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Barrio Lindo - Espiritu Misterioso

ZZK Records  presents “Burka”, the fifth single from Dat Garcia’s new record “Las Fuerzas Almadas”, to be released April 1st 2022.

Fusing music from the Middle East, electronica and hip-hop, “Burka” is a conceptual song in which Dat García plays with raw and direct rap lyrics, expressing a feeling widespread throughout Latin America.

The use of the burka has historically been a political act, from its enforcement to oppress bodies to its use as a symbol to assert rights. Femininities are unleashing the strength built up over centuries of oppression and holding up this symbol as a flag representing the struggle for their freedoms and for the women who are no longer here.

Dat García wants to put a stop to collective apathy, increasingly accentuating the activist side of her musical repertoire. Her songs speak of the violation of human, environmental and political rights, and the discrimination against anything different in general and against women and dissidences in particular.

This single is accompanied by a video in which Dat portrays a woman crucified on a stage, wearing a burka, her whole body covered by the garment except her mouth, with which she tells her story. She takes this main element that Islam uses to hide women as oppressive religious symbolism, with deep respect for those who choose to wear a headscarf, as Simone de Beauvoir did, making it the symbol of their struggle. This work is an exegesis of how religions have been the instruction manual for snuffing out women’s strength and creating patriarchal societies without respect for individual rights, while humanity passively observes, criticizes and comments but does nothing to change it.

“Burka” is out on March 4th 2022 worldwide.

Burka

Dat Garcia - Burka

Sudden Mystic

Gitkin makes a long awaited return home to Wonderwheel Recordings with the new single “Go Time”. The instrumental stomper clicks into gear with uptempo & danceable drum breaks, on brand guitar lines with just the right amount of twang and an organ solo straight out of funk heaven. Longtime fans will not be disappointed - look out for much more from the man coming this year!

Gitkin - Go Time

Ccolo - Immortal Birds Diwali

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After an absence of two years, Leng are very happy to welcome back bass-wielding producer Fernanado Pulichino. The Natural 77 EP sees the experienced Argentine deliver another trio of tracks underpinned by his trademark warm, funk-fuelled basslines.
 
Fernando has packed a lot into his career since debuting with regular production partner Julian Sanza at turn of the millennium. Before the duo decided to go their separate ways, they delivered a string of fine deep house EPs as Cuidad Feliz, a fine debut album for Silver City, and formed part of Ralph Lawson’s touring live act, 20:20 Soundsystem. As a solo artist, Fernando released his debut album on Bear Funk back in 2013, and has more recently dropped singles on Cynic, Tusba and Futureboogie Recordings.
 
Given this vast experience, it’s no surprise to find that his third outing on Leng is an assured and varied affair. Opener “Backwards” sees Fernando strutting his electrofunk stuff, adding hazy guitar solos, spacey electronics and dubbed-out synth riffs to a rolling, boogie-propelled groove.
 
He channels the spirit of West Coast funkateers Steely Dan on title track “Natural 77”, expertly combining a rubbery bass guitar riff with sun-kissed guitar solos, freestyle vocal improvisations and a fluid, bongo-laden drum break. It’s a lazy, low-slung affair, but one guaranteed to incite excitable shuffling out on the dancefloor.
 
Finally, Fernando heads back towards Balearic disco pastures with the rich and evocative “Attic Party”. Delay-laden electric piano stabs, jammed-out bass and flanged, funk-fuelled guitar lines weave in and out of a mix dominated by trippy synthesizer motifs and deliciously glassy-eyed solos. You won’t know whether to wearily dance or lie down; either way, you’ll be escorted to another dimension by the Argentine’s gently mind-altering grooves.

Leng Shop

Fernando - Natural 77

Gitkin debut album '5 Star Motel' coming soon.

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Gitkin - Canción Del Rey

BEHOLD THE UNCLE GITKIN 4 TRACK RECORDING! 
Here's the full story...

Gitkin sold guitars. To be precise, he re-branded, sold and traded knock-off Gibsons. A lone, travelling salesman, he toted his counterfeit wares to guitar stores and music emporiums. His trade took him to most corners of the USA, passing through big, smoggy cities and small towns. His nights were spent at not-so-salubrious motels. It was at those nocturnal stop-offs that he’d often cross paths with newcomers to the States. His fellow travellers were mostly immigrants, newly-arrived, from places like Ethiopia, Mexico, Indonesia.

His illicit musical wares were his way of making a connection. He’d strike up tentative, half-understood exchanges; part old stories and legends, part musical dialogue, rough-and-ready riffs, enthusiastically plucked out. Other times, late night jam sessions would quickly escalate, repurposing nightstands for drums and mini bar contents – packets of nuts, or bottles of beer – for makeshift percussion. A self-taught, sometimes-musician, those memorable evenings informed amateur recordings to cassette tape: a patchwork of worldly sounds, a document of new friendships and fresh perspectives.

Or at least, that’s the story as Brian J Gitkin has been able to piece it together. This album, ‘5 Star Motel’, is by a different Gitkin, an ode to the one described above. Or to put it another way, this is the younger Gitkin’s homage to his elder relative: the elusive, guitar salesman uncle he never met. A steady drip of anecdotes have construed an image of his relation’s itinerant, huckster lifestyle. Finding a cassette of his recordings, it spoke of the effect of those encounters: lo-fi and scratchy, the music leaped seamlessly, in difficult to discern ways, between different far-flung styles. 

https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/5-star-motel

On ‘5 Star Motel’, that younger Gitkin has sought to expand the philosophy reaped from his uncle. The guitar is common thread, the raft to navigate a sun-dappled stream of ideas. It’s an embrace of cultures where folkloric stringed instruments still rule, or where they’ve led to a more recent embrace of the electric guitar. Gitkin traces the loose, meandering paths which join them together.

It’s about America, the world outside its borders, and the inscrutable, inevitable dialogue that exists between them. Take ‘Cancion Del Rey’, where the sound of Peruvian chicha – steady-moving, alluring, and lyrical – winds its way through Gitkin’s fuzz-filtered licks, and the rhythm underpinning it. Or ‘Yama’, where Middle Eastern influences echo out of grooving, cyclical riffs. Touching on the distinctive tones of Tuareg music and the Sahara, too, ‘Grand Street Feast’ charts a sand-dusted, melodic misadventure.

Full album

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After introducing the world to the elusive named Gitkin last year with the release of his debut album “5 Star Motel”, Wonderwheel Recordings is back with another special 7” of two deeply funky, lo-fi globally influenced cuts from the travellin’ man himself.

“Saint Claude Dash” with it’s 70’s disco influenced drum machine undertone brings in Middle Eastern & North African vibes on the melody, while shifting into an even funkier B section reminiscent of the Meters.

Just a taste of the brand new album to come this year…or when the spirits will it.

Gitkin - Chicha Nola

RELEASE DAY! Yay!

My friend and label colleague Testa and I have joined forces as Nødstop. In December 2017 we started working on tracks together without any plan in mind. The collaboration went as flawlessly as possible, and today our first release called "Ø" sees the light of day!

www.fanlink.to/Nodstop

Thanks to @alllone for the nice remix, DJ Buzz for the mastering, eiland.wien for the great pics, and @duzz-down-san-records for everything! We also warmly thank Austrian music insititution SKE for granting us financial support with this release.

To be continued!

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LYRICS

Fe fe fe fe feel free to te te te test me
I got got got gotta be me not you not you just me

Fe fe fe fe feel free to te te te test me
I got got got gotta be me, not you, mystery

I am a dog and I howl at the moon
I am a cat, I can scream like a siren
I am a dog and I howl at the moon
I am a cat, I can scream like a siren

I am a dog, sometimes I gaze at the stars
I am a cat, I can sense the danger
I am a wolf, I will bite before I bark
I am a lion, I will shred you to parts

(2x) Fe fe fe fe feel free to te te te test me
I got got got gotta be me not you not you just

Fe fe fe fe feel free to te te te test me
I got got got gotta be me, not you, mystery

I am a condor, I’ll pass over your head, I’m a
stingray, I hurt you when we met, I am a
nightingale, I am a lark
I am a bat, I attack in the dark, I am a

condor, I’ll pass over your head
I’m a stingray, I hurt you when we met, I am a
nightingale, I am a lark
I am a bat, I attack in the dark when you sleep

Fe fe fe fe feel free to te te te test me
I got got got gotta be me, not you, not you, just me

Fe fe fe fe feel free to te te te test me
I got got got gotta be me, not you - mystery

08 Nødstop - Test Me (alllone Rmx) (Bonus)

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On his instinctive travels & paths of rhythm, Nickodemus comes back from Barcelona with a full compilation of unreleased songs from friends & family affiliated with the monthly Turntables on las RAMBLAS party! Like the Turntables on the Hudson parties & compilations in NYC, latin, funk, house & global grooves mirror the party atmosphere as well as the diversity of Barcelona's constantly changing demographics & soundscape.

Highlights include: Colombian funk bomb "Palenque Barcelona" by Los Chicos Altos Vs. Palo Q'Sea, DJ VADIM's very catchy hip hop remix of "Fly Away" by Mariella, Novalima's biggest song off of their new album "Macaco" (ESL Music), Carlos Barbosa & Blasterjaxx catchy & heavy hitting "Toca Flute" song with a DJ Sabo Moombahton Edit, as well as the long awaited Cumbia DUB remix of Flowering Inferno (aka Quantic) with a Nickodemus & Zeb remix. Other songs include, Sid Vaga's Nu-Disco Balkan electronic remix by Oscar Barila, original Turntables on the Hudson collaborators Sujinho (Nossa) remixes Nickodemus' Andalucian gypsy "Los Tarantos", Pablo Sanchez (Lovemonk/ WONDERWHEEL Recordings) Hip House track featuring vocals by iLLspokinN, Brazilian Barcelona local Wagner Pa sends us a classic samba "Na Estrada" (on the road), & a finishing touch by Catalan superstars La Troba Kung Fu with a Toti & AndyLoop Remix of the song "Barcelona." CD compilation design by AndyLoop.

Turntables on las RAMBLAS is the 1st of the Turntables on the Hudson "City to City, River to River" series connecting various DJ's, artists, musicians & party people city to city that will soon feature Turntables on the Nile, Turntables in Lima, Turntables on the Caribbean & more…

Press contact (Worldwide) - Garrett Baker garrett@flipswitchpr.com 
Distribution contact (Worldwide) - Lori Miller lori@redeyeusa.com 
Label contact - Aaron Schultz aaron@wonderwheelrecordings.com

Press contact (Spain) - "Marc Isern :: Vibra Comunicació" - marc@vibracomunicacion.com 
Distribution contact (Spain) - Borja Torres borja@lovemonk.net

Turntables on Las Ramblas

Dandilion (Pablo Sanchez Remix)

Funkommunity - Dandilion (Pablo Sanchez Remix)

www.soundcloud.com/biomigrant

Frente Bolivarista is proud to present to you the North American multi-instrumentalist Michael Alfred Wagner aka Biomigrant. This brave man took an incredible bike journey throughout the American continent down to Colombia where he found himself and settled his studio and inspirations.

"Biomigrant - Las Américas" is a collection of stories, told more through sound than words; a collage of field recordings, original instrumentation, and carefully constructed beats that explore the beauty, pain, contradictions, and joy of everyday life on the American continent.

Street parties in the Colombian pacific,
Rain prayers in central México,
Verses of African resistance in the Caribbean,
Sonic memories of an oasis in Baja California,
Introspective footsteps, lost in the jungles of the Sierra Nevada,
The faded colors of a picó and a taste of palm wine,
A personal reaffirmation of the struggle to learn and grow,
And a collective remembrance of our fragmented history.

releases February 6, 2020

Credits"
- Percussions: Arnulfo Mancera , Waidis de Jesus Ortega Miranda (track 6)
- Spoken word: Jaime Ocampo and Natali Fosado (track 2), Eustiquia Amaranto (track 3), Gina, Maya, Emilia, Coral, Vanina, Celina, Miren, and Patty (track 9)
- Production, Analog Drums/Synths: Ueli Peter "Oilst" (track 3)
- Trumpet: Jorge Emilio Pardo "El Leon Pardo" (track 6)
- Guitar: Tomas Salcedo (track 6)
- Voice, Silver Flute, Colombian Gaita, Trumpet, Keys/Synths, Guitars, Percussion, Production, Mixing: Michael Alfred Wagner (Biomigrant)
- Mastering: Sebastián Cordovés
- Cover Art: Juliana Lira (www.julianaalira.com)
- Distribution: Musicdeli

Listen to Biomigrant at @biomigrant
Follow Biomigrant in Instagram at www.instagram.com/biomigrant/
Visit Biomigrant at biomigrant.co/

In Memory of Camilo Jimenez ✞

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Biomigrant - Hope

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After two outstanding releases on Wonderwheel Recordings (2018’s “5 Star Motel” LP, and 2019’s “Saint Claude Dash / Chicha Nola” 7”), Gitkin is back with a new EP, along with two remixes from Pimps Of Joytime. “De La” - which features NYC-based singer Carol C - was inspired by the Saharan Tuareg sound, while also embracing Carl C’s Afro-Dominican roots with a beautiful melody and Spanish lyrics. 

The second track, “Canción De Aplauso,” fuses classic joyful cumbia with 70s Afrobeat, Cuban tumbao, and a bit of middle eastern flavour for good measure. The electric Guild twelve-string guitar sound is reminiscent of Turkish Saz, eliciting a festive vibe that gets the crowd grooving in live sets. 

Both songs see remixes by the Pimps of Joytime, with “De La” delving further into the trance sound. “Canción De Aplauso” gets a gogo retouch, inspired by Washington DC’s Chuck Brown, with the addition of some 70’s style funk slap bass. 

“De La Canción” EP will be released on Wonderwheel Recordings March 13th.

De La Canción

Gitkin - De La (feat. Carol C)

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Gitkin’s music exists somewhere between primal, rootsy memory and distant exotic yearning — A dusty bordertown where the familiar blends imperceptibly into the enchantingly foreign. 

After a long and fruitful run as a bandleader with relentlessly touring party-rockers Pimps Of Joytime and a Grammy-nominated country blues collaboration with Cedric Burnside, multi-instrumentalist Brian J set out to “explore tonalities I’d never messed with,” as he puts it. It was a release from “having to write lyrics or involve my voice,” he notes, and so the (mostly) instrumental sound of Gitkin came into being. 

Reviews of Gitkin’s first LP grappled with descriptors, tagging it vaguely as “cinematic” and comparing it favorably with Khruangbin. True, the music is largely wordless, emotionally evocative, and guitar driven. But it possesses an alluring alchemy all its own. 

Gitkin’s first release, 2018’s well-received Five Star Motel, amply demonstrated his ease with earthy funk and comfortably-cut rhythm. On his new full-length release Safe Passage, the itinerant guitar slinger broadens his already rich palette with melodies informed by Greek and Middle Eastern modalities, Peruvian Chicha and Tuareg Saharan guitar styles. No gimmick, this juxtaposition of gut-bucket blues and funk low-end with unexpectedly twisting lead phrases highlights the intense flavors found in each savory ingredient. 

Recorded at his home studio in New Orleans, Safe Passage showcases a new batch of immediately engaging, repeatedly satisfying cuts, ranging from surf exotica (“Cat Nip”) to raunchy roadhouse stompers (“Fools Gold” and “The Drive”) to dreamy vocal cuts “Foot Steps” and “Hold On” to the floating finale of “Safe Passage.” 

Gitkin’s production radiates character and warmth, leaning on soft-focus vintage mics, dubby spring reverbs and the quirks of an analog tape machine. Further enhancing the intimate vibe are distinguished guests like Carol C (of Si*Sé), who lends her striking voice to three tracks, including the strutting single “De La,” veteran Chauncey Yearwood (congas) and New Orleans local Clifton “Spug” Smith, who provides a sousaphone low-end on the cumbia-not-cumbia “Spug Life.” 

Safe Passage will be released by Wonderwheel on September 18th, 2020 and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally.

Safe Passage

Gitkin - Nosotros Tambien

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Gitkin - Nosotros Tambien

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