On January 21, Domino Records will re-release 'Big Inner', the debut album by Virgina-based artist Matthew E. White which was originially released on Hometapes / Spacebomb in the US middle of last year. Moving, redemptive and powerfully soulful, 'Big Inner' is a timeless record told in seven songs that mingle memory with the rawness of any given human moment. The [...]
Nação Zumbi (PE). Foto/Divulgação Os fãs do Manguebeat terão um novo motivo para comemorar. É que foram divulgados, nesta terça-feira (16), dois vídeos que anunciam a gravação de um álbum em conjunto das bandas Mundo Livre S/A e Nação Zumbi , que deverá sair pela gravadora Deckdisc . Em 2011, Mundo Livre lançou o ótimo Novas Lendas da Etnia Toshi Babaa , oitavo e mais experiente álbum da banda. Já a Nação Zumbi , que se prepara [...]
I'm no expert when it comes to world music. In fact, I only tend to learn about world music before a vacation. If I know I'm going to travel to Argentina, for example, then I'll spend the months leading up to the trip researching music from that country. From Argentina, I return with a sack full of records by Astor Piazzolla and Atahualpa Yupanqui . After visiting Colombia, I returned with several Cumbia LPs. With that said, I've never been to Brazil. But despite that fact, 702s Brazilian music certainly has captured my imagination for the past [...]
O Lounge Apoia! É já neste dia 23 de Agosto, no famoso B.Leza em Lisboa. Antes, ouvia só falar no nome e não sabia bem do que se tratava; hoje, depois de ter visitado o espaço durante a minha estadia em Portugal na semana passada, já posso falar com propriedade que o B.Leza é um lugar apaixonante, perfeito para concertos e a apreciação de música em geral. Que sítio fantástico, com gente simpática de todas as esferas sociais. Na noite em que fui, dancei lá uns kizombas e uns sembas depois de mais de um ano e meio sem pisar [...]
Carnival in Rio is something that i have always wanted to do, that day will come when i am not on a shoestring budget living day to day. Some might say its pretty lame not checking it while I'm living on the same continent, But really i wanna do it right. I'm hopefully going to cross the border later in the year and get amongst this amazing and much hyped country and culture. Brazilian Music is such a gigantic ball of twine i wouldn't really no where to start unravelling it. Instead i am going give you my First podcast [...]
Jorge Ben was my first introduction to Brazilian music - someone put on his "best of" album The Definitive Collection so they could point out how much "Taj Mahal" sounded like Rod Stewart's hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" I'd never heard the Stewart song before, so when I did hear it for the first time later in my life I was astounded, much as Jorge Ben must have been in 1978, at the similarities. A judge eventually ruled that the song did, in fact, constitute plagiarism, as it had, in the judge's words, "been derived" from Jorge [...]
" Saudade ". Ce mot intraduisible en français est peut-être celui qui résume le mieux l'oeuvre de Jorge Ben , l'homme qui a marqué la musique auriverde d'une pierre blanche. Fils des favelas de Rio, il se passionne d'abord pour le futebol et réussi à intégrer l'équipe junior du Flamengo. C'est son père, Augusto Menezes, joueur de pandeiro pour le groupe Cometas De Rio qui initie le jeune Jorge aux rythmes de la samba . Sa guitare à la main, il se produit pour ses copains dans les bars et [...]
I know it is beyond merely cliche to say so, but music truly is a universal language. And it is a good thing too because if I'm being honest, and I'm embarrassed to admit it, but my knowledge of languages beyond my own is dismal. Thanks to two semesters of evening courses at a local community college I speak a useless phrase or two in Russian; and thanks to three semesters in high school, my Spanish is sufficient to just barely get me around some (but not all) Spanish speaking countries and stumble clumsily through a Pablo Neruda [...]
Monster Rally is the brainchild of 23 year old Columbus, Ohio resident and Cleveland native Ted Feighan. Producing sample - based tropical pop , his releases on Gold Robot weave old records into a wholly different beast. We asked him to close out our summer with some autumn-eschewing vibes, and he presented us with a mix that is purely indicative of his sound. Substitute Teachers: Monster Rally [...]
Beyonce's recent fusion of classic American music with rhythms and guitar styles from Africa inspired us to create a brief selection of similar songs, from both sides of the pond. Of course, most music in either hemisphere consists, in at least a distant sense, of a blend of these two origins, but here it's particularly noticeable: "Taj Mahal" - Jorge Ben "End Of Time" - Beyonce "Zombie" - Fela Kuti "Domingo No Parque" - Gilberto Gil "Mr. Jones" - Talking Heads "Heartbeat" - Nneka [...]
Jorge Ben was my first introduction to Brazilian music - someone put on his "best of" album The Definitive Collection so they could point out how much "Taj Mahal" sounded like Rod Stewart's hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" I'd never heard the Stewart song before, so when I did hear it for the first time later in my life I was astounded, much as Jorge Ben must have been in 1978, at the similarities. A judge eventually ruled that the song did, in fact, constitute plagiarism, as it had, in the judge's words, "been derived" from Jorge [...]
Download audio file (49-Saudade-Vem-Correndo.mp3) We're going to South America with this one! From Philly to Rio de Janeiro, from Cali to São Paulo, from the D to Pelourinho to Brooklyn to Salvador & right into your NKD collection! Those that know me, know that I am a huge fan of Bossa Nova/Brazilian music. It blew up by mainly young musicians & college students in the 19602s & since then has continued to be a influence in todays music from Koop to Nouvelle Vague & Jneiro Jarel. Bossanova rhythmically has Samba foundations , while harmonically the structure [...]
Os Originais Do Samba où les maîtres brésiliens de la samba . Le groupe se forme dans les années 60 d'abord sous le nom de "Os Sete Morenos" et se produit dans les théâtres et cabarets de la côte est du Brésil. Bigode ( tambourin ), Bidi ( cuíca ), Chiquinho ( ganzá ), Lelei (tambourin), Mussum ( reco-reco , chant) et Rubão ( surdo ) se font rapidement un nom grâce au spectacle "O Teu Cabelo Não Nega" joué au Copacabana Palace de Rio puis au cours d'une longue tournée sud-américaine. De [...]
Os Mutantes are one of few artists that are truly inter-generational. Even apart from their long-standing tenure, the influential Brazilian psychedelic-rockers play music that is received amiably by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. When I saw them live this past Saturday at Webster Hall, the somewhat obnoxious crowd there for opener Ariel Pink began [...]
Jorge Ben : Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) [ purchase ] I had to jump on this week's theme so that this song would be timely for the FIFA World Cup Final on Sunday. Remember, it's futbol, not soccer, and sadly for South America, none of their teams made it to the final two. Instead we've got an European face-off between Spain and the Netherlands. Jorge Ben is one of Brazil's musical treasures. This upbeat song, with its blend of Brazilian and African rhythms, was [...]
A fusion with jazz, funk, hip-hop, rap, electronica, reggae, bossa nova, salsa, and latino influences featured in the latest release from Sergio Mendez. Hip hop - Bossa nova - Sérgio Mendes - Funk - Music
A fusion with jazz, funk, hip-hop, rap, electronica, reggae, bossa nova, salsa, and latino influences featured in the latest release from Sergio Mendez. Hip hop - Bossa nova - Reggae - Funk - Music
Luna is one of those bands I don't remember discovering—rather, it just seems like I've always been listening to them. A few days ago I stumbled upon a copy of frontman Dean Wareham's memoir Black Postcards —which I had no idea even existed—and quickly became absorbed in the details of the cult figure's musical evolution: from his Glen Campbell-dominated New Zealand youth to discovery of New Wave, first shot at forming a band while attending Harvard, the rise and fall of Galaxie 500, an amazing 7-album-run with Luna, and plenty of personal turmoil and triumphs, including his love affair [...]
Chances are, if you’re a music aficionado, you’ve already heard of AM. If not directly from a friend or by way of online channels such as Lala and thesixtyone, where he currently enjoys a strong presence, then you’ve most likely been exposed through a more traditional medium. This is due to the fact that every single [...]
Swan Fungus
LOCAL SUICIDE
Rock 'n' Beats
Turntable Kitchen
Caipirinha Lounge
STOLEN RECORDS
AudioCred
Le Mellotron
dipped in dollars
Blind I | The Boutique Music Blog
Obscure Sound
Star Maker Machine
Music @ Blogcritics.org
Everybody Taste
Spinning Platters
Listen to Arctic Monkeys’ new single, “Do I Wanna Know?”
Stream: Eminem – Symphony in H
Eminem – “Symphony In H”
SOUNDCLOUD WRAP: The Swiss
Escucha el ruidoso regreso de M.I.A.
