Shika Shika is very happy to present the 4th edition of our Passages series dedicated to migration. This new volume features Alex Musatov

Alex Musatov is a violinist and singer based in Buenos Aires since 2011. Russian by birth and Argentinian by choice (although also having a grandfather who’s originally from Argentina), he started out as a session player moving freely across all kinds of musical generes (tango, indie, folk, punk, electronic) to this day appearing on around 100 records and touring in more than 20 countries around the globe. His anti-academic approach to violin-playing is driven by his urge to explore new musical horizons every day and is the reason he started writing songs exclusively for violin and voice mixing folk, gothic and neo-classical influences.
This collection of four musical moments is inspired by a bittersweet feeling of not knowing where you belong (Home), toxic relationships (Eye of the Storm), crossing all kinds of borders (Frontier), and dealing with hypocrisy (Kingdom of Dust).

All sounds without exceptions are done with violin and vocals.
Written and produced by Alex Musatov between january and july 2023 at his home studio.
Co-production by Barrio Lindo.
Mastering by Feco Escofet.
Artwork by Clau Smith.
Special thanks to Stephen Cuttriss and Christine Brebes for helping out with finishing touches on the lyrics, and to Tomi Lebrero for lending the microphone used for recording all the violins.

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Passages Vol.4 Alex Musatov

Beatiful

New Wonderwheel signing Brooklyn Gypsies debut their first track "Fafisa" - utilizing traditional Eastern European elements, gritty, beautiful female vocals and dubstep inspired electronic elements. Wonderwheel mainstay Zeb remixes "Fafisa" into a beautiful, spacey dancehall reggae inspired version.

Sin Fronteras

Fafisa

Brooklyn Gypsies - Fafisa

Alex Musatov - Kingdom of dust

Alex Musatov - Frontier

Alex Musatov - Eye of the storm

Alex Musatov - Home

Medhi - Titi Robin

The forth compilation of Frente Bolivarista is inspired on the sounds of Nomade Festival which happened in Halver/Germany in the year of 2016. After a three day journey of fusion music into the woods meeting dozens of great and insipiring people from all over the globe willing to join for the good music and the regionalism behind it, we decided to release a compilation inspired on the artists envolved with the festival and of course some of our all the time artists,

Canción Waunana (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)

Esta canción es parte del compilado "Los nuevos sonidos de Siempre" del 6º Aniversario de Cassette Blog, curado por Pablo Pachacutik.  

Link de descarga gratuita aquí dentro:   http://www.cassetteblog.com/2016/11/va-los-nuevos-sonidos-de-siempre-curado-por-pablo-pachacutik-cassette-blog-6to-aniversario/

Carioca (free download, see track info)

Guem : Le serpent (pour percussion africaine)

Available on Digital / Vinyl 
14.12.2018

Download // Buy: https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/camino-de-flores
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/54RG3zzcA9TCMyrBmIicdu

On Camino de Flores, his second full-length album, El Búho reimagines electronic music through the lense of the natural world and its rich soundscapes. 

Drawing on the inspiration of traditional rhythms and sounds, notably from Latin America, Camino de Flores is an album that transports you to another place. Following the success of his first LP, titled Balance, El Búho is back and takes us on a journey from high mountains to cascading waterfalls, from a dusky rainforest to a crackling fire beneath a clear, star-filled sky. The album charts a pathway between traditional rhythms, the sound of the natural world, IDM electronica and a deep, enveloping dancefloor sound. 

With rhythms, instruments and effects built from field recordings or “found sound”, on Camino de Flores it is often hard to distinguish between synths and drum machines, from birds, water, rain or crunching leaves.

El Búho - Camino De Flores

El Búho - Aguas Claras

Márcio Pinto is a Portuguese musician with a degree in Classical Percussion who is also a member of several well known Portuguese bands. 

Passionate about exotic and tribal rhythms, Márcio has travels extensively to Western Africa in search of knowledge about traditional percussion from the region and he has a special interest in the balophone. 

Inspired by the balophone, universally known as the marimba, Márcio created MaguPi, an electroacoustic project inspired by African sounds and rhythms. 


Pai Changa: 

A Mandingue rhythm from the western coast of Africa reimagined by a classical percussionist. The voices convey human liberation through ancestral plants used by indigenous peoples. 

O Ritual: 

In "O Ritual," the voices, recorded by MaguPi, provide the initial theme upon which the rest of the song is based. Various cultures are united in this song: Arabic, Latin-American, African, and its conception arose in ritual form. 

Follow MaguPi on Facebook: www.facebook.com/musicaduniverso/ 

Follow MaguPi on Soundcloud: 
@magupi

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MaguPi - Ritual

Release: Lagom  l  MND010
Label: MŎNɅDɅ
Release Date: 2019-11-12

➟ Download/Stream: bit.ly/344wzDZ
➟ Beatport: bit.ly/2NgsyFi
➟ Bandcamp: bit.ly/3mZIZ8G

"Geplantes Nichtstun" - Planned idleness, rather played than seen. 
His focus lies on the production of evocative and emotive tracks. His arrangements testify to great care and suggest of prolounged classical musical education back in the days. 
"It was a pleasure to meet Olli on the last days of december 2018 in Bern at Kapitel Club. There was not only a certain vibe and a connection about music which accompanied us through the night. San Miguel was one of the first internationally known DJ to record a track of Geplantes Nichtstun in a DJ-Set on soundcloud. The contact subsisted and we were eager to find a track that fits in the temple called „Monada“." 
After several releases on different labels like Amselcom, LOKD, Akumandra, Heimlich Musik and a forthcoming album on Serafin Audio Imprints, a single track release called „Lagom“ find its way to the listeners. Lagom is derived from Swedish and means "just right". It appears in the optimal interplay of synthetic and organic sounds and is trying to help achieve serenity and harmony with oneself and the environment. Perhaps it's better in a more conscious way, enjoyed on headphones at home or while travelling or in an extatic dance set during a dance with open heart. With 97bpm the slowest release of Tom so far.

Monada:
@monada-project
www.facebook.com/cosmicmonad

Geplantes Nichtstun:
@geplantesnichtstun
https://geplantes-nichtstun.bandcamp.com

Lagom

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Geplantes Nichtstun - Lagom [MŎNɅDɅ 010]

Hard to believe it has been four years since the birth of Shika Shika with the release of Barrio Lindo’s Kayak Break EP. Four years of being able to release music we love, artists that inspire us and the power of borderless, cultural cross-pollination.

Yet we have reached a crucial crossroads where it is time for the collective to evolve and grow. We want to embrace a vision that tries to find the sweet spot between music & activism, be it cultural and social empowerment or environmental awareness.

Cosmofania (inspired by Cosmogony - the study of the beginning of the universe) embraces this new beginning but also new artists and new sounds for ys. A deep, exciting anf refreshing new beginning!

With this compilation we are presenting a selection of new names we’d never heard of until our open call, old friends we somehow haven’t already worked with and amazing established names. It is a selection of beautiful, music by 13 talented musicians and producers from all over the world - Canada to Indonesia, Egypt to Argentina. They are tied together by an approach to electronic folk music, rich organic soundscapes and a sonic freshness

Free Dwnld (= donate

Akimbo - Boreumdal

Shika Shika is a global collective without owners for music without borders. 

We are inspired by nature, by tradition, by the past and by the future. Our direction is fresh, different, genre hopping organic-electronic-digital-folk.