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compilation of soulful tunes. jazz, soul, funk, classical material from cumbia to rockabily and so on...  timeless music!

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Ta Sair Male

Drop The Brass (Radio Edit)

From the album Kaani out Sept 9th UK, Sept 10th US on FatCat

TAL NATIONAL ON TOUR

Sep 14 - Artisphere, Arlington VA
Sep 18 - Mayne Stage @ Chicago World Music Festival, Chicago IL
Sep 19 - Martyrs @ Chicago World Music Festival, Chicago IL
Sep 21 - Global Union Festival, Milwaukee WI
Sep 25 - Stuart's Opera House, Nelsonville OH
Sep 26 - Lula Lounge, Toronto ON
Sep 27 - Parc de la Petite Italie @ Pop Montreal, Montreal QC 
Sep 27 - Casa del Popol @ Pop Montreal, Montreal QC 
Sep 28 - The Oak and the Ax, Biddeford ME
Oct 02 - Ortlieb's, Philadelphia PA
Oct 04 - Arab American National Museum, Dearborn MI
Oct 06 - The Belmore / New Skyway, Minneapolis MN
Oct 08 - Tractor Tavern, Seattle WA
Oct 09 - The Goodfoot, Portland OR
Oct 11 - Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco CA
Oct 13 - Joshua Tree Music Festival, Joshua Tree CA

Order Kaani
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Tal National - Kanni

Karimas Story (Vocal Mix)

appears on "FEMI vs KCRW Soundclash!" (Downtown/Mercer Street Records) © Obrooni, ASCAP 2009

"(One of my) Top 10 tunes for 2008!"
- Nickodemus (Wonderwheel / ESL - NYC)

"The Musaics man connects with the Kuti dynasty with Ticklah in the mix. Righteous and bumpin' all at the same time!"
- Natural Self (Tru Thoughts - UK)

"At last - the combination of Femi's horns and voices and JSole's beats and bass gives Fela's legacy its proper dues. Hot."
- Lightning Head aka BiggaBush (Lion Head recordings - UK)

"JSole, Ticklah and Femi is a remix made in the thunderclouds of the African plains. This is EXACTLY how I like my Afrobeat...dirty, funky and raw."
- Dan Ubick/Connie Price (The Lions, The Keystones/Big Daddy Kane - LA)

"Classic afrobeat sound for future afrobeat heads. Jsole brings his Afro Funke' vibe to life on this remix!"
- J Boogie (Om Records - SF) 

"Serious dancefloor pressure. Really digging how hard the drums hit!"
- Jamie Strong (Stones Throw, The Do Over - LA)

"That's a bomb! Such an addictive groove and brilliant organ lines - pure energy on the dance floor!"
- Dusty (Jazz&Milk records - Munich)

"This Femi remix is tight, and Ticklah kills it!"
- DJ Sabo (Sol Selectas - NYC)

FEMI KUTI - "Tell Me (Jeremy Sole Remix feat. Ticklah)"

Atumpan 'The Thing' (Weird Together Mix)

J.PERIOD takes listeners on a musical journey through the catalog, legacy and lasting impact of the one and only Godfather of Soul.

For Tracklist & Free Download: http://jperiod.com/music/album-view/jb

Follow for updates: http://twitter.com/jperiodBK

J.PERIOD'S "The Legacy Of JB" is part of "The Big Payback" summer mix series, also featuring DJ Scratch & Amerigo Gazaway: https://soundcloud.com/bigpayback

J.PERIOD Presents… The Legacy Of JB

Artist: The Bombay Royale Release: Sote Sote Adhi Raat / Solla Solla Enna Perumai Format: 7” vinyl record Cat: HS004 Date: August 2011

The Bombay Royale are a Melbourne band dedicated to honoring and reviving the funky, bizarre and mysterious music of vintage Indian cinema. Dusting off near-unheard relics, smashing out Bollywood classics and putting down surfadelic Hindi originals is all in a day’s work for The Bombay Royale. This band brings the sound of the Golden Age of Bollywood back to the future, where it belongs.

The cinema of 1960’s and 1970’s India was a riot of saturated color and dramatic excess. Far from the polish and shine of modern Bollywood, an ingenious industry was forging a new nation’s identity, cannibalizing every aspect of world cinema and remaking it. An all singing, all dancing, all funky subcontinental style never before imagined. The soundtracks followed suit. Every possible influence from surf rock to disco was absorbed and recombined with a uniquely Indian sensibility. The heroes of this music rank among the great musicians of the 20th century. R.D Burman, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi are still household names in India, but largely unknown in the outside world. The Bombay Royale is here to rectify the situation.

Starring vocalists Parvin “The Mysterious Lady” Singh and Shourov “The Tiger” Bhattacharya and led by musical director Andy “The Skipper” Williamson, The Bombay Royale are an uncanny crew of masked marauders. Session pirates hauled from various crews unite to assault the senses with pulsing tablas, hot brass, shimmering spaghetti guitar and sitar, screaming organs and driving bass and drums. Not to mention analog synthesizers, spring reverb, tape echo and occasionally elephants, monkeys and tigers.

Sote Sote Adhi Raat. If you like Bollywood space disco, this song is for you. Literally translated as “each night I open my eyes,” Sote Sote features the haunting vocals of Parvyn “The Mysterious Lady” Singh. This cosmic love song originally appeared on the soundtrack to the film Siskeyan and was composed by Sapan Jagmohan. The update on this little heard tune is arranged by Andy Williamson and produced by Bob Knob and Tristan Ludowyk in the Hope Street studio.

Solla Solla Enna Perumai features the mighty vocals of Shourov “The Tiger” Bhattacharya. Originally appearing in the film Ella Inba Mayam and composed by Ilaiyaraaja, Solla Solla is a stormer, careering wildly through the jungle on a hyperactive rhythm section and scattered with epic brass and hot guitars. No animals were harmed in the recording of this song, but it was close.


The Bombay Royale - Sote Sote Adhi Raat

Talib Kweli ft. Mos Def, Jay-z, Kanye West & Busta Rhymes - Get By Remix

01 MASANGANGO

02 MISOZI

03 MWILE

04 NJOKA

05 YOMBE

From the forthcoming Sinkane record "Mars"

Jeeper Creeper

Bubba Sparxxx Vs DMX - Heat It Up On The Floor - (Nik Nak Mash)

Lời bài hát
I'm sitting here in a boring room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I'm wasting my time, I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens -- and I wonder
I'm driving around in my car
I'm driving too fast, I'm driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely, I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens, and I wonder
(Chorus)
I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree
I'm turning my head up and down
I'm turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around
And all that I can see is just a yellow (another) lemon tree
La, la da dee da, etc.
I'm sitting here, I miss the power
I'd like to go out taking a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired, put myself into bed
Where nothing ever happens -- and I wonder
Isolation is not good for me
Isolation -- I don't want to sit on a lemon tree
I'm stepping around in a dessert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy
And everything will happen -- and you'll wonder
Repeat Chorus
I wonder how I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue, blue sky
And all that I can see
And all that I can see (dit dit dit)
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree

Lemon Tree - Fools Garden

Cat: HS007
CD/Digital Released: April 2012 (AU/NZ), May 2012 (Worldwide)
Gatefold LP Released: May 2012 (Worldwide)
Format: 12" Vinyl, CD, Digital
Label: HopeStreet Recordings
Web: www.hopestreetrecordings.com

The Bombay Royale are dedicated to bringing music and mayhem of vintage Indian cinema back to the future, where it belongs. Their debut album You Me Bullets Love is a blend of haunting Hindi and Bengali vocals, pulsing deep funk and disco breaks and shimmering surf-a-delica. Expect huge horn riffs, wild spaghetti guitar, bustling tabla, screaming organs and all the synthesizers, sitars and strings that made the music of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood so electrifying. Starring vocalists Parvyn Kaur Singh as "The Mysterious Lady" and Shourov Bhattacharya as "The Tiger," You Me Bullets Love is the soundtrack to a story of espionage, excitement, extended dance sequences and the eternal power of true love. 

The golden age of Bollywood was a riot of saturated color and dramatic excess and the music that accompanied it was unmatched in bizarre experimentation, deep sophistication and outright funky badness: a treasure trove for sample hungry hiphop heads and secretive, vinyl-obsessed funk collectors.  Musical director Andy Williamson ("The Skipper") formed The Bombay Royale to bring the hidden musical gems of that lost era out into the light.  The originators, people like R.D Burman, Asha Bhosle and Mohammed Rafi are still household names in India, but largely unknown in the outside world. The Bombay Royale is here to rectify that situation. You Me Bullets Love is for the neophytes and enthusiasts alike, a combination of vibrant original material and vintage Hindi superhits. Available on Gatefold LP, CD and digital worldwide, You Me Bullets Love sounds like no other record you will buy this year. 

Download the title track for free from www.hopestreetrecordings.com/ymbl

Buy on iTunes

The Bombay Royale - Monkey Fight Snake

The Bombay Royale - You Me Bullets Love

The Bombay Royale - Dacoit's Choice

The Bombay Royale - Phone Baje Na

New Look & Africa Express live in the Boiler Room

[Broadcast on 11th May 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Africa Express Band live in the Boiler Room

During their 2009 European Tour, Mokoomba hooked up with internationally renowned DJ Gregor Salto (Holland) for the “Stand Up Take Action – End Poverty Campaign” where they recorded the track Messe Messe and several remixes, to date the Messe Messe music video has received over 71,000 views on Youtube and has become an international dance hit, getting people all around the world to stand up against poverty!

Messe Messe ft. Gregor Salto

Weird Together - The 'Ava

Quentin Tarantino's DJANGO UNCHAINED official motion picture soundtrack - Ft. Rick Ross,John Legend,Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton and more.

OFFICIAL SITE: Http://www.unchainedsoundtrack.com
Available on Amazon: http://www.smarturl.it/DjangoUnchainedAMZ
Twitter: @unchainedmovie
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/unchainedmovie?fref=ts


Day of Anger (Riziero Ortolani)

Available as digital download and limited edition Record Kicks 10th split 45.

Second single from Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers' debut album "A hill of feathers" CD | LP | digi. HWT pay homage to Barbara Lynn with a cover up of her northern soul hit "I'm a good woman". On the flip the previously unreleased deep soul beauty "I've been waiting so long"

Record Kicks: http://www.recordkicks.com/index.php?/releases/I-m-A-Good-Woman-single
Bandcamp: http://recordkicks.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-good-woman
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/im-a-good-woman-single/id589597282
YouTube: http://youtu.be/Nwd_Ol5W648

Hannah Williams & the Tastemakers - I'm A Good Woman

Check our interview with Ray Dalton! http://tenmillionsounds.com/2013/03/ray-dalton-interview/

Download @ raydalton.bandcamp.com

Ray Dalton - So Emotional

Off the upcoming album INLAND EMPEROR now available. 

Download from Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/inland-emperor/id634999574

For tourdates, merchandise and news visit www.greyboyallstars.com

The Greyboy Allstars - Profundo Grosso

Rokia Traoré – Beautiful Africa (releasedate: D/A: April 9th)

“I really like rock,” says Rokia Traoré about her new album Beautiful Africa, “and it was because of rock that I wanted to play music, but I didn’t want to make rock and roll in the Western tradition … I wanted something that’s rock and roll but still Malian and still me.”

When she was growing up, an older brother used to play her Dire Straits and Pink Floyd. “It wasn’t all I listened to—I discovered jazz and blues with my dad, and Malian and other African music, and French chanson, but it was rock music that made me want to learn guitar.”

There are three guitarists on the album, John Parish, Stefano Pilia and Traoré herself, but though the record is constructed around rock riffs and sturdy bass work, it still has a distinctively West African feel, thanks to the genius of Mamah Diabaté on the n’goni, the ancient, harsh-edged African lute. It’s an instrument that Traoré has used in compositions throughout her career, and she argues, “I’ve used n’goni in classical music projects, and it goes with blues, or jazz, or rock and roll. It’s a great instrument!”

Traoré’s changes of musical direction usually start with “a sound that I imagine…a sound inside my head.” She didn’t want to imitate what other people had done “because I need to do what I imagine—that’s the reason I’m making music.” But she needed someone to help her create the sound that she imagined, and eventually decided on John Parish, the writer, guitarist, and producer who has worked with Tracy Chapman, Eels, and PJ Harvey. During the recordings “he just asked me to listen to things and make my choice.” The collaboration worked. “This is what I wanted to make. it’s even more than I imagined.”

The past year has been a quite extraordinarily productive period for Traoré. The Barbican invited her to wirte three wildly different new sets of music: the acoustic Damou (Dream), the often bluesy Donguili (Sing), and the rock- influenced Donke (Dance), in which she set out to show “three different aspects of Malian culture and my own personality.” She has toured Britain lately on the Africa Express train, collaborating with Damon Albarn as well as Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones, who joined her backing band for the London finale. And she has continued acting as well, with British and European performances in Toni Morrison and Peter Sellars’ much-praised theatrical/musical re-working of the Shakespearian story of Desdemona, for which she wrote the music.

The songs on Beautiful Africa are in the West African language of Bambara, as well as French and occasional bursts of English, and the often personal lyrics are concerned with Traoré’s thoughts on her own life, and on her tragically battered homeland. The album’s title track, built around the sturdiest rock riff on the album, is very much a love song to “battered, wounded Africa,” and reflects Traoré’s despair and fury at what has happened to her country. “The flood of my tears is in full spate, ardent is my pain,” she sings, while arguing that, “Conflict is no solution…Lord, give us wisdom, give us foresight.” Other songs on the album include the thoughtful ballad “Sarama,” a praise song to Malian women, partly sung in English, and the personal “Mélancolie,” a surprisingly upbeat song about loneliness and sadness that has already become a radio hit in France. Traoré says that she was lonely as a child, partly because her father was a diplomat and constantly on the move. Another, more upbeat song, “Sikey,” is also autobiographical, looking back at the criticism she received when she first set out to become a professional musician, after all, she was not a griot, from a family of traditional musicians, but the daughter of a diplomat. And although she had no musical training, she gave up her studies in Brussels to return to Mali to create a new form of music, in which her songs would be backed by her acoustic guitar, along with n’goni and the xylophone-like balaba balafon, two instruments not normally played together in Africa.

Traoré, Parish and Stefano Pilia play guitars on the album, with Nicolai Munch- Hansen on bass, percussion from Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear), ‘human beatbox’ effects from Jason Singh, and n’goni playing and backing vocals by fellow Malian musicians Fatim Kouyaté and Bintou Soumounou, both members of the Foundation Passerelle that Traoré established in Bamako, the Malian capital, to help her fellow Malians prepare for careers in music and sustain the growth of Mali’s rich musical culture.

It is difficult to think of anyone else who can switch from ancient Malian culture to acting and then to African rock and roll. She will be touring Europe in May and June presenting her album Beautiful Africa during a run of summer festivals, including Glastonbury and Roskilde.

Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa

Arnaldo Duarte Bateria
Guilherme Chiappetta Baixo
Rafael Amaral Guitarra
Roger Brito Trompete

convidados:

Ale Sater Vocal e Letra
Teco Martins Vocal
Dalua Percussão
Diogo Maia Clarone

A Flor

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Ndinaw’ amandla okundiza ndiph’ umoya
Ndiredi ukundiza ndiph’ umoya 

Amaxesha ayavuma ho ho ho
Amaxesha ayavuma ho ho ho 
Amaxesha ayavuma ho ho ho
Hey! Hey! Amaxesha ayavuma ho ho ho

Themba limbi andinalo 
Nguw’ ithemba lam
Nguwe nguwe nguw’ ithemba lam

Phantse  ndayel’ emaweni
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Phantse ndahlala kwaphela

Phantse ndaval’ umnyango 
Phantse ndadyobh’ amehlo 
Phantse ndadudel’ uhambo
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Amandla wazi njani 
Phantse ndammamela yena
Xa  esith’ andinawo 
Xa  esith’ andinawo 


Ndiredi

Taking booking for Mokoomba's European tour 

May - August 2013 

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