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Salaam's Self-Titled Album Releases August 11
From Iraqi Maqam to Robert Johnson: Middle Eastern Band Salaam Creates a New American Sound Suave Saudis in small-town America and belly-dancing Hoosier housewives. Trumpets and pianos that take on quarter tones. Iraqi tunes that channel the ghosts of American bluesmen. A good old family band, but with a serious series of twists. Welcome to the ...
Gnawledge Records Remixes the Legacy of Moorish Spain on "Granada Doaba"
Pawn Shop Scavenging for the Roots of Flamenco Hip-Hop: Gnawledge Records Remixes the Legacy of Moorish Spain Instead of angling for a record deal, Canyon Cody sent his demo to the US government and applied for a Fulbright scholarship. After he was awarded the prestigious grant, Cody headed to Spain with rapper/producer Gnotes and built a ...
The Old School Lobbyist, Griot Style
The Old School Lobbyist, Griot Style: Mali's Cheick Hamala Diabate Holds Court in Washington, DC on Ake Doni Doni Washington may be chock-a-block with lobbyists and consultants, but only one of them rocks the n'goni, the West African plucked lute covered with animal skin. He advises presidents and the World Bank. He's played for everyone from ...
Watcha Clan Remix Release and Tour Schedule
Watcha Clan are a fierce posse of musical nomads, their multi-ethnic, multi-groove infusions whip audiences into a dance frenzy, regardless of where in the world W-Clan happen to be on their never-ending tour trail. Along the way they've met talented DJs, fellow musical travelers on dance floor journeys. Friendship and mutual inspiration blossomed,communicated in the languages ...
Tribecastan Releases "Strange Cousin" on 7/14
Amidst Holland Tunnel traffic is John Kruth, decked out like a Technicolor Bedouin conducting the blaring horns of frustrated drivers with a pencil and channeling a hybrid symphony of New York noise. Next appears the slyly unassuming Jeff Greene, whose conventional attire belies a profound first-hand knowledge of esoteric overtone flutes, Arabic scales, and all things ...
Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity: Ancients Speak
by Chris M. Slawecki
Bassist/composer/producer Melvin Gibbs is best-known among jazz fans for his run with the Ronald Shannon Jackson Decoding Society and among rock fans as bassist for what most devotees consider the best version of The Henry Rollins Band. Now leading his own band, Gibbs explores “the Black Atlantic continuum" that runs from Harlem and NYC in North ...
Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Making Love to the Dark Ages
by Chris M. Slawecki
Composer Greg Tate leads Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber through melodic and harmonic structures, using a unique repertoire of physical gestures and expressions known not as conducting but as conduction. Tate christened this ensemble to honor the communal exploratory nature of Sun Ra's Arkestra and the Wu Tang Clan's 36 Chambers: “I wanted to ...
Ocote Soul Sounds: The Psychedelic Offspring of Antibalas and Grupo Fantasma
The Catalysts of Coconut Rock: Ocote Soul Sounds Creative Mutations and Funky Beats Just a sliver of the ocote wood starts a blaze. A few pieces of this pine was all Martn Perna needed to get his cooking fires started in a small fishing village in Michoacn, Mexico. It was there that Pernaknown for founding Antibalas, ...
The Divine is All Around - Rare Elements: Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Inspired Turkish Master Omar Faruk Tekbilek Remixed for Rare Elements The divine is everywhere, in the breath of a reed flute, the clank and hum of machines, or the slammin' beats of an electronic track. This is Turkish virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbileks message, and he hears it everywhere. When Tekbilek came to the USA to build ...
The Shin: Georgian Music with Guitars but No Tattoos
Caucasian Tunes from Georgia At first listen, The Shin may sound like your average rocking band from Georgia. After all, they play the good ol' strings from way down South. And, of course, the funky drums from up North. But listen closely and you'll catch the crunchy consonant clusters of the Caucasus instead of a Southern ...
