Natacha Atlas - Makaan and Batkalim (Basha Beats' Rise To Freedom Remix)

This is a remix of material from “Mounqaliba”. We were inspired to do this by the news from Tahrir
Square.
Here's a translation :

<< Mubarak : “My fellow citizens..A fine line lies between freedom...and chaos.” >>

Natacha :

Let us stand together and awaken ,
Let us question, learn and study;
Listen, understand and think.
Let us understand,
Permit us to know-
Permit us to know freedom.

Let us know there is a land
where words are the purveyors of truth,
heads are held high,
And human will is regarded above all.

Where the world is not split into a thousand fragments,
Under siege, forgotten, or lost -
Let us perceive of it,
Let us know that place.
Let us know our land,
where words are the purveyors of truth.

<< Mubarak : “My fellow citizens..A fine line lies between freedom...and -” >>
<<Crowds: “MAY HOSNI MUBARAK FALL !!”>>

Natacha Atlas - "Makaan and Batkalim" (Basha Beats' Rise To Freedom Remix)

Chamber Music is a collaboration between Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the traditional kora, a lute-harp from Mali, and Vincent Ségal, the French cellist who plays for the trip-hop band Bumcello.

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Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal - "Chamber Music"

From Azam Ali's new album: From Night To the Edge of Day

With a career spanning over a decade, Azam Ali is back with her third and latest solo release titled From Night to the Edge of Day, releasing April 12th. On this album, Azam performs unique and gorgeous renditions of various lullabies from the Middle East illustrating the power of life, nature, joy, pain, love and beauty.

To stream the entire From Night To the Edge of Day: 
 http://snd.sc/fJpOyO 

For more info on Azam Ali: 
 http://sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=Azam_Ali

Azam Ali - Dandini

By any measure, Niyaz has come very far, very fast.  The trio's 2005 debut featured a convincing blend of Sufi mysticism and trance electronica, and quickly established them as a standout ensemble in a very crowded world music field.  Niyaz returns with Nine Heavens, which doesn't just cross cultural and stylistic boundaries, but the centuries as well.  

Niyaz - Ishq Love and the Veil

Issa Bagayogo's fantastic new remix project, Issa Remixed,  is filled with great mixes from the likes of Shrift, Tal M. Klein, Adham Shaikh, Tapan Raj, Rise Ashen and many others.

Issa Bagayogo - Poye

Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal / Cradle To The Grave

Ceu - Bubuia

Japanese producer starRo combines chopped up jazzy breaks with chilled electronics that really accentuate the Wayne Coyne/Steven Drozd song’s dream-like qualities. TSLC musical director Mikey Wells says of the mix, "I love the total liberty and creativity taken in the starRO remix. It takes the inherent spacey, trippy vibe of the original track and totally reinvents it.” 

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The Silver Lake Chorus / Heavy Star Movin' (starRo Remix)

Cheb i Sabbah -  Qalanderi (from the album Devotion)

It is a sad and tragic fact that people living with Albinism (a genetic condition resulting in little or no pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes) in East Africa are persecuted and literally hunted, based on the belief that their body parts can transmit magical powers & that they are in some way “demonic.” As a result, they are regularly killed and dismembered— often while still alive— which has led most to understandably live in fear. As if adding insult to already unthinkable injury, many of the women are also subjected to rape due to the ugly myth that having sex with them can cure AIDS.

In 2016, producer and author Ian Brennan (best known for producing Tinariwen’s Grammy-winning album, Tassili, as well as Six Degrees’ two critically lauded Zomba Prison Project releases) traveled to Ukerewe, the largest inland island in Africa which can only be reached by an over packed four-hour ferry ride. It is a place so remote that historically people often traveled there to abandon their children with albinism and now serves as a haven for many with the condition.

There, he worked with members of the Standing Voice community, who volunteered for songwriting workshops. Brennan encouraged them to write about their experiences and to express what they wanted others to understand about their existence. But even among the willing, singing-out proved hard within a group that routinely avoided eye contact, rarely spoke above a whisper, and were unaccustomed to dancing.

Listen to Full Album

Tanzania Albinism Collective "Life Is Hard"

From the album "When The People Move, The Music Moves Too"
https://meklit.lnk.to/when

When the People Move, the Music Moves Too, slated for June 23, 2017 release on Six Degrees Records, reveals Meklit's startlingly beautiful new sound that seamlessly merges East Africa and the African diaspora via an intimate, rhythmically charged body of songs recorded in Addis Ababa, Los Angeles, New Orleans and San Francisco. 

A collaboration with Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer Dan Wilson (Adele, Dixie Chicks, Taylor Swift), the album is built on Meklit’s jazz-steeped working-band featuring bassist Sam Bevan, drummer Colin Douglas, and Marco Peris Coppola on tupan drum. Meklit accompanies her translucent, soul-sated vocals on guitar and the six-string krar, an Ethiopian lyre, while Howard Wiley provides pleasingly pungent counterpoint on tenor and baritone saxophones.

When The People Move, The Music Moves Too

Listen to FULL ALBUM

Meklit "Supernova"

Mosquitos – singer Juju Stulbach, singer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Root, keyboardist-programmer Jon Marshall Smith -- are musical nomads whose songs occupy a mythical place somewhere between Brooklyn and Brazil. Mexican Dust is the trio’s fourth album, its first after a ten-year hiatus.  However, the passage of time hasn’t changed Mosquitos’ sound. It’s always existed in a sweet, special place, somewhere sunny and off the beaten path, with a unique blend of Brazilian influences, American pop smarts and witty, oddball arrangements.  Mexican Dust, produced by Michael Leonhart and Mosquitos, is perhaps the most geographically specific of their discs, its wistful songs shaped by the years Stulbach and Root have spent in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.

LISTEN TO FULL ALBUM

Mosquitos "Counting The Days" from the album Mexican Dust

LADAMA is a group of four women, virtuosic musicians, and educators -- Lara Klaus, Daniela Serna, Mafer Bandola and Sara Lucas—- each from a different country and culture of the Americas, who are sisters in song, rhythm and spirit. Harnessing music from their respective countries of origin --Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and the United States, the group utilizes traditional and non-traditional instruments from across the Americas, but with a modern twist, to produce Latin Alternative music.

LADAMA - Porro Maracatu

The first episode of our new Six Degrees podcast features label co-founder Bob Duskis in conversation with producer & author Ian Brennan. Brennan is known for traveling the World to produce projects with voices that would perhaps otherwise be unheard. Among the albums he has produced for Six Degrees are two volumes with the Grammy nominated Zomba Prison Project, the Romanian group Zmei3, former Thelonious Monster vocalist Bob Forrest and most recently Tanzania Albinism Collective. He has also produced the Grammy winning album, Tassili for Tuareg group Tinariwen, The Malawi Mouse Boys, the Good Ones and is an author, whose latest book is How Music Dies (Or Lives). In this free wheeling conversation Duskis & Brennan discuss making albums with untrained, non-musicians, that exist outside of typical “World Music” expectations, what it’s like traveling to far flung places and collaborating with your wife, the politics of music as a force for change and many other subjects.

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Six Degrees Podcast Episode 1 – featuring Ian Brennan

First single from the brand new Brazilian Girls album LET'S MAKE LOVE, due April 13, 2018.

Produced by longtime Brazilian Girls collaborator Frederik Rubens, the Let’s Make Love album came to life over the course of several years. Since they’re now scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe, the four band members assembled when possible to write and record, piggybacking those sessions onto gigs in Istanbul and Madrid and Paris and New York. Despite the distance, Brazilian Girls consistently found their chemistry as kinetic as when they first started out. “It’s a little astounding to us because we’ll go so long without playing, and then we get together and things just happen in this very harmonious way,” says Sciubba.

Brazilian Girls "Pirates"

Azam Ali & Loga Ramin Torkian- Lonely Chamber

Brazilian Girls return in 2018 with Let’s Make Love, their fourth album and first since 2008’s Grammy-nominated New York City. Due April 13 via Six Degrees Records, the album release will be followed by a short U.S. tour in May (see dates below & tix here). 

Let’s Make Love was produced by longtime collaborator Frederik Ruben and came to life over the course of several years. The four band members—Didi Gutman (keyboards, vocals), Aaron Johnston (drums, percussion, vocals), Jesse Murphy (bass, vocals) and Sciubba (lead vocals, electronics)—are now scattered throughout the U.S. and Europe and they assembled when possible to write and record, piggybacking those sessions onto gigs in Istanbul and Madrid, Paris and New York. Despite the distance, the group consistently found their chemistry as kinetic as when they first started out. Sciubba notes, "It's a little astounding to us because we'll go so long without playing, and then we get together and things just happen in this very harmonious way."

Brazilian Girls "Karaköy"

From Gaudi: 

My story with The Turbans goes back a few years. I’ve always been a big fan of theirs and we've shared some amazing stage moments (and off-stage moments as well he heee…).  We've played in India together, crushing parties with our infectious dub/gypsy flavour. People loved it, and we loved it too!   

At the time they didn’t have any recording deal, so I suggested to get in touch with Six Degrees, I talked to Bob at the label about it and the rest is history.  
What I've always loved about that band is the intense charge of energy that they have naturally, both on and off the stage. I also love the fact that The Turbans have no frontman or leader- they are all equally important and they all give the same level of contribution to the band.

We performed together in London for their album launch and we absolutely smashed it. They've always had an amazing respect for what I do musically and personally, so after the gig we planned to do something together and this remix is the result. 

I personally picked this track AMAN to be reworked with a different perspective and a different angle. I could feel it had an enormous potential as their next single but felt the track needed a different arrangement and approach in order to make it 100% solid and appealing to every type of music palate.

The song was played without any click so it was very “live” and quite difficult to create a constant solidity all the way through.  I then created a fixed BPM and i adapted every single element to it. It was a very hard job, but the final result is so beautiful that every second i dedicated to this production was 100% worth it.

The Turbans - "Aman (Gaudi Remix)"

Sissoko/Segal (Chamber Music) - "Ma-Ma_ FC"

Ballaké Sissoko is a noted player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal and several others. He can be heard on Diario Mali. Ballaké's father, Djelimady Sissoko, was a notable musician in his own right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballak%C3%A9_Sissoko
https://www.facebook.com/ballake.sissoko.official.fan.page
http://www.youtube.com/artist/ballak%C3%A9-sissoko
http://sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=Ballak%E9_Sissoko

Ballaké Sissoko - Badjourou

Vieux Farka Touré's beautiful latest album was recorded as an homage to his homeland.  Being that his native Mali has been splintered by territorial fighting between Tuareg and Islamic rebels since January 2012, his new album, Mon Pays, is devoted to reminding the world about the beauty and culture of his homeland.
 
‘For me it is a statement for the world that this land is for the sons and daughters of Mali, not for Al Qaeda or any militants. This land is for peace and beauty, rich culture and tolerance.This is our heritage, what we must always fight to protect in any way that we can. For me, that means making music that reminds the world of who we are.’
 
Translating as ‘My Nation,’ this predominantly acoustic undertaking had been planned before the invasions began. Inspired by his work with Israeli pianist and vocalist Idan Raichel, Touré initially went into a Bamako studio to honor the acoustic blues tradition of Northern and Southern Mali. Since that time, Mon Pays transformed into an artifact of cultural preservation.

Two songs on the project -Future’ and ‘Peace’ feature Sidiki Diabate’s kora leading an emotional charge complemented by Touré’s spectacular guitar work. Both tracks represent an important generational "passing of the torch" as Sidiki’s father, Toumani is considered one of the greatest living kora masters and was a close friend of Vieux’s father Ali. Their two records together, In the Heart of the Moon and Ali and Toumani, were awarded Grammies. At the 2011 ceremonies, Vieux accepted the prestigious award for his father, who had recently passed from bone cancer.

Mon Pays is the most mature and lovely record yet from one of this generation's most exciting artists to come out of Mali and one of world music's true rising stars.


09 Vieux Farka Toure-Peace

10 Vieux Farka Toure-Ay Bakoy

From the brand new GAUDI album "in between times"!

Get it now: www.gaudimusic.bandcamp.com
 iTunes: georiot.co/2KHy
 Beatport: www.beatport.com/release/in-between-times/1093150
Amazon: www.amazon.com/In-Between-Times-…udi/dp/B00BEWCINU

We are thrilled to announce that after three years of hard work in the studio, GAUDI's new album “In between times” is now available worldwide! GAUDI's “sonic mission” was to create an album with the right balance of deep vocal tunes and soaring instrumentals, all brought together to form a musical journey in dub and analogue electronic music. After listening to it we hope you will all agree that he succeeded - and then some!

Collaborating with a noteworthy collection of highly respected artists, many of them pioneers in their respective musical genres, the album features contributions from reggae legends, Michael Rose (Black Uhuru’s frontman), Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Dennis Bovell; electronica pioneers, The Orb; dub ambassador, Twilight Circus; psy-electronica producers, Raja Ram (from Shpongle) and Hedflux; and all kept together by the lyrical power of vocalists Danny Ladwa, Deadly Hunta, Tahar, Greg Sams and Jahmai. Available now as a digital download and on CD - CHECK IT! 

www.gaudimusic.com

**Buy via Bandcamp**

2) Tamino & the temple of dub

*Buy via Bandcamp*

1) Put your guns down (feat. Michael Rose)

3) Life (feat. Jahmal)

Free download + album out now!
www.gaudimusic.bandcamp.com

iTunes: georiot.co/2KHy 
Beatport: www.beatport.com/release/in-between-times/1093150
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/In-Between-Times-Gaudi/dp/B00BEWCINU

We are thrilled to announce that after three years of hard work in the studio, GAUDI's new album “In between times” is now available worldwide! GAUDI's “sonic mission” was to create an album with the right balance of deep vocal tunes and soaring instrumentals, all brought together to form a musical journey in dub and analogue electronic music. After listening to it we hope you will all agree that he succeeded - and then some!

Collaborating with a noteworthy collection of highly respected artists, many of them pioneers in their respective musical genres, the album features contributions from reggae legends, Michael Rose (Black Uhuru’s frontman), Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Dennis Bovell; electronica pioneers, The Orb; dub ambassador, Twilight Circus; psy-electronica producers, Raja Ram (from Shpongle) and Hedflux; and all kept together by the lyrical power of vocalists Danny Ladwa, Deadly Hunta, Tahar, Greg Sams and Jahmai. Available now as a digital download and on CD - CHECK IT! 

www.gaudimusic.com

4) Why u wanna run (feat. Danny Ladwa) **FREE DOWNLOAD**

6) I start to pray (feat. Lee Scratch Perry & the Orb)

7) Spiritual orphans

Vieux Farka Touré's beautiful latest album was recorded as an homage to his homeland. Being that his native Mali has been splintered by territorial fighting between Tuareg and Islamic rebels since January 2012, his new album, Mon Pays, is devoted to reminding the world about the beauty and culture of his homeland.

‘For me it is a statement for the world that this land is for the sons and daughters of Mali, not for Al Qaeda or any militants. This land is for peace and beauty, rich culture and tolerance.This is our heritage, what we must always fight to protect in any way that we can. For me, that means making music that reminds the world of who we are.’

Translating as ‘My Nation,’ this predominantly acoustic undertaking had been planned before the invasions began. Inspired by his work with Israeli pianist and vocalist Idan Raichel, Touré initially went into a Bamako studio to honor the acoustic blues tradition of Northern and Southern Mali. Since that time, Mon Pays transformed into an artifact of cultural preservation.

Two songs on the project -Future’ and ‘Peace’ feature Sidiki Diabate’s kora leading an emotional charge complemented by Touré’s spectacular guitar work. Both tracks represent an important generational "passing of the torch" as Sidiki’s father, Toumani is considered one of the greatest living kora masters and was a close friend of Vieux’s father Ali. Their two records together, In the Heart of the Moon and Ali and Toumani, were awarded Grammies. At the 2011 ceremonies, Vieux accepted the prestigious award for his father, who had recently passed from bone cancer.

Mon Pays is the most mature and lovely record yet from one of this generation's most exciting artists to come out of Mali and one of world music's true rising stars.

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05 Vieux Farka Toure-Nouhoume Maiga

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Vieux Farka Toure-Future

Vieux Farka Toure-Allah Wawi

Six Degrees Records produces and markets accessible, genre-bending records that explore world music traditions, modern dance grooves, electronic music, and overlooked pop gems. The label’s catchphrase, “everything is closer than you think,” is a real reflection of Six Degrees’ commitment to different styles of music that appeal to a curious and increasingly sizable audience.

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