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"The music of Tom Zé is unlike any other Brazilian music I've heard He's not a big star He first came to the public's attention along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and many other artists from the state of Bahia They were all part of the Tropicalismo movement, a creative renaissance that encompassed film, music, theater and...
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“Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on You can hear it without understanding the lyrics Lyrics which are incredible but which are, in some cases, nonsense syllables, as if even he can find no words better to articulate the swarming influences...
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Waziri hails from a small part of Edo State in southern Nigeria called Afemailand, known for being a harmonious region where Muslims and Christians live—and dance—together And there, as a devout Muslim and an exemplar of religious piety in his community, Waziri’s music fuses Etsako/Afemai folk styles with pan-Nigerian...
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You won’t hear Vijaya Anand sing on this record Nor will you hear him play any of the instruments He is the invisible presence behind each of these songs He's the Musical Director, here to dream up sequences and carefully produce sophisticated South Indian pop perfection Anand was part of the first wave to use electronic...
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On the heels of his already critically acclaimed (yes, already!) retrospective, World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star, Mr Please Please Please, Mr Dynamite — returns with Vol 4Waziri hails from a...
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On the heels of his already critically acclaimed (yes, already!) retrospective, World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star, Mr Please Please Please, Mr Dynamite — returns with Vol 5Waziri hails from a...
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This limited EP from the Staples Jr Singers was recently featured in an important exhibition at the gallery GRAY (Chicago/New York) The show, Citing Black Geographies, brought together artists examining notions of “Black space”—the topographies that portend to Black cultural experience The music of the Staples Jr Singers...
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Part Two of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah’s five-part Volume Series, which is also now available for the first time as a complete set (in a box)On the heels of his already critically acclaimed (yes, already!) retrospective, World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — the Oyoyo...
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VOLUME ONE of the previously released 5LP boxset "On the heels of his already critically acclaimed (yes, already!) forthcoming retrospective, World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star, Mr Please Please...
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Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — known to his fans in southern Nigeria as the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star — is the originator of a form of Muslim highlife that fuses local folk styles with pan-Nigerian highlife and Western pop A devout Muslim and an exemplar of religious piety in his community,...
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The reason that you even know Os Mutantes is because of this album Back in 1999 when David Byrne originally compiled this retrospective - making it the first in our critically acclaimed psychedelic series - the idea of doing a psychedelic album from outside the US or Europe was a total surprise And, most important, it introduced...
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Re-issue of The Staples Jr Singers 1975 album "When Do We Get Paid" on Luaka Bop "The Staples Jr Singers were part of a vanguard of soul gospel artists in the 1970s that broke from tradition to testify with the groove They found their inspiration in the secular music they heard on the radio, and wrote songs that were nothing but...
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Out of stockA body of work that’s been half a decade in the making A cohesion of three musical visionaries A combination of elegance, subtlety and sophistication; where jazz, electronics and strings coalesce in a perfect union ‘Promises: Chapter I’ is a collaborative record by electronic artist and composer Floating Points (aka Sam...
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Out of stockA limited marble color edition of Promises A body of work that’s been half a decade in the making A cohesion of three musical visionaries A combination of elegance, subtlety and sophistication; where jazz, electronics and strings coalesce in a perfect union ‘Promises: Chapter I’ is a collaborative record by electronic...
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A body of work that’s been half a decade in the making A cohesion of three musical visionaries A combination of elegance, subtlety and sophistication; where jazz, electronics and strings coalesce in a perfect union ‘Promises: Chapter I’ is a collaborative record by electronic artist and composer Floating Points (aka Sam...
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"Since starting a band to realize the music from my LP, it has sparked a deep interest in the band itself, and so Kuiper is the result of playing with Leo, Alex and Susumu Each time we play it, its completely different We set the scene with electronics, and some drum machines that form the foundation to allow the unfurling of the...
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Elaenia is a dazzling score which puts Shepherd in the spotlight as a composer who has produced an album that bridges the gap between his rapturous dance music and formative classical roots that draws upon everything Shepherd has done to date Growing up in Manchester - he started out as a chorister at an early age - Shepherd...
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The project started simply because we were on tour with the band, had just finished FYF fest in LA, and had a week before picking up the rest of the tour in phoenix on the way we stopped for a week near Joshua Tree National Park the idea was to go somewhere fairly remote and setup to rehearse it was peak summer, so we setup...