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Η ΠΟΡΕΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΤΖΑΖ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΤΩΝ 80s
Missio - Missio (2003)
Elvis Presley – A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings (2017)
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A Boy from Tupelo rounds up all the known existing Elvis Presley recordings from 1953 through 1955, a sum total of 53 studio takes and 32 live performances. The subtitle of the triple-disc set is The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings but it could as easily been dubbed The Sun Years, as the first two discs not only contain all the masters Elvis released for Sam Phillips’ legendary Memphis label, but all the outtakes, the four alternate mixes of Sun material released by RCA, and the four acetates Presley privately cut for Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service. The third disc is devoted to live material, primarily recorded at the Shreveport radio show Louisiana Hayride, but there are also some tracks recorded at concerts and radio stations in Texas and Mississippi.
Piri – Vocês Querem Mate? (1970, Remastered 2017)
…Vocês Querem Mate? — an obscure slab of 1970-vintage Brazilian psych-folk that packs an afternoon’s worth of delicate trippiness into 28 minutes. Reissued by Far Out Recordings, Vocês Querem Mate? is the brainchild of one Piry Reis, joined by fellow Brazilian flautists Paulinho Jobim and Danilo Caymmi, and brilliant percussionists Juquina and Wilson Das Neves.
On tracks like the deeply groovy “As Incríveis Peripécias De Danilo,” acoustic guitar, flute, bass, and percussion blur together into ecstatic bliss-out, with the timbre of Reis’s voice compelling you to turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
And again, this is compact stuff; the ecstatic “Cupído Esculpido” clocks in at a downright epic 3:06, complete with a groove that could…
…easily hold up for another hour or so. The title translates as “Carved Cupid” which seems, on the surface, odd, given the music’s impossibly cool swing and lilt (and even more absurd given the faintly ridiculous album cover).
But the first track is called “Reza Brava” which translate to “Pray Hard.” “Sombra Morta” translates to “Dead Shadow.” There’s an edge here, the same sort of subdermal melancholia that animated Love’s 1967 album, Forever Changes. But underneath the acoustic guitars, light drums, and vocals that even Johnny Mathis wouldn’t sneeze at, there could be something very dark indeed. Desfrute, mas cuidado. A morte está em toda parte.
Loretta Hagen - Lucky Stars (2017)
Loretta Hagen – Lucky Stars (2017)
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Folk, Americana, Country – Reviewers describe Loretta Hagen as “heart driven, soul filling Folk Americana”
The Earls Of Leicester - Rattle & Roar (Lossless, Hi Res 2016/2017)
Lou Gramm – Highlights of Lou Gramm (2017)
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Lou Gramm is an American rock singer, and songwriter, best known for being the original lead singer of the British-American rock band Foreigner.
Tracks:
1.My Baby
2.How Do You Tell Someone
3.Watch You Walk Away
4.I Can’t Make It Alone
5.I Wish Today Was Yesterday
6.Won’t Somebody Take Her Home
7.Don’t You Know Me My Friend
8.Headin’ Home
9.Society’s Child
10.You Better Know Your Heart
Kenny Garrett - Beyond The Wall (2006)
The Wild Tchoupitoulas – The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976/2016) [HDTracks 24-192]
The Wild Tchoupitoulas – The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:06 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Pop, World, Native American
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover | © Island Records
The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a 1976 album by the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian tribe The Wild Tchoupitoulas. The album features the “call-and-response” style chants typical of Mardi Gras Indians. Vocals were provided by George Landry, as “Big Chief Jolly”, as well as other members of his Mardi Gras tribe. Instrumentation was provided in part by members of the New Orleans band The Meters. The album also notably features Landry’s nephews, the Neville Brothers, providing harmonies and some of the instrumentation. While not a commercial success, the effort was well received critically and the experience recording it encouraged the four Neville brothers to perform together for the first time as a group. Meaningful of the geographic location of New Orleans as a Caribbean city, “Meet de Boys on the Battlefront” is based on the melody and rhythm of Trinidadian calypso artist Lord Invader’s 1943 “Rum and Coca Cola” made famous in the U.S. by The Andrew Sisters in 1944. In 2012 the album was added to the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Registry, a designation of “cultural, artistic and historic importance to the nation’s aural legacy.”
The Wild Tchoupitoulas — a group of Mardi Gras Indians headed by George ‘Big Chief Jolly’ Landry — only released one album, but that one record caused a sensation upon its initial 1976 release. It was one of the first records of the album-oriented rock generation that captured the heady gumbo of New Orleans R&B and funk. Landry may have fronted the Wild Tchoupitoulas, but the key to the record’s success was his nephews, Charles and Cyril Neville, who headed the rhythm section. They drafted in their brothers, Art and Aaron, to harmonize, and thereby unwittingly gave birth to the band that became the Neville Brothers. Still, the fact that The Wild Tchoupitoulas ranks among the great New Orleans albums isn’t because of the Nevillles themselves, but the way the Wild Tchoupitoulas lock into an extraordinary hybrid that marries several indigenous New Orleans musics, with swampy, dirty funk taking its place in the forefront. There are only eight songs, and they are all strung together as if they’re variations on the same themes and rhythms. That’s a compliment, by the way, since the organic, flowing groove is the key to the album’s success. ~~AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracklist:
1. Brother John 03:34
2. Meet De Boys On The Battlefront 03:23
3. Here Dey Come 04:05
4. Hey Pocky A-Way 03:58
5. Indian Red 07:20
6. Big Chief Got A Golden Crown 04:00
7. Hey Mama (Wild Tchoupitoulas) 04:45
8. Hey Hey (Indian Comin) 04:01
Personnel:
Big Chief Jolly, vocals
Second Chief, vocals
Trail Chief, vocals
Flag Boy, vocals
Spy Boy, vocals
Art Neville, keyboards, background vocals
Charles Neville, percussion, background vocals
Cyril Neville, congas, background vocals
Aaron Neville, piano, background vocals
Ziggy Modeliste, drums
Leo Nocentelli, guitar
George Porter, Jr., bass
Teddy Royal, guitar
Willie Harper, background vocals
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Super Japan 1 | Super abject to super dusk.
On tonight’s show (7-10 PM EDT): Super abject, super acid, super Ainu, super ASMR, super avant-garde, super bad, super bass, super beatbox, super b-girl, super big, super bored, super brothers, super bubblegum, super cha cha, super child star, super chiptune, super city, super cosmic, super cult, super cute, super dancin’, super dark, super desire, super dirty, super disco, super DIY, super DJ, super dream, super drums, super dusk. Super Japan!
Best of The Beat on Afropop: Fela Kuti—20 Years After
Aug. 2 marks the day Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died in 1997, at the age of 58. An African colossus, the controversial and always outspoken Nigerian musician/bandleader of Egypt 80, shook the earth with his music and messages, and in the past 20 years, his legend has continued to grow in scope second only to that of Bob Marley. His two sons, Seun and Femi Kuti, carry on his legacy, dozens of Afrobeat bands have sprung up in his wake, films made, a Broadway musical produced. Fela was one of a kind and continues to be bigger than life.
The Beat paid tribute to Fela with a comprehensive cover story written by frequent Beat contributor Carter Van Pelt. The feature also includes a sidebar compiled by “African Beat” columnist Robert Ambrose titled “The Fallen Giant: Personal Reminiscences of Fela Kuti.” Seven Beat writers—Dave Hucker, Bob Tarte, Ron Sakolsky, Steve Heilig, Andy Frankel, Roger Steffens, Robert Ambrose; photographer Leni Sinclair, and an eloquent tribute by actor Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje—recall the impact Fela’s music and outsize personality had on their lives.
Carter sums up the complexity that Fela encompassed: “Musically, he achieved a level comparable to Miles Davis, James Brown, Thelonius Monk and Bob Marley. In other respects, he was similar to Peter Tosh or Sun Ra. Politically he subscribed to the point of view of Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X and Kwame Toure. Spiritually, less is known about Fela, except that his spiritual vision grew from his belief in the sublime power of musicians.”
The Beat’s founding editor Roger Steffens provides the eulogy with his last line: “When God made brave Fela, the mold was broken, and we shall never again see his like.” Fela lives!
Ten best of Fela, according to The Guardian newspaper (U.K.)
Five Fela picks by Afropop producer Morgan Greenstreet
READ OR DOWNLOAD PDF Beat16#5FelaTribute
Monoswezi A Je
Monoswezi
A Je
(Riverboat Records, 2017)
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Sudan Archives Sudan Archives
Sudan Archives
Sudan Archives
(Stones Throw, 2017)
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Pascal Comelade Espontex Sinfonia
Pascal Comelade
Espontex Sinfonia
(Discmedi, 2006)
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The Dramatics – Stax Classics (2017)
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The new Stax Classics series celebrates the iconic label’s greatest stars, offering new liner notes, label discographies and 12 choice cuts from the artists’ Stax catalog. This collection of music by The Dramatics highlights one of soul music’s super groups, who topped the charts with their combination of gritty soul belting and sleek production. Features the band’s biggest hits from 1971-1974, including ‘Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get,’ ‘Get Up and Get Down,’ ‘In the Rain,’ ‘Hey You! Get Off My Mountain,’ and ‘Fell for You.’
Delaney & Bonnie – To Bonnie From Delaney (1970.Reissue 2016.)
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Delaney and Bonnie hit their pop-soul prime on this, their first Atlantic Records album. Buoyed by their acclaim from their first Elektra album, as well as their association with Eric Clapton, the group switched record labels and recorded this, probably their most definitive album. Backed by an awesome cast of musicians which included Jim Gordon (drums), Kenny Gradney (bass — later of Little Feat), and many others, this record shows why anyone connected with the band became a tambourine-shaking convert to soul-based rhythm & blues rock. Some great vocal performances by Bonnie Bramlett, especially the low-down “The Love of My Man,” show why she was put in the same league as Janis Joplin. One of the more definitive albums of the period.
Delaney Bramlett – guitar, vocals
Bonnie Bramlett – vocals
Duane Allman – guitar
Mike Utley – piano
Jim Gordon – keyboards
Sneaky Pete Kleinow – steel guitar
Little Richard – piano
Jim Dickinson – piano
Charlie Freeman – guitar
Ben Benay – guitar
Kenny Gradney – bass guitar
Bobby Whitlock – piano
Ron Tutt – drums
Sammy Creason – drums
Jerry Jumonville – alto saxophone
King Curtis – tenor saxophone
Darrell Leonard – trumpet, trombone
Sam Clayton – congas
Wayne Jackson – trumpet
Jack Hale – trombone, trumpet
Alan Estes – conga, percussion
Jerry Scheff – bass guitar
Tommy McClure – bass guitar
Ed Logan – tenor saxophone
Andrew Love – saxophone
Frank Mayes – tenor saxophone
Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone
(Portugal, Fado, Singer/Songwriter, Female Vocal) Carolina - Encantado - 2017, MP3, 320 kbps
Photo Gallery: World Sacred Music Festival 2017
In May, we returned to Fes, Morocco for the 23rd annual World Sacred Music Festival, 13 years after our first visit. The event hosted a dazzling array of music from across the globe, spanning the spectrum of sacred and secular. You can hear all about that festival in our recent program, The Festival in Fes: World Sacred Music Festival, Revisited. Here is a visual guide to the festival to accompany your listening experience.
You’ll see pop music at Place Boujloud, Sufi music at Dar Tazi, innovative fusion music at Dar Adiyel, Chinese opera and Malian-flavored flamenco at the magnificent Bab Makina. At the lakeside stage at the Jnan Sbil gardens, there’s Kuwaiti pearl-diving music, interpretations of indigenous Amazonian songs, Cretan folk music and an emotive French pianist. After the festival, we traveled to the zaouia of Gnawa master Maalem Abdelkader Amlil, a small room in his home where he gathers with friends to play Gnawa and talk. On our way out of Morocco, we stopped by the massive Mawazine Festival in Rabat, where we caught a show from the famous Tobagonian singer Calypso Rose on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Enjoy!
All photos by Sebastian Bouknight
Tim Buckley – Wings: The Complete Singles 1966-1974 (2016)
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“First ever complete collection of Buckley’s singles. Contains the previously unissued 1967 single “Once Upon A Time”/”Lady, Give Me Your Key”
Tracklist:
1. Wings
2. Grief In My Soul
3. Aren’t You That Girl
4. Strange Feelin’
5. Once Upon A Time
6. Lady Give Me Your Key
7. Morning Glory
8. Knight-Errant
9. Once I Was
10. No Man Can Find The War
11. Carnival Song
12. Happy Time
13. So Lonely
14. Move With Me
15. Nighthawkin’
16. Quicksand
17. Stone In Love
18. Dolphins
19. Honey Man
20. Wanda Lu
21. Who Could Deny You