Badi Assad – Verde

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http://www.badiassad.com

http://www.myspace.com/badiassad

Origine du Groupe ; Brazil

Style : World Music , Alternative ,Folk , Vocal

Sortie : 2005

Tracklist :

1. Cheguei Meu Povo
2. Asa Branca [Interlude]
3. Básica [De Blusinha Branca]
4. Não Adianta
5. One
6. Voce Não Entendeu Nada
7. Viola, Meu Bem
8. O Verde É Maravilha
9. Feminina
10. Bachelorette
11. Seu Delegado
12. Estrangeiro Em Mim
13. Bom Dia Tristeza
14. The Being Between [Daruma]
15. Valse d’Amélie
16. Implorando
17. In My Little White Top [Básica]

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The exotic, one of a kind Brazilian guitarist, singer, and rhythmic mouth and body percussionist has had a stop-and-start career with turns as mysterious and intriguing as her music. After splashing on the scene with her Chesky debut Solo in 1994, continuing the stir (including vast critical acclaim) with Rhythms (1995) and releasing Chameleon on Verve in 1997, Badi Assad suffered from a series of personal issues that drew her back home for a few years. Fans who were excited about her 2003 re-emergence on the trio date Three Guitars with Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie will be beside themselves with the long-awaited Verde, her first solo project in six years. Those expecting a typical Brazilian vocal album — she explains the title as « the shades of the Brazilian rain forest » — will be surprised by Assad’s versatility, which incorporates rhythmic textures from around the world. She opens with the very African-flavored voice and dense percussion call-and-response « Cheguei Meu Povo » and a vocal percussion pitter patter interlude before tapping into a sound more typical of classic romantic samba (« Basica »). That sultry side is balanced by her more aggressive vocal and guitar on the feisty « Nao Adianta, » which blends modern rock influences with indigenous soundscaping, complete with birdcalls. Other tracks have slight classical leaning, and there’s even a little avant-garde oddity apparent on the brief « Feminina. » More mainstream ears will be glued to her sly, sexy reading of U2’s « One » and soaring, folk- and chamber music-tinged take on Björk’s dramatic « Bachelorette, » which further confirms Assad’s incredible willingness to tackle exotic challenges. Though all the stylistic zigzagging is fascinating, Assad is first and foremost a vocalist of heartbreaking intensity, and tracks like the mournful « Bom Dia Tristeza » best reflect her ability to penetrate the heart.

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The Black Keys – Brothers

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http://www.theblackkeys.com

http://www.myspace.com/theblackkeys

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Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Alternative Rock , Blues , Psychedelic

Sortie : 2010

Tracklist :

01. Everlasting Light
02. Next Girl
03. Tighten Up
04. Howlin’ for You
05. She’s Long Gone
06. Black Mud
07. The Only One
08. Too Afraid to Love You
09. Ten Cent Pistol
10. Sinister Kid
11. The Go Getter
12. I’m Not the One
13. Unknown Brother
14. Never Gonna Give You Up
15. These Days

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Ceci est un album des Black Keys ; le nom de cet album est « Brothers ».

La pochette a le mérite d’être claire. L’incontournable duo blues rock de l’Ohio a récemment annoncé la sortie de son 6ème album, le 18 mai prochain chez Nonesuch Records, son label depuis 2006. Il s’agit là d’une nouvelle plutôt réjouissante car les multiples occupations de Dan Auerbach comme de Patrick Carney ne laissaient pas penser que les Black Keys pourraient de sitôt se consacrer à un nouveau projet commun, enregistré dans le célèbre Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, en Alabama.
« Brothers », donc, comme deux frères, qui se retrouvent, après l’album solo d’Auerbach « Keep It Hid » et la tournée qui s’ensuivit, la formation d’un nouveau groupe – Drummer – pour Carney, accompagnée de la sortie de « Feel Good Together », et leur collaboration à tous deux avec Damon Dash sur le projet rap/rock BlakRoc ; le tout en 2009 !
Toujours adeptes de la reprise, ils ont choisi dans cet opus de donner leur version de Never Gonna Give You Up du chanteur soul Jerry Butler. Enfin, ils ont assuré la quasi production de leurs 15 titres, n’en confiant cette fois qu’un seul, Tighten Up, aux bons soins de Danger Mouse, qui s’était chargé en 2008 d’ « Attack And Release ». On ne chôme pas chez les frères Keys.

by Céline M.

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Mos Dub (by Max Tannone)

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http://mosdub.com

http://www.myspace.com/maxtannone

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Rap Fusion Dub Reggae

Sortie : 2010

Tracklist :

1.  Johnny Too Beef
2.  History Town
3.  Ms. Vampire Booty
4.  In My Math
5.  Travellin’ Underground
6.  Shroud The Stars
7.  Mr. Universe
8.  Summertime Running
9.  Kampala Truth Work
10.  Hurricane Black

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Mos Dub by Max Tannone

Même si le gars derrière le projet à un nom de yaourt (ou peut-être à cause de ça justement), Max Tannone nous a sortit un mélange de style franchement très convaincant. Assez en tous cas pour que l’album tourne en boucle depuis quelques heures. Pourtant parvenir à intégrer les couplets du rappeur Mos Def sur des tracks dub/reggae n’était pas forcément gagné d’office, mais là ça s’avère assez efficace.

10 morceaux à consommer aussi bien en guise de réveil qu’en fin de soirée, ça dépend à quel moment de la journée vous cherchez la tranquillité Petit coup de coeur pour le 3è titre, remix de Ms Fat Booty de Mos que je n’aurai jamais pensé voir adapté de cette façon.

Ce n’est pas le premier mashup du genre réalisé par Mr Dannone puisqu’on lui devait déjà la tape Jaydiohead qui cette fois mélangeait les textes de Jay-Z avec les musiques de Radiohead.

Ecrit par Chris

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Melina Kana & Ashkhabad – Lafira

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http://www.melinakana.gr

Origine du Groupe : Grece , Turkmenistan

Style : World Music

Sortie : 1998

Tracklist :

01. Giorti (Organiko)
02. Aeriko 
03. Vale Krasi
04. Stylitis
05. Opoios Agapise Den Xerei Na To Pet
06. I Lathos Moirasia
07. Armatolo (Organiko)
08. Milo Gia Sena
09. Ta Lafyra Tis Nyhtas
10. Alexantra
11. Apopse
12. Apohairetismos (Organiko)

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Mélina Kana, qui est une chanteuse grecque que j’ai découverte en l’an 2001. Elle possède une voix puissante et tendre très expressive qui me fait fondre de bonheur. Je ne me lasse pas d’écouter ses chansons dont les airs semblent dès la première écoute étonnamment familiers

Bien que de consonance grecque, l’instrumentation de ces chansons est variée: le bouzouki fait place au traditionnel piano puis à l’insolite cornemuse.

Le luth et le baglama accompagnent avec bonheur la voix cristalline de Mélina Kana. En s’entourant de grands compositeurs grecs, elle a réussi à créer, comme Arvanitaki, un passage entre la culture musicale de la Grèce méditerranéenne et celle de l’Asie centrale orientale

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Pretty Lights – Making Up A Changing Mind

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http://www.prettylightsmusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/prettylights

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Electro , IDM , Downtempo , Breakbeat

Sortie : 2010

Tracklist :

01. Still Rockin
02. I Can See It In Your Face
03. Understand Me Now
04. Future Blind
05. Total Fascination
06. Easy Way Out

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A self proclaimed combination of an “epic fist pumping dubsteppy downtempo saga,” Pretty Lights’s newest album Making Up A Changing Mind does not disappoint. Opening with the driving beat of “Still Rockin” Pretty Lights, brainchild of Derek Vincent Smith, combines elements of hip-hop, electronic driven sounds, and old school samples to create an electronic journey through time and space. Pretty lights is unlike any other band I have listened to, with a satisfying blend of solid beats with innovative electronic sounds that create an airy-atmospheric feel to all of their songs. It is as if you are transported to the main deck of an alien spacecraft, entangled in a passionate space tango that has endured for all of eternity. Many of the tracks have an echoey feel that was reminiscent of Iannis Xenakis’s “Interlude” for the Philips Pavilion in Brussels. Their songs often include samples of both old songs as well as sounds from nature and the world around us. In this way they follow and extend the legacy of music concrete in this new generation of electronic music.
The first track on the album is “Still Rockin,” and it sets the pace of the album. They sample real sounds from the world, such as people speaking. But they also create the feel of recreation of real things through electronic synthesis. For example they include this steadily rising, chirping, that sounds much like a bird flying up and away would, were it made by a computer. There is also a signature “wha-wha” type effect employed in many of their sounds. It creates a rhythmic feel as well as a distinctly electronic wavelength feel to the songs. This is accompanied by what sounds like someone tapping on a metal pipe in an empty cavernous room. It then shifts instantly into a retro-funk type of horn riff, followed by more heavily altered sounds. They are hard to identify as they are unlike most anything I have heard in non electronic music.
Many of the songs follow a similar formula to the first, with various variations throughout. However one thing I found most compelling about nearly every piece was the coherence in sound and tempo throughout each individual piece. It was as if each song had a theme and each sample and electronic sound fit perfectly into an intricately woven electronic tapestry of unrivaled beauty. There is a level of hip-hop and soul that melds into an almost glittery extravaganza. The twinkling or tinkling sounds, something like running your hands through a bowl of tiny metal beads, are reminiscent of the crackling of glass in Xenakis’s interlude. The sounds are often cloud like and certainly ambient, as Pretty Lights layers on sound after sound until it is difficult to distinguish one from the other or the origins of either.
I had the pleasure of seeing them live at the National in Richmond, VA last fall and it was an experience I will not soon forget. One unique aspect to the show was the combination of the main electronic elements with a live drummer providing the drum track. Smith manned what appeared to be some sort of MIDI controller along with the requisite turn tables of any DJ. It was refreshing to see an actual performance, by both man and machine, and not simply a man behind a laptop pressing play. Pretty Lights takes the foundations for electronic music, laid by Xenakis and others, and draws from it and adds to it to create an entirely new and exciting sound.

by CoolSteve81

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MLR finally moving from derekvincentsmith

Raw Stiles – Raw Material Vol. 1

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http://rawstiles.com

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : DJ  funk hip-hop instrumental hip-hop jazz fusion neo-soul rare groove

Sortie : 2010

Tracklist :

01 – Press Play (Intro)
02 – Suite #2 In Z
03 – Groove Me
04 – Raw 45
05 – Interrude
06 – Blue Mosque (Raw Stiles Mix)
07 – White Label
08 – Atlas
09 – A Taste Of Honey
10 – Exit Shadows
11 – The Rawk
12 – Sour Diesel (Outro)

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Raw Material Vol. 1 is the first in a series of jazz-funk fusion compilations, featuring some of Raw Stiles’ favorite discoveries from the crates. Lifted fresh off everything from dusty 45’s to unknown white-label private pressings, Raw Stiles brings raw, unadulterated sound for your sampling or listening pleasure. 

Arranged by Raw Stiles (R. Sobalvarro)

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Merlyn Webber – Once You Hit The Road

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Origine du Groupe : Jamaïca

Style : Reggae Roots

Sortie : 1976

Tracklist :

A1* Letter To Mummy And Daddy
A2* Forget The Past
A3* As Long As You Love Me
A4* No More Running
A5* May Be The Next Time
B1* Stand By Your Man
B2* Once You Hit The Road
B3* First Cut Is The Deepest
B4* He Will Have To Stay
B5* What Good Am I

Engineer : Errol Thompson
Vocals : Merlyn Webber
Backing Band : Skin, Flesh & Bones

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Lp de 1976 com Merlyn Webber cantando e a banda de apoio é a Skin, Flesh & Bones, banda liderada pelo baterista Sly Dunbar junto com diversos outros mestres como: Ranchie McLean e Lloyd Parks(baixo), Rad Bryan(guitarra) e Ansel Collins & Bobby Kalphat(teclados).

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2econd Class Citizen – A world without

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http://www.2econdclasscitizen.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/2econdclasscitizen

Origine du Groupe : United Kingdom

Style : Abstract Hip Hop , Dowbntempo , Alternative , Psychedelic

Sortie : 2009

Tracklist :

01. Step Inside [02:40]
02. One By One feat. Ceschi [04:56]
03. A New Day [05:00]
04. Wait For Me [02:02]
05. On Emptyness [08:34]
06. Our Lady Of Solitude feat. Reindeer [03:05]
07. The Day Youre Lost Or Found [04:28]
08. Listen The Night feat. Reindeer [05:18]
09. From Where I Belong [02:58]
10. A World Without [09:02]

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Faisant suite à « Wyred Folk » ; premier EP sorti en 2005 puis au récent « One By One EP, le premier album de 2econd Class Citizen sort enfin, l’occasion de vérifier si les espoirs entrevus dans les deux précédents essais se confirment sur ce long format intitulé « A World Without ».
Dans un style downtempo/hip hop légèrement psychédélique, assez bien fichu, avec notamment un flow très agréable (featurings de Ceschi, James PHoney, Reindeer) et une instrumentation foisonnante, « A World Without » rappelle par certains aspects, les productions abstract de la fin des années 90 de DJ Shadow, UNKLE ou Dan the Automator…
Sans être forcément génial ni pour autant anecdotique, « A World Without » devrait combler les amateurs de hip hop mélodieux. et en guise de mise en bouche, un megamix de 10 minutes réalisé par Phonatic est disponible sur le site du label Equinox Records ou écoutable directement ici.

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Matt Marshak – Family Funktion

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http://mattmarshak.com

http://www.myspace.com/mattmarshak

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Soul , Funk , Jazz , Instrumental

Sortie : 2009

Tracklist :

01. How Ya Like Me Now
02. I Will be with you
03. Uptown
04. The Family Funktion
05. Great Soul
06. Seduction
07. Gas Lamp Groove
08. Gratitude
09. Real Good Time
10. We Gonna’ Make it
11. Funkology
12. Get To Know U
13. Long Island
14. What Would Have Been

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A very funky, soulful, urban sound that will evoke images of late night lounges in the hippest part of the city. « How Ya Like Me Now » brings on some retro styles and showcases Matt’s signature lead sound. Carl Burnett adds his magic touch on production (Larry Carlton, Boney James, etc). Seduction, I Will Be With You, Gas Lamp Groove, Family Funktion all deliver a very chilled out smooth experience that blends R&B and Smooth Jazz. There is also the pleasant surprise « Great Soul. » A very unique track that delivers a mix of jazz, hip hop, and Bollywood Indian grooves (produced by Chris Marshak) The guitar style on this tune is reminiscent of John Mayer. There is the emotional « Gratitude » that brings an unforgettable melody. Don’t forget about the very funky Uptown that features funkmaster Kenny Harris on bass.

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