The Village Voice, October 2009
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."
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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.”
- 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
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.
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,
Myspace and Facebook
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.
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.
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.Download
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