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La Dame Blanche es el proyecto de Yaite Ramos, cantante cubana, instalada en la urbana ciudad de Paris, hija de Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos (maestro director de la orquesta Buena Vista Social Club), corista de "Sargento García" y vocal principal en Live de "El Hijo de la Cumbia". La cantante se encuentra terminando su primer material discográfico, con un alto contenido social, sin dejar de lado relatos culturales urbanos, pasando para eso por varios géneros, desde el Hip Hop-Reggae hasta sonidos urbanos mas latinoamericanos como la cumbia.
Producida musicalmente por Babylotion (Marc Damblé) Beat Maker francés con gran experiencia en estudio y en vivo con "Sargento García", "Amadou & Mariam", "Orishas", entre otros. Todo bajo la dirección artística de Emiliano Gomez a.k.a. "El Hijo de la Cumbia", productor argentino conocido por generar la fusión entre la cumbia y los ritmos urbanos del mundo.
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05 La Revancha  instrumental_EP_La_Dame_Blanche

DJ Neber - El Gato Compay

Taken from the album "¡Vamos A Guarachar!"
Release date: October 7th, 2016
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Something is stirring in downtown Tucson. That’s no great surprise perhaps: Calexico have been sending out missives from the desert for 20 years now, Giant Sand for even longer than that, and the Green on Red revival is surely overdue. These three giants of American popular music ask questions of the form, chiefly because of where they are situated. Let us remind ourselves that this isn’t a big city in the American sense (it’s the country’s 33rd largest), but that its hinterland is indeed as big as it gets. For an hour south, Mexico starts. And this is where things get interesting.

Born in Nogales, Arizona, raised in Nogales, Sonora, multi-instrumentalist and band-leader Sergio Mendoza grew up listening to the Mexican regional styles jostling for headspace in a young, music-mad mind – cumbia mainly, but mambo, rancheras and mariachi too. The border is always a fierce arena of exchange, both commercial and cultural, and so there was American music too. At one point ‘rock and roll, the classics’, as Mendoza himself deadpans, seemed to win out and he stopped playing those ‘Latin styles’ for a good decade and a half.

The return to those sounds was a strong one in 2012’s Mambo Mexicano, co-produced by Mendoza and Joey Burns of Calexico – a band for which Mendoza has become an increasingly integral touring and recording member. While that record had a studied air, tentative in parts (as befits the renewal of an old love affair), ¡Vamos A Guarachar! is another beast entirely: by turns raucous (‘Cumbia Volcadora’, featuring Mexican electronic pioneer Camilo Lara), tender (‘Misterio’, surely Salvador Duran’s finest moment with the band so far) and plain serious fun, as in ‘Contra La Marea’ and ‘Mapache’, it also bears a robust electronic edge, a keen pop sensibility and all the hallmarks of Mendoza’s love of 60s rock, with the closing track, ‘Shadows of the Mind’, sure to be included if anyone decides to update the Nuggets collection for the 21st century. This is roundabout way of saying that it appears to have everything, but never too much of anything. Focused, fierce and beautifully executed by a superbly drilled set of musicians, it is a record that fully matches the band’s explosive live performances.

Nogales, Sonora, Nogales, Arizona: this is what the border looks like here – for now. To talk about borders and the diasporas they create, is to be pitched headlong into our era’s most urgent debate, marked by Trump’s lurid obscenities and the lines being hastily reinstated across Europe. Orkesta Mendoza’s contribution to that debate is to show us what the border sounds like and what masterpieces can be achieved by honest cultural exchange. What we decide to do with that information is up to us. With this record, however, we’ll have an awful lot of fun deciding.

You could, of course, take the trip to Tucson yourself, to the home of this essential set of field recordings. The scene hangs out together, so … if the stars align and their frantic tour schedules permit, you might see any number of folks from Calexico, Giant Sand or up-and-coming cumbia rockers Xixa deep in conversation somewhere in town with a quiet young man in black. That’s Sergio. Right now, in this endless game of Tucson tag, Orkesta Mendoza are IT.


Vamos A Guarachar

¡Vamos A Guarachar!

Orkesta Mendoza - Cumbia Volcadora (feat. Camilo Lara)

Just a homage to one of my favourite producers Richard Blair aka Sidestepper. Sometimes not credited I feel for being light years ahead of all the johnny-come-latelys to the tropical music scene (myself included). He's been making great progressive music with Colombian musicians since the mid-nineties. I can't make it available for download I'm afraid...the original is beautifully restrained and minimalist but I just wanted to try to add beats for DJ sets. 

Sidestepper - In beats we trust (Griff remix)

A mediados del 2009 el FRENTE CUMBIERO invitó a Bogotá al legendario productor de dub Mad Professor, como parte del proyecto Incubator del British Council, con el objetivo de realizar un encuentro sonoro entre la cumbia y el dub. Durante 3 días y bajo la orientación de Mad Professor y su hijo Joe Ariwa, se grabaron en los estudios de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Javeriana varios temas para ser tratados bajo la estética del dub. Además de grabar composiciones originales del FRENTE, parte importante del proyecto buscaba reunir a músicos claves de la escena bogotana a improvisar y crear juntos en estudio.

De esas improvisaciones salieron 3 composiciones colectivas, que se suman a 4 originales del FRENTE para un total de 7 temas que fueron remezclados con técnicas propias del dub por Mad Professor en su estudio ARIWA en Londres. El resultado de este disco, además de convertirse en uno de los primeros encuentros tangibles entre la cumbia y el dub, aporta un nuevo sonido colombiano al poderoso movimiento de cumbia continental.

¡GUACHARACA TRANSNACIONAL! 
credits 
released 01 November 2010 
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Temas 1,4,5,6 
Mario Galeano Toro: Bajo, guacharaca / Pedro Ojeda: Batería, timbal / Eblis Alvarez: Electrónica / Andrés Martínez: Guitarra / Chongo Puello: Alegre, Caja / Marco Fajardo: Clarinete / Juan Francisco Duque: Trompeta / Oswald Macías: Trombón / Diego Tunjano: Saxo Barítono

Temas 2,3,7 
Mario Galeano: Guacharaca, melódica / Urian Sarmiento (Curupira): Alegre / Pedro Ojeda (Palanca): Batería, Timbal / Lucho Gaitán (Mojarra Eléctrica): Guitarra / Andrés Martinez (Monareta): Guitarra cortesía Nacional Records / Javier Morales (Jipijam y raspacanilla): Acordeón / Jose Miguel Vega "El Profe" (La 33): Trombón / Jairo Alfonso Barrera (Alerta Kamarada): Saxo Alto / Pablo Araoz (Alerta Kamarada): Bajo Eléctrico / Liliana Saumet (Bomba Estéreo): Voz / Javier Fonseca (Alerta Kamarada): Voz / Kiño (Kmusic): Voz / Shaun Turner: Voz

Temas 1,5,6 compuestos por Mario Galeano Toro; 6 por Mario Galeano y Sonido Martines; 2,3,7 Composiciones colectivas.

Versiones Dub (8-14) mezcladas y producidas por Mad Professor y Joe Ariwa en Ariwa Studios (Londres) 
Versiones limpias (1-7) mezcladas y producidas por Manuel Schaller en el estudio Oidos Contentos (Buenos Aires) 
Mural por Mateo Rivano (pintado en el barrio La Macarena-Bogotá) Foto: Juan Felipe Rubio

Grabado en Bogotá el 10, 11 y 15 de Junio del 2009 en los estudios de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Javeriana. 
Ingeniero de Grabación: Jefferson Rosas. Asistentes de Grabación: Nicolás Ramírez, Juan Diego Galvis y Tomás Arenas.

Agradecimientos: 
Al British Council Colombia, Incubator y Facultad de Artes U. Javeriana. A Martin Giraldo y Radio Cápsula por su apoyo incondicional. A Paula Silva, Mad Professor, Joe Ariwa y Manu Schaller. A Catalina y Luita. A todos los músicos que participaron en estas grabaciones. A Eblis, Pedro y Marco por darle tanto poder al FRENTE. A Mateo Rivano por tan tremendo mural. A Rob Ness, Leonor Convers, Oscar Hernandez, Subcopetón Cero, Lucas Silva, Juane, Sonido Martines, Propongo producciones y Names You Can Trust.

Analógica

Original version released on The Original Sound of Cumbia (Soundway), comp compiled by Will "Quantic" Holland. LINK: www.soundwayrecords.com/catalogue/the-original-sound-of-cumbia.html

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02-Caminito de Belén - Ovni Guarajé

Inspirado en un track de Los Pibes Chorros, se armó este tema en el medio del Remolido Tour 2011. Y ya está para comprar dentro del compilado Future Sounds of Buenos Aires editado por ZZK Records.
El Remolón + Lido Pimienta = Remolido

http://zzkrecords.com/album/Future_Sounds_Of_Buenos_Aires

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/future-sounds-of-buenos-aires/id514789281

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