Los Kenya - Descargan Los Timbales

Olindo Records sister label Música Infinita presents the raw and uncompromising Afro Latin sound of Ray Perez and Los Kenya, one of the most interesting groups to spring out of the Venezuelan salsa scene in the late sixties, with a brand new remaster of their debut album ‘Siempre Afro-Latino’ set for release on May 27.

Siempre Afro-Latino

Los Kenya - Record En T.V.

Ese puerto existe EP

Ese puerto existe

New single out on all platforms https://bfan.link/ventana-honda taken from the band's sophomore album coming in February 2023. Pre-order here: https://olindorecords.bandcamp.com/album/ese-puerto-existe

Ventana honda

La Candela del Río is the debut album by Paris-based Venezuelan quartet Insólito UniVerso. In the space of 8 tracks, the band fuses traditional Venezuelan styles, such as joropo, merengue caraqueño, or tambores de San Millán with psych, chanson, and contemporary electronics. Co-produced by The Heliocentrics' Malcolm Catto, the record shows two distinct sides; on the one hand there's euphoric music that begs to be danced to, while on the other there's melancholy, mystery and devotion.

Maria Fernanda Ruette: Cuatro & Vocals 
Raúl Monsalve : Bass 
Edgar Bonilla Jiménez: Keys 
Andres Sequera: Drums 

Guests: 
Rafael Mejias: Maracas & Charrasca (except on A3 & A4) 
Orlando Poleo: Clarín drum on B2 

Co-produced by: Malcom Catto, Raúl Monsalve and Edgar Bonilla Jiménez 
Mixed by Malcolm Catto at Quatermass Studio. Except A2, A3 and A4 mixed by Alex Figueira at Barracão Sound. 
Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery 
Artwork by Emily Evans 
Design and Layout by Brunella Giannangeli

El vuelo del Gabán

We present our first release of 2019 and the third in our initial Venezuelan trilogy of 45s. Featuring 2 original compositions by Caracas based multi-instrumentalist and composer Isaac Sasson with a remix on the flipside by London producer & drummer Hector Plimmer (Albert's Favourites).

Side A kicks off with "Paseo en un sueño", a short composition that reflects a dream that begins in the village of El Hatillo and ends at dawn in the hills of Caicaguana, its main theme is a beautiful flute melody played by Tomasito Garcia. As the instruments and vocals fade away, "Canción para mi familia, Venezuela" begins, with Isaac singing "esta melodia es especial para mi mamá, dedicada a mis abuelos, a mis hermanos y a mi papá". This song is a sort of mantra or prayer dedicated to Venezuela and Isaac's family and friends; its spiraling guitar riff and various percussion instruments quickly descending towards a chaotic state of bliss.

Hector Plimmer's remix on the B side reassembles elements from another Sasson original,  "Cantos Campesinos", focusing on a particular vocal motif. Hector retunes the rhythm to his purposes, building tension and borrowing a bell sound to raise it even further, before releasing a skittering drum pattern with plenty of swing and a heavy dose of low end. Before the song ends, Hector goes deeper, adding sensual synth chords and finally a flute-like synth solo to complete this musical trip that is surely destined to soundtrack a few hazy evenings this summer.

The music on this EP has been previously self-released by Isaac on his album "Memorias del canto campesino", but appears here for the first time on vinyl, limited to 300 copies.

Recorded at Estudios El Gran Misterio & Garabato Estudio. Caracas, Venezuela

Re-mastered for vinyl by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London

Isaac Sasson - Paseo en un sueño / Canción para mi familia, Venezuela

Betsayda Machado & La Parranda El Clavo - Alaé Alaó

Betsayda Machado & La Parranda El Clavo - La Situación

British jazz, hip-hop & soul singer Will Heard joins Waaju for their new single Time's Got a Hold, a slow grooving, funk-guitar flecked song that melds a voice mournful of time lost in a relationship, with Afro and off-beat rhythms. The song was co-written by Waaju and Jordan Rakei for a special live performance back in 2018.

Will's credentials are impressive. He co-wrote and featured on Klangkarussell’s hit single “Sonnentanz" which got to no 3 in the UK charts and more recently has worked with Tom Misch, Disclosure, Tourist and Rudimental of which the latter he toured with for over a year.
 
It's the second single from Waaju's new album 'Grown', a pulsing Afro-Latin and jazz combo, percolating at different corners of the global soundscape yet with a distinctly of-the-moment and British jazz flavour. The album is coming forth on Olindo Records on June 12th.

Stream online now at: https://song.link/waajutime
Pre-order album vinyl: https://olindorecords.bandcamp.com/album/grown
Pre-order album stream: https://backl.ink/140548106

Waaju on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2WtPVQq
Waaju on Apple Music: https://apple.co/2Wx28nB

Time's Got A Hold (feat. Will Heard)

Waaju return with their new single “Listening Glasses”. It’s afrobeat-like energy and joyful interplay between guitar and tenor sax somewhere between Tony Allen’s grooves, chimurenga guitar and Headhunters’ funk. 

Just the first taste from their forthcoming second album, “Grown”, released June 12 on Olindo Records.

Listening Glasses

A funked-up cha-cha groove dedicated to the maestros, or masters, that have influenced Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos, from Ray Barreto to Orlando Julius.

Check the Radio Gladys Palmera Premiere here: https://gladyspalmera.com/actualidad/los-forajidos-y-los-maestros/

Produced by Malcolm Catto, Raúl Monsalve & Edgar Bonilla
Mixed by Malcolm Catto at Quartermass Studio Lab, London

Raúl Monsalve: Bass and backing vocals
Rafael Mejias: backing vocals
Daniel Núñez: Guitar
Edgar Bonilla: FX
Nando Guerrero: Flute
Julien Matroz: Trumpet
Andres Vela: Tenor sax and percussion
Christine Roch: Baritone sax
Ernesto Marichales: Timbales
Yves Prud'homme: Congas and bongos
Dave De Rose: Drums

Bichos

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos - Pa’ los Maestros

Lya Bonilla: Lead vocals
Monica Lopez, Rafael Mejias: Backing vocals
Raúl Monsalve: Bass, tenor guitar, moog minitaur and FX
Nando Guerrero: Flute
Julien Matroz: Trumpet
Andres Vela: Tenor sax
Baldomero Verdú, Joel Arriaga and Ernesto Marichales: Cumacos and clarín
Dave De Rose: Drums

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos - La Mariposa ft. Lya Bonilla

Raul Monsalve: Bass, tenor guitar and FX
Edgar Bonilla: Nordstage 2
Julien Matroz: Trumpet
Andres Vela: Tenor sax
Christine Roch: Baritone sax
Baldomero Verdú, Joel Arriaga, Ernesto Marichales: Cumacos and clarín
Dave De Rose: Drums.

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos - Cafunga

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos find common threads between funk, Afrobeat and traditional Afro-Venezuelan music on “Bocón”. Lauded Family Atlantica frontwoman, Luzmira Zerpa, guests on lead vocals, transforming a traditional song from the coastal region of Barlovento about liars, big mouths, or “bocones” into a diatribe against national and world leaders with a dangerously loose grip on reality, “Bocón” makes it clear there’s no hiding from either the truth, or los Forajidos. As they hammer the ground with bamboo tubes, layering the horns and low-end synth bass with the powerful polyrhythmic quitiplás percussion native to Venezuela.

Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos - Bocón ft. Luzmira Zerpa

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