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Jef Stott: Arkana

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 21, 2012

Arkana is the tenth release by multi-instrumentalist and ethno-conceptualist Jef Stott, one of several artists forging new music through the merger of modern technology and electronic music with indigenous and historical music from around the world--in Stott's case, India and the surrounding region. And the world came very close to never hearing it: Thieves broke into ...

From Britain to Boogaloo

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 16, 2012

Chris BarberMemories of My TripProper American Records2011 You will find very few jazz retrospectives more thoroughly, warmly inviting than Memories of My Trip, which celebrates six decades of recording and performing by one of Britain's most enduring traditional jazz musicians--trombonist, bassist and bandleader Chris Barber. ...

Jef Stott Releases "Arcana"

May 27, 2012

There’s a luminescent, nearly indescribable feeling you get when walking through the Playa, Burning Man’s center, after sundown. In this empty desert 50,000 people have joined forces with too much diesel and an endless supply of imagination to, as San Francisco-based artist Jef Stott says, share in this “container for radical self-expression.” The sentiment is so ...

Raivolution

By MC Rai

Label: Embarka Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Oudies Jam; L'amaar; Toulli Lila; Hen' Alina; Ya Siadi; Sahran; Maktoubi; Rana Ca Va; Raivolution; Yamina; Mama Afrika; Bisselama; Is'Ha; Essaif.

MC Rai: Raivolution

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 3, 2006

Born in southern Tunisia in 1977, MC Rai proved so adept in the native chaabi folk music tradition that he was performing on local radio stations before his eighth birthday. Like most teenagers, his musical horizons expanded as he grew and his ears soon embraced the sounds of rai music, folk music native to neighboring Algeria, ...