
EMI Odeón editó un nuevo boxset compilatorio con material que la cantautora Violeta Parra registró mientras se encontraba en el sello. Se trata de una antología de cuatro volúmenes, que incluye grabaciones entre 1954 y 1966, guardadas durante muchos años en los archivos del sello, y que ahora digitalizadas y masterizadas ven la luz justo antes que EMI cambie de dueño, a manos de Universal Music. El digipack de cuatro discos contiene temas como "Casamiento de negros", "Qué pena siente el alma", "El sacristán", "Maldigo del alto cielo", "Una chilena en Paris" y otros clásicos del [...]

Emmett Presents: The End Is Not In Sight Side A Modern Folk Quartet - This Could Be The Night Twin Engine - Mistress Of The Morning Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Me Lio - You Go To My Head Step Lang - Airborn George Martin & His Orchestra - Theme One Side B Bachdenkel [...]
Mercedes Sosa, an untiring voice for the dispossessed and the persecuted, a leftist in politics and spirit, and an enchanting contralto, died on Sunday. Sosa was one of Argentina's best-known pop exports and one of the finest singers of her generation.
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Mercedes Sosa , the Latin Grammy-winning Argentine folk singer known as the "voice of Latin America," has died from complications of liver problems at a hospital in Buenos Aires, AP reports . She was 74. Sosa, of Indian and French ancestry, was at the helm of the nueva canción ("new song") movement, called nueva cancionero in Argentina, which brought politically charged folk music to a wide audience during the turbulent, junta-ruled '60s and '70s. Sosa was born on July 9, 1935 to a [...]

Stimming - "Una Pena" [Dynamic] (buy) Stimming's rhythmic summer sing a long has been tearing it up for a good few months now I've heard it played out at various venues but always thought it was a white label remix from Luciano or Villalobos I mean you only have to go on youtube to see how many unknown tracks they seem to drop which in my ears sound very familiar to Una Pena. It wasn't until our fellow blogger & seasonal head at DC10 Craig Gordon got back from a stint on the White Isle that I learnt that "Una Pena" was in fact down to part [...]

Stimming - "Una Pena" [Dynamic] (buy) Stimming's Rhythmic summer sing a long has been tearing it up for a good few months now I've heard it played out at various venues but always thought it was a white label remix from Luciano or Villalobos I mean you only have to go on youtube to see how many unknown tracks they seem to drop which in my ears sound very familiar to Una Pena. It wasn't until our fellow blogger & seasonal head at DC10 Craig Gordon got back from a stint on the White Isle that I learnt that "Una Pena" was in fact down to part [...]