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ARBOU-Rain on Vinyl [DARK NATURE CONCEPT]

Rain - Feat - Brothaman - Ninja Mike

Esperanza (Silver Lining)

Oloddumare es a la tradición Yoruba Africana lo que la Pachamama es a la cosmovisión y cultura andina prehispánica. Una palabra que refleja la manifestación material y espiritual de todo lo existente.

Mezcla y mastering: Fermín Sagarduy
Arte de tapa: Jazmín Giudici

Oloddumare - Silvio Astier

track by soundcloud.com/kousk & soundcloud.com/esylus <3
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In December 2018, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) turns 70. Designed to prevent the repetition of the horrific human rights violations that had been committed during World War II, this landmark document has been ratified by the majority of countries. Up to now it seems that the UDHR has fallen on hard times; that's certainly not perfect, and somehow it is important to point out that emphasises individualism over community. Don't deceive yourself, UDHR remains as significant today as it was in 1948. However, reflection becomes easier when we realize that the saddest chapters of human history are ultimately derived from the ideology of domination. 

Given its unique rational nature, only the individual is able to use reason to perform an act. Going further, we should understand why our interests often prevail to the detriment of the interests of other species. In fact, if we exam closely, we're always reclaiming the world as our own. Sometimes it made us drift from a tender-hearted logic. 

Hovering over these aspects, the compilation MUX in its fourth edition put us through the wringer! Have you ever noticed or had the feeling that social solidarity is more and more undermined? The drama of the modern human which causes individuals to become commodities of exchange such as capital goods. It resumes every morning, but always with the decentralized, crooked, fragmenting self. In contrast, even though we still do not have a fair and peaceful world, we have to believe that there will be regeneration. There's a smell of good years coming, our hopes are placed in some future ahead. We want to believe. 

Beyond this duality, under two parts - [a] & [b] - MUX vol.4 put together a wide spectrum of artists that prepared tracks with a semblance of freedom, faith, dignity. Undoubtedly, an "ethereal, humanoid and dancing" facet guides this sonic miscellany, where judgements of value aren’t fit and nothing feels the same as it did. It call us to take our emptiness away, to eradicate the dark selfishness that still inhabits our hearts. 

In the endeavor of progress we are beings in constant evolution, without the knowledge of ourselves there is no inner transformation. <3

Credits\

released December 10, 2018 

Artwork\ jnth <3 
www.facebook.com/allanjnth 
www.instagram.com/jnth/ 

Master\ André Torres @ RD Studio, Brasília - DF <3 
www.facebook.com/andreh.torres.br 
bash.br@gmail.com

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Kousk feat. Esylus — A Thousand Little Drops

I've been a bit quiet on here these last six months... I've had a busy run with work as well as trying to finish Uni and be a good dad and stay on top of all sorts of things. But music is coming.... I've been making a few things which I look forward to sharing next year. 

Here's a little one I made in the winter... a tribute to one of my all time favourite artists... Mr Leonard Cohen. I hope you enjoy, stay safe <3

Who By Fire

Who By Fire - Leonard Cohen (Vibrant Matters Rethink)

Support // Download: https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/ermitan-o-ep

‘Ermitaño’ germinated during the two months Michael Alfred Wagner AKA Biomigrant spent at the Fundación Tumac, a community school in Tumaco founded to recover and teach traditional music and dance in the Colombian south pacific. Set to the rhythms of Bunde and Currulao, the EP follows the iconic sound of the Chonta Marimba as it disembarks from its native coasts to navigate new currents, carried along by deep electronic pulses, gusts of wind instruments, and dreamscapes of water and concrete. 

‘La Utopía’ was inspired by a story of the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, questioning what role ideals play in our imperfect and complex world. 

‘Ciudad de Agua’ (City of Water) takes flight through the marimba of Jhon ‘Pitufo’ Cortés (from the band Plu con Pla), guided by the words of the legendary musician Gualajo, who describes the origin of the instrument in the sounds of the ocean and jungle, and imagines how the music would change within an urban context. 

‘Ermitaño’ (Hermit) reimagines a traditional ‘bunde’ as a deep, trap-influenced encounter between the voices of Barbacoa-born singer Cristina Cortés and Mike (Biomigrant), contemplating a long, solitary path and rejuvenating moments of collective celebration, culminating in a dubby flute line.
credits
released January 21, 2019 

Musicians: 
Jhon ‘Pitufo’ Cortes - Marimba in ‘Ciudad de Agua’ and ‘Ermitaño’ 
Cristina Cortés - Voice in ‘La Utopía’ y ‘Ermitaño’ 
Kevin Leandro Cortés Garcia - Bombo, Cununu, and Guasa in ‘La Utopía’, ‘Ciudad de Agua’, and ‘Ermitaño’ 
Juan Camilo Ramirez Salazar - Trumpet in ‘La Utopía’ 
Diana Cacais - Voice in ‘La Utopía’ 
José Antonio ‘Gualajo’ Torres - Voice in ‘Ciudad de Agua’ (from an interview conducted in 2016) 

Michael Alfred Wagner - Recording, production, mixing, and all other instruments/voices. 

Artwork by Stella Ismene (stellaismene.com) 

Mastering: Rob Small
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Biomigrant - Ciudad de Agua Feat. Jhon Pitufo Cortés

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

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Kousk - Speaking Tree

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Desplumada (VINZOO Remix)

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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.