febrer 2018

В 70-х годах прошлого века на африканском континенте сыскал невероятную популярность афробит – жанр, сочитающий в себе африканскую традиционную музыку, джаз и фанк. Позже, на волне интереса к регги, сукусу и другой африканской музыке, в России стали появляться афробит-коллективы, важной частью которой стали представители африканской диаспоры. Костя Экономов – основатель московской афробит группы Zava Matotra, художник и преподаватель МГХПА им. Строганова. С начала двухтысячных годов он принимает участие в жизни московской афробит-сцены и так или иначе столкнулся почти со всеми её участниками. Мы поговорили с Костей о работе с африканскими музыкантами, о жизни афробита на просторах столицы в течении последних двух десятков лет и о взаимном влиянии музыки Африки и Европы друг на друга.

1:05 – Знакомство с африканской музыкой
3:59 – Различия фанка и афробита
6:36 – Почему Боб Марли популярнее Фела Кути?
8:26 – Знакомство с московским афробитом
16:04 – От мелодии к ритму
20:00 – Стили африканской музыки
23:16 – Адаптация традиционной музыки
27:20 – Афробит в Москве последние 20 лет
41:40 – Афробит-сообщество в России и за рубежом
45:07 – Происхождение участников группы Zava Matotra и его влияние на стиль группы
51:13 – Как должна звучать современная африканская музыка?
53:59 – Взаимное влияние африканской и европейской музыки друг на друга

Костя Экономов: московский афробит, регги и сукус

As a Part 2 to my Afro Trance Mix I made an Afro Dance (term used loosely) for The Vinyl Factory. 

Text as per their site.
http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/an-afro-dance-manifesto-listen-to-len-leises-new-vinyl-only-mix/

AN AFRO DANCE MANIFESTO: LISTEN TO LEN LEISE’S NEW VINYL-ONLY MIX

VF Mix 22 is courtesy of Len Leise.

Beginning his 2015 with a self-released edits EP that immediately sent the ‘wants’ to ‘haves’ on Discogs into the stratosphere, Melbourne-based record collector and producer Len Leise has dropped a stunning 75-minute “afro dance” manifesto for our latest vinyl-only mix.

With his new mini-LP Lingua Franca on International Feel catapulting him to the top of every Balearic head’s End Of Year list, this new mix digs around the roots of the record in a little more detail, pulling out the Nigerian boogie bombs and odd-ball fashion funk 12″s that never leave his record bag.

Assembled from the rare (he was willing to swap a copy of his coveted Edits to get hold of one) and the not so rare, it’s a journey that reflects the wanderings of Lingua Franca, taking you down river on a raft of shimmering synths and percussive grooves.

One side of Lingua Franca was heavily influenced buy the afro disco and funk that I regularly DJ out. It happens a lot that what I DJ in turn comes back into my music in some subtle way. So this being a more uptempo mix is more of a representation of what it’s like to hear me DJ out, the tracks I love to play whilst paying homage to some of the tracks that helped shape and inspire Lingua Franca. Particularly the B-side.

Afro Dance  DJ Mix #22 for thevinylfactory.com

Mix recorded early 2016. Interview and feature over at 
www.stampthewax.com/2016/03/23/stamp-mix-61-len-leise/len-leise/

Stamp the Wax Mix #61

Number 018 is a collaboration between Christopher Rau & Hakim Murphy. During the many times that they have met, the topic of politics always came up in conversation. With all the problems in the world, the title of the 12” was formed: Geopolitical Problems Yet to be Solved. This four track EP symbolizes the differences of the world culture’s with its diverse track selection. Liquid synths, bouncing percussion, and variety of feels really describe this project. The problems of the world will never be solved but this is their take on what the problems sound like.

a1.Sad Rain
a2.The Old Purple One
b1.Ja Logo
b2.Single Cell Organism

Geopolitical Problems Yet to be Solved

Christopher Rau & Hakim Murphy - Geopolitical Problems Yet To Be Solved

TORBEN UNIT - “SAWAASCH GARAHSCH” LP  + Digital

Pre-order: https://torbenunitband.bandcamp.com/album/sawaasch-garahsch

A: (18:49)
1. Sawaasch Garahsch 
2. Der Unordner
3. Free (Get yourself together)
4. Feedbäck 5 

B: (21:42)
1. Fis Fis Rock
2. Feedbäck 4 
3. Zolo Schnäps

The Torben Unit Band from Berlin returns more experimental than ever whilst still being rooted between Jazz and Rock. After the self-titled first LP on Money $ex Records, the second album “Sawaasch Garahsch” will be out in Winter 2017. No label – self-released. The new album consists of many episodes telling a story that could'nt be purer nor rawer. Jazz-rock is the genus when modal madness meets electronic Soul and psychedelic spheres. The spectrum of instruments being used is huge: from Bouzouki to Pearl's syncussion, there is no limit of instrumentation whilst the core of E-piano, Guitar, Bass and Drums mostly remains. Torben Unit's concerts as well as the records are a guaranteed Jazz-Rock Party with never ending feeling. 

Also upcoming: the 7 inch single “Der Unordner” limited to 66 copies.

Sawaasch Garahsch

"Sawaasch Garahsch" LP Snippets

Recorded at home, January 2018.

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Passing Clouds

Recorded on the Yamaha Electone (the "beast).

A2. MOISTURE - VALLEY OF LOVE

2000F & JG mixing as Fyraftensboogie, Denmark's longest running boogie and disco dance. Raggadisco inna soundsystem style.
www.facebook.com/Fyraftensboogie

Recorded live at Jolene, Copenhagen, on February 2nd, 2018. 
9 year birthday disco rave

Fyraftensboogie 9 års fødselsdag @Jolene, Copenhagen 02-02-2018

Fyraftensboogie 9 year birthday  @ Jolene, Copenhagen 02-02-2018

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Music From Memory © 2018

Vinyl: http://www.musicfrommemory.com
Digital: http://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/

Piscine Et Charles – Quart De Tour, Mon Amour (4:52)

The second fine selection of gentle cuts: fresh, perky, futuristic, and thrilling!
A jewel to your collection.

https://youtu.be/b1MTflMIY9k

artwork: instagram.com/polina_vvum/

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WASH#2

WASH#2 (Snippets)

Onwards, through the darkness and into the great, desolate beyond. Looking backwards he could see the stars, the distant shimmering lights flickering amidst a galaxy one million miles away from the moon. They were climbing to the top of the mountain across the dense, bleak outback of a planet miles away from earth. There was a cold breeze in the air, one of which they had never felt before back at home. It was foggy, harsh and left a bad taste in the mouth as they continued to trudge slowly forwards...

Alliance Upholstery is a great name for a record label. Little more needs to be said than that however we will proceed. Up next on the label is a split EP which is perfectly apt for the last day of winter, a sun kissed affair offering a warmth and insight into the season which lies around the corner. Roy Comanchero's "Moon Hike" is pure bliss.

Skymiles Volume 1

PREMIERE: Roy Comanchero - Moon Hike [Alliance Upholstery]

The music of Chel White is celebrated in Automaton, a collection of mostly unreleased recordings from 1985 to 1991, by this innovative animator, film maker and visual artist. 
Having studied music theory in grade school, White taught himself drumming and played in a new wave band until, in 1981, together with Dan Gediman, they formed the minimal wave duo Process Blue (Alternative Funk, 1985 / Dark Entries, 2018). Here their experimentation went way beyond playing drums. 
His interest in industrial music, fostered in the late ’70s and early ’80s while working in factories as a way to put himself through college, informed his use of electronic instruments, tape manipulation, noise and unconventional percussion.
By 1985, as a now solo artist buoyed by newly affordable audio sampling technology, White tapped into his earlier teenage fascination with the art and films of both the Surrealist and Dada movements – in particular their disparate and fragmented imagery and sound – as a means to create striking new sonic palettes.  
Science & Industry – a track largely influenced by Balinese monkey chanting and the consumer excess of American in the 1980’s – is a clear example of “music collage”. Photocopy Cha Cha, made for the short animation film Choreography for Copy Machine (Berlin International Film Festival, 1992 / Sundance Film Festival, 2001) moved his music into the realm of early multi-media.  
Experimenting further, tracks like Liquid Shadows and Pensive provide minimalist moments, before the drone-like Dream #630 and Forest Song point to a future that included music video works (David Lynch/Thom Yorke). 12" record is out 30th November, pre- orders taken at: 

Bandcamp: https://platform-23.bandcamp.com/album/automaton
Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/chel-white-automaton/723277-01/?fbclid=IwAR2dHsyDLG3v8WQRm_cSgRTmhqjJTm3W5wKna1RQ_w81OvwUqUTXUZyzp3w

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PREMIERE #696 | Chel White - Automata 7 [Platform 23] 2019

DC Promo Tracks #543: "Alice" by SiP is part of the release "Leos Naturals" on Not Not Fun @not-not-fun-1  

Buy Now: https://sip-groop.bandcamp.com/album/leos-naturals 

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DC Promo Tracks #543: SiP "Alice"

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FLIES 47 
Giuliano Sorgini – OCCULTO
LP

Two years after the stunning Africa Oscura, Four Flies Records is back with another gem from Giuliano Sorgini’s secret archives, this time one which unearths some of his darkest, eeriest music – that is, pieces he composed in the mid-70s for some of the most infamous, low-budget horror movies ever made in Italy.
This collection brings together a selection of original recordings from those movies, which were directed by “Italian Kings of the B’s” Angelo Pannacciò, Salvatore Bugnatelli, Luigi Batzella, and Guido Zurli, who are among the kings of Italian B-movies, and with whom the Roman composer worked intensively throughout the 70s.
Due to the very low-budget nature of the films, Sorgini, recorded the soundtracks entirely on his own, in his Cat & Fox Studio in Rome. He played drums and percussions and added overlapping layers of analogue synths to create a superbly sinister soundscape, thus turning a constraint into an opportunity.
The result is a journey into the mysterious atmospheres of the Italian occult-sounding music of the time, something very close to the dark electronic masterpieces that made Sorgini famous, such as Zoo Folle or The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.
Occulto features ten previously unreleased tracks characterized by enigmatic moods, obscure beats and esoteric themes. All tracks are taken from original master tapes that remained buried in the composer’s archives for decades.
The LP comes in a deluxe jacket and inner sleeve designed by Luca Barcellona.

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