Playing For Change | Connecting The World Through Music. Bobby McFerrin plays... the audience! Beethoven in the Congo: Kinshasa's classical orchestra. Violin player Pauleth Masamba has been playing with the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste since the mid-1990s. "Music is one of the things that comforts me, takes off the stress and makes me happy," she says. The Kinshasa-based orchestra holds regular concerts in a bid to inspire a new generation of musicians and help locals to discover the world of classical music. Masamba, like many other members of the orchestra, lives in a typical Kinshasa neighborhood that has unpaved roads and is lined with sewage. Conductor Armand Diangienda (far right) is the founder and conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste. Their rehearsal room, in his house, can barely fit the ensemble of some 200 people. The Kinshasa orchestra does not have enough instruments so these boys must take 20-minute turns while practicing.
Rehearsals are frequently interrupted by power blackouts. Rodrick Muamba joins rehearsals after work and aspires to become a world-renowned violinist Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste. Truck North f. Homeboy Sandman - Riot Act. Rebel salutes total wellness - Entertainment. BY BASIL WALTERS Observer writer waltersb@jamaicaobserver.com Monday, December 31, 2012 MUTABARUKA... urging the media to reverse the negativity (Photos: Karl McLarty) OUTSPOKEN poet/broadcaster Mutabaruka has lauded deejay Tony Rebel for steadfastly promoting positive reggae through his annual Rebel Salute show. Speaking at last Thursday's launch of the January 18-19 show at the Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, Mutabaruka took the media to task for much of the negatives in the Jamaican society, which includes music. "Mi glad fi see Tony Rebel a use a reggae show to project the importance of disease prevention. We a ask the media fi reverse the negativity.
"Just like how Rebel keep a show with cultural artistes wey a sey something positive, we need the concerted effort of everybody. Patrons attending the 20th Rebel Salute will experience a a number of firsts. The relocation of Rebel Salute from Port Kaiser Sports Club in St Elizabeth after 13 years, to St Ann, is a strategic one. Finding musical 'diamonds' in the slums of Paradise City. A program in Brazil is offering free classical music training to children in the slumsIt's empowering the children and giving them a chance at a brighter futureThere are 11 million Brazilians living in slums; more than 1 billion worldwide are in slumsTop 10 CNN Hero Thulani Madondo is educating hundreds of slum kids in South Africa Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- The violin she uses is cheap by most standards: made in China, it costs about $150.
But that's an absolute fortune for Yanca Leite. On the day we visited her, the 15-year-old aspiring musician couldn't even afford breakfast. Yanca shares a one-bedroom shack with eight relatives in a sprawling shantytown on the outskirts of Sao Paulo called Paraisopolis, or Paradise City. The narrow path leading to their door is lined with the bottles and cans they collect to supplement their income.
"The guy who recycles these bottles didn't pick them up and pay us," Yanca said. But Yanca thinks she has finally discovered her own way out: music. LatAm Beats: Canada's Cuban-born Alex Cuba. HobNob. Joyful Rain by Tracy Cruz. ISRC - International Standard Recording Code. CHIP-FU aka JUNGLE ROCK JR -- TEAR GAS. First Afghanistan female rapper debuts - Entertainment. Tuesday, October 09, 2012 | 9:09 AM KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- "Listen to my story! Listen to my pain and suffering!
" Afghanistan's first female rapper Sosan Firooz pleads into her microphone. With her first rap song, the outspoken 23-year-old singer is making history in her homeland where society frowns on women who take the stage. She is already shunned by some of her relatives. But for Firooz, the best way to express herself is through rap, a musical genre that is just starting to generate a following in Afghanistan. She sings about repression of women, her hopes for a peaceful Afghanistan and the misery she says she experienced as a small child living in neighbouring Iran. "I remember while we were in Iran, we were called `dirty Afghans' and told to go to the back of the line at the bakery," Firooz, who also spent time as a refugee in Pakistan and returned to Afghanistan with her family seven years ago, told The Associated Press in an interview.
LatAm Beats: Brazilian musician Marcelo Camelo. William de vaughn- be thankful for what you got (original) Santana ~ Guajira. Ronin Tafari. LatAm Beats: Colombian band Bomba Estéreo perform El Alma Y El Cuerpo. Stuff You Should Know's First-ever Crowd-sourced Quiz" Hot vs Dope. Apple Radio. Muve Music, for Mobile Users, Thrives in Shadow of Competitors. In its shadow, another service, Muve Music, has quietly built one of the largest subscriber bases in the business by going after a part of the market that most digital companies have largely ignored: people who may not have computers at all.
Muve, a phone-based music plan sold through Cricket Wireless, offers unlimited song downloads for $10 a month, tucked inconspicuously into a customer’s monthly cellphone bill, which ranges from $55 to $65. In many ways its users defy the conventional profile of a digital music consumer. They are young and urban, yes, but instead of a laptop or a tablet, they use a phone for everything. Most earn less than $35,000 a year and lack credit cards, so they prefer Cricket’s month-to-month cash plan. Since its introduction in January 2011, Muve has signed up 600,000 users, putting it in the league of Rhapsody, which has about one million subscribers, and Spotify.
But some analysts doubt Muve’s long-term potential. 6 Mixer Console Control Apps Offer Complete Control - Hospitality Tech Decisions. Mixer specific console control apps recreate physical control boards on your mobile device. By Curtis Emery February 14, 2013 Omnipresence is trait possessed by none, but looked for by everyone. It is a pipe dream to be in complete control of everything, let alone be in all places at once, but it would make our jobs a whole lot easier if it were possible.
When it comes to live sound, being in at least two places at once would be nice, three would be ecstasy. Juggling time spent behind the mixing console and getting that perfect sound is not a task that can be accomplished in the five minutes before the production starts; it requires a lot of back and forth between performers and the sound person or persons to get everything sounding pristine. In an ideal world, people would communicate better, sound checks would be quicker and the mind behind the mixing console would be able to adjust the mix from any location in the environment to make sure the levels sounded great — no matter where.
Colony Records, a Longtime Midtown Music Shop, Is Poised to Close. Music piracy - who’s on the moral high ground? 18 July 2012Last updated at 11:46 ET Google says it already removes two million links a month on requests from rights holders. It's a battle between one of the world's most powerful companies, Google, and the trade body representing British music labels, the BPI. The increasingly bitter confrontation over what responsibility the search firm has to help in the battle against web piracy is the subject of my film for Newsnight on Wednesday evening. The BPI says Google has become a directory for piracy - put Adele or any artist plus MP3 into the search box, and you'll find page after page of unauthorised sites before you come to anything legitimate.
The trade body wants the pirate sites pushed down the search rankings - Google says it already removes two million links a month on requests from rights holders, and it can't mess with its search algorithm. I suspect that many of you reading this will come down on Google's side. "You're right," he said. Ohm Studio. Power your Facebook music sales with ONErpm | Facebook Music. Saxon v Coxsone — Soundsystem History pt1. First Spin: Hear Oddisee's 'People Hear What They See' | SPIN | No Trivia. "I'm not a star, somebody lied / I ride the subway as a car, I'm getting by. " That's Oddisee on "Do It All," the collaborative track with his DC supergroup Diamond District, from his new album, People Hear What They See.
The producer/rapper just kind of throws that line out there, subtly grounding Rick Ross' hammy modesty with a gentlemanly dose of honesty. This is but one of People Hear What They See's many thoughtful takes on rap's rote subjects. If there's a concept to the album, it would be approaching the entry-level boasts and well, bullshit of rap, and turning them into true, lived-in representations of everyday life. "American Greed" is the "get money" song with a widescreen worldview of risk and reward, and "You Know Who You Are," is a track for "the haters" twisted into a celebration of those who've supported you, and a request for introspection.
I'm focusing on lyrics a bit here because everyone's well-aware of Oddisee's production chops, right? At least, they should be. Cape Verde hip hop special – African hip hop radio May 2012 | Africanhiphop.com. The May edition of African hip hop radio is a rendez-vous with Revoltod from the Lod Escur crew, our long time contributor who started doing Cabo shows for us while he was living in Cape Verde. Now based in Rotterdam, he’s still very active in the hip hop scenes of Cape Verde as well as the Netherlands. In the second hour from the Red Light Radio studio he plays some of his productions and other hot Cabo stuff, talks about gang culture and police abusing hip hop artists back home, and about two products that are important to Cape Verdean identity: grog, an alcoholic drink, and zouk, the Antillean music that made it big within Cabo communities worldwide.
The first hour has new tracks from all over the continent, from ‘Uko sure’ by Kenyan Man Njoro & Rabbit to ‘Afrika is not dead’ by Togolese emcee Elom and a collabo between Stephen Marley and Wale. J4 plays an exclusive track (world premier!) Piece » Steve Edwards Soul Talking With Art Stewart. OKP News: D’Angelo x GQ Interview. Power your Facebook music sales with ONErpm | Facebook Music. Slum Village ft. Focus & Vice – God Sent / Hunger. BEATMINERZ RADIO. CBGB Owners Plan a Festival and Seek a New Location. The new owners of the club’s assets — some with ties to the original Bowery establishment — say they hope that the festival will revive the wide-open artistic aesthetic associated with CBGB, which in its heyday served as an incubator for influential acts like Television, Talking Heads, the Ramones, Blondie, Sonic Youth and Patti Smith.
“We’re never going to recreate that moment in time,” said Tim Hayes, one of the investors. “We’re trying to continue the idea of supporting live music, making a lot of noise and being a part of New York City. The festival is one way we can do it. Eventually the club will be another way we can do it.” The four-day festival is scheduled to begin on July 5 and will showcase about 300 rock bands. Concerts will take place at around 30 places, from large stages like Central Park Summerstage and Webster Hall to small clubs like the Trash Bar in Williamsburg and the Living Room on the Lower East Side.
It was Mr. That rebirth has been a long time coming. Mr. Mr. Adrift Da Belle: "R.A.W" [Audio] | RAWROOTS.com. Nelly Furtado: 'Swagger in spades' 7 May 2012Last updated at 01:12 GMT By Mark Savage BBC News entertainment reporter Nelly Furtado is releasing her first English-language album in six years It's been six years since Nelly Furtado's multi-platinum album Loose, which featured the smash hit single Maneater and collaborations with Justin Timberlake and Chris Martin. She followed it up with a Spanish language record that missed the UK top 100 altogether.
So, as she returns to a commercial pop sound, the Canadian star has everything to prove. "If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best," says Nelly Furtado. In fact, the 33-year-old devoted so much time to her new record that producer Salaam Remi accused her of being "three years pregnant" with it. The album has gone through two titles, half-a-dozen producers, and a mountain of songs - both old and new. "In the final stages I was getting really anal about it," says Furtado.
Why did she get so obsessed? Nostalgia is a big part of the album. Hardtalk - Philip Glass: 'Music is the most eloquent language' Ska pioneer Lloyd Brevett dies. 4 May 2012Last updated at 05:58 ET Lloyd Brevett helped create an identifiably Jamaican sound Jamaican double bassist Lloyd Brevett, whose band The Skatalites pioneered ska music and paved the way for reggae, has died at the age of 80. The Skatalites formed in 1964 and combined jazz, R&B and mento to create ska and take a Jamaican sound around the world for the first time. Their songs included The Guns of Navarone and they backed acts including The Wailers and Prince Buster. Brevett suffered a stroke in March, two weeks after his son was murdered. Thirty two-year-old Okine was shot outside the family's home in Kingston hours after he had accepted a Jamaican music industry award on his father's behalf. Spokeswoman and friend Maxine Stowe told the AP news agency: "He took his son's death as stoically as he could, but you knew it was devastating for him.
"To say that Brevett was a creator of both ska and dub is not to use hyperbole," he said in a statement. Grammy nominations. Bob Marley - Pray For Me (rare) Bob Marley & The Wailers - This My Life. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com. The revival of vinyl: Back to black. Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back. From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don't mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock in the 1960s and '70s, are suddenly cool again. Some of the new fans are baby boomers nostalgic for their youth. But to the surprise and delight of music executives, increasing numbers of the iPod generation are also purchasing turntables (or dusting off Dad's), buying long-playing vinyl records and giving them a spin.
Like the comeback of Puma sneakers or vintage T shirts, vinyl's resurgence... Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30! Aardvark Record Mastering - Record Making Procedures. 74 Miles Away | 74 Miles Away. MPM have teamed up with the Laid Back Radio collective from Brussels to add a new chapter to the metaphysics of a jazzthing. 74 MILES AWAY is a collaboration between Belgian jazz pianist/composer Pierre Anckaert and producers Monkey Robot (previously known as Infinitskills), curated by LBR founder Julius Mourlon.
Pierre Anckaert composed and recorded four electric jazz tracks with his trio. Monkey Robot have radically reworked these four songs featuring singers AHU (One Handed Music, best known from the first Flying Lotus album), Carina Andersson (the voice behind 4 Hero's epic take on Minnie Riperton's “Les Fleurs”) and Miles Bonny (MPM, DJ Day). 74 MILES AWAY take you on a trip from the days of Bob James and Herbie Hancock to the future beat and soul sound of today. If you are looking for the perfect beat in 2011, we highly recommend to check out this record. www.mpmsite.com www.laid-back.be www.pierreanckaert.com. Brian McKnight - 'Let Me Show You How Your Pussy Works' Slum Village - The Look Of Love. Mpita Njia - Alicios ft. Juliana. News - SuperCollider: Beatboxer Bellatrix works with coders for live show. Salud (Produced by DJ Cozmos) | D. Rose. How the world's first rock concert ended in chaos.
20 March 2012Last updated at 20:05 ET By Jude Sheerin BBC News, Cleveland Sixty years ago, the first official rock concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, sparked a riot Sixty years ago the world's first rock concert was staged in Cleveland by two men whose passion for music bridged the racial divide in a segregated US. Jimmy Sutphin was playing poker and drinking beer in a hotel room with some hockey team pals when they heard the commotion outside.
Peering out of the fifth-floor window, they saw thousands of people besieging the indoor arena across the road. The 20-year-old student and his friends abandoned their card game and piled downstairs to investigate. It was Friday evening, 21 March 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio, and they were about to witness history being made. The crowd was angrily demanding entry to a performance featuring a radical new music movement that was about to sweep the nation. Pandemonium Audience members were apparently surprised to discover Alan Freed was white 'Race records' The-Dream Performs at S.O.B.’s. Homepage. 25 Tempting Music Apps for the iPad. Loris Holland. CHECKiT&LISTEN - Wall. Facebook. CSNW+ | There Is No Finish Line. Female Beatmakers. FWMJ's Rappers I Know presents Scanz. Music Colleges. TALLAWAH Magazine: Jamaican Culture: JAMAICA JOURNAL: The bigger picture behind controversial new Vybz Kartel issue.
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