Instrumental music Recorded in Chicago, Il.,in August 2012

01 It's Going Down

Monday Night Jazz @ Bushnell Park. Hartford, CT
8/12/13
Photo by Joe Chandler

Blue Nile, by Alice Coltrane. Live @ Bushnell Park

Mo Kolours, the half-Mauritian percussionist and vocalist celebrated by the likes of Gilles Peterson, has released a new EP on One-Handed Records entitled <i>Drum Talking</i>. Based on drums, this project includes a variety of songs that all focus on percussion. Clearly audible throughout are the influences of soul, dub, and sega music.

The tracklist does not include songs, but lists the drummers and percussionists to each track instead:

1. Nilija
2. Math Samba, Luc Assa, Alpha Konate, Prosper N’Kouri
3. Unknown
4. Hermeto Pascoal
5. Roy Haynes
6. Buddy Miles
7. P.Lapouble
8. Ray King, Mike Rose, Pablo Gonsales, Sam Kelly, Joey Dee
9. Carlton “Santa’ Davis
10. Bernard Purdie
11. Easy Santa
12. Sol Amarfio
13. Stomu Yamash’ta
14. Ed Green, Gary Coleman
15. Gregg Gregg
16. Nilija, Pudim, Ben Hassan
17. Adama Drame, Siaka Bamoro
18. Eddie Knowles, Charlie Saunders, David Barnes

Purchase the EP: http://digital.waxpoetics.com/search/release.php?RELEASE_ID=27505

Drum Walking Mixtape by Mo Kolours

Improvisational interaction with James Earl Jones reading "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July" by Frederick Douglas.

Meditation No. 3 July The Fourth

Some of Columbus, Ohio's finest musicians and poets take to the studio, cull their vaults and put in work to speak to a post-Trump world from a communal black perspective.

Black Air Bender

Storm9000 featuring Eddie Bayard - MURK

Soliloquy

The Rejuvenation Trio with guest Gerard Cox on piano
Hasan Abdur-Razzaq - alto sax
Ryan Jewell - drums  &  Tom Abbs - bass

Al-Maghrib - The Sunset

Available on vinyl / CD / digital: https://bbemusic.lnk.to/SoulFuelled
Ernesto Chahoud’s ‘Taitu’ is a collection of soul-fuelled stompers straight from the dancefloors of 1970s Addis Ababa. A breathless journey through the unique Ethio sound that bands were forging at the time, the 24-track compilation is the result of the Lebanese DJ and crate digger’s decadelong love affair with the ‘golden age’ of Ethiopian music.

Among the musical gems featured are 7”s by some of the heavyweights of the scene including the godfather of Ethio jazz Mulatu Astatke and Alemayehu Eshete, the vocalist dubbed the ‘Ethiopian Elvis’, alongside tracks by more obscure artists such as Merawi Yohannis and Birkineh Wurga.

For ‘Taitu’, Chahoud has selected 24 of his essential Ethio-Soul 7”s, that never leave his DJ box, and together they capture this opportune moment in Ethiopian music history that saw bands experiment with an armful of influences: gliding through R&B, rock & roll, jazz, funk, soul and boogaloo. What came out was a distinctly Ethiopian interpretation: pentatonic scales, horn-driven melodies and soul-shattering vocals sung in Amharic.
The songs are difficult to box in to one genre but they share a simplicity and rawness, added to by their lo-fi quality – with many recordings made in rudimentary studios with only a couple of mics for the entire band.
From the R&B stomper ‘Honey Baby’ by Alemayehu Eshete to Astatke’s swaggering ethnic-jazz instrumental ‘Emnete’ and the bluesy melancholic vocals of Hirut Bekele on ‘Ewnetegna Feker’, ‘Taitu’ is a window in on the exciting records being made in Ethiopia in the 1970s.

Mulatu Astatke - Emnete

Stephanos Chytiris drums & Nikolas Skordas tenor sax duo  Live Free Improvisation
live at Bensousan Han - thessalonikh 7-6-18..
(composition melody Nikolas Skordas)

Soliloquy

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