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Kailash Kokopelli - Uva (Don Juan Mezcal Edit)

Out Tuesday, September 23rd
Pre-Order the LP, CD or Digital: http://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/amansara

Argentian producer Pedro Canale aka Chancha Via Circuito returns from a three-year sojourn with his long awaited third album, Amansara.  Originally coming out of Buenos Aires's famed digital cumbia scene, Chancha has notoriously broken way outside those boundaries to forge unprecedented mergers between Brazilian rhythms, Paraguayan harp, Andean mysticism and the solitude of Argentinian folklore - all processed through his own futuristic style of post-dubstep.  Chancha's sound is without question truly unique and instantly recognizable to the point he has become a key reference point for an entire crop of artists that have begun to carry his genes.
 
Hailed by the Washington Post, The New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR and countless others, Chancha Via Circuito defies even the shrewdest of marketing geniuses.  On one hand, he is something of a cult artist within micro-circles of electronic music, having been invited to perform at Montreal's MUTEK as well as the Roskilde and Vive Latino Festivals. At the same time, Chancha's music has found broad appeal outside of the avant-garde, most notably his magnificent remix of José Larralde's "Quimey Neuquén" which was heavily featured in 2013 as part of the final season of the critically acclaimed television series Breaking Bad. Fans of the show undoubtedly remember Walter White burying his millions in the desert, soundtracked by the wide and gentle grooves of Chancha Via Circuito.
 
Amansara is a natural progressing of Chancha's special strain of electronic South America. Lead single "Coplita" features the haunting vocals of previous collaborator Miram Garcia, while "Sueno En Paraguay" merges Andean folklore sounds with bleeps and blips and pounding drums in a way that sounds completely natural and ordained. "Jardines" features the driving vocals of Lido Pimienta merging with heavy synths, percussion and bells into an unforgettable track, while both "Tarocchi" and "Guajaca" ramp things up into deep, electronic dancefloor inna rainforest territory.
 
Art for Amansara comes from Argentinian psychedelic folklore painter Paula Duro who has crafted the look of all of Chancha’s previous releases.
 
Amansara is out on September 23rd CD, digital and LP in North America and Australasia through Wonderwheel Recordings.


Amansara

Sueno en Paraguay

Sueño En Paraguay

Music, instruments, vocals, mixing, mastering, photo : Mekanik Mozz ' Art
September 2025

Model : BB (august 2025, Mu Cang Chai, Vietnam)

Avant la pluie...

1 Time Around

Vinyl, CD and digital. 16 tracks.

A magic mixture of traditionnal Min'yo songs and latin jazz elements. Recorded in Japan between 1958 and 1962.

With its second release, Akuphone keeps exploring Asia with an original compilation of Japanese singer Chiemi Eri. This edition – which is available in vinyl record, CD and digital - includes exclusive liner notes and a rich calligraphed booklet containing the romanization of lyrics. It encourages to (re)discover Chiemi Eri’s recordings. On this compilation, Akuphone has brought together 16 songs from 10 inches albums originally released by King Records (Japan) between 1958 and 1962.

As the daughter of a musician father and a singer mother, Chiemi Eri (1937-1982) grew up in a musical environment. When she was still a teenager, she started a career as a singer on US military bases. She became famous by singing numerous classics from the post-war American musical repertoire. At the age of 14 she recorded the song Tennessee Waltz with King Records, which turned out to be an immediate success, the first of many others.

Chiemi Eri is considered as one of the most famous Japanese singers of the 20th century, more precisely of the Showa era (1926-1989), named after the Japanese emperor of the time, better known under his westernized name Hirohito. Both a singer and an actress – she played in more than 50 films, as well as many theatre plays – she definitely made a mark in the post-war Japanese cultural landscape, along with fellow singer-actresses Izumi Yukimura and Hibari Misora.

The success of these true national icons, who were nicknamed « the three sisters », can be connected to the specific context of the time, that is the cultural opening of Japan which, although initiated a century before, accelerated with the US military occupation of the archipelago (1945-1952). This period saw the import of popular musical styles of the time: jazz, be-bop, swing, mambo, etc, as well as the development of a hybrid musical style - the Kayokyoku - which consists of a delicious mix of so-called “western” music with Japanese music. 

Combining vocal jazz, Latino rhythms and Japanese folk, this new compilation of Chiemi Eri offers an original musical syncretism. Supported by Tadaaki Misago and the Tokyo Cuban Boys – the oldest and most prolific latin-jazz group in Japan – Chiemi Eri sings themes, in Japanese, that are mainly taken from the traditional folklore. Thus, the drums and brass of the Cuban arrangements are mixed with the Min’yo, which shows how rich these folk songs are: every region, every local tradition, every event is celebrated by a particular song or dance. Chiemi Eri also reveals the vocal prowess specific to the Min’yo, in particular the kobushi, a sort of melisma – this vocal technic that consists in singing a single syllable while moving between several different notes in succession.

This compilation, which surprisingly blends Min’yo and latin-jazz elements, invites to the discovery of the archipelago from a different perspective.

more information here : akuphone.com

Chiemi Eri : Otemo-Yan

We are pleased to announce Slovenian youngster Pavlič's debut release on Moodfamily with a defiant four tracker. Under his previous moniker Paoli, Pavlič graced the music scene with a fresh breeze, introducing an unconventional vision on dance music.

Acoustic sounds and stripped down vocal samples form the essence of his work, while offbeat structures and grooves carry them to musical evocative footprint.

'Mika Communism' kicks off the EP as the soundtrack for a horrific wedding ceremony. Piano, violin, clarinets and synths create an eerie atmosphere, as they are carried on by a waddling groove gently paving the way for 'btob'. In that second track, Pavlič picks up the tempo, carelessly dropping in shy and precarious vocals, designed for intimate parties.

The second half of the EP brings the title track 'In Raise' which starts out offbeat, playfully combined with vocal cuts under the gentle cover of a modest synthesizer, only to build up blossom into a futuristic waltz.

'Slowly Movin' speaks for itself, this slow burner creeps behind the horizon with vocals and vocoders bringing tension as it were dubious clouds moving in while erratic synths glimmer like jagged mountain outlines in the distance.

www.moodfamily.net

btob

Pavlič - btob

The Dogon Lights 2nd album "25th street" completed in 2015.  Recorded at 25th Studios 2013-2014.   Featuring Evan Fraser, Vir McCoy, Bongo Sidibe with special guests Yacouba Diarra, Troy Lush and Aikwe on drums.  Cover Art by Nikila Badua

The Dogon Lights

African Eagle Master

Stream / buy "Beautiful Strangers:" https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-strangers-b-w-no-place-to-fall 

This release is dedicated to and written for all the people I have never met but have only read about. The innocent people who were out living their lives and one day, without warning, had them taken away from them. People who liked to laugh, dance, and love in the way that we all do, but cant anymore. All those names and faces, all those beautiful strangers...
 
So here are two songs, "Beautiful Strangers" as well as my cover of Townes Van Zandt's "No Place To Fall" that I have been closing my live show with over the past year. Any purchase of these two songs will go to support the work of Everytown For Gun Safety - an organization I have followed for quite some time. I believe in and support them in their efforts to make the world a safer place. So if you wish - you can donate as little or large as you'd like and I do hope you enjoy the songs. Do it for the kids.
 
Love and peace,
Kevin Morby

Kevin Morby - Beautiful Strangers

‘Leave, If not I will kill you’

In early 1978, Vincent Ahehehinnou left the Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou without explanation. He had been one of their principal vocalist since 1968 and had helped transform them from a hard-charging nightclub band into a musical powerhouse and Africa-wide sensation. By the end of 1977, after an explosive performance at the pan-African arts and culture festival (Festac77) in Lagos, the band had reached the very pinnacle of their success.

For nearly forty years, the reasons behind Vincent’s sudden departure have remained a mystery. Until now.

In an interview included with Analog Africa’s new reissue of Best Woman – Vincent’s first post-Poly-Rythmo album, which has been out-of-print for close to four decades and nearly impossible to find outside West Africa – the great singer finally breaks his silence. He didn’t leave … he was pushed.

Poly-Rythmo were already popular in their native Benin but, in the aftermath of Festac ’77, the band were poised for break-out success throughout Africa. One of the people who stood to benefit most was the band’s manager Adissa Seidou, whose label Albarika Store had released most of the band’s recordings. However Adissa’s vision for Poly-Rythmo didn’t always line up with that of the musicians and, more often than not, it was Vincent who spoke up for the band.

The two men grew increasingly estranged until one day – at the funeral for Adissa’s father no less – Adissa gave Vincent an ultimatum of sorts. In Vincent’s own words: ‘I asked him if there is a way we could sort out our differences to which he replied that the only solution was for me to leave the band, adding, “if not I will kill you”’.

And so Vincent found himself forced out of the band he had helped build. He tried his hand at various business ventures, but soon realised that the pull of music was too strong. On a business trip to Nigeria, Vincent met with Ignace de Souza of Benin’s Black Santiago band, who agreed to arrange Vincent’s songs, assemble musicians, and book a session at the legendary Decca Studios in Lagos. 

With everything in place Vincent returned to Cotonou, gathered together all the money he had saved over the years and set out again for Lagos. But the simple bus journey to Nigeria turned into a nightmarish odyssey of military corruption … and  had it not been for the random kindness of an unknown woman on the bus, this album – along with Vincent’s subsequent solo career – might never have existed. Vincent tells the full story in the liner notes to this LP.

But Vincent did make it to Lagos and the sessions went ahead. The nine-piece band, handpicked by de Souza, learned the songs and set them to tape in the span of only a week … but the results are as timeless and essential as anything to emerge from West Africa in the late 1970s.

Vincent’s afrobeat credentials are in full evidence on opening track ‘Best Woman’ (English) whose driving beat, focussed horns and intricate vocal melody recall the raucous intensity of Poly-Rythmo. But the deep funk of the title track turns out to be only a warm-up for album-highlight ‘Maimouna Cherie’ (French), a moving expression of love and longing which kicks off with a hi-hat and wah-wah guitar workout but shifts gears mid-way into a more concentrated and contemplative groove. 

The funk and afrobeat gems on Best Woman are balanced by songs that draw upon Sato, one of the many Vodoun rhythms of Vincent’s native Benin. Side one concludes with ‘Vi Deka’ (Mina), an epic slow-burner propelled by some of the record’s most soulful vocals, while album closer ‘Wa Do Verite Ton Noumi’ (Fon) all but dares you not to lose yourself in its sublime hypnotic trance.

Ahehehinnou Vincent Vol.1

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Best Woman - Vicent Ahehehinnou

Daniel Namkhay - Eu Tenho 10 Bilhões De Irmãos

Fathili & The Yahoos came out of Kenya. Licensed from Melodica music stores courtesy of our great friend Abdul Karim. 

The Wings were a Nigerian band. 'Gone With the Sun' featured on their 1974 album 'Kissing You So Hard'.

Fathili & The Yahoos - Mabala Part 1

Cantos de Alma: With Your Heart

KAYAM - Midnight

First single of our Debut Album "Sand to Snow" coming out soon!

Sand To Snow

KAYAM - Midnight

This is a remix of amazing moroccan singer/guitarist http://soundcloud.com/jamalnouman 

Expect more collab works with him in 2013 !! Latinarabia is da new shit ! 

Love,
rafa

Rafael Aragon vs Jamal Nouman - Cumbia Touria

With her latest single Teardrops, Alexia Chellun has remained true to her emotional song narrative while exploring a pop music soundscape of lush strings and a fuller arrangement.  The complex arrangement and instrumentation of Teardrops never betrays Chellun’s beautiful vocals and simple catchy melodies. This departure should be a welcome addition for the 2,000,000 plus Spotify listeners that Chellun has garnered over the years.  Produced by Dutch maestro Koen Van Baal, whose work has sold over 30 million units worldwide (most notably with The Scorpions), Chellun has successfully stepped outside of her comfort zone without losing any of the qualities that have attracted her diverse international fan base.
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Teardrops are making up an ocean
I never knew so many’d come from me
Sometimes they take over every part of me I cannot see
I’m drowning at their sacred feet

The ground beneath me
Shakes and is shifting
I’m lost in time
My heart is breaking into pieces
I need a change in paradigm

The dark it sits here right beside me
I’ll take it on
My soul is bursting into pieces
I’ll patch it up and carry on

And I hope that every day from now will shine a little brighter now that I, have tired out my eyes
Yes I hope that every day from now will shine a little brighter now that I, have tired out my eyes
I’m empty from inside
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Lyrics and Music by Alexia Chellun

Arrangement and Production by Keon Van Baal

Mastered by Ken Rose

Vocals recorded at Crypt Studio , London

Violin by Marieke de Bruijn

Viola by Vera Van Der Bie

Cello by Jos Teeken

Artwork by MyWarped Halo

© Alexia Chellun 2019

All rights reserved @Alexia Chellun 2019

Teardrops

TEARDROPS

Dj / producer from Brussels, Global fusion music, deep, psychedelic and highly danceable + Ambient / Drone / Experimental / Tape Music 

> Resident DJ https://soundcloud.com/goulash-disko
> Resident DJ - Ecstatic Dance Brussels
> Curator/Resident - WOMB (ambient music events)


BOOKING :  rafiralfiro@gmail.com 

TRACKS & REMIXES on : Copycow, Wonderwheel Recordings, Ohxala, Souq Records, Chinese Man Records, Shika Shika, Art Vibes Music, Shouka/InFiné, Tropical Twista Rec, Babylon Records, Hole & Holland, Galletas Calientes, Global Hybrid Records, Caballito... 

♪♪ Tropical ♪ Oriental ♪ Afro ♪ Downtempo ♪ Deep ♪ Psychedelic ♪ Tribal ♪ Techno ♪ Afro House ♪ Slow House ♪ Ancestral ♪ Shamanic ♪ Ambient ♪♪

Rafael Aragon’s music is trance-inducing, powerful yet delicate, constantly changing and continuously breaking borders. Sweaty dancefloor stompers and soulful anthems with a magic touch inspired by forgotten traditions and ancient folklores from all around the world. Mystic chimes, ritual drums and witchcraft music meet raving kicks, deep basslines and electronic polyrythms to provide a rich, dancy and psychedelic experience! 

Displaying numerous and eclectic releases on various imprints wordwide for more than ten years, and with uninterrupted gigs in clubs, parties & festivals all around Europe, South America and North Africa, Rafael has made a name for himself as a versatile and talented producer, remixer, live act and DJ.

Rafael Aragon vs Jamal Nouman - Cumbia Touria

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