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As a parent all you ever want is for your kids to be happy. No matter what sort of stuff they're into (whether it be sport, art or something else) you simply want them to enjoy what they do. It's been a lonely old road this 'amateur hour' music production stuff. No one's been interested in it here at home. Well that was until now! My 9 year old daughter (Maya) popped her head into my room the other night whilst I was putting together Launchpad Session 236 and asked me what I was doing. I said making music. She asked if she could have a go and I said you bet! Using the same 'Motown Redux' sound pack, 'Clouds' is Maya's first outing on Launchpad. She hopes you like it. And so do I!

Clouds (A Song By Maya)

All instruments/vox by Adam Wazonek
Recorded @ 8475 Ontairio St, Vancouver BC, Summer 2015

Wazonek - Your Time Just Hasn't Come Yet

Taken from the upcoming album Amparo.
Amparo is released May 27 via Labrador in Europe, Cascine in North America and Rallye in Japan.

www.labrador.se // info@labrador.se
www.cascine.us // andi@cascine.us

Maria Usbeck's solo debut, Amparo, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Ecuador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Barcelona, Lisbon, Easter Island, Costa Rica, Florida, L.A. and her home in Brooklyn. Though the songs were composed electronically, Amparo called for an acoustic treatment, so Usbeck spent a winter in the studio recording the arrangements live with producer Caroline Polachek and mixer & engineer Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. Fleshed out in full sonic color on the marimba, xylophone, quena flute, piano, and harp, the album stretched into something hi-fi and expressive, meditative but not meandering.

Amparo stems from Usbeck's desire to compose in Spanish, her native language. Growing up in Quito, Usbeck was immersed in salsa, merengue, bachata, and Andean music, but was more attracted to German and American culture than to her own, and moved to America by herself at 17. After five years of fronting new wave outfit Selebrities and writing songs in English, Usbeck experienced a delayed-onset homesickness and knew it was time to "let the mother tongue speak." The impulse manifested itself directly: Amparo takes its title from Usbeck's middle name and her mother's name, and translates roughly as "to guide, protect, and embrace." Usbeck wields her Spanish lyrics cleverly while folding in snippets of several other far-flung tongues: Rapa Nui from Easter Island, Quichua from Ecuador, Bribri from Costa Rica, and Catalan. Because these lyrics were composed while visiting the countries from which they originate, their usage is more impressionistic than literal, like a mockingbird imitating fragments of other bird calls. Similarly, Usbeck reinterprets the Ecuadorian music that she grew up with as a newcomer, returning home with fresh ears, and as such the sounds are very much her own.

The backbone of Amparo is percussion, vibrating throughout with timbales, tumbas, a talking drum, bongos, shakers, and an Indian flat drum, with the gaps filled in by her field recordings of birds, beaches, and jungles. The songs were written and recorded chronologically, with the exception of the closing track, a cover of Colourbox’s “Tarantula” reimagined in Usbeck’s Spanish translation. Amparo is a reflection of the textures of Usbeck's childhood. It is also a distinctly grown-up pop record – a travel diary, music made by a visiting outsider to tap into a shared core of human expression. Emotively, Usbeck is her most powerful on piano ballads "Uno De Tus Ojos" and "Jungla Inquieta," but is a magnetic narrator throughout, moving between whispers, chants, and lullabies. Amparo pulses with many stories in many voices, but they flow together seamlessly like water, leaving behind a wordless hum.


Maria Usbeck - Uno De Tus Ojos

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from DEBUT ALBUM "His Jeweled Letter Box" JULY.2010 ON SALE

Hotel Mexico - Its Twinkle

Oh lord. 
A mess of blue guitar chords that say the things I can’t say, and voice the thoughts I can’t weigh. 
Large or light, your weights are mine. 
I don’t mind if you don’t mind. 
I’m afraid in my own way of what you know that I don’t show. 
Hermano. 
Admit you don’t know how to phrase it. 
A chain that’s here in clear view. 
A future that includes you. 
Times and dates that I can’t trace. 
One sole face I can’t displace. 
I’m afraid in my own way of what you know that I don’t show. 
Hermano.

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Hermano

Heaven's Basement (Theme From 86'd)

You lost me again
I can’t remember when
There are things 
I would have liked to shown 
Before you were gone

What have I done
I need someone to help me
What have I done
I need someone to help me

You left me with bane
I wanna marry jane
To think of you
Is the only thing that I can do
You lost me again 
I can’t remember when 

What have I done
I need someone to help me
What have I done
I need someone to help me

Orinoco

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