After two CDRs on their own Root Strata label last year Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's The Alps with ARP and Scott Hewicker became our favourite drone/soundscape artists. That doesn't help explain why I missed their Type Records debut III, on the contrary it makes it more mysterious, doesn't it?.
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If you ask me the freshest names in the dance biz today, one of the few I'll be uttering is the Lithuanian duo Downtown Party Network.
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This nugget by one half of Partial Arts Al Usher has been gracing our sound systems for a good two months, but I was looking to couple it with another track or a piece of news. I found the news I was looking for a few days ago, there's a new bunch of remixes from Gatto Fritto, Mark Seven and Prins Thomas.
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I think I found this on the always tasteful Club Cortez. Nobody Fails is a moody afro-psychedelia piece by Nigerian band Ofege. Off their Try and Love album which is available at Boomkat.
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Words can't describe Letta Mbulu's "What's wrong with groovin", penned by Hugh Masakela in 1967, and re-issued in 2001 by Jazzman Records. Think I first heard this one thanks to Master Gilles Peterson around that time. Sonar Kollektiv artist Stee Downes covered it in his debut, it's not possible to top Letta, but I think this comes close.
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The in-house gag about this show was that we were ready to work at the BRT (a fictional state owned radio station from Brasil that resembles our TRT) simply because it never wanders off brasileira & exotica, albeit a few breathers of downtempo jazz from Cecil Taylor and Marc Copland. Play this on sunny afternoons.
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There's one man in the world that I'd like to meet in person. It's Our Man From Odessa, OMFO: "It all started in a chaikhana somewhere in Central Asia. As I was enjoying a bowl of tea, suddenly the east of my brain started to send strange signals to my body. And then my vision of the world turned into the abstract motif of a Turkmen rug..."
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Our favourite British disco steamrollers Horse Meat Disco has had a new Beats in Space session last week, and UK DJ and remixer Leo Zero has his Ze 30 Mix which includes several tracks not featured on the 30 Years of Mutant Disco album.
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The tried and tested desert blues formula of twanging guitars, complex beats and chanting still seems fresh; and the guitars would inspire a whole new generation of afropop, or fit in with the lo-fi stuff that's coming out of US these days. Just listen to the closer Era Tasfata Adounia, where the last four minutes go into an amazing drone.
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On his latest output The Freak of Araby, Sun City Girls guitar hero Sir Richard Bishop pays homage to the Middle East.
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These two amazing Brasileira off their 1981 album Caminhos Cruzados - where they sing songs from Edu & Fernando Lobo, Antonio & Paulo Jobim, Dorival & Danilo Caymmi - should serve as a teaser for our upcoming radio show #79.
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Last time I listened to Victoria Bergsman aka Taken by Trees, she was making acoustic indie folk pop in her native Sweden, sounding not unlike her compatriot El Perro del Mar. East of Eden on the contrary sees a popified breed of Eastern music replacing generic indie folk, So what changed in two years?
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The one artist that I want to steal his name, Gothenburg's Henrik Jonsson aka Porn Sword Tobacco has relocated to Berlin, before releasing his 4th album on City Centre Offices. It's the beauty of being a member of the EU, you can relocate as much as you want, add flavours to your life, or why not start a completely new life?
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Video of a jam session feat. Pharoahe Monch, Shafiq Husayn (SA-RA), Om'Mas Keith (SA-RA), Brook D'leau (J Davey), Mark De Clive Lowe, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (Suite for Ma Dukes), Thundercat, and more..
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Ed DMX, sole member of Rephlex's electro giant DMX Krew selects 20 of the best Acid House tunes for FACT Magazine. He's such a knowledgeable guy when it comes to remembering dates, events and people; reading Acid House history from him is like listening to a WW2 veteran or something.
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The year 2009 will be written in music history as the year of lo-fi garage/noise rock. There are countless things that can be said on how this noise is a gimmick and why it's revivalist bullshit, but I don't want to be a buzzkiller, as the countless no talent hacks have already started to bore people. So I just have to sneak two bands before the doors are closed and summer's over.
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.. Yet bearing the droning tamboura of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens enough that holy day, the opener Thebes became a most rewarding song, turning day into night in Egypt where dervishes summon higher spirits...
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The Twitter-verse is expanding and our diet gets versatile, day by day. Join in for this week's additions to our contacts and the loot: which includes a free Koushik tape - new Beyondjazz podcast and Fuck Krautrock mix by Black to Comm among others..
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