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artist: tommy guerrero
cd: from the soil to the soul
url:
www.quannum.com/site
words: Once upon a time, the City of San Francisco gave birth to a diminutive 3-headed beast named Tommy Guerrero. From a very young age, the kid could skateboard up walls and down hills like no one else. He played in punkrock bands well before he could even get into the clubs legally. And he displayed an artistry in Life that few folks ever achieve.
artist: bau
cd: cape verdean melancholy
url:
http://bau.calabashmusic.com
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/bau_4210
words: Bau, whose real name is Rufino Almeida, is a virtuoso of the 12 string guitar, ukulele and violin. His music is is at the same time syncopated, vigorous, nostalgic and intimate.
Bau is the arranger and band leader for Cesaria Evora, and has been the architect of many of the best-known melodic flourishes in the Cape Verdean canon. Here, on an all-instrumental album, he follows in the pattern set by singer Fantcha, hedging his bets by alternating stately, gorgeous, fado-based numbers with bouncier, Gipsy Kings style upbeat tracks.
artist: dj akalepse
cd: shadow of a doubt
url:
www.myspace.com/akalepse
words: akalepse is ____________.
artist: hu vibrational
cd: boonghee music 1
url:
www.easterndevelopments.com/huvi.shtml
words: Boonghee is a new dance music that there is no specific rhythm to. It's a gathering of grooves. Boonghee is onomatopoeia. You feel it in your ass. Lead by the pillow-padded-mallet-hit deep bass resonance and high-pitched hand slaps of the Udu clay drum of West Africa, Boonghee Music is very circular and profound. Something like a phenomenon, and somewhat a mixture of minimal hip hop, Big Black hand drumming, and broken-beat, Boonghee Music is all organic, with no electronics, save for the recording apparatus. The colors atop the drums are vast and streaming and can come from any kind of instrument; primarily they are percussive. A few in the collection used for these recordings are dusun’goni, sintir, thumb pianos, harmonium, batajon, talking drums, dumbeks, and flutes. Bringing this music to life are two incredibly gifted drummer/percussionist /composers from Chicago that have been running together since they were 14. Adam Rudolph & Hamid Drake met in a drum shop on the East Side of Chicago and later took classes together with local A.ssociation for the A.dvancement of C.reative M.usicians elders.
artist: orchestre baka de gbiné
cd: gati bongo
url:
http://bakagbine.calabashmusic.com
words: Baka Gbiné is a group of musicians from Cameroon.
Gati Bongo is the amazing and compelling debut album by Baka Gbiné, recorded live in the rainforest of Cameroon in 2004 and 2005. It comes as the result of regular visits to the Baka's homeland by British members of Afro-Celtic band Baka Beyond.
Martin Cradick and Su Hart of Baka Beyond have regularly stayed with the Baka in Africa, taking and donating a number of guitars as part of a 15 year collaboration. Using these guitars alongside traditional instruments made in the forest, the Baka Pygmies have created their own band, Baka Gbine - together with a distinct and irresistible musical style.
The album was recorded using a solar-powered mobile studio set up under a giant tree deep in the forest, and completed in England at Martin Cradick's studio in Bath. Two songs from the album, title track 'Gati Bongo' and 'Mosumana Collé', were released in January 2006.
ENjOY.
