Ondatropica is a multi-generational, multi-genre Colombian music collective aimed at breaking down borders between urban and rural, folk and pop, past and present, cumbia and just about everything else. The project’s self-titled debut double CD won widespread praise in 2012. Cofounders Will Holland (Quantic) and Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero) took their time with the follow-up, but these 15 tracks are, if possible, even more surprising and delightful than the first set.
Some 35 musicians took part in this recording, first tracking in the inland capital Bogota, home to Colombia’s active experimental roots music scene, and then on Old Providence Island, a place where resurgent folklore rubs shoulders with dancehall and reggae. The result is a rich, giddy and wildly varied collision of cumbia lope, layered hand drums, sassy brass, vocals ranging from creaky to luscious, as well as flashes of gritty dancehall (“Come Back Again” and “Trustin’”), Congolese-flavored champeta (“Bogota”) and even Nigerian Afrobeat (“Hummingbird”). The unifying force here is a kind of joyous briskness that keeps the soundscapes open and inviting, never chaotic or cluttered in the least, despite the large cast and broad stylistic palette.
The opener, “Commotion,” sung unexpectedly in English, sets the mood with a kind of cumbia/calypso mash-up memorable for the way Shala Boom’s gravelly baritone voice harmonizes improbably with Katia Bowie’s delicate alto. “Malaria” delivers a fittingly feverish take on cumbia, with march band snare drum (a thread through these songs), percussive accordion chops, and a satisfying interplay between trombones and accordion, panned hard left and right. Michi Sarmiento’s high, throaty lead vocal completes the mix with a rowdy campesino flavor. There is just so much to unpack here, from “Lazalypso,” a brassy carnival romp, to the ebullient 12/8 of “Boga Canoero,” with its tasty interplay of clean electric guitars, playful saxophone interludes, call-and-response vocal and rippling trumpet riffs on the outro.
One certainly hopes for another Ondatropica live tour, as we saw in 2013, but even if all 35 of these musicians turned up, they would be hard pressed to recreate the down-home ambience of this transporting recording. It’s rare that an album delivers such a powerful sense of place, but listening to Baile Bucanero may well convince you that Colombia is a place you need to be.
320 kbps | 167 MB | UL |
Tracks:
01 – Brown Eyed Girl (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
02 – He Ain’t Give You None (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
03 – T.B. Sheets (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
04 – Spanish Rose (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
05 – Goodbye Baby (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
06 – Ro Ro Rosey (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
07 – Who Drove The Red Sports Car (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
08 – Midnight Special (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
09 – Beside You (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
10 – It’s All Right (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
11 – Madame George (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
12 – Send Your Mind (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
13 – The Smile You Smile (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
14 – The Back Room (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
15 – Joe Harper Saturday Morning (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
16 – Chick-A-Boom (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
17 – I Love You (Remastered Original Bang Records session)
18 – Brown Eyed Girl (Version 2, Remastered Original Bang Records session)
320 kbps | 77 MB | UL | OB | TB | DF
The new Sophie Zelmani album ”My Song” will be released on March 3 (G.A.S release April 14 ). You can now Pre-order the album and get it shipped directly to your mailbox on streetday 170303. World Wide Service, order your copy here:
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Track listing:
Bless Me
My Song
Dreams Are Better
When Times Are Bad
The Happy Woman Cries
Imagine
No Victims
This Prison
I Wonder
Something More
Sophie Zelmani – My Song Tour 2017
25 mars, Kungsbacka Teater, Kungsbacka
5 april, Palladium Malmö
6 april, Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg
7 april, Stora Teatern, Göteborg
8 april, ROYAL Eskilstuna – Biograf & Kulturhus
19 april, Göta Lejon, Stockholm
20 april, Culturum, Nyköping
21 april, Mejeriet, Lund
22 april, East West – Sushi, Grill, Lounget, Örebro
3 maj, Gävle Konserthus, Gävle
4 maj, Kalmar Teater, Kalmar
6 maj, Konsert & Kongress, Linköping
7 juni, Knust, Hamburg (DE)
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| Artist: | Priscillia |
| Title of Album: | Mes Choix |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2017 |
| Tracks: | 5 |
| Total Time: | 20 minutes and 34 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 47.53 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | A distance | Priscillia | 3:58 |
| 02 | Pour toi | Priscillia | 3:55 |
| 03 | Lanmou a linfini | Priscillia | 4:05 |
| 04 | On ti dousse | Priscillia | 3:37 |
| 05 | Aimer de nouveau | Priscillia | 4:59 |
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| Artist: | Vieux Kanté |
| Title of Album: | Sans Commentaire |
| Genre: | Ethnic |
| Year of Release: | 2013 |
| Tracks: | 7 |
| Total Time: | 32 minutes and 5 seconds |
| Format: | MP3 |
| Bitrate: | 320 Kbps |
| Total Size: | 73.54 MB |
| # | Song Title | Artist | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Benidakan | Vieux Kanté | 5:07 |
| 02 | Hommage aux cultivateurs | Vieux Kanté | 5:19 |
| 03 | Kile koura | Vieux Kanté | 5:05 |
| 04 | Sida | Vieux Kanté | 5:08 |
| 05 | Wassoulo | Vieux Kanté | 5:08 |
| 06 | Fatoumata | Vieux Kanté | 5:12 |
| 07 | Le son de Vieux Kanté | Vieux Kanté | 1:06 |
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Hitting the good groove may seem like a simple thing, but it’s not. (If it were, anyone could have been James Brown, and a quick spin through his catalog confirms that’s impossible.) And the ability to move the crowd can be used to say any number of things. Musical shape-shifters Chicano Batman have drawn from a rich variety of sources for their third album, 2017’s Freedom Is Free — Brazilian Tropicalia, Latin funk, vintage American soul, and R&B, shades of Afrobeat, and psychedelia of all sorts. But the way the band gracefully navigate the nexus between the passionate and the laid-back sides of their musical personality is what makes Freedom Is Free stand out. Just as Funkadelic’s classic early albums indelibly merged rock guitars with funk grooves, Chicano Batman make music…
…that makes your hips sway, but with a purposefully easy tempo. They give their music a vibe that’s powerful and sensual all at once, merging their influences in a way that doesn’t cancel out any of the elements. And like Funkadelic, Chicano Batman’s lysergic investigations of inner space are rooted in a reality that doesn’t negate optimism, but speaks of an awareness too strong to give up.
In its way, “The Taker Story” is Chicano Batman’s “Maggot Brain,” an unblinking tale of mankind’s long-standing abuse of our planet that similarly decries how we’ve knocked up Mother Earth, and the lean, organic groove only heightens the ferocity of the message. Most of Freedom Is Free lacks the lyrical force of “The Taker Story,” but “Passed You By” and “Friendship (Is a Small Boat in a Storm)” both deal with the ways trust is not always rewarded, and the title cut’s acknowledgment that there’s a guy with a gun out there means Chicano Batman aren’t kidding themselves that everyone shares their dreams. But the easy joy of the music on Freedom Is Free is as eloquent as any of the lyrics, and this is ambitious multi-cultural funk with a firm sense of heart, soul, and groove. Chicano Batman aren’t trying to unite One World Under a Groove, but in its best moments, Freedom Is Free suggests this is one band that could be up to the task, and music that engages the mind and the body this well is more than welcome in a time of chaos.
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Various Artists
Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988
(Ostinato Records, 2017)
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