Plucked straight out of 60s soul fever this Double CD compilation is guaranteed to put a smile on the face of any Aretha Franklin or James Brown fan. Plugged as being ‘El Soul música, made in the USA, para las discotecas españolas’ or rather Soul music, made in the USA for Spanish clubs, this collection does exactly what it says on the tin
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Los Desterrados, from not-so-exotic north London, have produced an album of underground Judeo-Spanish re-imaginings, slipping skilfully between epochs and musical traditions
Ladino — the language of the Sephardic Jews that originated in Spain prior to their expulsion in 1492 — is in danger of dying out. But there’s one young, passionate Israeli singer steeped in the tradition of European Jewish culture who is determined to reverse the decline, and her name is Yasmin Levy
Electronica. Experimental. Downbeat. Broken beat. Avant hip hop. Inde hip hop. Glitch hop. Digi hop. Trip hop. Blip hop. Pop hop… (deep breath) These are some of the terms you might find to fit the music of Prefuse 73 into a neat little box
Continue reading Prefuse 73 – Out of the Box and Beyond the Bubble
The events of 1492 are surprisingly present for Maurice el Médioni. Up until his mother’s generation, the family still spoke the languages of El Andalus (Arabic and Spanish) in their home in Algeria. Some part of Maurice el Médioni was left behind in Spain when the Jews were expelled, just as 460 years later, he would leave something of himself behind in Algeria.
Continue reading Maurice el Medioni – Bringing It All Back Home
When the sparkling flamenco fusion album Orillas hit my desk, I sprung into action to get in touch with the author. And then nothing for over a year. It was worth the wait though as we get the skinny on his new album…
Coldcut’s second impressive release from the new album Sound Mirrors
As a bloke in the record shop proudly said to his mate when spotting the copy of this 12″, “These lot are from Manchester and their ****** brilliant”
Pantone boss, Gav Smith gets to compile Disk 3 of the 5-CD set. This CD is percussive and really gets banging with Claude Monnet’s ‘Ken Goes To Brazil, Jazztronik’s ‘Froro’, the Spirtual South mix of Paul Murphy’s ‘Jazz Room’ and Bossa Electrica’s ‘Veja O Sol’ (Spiritual South mix again. We are talking very BIG tunes here, So we got the lowdown from Gav himself…
Continue reading V/A – A Slice Of Paradise, Volume One (Gav Smith, Disk 3 of 5)
This is Volume 1 of a Slice of Paradise and it’s a whopping 5-CD set. Superbly packaged, it covers five differenct DJs (one CD each)
Continue reading V/A – A Slice Of Paradise, Volume One (BiggaBush, Disk 1 of 5)
I’m unsure whether the placid rural images attending the majority of Celtic albums are help or hindrance to the genre…
Radio Tarifa employ flamenco to decode the DNA of music, travelling back in time or across continents on voyages of discovery, sounds are picked apart, melodies examined and reassembled and from these fragments new creatures are made back in their laboratory. The end results form a fabulous menagerie of impossible music — earthy, tip-of-your-tongue familiar, beautiful and simultaneously challenging, unlikely and on the run
Continue reading Radio Tarifa – Travelling through Space and Time
What with Hectic’s Viennese connections and his newfound appreciation of flamenco, what could be better to have than a whole CD of Austrian-Andalusian influences?
