follo follo

Workmix

Africa

Baba 70

FELA ever liveth

Afrobeat

Film u.s.

Produced by Joe Kearns and Chris Ketley
Engineered and Mixed by Joe Kearns
Assisted by Andy Cook
Mastered by Naweed Ahmed
Recorded and Mixed at British Grove Studios
Mastered at Whitfield Mastering

Arranged by Chris Ketley, Joe Kearns and Ellie Goulding
Vocals and Guitar by Ellie Goulding
Piano by Chris Ketley
Violin by Izzy Judd
Cello by Caroline Dale
Programming by Joe Kearns


Ellie Goulding - All I Want (Kodaline Cover)

Boxset Number 3 created by Brian Eno out sept 29

Afrodisiac. 04 Je'nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)

Afrodisiac. 03 Eko Ile

Afrodisiac. 02 Jeun Ko Ku (Chop'n Quench) - 01

Afrodisiac. 01 Alu Jon Jonki Jon

Shakara. 01 Lady - 01

Zombie. 01 Zombie - 01

Zombie. 02 Mr Follow Follow

Boxset 3 Compiled By Brian Eno out Sept 29/30

Zombie - 01 Zombie - 01

Gentlemen - 02 Fefe Naa Efe

Gentlemen - 01 Gentlemen - 01

Afrodisiac - 04 Je'nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)

Afrodisiac - 03 Eko Ile

BERLIN, BRISTOL, CAIRO, JOHANNESBURG, KYIV, LAGOS, LISBON, LUANDA, NAIROBI, NAPLES

Soundway Records, along with the Goethe-Institute and Adaptr.org, present TEN CITIES a new compilation including, amongst many others, the likes of Bristol dubstep producer Pinch, Lisbon-based producer Batida and Kenyan group Just A Band, TEN CITIES is set for release on 10th November on CD, 3xLP and digital.

Between Autumn 2012 and Spring 2013 the TEN CITIES project brought electronic music producers and musicians from five cities in Europe (Berlin, Bristol, Kiev, Lisbon and Naples) to five cities in Africa (Cairo, Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda and Nairobi) They were invited to collaborate and create, spending an intense time together making music in sticky studios and blacked-out rooms across the African continent.

TEN CITIES  put together approximately 50 electronic music producers and instrumentalists from the ten cities selected. They were invited to collaborate in studios over the course of more than six months. A selection of the outcome of these cross-continental experiments can be heard on this record.

It's no surprise that the results are far from what many would term 'World Music' and its often generic mixture of aural clichés, where all too often African music (as with that of the rest of the planet) from Mali to Madagascar, and from Morocco to Malawi is all filed under one ridiculous, meaningless genre. 

TEN CITIES attempts to do something quite different: whilst searching for common ground it is also trying to highlight the differences. As a result hip-hop from the squats of Naples, bass music from Bristol, experimental techno from Berlin or jazz-tinged deep-house from Kiev are thrust upon the pumping kuduro of Luanda, the free-thinking crackled electronica of Cairo, afro-jazz from Lagos or the Sheng street-slang of Kenyan rap.

An album launch show will take place in Berlin at Ritter Butzke on 7th November featuring 23 of the producers involved in the project.

www.ten-cities.com // www.soundwayrecords.com 

Pinch feat. Temi Oyedele - Are You Coming With Us?

Just a gentle reminder to those lost in translations ...

One Africa...

One body....

One aim . . .

Sonics by:
Douga (Boddhi Satva Ancestral Soul Remix)
NGOJA
Carlos Mena - Duvido
AFRICA ZNOBIA
Soumbouya (Boddhi Satva )
Lasperrone ft. Dj Silyvi - Do man Nela Kwankwanram
DumbSTEp.128
Track 05
Olothando (Incl. Rame from Pastaboys, The French Twins & Koro Mixes) (Original)
PROCESSION OF THE ANKU
Sunlightsquare - Ochosi (Jose Marquez Remix)
DJ Oats - KamSelele (Jose Marquez Remix)
Git Feat. Big Brooklyn Red - Higher (Afefe Iku Remix)
INDLELA
A Woman in Love (Boddhi Satva Ancestral Soul Remix)
MANGORO
Michael jackson - Mama Say Mama Sa (Acapella) 
OSI BABA
Uhuru-Pata Pata
ROMAN FUGEL
Intro - Tapping


SAVE THE RITUAL PT. 1 via @okayafrica

Strut Records compiler Duncan Brooker blends a vinyl only mix of rarities and classics from "The Golden Voice Of Africa", Ghana's Pat Thomas.

New album 'Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band' out now on Strut:
Buy online: http://lnk.to/PatThomasKwashibu

Tracklist:

1. YAMONA: DISCO HI-LIFE (Pan African Records, 1980)
2. WE ARE COMING HOME (Gapophone, 1975)
3. GYAE SU (Nakasi Records, 1978)
4. MEWO AKOMA (Sankofa, 1980)
5. AWURADE MPAEBO (Gapophone, 1976)
6. ODO A ME DO WOYI (JAP Records, 1986)

https://www.strut-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/StrutRecords

Pat Thomas Highlife Selection. Vinyl mix by Duncan Brooker

we came across this great mix by caykh recordings of the golden days of somali music. sounds from before the war, songs from before the beautiful city of mogadishu became a battle ground for 2 decades. 

"This Mix of 70's and 80's Somali sound is a rich blend of traditional Somali folk music infused with Western funk, rock and reggae and a touch of Indian, Arabic and African flavors.

There are hardly any proper releases of this soulful sound of guitar, synthesizer and drums. I spent some months finding, compiling and editing rips of TV and live recordings on old VHS tapes and radio broadcasts to cassette tapes and here is what I got. Enjoy! With love from Mogadishu."

https://soundcloud.com/caykhrecordings

buy a cassette copy:
http://staalplaat.com/recording/au-revoir-mogadishu-volume-1-songs-from-before-the-war

Jakarta Radio 009: Somali Disco Mix - "Au Revoir, Mogadishu"

Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - "Everything Scatter" 
LP to be reissued by Knitting Factory Records on 16 October 2015 (KFR2013-1)
Original year of release: 1975
More info: http://fela.net/

Fela Kuti - Everything Scatter

From 'Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969)' out now!

Triple disc here: http://smarturl.it/KoolaCD
& on iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/KoolaiT

http://fela.net
facebook.com/felakuti
instagram.com/felakutinyc
twitter.com/felakuti

Fela Kuti - It's Highlife Time

Sung by the Midwestern University Singers, Oct. 2009

When Roses Cease to Bloom

An exclusive download courtesy of http://www.mixmag.net 

Oliver Deutschmann - Sorrow

from 'Fatalist - The Repetition Of History' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
available on all formats at [www.denovali.com/mailorder]

Fatalist: The Repetition of History

Field Rotation - Valse Fatale

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Gordikov - Stray cat (Radkovski remix)

from 'Where We Were' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
available from May 2013 on all formats at [http://denovali.com/greghaines]

ON TOUR

21.04.2013 London (uk) - Denovali Swingfest

08.05.13 Eindhoven (nl) - Muziekgebouw
10.05.13 Groningen (nl) - De Oosterpoort
11.05.13 Amsterdam (nl) - Paradiso
12.05.13 Trier (ger) - Synagoge Schweich
13.05.13 Paris (fr) - Café de la Danse

17.05.13 Münster (ger) - Black Box
18.05.13 Utrecht (nl) - Le Guess Who Festival May Day
19.05.13 Essen (ger) - Welterbe Zollverein
20.05.13 Brussel (bel) - Ancienne Belgique Club
21.05.13 Hamburg (ger) - Nachtasyl
22.05.13 Bielefeld (ger) - Nummer Zu Platz
23.05.13 Hannover (ger) - Feinkost Lampe
24.05.13 München (ger) - Einstein
25.05.13 Geneva (ch) - La Graviere
26.05.13 Varano Borghi (it) - La Sauna Recording Studio
28.05.13 Bratislava (slovakia) - Atelier Babylon
29.05.13 Budapest (hun) - Akvárium Klub
30.05.13 Prag (cz) - Palac Akropolis
01.06.13 Gdansk (pl) - Club Zak
02.06.13 Warsaw (pl) - Cafe Kulturalna



Denovali Records is happy to announce the release of Greg Haines' new album WHERE WE WERE on cd, double vinyl and digital, as well as the release of 2006-2012, a collection of Greg's first three albums Slumber Tides, Until The Point of Hushed Support and Digressions as triple cd and 5 x vinyl collector's box in May 2013.


WHERE WE WERE [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]

“WHERE WE WERE”, the new album from GREG HAINES, may come as a surprise upon first listen. The cascading strings that played such an important role in his prior work have disappeared, and in there place are intricate layers of tape-worn synthesizers. Any recordings of piano have been transformed and affected until their sound is at times barely recognizable. Moments of quiet, slowmoving textures can still be found, but they are nestled between upbeat, rhythmically-driven tracks that at times could even be considered for deployment on open-minded dancefloors. Although taking a year to complete, the nature of this record is born in its spontaneity and impulsiveness. The acoustic instruments such as piano, vibraphone and other percussion that found there way on to the album were not the result of months of composing - rather they were entirely improvised and often left completely unedited and raw. At first the idea was these rough tracks, full of noises and hiss, would later be re-recorded, but as the process drew on, it became clear that these kind of loose, half-thought moments were what defined the album - often “out-oftime” or “out-of-tune”, but always adding another dimension to the hazy, analog world of sound. This hand-crafted approach led to almost everything being constructed in the old-fashioned way; not with mouse-clicks, but with two hands moving dials and everything running to an aged tape machine.

This album is the result of one person sitting alone in a room and creating something entirely personal, without the frustrations of organising large-scale sessions for other players or the laborious work of preparing scores. In fact, the few scored moments that were written were later disregarded, with a whole string session with PETER BRODERICK ending up on the cutting-room floor (sorry, Peter!), along with endless hours of other material. What is left is the condensed diary of a year of exploring old tape delays, analog synths and percussion - some of which played by percussionist/composer SYTZE PRUIKSMA (a member, along with Haines, of THE ALVARET ENSEMBLE, whose debut album was released in December 2012 by Denovali Records), and some of which played and recorded in a midnight daze at Haines' studio in Berlin. Working in this way led to a whole host of other long-term influences feeding into the music that had never found an outlet before. The experiments in dub conducted by the likes of KING TUBBY or LEE PERRY and continued by the likes of RHYTHM & SOUND had a profound effect, as did the iconic work of TONY ALLEN and other African composers. The spaced-out soundscapes found on early TANGERINE DREAM and KLAUS SCHULTZE had always had a subtle influence on Greg's work, but now armed with an arsenal of dusty studio toys, those sounds became warmer, richer and more prominent.

The influences evoked here may at first appear at odds with Greg's previous work, but an affinity between the dense poly-rhythms of Africa and beyond have long been an influence for contemporary composers such as STEVE REICH, and their reach and importance on western music is undeniable. But now the lines have been blurred, and its impossible to say where one “style” or influence stops and another begins – something that was perhaps the only concept for this record. The symphonic synth crescendo of “So it Goes” would not have the same impact if it were not following the head-nodding drive of “Something Happened”. The delicate arpeggios of “Wake Mania Without End II” only exaggerate the unrelenting, rhythmical explosion of “Habenero”, and without starting with the intimate piano of “The Intruder”, the album's cavernous ending wouldn't feel so otherworldly. Its all in there or at least whats left of it after the hiss, the dirt and the degradation of the tape machine destroyed it, reworked it, and spat it back out fullyformed.

Mixed and mastered together with NILS FRAHM at his Durton Studio, Berlin.

Where We Were

Greg Haines - The Whole

Initially founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the celebrated Knitting Factory club in lower Manhattan, Knitting Factory Records, along with the new Knitting Factory club in Brooklyn, was reborn in 2009 with the acquisition and re-release of the Fela Kuti catalog. KFR also encompasses the catalogs of Instinct Records, Shadow Records, Shimmy Disc, and Evolver Records.

In partnership with Partisan Records, a Brooklyn-based artist-run label, Knitting Factory Records strives to honor the music of an eclectic array of relevant artists drawn from both the past and the present.

“Music is the weapon. Music is the thing of the future. Music is the weapon of the future.” - Fela Kuti

Zombie. 02 Mr Follow Follow

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