virgil howe - "b-boy bounce" (download) This is from a collaborative digital 123 from drummers Virgil Howe (Killer Meters) and Malcolm Catto (Heliocentrics, Quantic Soul Orchestra). As you can expect, it's heavy on the drums. The A-side, "B-Boy Bounce" features only Virgil, while the B-side features both drummers. buy
*Jon LaJoie voice* Awww yeah...I'm back. New month, new Smorg fo yall asses. No ignorance on this one, no sappy ass theme. Just some music that I've been vibing to as of lately. Dunno...I've had a lot on me brain, think it comes out in the song selection. Or not. Either way I think all the tracks rock and I'd like to share them with you. Wordemup to $ for the cover art though...hell I might have to go get that varsity made for real. Holla. *PBBT!'S SMORGASBORD APRIL 2011 [ DOWNLOAD ]
Mulatu Astatke est avec Mahmoud Ahmed et Tilahun Gessesse un des principaux chefs de fil de l' éthio-jazz et plus généralement du jazz africain. Après avoir étudié la musique dans les plus prestigieuses écoles anglaises et américaines, il revient à Addis-Abeba au début des années 70 pour enregistrer quelques unes des pièces maîtresses de la musique éthiopienne. Influencé par Larry Coryell , Miles Davis et le saxophoniste Pharoah Sanders , il mêle jazz et influences latines à la musique traditionnelle éthiopienne et invente un nouveau style. [...]
A homecoming, of sorts. Mulatu Astake's musical career may have began with his studies in the UK, including a spell at London's Trinity College Of Music, but his influences are from elsewhere. The Ethiopian musician draws not just on the modes of his birthplace, but on latin jazz, and the arrangements of Duke Ellington. Last year's collaboration with the Heliocentrics on their Inspiration Information album saw Astatke drawn into more modern territories, the UK collective adding electronic and hip-hop influences to the mix. I expected the set for this Barbican performance to draw heavily from that collection, but [...]
It's been a quiet few days here in the GOMWAB manor thanks to a computer riddled with viruses, trojan horses and all other sorts of technological fuckery that is well beyond my comprehension . But fear not (because I'm sure you were all worried sick), because I'm back like crack. So without any further ado lets get on to clearing out the inbox of all the freshness that's been raining down the last few days. Hang on. It seems there's been very little freshness in the inbox the last few days. Unless, or course, [...]
The latest record from the Heliocentrics is their record with the eccentric Lloyd Miller. Lloyd Miller and The Heliocentrics pairs them with Lloyd Miller, a jazzman and ethnomusicologist with an expansive knowledge of Persian and Eastern instruments. The result is pretty great. I have been a fan of the Heliocentrics for some time. Their collaborative album on Strut uses their separate directions and influences to fuse together a unique jazz experience with elements of world music and experimental psychedelia. Check out a track off the [...]
Belle surprise que de voir le multi-instrumentiste Lloyd Miller s'associer à The Heliocentrics . Le jazzman qui a étudié et pratiqué différents courants musicaux, de la musique iranienne en passant par la musique vietnamienne, se joint au groupe d'ethio-jazz cher au légendaire Mulatu Astatke . Projet ambitieux qui reflète la musique et la culture du Moyen-Orient de Lloyd Miller entrainé par le rythme envoutant de The Heliocentrics. Pour preuve le titre "Fantasia Part.13 gracieusement offert par Now Again et en écoute ci-dessous. L'album Lloyd [...]
Download : Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics - Masenqo by KEEPREAL Creative Label - Visual & Musical www.keepreal.org Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics - Masenqo
Pandas are big in music these days. Must be their mating habits that lend to a build up of tension, and artistic expression. Bad Panda dropped this Growsound guy into my email a while back and I sorta slept on it, because I got caught in a submarine, smuggling yogurt covered almonds into Russia. It's a short story with a long ending, but I'm happy to say, Growsound has arrived. But will he live up to the hype? Or better yet, will his hype man wear neon? All fantasticness aside, Growsound is well on his way to mastering [...]
Bu sene iki albüm birden çıkarma kararı alan The Ocean 'ın Mart ayında çıkacak ilk albümü Heliocentric , adına nispet yaparcasına salınan mini bir web sitesiyle ağızlara bir parmak bal çalma peşinde. Albümde olması muhtemel 9 parçadan örnekleri, göz alıcı görsellerle birlikte sunmayı tercih eden grup elemanları, bu albümü şimdiye kadar çalıştığımız en kalabalık orkestra ile kaydettik sözleriyle de merakları tahrik etme derdine düşmüş. 27 kişilik Precambrian 'in üstüne bakalım kaç kişi eklediler?.. Bahsi geçen çifte albümlerden diğerinin, konsept olarak Heliocentric'e sadık kalacağını ve Ekim ayında çıkacağını biliyoruz. Daha fazlasını, ben şahsen bilmiyorum. [...]
Oggi terminiamo la nostra carrellata di classifiche di fine anno (o di fine decennio). Lo facciamo con un' altra webzine molto importante su territorio nazionale: SentireAscoltare , che ha uno dei punti di forza in una quantità veramente enorme di recensioni. La classifica di SentireAscoltare (che è stata "in progress" tutto l'anno, fino alla versione definitiva del 31 Dicembre) presenta alcuni dei nomi che abbiamo trovato più di frequente all'interno delle classifiche di fine 2009 come gli Animal Collective (alla 7) e soprattutto Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics che [...]
Giusto pochi giorni fa vi abbiamo mostrato la classifica dei migliori album italiani del 2009 realizzata da Stereogram , oggi invece vi proponiamo quella relativa agli album "stranieri". Su Stereogram hanno diviso la classifica in tre post differenti per un totale di 31 posizioni. Fra la 11 e la 31 hanno trovato posto dischi acclamati come ad esempio " Primary Colours " dei The Horrors (30), "Tarot Sport" dei Fuck Buttons (28) o "Logos" del progetto Atlas Sound di Bradford Cox (14). Nella top10, che vi mostriamo [...]
E così andiamo a mostrarvi anche la classifica di fine anno targata OndaRock, da anni una delle webzine musicali più importanti e più seguite a livello nazionale. Dico subito che la numero uno mi sorprende leggermente, non che sia un brutto disco, anzi, ma vederlo lì sopra a tutti mi fa uno strano effetto. Sto parlando di "Lovetune For Vacuum" di Soap&Skin , il progetto di Anja Franziska Plaschg che, va ricordato, ha solamente 19 anni... alla faccia di tutti quel che dicono cose come "sì, ma è giovane" quando si parla di artisti teen-oriented, come a [...]
CRY OUT Darius Jones Trio Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing) AUM Fidelity : 2009 DJ, alto sax; Cooper-Moore, piano, Rakalam Bob Moses, drums. You know what you need? Another freakin top ten list, that's what. While we don't pretend toward comprehensiveness in our listening, we thought it might be of moderate interest to D:O's abnormally well-informed and good-looking readership to know of some discs [...]
mrr-adm - "'002" (download) From the EXTREMELY rare, and highly sought after MRR-ADM 10" EP. Featuring the very talented Malcolm Catto playing some heavy, heavy drums. A must for any beat-head. MRR-ADM stands for Michael Raymond Russell & Adam Douglas Manella (the San Diego production duo previously known as MHE ). lastfm (myspace page does not seem to be working)
I'm not very good with introductions...name's Benny K , I have been blogging for the past few years on and off various collaborative blogs (which I will tell you about at some point) but I thought I could start one solo. I'm based in Hampshire in Southern England (right at the bottom of the UK). I will review music, film, books, comics, TV series' and anything else I want cause it's MY DAMN BLOG! I can do whatever the fuck I like! I'll probably post a lot of stupid links too [...]
Here's another pretty awesome music website that let's you create playlists you can share with you friends. It's called GrooveShark.com and it's got a pretty big library of music. It allows you to upload your own music so you can login from anywhere in the world and have all of your music. It also allows you to search for music and play full songs and albums. The way this works reminds me very much of Napster (the original Napster) since it seems like the search results are based on what people have uploaded. This is probably why GrooveShark [...]
Red Bull Music Academy presents Wandering Feet podcast James Pants (Stone's Throw), Chas Jankel (The Blockheads) and Fatima feature this month. Download the Wandering Feet Podcast and join music journalist, and Red Bull Music Academy team member, Emma Warren, for her take on new music, collaboration and emerging talent with a special UK focus. In the latest episode Emma is joined in the Wandering Feet studio by emerging vocalist Fatima who popped by to talk about jamming with Sly and Robbie and to give us an exclusive preview of some of the [...]
Now-Again Re:Sounds Vol. 1 label: Now-Again year: 2007 side 1a: Guilty Simpson - Before I Die side 1b: The Heliocentrics - Before I Die (Instrumental Edit) www.myspace.com/guiltysimpson | www.myspace.com/heliocentrics side 2a: Edan - Sagittarius Rapp side 2b: Timothy McNealy - Sagittarius Black www.myspace.com/eeddaann side 3a: Egon feat. Percee P - Reverse Pt. 2.5 (Koushik's Apples & Oranges Remix) side 3b: Koushik - Reverse Pt. 2.5 (Koushik's Apples & Oranges Remix Instrumental) www.myspace.com/perceep - www.myspace.com/koushik side [...]
WW10 continues. . . . better start scraping my pounds together for this one.
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