Their first full-length album of original songs On April 5th, The Easy Star All-Stars will release FIRST LIGHT, […]
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Agoria has created an album that is at the same time constantly changing while also having a unique flow and mood of its own.
Sebastien Devaud, aka Agoria, entered the world of electronic dance music at a peculiar moment in time. Unlike the first generation of techno producers, he’s too young to have been actively listening to early 80’s electronic pop by groups such as Depeche Mode or New Order. But unlike younger DJs and musicians, he’s been exposed to house and techno more or less since the start of these genres.
Living in rural France, Agoria first got hooked to electronic music through listening to Kevin Saunderson’s classic Good Life on the local radio as a twelve-year-old kid in 1988. He was so impressed by the Inner City hit that he spent the following afternoons washing his neighbours’ cars to earn enough money to buy his first 12″. His next revelation came a few years later when one of the first DJ sets he experienced happened to be from Jeff Mills in nearby Lyon. It was the first time that I saw a DJ using three turntables and a drum machine. He really created something completely new rather that just playing records. And the way he moved, his precision and speed, impressed me.
“Rio Arriba” is the sophomore album from ZZK artist Chancha Via Circuito who molds local South American rhythms […]
Belleruche – ‘3 amp fuse’, Official Video, third single from the album 270 Stories. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzT2Mfm9OsE] Read MundoVibe’s interview […]
The brian eno produced album sees Kuti finding his own idiosyncratic voice as songwriter, singer, and band leader, heading up Egypt 80, the extraordinary combo first fronted by his renowned father, Fela Kuti.
The mighty ‘From Africa With Fury: Rise’ is produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds and Seun himself, with additional production by Godwin Logie. Eno – an avowed fan – has nothing but the highest praise for Seun and his band, hailing them for “making some of the biggest, wildest, livest music on the planet.” Co-producer Reynolds (whose work as musician, producer, and mixer spans such artists as Sinéad O’Connor, U2, and Natacha Atlas) agrees, applauding Kuti and Egypt 80’s distinctive Afrobeat as “a musical adrenaline rush.”
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FRIDAY APRIL 1st
Unsound Labs: COLLABORATIONS 1
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn – Price $12/$10
HATI (Poland) duo with Z’EV (UK) / ANNA ZARADNY (Poland) duo with AKI ONDA (Japan/USA) / DAWID SZCZESNY (Poland) duo with MERCE (USA)
File Under: Experimental, Improvisation, Electronic, Industrial
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn – Price $12/$10
HATI (Poland) duo with Z’EV (UK) / ANNA ZARADNY (Poland) duo with AKI ONDA (Japan/USA) / DAWID SZCZESNY (Poland) duo with MERCE (USA)
File Under: Experimental, Improvisation, Electronic, Industrial
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SATURDAY APRIL 2nd
Unsound Labs: TOUR / ARTISTS TALK / SCREENING
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, New York – Price – FREE
Tour COLUMBIA-PRINCETON ELECTRONIC MUSIC CENTER,
Listen to sound artists KABIR CARTER + ED OSBORN discuss AURALITY, MOTION, ARCHITECTURE and watch the film MISINFORMATION featuring music by MORDANT MUSIC
Azam Ali’s From Night to the Edge of Day explores traditional lullabies of Iranian, Turkish, Lebanese, and Kurdish origin. And as Azam Ali’s decidedly “grown-up” treatment of them testifies, lullabies are not really just for children. They attempt to cope with difficult lives and the harshness and sorrow of the world, with loss, exile, and pain.
In a career which spans over a decade and includes eight collaborative albums and one solo project, Azam Ali has confirmed her place as one of the most prolific, versatile, and gifted singers on the world music stage today. Her dedication to defying cultural specificity in music, and her unwillingness to settle into one form of musical expression have earned her the respect of both her peers and critics worldwide. When one looks at her entire body of work, it is hard to deny Azam her rightful place among the best singers and composers in music today.
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TALKING WITH PHILLY SOUL POETESS URSULA RUCKER ON HER FIFTH ALBUM “SHE SAID”
As a poet and performance artist, Ursula Rucker has enchanted critics and fans across the globe with her diverse repertoire, captivating vocals and accessible poetic verse.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, she began documenting her observations of the world when she was just a girl. A graduate of Temple University’s journalism program, Ursula kept her creative writing as a prized, personal possession until she was prepared to share with the world. In 1994, she introduced an open-mic night audience at Philadelphia’s Zanzibar Blue to the beauty and urgency of her poetry.
Word quickly spread throughout the city of Ursula’s poetry and stage performance, which has been described as “strong, vulnerable, wounded and raging.” Producer King Britt invited her to create her first recording, the 1994 single, “Supernatural” (Ovum/Slip N Slide UK).
Ebo Taylor links with Strut Records for his first ever internationally released studio album and retrospective album
During the 1950s and ’60s as Ghanaian highlife music exploded as big band highlife pioneers like E.T. Mensah and Ebo Taylor became a major figures. Cutting his teeth with leading big bands like Stargazers and Broadway Dance Band, Ebo Taylor quickly rose through the ranks and became a prolific composer and frontman.
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Taylor moved to London in 1962 to study. “I had the Black Star Highlife Band sponsored by the Ghanaian High Commission, mainly comprising music students. We tried to incorporate jazz into highlife and progressed through talking and through jam sessions, trying to develop our skills and ideas.”
‘Cookie Dough’ is the new album from Wildcookie, aka Freddie Cruger and Anthony Mills
Since his last release on Tru Thoughts in 2006 Freddie Cruger, aka Red Astaire, has been busy travelling the world as a DJ and releasing music on his own label, Homegrown Records – one of these releases was the debut, and now extremely rare, Wildcookie 12”. The “Drugs EP” received support from Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 1 and the lead track, “Heroine”, also features on ‘Cookie Dough’. Wildcookie is not a one man band though; each one of Freddie’s ultra-crisp productions and sophisticated synthline melodies are backed with the pitch perfect, often freestyled, vocals of Anthony Mills.
Space Invadas is a project of two well-known artists: Katalyst and Steve Spacek. Their debut project Soul Fi […]
With a lengthy loop of his classic track “The Sound” sampled without his authorization, Kevin Saunderson responds with grace.
From Kevin Saunderson:
Dear friends, fans and members of the music industry:
Today I’m giving away as a free download one of the productions I am most proud of : “The Sound” – Reese & Santonio (KMS) 1987
I recorded “The Sound” back in 1987 and released it on my own KMS Records label. It was a massive hit at New York’s Paradise Garage and in Chicago and of course Detroit. Once it hit the UK it became one of the earliest Detroit anthems right acround Europe, a huge underground record across the globe – a true desert island techno track. It is such a special record to me because it was one of my first really successful productions and I hope that you all will enjoy this free, fresh digital download of my original 1987 version.The reason I have decided to give this track away for free is because of a situation that recently developed involving the unauthorized sampling of “The Sound” by Italian producers Giacomo Godi & Emiliano Nencioni (Supernova) in their release “Beat Me Back” on Nirvana Recordings. It came to my attention that they are licensing and selling, with considerable success, this track which is nothing more than a continuous loop of the main hook from “The Sound.”
Ilija Rudman has been a force of the underground disco scene for the past decade, in both production and as as a clever and eclectic DJ. Bringing together his love for pure analog sound, his disco singles indeed do sound like a blast from the Prelude, West End or Salsoul.
Ilija is a devoted and passionate man when it comes to music and this commitment is evident on his his first LP, ‘The Reveal’. One of his prerequisites for recording the LP was that the recordings be made with the same techniques and equipment that inspired him to make music in the first place. So Ilija hooked up with one of his studio mentors and got his dream line-up of synthesizers, Roland Jupiter 4 & 8, Minimoog, Roland SH2, Juno 60 and his dream drum machines Linn and Oberheim DMX. These analogue machines fire up to create a warm and authentic vibe across the whole LP.
Two legends of guitar come together for an album of ATMOSPHERIC Brazilian-jazz
Undoubtedly, Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária’s new album, Lagrimas Mexicanas, epitomizes a union of extraordinary musicians. Frisell’s and Cantuária’s own music have clearly distinctive origins, but with complimentary styles. Through the blending of emotive rhythms and harmonies, and the melding of classic and experimental sounds, the two artists have found an easy home with one another. Lagrimas Mexicanas is on Entertainment One Music.
As a guitarist, composer, and bandleader, Bill Frisell has established himself as a visionary presence in American music, best known for his innovative and improvisational guitar playing. Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist and percussionist, Vinicius Cantuária flawlessly merges the classic sounds of bossa nova with contemporary music, creating distinctive compositions and arrangements.Having played together in a variety of settings over the past 25 years, including on one another’s albums, Frisell and Cantuária had been looking for the right opportunity for a full-on collaboration. Lagrimas Mexicanas presented itself as the perfect occasion.