oh, I got Thievery Corporation vibe here. kalaa

I cant get over the pur genius of combining reggae dub with arabic beats!

As far as I know youre the only one who makes music like this! KEEP IT UP <3

from the latest EP -This is not Sparta-
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Hot Sands

An old tune of mine from the album Zebstep ( released only in Japan )

Nafas

Sons Of Hannibal

One and probably the last tune I upload from  my last  album ARABADUB . From now on I'm working on the new album, as well as the debut album of Brooklyn Gypsies which I'm now a member of.

Prince Ahmed

this is a live version with reggae MC of the tune Kurdish delight on my album Secretly Famous and It's a FREE download .

Kurdish Delight Live ! 2011

Excellently re-worked reggae music perfect for festivals... 

Vinyl out mid July via PLIMSOLL 
Digital release via GRAND BUFFO soon after



Kompleks - Loraine (Linton Kwesi Johnson Edit)

This is a little intro to my new album which should be ready by end of november. Just a mellow introduction... for meditation. ;-)

Andak Al - Salaam (the spy from Cairo)

	𝗞 𝗽𝗮𝗿 𝗞 (𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸) is the soundtrack to 𝗖𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲's contemporary circus show of the same name. Composed throughout the creation process on stage from 2020 to 2022, the soundtrack is perfectly synchronized with the acrobats' movements on stage, and forms an integral part of the artistic proposition.

	Delving into the theme of migration with gravity, this album offers a glimpse into the complexity of the issue. Between distress, violence, survival, hope and joyful memories, a wide range of emotions runs through these 8 tracks. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮's poem opens the album, read by project collaborator 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗷𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗮𝘁. This is followed by excerpts from the rescues of 𝗦𝗢𝗦 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗲's Ocean Viking, whose stories were a great source of inspiration. Then begins an intense auditory journey, a crossing through the words of migrants, sea rescuers, politicians, writers... all wrapped up in intense, melodic, sometimes minimalist but resolutely powerful music.

	𝗖𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲's show 𝗞 𝗽𝗮𝗿 𝗞 is a cry of solidarity, a call for dialogue, opening the way to reflection on this dehumanization, and this original album is one of its voices.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗚𝗢 𝗦𝗢𝗦 𝗠𝗲́𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲́𝗲.


Rituels

Youtube live stream recorded on 2024-11-22

Youtube

Youtube Live Stream - Koka (2024-11-22)

artist: BIXIGA 70
album: III
order here: https://glitterbeat.bandcamp.com/album/iii

Five years after their inception, the Sao Paulo based Brazilian group Bixiga 70 continues to travel musically forward, only to find themselves more and more at home. 

The band’s aptly named third album, “III”, is a luminescent and energized admixture of Atlantic cultures. The album’s hyper-contemporary dialogue journeys between the sounds and rhythms of Brazil and Africa, and between the band’s ten musicians and their distinctive musical identities.  Their collective influences include jazz, funk and Afro-Brazilian music, and stretch further afield into dub and reggae, electronics, cumbia and carimbó, ethio-jazz and samba.

Bixiga 70’s “III” is a breathtaking rhythmic storm where inspired solos, harmony and dynamics, beats and improvisation all mesh together in vital and unpredictable ways. Spanning between a joyous danceability, a sharp sense of humor and committed political reflections, the life-blood of this ten-piece unit is instrumental music, but it is an instrumental music that speaks profoundly.

Self-produced by the band in their own studio in Sao Paulo (and mixed by Victor Rice) all the compositions on “III” are written and arranged by the entire Bixiga 70 collective. There are no liner note details: the process of creation is decentralized and acknowledges the importance of each musician in the room. The album was recorded live in the studio to further assure the depth of this collaborative spirit and to accentuate the intensity of the band’s sonic experiments.

Following the global attention garnered by their previous album 2014’s “Ocupai” (Mais um Discos), Bixiga 70 headed out into the world. Their musical travels to Europe, the USA and Morocco, as well as the many varied regions of Brazil (including the streets of Bixiga) have all left a deep mark on the sounds and visions of the new album

Throughout the nine tracks found on “III”, styles merge and original syncretisms come to life. The album shape shifts contemporary afro-funk, Moroccan cumbia, spiritual jazz, adapted afro-brazilian chants, Cuban blaxploitation, sounds from São Paulo’s Black Rio movement, Arabian dub, Malinké drumming, Angolan guitar music and traditional bamboo fife bands.

There is no doubt that Bixiga 70 is one of the guiding voices of Brazil’s contemporary instrumental music scene and their new album “III” clearly demonstrates why. 

They are a band that deftly searches for untracked and thrilling musical spaces to occupy. 

And most importantly, they are a band that succeeds in finding them.

100% 13

Bixiga 70 - 100% 13

Battle Circle Meditation (1)

OG GREEN ETERNAL 80 BPM

From my new album Nothing new under the sun

Fanaa

Another track form mu new album "nothing new under the sun"

Prophecy in motion

From The album "Nothing new under the sun"

Beirut Skank

Naya

Zackarose & Awakê - Haïda

One of the amazing things about the deeply Jamaican music called Dub is its ability to act as a conduit. From its early days as stripped down versioning of popular Reggae tunes to its indoctrination into late 80 / early 90s UK Soundsystem & Dance Music culture, to its current massive mutation (with the “Step” planted firmly in its behind); Dub has shown itself to be not only a musical art form that stands strongly on its own, but also a vehicle of sorts that can transport and connect disparate musical universes. And it’s at the unique nexus of Dub and Arabic music that the Spy From Cairo sits the most comfortably. 

The Spy From Cairo aka Zeb is the kind of musician that fits perfectly in with the downtown NYC music scene – Italian by birth, Gypsy by heritage, and Brooklynite by residence, he has been closely associated with the Turntables on the Hudson scene for close to 12 years – producing dozens of albums as Zeb, the Spy From Cairo and the Organic Grooves project, as well as remixing for everyone from Baba Maal to Tosca to Billie Holliday to Novalima, steadily garnering a worldwide collective of fans and followers 

The Spy’s new album, “Arabadub” is perhaps his most realized vision of deep Middle Eastern and Jamaican sounds coalescing into something that sounds right and natural – because it was conceived and produced in just that natural way. There are no samples used on the album, and Zeb has programmed everything, as well as playing traditional Middle Eastern stringed instruments called the Oud, Chifteli and the Saz himself. Check the opener “Alladin Dub”, with its echoed out skanks, pulsing bassline, and majestic strings – and the deepness that is “Taksim Square”, complete with swirling, psychedelic accordion. Other highlights include the tense four-to-the-floor stomper “Desert Tears”, the rolling dub of “Sons of Hannibal” with it’s beautiful Middle Eastern vocal chants, the nostalgic “Egyptian Pulse” with its Steppers sound and melancholy vibes, and the dancehall vibes of “Prince Ahmed” – sounding like 3AM Kingston wrapped in a Bedouin Tent!
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