Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars - Sierra leone prinia

Vieux Farka Toure & Luka Productions - Black crowned crane

The birds from "A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa",  an album of music inspired by endangered birdsong. Each featured artist was challenged to make an original track using and inspired by the song of an endangered bird from their country. The album aims to raise awareness about the plight of these birds while raising funds for organisations that are working to protect them.

A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa features 10 artists as diverse as the birds found in this region. Guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and fellow Malian producer Luka Productions pair with the call of the Black crowned crane, which is found across the Sahel and is threatened by trapping for the pet trade. Senegalese group Wau Wau Collectif and kora maestro Lamine Cissokho, take the sound of the Yellow-casqued hornbill and integrate it into a weightless, flute-filled groove. Sierra Leone’s Refugee Allstars layer subtle chirping over the off-beat strumming of regional baskeda folk music to honor the Sierra Leone prinia. Buruntuma picks up the tempo with his clean Afro-house featuring the song of the Timneh parrot and Sensei Lo blends local electronic rhythms and melodies with sounds of the incredibly rare Ibadan malimbe.

This project would not have been possible without the support of an incredible Kickstarter community, with whom we raised £19,329 in September 2021. All net proceeds from the crowdfunding campaign and all profits from the sales of the record, music streaming, poster and t-shirt will be donated to three organisations working on the ground to protect these and other bird species:

Timneh Parrot(Psittacus timneh)

xeno-canto

São Tomé grosbeak (Crithagra concolor)

Rufous Fishing Owl (Scotopelia ussheri)

Raso lark (Alauda razae)

Nimba Flycatcher (Melaenornis annamarulae)

Sierra Leone Prinia (Schistolais leontica)

Yellow-casqued Hornbill (Ceratogymna elata)

Gabon

Loango Weaver(Ploceus subpersonatus)

For this upcoming autumn release, Dan Bay, electronic music producer from Frankfurt in Germany offers a beautiful butterflying track layered of dreamy keys and downtempo beats.

Remixes include a collaboration with Rodrigo Gallardo, multi-instrumentalist from Santiago de Chile, Anatolian Weapons, known for his long spacy remix and Titoffee running the label who has collaborated on vocals with Kendy Zhang from Spain.  Each remix offers a different reading of the original track that let us enjoy this autumn with peace and confidence.

Enjoy !

Digital release date 15 September 2020
Streaming & download ditigal link lnk.to/weblo009

Double Vinyl order 1st december 2020

Les Disques du bord de l'eau - Autumn EP 2020

The Wind, My Hang & The Butterfly (Rodrigo Gallardo Remix)

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Dan Bay - The Wind, My Hang & The Butterfly (Rodrigo Gallardo Remix)

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.

Raso lark (Alauda razae)

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