Album blogged @ http://jallamusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/cd-review-watcha-clan-radio-babel.html

Que voz y que ritmo.... Quien es la cantante?

Whiskey Moon Face is one of my favourite bands and I was lucky enought to work with them. This one is part of an album which was recorded all live (including vocals) at Shock and Awe Studios and recorded, mixed and produced by Rory Carlisle and myself and mastered by the legendary Ray Staff at Air Studios.

Whiskey Moon Face Dark Blues

Live in Montreal, April 2009.
Artist: Lhasa de Sela
Album: The Living Road

Lhasa de Sela- Con Toda Palabra

Ashanti

Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz)/ Electro Swing Orchestra Remix 
You Don’t Love Me/ Caro Emerald
A Cool Cat in Town/ Tape Five (feat. Brenda Boykin)
Senza Ciatu/ Swingrowers
Double-Crossed v.1/ Mr. Edwardz
Get Up/ Jazzotron (feat. Sofija Knezevic)
One Day (Caro Emerald)/ Swingrower’s Remix 
I’ll Walk Alone/ The Harry James Orchestra (feat. Kitty Kallen)


September Swing

Textes, musique: Alma Forrer
Réalisation, arrangements: Stephen Munson
Enregistrements, mix, master: Steve Prestage

Guitare acoustique, voix: Alma Forrer
Guitare électrique: Mocke Depret
Piano: Julie Darnal
Basse, orgue, cordes: Mick Conroy
Choeur: Baptiste Hamon

Graphisme: Arno Peako



Les jeux des autres

Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra - Lulle Lulle (LIVE)

Dirtmusic
Taken from the album 'Bu Bir Ruya'
Release Date: January 26th 2018
Order now: https://goo.gl/X8zG9U

Dirtmusic return for their fifth album, a full-scale collaboration with Turkish-psych visionary Murat Ertel from Baba Zula. Recorded in Istanbul, the album navigates hypnotic rhythms, cinematic atmospheres and dark political realities.

‘We need music like this to stay sane’ – Murat Ertel

The striking figure of Murat Ertel is standing at the door of his home studio, a converted mechanic’s garage in a suburb of Istanbul. The Turkish capital is a tense and conflicted place these days, but Baba Zula’s leader and saz man is on fine form. Before him stand those current and former musical nomads, Chris Eckman and Hugo Race, guitars in hand. Dirtmusic are about to take on their latest, and perhaps most thrilling, form.

But let’s rewind a little, for Dirtmusic’s story is worth your time (although it perhaps makes more sense to talk about Dirtmusics plural).

Originally a straight-talking, mainly acoustic trio mining blues and country for 21st century gold, the band’s first happy accident was to stumble upon Tamikrest at the fabled Festival au Désert in Timbuktu in 2008. A musical love story began, running through that joyous first collaboration with Tamikrest in BKO (2010), followed by Troubles (2013) and Lion City (2014), which expanded the roster to include Ben Zabo, Samba Touré and a host of other superb Malian musicians. In the meantime, however, the Islamist takeover of Northern Mali in 2012 had darkened the sound and the songwriting, giving them a tone that continues to resonate through the new record.

Back to that garage. True to form, Eckman and Race look to improvise, for that line to the Bamako years is still strong. They’ve come with a couple of beats and loops – and they’re not even sure whether they will attach any words to this year’s Dirtmusic. But Ertel knows they need to tell a story. The time and the place demand it. This is being recorded in Istanbul after all, and Eckman has flown there from Slovenia, a country that has secured its southern border with razor wire – and Race from Australia, where sea-borne refugees are detained indefinitely on remote islands. And so it goes, a tale of borders and walls, of cold fronts and cold hearts.

‘We need a story,’ said Murat. This year’s Dirtmusic summit has given us another one to think about and, as importantly, to dance to. The desert tent has been swapped for the garage in Northern Istanbul, for now, but the concerns remain the same: to tear down borders, real and imagined, as quickly as they can be thrown up. Ten years in, this singular band with a plural soul have made their finest record yet.

‘Recording like this is truly in the moment, there are no preconceptions to satisfy and the music and words are improvised. We drew inspiration from the atmosphere of Istanbul, the general disaffection with the state media and the uncertainty of the immediate future’ – Hugo Race

‘[Murat’s] studio is really a warm and relaxed place to work. I think if we had tried the same thing at a slick studio, with the clock running, it wouldn't have come together so easily. By the end of the first day the friendships were already forming and we were having a hell of a good time’ – Chris Eckman

Bu Bir Ruya

Dirtmusic - Bi De Sen Söyle

The Dead Brothers - Things you hide

The voice of an angel, in 'The Concert Radio 3' (2004 Spain):
http://www.rtve.es/radio/20100113/lhasa-angel-volo/311922.shtml
http://lhasadesela.com/lhasa_de_sela/menu.php?lang=en

Lhasa de Sela

5 track tribute to the talented singer Lhasa De Sela:

1) Live recording of Lhasa Del Sela as she sings Fairuz's adaptation of the poem by Khalil Gibran 'The Nay/ A´tini  Al-nay /  اعطني الناي

أعطني الناي وغني, فالغنا سر الوجود وأنين الناي يبقى, بعد أن يفنى الوجود هل إتخذت الغاب مثلي, منـزلاً دون القصور فتتبعت السواقي, وتسلقت الصخور هل تحممت بعطره, وتنشفت بنور وشربت الفجر خمراً, من كؤوس من أثير هل جلست العصر مثلي, بين جفنات العنب والعناقيد تدلت, كثريات الذهب هل فرشت العشب ليلاً, وتلحفت الفضاء زاهداً في ما سيأتي, ناسياً ما قد مضى أعطني الناي وغني, وانسى داء ودواء إنما الناس سطورٌ, كتبت لكن بماء 

Give me the Nay and sing, /The secret song of eternity. /The laments of the Nay will linger /Beyond the decline of existence.

Have you, like me, /Chosen the forest dwelling /Rather than the castle? /Have you followed the stream /And climbed the rocks? /Have you anointed your body /With fragrance distilled in light? /Have you been drunk with dawn /In the goblets full of pure air?

Have you, like me,/ Sat down at dusk,/ Among the glowing languor/ Of vines laden with grapes? /Have you lain down on the grass at night /And covered yourself with heavens, /Opening your heart to the future, /Forgetful of the past?

Give me the Nay and sing, /The song in tune with hearts. /The laments of the Nay will linger  /Beyond the fading of sins. Give me the Nay and sing, /Unmindful of troubles and cures. /For each man /Is nothing more than a watercolor sketch.

2) Bia Krieger con Lhasa de Sela in 2008 singing "Los hermanos" (A. Yupanqui)

3) Lhasa De Sela live on piano singing her own "I'm Going In" (Toronto, 2006)

4) Lhasa De Sela "La Confession," live acoustic recording from France during tour of Living Road album in 2003

5) Studio recording of her song "Where do you go" (2009, self-titled album).

Lhasa de Sela Tribute Mix

World 'n' Bass band from Marseilles (Fr)
 
--3rd Remixes ep "Ziggurat Fm"-- 
Now available on Piranha Musik

"Radio Babel" available in CD/LP in Europe and UK + Worlwide in Download 

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