. Last track, B side, volume 2 of the MUSIC FROM AFRICA series reissue.
. Vinyl and digital release early july on Nyami Nyami records, under exclusive licence from original producer Tom Mkhize
. Never heard library music productions from the early 80's recorded in Jo'Burg and showcasing 'dance-floor friendly' music from different regions of South Africa. 
Volume 1, side A : Swazi Message
Volume 1, side B : Big Band Bash
Volume 2, side A : Shanghaan traditional
Volume 2, side B : Sotho chant

TEAM LEADER TSOTSI

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meu-kamba-vol.-2/id1095293296
https://open.spotify.com/album/0psVAhifMw7TJ1yOKsQ3o1
http://www.deezer.com/album/12680584
https://www.amazon.com/Meu-Kamba-Vol-Rocky-Marsiano/dp/B01DB7CBPK/ref=sr_1_4?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1459766899&sr=1-4-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Rocky+Marsiano

Original song “Toroça de Estudante” by N’Kassa Cobra (Guinea Bissau)
itunes.apple.com/us/album/n-kassa…erie/id976623805

@rockymarsiano's first album, Meu Kamba, felt like the very natural, spontaneous reaction between a serious hip hop head, an MPC and a deep collection of Lusophone African records. Upon its release the album immediately drew loads of attention, and Rocky Marsiano quickly hit the road across Europe.

Performing as a sound system with musicians naturally led Rocky Marsiano towards this second volume, which follows a very different approach:

"Meu Kamba was made very impulsively - if I felt a track worked, if there was a good balance to it, I didn't go much further with the production because I wanted it to sound raw.

On this new volume I did exactly the opposite: every single track was experimented on, its possibilities tested. So this time around there's a lot more production on every track: bass lines, retro synths, guitar licks, extra vocals, different drum patterns and textures...

It took almost two years to pick the original songs reinterpreted here. Months of a musical journey which led towards a lot of music and influences from Guinea Bissau, which wasn't a part of the first Meu Kamba. "With this second volume I want to close the cycle, finish a story: my hommage to music from Lusophone Africa."

Rocky Marsiano - "Escola D'vida"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meu-kamba-vol.-2/id1095293296
https://open.spotify.com/album/0psVAhifMw7TJ1yOKsQ3o1
http://www.deezer.com/album/12680584
https://www.amazon.com/Meu-Kamba-Vol-Rocky-Marsiano/dp/B01DB7CBPK/ref=sr_1_4?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1459766899&sr=1-4-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Rocky+Marsiano

Original song “Mana Fatita” by Duo Ouro Negro (Angola)
play.spotify.com/track/4k4LjhQxBZHItNE7qXTEcV

@rockymarsiano's first album, Meu Kamba, felt like the very natural, spontaneous reaction between a serious hip hop head, an MPC and a deep collection of Lusophone African records. Upon its release the album immediately drew loads of attention, and Rocky Marsiano quickly hit the road across Europe.

Performing as a sound system with musicians naturally led Rocky Marsiano towards this second volume, which follows a very different approach:

"Meu Kamba was made very impulsively - if I felt a track worked, if there was a good balance to it, I didn't go much further with the production because I wanted it to sound raw.

On this new volume I did exactly the opposite: every single track was experimented on, its possibilities tested. So this time around there's a lot more production on every track: bass lines, retro synths, guitar licks, extra vocals, different drum patterns and textures...

It took almost two years to pick the original songs reinterpreted here. Months of a musical journey which led towards a lot of music and influences from Guinea Bissau, which wasn't a part of the first Meu Kamba. "With this second volume I want to close the cycle, finish a story: my hommage to music from Lusophone Africa."

Rocky Marsiano - "Ué Lé Lé" feat. Bruce James

Cosmic Unity is the title track from the new Family Atlantica album out on Soundway Records. Pre-order now: http://smarturl.it/CosmicUnityDirect

Family Atlantica - Cosmic Unity ft Marshall Allen

Taken from: Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You If You Cry
Order now: https://glitterbeat.lnk.to/KhmerRouge

It would be disturbing anywhere to see a mob gathered around a street-pole as an electrocuted utility-worker’s lifeless body was lowered down by rope as if lynched, but especially in a land with so many ghosts.

A reported three-million tons of carpet-bombs were dropped on Cambodia by the USA in the 1970s, more than were unleashed on Germany during all of WWII. Following the bombings, dictator Pol Pot seized the moment, emptying the cities into shells, then pitting rural residents against the urbanites and launching a genocide that claimed somewhere around two-million lives (i.e., nearly 1/4th of the population). This particular holocaust was especially catastrophic culturally as it specifically targeted the artists and “intellectuals”, of whom it is estimated that less than 10% survived. During this period, daring to wear eyeglasses— which had become a stereotyped symbol between classes— guaranteed almost certain death.

Musical director, flautist, and percussion player, Arn Chorn Pond managed to survive, first by playing music to entertain the Khmer Rouge troops, and later by himself becoming a child soldier against the Vietnamese, in a kill or be killed scenario. His weight had dropped down to 30 pounds due to lack of rations, before he was rescued by an American adoptive father.

“If you're a soldier, they will kill you if you cry. Now I cry and feel better. The turning point for me was learning to cry and listen to my own words, rather than just preaching peace and forgiveness to others.”

On the road to visit the legendary Kong Nai (“the Ray Charles of Cambodia”) we passed aging bomb-craters the size of ponds that had filled with stagnant rain water.

Parents commonly warn their children, “If you try to play like Kong Nai, you too will go blind,” as a way to scare youngsters away from music, so that they will hopefully instead follow some other,more respectable career pursuit.

When a young hipster from the city talked of knowing elders that played, “Country music,” it was intriguing. But upon further examination, it was discovered that what she meant was not cowboy hats and fiddles, but the murdered music of Cambodia’s own roots tradition.

There is an inherent disconnection of logic amongst Westerners that claim a culture like Cambodia, who speak a tone-language— where the meaning of many otherwise identical words is dependent on the pitch with which they are spoken— are not musical by nature. And, prejudice’s self-destructiveness is nowhere more apparent than in the common underestimation of an entire racial group as “passive,” particularly one with such a history of upheaval, perseverance, and resistance.


Khmer Rouge Survivors - They Will Kill You If You Cry

Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You, If You Cry

Rab Ban - Orano (I Hate My Husband that Drinks)

"Anisokoma" by Les Amazones d'Afrique

Loi Tok Tok Eboma- Mungwana

We're excited to premiere this beautiful 'electro maloya' track by Reunion based artist Labelle from his new album “Univers-île” . It features Malian Kora master Ballaké Sissoko. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/2xi2j7X

Univers-île

Premiere: Labelle - Grand Maître (Feat. Ballake Sissoko)

For the 1st single on his long awaited second album, King Coya combines the past and the future in perfect symmetry.  Long time collaborator La Yegros jumps on vocal duties and King Coya creates a bass heavy track off the forthcoming album. Inspired by Kuduro sounds and morphing into a poetic downtempo Andean Dub, Algo is a taste of what’s to come on Tierra de King Coya, the artist's long awaited second album, which will be released in June.

King Coya - Algo (Feat La Yegros)

This is another unreleased beat from around 1998.

Out from the Cellar #6

At the start of 2020 a fellow DJ/vinyl collector, Tom B, invited me to come and spin at the March edition of legendary Avenida Brasil, one of the longest running BR-themed parties in Paris. He also challenged me to perform a live set on my MPC, specifically made for that night. Unfortunately a few weeks later everything was cancelled. But I kept on making beats, while sampling my Brazilian records. Weeks later this
album was born… It is the most personal album yet, it is an homage to my family’s Brazilian heritage and a dedication to my mother.

When I was still a small child, some of my very first music memories were the many faces of MPB artists “smiling” at me from the covers of my mother’s vinyl collection. I was born in Zagreb to a Portuguese mother (who was raised in Rio de Janeiro) and a Croatian father and grew up listening to Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento but also to other, less worldly known but very important artists whose brilliant music my mother collected in the early 70s. This collection of 10” records called “História da Música Popular Brasileira - MPB” was at the time released by Edições Abril and was distributed and sold at many newspaper stands all over Brazil. My mom, being a true music lover, bought the whole collection. Not long after, when her family was moving back from Brazil to Portugal, all the records travelled by ship with her. The same year after marrying my dad, she moved to Zagreb taking again the collection with her. Another journey the records made
was when our family moved to Lisbon in 1992, with a one year stop in Rome.

Now, I am very happy to have the collection with me here in Amsterdam. They are part of my family's multi- cultural heritage and a living proof that great music can stand the test of time.

Noite

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.

Rab Ban - Orano (I Hate My Husband that Drinks)

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