Seun Kuti Live == Lugano ==2007 P-Gial & Mister Kentro - Life To The Fullest by Mister Kentro Stoned Meadow Of Doom Ah..Electric Moon! What's to say.....foremost purveyors of psychedelic acid rock, capable of turning a 20 minute acid jam into something heavenly and, I have to say, three of the coolest, soundest people I have ever had the fortune to meet. 'Stardust Rituals' is the band's 5th studio offering, as well as a plethora of brain scrambling live recordings, and sees them adding a few surprises into the mix. 'The Loop' opens with very sixties sounding organ and feels all very pastoral to begin, to the point where you have to check you are playing the right album, and when the ethereal vocals from Lulu arrive they only enhance the dreamy vibes....this is not the same Electric Moon that soars above the horizon in a blaze of distortion and fuzz. 'Astral Hitch Hike' opens with some groovy e-sitar backed with a pulsating bass line and jazzy drumming. The change in approach from the band pays dividends and how! Review by Dayz Of Purple and Orange 1.
Orcas Remixed "Single" | Lulacruza In 2015, after 10 years of recording and touring through over 50 cities in five different countries, electronic folk duo Lulacruza released ORCAS, their critically-acclaimed fifth studio album, and most intimate work to date. For their fourth (fourth? It says fifth in the previous sentence) full-length LP, Lulacruza traveled from their native South America to Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest, crafting a both delicate and powerful album, which has garnered critical acclaim from Gilles Peterson to the Huffington Post, who wrote, “As musical alchemists, Ortiz and Maurette have achieved a harmonious balance between organic and inorganic sounds creating a truly shamanic sonic journey.” January 15th, 2016 will mark the release of the first volume of Orcas Remixed, for which Lulacruza invited a select group of internationally renowned electronic music producers from across the globe to remix and rework their pristine, hyper-acoustic songs.
Opposite Afrobeat Band Músicos crean hermoso álbum alrededor de distintos cantos de aves de Sudamérica La unión entre ave y hombre y entre espíritu e instrumento produce esta fértil colaboración que es además un loable proyecto ecoconsciente. A Guide to the Birdsong of South America /Una guía a la canción de las aves de Sudamérica es un álbum que trabaja cada canción sobre la voz temática de un ave en peligro de extinción para cada país del continente, creando así un arcoíris musical de lamento y encanto. Las ganancias por las ventas del disco naturalmente son dirigidas a esfuerzos para la conservación de las diferentes aves, una diversidad ornitológica que en ningún lugar del mundo es tan grande, pero que, sin embargo, está siendo amenazada por la modernidad industrializada. Los ritmos conjurados aquí inspiran algunas palabras para enviar al crisol convocado por los músicos y los pájaros. Mixed by El Búho Tracklist: 1) “Chancha Vía Circuito” – El Macá Tobiano 2) “Dengue Dengue Dengue” – Remolinera Real 3) “Barrio Lindo” – Capuchino Pecho Blanco 4) “Tremor” – Cardenal Amarillo
akoya afrobeat ensemble - oluya About | Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble Akoya Afrobeat is one of New York’s most original and longest running Afrobeat Bands. Started in 2002, Akoya has grown into a 14-piece multicultural Afrobeat Ensemble that includes musicians from Nigeria, Benin, South Africa, Botswana, Japan and the United States. The Akoya ranks are filled with some of New York’s finest musicians who have performed with Fela’s Egypt 80 Band, Fela! the Musical, Antibalas, Arcade Fire and Zozo Afrobeat, to name a few. Akoya’s first two records, “Introducing the Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble” and “PDP,” have been distributed in the US, Japan and Europe on both vinyl and CD. 2005′s “Introducing…” was met with critical acclaim, and Akoya quickly gained the reputation of being one of the strongest new Afrobeat bands on the global scene. For our second record, “P.D.P. “Fela Dey” from our critically acclaimed record “P.D.P.” is featured alongside the likes of Tony Allen, Seun Kuti and Antibalas on the 2009 realease “The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival.”
Tony Allen: The veteran Afrobeat drummer is shaking his sticks as hard and as brilliantly as ever - Features - Music Listen to Allen's extraordinary cross-rhythms on all those great Fela Kuti records and you realise he's not exaggerating. "Most composers write a drum part with a regular beat that anybody in the whole world could play," he says. "I always like to extract the beat that's there and then try lots of different beats and different ways of drumming around it. Brian Eno and Damon Albarn have described Allen as the greatest drummer on the planet – and it's hard to disagree. Drumming is a highly physical discipline, but at 67 Allen shows no sign of letting up. He has his own explanation for his indefatigability. Small and wiry with a beanie pulled down over his ears, he meets me in Paris, where he has lived for the past 20 years. "Damon's a genius," he says. They met after Albarn inserted the line "Tony Allen... really got me dancing" into the lyrics of Blur's 2000 single "Music is My Radar". Allen lets slip that the band commenced recording their second album at Albarn's studio in December.