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Mars 2021

Thor's Stone (Lee "Scratch" Perry remix)

Mutumia Muriu - The Lulus Band

Taken from @clakclakboomclak album 'Tayi Bebba' available now.
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Clap! Clap! - Kuj Yato (Gilles Peterson Premieres)

from "Psychedelic Sanza 1982 - 1984 " comp
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FRANCIS BEBEY - Blinta Madiallo "

Sweet soul music, Africa inna funky and electronic stylee. When you combine the mezmerizing vocals, melodies, ngoni playing and soul of African master musician Yacouba Diarra (from Burkina Faso) with the production skills and multi-insturmental approach of Afrolicious founder, Pleasumaker, you get this funk biz!
Plus Izzy Wise on the flute!

Ginako NTK

Free by Mecca Melodies

Bismillah 
 
I wanna be free  
Free from oppression  
Free from hate  
Free from white supremacy  
(White Supremacy)

Free from materialism  
Free from jealousy  
Free from poverty (poverty)
Free from cowardice  
Free from Shayton's grasp  
Seeking Allah alone (alone)

Free from the chains  
Free from the pain  
Free from the struggle  
Free from the hustle  

Free from the lies  
Free from disguise  
Free from the system  
Free from the prison  

Free from the greed  
Free from the need  
Free from the fear  
Free from the tears  

I wanna be free  
Free from oppression  
Free from hate  
Free from white supremacy  
(Supremacy, Supremacy)

Free from materialism  
Free from jealousy  
Free from poverty (poverty)
Free from cowardice  
Free from Shayton's grasp  
Seeking Allah alone (alone)

Freedom in my mind  
Freedom in my soul  
Striving for the truth  
That will make me whole

I will be free
free, free, free,

I will be free
free, free, free

Let me be free (free)
inshAllah

Free

Anxious Party People

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

Rehwe Mie Enyim

Premiere: Y-Bayani & Baby Naa - Rehwe Mie Enyim

Bogota’s Meridian Brothers release their delightfully surreal and playful album ‘Deseperanza’ on 24th September on Soundway Records. Traditional instruments, electronics and distorted vocals are dragged through an array of influences to create a world that is as original as it is unclassifiable. 

Straddling the line between new and old, Meridian Brothers’ mischievous blend of Latin rhythms and psychedelic grooves is the creation of Eblis Álvarez, one of the key figures of the experimental music scene in Bogota. As with all of the Meridian Brother’s releases, every instrument on ‘Deseperanza’ was played and recorded by Eblis himself.

A true avant-garde guitar player and composer he also plays in Mario Galeano’s band Frente Cumbiero and was one of the 42 musicians involved in the recording of Ondatrópica, released this summer through Soundway Records.

Meridian Brothers started back in 1998 with Eblis experimenting with alternative ways of playing instruments and electronic media. Heavily influenced by Latin rock (Argentinian in particular) these early recordings were distributed by cassette on the underground music market in Bogota. It was in 1999, after joining Mario Galeano’s Ensamble Polifónico Vallenato that Eblis first became interested in the tropical music of Colombia and began working these new influences it in to the Meridian Brothers. 

Another key period is his development was his time spent in Denmark at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the DIEM (Danish Institute of Electronic Music). It was during this stage Eblis started using more sophisticated and intricate techniques in both electronics and signal processing. 

Eblis returned to Bogota in 2008, joining a burgeoning music scene with cumbia, salsa and currulao all being explored by a new generation of Colombian musicians. 2009’s "Meridian Brothers VI” goes deep into tropical sounds of the 60s and 70s in Colombia and integrates other influences such as highlife, Ethiopian music, surf and Peruvian and Colombian cumbia.

It was around this stage that Meridian Brothers made their first appearances as a live band with Damien Ponce (Percussion), Maria Valencia (clarinet, saxophone and synthesizers), Alejandro Forero (Keyboards), Cesar Quevedo (bass) and Eblis Alvarez (vocals, guitar and electronics). 

In 2011 "Meridian Brothers VII" was released. The sound of this album returns to Latin American rock influences as well as champeta experiments, jazz, cumbia and tropical. Distorted sounds, electronic changes in voice, obscure surf guitar and randomly changed sampled percussion all collide head on. Two tracks from this record were released on 7” by New York label Names You Can Trust in 2012. 

Which bring us to ‘Desesperanza’ (meaning hopelessness in English) Recorded in 2012 the album is dedicated exclusively to salsa and tropical music, twisting it through a dark and theatrical soundscape but never abandoning the traditional aesthetics. 

A real musical maverick, labelled a genius by his contemporaries in Colombia, Eblis Álvarez’s latest Meridian Brothers album finally gets a full, worldwide release. 


Meridian Brothers - Salsa Caliente (Versión Aumentada)

Martyr ظلم

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Social Distance

Keleketla! release their new remix album on Tuesday 1st December, the anniversary of West Papua’s short lived independence, featuring tracks from their latest self titled album remixed by Machinedrum, DJ Stingray, Skee Mask, Henrik Schwarz and more: https://keleketla.lnk.to/ILA-RemixesSo

The story of Indonesia’s genocidal takeover of Papua to extract gold and timber, and the brave resistance by the Papua people is shown in a compelling music video ‘How Long to Freedom?’ by filmmaker Dinaz Stafford: https://youtu.be/PPVbg2O_aRM

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Keleketla! Remixes

Papua Merdeka (Machinedrum Remix) [feat. Afla Sackey, Dele Sosimi, Tamar Osborn, The Lani Singers & Tony Allen]

La chanteuse/rappeuse ougandaise AWORI s’associe au beatmaker TWANI au sein d’un album aux sonorités hip-hop, neo soul, r&b, et afrobeats.

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En 2019, le label Galant Records, a initié une série de rencontres entre des producteur.trices et des rappeur.ses. De ces rencontres sont nées des Seeds, une collection de singles inédits. C’est dans ce contexte que Awori et Twani collaborent pour la première fois autour du single explosif Cortex Iuxta ovationné par le public et la presse en France comme à l’international. Depuis, l’envie de recommencer et d’explorer de nouveaux horizons communs à germer.

Le 17 mars 2020, la France entre dans son premier confinement pour faire face à la pandémie de covid-19. Cette période inédite et inquiétante digne d’un épisode de Black Mirror a inspiré cet EP, dont l’écriture et le maquettage ont été entièrement réalisés durant cet isolement. Pour Awori, qui est confinée seule, l’écriture apparaît alors comme un exutoire. Écrire dans cet état de détresse interne lui a permis de garder un équilibre, un fil conducteur auquel se raccrocher. Un exercice de réflexion et d’introspection pour mettre des mots sur ses émotions et ses ressentis. Comme dans le morceau Sawa qui exprime la nostalgie ou encore Hold Me, véritable ode à la vulnérabilité qui prône la beauté de la fragilité des émotions.

« Écrire ? Pour se rappeler des armes qui nous ont été octroyées. Des armes qui peuvent être aiguisées tous les jours. Écrire aussi pour rejeter la folie nourrie par un futur inconnu. Écrire pour se nourrir d’autre chose que de la fin d’un monde. » Cet EP c’est aussi un besoin de réagir à ce qu’il se passe, un appel à prendre du recul, à unir nos forces pour raviver ensemble la flamme de l’espoir. A l’image du morceau Viscera qui appelle les masses à lutter contre l’individualisme et à se rendre compte du pouvoir que nous avons collectivement pour changer les choses.
Enfin, écrire c’est avoir l’audace de croire en l’après. Cette notion d’audace on la retrouve dans le titre même de l’EP. Ranavalona fait référence à 2 reines malgaches (Ranavalona I et III) connues pour s’être battues contre les invasions chrétiennes et occidentales. Des femmes dont les récits restent tues ou biaisées, étant dépeintes comme “hystériques” ou “cruelles”, sans prendre en compte la violence coloniale à laquelle elles répondaient. Le titre de ce disque est un petit clin d’oeil à l’histoire de toutes les femmes qui se sont battues et se battent encore contre l’oppression. Porteurs de cette mémoire, les 8 morceaux naviguent entre puissance d’agir individuelle et désir de transformation collective.

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Credits :
Auteur : Awori Cynthia Othieno
Compositeur : Mikael Touanen
Mix : Rumble Inn Studio – Céline Frezza et Mikael Touanen
Mastering : Tony Tandoori
Artwork : Arythmian
Producteur : Galant Records
Edition : Jarring Effects Label

Ranavalona

Hold Me

Hold Me - Awori x Twani

COS GB 7 Inches ADD 01

Zella Jackson - Days Are Just Like People

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AmeriKKKa's Nightmare III: City Under Siege

Genocide

"Genocide" feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore

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