean and African origins in particular—valuing its rhythms, its oral traditions, its instruments and the energy they transmit. His first record, Prender el Alma (2015) explored the development of the consciousness and spirituality, and how they connect with music. In Siku, his most recent production, Cruz continues this exploration, expanding his vision towards new stories and other cultures as sources of inspiration. A crucial aspect on this journey is his collaboration with other artists from around the world.

The siku is a wind instrument of Andean origin, highly symbolic in ancestral rituals, made up of two separate, complementary parts, the arca and the ira. It is a representation of duality, an essential element of the indigenous world view, associated with involvement and complementarity, far from the binary thinking typical of western societies. That duality is reflected on this record in the coming together of sounds, whether electronic or organic, past or present, local or global. On Siku, Nicola Cruz combines instruments with symbolic, spiritual connotations, such as the sitar, the siku, and the balafon with hints of electronica. Studies of the samba, cumbia and rhythms of African, Andean and Hindu origin are combined with Cruz’s characteristically unpredictable, mystical style.

Composición, Mezcla y Producción por Nicolá Cruz. 
Mastering: Mathieu Savenay

Letra y Voz: Daniel Guillermo Vélez Cárdenas
Coros: Olivia Garzón
Bajo: Ivis Flies
Gaita: Julio Vicencio
Solo de Alegre: Pablo Vicencio

Dirección de Arte: Orly Anan 
Fotografia: Jesus Zabala 
Diseño: Ventral is Golden

Nicola Cruz - Hacia Delante (con Chato)

“El Viaje Remixed” EP is a reinterpretation of Joaquin Cornejo’s debut EP done by 7 producers with diverse approaches and sound palettes. The result is an incredibly eclectic reimagination of the original organic downtempo piece. ��It includes remixes by recognised producers such as Steffen Kirchhoff, San Ignacio , Eduardo Zambrano and Felipe Granda. At the same time it introduces emerging artists from the Manchester music scene such as the incredibly talented SonOfCushi, the wonderful Mola Mola duo and the amazing musician and producer HERMANITO who also plays violin a lot of Joaquin’s music such as ‘Cumbia a la Luna’ and ‘Brisa’. Every single remix is unique and expands the music of the original EP into new wonderful grounds.��“El Viaje Remixed” EP es una reinterpretación del primer EP de Joaquín Cornejo hecha por 7 productores con muy diversos estilos y enfoques. El resultado es una reimaginacion increiblemente eclectica de la obra original de downtempo organico. ��Incluye remezclas de productores reconocidos como Steffen Kirchhoff, San Ignacio, Eduardo Zambrano y Felipe Granda. A la vez, introduce productores emergentes de la escena musical de Manchester como el talentoso SonOfCushi, el incredible duo Mola Mola, y el genial músico  y productor HERMANITO, quien tambien es el violinista en muchos temas de Joaquin Cornejo como ‘Cumbia a la Luna’ y ‘Brisa’. Cada una de las remezclas es unico y expande la musica del EP original hacia nuevos maravillosos territorios.

Joaquín Cornejo - Say No More ft Wabi Sabi (Felipe Granda Remix).

For our delight, Indio Blanco presents to us a 6-track EP named "El Caracol y La Luna" that travels by distinct sonorities and moments of his career, highlighting the diversity on references that passed by the artist's fruition during the last decades. Indio Blanco is the new alias given to the multimedia project created by the Dutch pioneer and multifaceted artist Piet Jan Blauw.

Piet Jan started his career by combining and developing distinct techniques through his painting with water, oil-paint, etchings, silkscreens, jewellery ( silver, acrylic and rubber ), brass sculptures and kinetic objects. He was a member of the artist union "BBK 69" (1970-1989). Also Piet Jan lectured at the Folk High School in Bergen, the N.S. training school for teachers in Haarlem and the International Make Up Art School in Cologne – Germany.

For the past five decades he's been involved on several incredible projects with talents such as the Mexican pre-hispanic masterminds Jorge Reyes, Cheko Mosqueira and Alyosha Barreiro. In the Netherlands he built partnerships with notorious deejays like DJ Isis and DJ Dimitri Kneppers and collaborations with avant-garde talents from around the globe.

Since the early 70s, Piet Jan Blauw started crafting and performing with interactive kinetic installations which became the foundation of his performances. These installations were quite substantial therefore the artist started to craft smaller sensorial sculptures and use them as instruments. He uses this signature technique until nowadays.

El Caracol y La Luna

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Indio Blanco - Barrio

Un disco hecho con mucho cariños para nuestros niños...

Master: Alvaro Ernesto
Arte: Pascal
Diseño: Jimmy Galard

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BirdZzie - Nuelo

In Asimétrico, El Remolón presents its new sounds. Native acoustics in organic electronic spaces, successful collaborations, instrumental passages, meditative trance and invitation to movement.

After several years of introspection and studio silence, El Remolón is back with a premiere album. Searching within, in chance haphazard and error, the unfinished or simply imperfect sounds , El Remolón elaborates another sonic horizon that requires putting aside already rehearsed formulas, highlighted labels, closed categories. In this inquiry, the artist even abandons his own ways and closed shapes in Asimétrico. An album that maintains the contagious force of its danceable rhythms and at times delves into a more introspective universe, linked to contemplation.

With folkloric elements in minimalist mode and careful organic electronics, Asimétrico delivers ten crisp pieces that feature Andrés Oddone's master touch in the mix. Simple uses of guitars, legüeros bass drums and charangos are interspersed in criollos ( southamerican folk) riffs that are reminiscent of Atahualpa and, when combined with electronic textures, they generate a restorative, meditative and techno atmosphere at the same time. Between the experimental native and the global downtempo, the album features several songs that follow one another as emotional passages. This is where Asimétrico is enriched with the collaborations of Luvi Torres / Klik & Frik, Pol Nada, Lauphan, Nuriah and the revelation of the urban coplero Brawlio. Meanwhile, the collaborations with San Ignacio, Leo Silcan and Cuervo Cuervo  go deep into a more electronic and instrumental facet. The cover and photos are made by @ancherama.

El Remolon -  Frágil (ft Cuervo Cuervo)

Nuevo Single "Capulí"
Banda Etnoelectrónica Ecuatoriana. Tradición e Innovación.
#NoEsCumbia  

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