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Tracklist:
01. Rocket Morgan – What Ya’ Gonna Do (2:10)
02. Hal Young, Jay Randall & The Electras – I’ll Be Coming Home To You (2:39)
03. Gene Terry & His Down Beats – Never Let Her Go (2:26)
04. Warren Storm – Jailhouse Blues (2:33)
05. Robert Owens & The Owens Singers – I’m Too Tired To Rock (2:21)
06. Rod Bernard – Play A Song For My Baby (2:04)
07. Chuck Hillier – Do You Take Me For A Fool (2:47)
08. Warren Storm – I’ve Got My Heart In My Hand (2:20)
09. Texas Guitar Slim & Johnny Winter – Crazie Babie (2:06)
10. Rocket Morgan – I Know It’s A Sin (2:02)
11. Charlotte Hunter – Now Is The Time (2:19)
12. Jay Randall & The Electras – Walking Alone (2:25)
13. Hal Young, Jay Randall & The Electras – I’m Falling For You Darling (2:43)
14. Rocket Morgan – This Life I Live (2:38)
15. Warren Storm – If You Don’t Want Me (2:51)
16. The Dreamers & Sidney Ester – Let Me Walk With You (1:59)
17. Rod Bernard – Let’s Get Together Tonight (1:56)
18. Ken Lindsey – I Got Loaded (2:19)
19. Charles Page & Rockin’ Jake – Searching For Love (2:47)
20. Gabe Dean – Where Should I Go (2:23)
21. Merton Thibadeaux – The Snake (2:45)
22. Jivin’ Gene – Go On, Go On (2:15)
23. Amery Lynn – Want To Go Home (2:29)
24. Doug Ardoin & The Boogie Kings – Love Lost (2:41)
25. Everett Daigle & The Tune Tones – Lonely Street (2:32)
26. Vince Anthony & The Blue Notes – Lucy Lou (2:34)
27. Rocket Morgan – It’s Too Late (2:11)
28. Warren Storm – Thank You So Much (2:10)

Over the weekend of July 28, thousands of guests gathered in celebration of Afro-Latino culture in New York during the latest edition of the “Fiestas Tradicionales en Honor a Santiago Apóstol,” fondly known as the Loiza Festival, after the Puerto Rican city that inspired the festival 50 years ago.

​Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez and his Dream Team – Photos by Ojos Nebulosos

The three-day cultural blast brought Afro-Latino and African diaspora practices to East Harlem–El Barrio. Performances by Milteri Tucker and Bombazo; Danza Fiesta; Mateo y Cumbalaya; Bronx Charanga, Son del Monte, Johnny “Dandy” Rodriguez (of the Tito Puente orchestra), Legacy Women, Los Pleneros de la 21, Nelson Ramirez y Herencia de Mi Tambo, and Flaco Navaja and the Razor Blades, among many others. Bomba y plena, salsa, handicrafts and foods rooted in Afro-Puerto Rican fare transported festival goers to the city of Loiza, Puerto Rico, founded by cimarrones or maroons.

Street musician at Loiza kiosk

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Legacy Women with Alex LaSalle – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Melody Capote, Deputy Director of CCCADI and Los Pleneros De La 21 – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Among the festival highlights was the renaming of the street and unveiling of the street sign in honor of Aida Perez, one of the founders of the Loiza Festival. The naming took place at 105th St. and Lexington Ave., the original site of the festival, that will now serve as a lasting reminder of the Afro-Boricua roots alive in El Barrio.

Memorial and new street sign honoring Aida Perez, a founder of the Loiza fest

Dancers

Puerto Rican pride on wheels

Joseito Rivera

Among those in attendance at the unveiling were Assemblyman Robert Rodriguez, Aurora Flores (communications specialist for speaker of the New York City Council Melissa Mark-Viverito, a long-time resident of El Barrio), as well as Debbie Quiñones, vice chair of Community Board 11 in El Barrio; as well as other leaders and members of the community.

Dancers

Dancers

Melvis Santa of Ellas Son

On Sunday afternoon, guests honored African ancestors with the traditional Processional of the Saints. A hallmark of the festivities in Puerto Rico, the procession serves as a bridge for Afro-descendants in the Caribbean and in the United States. The practice of marching with the saints made for a moving and liberating experience that confirmed the power of celebration in African diaspora communities.

Cumbalaya and Danza Fiesta – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Danza Fiesta ​​and Vejigante – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Dancers – by Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Since 2012, the original organizers of the festival, Los Hermanos Fraternos de Loiza, have been working in partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) and in association with Taino Towers to strengthen and grow the festival each year. The result has been an event that celebrates local artists and maintains a global sensitivity. Proof of this is the yearly tradition of inviting musicians of another country with African roots to perform at the event. This year, the honor went to Cuban performers, Melvis Santa y Ellas Son.

Los Pleneros De La 21, founder Juan Gutierrez at center – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Danza Fiesta – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Festival-goers – Photo by Tatiana Nancy

Connecting past traditions to the realities of the African diaspora in the city, the Loiza Festival offered an intergenerational audience a quintessentially New York experience.

Text courtesy of CCCADI, photos courtesy of New Visual Collective. Photos by Ojos Nebulosos unless otherwise indicated.

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the debut solo album from the enigmatic legend that is Dale Crover. Amongst his 30+ year career as one half of the essential Melvins roster, Crover has contributed to countless albums ranging from platinum-plated classics (ahem, Nirvana) to seminal cult LPs. However, up until this point Crover’s solo efforts have only appeared once in a blood moon, limited to the Melvins 1992 KISS-themed solo EP, and a couple intermittent 7″ releases. The Fickle Finger Of Fate marks Crover’s first calculated, full length solo effort. But let’s be clear: this is not a drum record. The album features a perplexingly diverse batch of songs that recall the best moments of the Melvins catalog. With 90% of all instruments played by Crover, and recorded by longtime engineer Toshi Kasai, the album is sure to tickle the temporal lobes of Melvins devotees. Sonically, the album ranges from slightly microwaved heaviness, to surprisingly chill Pink Floyd-tinged ballads, to Max Roach-meets-Throbbing-Gristle drum experimentations, to good old fashioned Andy Kaufman-style head-fuckkery. Though consistently otherworldly, The Fickle Finger Of Fate is surprisingly approachable dare we say, catchy. But even at it’s most anthemic, you won’t be able to shake the feeling that a sinister ambience is hovering just beneath the surface.

Afropop is pleased to premiere Chicago Afrobeat Project’s new single, “Race Hustle,” from the upcoming album What Goes Up.

Born out of a jam in west side Chicago in 2002, the band now marks a milestone in its career with this release. When they flew Fela Kuti’s original drummer Tony Allen in from Paris, hoping to gain some knowledge straight from the source, through several events including workshops, the group was originally planning to record two songs with him as well. But realizing the vibe in the studio was so strong—playing with CAbP reminded Allen of sessions with Fela himself, he said—the master drummer decided that the music had to keep flowing. They recorded a 10-song album together, resulting in the first Tony Allen collaboration in North America.

Chicago Afrobeat Project

In “Race Hustle,” an overwhelming atmosphere of urban struggle rises from chanting protestors introducing the song. Singer JC Brooks tells us stories of resistance in the city, while the fusion of Allen’s experienced, solid beats with deep synth waves and intricate horn lines provides a perfectly fitting background.

Watch out for Chicago Afrobeat Project’s next single, “No Bad News,” to be released on Aug. 25, and for our review of the full album, What Goes Up, out on Sept. 15.

Tony Allen releases his own debut album for Blue Note Records, The Source, on Sept. 8.

All photos by the author.

Cameroonian saxophonist and living legend, Manu Dibango, told North Country Public Radio that the most important African music festival “isn’t in New York or Paris or London, it’s here in Montreal.” He was, of course, referring to the Nuits d’Afrique festival, which just wrapped up its 31^st iteration on Sunday. While it’s going to take a lifetime more of music festival attendance research to evaluate Dibango’s claims, after five days at Nuits d’Afrique, I can personally attest to its importance to Montreal.

The morning of my first full day at the festival, I was chatting with Bïa. The singer is a transplant to Quebec from Brazil and for the second time she was working as the festival’s spokesperson. One of her favorite aspects of Nuits d’Afrique was that “every community [in Montreal] that has somehow an African root is represented.”

Abdel Kadiri

“There’s all the modern hybrid groups that have one foot in Africa, but their head is in Europe; maybe it’s DJs; maybe they come from North America or South America—Colombia or Brazil,” she said. “Everything is mixed and that opens it up…we’re trying to make everybody aware how it represents our way of being in Montreal. It’s a city that is really multicultural and there is a diversity that lives together.”

As the festival proceeded, artists from 34 countries took the stage, and whenever they called out their country—“Anyone out there from Guadeloupe?” “—from Chile?” “—from Morocco?”—they were met with a roaring approval. Indeed, they were there.

Jean-François Léger and Zal Sissokho

Along with the diversity of nationalities, there was an incredible diversity of style. I didn’t even know that “Quebeçois bossa nova” was a thing that existed, but Jean Francois Leger added it into his show, which was a history of bossa nova. He also found space for kora player Zal Sissokho to join him on stage. Kora played over a bossa nova beat is unsurprisingly gorgeous.

Although Seun Kuti wasn’t able to come, Kobo Town showed up and demonstrated that calypso music can come from Toronto.

Djmawi Africa

Bonsa did a little demonstration on the koanni one day and played the main stage with his band the next. In a chat with Afropop, he explained he was representing something even more specific than a country.

Bonsa playing the koanni

“I used the rhythm specifically from my village from my region of Burkina Faso in the east to create my own songs,” he said, explaining the koanni’s ritualistic role. “It’s the instrument we’d use for marriages, to sing to welcome the lady coming to the house. It’s the instrument we use when people go hunting.”

Admiral T

The Francophone world can seem like sort of a parallel universe to the English speaker. I saw Admiral T at the Afrojam showcase in New York on a small stage in January, where he and his dancers had to pull the small crowd to their feet. In Montreal, no one needed to be told to dance; the crowd was positively pulsing to Admiral T’s hip-hop-meets-gwo-ka-meets-zouk melange. Even after the beat stopped after the encore, the crowd stayed in place while the singer freestyled and hugged his fans.

Javi Mendez y su Sandunga

The days began with workshops and demonstrations, and rolled into live music that lasted past 11. I would get back to my hotel exhausted and happy, with my recorder full of music and interviews, the day having gone incredibly smoothly thanks to a festival staff that was constantly going above and beyond for some American journalist. Let’s do it again next year!

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While some artists are credited with starting a music scene, Fairport Convention is responsible for forging an entire new genre. As the progenitors of British folk rock, they took traditional music and electrified it, paving the way for bands like The Pogues, Flogging Molly and U2.

Since first coming onto the scene during 1967’s Summer of Love, the group has one of the most impressive catalogues in rock even with their changing personnel, with over 30 studio albums and 20 live albums. As this year marks the 50th anniversary of their first live performance, the group has announced an extensive 7 CD box set titled, Come All Ye – The First 10 Years, set for release on 28 July.

Compiled by Andrew Batt, the curator behind the musical stage show, ‘The Lady – A Tribute To Sandy Denny’, the collection captures Fairport’s first 10 years, beginning with their debut for Polydor in 1968, through all of their classic albums for Island Records and finishing with tracks from their two albums for Vertigo, The Bonny Bunch of Roses and Tippers Tales that spans 121 tracks in total. Of those, 55 are previously unreleased, culling from single B-sides, BBC Radio Sessions, TV performances, and the audio for an entire concert at The Fairfield Halls.

DISC ONE
01: Time Will Show The Wiser ( 3:05 ) from Fairport Convention
02: Decameron ( 3:42 ) from Fairport Convention
03: Jack O’ Diamonds ( 3:30 ) from Fairport Convention
04: One Sure Thing ( 2:53 ) from Fairport Convention
05: I Don’t Know Where I Stand ( 3:38 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 2/6/1968
06: You Never Wanted Me ( 3:15 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 2/6/1968
07: Fotheringay ( 3:04 ) from What We Did On Our Holidays
08: I’ll Keep It With Mine ( 5:53 ) from What We Did On Our Holidays
09: Mr Lacey ( Sandy on Vocals ) ( 2:55 ) from the Sandy Denny box set
10: Eastern Rain ( Sandy on Vocals ) ( 3:48 ) – Previously Unreleased
11: Nottamun Town – A Capella version ( 1:48 ) – Previously Unreleased
12: Meet On The Ledge ( 2:50 ) from What We Did On Our Holidays
13: Throwaway Street Puzzle ( 3:27 ) – B Side on What We Did On Our Holidays remastered
14: Reno Nevada ( 2:23 ) from the David Symonds radio show 6/1/1969
15: Suzanne ( 5:25 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 1/9/1968
16: A Sailors Wife ( without Swarb ) ( 11:23 ) from the Sandy Denny box set
17: Genesis Hall ( 3:35 ) from Unhalfbricking
18: Autopsy – Alt Take ( 4:33 ) – Previously Unreleased
19: Who Knows Where The Time Goes ? – Alt Take ( 5:19 ) – Previously Unreleased

DISC TWO
01: Dear Landlord ( 4:08 ) from Unhalfbricking
02: Si Tu Doir Partir ( 2:25 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 6/4/1969
03: Percy’s Song ( 5:28 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 1/9/1968
04: Ballad of Easy Rider ( 4:54 ) – Guitar Vocal
05: The Deserter – Rehearsal version ( 4:40 ) – Previously Unreleased
06: Come All Ye – Alt Take ( 5:27 ) from the Sandy Denny box set
07: Reynardine ( 4:31 ) from Liege and Lief
08: Matty Groves – Alt Take ( 7:43 ) from the Sandy Denny box set
09: Farewell Farewell ( 2:38 ) from Liege and Lief
10: Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood – Take 1 edit ( 6:42 ) from Liege & Lief Deluxe Edition
11: Tam Lin ( 7:46 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 27/9/1969
12: Sir Patrick Spens ( 3:44 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear programme 27/9/1969
13: The Lark In The Morning medley ( 4:12 ) from John Peel’s Top Gear 27/9/1969
14: Bonny Bunch Of Roses ( 10:48 ) – Full House Out-Take

DISC THREE
01: Walk Awhile ( 3:51 ) – Live in Concert on Pop2 – 5/12/1970 – Previously Unreleased
02: Dirty Linen ( 3:55) – Live in Concert on Pop2 – 5/12/1970 – Previously Unreleased
03: Sloth ( 12:17 ) – Live in Concert on Pop2 – 5/12/1970 – Previously Unreleased
04: Journeyman’s Grace ( 4:47 ) – Live on Pop2 – 5/12/1970 – Previously Unreleased
05: Sir B.McKenzie ( 4:29) – Live in Concert on Pop2 – 5/12/1970 – Previously Unreleased
06: Flatback Caper – Live 1970 ( 5:57 ) – Previously Unreleased
07: Doctor of Physick – Live 1970 ( 3:52 ) – Previously Unreleased
08: Poor Will and The Jolly Hangman (5:34 ) from Guitar, Vocal
09: Bonnie Black Hare – Alt Take ( 3:04 ) – Previously Unreleased
10: Lord Marlborough ( 3:24 ) from Angel Delight
11: Banks of the Sweet Primroses ( 4:11 ) from Angel Delight
12: Breakfast In Mayfair ( 3:07 ) from Babbacombe Lee
13: Little Did I Think ( 1:52 ) from The Man They Could Not Hang – Previously Unreleased
14: John Lee ( 1:48 ) from The Man They Could Not Hang – Previously Unreleased
15: Cell Song ( 4:27 ) from The Man They Could Not Hang – Previously Unreleased
16: Time Is Near ( 2:49 ) from The Man They Could Not Hang – Previously Unreleased
17: Dream Song ( 4:14 ) from The Man They Could Not Hang – Previously Unreleased
18: Farewell To A Poor Man’s Son ( 5:16 ) from The Man They Could Not Hang

DISC FOUR
01: Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller – Live at the LA Troubadour ( 3:55 ) from Guitar Vocal
02: That’ll Be The Day ( 2:02 ) from The Bunch
03: Think It Over – Sandy Denny rehearsal version ( 2:31 ) – Previously Unreleased
04: Maverick Child ( 4:03 ) Previously Unreleased
05: Sad Song aka As Long As It Is Mine ( 5:06 ) Previously Unreleased
06: Matthew, Mark, Luke & John ( 3:05 ) Previously Unreleased
07: Rattle Trap ( 2:05 ) Previously Unreleased
08: Sheep In The Meadow ( 4:10 ) Previously Unreleased
09: Rosie ( 3:34 ) Previously Unreleased
10: Country Judy Jane ( 2:36 ) Previously Unreleased
11: Me With You ( 3:23 ) Previously Unreleased
12: My Girl ( 4:05 ) Previously Unreleased
13: To Althea from Prison ( 2:25 ) Previously Unreleased
14: Knights Of The Road ( 3:52 ) from Rosie
15: The Plainsman ( 3:19 ) from Rosie
16: Matthew, Mark, Luke & John from the Old Grey Whistle Test ( 3:44 ) Previously Unreleased
17: Brilliancy medley from the Old Grey Whistle Test ( 3:55 ) Previously Unreleased
18: Polly On The Shore ( 4:53 ) from Nine
19: Fiddlestix (The Devil In The Kitchen) without orchestra ( 2:49 ) Previously Unreleased
20: Possibly Parsons Green ( 3:41 ) – OZ 7” single mix Previously Unreleased
21: Bring Em Down ( 5:55 ) from Nine

DISC FIVE
01: Sloth – Live in Sydney ( 11:31 ) from Live Convention
02: John The Gun ( 5:05 ) – John Peel session 6/8/1974
03: Down In The Flood ( 3:27 ) – John Peel session 6/8/1974
04: Rising For The Moon ( 4:18 ) – John Peel session 6/8/1974
05: After Halloween ( 2:54 ) Byfield Demo – Alt Take Previously Unreleased
06: Restless ( 3:59 ) from Rising For The Moon
07: White Dress ( 3:24 ) Live on LWT (on Rising for the Moon deluxe edition)
08: Stranger To Himself ( 2:52 ) from Rising For The Moon
09: Dawn – Alt version ( 4:09 ) from the Sandy Denny box set
10: One More Chance – Alt Take ( 7:52 ) Previously Unreleased
11: All Along The Watchtower – Live in Oslo in 1975 ( 4:22 )
12: When First Into This Country ( 2:28 ) from Gottle O’ Geer
13: Sandy’s Song aka Take Away The Load ( 3:34 ) from Gottle O’Geer
14: Royal Seleccion No 13 ( 4:24 ) from A World of Music: Anne Lorne Gillies 26/11/1976 Previously Unreleased
15: Adieu Adieu ( 2:35 ) from A World of Music: Anne Lorne Gillies 26/11/1976 Previously Unreleased
16: Reynard The Fox ( 2:59 ) from Tipplers Tales
17: Poor Ditching Boy ( 3:46 ) from In Concert – STV 1976 Previously Unreleased
18: Flowers Of The Forest ( 3:50 ) from In Concert – STV 1976 Previously Unreleased

DISC SIX – Live at Fairfield Hall 16/12/1973
01: Polly On The Shore ( 5:12 ) Previously Unreleased
02: Furs and Feathers ( 5:11 ) Previously Unreleased
03: Tokyo ( 3:09 ) Previously Unreleased
04: Cell Song ( 5:05 ) Previously Unreleased
05: The Claw ( 3:01 ) Previously Unreleased
06: Far From Me ( Old Broken Bottle ) ( 3:47 ) Previously Unreleased
07: Brilliancy medley / Cherokee Shuffle ( 4:14 ) Previously Unreleased
08: Days of 49 ( 6:20 ) Previously Unreleased
09: Fiddlestix (The Devil In The Kitchen) ( 3:07 ) Previously Unreleased
10: Dirty Linen ( 4:33 ) Previously Unreleased
11: Matthew, Mark, Luke & John ( 6:34 ) Previously Unreleased
12: Possibly Parsons Green ( 3:39 ) Previously Unreleased
13: Sir B. McKenzie ( 6:21 ) Previously Unreleased
14: Down In The Flood – Full version ( 3:45 ) Previously Unreleased
15: Something You’ve Got- Full version ( 3:00 ) Previously Unreleased

DISC SEVEN – Live at the LA Troubadour 1/2/1974
01: Down In The Flood ( 3:13 )
02: The Ballad Of Ned Kelly ( 3:59 )
03: Solo ( 5:34 )
04: It’ll Take A Long Time ( 5:35 )
05: She Moves Through The Fair ( 4:15 )
06: The Hens March Through The Midden & The Four Poster Bed ( 3:17 )
07: The Hexamshire Lass ( 2:44 )
08: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door ( 4:33 )
09: Six Days On The Road ( 3:44 )
10: Like An Old Fashioned Waltz ( 4:20 )
11: John The Gun ( 5:10 )
12: Down Where The Drunkards Roll – Alt Take ( 4:30 ) Previously Unreleased
13: Crazy Lady Blues ( 4:02 )
14: Who Knows Where The Time Goes ( 6:54 )
15: Matty Groves ( 7:05 )
16: That’ll Be The Day ( 3:23 )

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Tracklist:

01. Love Someone
02. Superhero
03. The Long Way
04. The Reason
05. Somethin’ I’m Good At
06. Haven’t Met You
07. No Stopping You
08. Brother
09. Heartbreaker
10. Crystal Clear
11. Cycles
12. Castaway

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This feller is Simon Mason who was at one point ‘drugdealer to the stars’ in the maelstrom that was Brit Pop but has since got clean and started to write his own music. Not surprising then that his music has a sort of come down feel and could be compared with the mature and mid paced later work of Paul Weller.

On a critical note, just occasionally one or two of the songs start to sound a bit too similar for my liking but overall Dry and High comes from the heart, is passionate, ballsy and gets my vote. An album that’s raucous, high-energy, but with moments of pure vulnerability.

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Tracklist:

01. Sleaford Mods – Urine Mate (Welcome to the Club) 3:43
02. Kort – Penetration 3:30
03. William Tyler – The Great Unwind 8:23
04. Tiny Ruins – Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergarden 2:34
05. Tom House – Poetry Is in Fashion Again 0:35
06. Shabazz Palaces – Are You… Can You… Were You? 5:06
07. Dump – NYC Tonight 6:04
08. Lambchop – Howe 4:07
09. Factory Floor – How You Say 6:18
10. Richard Buckner – Portrait 3:12
11. Yo La Tengo – I’ll Be Around 4:46
12. Can – She Brings the Rain 4:07
13. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Rings of Saturn 3:27
14. Lambchop – Directions to the Can 3:34
15. Tom House – Susan’s Song 3:30