Soul Searchers – We The People

One the all time great funky albums of the 70s – a mad little record with a sense of rhythm and timing that was years ahead of its time! The Soul Searchers (along with Chuck Brown) later became known for their heavy-hitting Go Go work at the end of the decade – but here, they’re a really free-thinking outfit with a lot of jazz in their funk – and a willingness to change up the beats and timings in ways that push the record miles ahead from an average funk outing. Tracks swirl around with an amazing intensity – supported by guitar work from Brown, organ from Hilton Felton, and some really great horns from Don Tillery and Lloyd Pinchback. The album features a wonderful remake of “Think” – plus the great originals “1993″, “Soul To The People”, “Blowout”, and “We The People”.

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Cacique 97

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Lisboa sempre foi um palco do encontro de várias culturas, em grande parte devido ao seu passado como capital de um império colonial em África e na América Latina.

Hoje em dia é um caldeirão de criatividade que atrai artistas de todo o Mundo e é um espaço privilegiado onde músicos se encontram, partilham ideias e misturam ritmos. É desta mistura que, em 2005, nasce o colectivo afrobeat Cacique..97.

Com músicos de origem moçambicana e portuguesa, este colectivo engloba elementos de grupos como os Cool Hipnoise, Philharmonic Weed e The Most Wanted, projectos bem conhecidos nas áreas do funk, reggae e do som afro.

A paixão pela música de Fela Kuti e Tony Allen uniu estes músicos para a concretização de um objectivo comum: criar um colectivo que espelhasse a mestiçagem lisboeta, através do cruzamento do ritmo caracteristicamente nigeriano que é o afrobeat, com a tradição musical dos países lusófonos, sempre tão presente na capital portuguesa.

Os Cacique..97 pretendem dar origem a uma banda sonora global dos novos tempos sem perder o lado reivindicativo e de promoção da consciência social característica do afrobeat.

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Lisbon has always been a stage for the meeting of several cultures, mostly due to the past of the city as the capital of a colonial empire in Africa and Latin America.

Nowadays it is a huge pot of creativity which attracts artists from all over the World and it is a privileged space where musicians find each other, share ideas and mix rhythms. It is from this mixture that, in 2005, afro beat collective Cacique..97 is born. With musicians with Mozambican and Portuguese origins, this collective incorporates members from groups such as Cool Hipnoise, Philharmonic Weed and The Most Wanted, well known projects in the areas of funk, reggae and the afro sound.

The passion for the music of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen has united these musicians for the pursuance of a common goal: to create a collective that mirrored the Lisbon mixture, by crossing the characteristic urban Nigerian rhythm which is afro beat, with the musical tradition of the African Portuguese speaking countries and of Brazil, whom has always been very present in the Portuguese capital.

Cacique..97 intend to give birth to a global soundtrack of the new times without losing the activist approach and the promotion of social awareness so fond to afro beat.

Esta banda é portuguesa, portanto o SBA recomenda que compres o álbum.
This band is portuguese, so LBM recomends that you buy the album. 

Megafone - Megafone I II III IV

João Aguardela, o compositor, letrista e vocalista dos Sitiados, é, também, o reinventor da música tradicional, onde as origens se fundem com a sonoridade electrónica criando um conceito universal, que diz muito à nossa identidade cultural, às nossas raízes e que é quase que uma fonte inesgotável. Este é um dos seus projectos. Megafone.

Os álbuns encontram-se para download gratuito no site http://www.aguardela.com/discos.html.
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Afro-Beat Airways West African Shock Waves Ghana & Togo 1972-1978

Afro-Beat Airways

West African Shock Waves Ghana & Togo 1972-1978 


Amazing new compilation of 70's African music from the ever-excelllent Analog Africa camp!

Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and raw, psychedelic boogie… just some of the flavours to be found on this highly danceable compilation by Samy Ben Redjeb, founder of Analog Africa.

To document these 14 irresistible tracks and the music scene from the’70s, Samy crisscrossed the lengths of Ghana and Togo in search of the producers and artists – or their relatives. In the process he recorded a dozen interviews, scanned 90 pictures and transferred 120 master tapes.

All the evidence can be seen in the 44-page full colour booklet accompanying these 73 minutes of heavy West African sounds. Afro-Beat Airways showcases an amazing diversity of local rhythms spiced with Afro-American funk, soul and jazz.

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Chico Science e Nação Zumbi - CSNZ

CSNZ é o terceiro álbum da banda brasileira de manguebeat Nação Zumbi, lançado em 1998. É uma compilação feito às pressas e lançado em homenagem a Chico Science. O álbum apresenta faixas inéditas gravadas em estúdio ("Malungo", "Nos quintais do mundo (Mucunã)", "Protótipo Sambadélico de Mensagem Digital" e a vinheta "Interlude Cien-Zia"), outras ao vivo gravadas com Chico ("Quilombo Groove", "Um Satélite na cabeça", e um Pout-Pourri, que inclui as canções "Lixo do Mangue", "Enquanto o Mundo Explode", "Da lama ao caos" e ainda um trecho da música "Refuse/Resist", executada nos riffs de "Territory", do Sepultura), uma regravação feita pelo grupo Planet Hemp de Samba Makossa e o segundo CD inteiro de músicas dos dois lançamentos anteriores do grupo remixadas, que era novidade no Brasil na época.

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V.A. - NEW YORK LATIN HUSTLE-THE SOUND OF NEW YORK

New York Latin Hustle

The Sound of New York

Soul Jazz Records

New York’s melting pot of Puerto Rican, Cuban and Afro-American musicians led to stunning culture clashes in the 1960s and 70s when Latin styles mixed with Funk, Disco, Soul and Jazz to produce new hybrids such as Boogaloo, Latin Jazz, Disco and Salsa. All these are featured in Soul Jazz Records latest journey into Latin music, New York Latin Hustle. The record features all the kings of Latin music – Tito Puente, Machito, Eddie Palmieri, Candido, Ray Barretto and many more, alongside rarer, lesser known names. In the 1960s Fania Records and Tico Records released stunning Latin Boogaloo, Descargas, Latin Soul from the emerging New York Latin scene. In the 1970s, Salsoul Records similarly mixed Salsa, Soul and Funk to release stunning Latin Disco crossover material such as Candido’s ‘Dancin and Prancin’, which would go on to be a million seller. New York Latin Hustle brings all this together and features Latin music from all these styles, labels and eras. The album comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography.

1. Ismael Quininos — Control

2. Ray Barretto — Abidjan

3. Johnny Zamot — Soul Makossa

4. Cortijo — Sarongo

5. La Charanga 76 — No Nos Pararan (Aint no Stopping us Now)

6. Al Escobar — Tighten Up

7. Alexander Review — Snidely Whiplash

8. Joe Cuba — Joe Cubas Madness

9. Johnny Sedes — Mama Calunga

10. Luie Ramirez — Do It Any Way You Wanna

11. Harvey Averne — Never Learned to Dance

12. Willie Colon — Angustia Maternal

13. Tito Puente — Para Los Rumberos

14. Jose Mangual — Mai Kinshasa

15. Seguida — Om Marreo

16. Eddie Palmieri — Mi Mambo Conga

17. J Walter Negro — Shoot the Pump

18. Machito — Alex Mambo

19. Nature Zone — Porcupine

20. Candido — Dancin and Prancin

21. Family Affair — I Had A Friend

22. Charlie Santiago and Eddie Montalvo — El Bollinski in D7

23. Mauricio Smith — Doug’s Room

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The Grasspoppers - Dub Inna Week

Working as an artistic collective connected to several bands in Lisbon, The Grasspoppers main areas are music producing, remixing, blogging. movie making, etc... Our latest project was to compose and record a Dub album in a week.

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Medeski Martin & Wood

Medeski Martin & Wood's story is - like most great stories - one of humble beginnings, friendship and a bright future.

The trio of keyboard/organ/piano player John Medeski, drummer/percussionist Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood formed not in some vastly creative alternative universe, but in Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO) in 1991. Medeski and Wood, both students at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music, decided to move to NYC, with the intent to explore the late-night underworld of the city's burgeoning jazz scene.

The trio began experimenting with contemporary hip-hop beats that could swing as hard as jazz rhythms, yet remained essentially simple and propulsive, giving the musicians ample room to create hypnotic texture and sounds that were brimming with both improvisation and harmony.

MMW garnered a loyal fan following through constant touring and eventually secured a record deal. Their debut album "Notes from the Underground" was released in 1991.

In 2008, with over a dozen albums credited to their name, MMW set upon to release an ingenious new experiment, The Radiolarians Series. Radiolarians I, II & III were released individually in a span of 1.5 years and the culmination of the series, Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set (MMW's first box set) will be released November 24, 2009. The box set will include additional material including a remix album, a live album, bonus tracks PLUS a documentary DVD directed by Billy Martin.

For more information about Medeski Martin & Wood, visit www.mmw.net.

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The Budos Band - The Budos Band II

"The Budos Band may well be Daptone's best actual band -- all-instrumental and imbued with a sleazy, extra-sinister undertone of gleeful malice (accentuated tonight by scary Halloween-monster masks and nicely undercut by some vicious cowbell), they alone can thrive without an outsized personality at front."

The Village Voice, October 2009

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Beat The Donkey (2002)

There’s nothing comfortably familiar here; Beat The Donkey’s highly visual polyethnic (or perhaps omni-ethnic) high-voltage percussive ensemble will push your mind to its limits. Don’t be scared, though; Beat the Donkey puts on what just might be the most exciting live show you’ll ever see. This is pure, addictive pleasure, fun and funny... trust us, you’ve got to see it to believe it."
- Grassroots

"BEAT THE DONKEY is a life changing experience …a band that easily recalls the absolutely expert humor and musicianship of Frank Zappa"
- A.H., All About Jazz

“BEAT THE DONKEY BEAT is a product of unbridled imagination, intense musical knowledge, skill and a lust for sheer joy, fusing Brazilian styles with jazz, funk, rock and reggae to a point where unique, genre-less music is made”
-Benji Feldman, Relix Magazine

“This band has an entertainment jones, and the energy of their attack has a free-for-all physicality that keeps a smile on your face.”

-Jim Macnie, Village Voice, New York 

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Terrakota

Ambassadors of Portuguese multiculturality. If you think Lisbon is just fado, well, think again, because here comes Terrakota, the leader of the worldfusion scene that is coming along with the rising cultural diversity influenced by immigration from the ancient Portuguese colonies Angola, Cape Verde, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. No one better represents that cultural diversity than Terrakota.

The band was born in 1999 and made a splash on the Portuguese musical scene thanks to their amazing live power and energy. Their music based on Senegalese percussion, reggae and African rhythms with a touch of samba, soukouss, salsa, dub, rap and flamenco results in a musical celebration without borders. Guitar, bass and drums meet traditional instruments like n’goni, sabar (Senegalese percussion), sitar, balafon, mbira and oud with abundant spectacular dancing by the beautiful Angolan singer Romi.

Terrakota has been developing an international career since the early beginnings, but it was their completely self-produced third album “OBA TRAIN” (2007) that gained general credit all over Europe. The album was unanimously considered their best one because the sound and energy got so close to their live power and the positive feeling they irradiate during concerts.

It took them on a powerful ‘Oba Train tour’ trough Europe’s biggest summer festivals, becoming one of the continent’s leading worldfusion bands. The videoclip of the song ‘é Verdade?’ (Is it real?) won the MTV Portugal Music Video Awards. A great accomplishment for a militant song about media manipulation. 2010 is smiling, awaiting the birth of the band’s 4º album.

Until then,Terrakota’s musicians wish to stretch their arms towards other countries, taking their music to even wider audiences and spreading their message of changing our world into a more positive, equal and balanced planet, where an optimistic and vibrant humanity can exist in harmony,

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Esta banda é portuguesa, portanto o SBA recomenda que compres o álbum.
This band is portuguese, so LBM recomends that you buy the album.

Bullfrog - Bullfrog

Montreal funk crew Bullfrog have a reputation for just being scratch DJ Kid Koala's backing band. It's something they clearly don't mind--the cover of their 2001 self-titled disc features a sticker with the famed turntablist's name prominently displayed. In truth, though, aside from a couple of frenetic solos and cut-up cuts like "Extra Track II" and a live version of his now-classic "Music for Morning People," Koala's role in Bullfrog is that of just another instrument, not a scratch-happy sideshow. The sextet prides itself on integrating raw funk with DJ action, and this disc, on the Rope-a-Dope imprint, is dominated by lazy, long-limbed funk, with Koala cutting up his favorite thrift store finds in the background. Jam-happy songs like "Ababa" might be repetitive and not particularly groundbreaking and the rhyming of MC Blurum 13 often falls flat, but it's the groove that rules here. --Matt Galloway @ Amazon.com

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Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché (2008)

Rokia Traoré (born January 24, 1974) is a Victoires de la Musique award-winning Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. Born in Mali as a member of the Bambara ethnic group, her father was a diplomat and she travelled widely in her youth. She visited such countries as Algeria, Saudi Arabia, France and Belgium and was exposed to a wide variety of influences. Her hometown of Kolokani is in the northwestern part of Mali's Koulikoro region.
While the Bamana have a tradition of griot performing at weddings, members of the nobility such as Rokia are discouraged from performing as musicians. Rokia attended lycée in Mali while her father was stationed in Brussels and started performing publicly as a university student in Bamako. Unusually for a female musician in Africa, Rokia plays acoustic guitar as well as sings, and she uses vocal harmonies in her arrangements which are rare in Malian music. In 1997, she linked with Mali musician Ali Farka Touré which raised her profile. She won an Radio France Internationale prize as "African Discovery" of 1997, an honor previously won by Mali's Habib Koité in 1993. As well as guitar she plays ngoni (lute) and balafon
Her first album Mouneïssa (Label Bleu), released in late 1997 in Mali and September 1, 1998 in Europe, was acclaimed for its fresh treatment and unqualifiable combinations of several Malian music traditions such as her use of the ngoni and the balafon. It sold over 40,000 copies in Europe.
On July 11, 2000, her second album Wanita was released. Traoré wrote and arranged the entire album. The album was widely acclaimed with The New York Times nominating it as one of its critics' albums of the year.
Her 2003 album Bowmboï has two tracks recorded with the Kronos Quartet but still sung in the Bamana language, and was awarded the prestigious BBC Radio 3 World Music Award. As of 2005, she has been nominated three times for this award. She played at WOMAD in 2004 and completed her first tour of North America in the same year.

Rokia Traoré singing at TED in 2007.

In 2005 she performed at the "Africa Live" festival, held in Dakar (Senegal) on 12 and 13 March 2005, where, several great names of African music were present, including: Malians Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keïta, Oumou Sangaré, Tinariwen, Tiken Jah Fakoly of Côte d'Ivoire, Cameronian Manu Dibango, Algerian Khaled, Senegalese Didier Awadi, Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour, and the French rapper Joey Starr. These concerts were dedicated to the fight against malaria in Africa.
In 2005 she also performed at the Youssou N'dour and Friends concert in Geneva, which was also a supporting gala against malaria, with Peter Gabriel, Amadou and Mariam, Gilberto Gil, Tiken Jah Fakoly and Neneh Cherry.
In December 2006 Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival, which is part of the City of Vienna's celebrations commemorating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday 250 years ago, saw the world premiere of Wati, a performance by Rokia Traoré and the Klangforum Wien.
On May 6, 2008, her latest album, "Tchamantché", was released.
Rokia was the winner of the Best Artist category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) - announced May 1, 2009 - the new 'world music' awards organised by the UK-based magazine, Songlines.

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Orelha Negra

From Word Is Bond blog:

Imagine chilling in a glamorous hotel on a faraway exotic island or watching a filmic Tarantino production and you have ‘Orelha Negra’-Portuguese for ‘Black Ear’; who are a Portuguese five-piece band consisting of Cruz, Ferrano, Gomes Prodigy, Mira Professional and Rebelo Jazz Bass who play between them the drums, keyboard, synths, bass and rhythm guitar, MPC and DJ. ler mais no blog/read more in the blog


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Esta banda é portuguesa, portanto o SBA recomenda que compres o álbum.

This band is portuguese, so LBM recomends that you buy the album.

Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Afrociberdelia

Afrociberdelia é o segundo álbum estúdio da banda brasileira de manguebeat Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, lançado em 1996.

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