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DISTANCE MEANS NOTHING - song from the album "LOVE / sessions" by the children of the 90s
written and performed by the children of the 90s

DISTANCE MEANS NOTHING

Oversight

Taken from the album "Broadcast", due out 28.02.14

BEACH VOLLEYBALL - Contack

Armand Margjeka sophomore LP "Hummingbird" sonic aesthetic blends the abstract and the organic | Releases JUNE 10, 2014 on Birmingham's PIPEANDGUN and Communicating Vessels | Available on Vinyl, CD, and Digital formatting | Order HUMMINGBIRD LP here... http://communicatingvessels.net/products-page/music/armand-margjeka-hummingbird/
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Armand Margjeka - Hummingbird

The Dead Age is the 4th album by Unicycle Loves You.
Produced by Unicycle Loves You.
Mastered by Bob Weston.
Release date: 06/10/2014
Buy the record on color vinyl: http://unicyclelovesyou.bandcamp.com/
Order on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dead-age/id869366724

Face Tattoo

Monomyth - Candleholder

VINYL/CD/DIGITAL: www.lolacolt.com
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Away From The Water

Lola Colt ~ Vacant Hearts

Release date : June 20th, 2014
Get the album here: http://glitterbeat.com/glitterbeat_store/

Noura Mint Seymali, from Mauritania, comes from an ancient family of griots, and she has a commanding, wide-open voice…the pentatonic melodies of her songs had something in common with the blues. But her fusion was particular and selective…She only meets American music on her own terms.
+++New York Times, January 13th, 2014

She cleverly merges her powerful voice with the twangy guitar sound created by her husband…this Mauritanian music is an excellent example of roots rocketed into the 21st century.
+++Songlines, April/May 2014

TZENNI in Hassaniya means to circulate, to spin, to turn. It’s the name for a whirling dance performed to the music of Moorish griots, often under khaima tents thrown up for street gatherings in the sandy quartiers of Nouakchott and out across the wide deserts of Mauritania. Tzenni is an orbit, the movement of the earth around the sun, the daily progression of light and dark, lunar cycles, tides and winds. Tzenni, the dance, comes forth as the cyclical trajectory of a Moorish musical gathering builds to a fervorous pitch. It’s a word whose expansive valence reminds us how only the most basic reality can create such romantic metaphor.

Produced and recorded across an appropriately dizzying array of locations and social contexts (New York City, Dakar, Nouakchott) the album Tzenni is a contemporary articulation of Moorish griot music from Mauritania—an artform that has been evolving and gaining momentum for centuries—as voiced by Noura Mint Seymali, an artist profoundly steeped in its history and rigorously devoted to its global resonance.

Noura Mint Seymali comes from a long line of visionary musicians. Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, her father, was a scholar-artist instrumental in opening Mauritanian music to the world; devising the first system for Moorish melodic notation, adapting music for the national anthem, and composing works popularized by his wife (Noura’s step-mother), the great Dimi Mint Abba. From her precocious beginnings as a teenaged backing vocalist with Dimi Mint Abba, Noura Mint Seymali now drives the legacy forward, re-calibrating Moorish music for our contemporary moment. Her band’s arrangements, rigor, and experimental spirit may be understood as a continuation of the tradition of Seymali, Dimi, her grandmother Mounina, and countless others.

Together with her husband, heroic guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly, who brings the force of yet another powerful branch of Moorish musical lineage, the band on this recording was conceived as a distillation of essential elements, the “azawan” and the backbeat. The ardine & tidinit (or guitar) together are the “azawan,” the leading ensemble of Moorish traditional music, while bass & drums, played here by Ousmane Touré and Matthew Tinari, fortify it with genre transcendent funk and a basic pop urgency. Tzenni re-visits several classics of the Moorish repertoire, but does so within a novel formation, conversant in the pop idiom, and with Noura Mint Seymali’s personal history interwoven throughout. The practice of aligning music to a given socio-historical and personal moment is an essential charge of the iggawen, or griot, and, we believe, of artists everywhere.

As we seek to convey another turn in the Mauritanian musical dialectic, Tzenni is ultimately an album about shape shifting, faith, and stability found through instability. It’s about taking the positive with the negative in a world that can only ever keep turning at break neck speed. We invite you to spin with us, to dance with us, through the music on this recording!

--Matthew Tinari: producer/drummer for Noura Mint Seymali

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Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni

Kitsuné AMERICA 3, the third episodes of our saga in the US is out June 2nd!

Buy it on iTunes : bitly.com/KA3order
More info about the compilation : http://bit.ly/1lY4JNa

Kitsuné AMERICA 3

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NAVVI - "Speak"

In honor of Earth Day, our dudes at Portugal. The Man recorded an “Endangered Song” to raise awareness of an endangered species, the Sumatran Tiger. 

There are only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world because most of their habitat has been eaten up by oil-palm plantations in just two years. 

The band teamed up with the Smithsonian's National Zoo and the Conservation Biology Institute to create a record that will go extinct unless it's reproduced. 

This is our reproduction. We played the vinyl about a dozen times to break in the grooves, each time it was played the sound quality got better. 

From analog to digital. 

Portugal. The Man - The Endangered Song [Sumatran Tiger]

Crackdown (Radio Edit 83) is taken from Cabaret Voltaire's new compilation #7885 (Electropunk to Technopop 1978 - 1985) on Mute on 23 June 2014 (UK) / 1 July (US)

#7885 (Electropunk to Technopop 1978 – 1985) compiles two distinct periods of Cabaret Voltaire - 1978-81 and 1983-85 – for the first time together on one release and follows the re-mastered vinyl release of Red Mecca and already legendary and sold out box set, #8385 (Collected Works 1983 – 1985).

Featuring classic tracks such as Nag Nag Nag, Do The Mussolini (Headkick), Sensoria, Landslide, I Want You and Just Fascination, #7885 (Electropunk to Technopop 1978 – 1985) was curated by Richard H Kirk who explains, “I decided to gather the more concise elements of the work… Hence the choice of 7” singles, edits and shorter album tracks, a kind of sound bite take on CV.”

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Cabaret Voltaire - Crackdown (Radio Edit 83)

Taken from the ‘HAND PRINTS’ EP, Out now
Available on iTunes here: smarturl.it/aeahpitunessc

As Elephants Are follow last October’s release of the “Crystal” single (BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe ‘Next Hype’), with the brand new 4-track “Hand Prints” EP.

With past releases being described as everything from “sinister” (This Is Fake DIY), to “Life affirming” and “Magical” (the 405) to “Wonderfully dreamy” (Time Out London), EP title track ‘Hand Prints’ develops further the band’s ability to write nagging melodies wrapped in barbed wire rhythms. EP title track “Hand Prints” has already racked up over 25,000 plays on Soundcloud and plays on BBC Radio 1 from Huw Stephens and Jen & Ally as well as playlists on XFM and Amazing Radio. EP track “Went Wrong” has also given the band its first US radio play courtesy of KCRW.

On the live front, 2013 saw As Elephants Are play their debut slot at the Reading and Leeds Festival on the BBC Introducing Stage as well as appearing at Bushstock and Southsea Festival and supporting Half Moon Run. On 31st March 2014 the band completed their first headline UK Tour. The 10-date tour culminated in the band’s first proper London headline show at The Sebright Arms on 31st March. A Summer of festival appearances now beckons with the following shows already announced and more to follow:

3rd May - Canterbury, Sound City Project (w/Saint Raymond, Pixel Fix)
4th May - Stockton, Sunday Live (w/Wolf Alice, Circa Waves)
8th May - Brighton, The Prince Albert (w/New Desert Blues)
24th May - Barcelona, Spain, Razzmatazz
12th June - London, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, New Blood Festival (w/Young Kato)
13th June - London, Club NME @ Koko
20th June - Camden Crawl @ Camden Eye, London
21st June - Lainfest
18th July - Bristol, Birdcage
19th July - TRUCK Festival
25th July - Secret Garden Party
25th July - REDFEST

As Elephants Are - Kingdom

Cold Showers, "So I Can Grow (Alternate Take)"

Demo track that never saw the light of day but a favourite of mine. A forgotten piece of music from Driveblind guitarist Nick Tyler and then a flash of vocal inspiration years later from me resulted in this track.

The Devil Will Be Looking For Me (Demo) (McDermott/Tyler)

Driveblind - Leave Home

Over My Head

Forthcoming debut LP by The Grand Rapids. Release 28th June 2013 
Recorded by Callum Barter @ Melbournes infamous Sing Sing studio 2012
Mastered by Paul Fox @ Indie Masters

DRONEMACHINE

03-In a Lonely Place-Fire

This is a desk mix version of Clearer Now that did not make the 2006 Driveblind album. Mike Hedges (The Cure, Travis, Manic Street Preachers) produced it - there is a different chorus and outro from the US version. Recorded in London at Westside Studios in 2004, but not mixed or mastered.  

Driveblind - Clearer Now (Mike Hedges version)

The title track from Younghusband's debut album, released via Sonic Cathedral Recordings on September 16, 2013.

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