TERANGA BEAT proudly presents DIEUF-DIEUL de THIÈS in their first ever edition. Three singers ASSANE CAMARA, BASSIROU SARR and GORA MBAYE together with their chef d'orchestre and guitar player PAPE SECK (an ex-member of GUELEWAR) compose traditional rhythms from all the regions of Senegal, with fuzz guitars, horn sections and hallucinatory percussion. 

The result is an explosive mixture of an Electric Psychedelic sound with the wisdom and superiority of the musical traditions of the region, a crossover of AFRO-MANDING and AFRO-JAZZ, in which each singer guides the 13-member band in a different direction. Even today this 32 year old recording sounds futuristic and it is really rather weird that DIEUF-DIEUL never had the chance to release an actual album. 

Aw Sa Yone Vol.1 includes the biggest part of their second recording and the double LP comes in a special edition with a Silkscreen print cover with a large poster & included in the CD booklet photos and liner notes outlining the group member's careers. 

There was no other group in Senegal with such a variety of cultural background and a strong identity. Senegalese music at its BEST! We hope you will enjoy.


Dieuf-Dieul de Thies - Aling Na Djimbe

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The songs on Lándini are about Aurelio, his feelings, his family, and Garifuna life in general. There's a sadness, a melancholy throughout, but the rhythms remain really lively. It affects the body, the brain, and the soul in a way that is very unique to Garifuna music. It always has a purpose, whether it's dancing or documenting a tragedy or just poking fun at someone; there is never a notion of "I'm going to make a song because I need to make a record" - such a concept does not even exist in Garifuna culture.

Aurelio - Sañanaru

Marking the 50th anniversary of Terry Riley's pioneering masterpiece ‘In C’, Africa Express will release the first African version of the minimalist classic, 'Africa Express presents… Terry Riley's In C Mali'. This new version was recorded at the Maison des Jeunes youth club in Bamako, Mali in 2013, and is led by young contemporary conductor André de Ridder. The album features the cream of new artists from Bamako, among them Adama Koita, Bijou, Cheick Diallo, alongside Africa Express stalwarts Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Nick Zinner. Co-produced and mixed by Andi Toma (Mouse on Mars), the album will be released via Transgressive Records on digital formats on 24th November, with a CD and limited edition vinyl following 26th January 2015.

iTunes - out 24th November 2014 http://geni.us/2mbg

CD / LP - out 26th January 2015 http://shop.transgressiverecords.com/

Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali (5 Minute Edit)

Renouveau - Amadou Balaké et Les 5 consuls

Taarab doublesider killer! Harambe with it's insane R&B groove riff, flip it and you have the crazy liverpool track. Originally from mid 60s aimed for the growing tourism in Mombasa and it's regions. Both tracks officially licensed on our inhouse label. Comes in tasty Afro7 sleeve with original label design. Head over to afro7.net READ THE FULL STORY and get your copy today!

Harambe / Liverpool

Mac & Party Harambe / Liverpool - New Afro7 single!

75 Dollar Bill
Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
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The NYC based duo of Rick Brown and Che Chen, creates hypnotic, pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues, Arabic modes and entrancing folk minimalism back to the streets of New York.

“New York’s 75 Dollar Bill are an astonishingly potent next stage in an ongoing cultural exchange…magnificent; like a gnawa ritual that’s been convened by Junior Kimbrough.” – Uncut (75 Best Albums of 2016, #32)

“The instrumental duo of Che Chen and Rick Brown have been blowing minds on the East Coast live circuit with little more than an electric guitar and a wooden crate rhythm section.” – The Wire (Releases of the Year, #16)

"Gloriously mind-frying, ritualistic splatter of Zen blues and Arabic and African music-influenced riff-rock repetition that shows Brown and Chen expanding their lineup with sax, violin, bass and second guitar. The sound may be bigger with a sweeter shine yet it remains unmistakably 75 Dollar Bill: epically shambolic, thrifty and jazzy guitarscapes dripping of ecstatic hypnotism." 
– The Observer (The Best Experimental Albums of 2016 - So Far)

"It’s hard not to slip into ridiculous hyperbole when it comes to 75 Dollar Bill. Best band in New York City? Best band in the USA? Best band in the universe?...they’ve definitely nailed down a thrillingly original sound. -- Aquarium Drunkard

Wood Metal Plastic Pattern Rhythm Rock 

Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock

75 Dollar Bill - Beni Said

Drunken Foreigner Band plays an idiosyncratic electrified version of the Akha and Lam Lao musics of Thailand and Laos. As their name indicates in its provocatively self-deprecating way, the band could be viewed as yet another bunch of exotica-obsessed white males blindly pillaging a little known indigenous musical treasure. But far from being the work of post-colonial bandits, the band's passionate tribute is based on mostly vocal music learned from cassette tapes gathered by keyboardist Dave Kadden on trips to Southeast Asia. Comprising members of Sunwatchers, Invisible Circle and other experimental Brooklyn outfits, their debut LP will be available January 12th, 2018 on Electric Cowbell Records.

Farang Mao

Orchestre Negros Star De Dakar has to be one of the most well kept secrets in the world of Afro-Cuban music. Basically no information is available of this Senegalese/Ivorian group and not a single track has been available online before. All their now absolutely scarce 7" records were made in Ivory Coast and the group backed talents like Papa Seck and Charly-Charly.

This mix is combination of two EP's released in Ivorian label Safie Deen in late 1960's to early 1970's and they are both straight Afro-Cuban magic. The recent interest in Afro-Cuban music in general and the likes of Amara Toure, Orchestre Baobab and Super Star De Dakar has brought this music to new audiences and I have been amazed that this group has remained practically hidden for this long. Enjoy and comment/share if you like what you hear.

Tracklist:

Charly-Charly & Les Negros Star De Dakar - S.C. Carlos
Orchestre Negros Star De Dakar - El Manisero
Orchestre Negros Star De Dakar - Yo Say Sonero
Charly-Charly & Les Negros Star De Dakar - Quitale Et Chaqueton
Charly-Charly & Les Negros Star De Dakar - Vive L'OCAMM
Orchestre Negros Star De Dakar - Super Carretero

"Super Carretero" - Afro-Cuban Magic Of Negros Star De Dakar

◉ Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp / Sauvage Formes | BJR017 | April 26, 2018   ◉ 


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November 2016, 10 years of OTPMD. Vincent Bertholet, still resolute, finally realises his old dream of a‘real’ orchestra. And thus was born the project to expand the known horizon. The orchestra became XXL by assembling accomplices from the first hour, who had never really disappeared from view, and an English string section met along the way. From now on, they will be 14 on stage. An anniversary tour, prestigious stages and makeshift squats, unrestrained agitation as in the first days, and a larger chorus, more percussive than ever. The multi-headed Hydra gives voice in concert and the frail stages that host it groan under its weight. Nevertheless, it is in the studio that the foundation of a new adventure is forged. Back to England, in the imposing and magnificent building that houses Real World Studios. After Rotorotor (2014), John Parish is again at the controls. It’s called Sauvage Formes, a shrewd title, because everything here is as geometric as it is organic. The incisive rhythms, doubled in XXL, trademark of the pack, mingle with the unusually melancholy brass. The guitar riffs express themselves inminimalistic cascades, and since the number of strings has tripled, they allowthemselves the luxury of entwining with each other, like a carnal embrace without epilogue. The voices, more numerous than usual, recite, chant, lead the dance and poeticise, sometimes in French, sometimes in English, and, in the same spirit, the chorus takes the opportunity to shape the pediment of hymns to elsewhere. NOn crossing these 8 songs as beautiful as they are adventurous, it seems to be a story of a voyage, a torn logbook. On the horizon however, neither boat, nor rickety plane, neither map nor compass. Is it because the continent that is mentioned in these texts and melodies is not a known place, but rather a dream world, a land of asylum for rebels and the insubordinate, for the daring and the benevolent? The fourth Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp album is like a road, a purpose, an ideal of shared and shareable lives. And the writing of this music is like the defences of an imaginary seafront, like an act witnessing an intertwined destiny, an extraordinary adventure. The story of a chamberless orchestra, a sensitive battalion of unlimited generosity, a wild form that never needed a master to tame its imagination and determination.

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Across The Moor

VISIONS OF SELAM
Arat Kilo / Mamani Keïta / Mike Ladd

02 - Arat Kilo - Dou Coula

We're proud to announce the release of the new album from Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. This is a music group with a long, established history in the American underground spiritual jazz scene. Kahil El’Zabar - Chicago’s best kept jazz secret, is an artist on a league of his own, with a significant contribution in the continuation of the spiritual and afro-futuristic jazz for the last four decades.

Kahil El’Zabar’s performance on multi-percussion and vocals has been described as “Jazz as spiritual experience”. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s incredible line-up also includes the super-talented Corey Wilkes on trumpet, the deep, extraordinary Alex Harding on baritone sax and the fierce Ian Maksin on cello.

This is Be Known: Ancient / Future / Music for your mind, body and soul.

Get your copy now!
https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/be-known-ancient-future-music

Artwork & Art Direction by Nep Sidhu.

ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE - Black is Back *NEW

Glitterbeat is committed to global sounds and artists that don’t necessarily rubber-stamp our pre-conceptions of what regional music sounds like.  We live in a world of ever increasing intersections and the global musical conversation does not operate according to straight, predictable, and easily delineated rules. It is a conversation that is being reinvented and revolutionized each day.

75 Dollar Bill - Beni Said

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