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

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Boubacar Traoré - Duna Ma Yelema - Gigios Edit

Nicola Cruz - Prender el Alma 

Go Buy Prender el Alma:
➜ http://zzkrecords.com/album/Prender_El_Alma 
➜ Bandcamp: https://zzkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prender-el-alma
➜ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/prender-el-alma 

Watch the Music Video for ‘Colibria’:
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRV90c_uWpQ  
Watch the Live Music Video of 'Colibria':
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRugQvbt2J8   
Watch the album playlist on YouTube:
➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg-nB2MqvXA&list=PL97ISVilOoYBg9X0DZDInNe6ZUBvWvbmC


Following his collaboration with Nicolas Jaar's Clown & Sunset label, Cruz has self-produced and self-recorded this landmark album. 

‘Prender el Alma’ is a new strain of Latin American music Cruz calls ‘Andes Step’. Influenced by new digital technology, blended with local influence, Cruz builds his tracks layer by layer, instrument by instrument, drum by drum, exploring local indigenous and Afro-cosmologies in a modern setting. 

From atmospheric opener ‘Sanacion’, the 10-track album journeys through short, sharp acoustic guitar riffs on ‘Puente Roto’ and the percussive ‘La Mirada’, to the electronic ‘Prender el Alma’. Down-beat ‘Equinoccio’ gets a vocal kick from Ecuadorian singer Huaira, ending with the blissful, lo-fi ‘Cocha Runa’ featuring Tanya Sanchez. ‘Prender el Alma’ ebbs and flows through a range of production of local sounds, feeling like a digital awakening.

This digital revolution is spreading through Latin America like wildfire, and nowhere is this more exciting than in the heart of the continent's bustling music scene, where Nicola Cruz is leading the way. 

Led by forward-thinking young producers and musicians, Ecuador is beginning to experience its own digital folklore revolution.  A new crop of producers and musicians are using homeland traditions and rhythms to build on a vibrant history of visual and sonic art, catapulting them into the 21st century.

ZZK are at the forefront of this burgeoning music scene. With artists such as Frikstailers, La Yegros, El Remolon and Chancha Via Circuito, they are defining a new and exciting Latin American music culture.

Tracklisting:
1. Sanacion
2. Puente Roto
3. La Mirada
4. Cumbia Del Olvido
5. Prender El Alma
6. Colibiria
7. La Cosecha
8. Equinoccio feat. Huaira
9. Eclipse
10. Cocha Runa feat. Tanya Sanchez






Nicola Cruz - Cumbia Del Olvido

This is my most recent reggae style track, a simple collection of sounds including skanks, dub, synths and pads to add a brilliant end of summer melody to my collection. 

Jamaican Ginger Cake

Deixa A Gira Girar by João Braga @jgbmusic

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Get it here!

j g b — Deixa A Gira Girar

From The album "Nothing new under the sun"

Beirut Skank

This song was created inside an old bus on a hill by the sea , at the top of the South Island of New Zealand near a small town called Marahau. 
Recording sessions had to revolve around the natural rhythm of the cicada, as the noise they produce during the day smothers all other sound. Smoking hot during the day and freezing during the night, a few summer weeks in Marahau left a lasting impression on us both. The land around us and the creatures that lived there inspired the name of the Cicada Sessions. 
See you next summer Marahau.
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Cicada sessions

Marahau

Sit back, relax and enjoy ツ
Taken from 'Namaskar' released 24th May 2019 on Banzaï Lab.
► Stream / Download : https://song.link/Namaskar
► Vinyl (limited edition) : https://bit.ly/2V7aYsS

All tracks produced, recorded & mixed by Jean du Voyage
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Twitter : www.twitter.com/jndvg
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Bandcamp : www.jeanduvoyage.bandcamp.com
Website - www.jeanduvoyage.com

Saraswathi veena : V. Soundara Rajan (Kerala, India)
Flute & clarinet : Pierre Harmegnies (France)

Artwork : www.sly2.fr
Promo : nolwenn@banzailab.com
Booking : contact@jeanduvoyage.com

Stream / Download

Exode (feat. V. Soundara Rajan)

Isaac Chambers - Production & Recording
Ryan Herr - Guitar & Percussion
RA-BE 333 - Vocals
Hilary Alana - Vocals
Autumn Skye - Vocals
SaQi - Trumpet
Shaman’s Dream - Percussion
Daniel Lesser - Piano

Tap the Flow 24 is an ongoing project started by
Rob Ball (RA-BE 333) where visual Artists collaborate with musicians and videographers in a 24 hour period to conceive, create, and complete a song and video.

The proceeds from these projects go to GravityWater.org which is a non-profit / for purpose organisation that implements water systems globally to those in greatest need.

Learn more about Tap the Flow 24:
bit.ly/32BjkJ6

Recorded at :
Shamans Dream Music Studio,
Nevada City, California.

Album Artwork Painting by Autumn Skye.

Mixed and Mastered by Isaac Chambers.

Water & Gold (Feat. Ryan Herr, RA-BE 333, SaQi, Autumn Skye, Hilary Alana, Shamans Dream)

Buy / Stream:

Bandcamp (Buy Vinyl 2xLP): http://bit.ly/389HzjA

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2xpTugq
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2xrzj1B
Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/33QXkLR

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"Ramas" (branches in Spanish) is El Búho’s third album of original material and stands for a celebration of the art of collaboration. Featuring 19 collaborations with artists from 12 countries, the album was born organically out of collaborations, mutual appreciation or a desire to experiment and try something new. 

Some of the tracks were started in person, such as "Sky City", born out of a spaghetti-western jam in Thornato’s Queens studio or "Gaviota" inspired by the the seagulls of Brighton following a shared show with Rumbo Tumba in the city. Meanwhile others such as "Elefta" with Hungarian producer Stas or "Kuuma" a track made with Finnish multi-instrumentalist QOSQI were created over long-distance with the producers never actually meeting face to face. The album also contains tracks from long-term friends and collaborators like Chancha Via Circuito, Barda and Wonderwheel head-honcho Nickodemus. 

Musically the album references the blend of Latin American traditional music with original electronic music on tracks such as "Resiliencia" with legendary Chilean producer DJ Raff, an homage to the recent protest movement in Chile, or "Absolut," a track sculpted from an unfinished melodic idea by Argentine electro-folk trio Tremor. Meanwhile songs like "Nevar" and "Kif Kif Kuf Kuf" with Didacte and Kraut, both part of the Shika Shika collective, take El Búho’s sound in a new direction, embracing a more melodic or impactful and rhythmic electronica. 

At its heart of "Ramas" was Perkins’ desire to challenge himself creatively, forcing him to see his own ideas and production style from a different angle or see ideas started in one direction come back completely transformed by the collaborator. The result is at once surprising and diverse but El Búho’s signature sound and aesthetic is the thread that runs through all of the tracks, the trunk to each branch. 

Carrying on the spirit of collaboration, El Búho made an open call for collaborations with dancers & choreographers in his community. Overwhelmed by the response, the album is accompanied by 18 original choreographies by dancers and dance groups from 12 different countries, from Mexico to Taiwan, South Africa or the Galapagos Islands. Each chose the track that most inspired them and shot a video of their dance in a unique and beautiful natural location, in doing so creating yet more ramas or branches for the project.

Ramas

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El Búho x Tremor - Absolut

Ignacio rassemble le continent sud-américain avec le continent africain, et imagine la langue divine d’une nouvelle Pangée musicale. Au folklore, Ignacio préfère alors des mantras, profonds, hypnotiques, rythmiques, invitant ainsi le spectateur à voyager dans une méditation à voix haute. Ignacio décline sur un nouvel état de conscience musicale, décomplexée des structures traditionnelles des chansons, et dénudée de toute langue connue et pré-construite.

Belesia / IGNACIO MARIA GOMEZ

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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Zebda-The spy from Cairo