Orchestre Regional de Mopti - Boro
Op: Mali 70 - Electric Mali
Mopti, the "Venice of Mali", is situated on the Niger river, near the town of Djenné with its famous mosque and archaeological sites. As a regional capital, Mopti maintained its own state-funded orchestra, and at Mali's national arts festivals the Orchestre Régional de Mopti performed against other regional orchestras in competition. Mali's arts festivals were held in Bamako from 1962 until 1988, when internal unrest and budgetary constraints forced their closure. In 2001 they were resurrected and are now held every two years. The Orchestre Régional de Mopti produced two recordings - a 10" disc of four tracks released through the national radio station and one album through the Bärenreiter-Musicaphon label in circa 1970. Some of the orchestra's members, however, also performed in Kanaga de Mopti, a non-governemt sponsored group, who released a LP on the Mali Kunkan label (see links to Malian vinyl discography and Mali Kunkan discography below). An orchestra of 14 musicians, the Orchestre Régional de Mopti personified the cultural policies of the era by adapting traditional melodies and songs (such as the epic "Taara") into a modern performance context (electric instrumentation, brass section, etc). The Bärenreiter-Musicaphon recordings of Mali's music in the early 1970s totalled over 15 albums, most of which have been unavailable for many years and are now highly sought after. Definite candidates for re-release.
Bienvenido Grande - Las Muchachitas del Cha Cha Cha
Op: The essential guide to Cuba II Icons
Luister naar Señora van Bienvenido Grande
Celina Gonzalez - Camina y Ven
Op: Zomercarnaval
Celina González Zamora (Jovellanos, Matanzas, 16 March 1929) is a Cuban singer and songwriter of musica campesina, the traditional music of the Cuban countryside. She is best known for co-authoring A Santa Bárbara with her partner Reutilio Domínguez. Her recording of it was a hit, as was Celia Cruz's version. Celina and Reutilio also wrote Yo soy el punto cubano: the recording was a hit in many countries throughout the world.
Lees een interview met Celina González.
Ska Cubano - Tabu
Op: !Ay Caramba!
Bekijk hier een concert van Ska Cubano
Observer All Stars & King Tubby - Rebel Dance
Op: Dubbing With the Observer
King Tubby (born Osbourne Ruddock, January 28, 1941 – February 6, 1989) was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of Dub music in the 1960s and 1970s. Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to a creative fame previously only reserved for composers and musicians, would prove to be highly influential across many genres of popular music. He is often cited as the inventor of the concept of the remix, and so may be seen as a direct antecedent of much dance and electronic music production.
Shino Aguakate - Se Killaron
Op: Lo Mejor del Mambo 2008
Grupo Aguakate was a prominent Dominican merengue group from 2003 to 2006. The singer, known as Gerpis "Shino" Correa, is sometimes also called by the group name, Aguakate. Shino is also a radio personality on La Mega radio station in New York, being heard by thousands each morning on the show "El Vacilon de la Mañana", and he is also known for his humorous lyrics that use double entendre.
Bekijk hier een live versie van 'Se Killaron'
Jah Wobble & the Chinese Dub Orchestra - Happy Tibetan Girl
Op: Chinese Dub
Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, in Stepney in 1958) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two years. Following his departure from PiL, he went on to a successful solo career, continuing to the present. His daughter is actress Hayley Angel Wardle, and he is married to the Chinese-born guzheng player and harpist Zi Lan Liao.
Throughout July and August 2008, Jah Wobble, legendary bass player and contemporary renaissance man, toured the UK with his new project, Chinese Dub, a 22-piece Anglo-Chinese aural and visual spectacular. Combining his trademark dub with Chinese melodies and instrumentation, the maverick music-maker successfully married East and West sensibilities, proving once again that his creative adventurousness is far removed from others’ world music dilettantism. The tour culminated in an appearance on the BBC Radio 3 stage at WOMAD in what was, for many media commentators and punters alike, the highlight of the festival.
Chinese Dub, a studio album produced by Jah Wobble, includes singers Mongolian/Tibetan Gu Yin Ji and Wang Jingqi, from the Mao ethnic minority of China, part of Yunnan Province (both handpicked by Jah Wobble on a visit to China in 2007), internationally acclaimed guzheng player Zi Lan Liao, flutist Clive Bell, and Wobble himself, the Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra also features.
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Los Hermanos Rosario - Me Tiene Loco
Los Hermanos Rosario is a merengue music band, originally consisting of siblings Rafa, Luis and Toño Rosario.
Formed in the Dominican Republic city of Higuey in May 1978, the 14-piece orchestra has had a series of hits such as Bomba Mi Hermano, Insuperables, Los Dueños del Swing and Bomba 2000. Around 1990, Toño Rosario branched out and became a mega merengue star himself. The band, however, continues to perform.
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