Metafísica I (Soul, Funk, Afrobeat, etc.)

[kole]

Aleke Kanonu - Aleke

@3pboydqm:

ALEKE KANONU is an unknown Nigerian musician who played with numerous jazz artists in USA.
For instance, he played on the Stanley Cowell's album entitled "Regeneration" on "Strata-East" in 1976.
In 1980, he recorded this fantastic afro-beat album with many great jazz musicians.
If Fela Kuti or Manu Dibango is your kind of stuff, this album is likely not to dissapoint you!

Aleke Kanonu - vocal & percussions (kalimba, congas, muted bells)
Buddy Williams - drums
George Davis - guitar
Wilbur Bascomb - bass
Ben Carter - acoustic piano
Bill Fischer - tenor sax & keyboards
Earl McIntyre - trombone
Milt Ward - trumpet
Wynton Marsalis - fluegel horn solo on "Home Sweet Home"

http://rapidshare.com/files/365495262/aleke_kanonu_-_aleke.rar

[Mayfield]

@2u2upx9q:

Timeless: The Composer/Arranger Series is the name of a concert series that was created in homage to the composer/arrangers who have influenced hip-hop in the most literal and profound ways. Timeless was conceived by production house Mochilla in Los Angeles during February and March 2009 and included the performances of over 150 musicians in front of ecstatic sold out crowds. These three historic events were recorded and filmed in exacting detail with Mochilla's unmistakable style.
From Mulatu Astatke to J.Dilla to Arthur Verocai, the Timeless Concert Series touched upon the works of three musical giants. Mochilla is proud to announce the release date of our 3 DVD Box Set with downloadable audio portion as April 2010!

http://www.mochilla.com/timeless

[Ecléctico]

Como se lo curra el Kole, y el de V.A. - EVEN MO' MOD JAZZ esta davuti.

A ver si miro lo del Bambalan mayfield y te cuento.

Dejo esta entrevista que sale en el ultimo numero de Vice que le hacen a Theodoros Bafaloukos que esta cojonuda.
Las fotos son crema.

http://www.viceland.com/es/v4n1/htdocs/ ... rs-305.php

[Mayfield]

No te preocupes Ecléctico, que en mayo me voy de viaje y no está el horno para bollos.

A ver si los de Barcelona se animan este viernes y se pasan por el 7 Sins, que
hay programa doble:

Concierto de Hitabaldäas:
http://www.myspace.com/hitabaldaas (sobre las 23h, por 5€)

Y luego Dj Soul Dust + Dj Mayfield (sobre las 00:30h, por 0 €).

[kole]

VA -Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal ( The Numero Group 2006.)

@ywp86q0v:

A collection of this nature can only exist in hindsight. “Gospel Funk” is a genre in the same way that deep soul or acid folk are, created by collectors and enthusiasts as a way to define a subsection of another genre. There aren't any labels, artists, or producers that focused strictly on funky gospel music; rather, there were a couple hundred groups that had a funkier number in their repertoire. The Numero Group has spent the last year scouring LPs and 45s for tracks that fit this bill, and have collected 18 standouts from this newly minted genre. The album is a mix of primitive choirs, spacious breaks, congas, elderly rappers impersonating the devil, cast recordings, thumping bass, and JB impressionists, all with a heavy slathering of gospel gravy.

http://rapidshare.com/files/372762368/hymnal.rar

[kole]

VA - Good God!Born Again Funk ( The Numero Group 2010.)

@2akkv90b:

Numero Group’s Good God! Born Again Funk is a collection of what might be called secular church music. Its 18 songs set gospel’s preach to funk’s groove; they are the sound of the good word getting on the good foot. Together, they make for a rapturous listening experience that neither apostle nor apostate can deny.

In 2006, Numero Group released a previous Good God! record using similar sources. The songs here are culled from obscure vinyl published nearly four decades ago. Most are 45s and all seem to have been harvested from the dusty recesses of some grandfatherly deacon’s attic. Recorded by groups hailing from the Midwest, Chicago especially, the songs on Good God! represent different attempts at claiming popular music as an instrument of the lord. And not just any popular music — we’re talking about funk, one of the earthier genres America’s produced. That’s no small mission.

James Brown’s an obvious influence on the bunch — his frictionless guitar, plucking the same phrase with the steady timing of a clock’s gear, left a particularly deep impact. Sacred Four’s “Somebody Watching You” and Andrew Wartts & the Gospel Storytellers’s “Peter and John” are two of the more indebted acts to the Godfather. Other secular inspirations can be spotted, too. The Inspirational Gospel Singers’ beautiful “The Same Thing It Took” is an ode to, if not imitation of, Aretha Franklin (who, it goes without saying, straddled the popular and the parochial throughout her career), the synthesized keys of Lucy “Sister Soul” Rodger’s “Pray A Little Longer” register like a more lockstep riff on Innervisions, and damned if the Chicago Travelers’s singer doesn’t sound like a ruffled Bill Withers.

Of course, the material on Good God! lacks the production value of its mainstream contemporaries. But that doesn’t impede here — if anything, it makes these songs motor harder. Credit that also to the relatively stripped accompaniments. The instruments are largely limited to the rhythm section — guitar, bass, drums — with sometimes a piano or keyboard added. Horns are notably absent. Without any brass or the depth of a mixing board, the songs find themselves supported on two pillars: the competing forces of the beat and the word. That, of course, is the very duality that Good God! wants to showcase. But that simple juxtaposition is more than a novelty. It is the reason why these songs are so urgent — it’s why they sound so immediate 35 years after the fact.

“Like a Ship,” Good God!‘s opener, places a piano, drums, Pastor T.L. Barrett’s calls, and a towering children’s chorus in a room seemingly brimming at capacity. The closeness of the space — the way that the players seem to overpower what the microphones were capable of capturing — may render some of the words unintelligible. But it also produces something haunting, a feeling or connotation that exceeds the lyrics of salvation. “Like a Ship” is soul — not the soul of pop music, but the soul of the spiritual — and is Good God!‘s most moving track.

Other songs move too, though in a more physical sense. Take “If Jesus Came Today,” which sounds like a precursor of Parliament’s more tailored efforts, or Ada Richards’ rocker “I’m Drunk and Real High (In the Spirit of the God),” which, with its dichotomous title, makes Good God!‘s point succinctly. It’s enough to make you question the conventional distinction between secular and religious in pop music. Who knows? Maybe James Brown was getting at something other than a bodily high when he was singing “I Got the Feeling.”

http://rapidshare.com/files/372762372/born_again.rar

[kole]

Ginger Baker -Stratavarious (1972)

@2k7djuli:

In 1971, after several years of musical experimentation following the breakup of the super-group Cream, British drummer Ginger Baker made his way to Lagos, Nigeria, where he helped set up EMI's new 16-track recording studio. It was here that Baker re-united with his friend Fela Anikulapo Kuti (then known as Fela Ransome-Kuti) and recorded Stratavarious (Atco SD 7013), one of the first collaborations between an African musician and a Western rock star.

To the best of my knowledge, Stratavarious has been out of print ever since it was released in 1972 and consigned to oblivion shortly thereafter, although one or two cuts from it may have been included in compilations. It is very much Ginger Baker's "thing," although Fela plays an important role on several tracks. Also present is Fela's American girlfriend Sandra Izidore (credited as "Sandra Danielle").

Strativarious is a fascinating look at a magic time when rock, jazz and Afrobeat were taking their first tentative steps toward each other, and a harbinger of fusions to come. It certainly deserves more attention than it's gotten.
Fela and Sandra Izidore take center stage on Side 1 of Stratavarious. Izidore provides vocals on "Ariwo," an adaptation of a Yoruba folk tune, and Fela sings lead on "Tiwa," with Sandra included in the backup chorus. Fela plays keyboard on both tunes.

http://rapidshare.com/files/373121881/Baker-_Kuti_-_Stratavarious_K.rar

[kole]

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead (2010)
CD rip,mp3,320 kbps,130 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/375450009/MuAs.rar

[Kanchelskis]

discarral impresionante el de Baker y Kuti

pero yo venía a enlazar un recopilatorio de clásicos y nuevas lanzas de la música aborígen australiana:

"Aboriginal Soul" (2010)

@so3vaqrj:

01 - Saltwater Band - Djilawurr [03:40]
02 - Archie Roach - Liyarn Ngarn [04:36]
03 - George Rrurrambu - Ronu Wan [03:32]
04 - Mark A. Hunter - Legend [06:07]
05 - Saltwater Band - Gopuru [04:00]
06 - Wildflower - Manginburru Bi [03:21]
07 - Nabarlek - Little Journey T [05:28]
08 - Shellie Morris - Swept Away [04:53]
09 - Dan Sultan - Your Love Is L [04:24]
10 - Ruby Hunter - Down City Str [07:27]
11 - Peter Rotumah - Remembrance [07:00]
12 - Tom Lewis - Sunshine After [06:26]
13 - June Mills - I'll Be The On [03:45]
14 - Nabarlek - Mawah [04:38]

http://rapidshare.com/files/376976650/soul.rar

[Kanchelskis]

No consigo encontrar enlace a "Bubu King", el primer EP de este señor, pero, si más no, disfrutad de su myspace, samplers y cánticos africanos sobre ritmos rápidos, sintéticos y esqueléticos:

Janka Nabay
http://www.myspace.com/jankanabay

[kole]

Janka Nabay-Bubu King [True Panther 2010]

@b1q5062u:

Many of us know Sierra Leone for one thing: diamonds. Specifically, "blood" or "conflict" diamonds, gems mined by some of the world's poorest people and subsequently used to fund warfare that further endangers those impoverished individuals. Thanks to a song by Kanye West and a film starring Leo DiCaprio, Western audiences have recently been widely exposed to horrors taking place in Sierra Leone since the early 1990s. But voices originating from the country itself, addressing its struggles and disseminating its unique national character, have been in short supply in the West.

Musically, Sierra Leone likewise hasn't established a global presence on par with West African neighbors like Nigeria and Mali. Enter Janka Nabay, a Sierra Leone native who escaped the country during the bloody 90s and is now bringing its music to new ears as a transplanted resident of Philadelphia. Specifically, the sound Nabay makes is known as bubu music, a genre rooted in the rhythms of funeral processions conducted by the Muslim Temne people of the country's northwest region. Bubu is traditionally produced by large groups of players blowing on bamboo shoots, accompanied by shakers, triangles, and thudding pulse-beats pounded out on large wooden boxes. Nabay severely strips down this setup while preserving its teeming twitchiness, using keyboards and carburetor pipes to create a minimal but undeniably kinetic brand of music that he weds to socially conscious lyrics.

Bubu King is an EP of four songs Nabay recorded before departing Sierra Leone and represents the first-ever commercial release of bubu music in the West. Considering these tracks have been sitting in the can for about 15 years, the frequent modernity of their sound is remarkable, starting with the opener, "Top Sul Bah", which pairs rattling percussion with dreamy synthesized tones. Of course, Nabay makes such minimalism all his own with the chanting intonations he lays atop the beat– the song's title translates as "What's Going On", and that's exactly what Nabay wishes to convey. The succeeding track, "Eh Congo", ratchets up the politicized content with references to John Kennedy and allusions to the humanitarian influx of wheat and clothing, though the music's repetitive pipe pattern ultimately drags over the song's five minutes.

More sonically successful and even more socially charged, "Good Governance" boasts a busily skittering beat intermittently supplemented with a wonderful descending keyboard melody, with lyrics (in English) that call earnestly but admirably for democracy bolstered by the participation of women. Bubu King then closes with the lovely but anomalous "De Debul", a beautiful guitar-laden track that seems much more in line with the melodic West African stuff we in the West have been devouring with particular gusto in recent years. It's a nice tune, but a touch less distinctive. Here's hoping this EP inspires Nabay to share more of Sierra Leone's uniquely engaging bubu music down the road.

http://rapidshare.com/files/381382351/Para_Kanchelskis.rar

[Kanchelskis]

jajaja grande kole

[pulpo]

Este lunes pudimos escuchar en BJM una perlita de high life from Ghana in the fifties. Toques jazz, melodías fáciles, vientos, agradables voces. Lo mejor para pasar un buen rato en este miércoles tan feo, al fin y al cabo hay sol.

The Black Beats - Tropical Rythm

http://www.mediafire.com/?wlzmtmzinzy

[galleta]

[Haddock]

Interesante AfroBlog:

http://globalgroovers.blogspot.com/

Y archivo sonoro de las actividades de Decca en Africa Occidental:

http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?collect ... recordings

[kole]

Konono Nº1 – Assume Crash Position (2010)

http://rapidshare.com/files/386981182/Thin_Legs_K.rar

[Kanchelskis]

wow, sorpresa!

grande kole, una vez mñás

[manel]

el de konono es una jodida maravilla, no está de más repetirlo

Bettye LaVette ha sacado nuevo disco, buenas noticias

Bettye LaVette "Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook" (Anti, 2010)

@26byp3fu:

¡Qué ganazas le tenía a este nuevo CD de Bettye LaVette que saldrá esta primavera! Todavía tengo muy presente su anterior "Scene of the crime" que me dejó patitieso durante una buena temporada y que sigue maravillándome cada vez que lo pongo en el reproductor. Un trabajo de lo mejorcito publicado la pasada década y que verá continuación con este "Interpretations: the brittish rock songbook" que el sello Anti pondrá en circulación el 25 de mayo. Esta vez la versiones son de infarto y Bettye promete dejarnos con la boca abierto con clásicos de bandas británicas como The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd o Rolling Stones, todo bajo su sello y su voz tan personal. Las interpretaciones prometen ser de traca.
Os dejó con el track-listing de este nuevo lanzamiento y toda la información sobre este nuevo trabajo con el enlace del sello Anti:
http://www.anti.com/news/index/720

http://hotfile.com/dl/43797057/0198956/Bettye_Lavette-Interpretations-.rar.html

[kole]

Alma Afrobeat Ensemble - Stolen Sessions

@37sm5k2e:

Alma Afrobeat Ensemble provides a jazzy and energetic hip-hop inflected version of Afrobeat music, a polyrhythmic blend of funk and protest, dance and social commentary. The Alma Afrobeat Ensemble started in New Orleans then moved toChampaign-Urbana, Illinois, and later transeferred to Chicago. The band began as a celebration of the music of Fela Kuti, encompassing world class musicians from the music school at UIUC. Due to the success, band leader Aaron Feder started composing tunes and brought the band to the next level. The band quickly became a favorite around central Illinois, playing frequent gigs at the Cowboy Monkey, often times with lines around the corner. The band received major radioplay from WEFT radio in Champaign, in addition to in studio recordings and interviews. Gigs at the JayTV/Jam Productions owned Canopy Club followed, highlighted by an Afrobeat celebration with Chicago Afrobeat Project. Shortly afterwards the band played the Summer Camp festival in Chillicothe, IL, and continued playing gigs in Chicago, including the Kinetic Playground and regular appearances at Morseland. In August 2006, Aaron Feder moved to Barcelona to study with John Kwame Adzraku, a Ghanaian high-life/afrobeat musician who has spent time at the Shrine in Nigeria, and even shared the stage with Fela Kuti on multiple occasions. Upon Aaron’s move, the band has settled into a schedule of shows twice a year, summer and winter, in Chicago and Champaign-Urbana. Since Aaron’s move, highlights include playing Millennium Park as part of the 2007 Illinois Great Performers’ Festival, as well as the Chicago Cultural Center in 2008.

AAbE fully recognizes and accepts the social role that Afrobeat and World music entail, and have played multiple benefit shows, including Shelter From the Storm benefit to ReNew Orleans, the band Goat-a-Palooza, benefit to help rural African families, as well as the Zimbabwe Rural School Fund, and shows supporting the Independent Media Center in Urbana, and the Leftist Lounge in Chicago.

Aaron Feder- “Tenor” guitar/band leader/composer. A lifelong musician, Aaron began serious study with Don Tisch, M.A. and protégé of the legendary Fareed Haque, and is band leader for the Kwame Afrovibes in Barcelona, where he studies with John Kwame Adzraku from Ghana, and Joseph Fermin from Ecuatorial Guinea

http://rapidshare.com/files/391106057/stolen_sessions_mp3.zip

[Kanchelskis]

estos del Esperanzah World Music Festival se han agenciado a Quantic and His Combo Bárbaro, me cago en la madre naturaleza!