MundoVibes was founded in 2003 by John C. Tripp. This is an archive of interviews conducted for the website.
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Beats Over Tweets: Teleseen Talks With Audio Texture on “Passages”
Courtesy of Audio Texture’s James Barrie. Here at Audio Texture, one of our albums of the year, already, is “Passages” from Teleseen on 100% Silk, one of the most inventive, “dance music” albums of 2013, a unique mix of great beats and global sounds submerged in a world of reggae flavours. We were so taken…
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Mosaico Music Mix Barcelona
Mosaico Music Mix World music radio show: notorious artists, new talents, interviews and expert commentaries. http://www.groovalizacion.com
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Kode9 Interview on “Black Sun”
Kode9 Speaks on the release of “Black Sun” [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/12033810″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] It’s been 5 years since South London based duo Kode9 & the Spaceape’s debut album. On this new disc, named after Kode9’s influential 2009 single Black Sun, the intensity and themes of their debut Memories of the future remain,…
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The Return of Banda Black Rio – New Studio Album ‘Super Nova Samba Funk’
William Magalhães forms a modern-day Banda Black Rio epitomising the spirit of his father Oberdan’s original ’70s Brazilian samba soul and funk group. BBR defined the Black Rio movement now enjoying a revival headed by Magalhães’ incarnation with the passion of soul and funk again linking Rio and New York for a feel-good blast that…
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Ocote Soul Sounds Release “Taurus”
After winning a Grammy Award in 2011 and backing the Tony Award winning broadway show “Fela!” with their respective bands Grupo Fantasma and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Adrian Quesada and Martin Perna return to their sun-soaked Latin-psychedelia project Ocote Soul Sounds with their fourth studio album, Taurus. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15881456″] Like its bullish namesake, their latest album…
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4hero’s Dego to Release Solo Debut “A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?”
The endlessly inventive musical creator known as Dego will release his own solo debut “A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?” this summer in 2011. Having recorded several seminal albums with his previous musical collectives 4hero, 2000black, Silhouette Brown and under the moniker, Mr. GoodGood, “A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?” marks Dego’s continuing musical evolution, integrating his…
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Just Good Music — The Disco Love of Al Kent and the Million Dollar Orchestra
Disco get a rebirthing by Scotland’s Prolific DJ and Producer, Al Kent. MundoVibe Interviews Al Kent on his long history in dance music and his groundbreaking disco recordings and his Disco Love series on BBE Disco never died. Some 40 years after its ascent up the charts its DNA is all over the myriad of…
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Songs of Gao: An Interview with Mali’s Sidi Touré
The worthy successor to Ali Farka Touré. — Bassekou Kouyaté Mali’s Sidi Touré sings the traditions of his Malian culture and beyond on his Thrill Jockey debut “Sahel Folk” [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/9708322″ params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=ff7700″ width=”100%” height=”81″ ] Sidi Touré made his first guitar as a child, constructing it from his wooden writing slate in the ancient town of Gao,…
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Music Interview: Kode9
Kode9 Speaks on the release of “Black Sun” BY JOHN C. TRIPP It’s been 5 years since South London based duo Kode9 & the Spaceape’s debut album. On this new disc, named after Kode9’s influential 2009 single Black Sun, the intensity and themes of their debut Memories of the future remain, but the delivery is…
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Belleruche Video for “3 Amp Fuse”
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 with Kathrin de Boer
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“Electrópico” Sounds from Miami’s Mr. Pauer
MIAMI BASED Mr. Pauer DEBUTS HIS ALBUM OF “ELECTROPICAL” BEATS FROM CUMBIA TO ELECTRO, DUB TO FUNK, INTO ONE COHESIVE SIGNATURE SOUND [soundcloud width=”100%” height=”225″ params=”g=1″ url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/129396″]Mr. Pauer – Soundtrack – Release date: February 15, 2011 by Mr Pauer Mr. Pauer (Toto Gonzalez) is a globetrotting DJ/Producer and remixer born in the Caribbean city of…
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Tortured Soul
An exclusive Mundovibe interview with Tortured Soul Interview by J.C. Tripp Rose and violet lights fall on three musicians decked out sleekly in skinny ties, pressed slacks, and starched white shirts. The mass of bodies gathered before them pulsates with a unified enthusiasm. Sweet soulful vocals rise from the man in the middle, an effect…
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MundoVibe Magazine
Mundovibe the magazine is out now! Features interviews with musicians Belleruche and Ocote Soul Sounds. Brief articles on Paris-based photographer JR, Soundcloud, fashion label SUNO, the best urban music of 2010, Garifuna musician Aurelio and event listings for New York City. READ IT ONLINE HERE
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Interviews
00 Soul Adrian Sherwood Al Haca Sound System — Avatars of Dub Alex Attias Alex Barck of Jazzanova Al Kent and the Million Dollar Orchestra Alison Crockett Amp Fiddler Audio Texture’s James Barrie Bah Samba with Alice Russell Baka Beyond Beat Fantatic Belleruche Bernd Friedmann Boozoo Bajou Brazil on the Bay Break Reform Cheb i Sabbah Cheb i Sabbah II Clara Hill Cyro Baptisa Da Lata Diego Garcia Different Drummer Records Dining Rooms DJ Argo…
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Music News: Carolina Chocolate Drops, Comfort Fit Remixed, DJ Sabo’s EP #9, Cu
Nonesuch Records releases the label debut of North Carolina–based string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops on February 23, 2010. Produced by critically acclaimed recording artist and songwriter Joe Henry (Allen Toussaint, Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke), Genuine Negro Jig features string band interpretations of Blu Cantrell’s beat-box driven R&B single “Hit ‘Em Up Style” and Tom…
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Nik Weston
This affair began with Weston’s role as a DJ back in his teens, almost by default: as any record collector knows, if you’ve got the biggest collection, you are the DJ. It was in 1995 with the monthly jazz/hip-hop event “Phony” at Ormonds in West London that Weston’s professional career gained steam. From there he…
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Tortured Soul: File Under Jazz Rock
An exclusive Mundovibe interview with Tortured Soul Interview by J.C. Tripp Rose and violet lights fall on three musicians decked out sleekly in skinny ties, pressed slacks, and starched white shirts. The mass of bodies gathered before them pulsates with a unified enthusiasm. Sweet soulful vocals rise from the man in the middle, an effect…
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Beyond Ipanema
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr8hBm0U1pQ&hl=en&fs=1&] BEYOND IPANEMA is a mash-up of thoughts and ideas about the repeating cycle of discovery of Brazilian music in the world. Through interviews with David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Seu Jorge, Thievery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, CSS, Creed Taylor and many others, BEYOND IPANEMA surveys the Brazilian…
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Mark de Clive Lowe
Mark de Clive-Lowe: the Tide is High Half Japanese half New Zealander musician/producer Mark de Clive-Lowe has been on the music journey since starting piano when he was four. Classical piano lessons, jazz for playing pleasure and hip hop and soul on the stereo gave Mark the diverse foundation that his eclectic style has developed…
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Eric “E Man” Clark
Eric, E Man, Lorie, Caval, Deep, Sea, New, York, house, music, It’s, Yours, Clark, Jon, Chez by Lorie Caval “What makes you journey in to the night and take flight in a pursuit of musical bliss? Chasing beats through ghetto streets to a dungeonous temple left by our soul descendants in a quest for peace…
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Clara Hill’s Future Sounds of Soul
CLARA HILL — FUTURE SOUNDS OF SOUL. AN INTERVIEW. By J.C. Tripp Editor’s Note: Clara Hill is busy working on her fourth solo album for Sonar Kollektiv. This interview occurred in 2007 with the release of “Folkwaves”. Clara Hill has been a figure in the urban-electronic-soul scene since her teens. A the tender age of…
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Beat Fantatic = One Funky Swede
Beatfanatic, Beat, Fanatic, Conductor, Ture, Sjöberg, Berlin, Nights The Beatfanatic sound is all about cutting, re-editing and chopping up those old school rhythms from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Funk, disco, samba, jazz, soul, hip hop, latin and reggae/dub are all in the mix, but always with great respect to the original recordings in order…
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Bah Samba with Alice Russell
Bah Samba, Alice, Bah, Samba, Alice, Russell, Rose, Parfitt BY ROSE PARFITT In the ballroom of a Pontin’s holiday camp by the North of England November seaside, it could have been 3am or 3pm. Few knew; no one cared – it was another Southport Weekender and Bah Samba’s set had just begun. On a stage…
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DJ Argo — Broken Beat from Philly
Broken, Beat, Radio, Argo, Brokenbeat.com, Philadelphia BROKEN BEAT RADIO FOUNDER DJ ARGO SPEAKS WITH MUNDOVIBES ON THE PHILADELPHIA SCENE, BROKEN BEAT MUSIC AND BEYOND JAZZ. Argo’s passion for DJing began back in the early 90’s in NYC while checking out the weekly Giant Step parties, Soul Kitchen, and assorted funky bizniz at S.O.B.’s. Around 1995…
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Michael Franti — Sowing Seeds of Change
Interview by John C. Tripp JC Tripp: Your music has always inspired me, so it’s nothing new. But I think it’s a new direction for you, as a person who is expressing yourself to humanity. I don’t want to use a catch-word, but it seems more accessible. MF: Yeah, definitely. I’ve tried to continue to…
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Cheb i Sabbah
Cheb, I, Sabbah, Shri, Durga, free, mp3, download, Hindustani, ragas, Six, Degrees, Records By J.C. Tripp An attempt to reinvent an ancient and evolved art form that celebrates the Gods would be a daunting task even for a trained local musician. For an “outsider” to succeed in this project would be unlikely at best. Yet,…
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World Music Institute’s Robert H. Browning on Cultural Exchange
Cultural exchange under attack. MundoVibes speaks with Robert H. Browning of the World Music Institute. There´s a vast cultural chill across the United States that is laying waste to the very values the nation was built upon. Using the Orwellian “War on Terror” as its guise, the Bush administration has declared war on virtually everything…
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Welcome to Koop Island: Hanging Backstage with Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson
Swedish Jazz Duo Koop Return With Koop Islands, a sentimental and sultry followup to Waltz For Koop By J.C. Tripp It’s a Friday night at Manhattan’s ultra-plush, Asian-themed Hiro Ballroom where Sweden’s electronic-jazz duo Koop have returned to peform after four years of laying low, presumably in some Caribbean hideout as the title of their…
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