John Zorn - "Khebar"

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Zorn's Bar Kokhba troops performing Khebar

Marc Ribot - guitar
Cyro Baptista - percussion
Mark Feldman - violin
Erik Friedlander - cello
Greg Cohen - bass
Joey Baron - drums

..." While Zorn is often considered a jazz musician his schema is considerably broader. He stated "The term "jazz", per se, is meaningless to me in a certain way. Musicians don’t think in terms of boxes. I know what jazz music is. I studied it. I love it. But when I sit down and make music, a lot of things come together. And sometimes it falls a little bit toward the classical side, sometimes it falls a little bit towards the jazz, sometimes it falls toward rock, sometimes it doesn’t fall anywhere, it's just floating in limbo. But no matter which way it falls, it's always a little bit of a freak. It doesn’t really belong anywhere. It's something unique, it's something different, it's something out of my heart. It's not connected with those traditions." "But the music is not jazz music, it’s not classical music, it’s not rock music. It’s a new kind of music... So I feel like that created a deep misunderstanding in what this music is. People started judging this new music with the standards of jazz, with the definitions of what jazz is and isn’t, because stories about it appeared in jazz magazines. And now I’ll do a gig at the Marciac Jazz Festival and I’ll get offstage and Wynton Marsalis will say, “That’s not jazz.” And I’ll say, “You’re right! But this is the only gig I’ve got, man. Give me another festival and I’ll play there. ( Wikipedia )

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Les Tambours de Brazza - Bastille Paris

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Congo

Tambours de Brazza first found this "Given strength" in the Congo's capital Brazzaville, where Emile Biayenda, jazz drummer and founder of the band, gathered together hundreds of young Ngoma drummers from all over the country. Their revolutionary style will become a model for a new generation of musicians.

This "strength" helped them survive a civil war that devastesdthe Congo, in 1997, after a major european tour, unable to return to their country, they were forced for a while to settle in Cotonou the main port of Bénin, and from there to make their voice heard throughout Europe, West Africa, Hong Kong and Japan, before settling in France 2001.

The group was brought together in 1991 by drummer, percussionist and author/composer, Emile Biayenda who had been working in reggae, jazz and traditional music ensemble.

Les Tambours de Brazza fuse heritage with modernity: traditional instruments give the Bass-guitar, the guitar,and Sanza à jazz-like resonance.

Bob Brozman - Rhythm exercise & "La Mandoz"

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" La mandoz " 03:34

Bob Brozman (born 1954) is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.

He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Reunion Island. He has been called "an instrumental wizard" and "a walking archive of 20th Century American music." Bob maintains a steady schedule throughout the year, touring constantly throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. He has recorded numerous albums and has won the Guitar Player Readers' Poll two years in a row in both the blues and slide guitar categories. In 1999, Bob and Woody Mann founded International Guitar Seminars, which hosts over 120 students annually at sites in California, New York, and Canada. From 2000 to 2005 his collaborations have landed in the European Top 10 for World Music an unprecedented five times.

Brozman is also a linguist, anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist. He was formerly an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is starting a foundation for the purpose of getting some of the western surplus of instruments and other musical supplies directly into the hands of musicians in third world countries in Africa and Oceania.

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" Dangurangu "

M'bira

Traditional Shona M'bira music- from Zimbabwe - is typically composed to two different parts, the Kushaura (meaning "to lead" or "to start") and the Kutsinhira (meaning "to follow"). Each part is played on two different mbiras, with the kushaura often being the more simple part, and the kutsinhira more complicated.

Kustinhira part, bass M'bira. Uploaded by "Gwenyambira". " ... I believe this is Forward [ Kwenda ] also ... Katsanzaira tuning. " mbiraside



" Dangurangu " Ephat Mujuru's group with Sekuru Gora on vocals... Uploaded by "dangurangu" .
Ephat Mujuru plays on a Dzavadzimu m'bira



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Boubacar Traoré with Ali Farka Touré - "Diarabi"

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Mali

Boubacar Traoré (born 1942, Mali) is a renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Traoré also goes by the nickname Kar Kar, "the one who dribbles too much" in Bambara, a reference to his soccer playing: "a nickname I got from playing soccer when I was young. People would yell 'Kari, Kari' - dribble, dribble - the name stuck with me".

Traoré first came to prominence in the early 1960s. He had taught himself to play guitar and developed a unique style that blended American Blues music, Arab music, and pentatonic structures found in West Africa's Mande cultural region. He was a superstar in Mali and a symbol of the newly independent country (see History of Mali). His songs were immensely popular and he enjoyed regular radio play. However, he made no recordings, and since there were no royalties paid to musicians, he was very poor and had to work odd jobs to make ends meet.

During the 1970s Traoré's popularity faded, until a surprise television appearance in 1987. Soon after this "rediscovery," Boubacar's wife died. Grief-stricken, he moved to France and did construction work to support his six children. While there, a British record producer discovered a tape of one of Traoré's radio performances, and he was finally signed to a record deal. His first album, Mariama, was released in 1990. Since then, Traoré has enjoyed international popularity, touring Europe, Africa, and North America.

Boubacar Traoré was the subject of the 2001 film Je chanterai pour toi ("I'll Sing For You"), released on DVD in 2005. ( Wikipedia )
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Habib Koite - "Batoumambe"

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Mali

Koité is known primarily for his unique approach to playing the guitar by tuning it on a pentatonic scale and playing on open strings as one would on a kamale n'goni. Other pieces of his music sound more like the blues or flamenco which are two styles he learned under Khalilou Traore.

Koité's vocal style is intimate and relaxed, emphasizing calm, moody singing rather than operatic technical prowess. Members of Bamada play talking drum, guitar, bass, drum set, harmonica, violin, calabasa, and kora. Koité composes and arranges all songs, singing in English, French, and Bambara. ( Wikipedia )

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Sonkhiri Siprachuap

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From the album : " Fon Tok Fa Rong ". Monrakplengthai's blog



... "Born and raised in Samut Songkhram province, Sonkhiri left school at a young age to work on his family's coconut palm farm, and later a pineapple plantation down in Prachuap Khiri Khan. Between shifts, he would always entertain his fellow farmhands by singing the songs of khamron sambunnanon, dreaming of becoming a famous singer. . . . . After many years of performing with a popular local ramwong group, came to the attention of Luk Thung maestro Phaibun Butkhan. With the hits of phaibun to propel him, Sonkhiri became a huge star throughout the [ Thai ] kingdom. Sadly, he was killed in a motor accident in 1972 ". ( Monrakplengthai's blog ).

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Coumba Sidibe - " Yali Djamou "

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A video of a concert by Coumba Sidibé, star of the kamalen n'goni music of the Sikasso region in Mali. Recorded in the 1990s in Paris, France. Coumba Sidbé (born 1959) died in New York on May 10, 2009.( posted by wrldsrv, Netherlands )
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Marcus Miller - " Blast "

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Uploaded by " zootopian07 " .....05:10: bass guitar/drumkit.. . . 04:05 : drumkit solo

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Michael Wolf Photography Gallery: "100 x 100 "

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Michael Wolf shot his series, “ 100 x 100, ” at the Shek Kip Mei Estate, the oldest public housing complex in Hong Kong.

. . . “Imagine if someone came to our place and asked to take a picture, we’d probably say no,” Mr. Wolf said. “And maybe if the photographer had a compelling reason, maybe we’d say, ‘Maybe tomorrow, I need to clean up.’ This never happened there. Once they said yes, they said, ‘Come on in.’ And so you basically had this immediacy of the interior. I love that about people. It also shows that they have a lot of self-esteem about how they live.”

( New York Times, Showcase: A Room of Everyone’s Own by Valerie Lapinski )

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Fabrizio Bosso : "The Funk Phenomena"

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Jazz

Italian trumpeter ,Fabrizio Bosso , playing over Herbie Hancock's " THe Funk Phenomena " at "Live @ B Side (Radio Deejay)".

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Masterclass from Arvo Part - " Fur Alina "

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From the DVD " Arvo Part - 24 Preludes for a Fugue "

. . ." These two small voices, amazing how in ten minutes they seem to speak decades of sorrow with such serenity. Thanks, Mr Pärt." ( PerhapslessMystery )

. . ." the silence between the notes " ( federicobarabino )


Arvo Pärt (born 1935 ) is an Estonian classical composer. Since the late 1970's, Pärt has been working in a minimalist style that employs a self-made compositional technique called tintinnabuli . His music also finds its inspiration and influence from Gregorian chant.
Continuing struggles with Soviet officials led him to emigrate in 1980 with his wife and their two sons. Pärt lived first in Vienna, Austria, where he took Austrian citizenship, and then re-located to Berlin, Germany. He returned to Estonia around the turn of the century and now lives in Tallinn.

Björk interviews Arvo Pärt for the BBC program 'Modern Minimalists' (1997).





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Super Chikan and the Fightin' Cocks at Juke Joint Festival 2009

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Blues

James "Super Chikan" Johnson is an American blues musician, artist and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson.

James Louis Johnson was born in Darling, Mississippi on February 16, 1951. He spent his childhood moving from town to town in the Mississippi Delta and working on his family's farms. He was very fond of the chickens on the farm, and before he was old enough to work in the fields, he would walk around talking to them. This led his friends to give him the nickname "Chikan Boy". At an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a "diddley bow", which was simply a piece of wood with a piece of baling wire stretched from end to end. As he grew up, he came up with new ways to improve and vary the sounds he could make with it, and finally, in 1964, at the age of thirteen, he bought his first guitar, an acoustic model that had only two strings, from a Salvation Army store in Clarksdale.
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L. Shankar - " Raag Abheri " ( 1995 )

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..."After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Physics in India, Shankar moved to America in 1969 and earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. Here he met jazz musicians Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Garrison, and John McLaughlin while working as a teaching assistant and concert master of the University Chamber Orchestra. In 1975 Shankar and McLaughlin founded Shakti, a pioneering, groundbreaking and highly influential east-meets-west collaboration, with a fluid sound that managed to successfully combine seemingly incompatible traditions. His first solo album, Touch Me There, was produced by Frank Zappa in 1979. Shankar founded his own band - The Epidemics, in 1982, with the composer Caroline. He released three albums with the band.

During the 1980s, Shankar recorded periodically as a leader, doing both jazz-based material and Indian classical music. His 1980 release of the album Who's To Know on ECM introduced the unique sound of his own invention, the ten-string, stereophonic double violin. This instrument, designed by Shankar and built by noted guitar maker Ken Parker, covers the entire orchestral range, including double bass, cello, viola and violin. He has recently developed a newer version of his instrument which is much lighter than the original..." ( more from Wikipedia )


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Gavin Bryars featuring Tom Waits - "Jesus' Blood never failed me yet"

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Uploaded by "nednickerson2010".

"Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" is a piece of music composed by Gavin Bryars in 1971. It is based around a recorded loop of an un-named tramp improvising a hymn; eventually rich harmonies are played by a live ensemble of strings and brass, always increasing in density. The recording was originally made for a 1960s documentary by Alan Power which chronicled street life in London. Later when listening to the recordings, Bryars noticed that the clip was very in tune, and that it looped well into 13 bars. The tramp died before being able to hear the completed piece.

For the first recording as an LP, Bryars was limited to a duration 25 minutes for the piece; upon the invention of cassette tape technology, Bryars made a 60 minute version of the piece, and for CD, a 74 minute version.

The studio in which Bryars made the piece was next to a busy art studio. When constructing the piece, Bryars unintentionally left the loop playing and his door open during a lunch break; when he returned, the usually lively studio was quiet, and some people were crying.

A new recording of this work was made in the 1990s with Tom Waits singing along with the original recording of the tramp during the final section.

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Afrikafestival @ Hertme - Espoirs de Coronthie

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From Guinea, Conakry. Kora breaks 03:46 and 04:56. New song 07:28 .

http://www.myspace.com/espoirscoronthie

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Denise Fort' s Drawings

Denise Fort's blog

Born in 1981, Denise Fort was raised in Munich Germany. Her parents are from Czech Republic. After finishing her final examination at a special school for creation in 2001, she started working in several workshops, later as a furniture seller and decorator for Ligne Roset in Munich. In the same year, she started her studies in Industrial Design in Munich. She spent 6 month in Italy Bolzano at the Free University of Bolzano and throughout 2001 to 2007, she had several internships in Graphic and Product Design. She started her freelance work in Industrial Design and Illustrations in 2006.

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Indian Percussion: Kanjira

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Indian Percussion instrument: Remo synthetic & tunable Kanjira start 00:50

The kanjira or ganjira, a South Indian frame drum, is an instrument of the tambourine family. It is used primarily in concerts of Carnatic music (South Indian classical music) as a supporting instrument for the mridangam. The kanjira is a comparatively recent innovation (having been used for fewer than 100 years), and was added to classical concerts during the 1930s.

Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular frame made of the wood of the jackfruit tree, between 7 and 9 inches in diameter and 2 to 4 inches in depth. It is covered on one side with a drumhead made of monitor lizard skin (specifically the Bengal monitor, Varanus bengalensis, now an endangered species in India), while the other side is left open. The frame has a single slit which contain three to four small metal discs--often old coins--that jingle when the kanjira is played.

The kanjira is a relatively difficult Indian drum to play, especially in South Indian Carnatic music, for reasons including the complexity of the percussion patterns used in Indian music. It is normally played with the palm and fingers of the right hand, while the left hand supports the drum. The fingertips of the left hand can be used to bend the pitch by applying pressure near the outer rim. It is not tuned to any particular pitch, unlike the mridangam or the ghatam.

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Joe Zawinul and Trilok Gurtu

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Joe Zawinul & Trilok Gurtu in Orient Express . Live in Frankfurt . Uploaded by "digimaton"




Josef Erich Zawinul (1932 – 2007) was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.

First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with elements of rock and world music. Later, Zawinul co-founded the groups Weather Report and the world fusion music oriented Zawinul Syndicate. Additionally, he made pioneering use of electric piano and synthesizers. Zawinul won the "Best Keyboardist" award 30 times from American jazz magazine Down Beat's critics' poll. ( Wikipedia )

. . . " Joe Zawinul is deservedly renowned for his pioneering role in the Jazz world combining the elements of world music rock and jazz. In fact, many of the worldbeat sounds we take for granted today, simply wouldn't exist without his revolutionary compositions and performances with Miles Davis in the late 60s, Weather Report in the '70-'80s, and The Zawinul Syndicate in the '90s evolving into the year 2004. " ( " All About Jazz " )

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Orchestra Baobab

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At The Poet's Corner in the Botanical Gardens - Womadelaide 2006 . Posted by "cdnoz".



Senegal's Orchestra Baobab came together in 1970, taking their name from the Dakar night-club where they were resident for most of the following decade. Baobab were different because of their multi-ethnic membership which drew in musicians from all over Senegal and even players from Togo and Nigeria. Consequently, their music wasn't based in any one tradition. They sang mostly in Mandinka, Portuguese Creole and Wolof, but also other local tongues, French and even faltering Spanish. Mellow Cuban boleros and sones were favoured musical templates as well as a bewildering array of adapted traditional tunes and Senegalese styles.

Perhaps most distinctive was the flowing guitar of Barthelemy Attisso, whose playing clearly helped them capture an international fan base. At home they reigned supreme until the end of the 1970s, when popular tastes moved away from Latin-influenced music in favour of the more hard edged and percussive mbalax style championed by the young Youssou N'Dour and his band Etoile de Dakar.

. . . On 5 May 2001, a reformed Baobab performed in London at The Barbican Centre's Urban Beats festival. Though they hadn¹t played together for more than 15 years, fears that the old magic might have been lost were soon banished as they ran through a sublime set of old favourites and fresh material. ( BBC )



"Nijaay" FMM Sines 2008, Portugal . Uploaded by " bunks07"


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Jaap Blonk performance with installation by Messa di Voce

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Funny scene from 01:47

Messa di Voce installation. artists: Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman

Jaap Blonk (born 1953, Woerden) is a Dutch avant-garde composer and performance artist. Blonk is primarily self-taught both as a sound artist and as a visual/stage performer. He studied physics, mathematics, and musicology for a time, but did not complete his studies.
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Bora Yoon

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"Sons Nouveaux " - Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music.



Yoon grew up in the United States outside Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of Ithaca College’s Conservatory of Music and creative writing program, she is classically trained in the school of studied thought and improvisational sciences, with a first love of choral music.

Yoon's eclectic musical style uses unconventional sources (everyday found objects, chamber instruments and digital devices) to generate music.

She explores where sound connects to the subliminal through the timbre languages offered in the voice, violin (now viola), water, ancient Tibetan singing bowls, cell phones, music boxes, glockenspiel, guitar, walkie talkies, metronomes, shortwave radios, kitchenware, found sounds, and electronics.


Bora Yoon with Ben Frost : "O Pastor Animarum" : Church of the Ascension, NYC



"O Pastor Animarum" antiphon chant by Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098-1179 ) -- a visionary abbess, composer, and mystic of the 12th century. Phonation Records released 2008.

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Vermeer - " The Milkmaid "

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Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey

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Afro Funk: "Gbeti Madjro" from the compilation "African Scream Contest" released on Analog Africa Records .




Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou is a funk band from Benin. Active since the 1970s, and having recorded over 50 full-length LPs and hundreds of 45s, they are still touring around the world today.



Uploaded by " diemsy "

What distinguishes Benin from its neighbours is the fact that it happens to be home to Vodoun - or as we know it over here Voodoo. So it should be no surprise that the popular music of Benin draws heavily upon the rhythms of Vodoun rituals, but what is surprising is the other influences that have come into play. The Vodoun Effect: Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973-1975 a recent release on the Analog Africa from Germany, that has collected together fourteen tracks by one of Benin's most popular bands, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou. Recorded in the 1970s on a variety of small independent labels, they show not only the Vodoun influence but how music from both South and North America found its way back across the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the publicity material that came with the disc, in the late 19th century a group of freed slaves from Brazil - Bahia region - returned to Benin and over the years their dances and songs were incorporated into Beninese ritual, and from there worked their way into the popular culture. In the 1960s and 1970s American soul and funk music started making its presence felt in Africa, and along with the sounds of pop music from neighbouring Nigeria were assimilated into the popular music scene in Benin. ( mojorisings )

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Mungolian Jet Set & Bugge Wesseltoft - " Navigator "

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Psychedelic / " Intelligent Dance Music "

Mungolian Jetset is a Norwegian duo perform with Bugge Wesseltoft , on piano, and DJ Strangefruit .
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Wildbirds & Peacedrums - "Doubt/Hope"

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Other / Blues / Pop

Wildbirds & Peacedrums is an experimental band from Sweden consisting of two members, Mariam Wallentin and her husband Andreas Werliin.

The band formed in 2006 when the members met while studying musical improvisation at the University of Gothenburg. The music mostly consists of only drums, various percussion and electronic samples, played by Andreas Werliin, and Mariam Wallentin's vocals. Mariam Wallentin also plays strings and Andreas Werliin provides additional vocals.

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Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera - " Ataole "

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Afro-Colombian music from the album " Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera: Radio Bakongo " . Released in Germany by Network Medien. Uploaded by " Hollywoodoofilms " .

..."Septuagenarian percussionist, singer and songwriter Paulino Salgado 'Batata' hails from the village of San Basilio de Palenque, hidden away in an isolated mountain range close to Colombia's Caribbean coast. This is the legendary 'village of the Cimarróns', founded four centuries ago by Africans who had escaped the slave port of nearby Cartagena. They successfully defended it from attack by the Spanish, who eventually gave up and 'granted' them their freedom.

Batata and his excellent band specialise in son palenquera and champeta, and may already have come to your attention through the inclusion of the track Ataole on the "Champeta Criolla Vol. 2" compilation. That CD focussed largely on Cartagena's sound system based form of champeta, a newish hybrid style which cannibalises pan-African and indigenous Colombian influences, spicing them up with mucho shouting and sometimes irritating use of trashy effects. What might be a lot of fun at a rum-fuelled street party makes for a sometimes wearing experience in other contexts.Thankfully Batata's band stick to a much rootsier groove, employing tiple, accordion, brass, twinkling soukous guitar, plenty of drummers and call-and-response vocals to create their hypnotic grooves..." ( BBC Review by Jon Lusk )
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Zackary Canepari - Indian Circus Community

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Photography

Indian Circus Community

The citizens of the Kathputli Colony slum in North Delhi live much like the other 220 million slum dwellers in modern India. Large families overcrowd one room shanties with dysfunctional electricity, non-existent plumbing and poor sanitation. Street children, trash collectors and beggars are in abundance as is alcohol and drug use. But unlike the rest of the slum dwellers in India, this slum has been touched by magic.

For the past five decades, magicians, acrobats, jugglers, musicians, dancers and puppeteers have migrated from all over India to the small illegal settlement. Nearly all of the 1,500-3,000 (depending on who you ask) families in the colony are professional performing artists. Many have found success operating at 5-star hotels in India and at Cultural Festivals abroad, but they continue to return to their homes in the cramped, dirty streets of Kathputli. But these are also the streets where friends entertain each other by turning a burning piece of paper into a crisp 100 rupee note. Where the sounds of tablas and singing can always be heard in the distance. And where a daughter and father can be seen on a rooftop practicing magic… ( 100 Eyes )

Zackary Canepari' s website: look for Portfolio>Raikaismyname: photo essay about the demise of the ancestral camel breeders caste in Rajashtan, India. Striking portraits and slippers . See photos 5/16, 6/16, 8/16, 11/16 and 15/16.

Zackary Canepari is a American photojournalist who has worked extensively in India.

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Toumani Diabate and Ketama : " Jarabi "

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World Fusion

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Trilok Gurtu in Mali: The Making of " Farakala"

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Trilok GURTU au MALI
by zerozox

World Fusion : duration 14:00 / the making of " Farakala " album.

04:20 , 09:30, 10:00, 12:06 and 12:57 .

Recorded live in the bush of Southern Mali and was produced by Frederic Galliano .

Working with Hadja Kouyaté (voice, Guinea-Conakry), Ali Boulo Santo (voice and will kora, Senegal), NGou Bagayoko (guitar, Mali), Filifin (kamélé goni and voice, Mali) and Sounkalo (dozon goni, Mali), Trilok Gurtu pushes the experiment to the point of giving up his tablas and drums. Exploring the compositions to the full while integrating the rare percussions of Southern Mali, his art brings out all of his Indian culture while embracing African vibrations.

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La La La Human Steps - " Amelia "

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Modern Dance 2:56, 3:05, . . . 4:38 , 1:03 - Great strength and control, beautiful shots .

From the ballet movie " Amelia " . Music by Marco Aldendorff.

La La La Human Steps is a leading Québécois contemporary dance group in Canada, known for its energetic, acrobatic style that often involves fast-paced and athletic physical contact. Its signature move is the barrel jump, which is like a horizontal pirouette in the air.

The troupe has collaborated with rock musicians, including David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Skinny Puppy, Einstürzende Neubauten and Carole Laure. It was formed in 1980 by Édouard Lock under the name Lock-Danseurs and showcased for many years Louise Lecavalier. The group appears regularly in its hometown of Montreal, Quebec and all over the world. ( Wikepedia )

Reblogged from " Acedia ".


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Medeski, Martin & Wood -- "Junkyard"

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Jazz / Electronica / Experimental

Loyal Earth Festival : April 2009, upload by turtlepace72

Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American jazz trio formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards and piano, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Chris Wood on double bass and bass guitar.

The band draws on influences from a number of musical traditions, from funk to Hip Hop, and is known for an unconventional style sometimes described as "avant-groove".

Medeski Martin & Wood's live performances are renowned for their exploratory nature. Their concerts usually involve extended improvisations, which may be both arrhythmic and atonal , an aspect of their musicianship that is rarely documented in the studio. They occasionally tour using only acoustic instruments, reverting back to the instrumentation that they began their career with. Their album " Tonic " is an example of these more contemporary acoustic performances. They have also done short tours of entirely improvisatory performances. These shows usually consisted of two sets of improvisation, followed by an encore of a song from an album.

Their song "End of the World Party" was featured on the show " Grey's Anatomy " and can be found on the show's soundtrack.

Billy Martin on Improvisation - In The Band.Tv

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Lila Downs - "Agua de rosas"

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Mexican Folk Music :

Guitar solo 1:55 , Harp solo 2:07 .

Keepintime: Talking drums and whispering vinyl

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Jazz drum / Turntable: performance 0:55

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Oumou Sangare Live in Berlin - " Seya"

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Mali:

Oumou Sangare live at House of Worldcultures (Berlin ) : "Seya" . . . 3:39 Dance to djembe . Look for the backup singer -- on the right . Upload by madakous Sept. 2009.

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Flook : " Wrong Foot Forward "

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Irish Folk/ acoustic

Flook is an Anglo-Irish band playing traditional-style instrumental music, although much is penned by the band themselves. Their music is typified by extremely fast, sometimes percussive, flute and whistle atop complex guitar and bodhrán rhythms. The band was formed in 1995, originally by Becky Morris, with three flute-playing friends Sarah Allen, Brian Finnegan and Michael McGoldrick, (who left in 1997 to join Capercaillie). The band was briefly known as Three Nations Flutes. Disbanded 2008.

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Ze Manel Fortes - "Afrika Unite"

Audio Track - Afro-beat / Jazz / Acoustic : Guinea -Bissau ( former Portuguese colony )

In 1982, Z.. released his first solo album "Tustumunhos di Aonti" (Yesterday's Testimony), which sounded the alarm over the formation of a new repressive ruling class in Guinea-Bissau. The album was a national event (people in Guinea-Bissau today still sing the songs ), but the political environment was heating up and Manel's fans were concerned for his safety. Manel fled Guinea-Bissau. This self-exile took him to Portugal, France and, finally, the United States.

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The Cat And The Moon: Animation

It tells the story of a cat with an impossible dream: he's in love with the moon. For years he tries to reach her, to no avail. Then he sets up house, hoping she'll agree to move in, but she won't. Finally he just waits every night for her to show up in the sky. Will he get his wish?

. . . This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the hopeless love ,IMPOSSIBLE sensation ,it's The tale about the cat and the moon. ( uploaded by fatcat74 )

A 1995 short animation by Portuguese artist Pedro Serrazina.

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Photojournalism: Jonas Bendiksen : "The Place We Live "

Photojournalism/Soundscapes/Narration

Multimedia exhibition about life as a slum dweller :

• Venezuela: Caracas.
• Kenya : Kibera, Nairobi.
• India: Dharavi, Mumbai
• Indonesia : Jakarta.

Jonas Bendiksen's documentation of life in slums the world over has resulted in a touring multimedia exhibition. The installation for " The Places We Live" was developed and produced in co-operation with the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, where it was launched in June 2008.

Life size images and audio segments in the exhibition help create the experience of a personal encounter with the slum dwellers. Each slum is represented by one room, where four walls are built out of rear projection canvas. Each room contains a cycle displaying five households. For each one, a sound recording containing statements from the inhabitants is showered down from the overhead speakers. Between each display of a household, images and soundscapes of the environment surrounding the visitor.


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Marcus Miller : " The Panther "

Modern Jazz / Bass Guitar: solo 02:38

. . . " I love how Marcus can not only lay down a bassline and solo at the same time, but he also provides a fantastic amount of percussion throughout the song. Thats one thing that will always define him (and the rest of amazing bass players) from being just good. Man he's a beast on the bass." ( a comment from Marcus' fan ).

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Bobby Mcferrin improvisation with Richard Bona

Highlights: 06:38

RICHARD BONA : Electric bass guitar player, from Cameroon , bases in New York. –Newsweek "Imagine an artist with Jaco Pastorious's virtuosity, George Benson's vocal fluidity, Joao Gilberto's sense of song and harmony, all mixed up with African culture. . . . His flowing style blends a horde of influences, including jazz, bossa nova, pop, afro-beat, traditional song and funk. This unique combination has given Bona’s music a new dimension, one that is unexplored yet genuinely universal. As Bona puts it, “I play the bass, but I am not just a jazz bass player.” Bona’s fans around the world have their own moniker derived from his unique style, referring to him as “The African ‘Sting.’ ”

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Screamin Jay Hawkins - I put a Spell On You

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Blues

. . ." The song was originally a ballad, but so the legend goes, he and his backing band were so fucked up on wine that they recorded the guttural, pounding, primal version of the track which became (in)famous. Screaming Jay was reportedly so wasted that he couldn’t remember the session at all, and had to relearn the track by listening to the playback the next day." ( Tim O'Neil, from 3 AM magazine )

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Front 242 - Head Hunters

Industrial / Techno / Electro : from Belgium .

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Catherine MacLellan - "Something Gold"

Folk/Acoustic/Indie

With her expressive guitar playing, beautiful melodies, and evocative vocals, Catherine MacLellan pulls the listener into her world of song. Described as having a “quietly magnetic” stage presence, Catherine’s voice stretches out and hovers in a room with a projection that is deceptively low-key, but ends up fisted in the hearts of her audience.

Catherine was born in southern Ontario, but from a young age has lived on Prince Edward Island. Coming from a musical family (famed singer/songwriter Gene MacLellan was her father) there was never any doubt in Catherine’s mind about her life’s work. . . . ( Last FM ).

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Pepe Martínez-Choro brasileño

Flamenco Guitar Solo :

Pepe Martínez (1923-1984) was a Spanish flamenco guitarist born into a musical family, in the Seville quarter of Macarena. His mother, Isabel, was famous for her singing of religiously inspired Saetas, a vocal style which has since been incorporated into the flamenco palo.

Pepe was a virtuoso exponent of 'Flamenco Lirico', a style of playing which emphasises the melodic as well as rhythmic elements of flamenco. His musical style reflected his warm personality. His playing, even more than many other flamenco guitarists of the time, was strongly influenced by that of his mentor, Ramón Montoya.

Pepe initially excelled in accompanying the Cante and Baile before developing a solo concert career. As an accompanist he played with such artists as Pepe Marchena, Niña de los Peines, Pepe Pinto, Juanito Valderrama, Niña de la Puebla, Niña de Antequera, Pepe Aznalcollar, Pepe Guillena, Niño de la Huerta amongst others. . . . ( Wikipedia )

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Chris Clark

Electronica / Alternative

Mixing computer-generated crunches, pops, and clicks with organic synthesizer tones and heavily processed sounds, U.K. native Chris Clark creates tense electronica that struggles between a sense of natural wonder and exuberance and dark, foreboding undercurrents. Clark, who lived in Bristol and Brighton before settling in Birmingham, debuted on Warp with the wintry Clarence Park, released in May of 2001. Recorded while he was still at university, it was a promising first record, full of cold, terse synths and big beats. The Ceramics Is the Bomb EP followed in May of 2003, but it was on Empty the Bones of You where Clark proved to be one of the most original laptop musicians working. With fully tweaked sounds and disorienting textures overlapping with lulling synths, Clark constructed a buzzing and organic world of sound. Two more full-lengths for Warp — Body Riddle (2006) and Turning Dragon (2008) — followed, both of which were preceded by EPs.

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Lila Downs - Yucu Ninu, Mixtec Indian song

Mexican Folk / Mixtec Indian traditional song

Daughter of a Mixtec [mes-TEK] Indian woman and Anglo-American father, Downs was born near the mountains of Oaxaca [wa-HA-ka], she studied music and anthropology at the University of Minnesota and at the University of the Arts in Oaxaca. But it was only through music that Downs reconciled her heritage. "It took a long time to decide that I wanted to sing," she says. "Something needed to motivate me." That motivation was the songs and stories of her ancestors, the Oaxacan people. Downs explores the great Mexican ballads, the boleros and rancheras and sets the ancient codices of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs [za-po-TEK] to music.

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Ani Di Franco - Angry Anymore

Folk / Electro-Acoustic :

A performance for Australian ABC TV Show Studio 22 from 2000 featuring Julie Wolf.

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Lila Downs - Black Magic Woman

Rock : Lila Downs Concert, June 2009, Sava Concert Center, Serbia .

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Lila Downs Live in Montpellier

Folk /Electro acoustic/ Mexico : Mexican singer based in New York . 2003 concert .

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Paititi - Pike

Japanese Alternative / Jam Band / Lounge

A twin-ukulele-featured band led by actress Yoriko Doguchi, who is well known for her works with film directors like Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Juzo Itami.

While they are influenced by early jazz giants like Django Rheinhardt and jug bands like the Even Dozen Jug Bands, their music is a highly-sophisticated kind of mixture of those with Okinawan traditional folk songs, psychedelic droned soundscapes and blues. Very freewheeling and playful.

http://www.myspace.com/paititi

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Viking Moses - Werewolves in the City

Rock/Country/Soul : Alternative American musician

The VIKING MOSES was initiated by Southern Missourian Brendon Massei in 2003. The band has a dynamic, rotating cast of both established and obscure musicians worldwide, and is currently based in Northern Appalachia (USA).

More strait forward rock/soul than weird/folk as most of their contemporaries seem to be marketed, Viking Moses’ recordings are very accessible in convention, though live shows normally tend to have an unconventional approach, being hosted in unorthodox venues, often having assembled bands night-of, using members of support bands or strangers in the audience. Both aspects are delivered with utmost soul, passion, and humility, and always offer fans and strangers an experience which is unique and often contrary to expectation. . . .



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The O'Jays - "For The Love of Money" on Soul Train 1974

Funky music, white suits, fancy footsteps . . . . . . . and look at those huge white collars !

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Sunny Ade : Syncro System Movement - 1975, Original version .

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African - Yoruba Nigerian Juju music / AUDIO TRACK :
Electric guitar, bass guitar, vocal, talking drum, and ? shekere.


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Posted by GrooVemonzter . Side 1 . Classic song. Duration 15 mins., change of tune at 12:52 . Groovy slow groove. 192kbps. Beat all other versions hand down.

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Lisa Gerrard and Klaus Schulze - Spanish Ballerina ( live )

Ambient Electronica: Australian singer - Lisa Gerrard - (former Dead can Dance) and Klaus Schulze ( ex- Tangerine Dream ) reinterpreting a folkloric song in Berlin. Vocal and synthesizer .

A small excerpt from the DVD or 3CD set "Dziekuje Bardzo". Posted by saldek2 from Germany. Recorded on 12 and 13 November 2008 during concerts in Berlin and Warsaw, mix in Paris and Hambühren . First Release: 29 May 2009 on SPV label .

Release on a separate DVD: Synthetic Symphony SPV 306877 DVD with the Warsaw concert titles "Shoreless Two", "Bazylika NSJ", and "Godspell", and a documentary incl. "Spanish Ballerina" from Berlin and an interview with Lisa Gerrard.

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Occidental Brothers Dance Band International - Esi

Ghanean High-Life music : Occidental Brothers Dance Band International perform live at the Triple Door in Seattle as part of the 25th anniversary of The Best Ambiance on KEXP. Recorded 6/29/09.
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Delia Derbyshire: Credit for " Dr Who" sound.

. . . "A hidden hoard of recordings made by the electronic music pioneer behind the Doctor Who theme has been revealed - including a dance track 20 years ahead of its time.

Delia Derbyshire was working in the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in 1963 when she was given the score for a theme tune to a new science fiction series.

She turned those dots on a page into the swirling, shimmering Doctor Who title music - although it is the score's author, Ron Grainer, who is credited as the composer.

Now David Butler, of Manchester University's School of Arts, Histories and Cultures has revealed for the first time the existence of 267 tapes found in Ms Derbyshire's attic when she died in 2001." . . . . ( BBC News )




For more information , >>> BBC Website on Delia Derbyshire <<< including a dance track made 20 yrs ahead of its time. Remarkably like today's dance track.



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Bangladeshi Photography

Each artist's work is followed by a quick blurb to explain the background of their work with a take on social and environmental bends. >>> Munem Wasif <<<< : B & W , Absolute visual poetry. >>> Shehzad Noorani <<< " Chidren of the Black Dust " follow the lives of Bangladeshi children in the baterry recycling factories of Bangladesh.




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Tonderai Tirikoti ( Garikayi Tirikoti's son )

Tonderai Tirikoti is currently living in Japan ?

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KarigaMombe Variations

Variations Start @ 1:24 . See 2:27 . Variations with lots of bass notes 4:38.

Karigamombe Kwepasi . Variation / solo at 2:00 . Good singing as well. . . . " BANGIDZA " .

Muchenjedza Mutonga part 1 played on Matepe M'bira : start 1:30. >>>> Part 2 <<< href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tApichRDnwk&feature=channel">part 1 , part 2 .


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Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta

Ethiopian Jazz synchronized with scenes from the jungle book. Funny. Great song. Posted by DirtyTomatoTree

. . . " Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger. He is known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in 1943 in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston, where he was the first African student at Berklee College of Music. He would later combine his jazz and Latin music influences with traditional Ethiopian music." ( Wikipedia )

Clorinde - A Dream Within A Dream

Music/film/animation work base on Alan Edgar Poe's poem. @01:42 knives throwing scene at a child . Video tricks ?

London based Italian brothers Andrea & Simone Salvatici: most of the music is constructed from cells that slowly develop and mutate.


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Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue

Canadian singer - Holly Cole's re-interpretation of Tom Waits' " Little Boy Blue " with David Piltch, and Dougie Bowne perform live in 1995.



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Interview with Nicole Blackman on anorexia & art

Poet, performance-artist and writer Nicole Blackman talks about her famous poem "Holy" and how it became an anthem for pro-anorexic girls. She also talks about art, creation, the need for control and her contribution to the book, "Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction".

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Aurora : Agustí Fernández

Jazz :

Think Agustí Fernandez meets Barry Guy and you're probably thinking of the kind of deluge of molten lava that characterised the Spanish pianist's volcanic contribution to Guy's Oort-Entropy back in 2005, or his spectacular scrap with Mats Gustafsson on Critical Mass. Add wildcard dynamo percussionist Ramón López to the mix and you've got all the makings of a Fire Music trio of epic proportions, right?

Recorded at Jazzclub Moods, Zurich, March 16, 2007. ( posted by dingoandfox )

Madlib - Slim's Return

Madlib's "Slim's Return" from the SHADES OF BLUE album on "Stones Throw 101" DVD/CD.

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