Soundsfromourland

Selections from music featured on the front page of Rate Your Music over the years, including Vangelis, Kendrick Lamar, The Smile, Sheena Ringo, and more.

Front Page Features | Sonemic Selects_part2

Middle eastern / world

HEY WHAT

White Horses

Peggy Gou's second single of the Summer out now!

Buy & pre-order on 12" vinyl, with artwork by Jeeook Choi: https://lnk.to/GUDU007

I Go

Peggy Gou - I Go

Good Ones

Strawberry Jam

Fireworks

Bone Machine

Goin' Out West (2023 Remaster)

TorbatJam - Taknavazi Paltan Savareh

TorbatJam -  Del-e Sheyda

TorbatJam - Taknavazi

TorbatJam - Taknavazi Dutar - MaghameAllah - تکنوازی دوتار٬ تربت جام٬ مقام الله٬ عبدالله سرور احمدی

Trio Ternura (Compacto 1973)

Last Tango In Paris

Ignite the Re-Live experience, let the live recordings from the summer’s Ozorian stages rocket you back into that special space, the vibe we share the smile on your face, open your ears and heart, it’s blast off.

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
https://www.facebook.com/mortazavimohammdreza/

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Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2017 Main Stage Playlist
https://goo.gl/bfbyw3

Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2017 Dome Playlist
https://goo.gl/EpYc9o

Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2017 Pumpui Playlist
https://goo.gl/jeEsz8

Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2017 Dragon Nest Playlist
https://goo.gl/iVozwi

Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Live @ O.Z.O.R.A. 2017 Dragon Nest

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Far Out Recordings proudly presents two albums of previously unheard Azymuth demo recordings from 1973-75

Since their debut album release in 1975, Azymuth have risen to rank alongside the world’s greatest jazz, funk and fusion artists. As young men in Rio de Janeiro, they stood out for both their exceptional talent as musicians, and their wild rock ‘n’ roll antics in the predominantly middle-class worlds of bossa nova and jazz. Their signature ‘Samba Doido’ (crazy samba) sound ruptured the tried and tested musical structures of the day, resulting in what can only be described as an electric, psychedelic, samba jazz-funk hybrid.
But before they became Azymuth, Jose Roberto Bertrami (keyboards), Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti (drums), Alex Malheiros (bass) and Ariovaldo Contesini (percussion) played backing band to just about every major artist in Brazil.

Bertrami was also contracted as an arranger and songwriter at some the biggest labels of the era: Polydor, Philips, Som Livre, and EMI being just a few. Azymuth’s name can be found on record sleeves by the likes of Jorge Ben, Elis Regina, Marcos Valle, Ana Mazzotti and countless others. But at the dawn of the seventies, fascinated by developments in improvisational music - from jazz in the US, to progressive rock in the UK and of course samba, bossa and tropicália on home turf - the energetic young group were inspired and ready to move forward.Any spare moment in which they weren’t in sessions and writing music for other artists, they would be carving out their own sound.

These previously unheard recordings took place between 1973-75 at Bertrami’s home studio in the Laranjeiras district of Rio de Janeiro. At the time of recording, there was nothing in Brazil, less the world that sounded anything like them, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that when Bertrami presented his demos to the record companies he had been working for, he was turned away, and told in effect that the music was ‘wrong’.

One of the demos ‘Manhã’ would be picked up by Som Livre and Azymuth released their seminal debut album in 1975. Throughout the late seventies and eighties, the group released a series of now classic albums for Milestone Records, before taking an indefinite hiatus to pursue their individual careers.
When English producers Joe Davis and Roc Hunter arrived in Brazil in 1994 to record the first Azymuth album in over a decade, Bertrami dug out the demos which had sat virtually untouched for over twenty years. Joe recalls how he was “blown away by the freedom and intensity of the music, as well as the genius of the ideas musically.” Beginning a long and fruitful relationship, ‘Prefacio’ would be the first track Azymuth recorded for Far Out Recordings and was released on the Carnival album (1996).

Along with ‘Manhã’ and ‘Prefacio’, only a handful of these demos were ever professionally recorded and released, making this the first opportunity to hear many of these early Azymuth compositions in their raw, original form.

On every track the frenetic energy in the studio is palpable, giving the recordings a beautifully personal feel and a sense of the phenomenally creative vision Bertrami, Malheiros and Conti were realising at the time. Fifty years on, Azymuth’s earliest recorded music retains an ineffable, futuristic quality, standing amongst their most captivating and moving work.

Vinyl / CD / Digi

Azymuth - Manha

Azymuth - Morning (Manha)

Natural Wonders Of The World

Great Barrier Reef

Issam Hajali might be most known for being the singer and main composer of the Lebanese band Ferkat Al Ard. While they recorded 3 albums only their classic „Oghneya“ release saw a vinyl release and is probably the most in demand record in the Lebanese record collector scene (A copy changed hands in Beirut this year for 5000$). Before the band came together Issam recorded a debut album under his own name called "Mouasalat Ila Jacad El Ard" in 1977 in exile in Paris. It was originally released in a run of less than 100 copies.

Issam Hajali - Ana Damir El Motakallim

Ritme Jaavdanegi

Tears of a Fakir : op2