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Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy  ''African Skies'' (USA,1993) Captcha Records

Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy - Cohran Blues

T.P. orchestre Poly-Rythmo: "Agueche"

Brownswood are delighted to announce that we have signed Cuban singer Daymé Arocena.
Daymé was part of the Havana Cultura Mix project, which saw Gilles Peterson mentoring selected producers from around the world to make a record in Cuba with local musicians. She auditioned, prompting all producers to decide they wanted to work with her... In the end, she sung on three tracks on the album, including the massive "U Knew Before”. Seeing huge potential in her, Gilles invited her to London to perform at the album launch event, where she enchanted the packed out audience, and it was decided she should record a solo project for Brownswood Recordings / Havana Cultura. The announcement brought out a loud, rich, infectious laugh instantly recognizable as Dayme’s deep and chocolaty voice. “My first record, here,” she squeals. “It’s a crazy dream.”

Credits: 
Vocals & Campana - Daymé Arocena 
Produced by Simbad 
Thumb Pianos, Bass Cajon, Djembe,  Shakers, Small Percussions, 
CP 70 & B3 Organ - Simbad  


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Daymé Arocena - Madres

Amara Toure- Temedy

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meu-kamba-vol.-2/id1095293296
https://open.spotify.com/album/0psVAhifMw7TJ1yOKsQ3o1
http://www.deezer.com/album/12680584
https://www.amazon.com/Meu-Kamba-Vol-Rocky-Marsiano/dp/B01DB7CBPK/ref=sr_1_4?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1459766899&sr=1-4-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Rocky+Marsiano

Original song “Toroça de Estudante” by N’Kassa Cobra (Guinea Bissau)
itunes.apple.com/us/album/n-kassa…erie/id976623805

@rockymarsiano's first album, Meu Kamba, felt like the very natural, spontaneous reaction between a serious hip hop head, an MPC and a deep collection of Lusophone African records. Upon its release the album immediately drew loads of attention, and Rocky Marsiano quickly hit the road across Europe.

Performing as a sound system with musicians naturally led Rocky Marsiano towards this second volume, which follows a very different approach:

"Meu Kamba was made very impulsively - if I felt a track worked, if there was a good balance to it, I didn't go much further with the production because I wanted it to sound raw.

On this new volume I did exactly the opposite: every single track was experimented on, its possibilities tested. So this time around there's a lot more production on every track: bass lines, retro synths, guitar licks, extra vocals, different drum patterns and textures...

It took almost two years to pick the original songs reinterpreted here. Months of a musical journey which led towards a lot of music and influences from Guinea Bissau, which wasn't a part of the first Meu Kamba. "With this second volume I want to close the cycle, finish a story: my hommage to music from Lusophone Africa."

Rocky Marsiano - "Escola D'vida"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meu-kamba-vol.-2/id1095293296
https://open.spotify.com/album/0psVAhifMw7TJ1yOKsQ3o1
http://www.deezer.com/album/12680584
https://www.amazon.com/Meu-Kamba-Vol-Rocky-Marsiano/dp/B01DB7CBPK/ref=sr_1_4?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1459766899&sr=1-4-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Rocky+Marsiano

Original song “Mana Fatita” by Duo Ouro Negro (Angola)
play.spotify.com/track/4k4LjhQxBZHItNE7qXTEcV

@rockymarsiano's first album, Meu Kamba, felt like the very natural, spontaneous reaction between a serious hip hop head, an MPC and a deep collection of Lusophone African records. Upon its release the album immediately drew loads of attention, and Rocky Marsiano quickly hit the road across Europe.

Performing as a sound system with musicians naturally led Rocky Marsiano towards this second volume, which follows a very different approach:

"Meu Kamba was made very impulsively - if I felt a track worked, if there was a good balance to it, I didn't go much further with the production because I wanted it to sound raw.

On this new volume I did exactly the opposite: every single track was experimented on, its possibilities tested. So this time around there's a lot more production on every track: bass lines, retro synths, guitar licks, extra vocals, different drum patterns and textures...

It took almost two years to pick the original songs reinterpreted here. Months of a musical journey which led towards a lot of music and influences from Guinea Bissau, which wasn't a part of the first Meu Kamba. "With this second volume I want to close the cycle, finish a story: my hommage to music from Lusophone Africa."

Rocky Marsiano - "Ué Lé Lé" feat. Bruce James

NeverStopExploring est une découverte photographique et musicale, une invitation au voyage proposée par David Walters, qui a vu sa première inauguration à la Fabrica de Arte à la Havane à Cuba en 2015.
Parti découvrir les 4 coins de la planète lors de ses reportages pour les Nouveaux Explorateurs. David est de retour avec des photographies témoignant de ses rencontres singulières.
Depuis Kathputli colony, la plus grande communauté d’artistes au monde dans un bidonville de Delhi, en passant par le carnaval de San Pacho dans les rues de Bogota, David Walters nous emmène à la rencontre des premiers habitants d’Amérique pour découvrir le Pow Wow, concours de danse, de percussion et de chant, mais aussi découvrir les cérémonies vaudou de New York, les danseurs de pantsula d’Afrique du Sud jusqu’ à la rumba de Cuba .

02 Lady

Taken from: Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You If You Cry
Order now: https://glitterbeat.lnk.to/KhmerRouge

It would be disturbing anywhere to see a mob gathered around a street-pole as an electrocuted utility-worker’s lifeless body was lowered down by rope as if lynched, but especially in a land with so many ghosts.

A reported three-million tons of carpet-bombs were dropped on Cambodia by the USA in the 1970s, more than were unleashed on Germany during all of WWII. Following the bombings, dictator Pol Pot seized the moment, emptying the cities into shells, then pitting rural residents against the urbanites and launching a genocide that claimed somewhere around two-million lives (i.e., nearly 1/4th of the population). This particular holocaust was especially catastrophic culturally as it specifically targeted the artists and “intellectuals”, of whom it is estimated that less than 10% survived. During this period, daring to wear eyeglasses— which had become a stereotyped symbol between classes— guaranteed almost certain death.

Musical director, flautist, and percussion player, Arn Chorn Pond managed to survive, first by playing music to entertain the Khmer Rouge troops, and later by himself becoming a child soldier against the Vietnamese, in a kill or be killed scenario. His weight had dropped down to 30 pounds due to lack of rations, before he was rescued by an American adoptive father.

“If you're a soldier, they will kill you if you cry. Now I cry and feel better. The turning point for me was learning to cry and listen to my own words, rather than just preaching peace and forgiveness to others.”

On the road to visit the legendary Kong Nai (“the Ray Charles of Cambodia”) we passed aging bomb-craters the size of ponds that had filled with stagnant rain water.

Parents commonly warn their children, “If you try to play like Kong Nai, you too will go blind,” as a way to scare youngsters away from music, so that they will hopefully instead follow some other,more respectable career pursuit.

When a young hipster from the city talked of knowing elders that played, “Country music,” it was intriguing. But upon further examination, it was discovered that what she meant was not cowboy hats and fiddles, but the murdered music of Cambodia’s own roots tradition.

There is an inherent disconnection of logic amongst Westerners that claim a culture like Cambodia, who speak a tone-language— where the meaning of many otherwise identical words is dependent on the pitch with which they are spoken— are not musical by nature. And, prejudice’s self-destructiveness is nowhere more apparent than in the common underestimation of an entire racial group as “passive,” particularly one with such a history of upheaval, perseverance, and resistance.


Khmer Rouge Survivors - They Will Kill You If You Cry

Khmer Rouge Survivors: They Will Kill You, If You Cry

Rab Ban - Orano (I Hate My Husband that Drinks)

An afro-soul piece by Ethio Stars introduces their international dance groove and lifts-off into the "Fikir" feeling for good!

** Out on Friday 24th March 2017 **

Ethio Stars | Tukul Band feat. Mulatu Astatke: Addis 1988
http://www.piranha.de/piranha/ethio_stars_tukul/addis_1988

Pre-order:  https://Piranha.lnk.to/Addis1988

Fuelled by Mulatu Astatke as artistic director, composer, arranger and collaborating musician, Ethio Stars and Tukul Band's Addis 1988 recordings vibrantly sustain the innocence of these musical originators, yet hold up to modern standards with timeless aplomb. The album helps to fill a gap: the period when Mulatu and his music were largely forgotten outside of his homeland.

"A fascinating album with a disarming blend of soul, jazz, funk, rock ,reggae and carefully plotted tracks. Great stuff!" fRoots

First released on CD in 1992
High-quality reissue & remaster for collectors on 180 Gram Vinyl

© Piranha Records
https://www.piranha.de

Addis 1988

Ethio Stars feat. Mulatu Astatke - Tiz Balegn Gize

Compost Black Label #71

Gonna Be My Day (Henrik Schwarz Acoustronic Remix)

Loi Tok Tok Eboma- Mungwana

Righteous Dub (George T Edit)

Paris DJs followers should be aware by now, we're not joking, every 6th of the month is Kologbo day! Later this year on upcoming 6ths of the month we'll unveil some brand new productions recorded this summer, but until then we're proud to keep on revealing new tunes from Fela's tenor guitar player in Afrika 70 brand new album "Africa Is The Future", to be released at the end of this month.

Today we're presenting "You No Lie", a majestic Nigerian/Ghanean/French/American/German afrobeat collaboration, starring no less than Tony Allen on drums (do we really need to present Tony Allen? Fela's drummer and afrobeat rhythm master), Pat Thomas (the golden voice of Ghana, who recently released on Strut Records an essential album with the Kwishibu Area Band and an extensive compilation of his 70s/80s works) and Ayo (the Nigerian singer from the Adunni & Nefretiti band) on vocals, Ben Abarbanel-Wolff on tenor and baritone saxophone and Stu Krause on trumpet (both from Ebo Taylor's Afrobeat Academy and Poets Of Rhythm), Martin Perna on flute (from Antibalas), and Ogehne Kologbo playing keys, bass, percussion and guitars. Recorded and produced by Loik Dury (former Radio Nova programmer in the 1990s, now movies soundtracker for Cedric Klapish among others), who mixed it with Grant Phabao (the unstoppable man behind the Paris DJs sound).

You No Lie" opens the "Africa Is The Future" album that's currently being crowdfunded on the Kiss Kiss Bank Bank website. You have until the end of the month to take part in this release, there's still time left to grab a limited edition translucent green vinyl (250 copies only!) or a marvelous made in France T-shirt (3 different designs are available, the kind of high-quality clothing you'll wear again and again). Don't hesitate to share the campaign around, it's just passed over the 50% of its goal, and Kologbo needs your support now more than ever!

http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/kologbo-africa-is-the-future-cd-lp-t-shirts

Africa Is The Future

You No Lie

01 You No Lie

Film Of Life

Go Back (feat. Damon Albarn)

Sabres Of Paradise - Wilmot

Couldn't resist doing something with this beautiful version from Lloyd Charmers.
The original version, as you should know ;), is from The Meters. 
Hope you enjoy, fellows and sisters!

LOOK-KA PY PY - Lloyd Charmers (DJ NIRSO DUB REMIX)

Piranha may be a small fish, but it makes its presence felt. As an independent label that releases and publishes music, we discover and present extraordinary sounds and artists from the global underground. Our repertoire contains worlds, ranging from traditional to tradi-modern, from classical to hip hop and electro. Recording in diverse places, not only in studios but also on mountains, deserts or the streets and in various destinations, from Maputo to Havana, Cairo to Belgrade, New York to Berlin-Kreuzberg, has always been part of the label’s history. Piranha Records belongs to the Piranha Arts’ family, alongside WOMEX, Classical:NEXT and Karneval der Kulturen, committing ourselves to the value of crossing borders - be they cultural, political or commercial.

Ethio Stars feat. Mulatu Astatke - Tiz Balegn Gize

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