24-01-2022 JAZZ.MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 2008-1997 (3h 34m)

24-01-2022 JAZZ.MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 2008-1997 (3h 34m)# The Bad Plus, Eivind Aarset, Dave Douglas, David Becker, Joe Diorio, Craig Taborn, Graeme Revell, Willem Breuker Kollektief, Chuck Bergeron, The Coryells, Jan Akkerman, Bireli Lagrene, Joe Zawinul

J A Z Z   M U S I C (3h 34m)

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2008-1997

An acclaimed, genre-bending jazz trio, the Bad Plus play a maverick combination of originals and covers that blur the line between post-bop jazz, and instrumental rock. Formed in 1990, the group originally featured longtime friends, pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer David King...

The Bad Plus 

joined by Wendy Lewis

Lithium (Kurt Cobain) 4:48

Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour / Roger Waters) 6:43

from For All I Care 2008

That the Bad Plus have recorded pop covers since their inception as a piano/bass/drums trio is a given in their M.O. The Minnesota-based trio has consistently added tunes by Blondie, Queen, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, and Burt Bacharach to their albums -- in addition to their own compositions -- as they've gone about reinventing the piano trio sound and dynamic in jazz (they have become the loudest, most hard rocking acoustic trio in the music's history). Some critics have accused them of camp, but this is simply a pronouncement of ignorance and prejudicial conservative and "preservationist" paranoia... For All I Care also marks their first recording entirely comprised of covers. The songs range from tunes by Nirvana (who they've covered before), Wilco, and Pink Floyd to Milton Babbitt, Igor Stravinsky, Yes, the Flaming Lips, and Gyorgy Ligeti, to Heart, Roger Miller, and the Bee Gees. There isn't an original on the set. Another first for the trio on For All I Care is the addition of Minneapolis rock vocalist Wendy Lewis. Perhaps the most compelling, shocking, and wonderful thing about this collaboration is how much Lewis' presence becomes part of the trio's landscape...  This is one of the most compelling releases yet by one of the new jazz's finest bands to emerge in the 21st century.

Since making his full-length leader debut with 1998's Électronique Noire, Norway's Eivind Aarset has established himself as an exploratory guitarist, composer, producer, and sound designer. His unique musical vision absorbs and reflects influences from many musical genres and approaches. Aarset's attention to detail and careful craftsmanship have resulted in recontextualizing the role of the guitar in modern creative music as evidenced by 2007's Sonic Codex and 2012's Dream Logic...

Eivind Aarset 

Sign Of Seven / Bass clarinet – Hans Ulrik / Baritone guitar & celesta – Audun Erlien 6:26

Black Noise/White Silence / Electric bass – Marius Reksjø 3:06

from Sonic Codex 2007

This fourth solo album Sonic Codex from Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset incorporates concepts from his earlier albums, restates, elaborates and reinforces them to generate a genuine masterpiece, that might be a defining moment in both Aarset’s career and the history of Jazzland. Sonic Codex puts forward rules of engagement that Aarset collaborate with the audience, and very deliberately quotes and redefines the musicality that made up his previous three albums, “Electronique Noire”, “Light Extracts”, and “Connected”, yet also points his way forward: it is an innovative present that simultaneously summarizes the past, and predicts the future.

Dave Douglas is among the most original trumpeters and composers of his generation. His stylistic range is broad yet unaffected, his music reflects a personal aesthetic with a panoply of interests, and he explicitly cites such diverse influences as Igor Stravinsky, Stevie Wonder, and John Coltrane (among many others)...

Dave Douglas 

Culture Wars (Dave Douglas) 12:46

Blues to Steve Lacy (Dave Douglas) 5:55

from Meaning and Mystery 2006

...Meaning and Mystery showcases the band -- Douglas on trumpet, Uri Caine on Fender Rhodes, bassist James Genus, and drummer Clarence Penn -- with its first personnel change as tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin replaces Chris Potter, whose own star is rising and is too busy to maintain a constant presence in the group. McCaslin, who is less well known, is no less a player. His voice on the horn is unique, and his phrasing complex and songlike... The standout track here is "Culture Wars." Douglas has never made bones about Miles being a huge influence -- he even refers to it in the liner notes. Obviously, the quintet format echoes the great inconoclasts as well. But Douglas moves it into other areas. The open, relaxed, moody atmosphere of the cut begins slowly, reminding one -- perhaps because of Caine's Rhodes playing -- of Davis' In a Silent Way, particularly when the simple groove takes over. Genus' ostinato is infectious, chantlike, hypnotic... Meaning and Mystery is yet another album in the Douglas catalog that showcases his fine compositional and arrangement abilities, but more than this, it's the sound of a group in the process of continued restless development long after the bandmembers have found their collective voice.

22-01+2022 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES_circle 2012-2002 (2h 32m)

22-01+2022 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues(y) songs from the BLUES_circle 2012-2002 (2h 32m) # Ruthie Foster, Tommy Castro, Albert Castiglia, Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Chris Duarte Group, Eric Clapton  with special guest J.J. Cale, The Wood Brothers, The White Stripes, Boo Boo Davis, Taj Mahal, Shemekia Copeland

B L U E S    M U S I C (2h 32m)

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2012-2002

With a naturally expressive voice that has drawn comparisons to greats like Aretha Franklin and Ella Fitzgerald, Texas-based singer and songwriter Ruthie Foster has a wide palette of American song forms -- gospel and blues to jazz, folk, and soul -- and her live performances are powerfully transfiguring...

Ruthie Foster 

Long Time Gone (David Crosby) 5:14

This Time (David Hidalgo / Louis Perez / Louie Pérez) 4:48

Everlasting Light (Dan Auerbach / Patrick Carney) 3:33

from Let It Burn 2012

One of the gospel-blues scene's best-kept secrets for over a decade, Texan singer/songwriter Ruthie Foster finally achieved some long-overdue mainstream recognition when her 2009 sixth studio effort, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster, picked up a Grammy nomination. By putting down the guitar and concentrating entirely on her vocals for the first time in her career, her follow-up, Let It Burn, suggests she means business. It's a wise move, as her impassioned, soulful tones have always been her main selling point, and backed by an impressive array of musicians, including the Meters' rhythm section and legendary gospel act the Blind Boys of Alabama, they're allowed the freedom to showcase their versatility... But whichever era Foster picks and chooses from, Let It Burn always feels utterly timeless.

Tommy Castro is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader. His muscular brand of roots music indulges electric and jump blues, funky R&B-inflected rockers, and searing soul-drenched ballads. An incendiary lead guitarist and showman, he often plays more than 200 dates a year...

Tommy Castro 

Voodoo Spell feat. Michael Burks 10:02

Fog feat. Trampled Under Foot

from Tommy Castro Presents The Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue--Live! 2011

A direct descendant from the traveling bundled artist packages of the '60s right down to its retro "hatch show"-styled cover art, Tommy Castro and his band play host to a relatively diverse assortment of high-energy blues and soul acts. The concept originated on the yearly Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise where such musical collaborations are typical. Castro's concept was to take that concept on the road, resulting in this dozen-track live album cherrypicked from various tour stops. It's a rollicking, very plugged-in affair... Everyone is at the top of their game with an electricity and vein-popping excitement that can only be generated when musicians feed off each other live... 

Blues guitarist Albert Castiglia was born in New York on August 12, 1969. Five years later his parents moved to Miami, where Castiglia began learning guitar. By the age of 12, he began playing local gigs and did so consistently throughout high school. Following completion of his college education, Castiglia worked as a social service investigator while playing gigs at night and on weekends around South Florida. In 1990 he joined Miami Blues Authority, and was the group's lead guitarist and vocalist for over seven years. After an audition with Chicago blues harp legend Junior Wells in 1997, Castiglia become the permanent lead guitarist for Wells' Hoodoo Man's Band. Following Junior's death in 1998, the band stayed together long enough to open shows for blues belter Sandra Hall. In 2001 Castiglia began writing his own material with the help of Graham Drout, guitarist and vocalist with the Miami-based band Iko Iko...

Albert Castiglia 

Cadillac Assembly Line (Sir Mack Rice) 5:01

Mojo 305 (Albert Castiglia / Steven Gaskell / Jerome Mascaro) 3:58

Murderin' Blues (Robert Nighthawk) 5:25

from Keepin' On 2010

Albert Castiglia has been making his living as a bluesman for 20 years, coming to prominence as lead guitarist for the legendary Junior Wells. He's played with a who's who of blues greats in his career and stepped out on his own in 2002 with Burn, an album that got universal raves. There's no doubting Castiglia's power as a guitarist... Critics often compare Castiglia's singing to Van Morrison, and maybe there was a bit of Van the Man in his vocal style years back, but on Keepin On he has his own signature style, a combination of urban grit and smooth, soulful crooning. Like Robert Cray, Castiglia combines hardcore blues with soul, rock, and country flavors for a sound that will appeal to rockers and blues purists alike.

18-01-2022 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX (2h 22m) [2019-2022]

18-01-2022 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX (2h 22m) [2019-2022] # Deap Vally, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Night Flowers, Desert Sessions, Mike Dillon, Teen Daze, Rhye, Mura Masa, Sweet Whirl, Resavoir, Tindersticks, The Cribs, The Silence, Trees Speak, David Bowie

M U S I C (2h 22m)

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A rock & roll duo from California, Deap Vally deliver a primal mix of hard rock stomp, glam rock swagger, and greasy blues riffs, like the White Stripes colliding with the Black Keys after time traveling to the 1970s and back. With just guitar, vocals, and drums, the group manage to sound full-bodied while possessing a deadly sense of cool, a healthy degree of sonic punch, and a deadpan sense of humor in their braggadocious lyrics...

Deap Vally 

Perfuction 2:56

Phoenix 2:57

from Marriage 2021

Now that two-piece rock bands are no longer considered an anomaly, high-energy duos are expected to have ready answers to the question of how you keep things fresh and change up your sound when there are only two instruments to contend with. Deap Vally, consisting of guitarist and singer Lindsey Troy and drummer Julie Edwards, showed they knew how to deliver primal, stripped-back rock on their first two albums (2013's Sistrionix and 2016's Femejism), and their third full-length, 2021's Marriage, finds them expanding and exploring a bit after firmly establishing their template of straightforward hard rock with a side of blues and a dash of glam. Through the magic of overdubbing, Troy has added several extra layers of guitar on most of the tracks here, as well as multiplying her half-breathy, half-sneering insouciant vocals into massed choruses and casual but passionate harmonies... Though Deap Vally have found new ways to dress up their music on Marriage, at their core they haven't changed that much -- this is still a smart, powerful rock band with sharp wit and an abundance of well-deserved confidence -- but the added details and textures make a difference, and this music points to a more interesting future for them than one might have imagined after Femejism.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's sense of unfettered sonic exploration makes it easy to mistake them for a long-forgotten relic of the psych explosion of the 1960s. With a far-out sound that, at times, feels barely held together, King Gizzard evoke the eclectic rock experimentation of Frank Zappa's early work with the Mothers of Invention, the anything-goes feeling of the Flaming Lips, and the demented glee of a random, obscure '60s group plucked from a Pebbles compilation as they follow their musical flights of fancy wherever they might lead...

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 

Minimum Brain Size 4:18

Some Of Us 3:52

from K.G. 2020

Over a ten-year span spent releasing an album every few weeks (or so it seemed) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard never repeated themselves, always pushing forward and trying new things whether it was lengthy jazz excursions, gloom-and-doom synth prog, or thundering thrash metal. That changed some on 2020's K.G., where the band revisit the approach used on Flying Microtonal Banana, the group's 2017 album built around the avant-garde sounds of their custom-made guitars and altered instruments. Stuck in their various homes during the global pandemic, the band gravitated toward the unique instruments and built a batch of songs using their non-Western tunings and tones. Unlike that album, though, where that almost felt like a (mostly successful) gimmick, this time the guitars are more fully integrated into the songs... 

Indie pop quintet Night Flowers cast a warm spell of dreamy guitar pop and dulcet boy/girl vocals that result in a wistful, romantic sound. Based in London, but with Northern English roots and an American singer, the band rode a steady stream of singles and EPs in the mid-2010s to critical acclaim, both in the U.K. and Japan...

Night Flowers 

Night Train 4:38

Merry-Go-Round 2:25

from Fortune Teller 2019

Awash with wistful, romantic lyrics and breezy guitar jangle, London's Night Flowers made a winning impression on their 2018 debut, Wild Notion. Greg Ullyart, Chris Hardy, Sam Lenthall, and Zebedee Budworth originally formed the band in Humberside before moving south to the capitol where they recruited American singer Sophia Petitt to complete their lineup. The sound they make together flirts with the misty borders of dream pop, but ultimately plays like a cleaner and more straightforward take on classic indie pop. Guitarist Ullyart shares some of the lead vocals with the dulcet-toned Pettit, making for some amiable interplay and sweet harmonies. Appearing a little over a year after their debut, Fortune Teller is Night Flowers' second full-length and sees the band shifting even more toward a mainstream sound with clear, full production from drummer Budworth and arrangements that fall somewhere between soft rock and the more earnest side of '80s college rock... 

15-01-2022 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2005-2011 (2h 16m)

15-01-2022 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2005-2011 (2h 16m) >>Cowboy Junkies, Adrian Belew, The Black Keys, Radiohead, Marlango, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Medeski Martin and Wood, Pearl Jam, Rival Sons, Wolf People, Polar Bear, Nicolas Jaar <<

M U S I C  (2h 16m)

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2005-2011

One of the most unique and enduring bands in alternative rock, Cowboy Junkies embodied a sound that had its roots in traditional folk, blues, and country music but was performed with a placid, languid pace that belied the slow-burning passion of their performances. The honey-infused, ethereal whisper of lead singer Margo Timmins was matched by the spare but thoughtful accompaniment of guitarist Michael Timmins, bassist Alan Anton, and drummer Peter Timmins, and their most successful recordings played heavily on that dynamic, documented in a naturalistic and unobtrusive manner...

Cowboy Junkies 

License to Kill (Bob Dylan) 4:47

Two Soldiers (Traditional) 4:02

December Skies (Michael Timmins) 5:18

from  Early 21st Century Blues 2005

It's been over 15 years since the Cowboy Junkies dropped their sparse masterpiece The Trinity Session. Recorded with very little gear in the span of one evening, it introduced the group's signature "sepia-drone" delivery to the world, a style that's never really undergone any surgery. Early 21st Century Blues attempts to build a bridge between 1988 and 2005 with a new collection of standards, covers, and originals that employ that same minimalist approach and scant recording time -- five days this time around. Built around the themes of "war, violence, fear, greed, ignorance, and loss," the familial quartet, along with a handful of friends, presents the works of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Richie Havens, and U2 as filtered through the half-time heartbeat that is the Cowboy Junkies' trademark... All of the intimacy, heavy guitar reverb, smoky vocals, and snares kissed by brushes that fans have come to expect are here, rolling in like a harmless summer rain dressed in the dark clouds of a storm...

Although Adrian Belew has played with some of rock's biggest names over the years (Frank Zappa, David Bowie, the Talking Heads, King Crimson, etc.), he remains one of the most underrated and woefully overlooked guitarists of recent times. Like all great guitarists, Belew has his own recognizable style/sound (one that admittedly tends to be quirky and off-the-wall at times), and is an incredibly versatile player, as he's always found a way to make his signature style fit into a wide variety of musical genres: hard rock, funk, new wave, experimental, Beatlesque pop, and more...

Adrian Belew 

Dead Dog on Asphalt (Adrian Belew) 4:05

Face to Face (Adrian Belew / Erick Cole) 3:03

Sex Nerve (Adrian Belew) 3:06

from Side Two 2005

Then came Side One, Belew's triumphant return to the type of experimental rock that first turned heads in his direction more than 20 years ago. Maybe it was the time away from his solo career proper; maybe it was hooking up with relative youngsters like Danny Carey and Les Claypool, but Belew seemed positively reinvigorated. That feeling continues with Side Two. No big guest stars on this one; Belew handles just about everything entirely solo. Longtime fans may be a bit surprised by the prevalence of electronic sounds, loops, and synthesized percussion, but Belew has really done a great job of incorporating them into his sound. The lyrics are deliberately sparse (inspired by Haiku), which allows for much more focus on the music and atmosphere. In fact, Belew has pretty much forsaken any "pop" aspirations here and fully pursued his more experimental muse, which will absolutely delight many of his longtime fans (and perhaps alienate the more pop-oriented ones a bit, though nothing here really qualifies as harsh or difficult listening). The album is filled with great sounds and textures, and there is plenty of ferocious guitar playing, as expected...

Midwest guitar-and-drum duo the Black Keys are known for their raw blues- and garage rock-infused sound. Influenced by performers like Junior Kimbrough, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson, the band emerged in Akron, Ohio, and gained early buzz with 2002's The Big Come Up before signing with cult blues label Fat Possum Records for 2003's Thickfreakness and 2004's Rubber Factory...

The Black Keys 

Keep Your Hands off Her (Junior Kimbrough) 3:06

Nobody But You (Junior Kimbrough) 5:21

from Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough 2006

Chulahoma is a stopgap EP from the Black Keys, a collection of six covers of songs by cult bluesman Junior Kimbrough, whose "Do the Rump" they covered on their 2002 debut, Big Come Up. Considering that this is the first time the blues-rock guitar-n-drums duo has devoted an album to nothing but straight-ahead blues songs, it wound seem logical that Chulahoma would be the bluesiest recording in their catalog, but the Black Keys aren't that simple. The six songs on this 28-minute EP are hardly replications of Kimbrough's gritty originals, nor do they have the dirty, punch-to-the-gut feel of any of the duo's three proper albums. Instead, this is the weirdest set of music the band has done to date, a trippy, murky excursion into territory that floats somewhere between the primal urgency of the duo's best work and the dark, moody psychedelia of late-'60s blues-rock... And while that might mean that Chulahoma doesn't necessarily sound like a kissing cousin to Kimbrough's originals, it does make it a greater, richer tribute than most cover albums, and it certainly proves that Auerbach's testimonial in the liner notes about how Junior Kimbrough changed his life is no lie.

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2022. 01. 08. 19:50 > magyarugar:MiX > FALLOW/HU:MiX # 33 válogatott szám / 3h 39m Kispál és a Borz, Másfél, Makám, Krulik Zoltán, Trio Stendhal, Animal Cannibals, Kispál és a Borz, Presser Gábor, Katakali, Cserepes Károly, Hortobágyi László, Korai Öröm

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Kispál és a Borz  

Macska 3:59

Barlangban dobolok 2:52

Forradalmár 3:10

~ Naphoz Holddal 1990

Lovasi András: ének, basszusgitár, Kispál András: szólógitár, Bräutigam Gábor: dob, Ózdi Rezső: basszusgitár

Másfél 

Mese 4:20

Folyami hajózás 4:50

~ Mese 1993

Bass – Hegedűs János, Drums – Kalocsai Tamás, Guitar – Bácsi Attila, Saxophone – Lukács Levente

ÚJRAKIADÁS! MÁSFÉL: MESE + KÍNAI NÁTHA

Makám, Krulik Zoltán

Singing Menhirs / Éneklő kövek 6:34

Timeless / Időtlen 10:48

Inwards From Out / Kintről befelé 7:22

ˇ~ Divertimento / Diver Time Into 1994

05-01-2022 • WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2018-2007 # WmW 2h 34m

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05-01-2022 • WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2018-2007 # WmW 2h 34m: Bombino, Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes, Bixiga 70, Amariszi, Black Bazar, Metá Metá, Terakaft, Los Destellos, Los Wemblers De Iquitos, Los Walkers, Le TPOK Jazz, Franco, Watcha Clan, Konono Nº1

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2018-2007

Meditative and earthy, Niger-based musician Bombino conjures the expansiveness of the Sahara landscape with his dazzling guitar work and entrancing vocals. Championed by the Rolling Stones before he'd even released an album, he embraced the nomadic nature of his Tuareg roots and throughout the 2010s recorded a series of critically lauded albums in various locations around the world including Nashville, Niger, New York, and Morocco...

Bombino 

Tehigren [The Trees］(Oumara Moctar) 4:31

Imajghane (Oumara Moctar) 4:13

Takamba (Oumara Moctar) 3:30

from Deran 2018

After a period spent enchanting Western audiences and employing Western producers and studios, Tuareg guitar master Bombino (given name, Omara Moctar) touches back down in Africa for his energetic sixth LP Deran. Championed by fans and fellow musicians across the globe for his glowing amalgam of desert blues and Hendrix- and Knopfler-inspired classic rock, the Niger native has enjoyed an impressive run since breaking through with his 2011 album Agadez. Extensive North American tours, U.S. festival appearances, collaborations with members of the Rolling Stones, and two acclaimed albums produced by Americans Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys) and Dave Longstreth (the Dirty Projectors) cemented his reputation as an artistic ambassador of the Tamasheq language and the geopolitical conflicts of his native land. With Deran, Bombino largely leaves the West to its own concerns, heading instead to a Moroccan studio in Casablanca to record under the lighter touch of his manager, Eric Herman... As an addition to Bombino's already sterling catalog, Deran is another excellent release and a natural continuation of his distinctive style.

Piers Damian G. Faccini (born 1970) is an English singer, painter and songwriter. Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother. His family moved to France when he was five years old. His brother is the writer Ben Faccini... 

Dawn Landes is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is originally from around Louisville, Kentucky but spent many years living and performing in Brooklyn, New York. As a recording artist she has released five full-length albums... In support of her releases, Landes has toured extensively in the US, Europe and around the world, often sharing the stage with artists such as Ray Lamontagne, Feist, Andrew Bird, José González, The Weakerthans, Midlake, Suzanne Vega, and Sufjan Stevens...

Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes 

Heaven's Gate 3:09

Book Of Dreams 2:26

I Hear a Calling 3:17

from Desert Songs 2016

Even though UK-born and France-based folk singer Piers Faccini often describes himself as a solitary songwriter, the musician nevertheless seems to thrive on collaborations. Having partnered with Dom La Nena, Jenny Lysander, the BKO Quintet or with French cellist Vincent Segal on the wonderful Songs of Time Lost amongst others, Piers Faccini recently collaborated with American singer songwriter Dawn Landes. The end result is the beautiful Desert Songs EP released on January 15th 2016 last on his own Beating Drum records and distributed in North and South America by 6 Degrees Records... The music on the EP was recorded in Faccini’s home studio based in the Cévennes, the remote foothills in south-central France which naturally lend themselves to contemplation and reflection...

Central São Paulo’s neighborhood called Bixiga is a melting pot of culture. Its Italian, African and North-Eastern population make it one of the best areas to eat out and listen to music... That’s the birthplace of São Paulo’s finest new instrumental combo: Bixiga 70.

Coming from diverse musical backgrounds, a meeting of musicians involved in the city’s avantgarde pop, jazz, dub and Brazilian scenes, results in the 10-piece set, trying to blur boundaries in space and time. With their genre-spanning mix of afrobeat, Guinean malinké, Brazilian candomblé, samba and cumbia, Bixiga 70 are a welcome addition to any party. Taking Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70 band as a launchpad both in name and spirit, this ten piece band and their fusion of African and South American rhythms cause havoc in any dance...

Bixiga 70 

Ventania (Traditional) 5:36

Machado (Bixiga 70) 5:23

100% 13 (Bixiga 70) 4:20

from III 2015

More than 18 years after his death, Fela Kuti is acquiring more tribute acts than he had wives. From Brooklyn’s Antibalas to Montreal’s Souljazz Orchestra; from London’s Kalakuta to Tokyo’s Kingdom Afrocks, dozens of bands are exploring Afrobeat’s jittery rhythms and martial horns. Sao Paulo’s Bixiga 70 are more imaginative that most, using Afrobeat as the stock in a stew that’s spiked with ingredients from Brazil, the Caribbean and other parts of Africa...

Amariszi - 12-piece Dutch band - was founded in 2007 by accordionist/composer Kay Krijnen and drummer Dolf Huybers. Four years later their remarkable debut album ‘Balkan Chaotika’ was released, critically acclaimed and appreciated with coherent teamwork, originality and inspiring virtuosity. In 2014 Amariszi released ‘Nine Balkan Nights’ which topped the English World Music Audio Chart and #13 in the World Music Charts Europe...

Amariszi 

Overkant 3:11

En Macedonie 3:30

Rakia 4:06

from Nine Balkan Nights 2014

Amariszi creates an exciting mix of Balkan influenced music delicately weaved together with pop, reggae and swing. The Amariszi line-up of virtuoso accordion lines, groovy horn section, guitar, bass & drums explores a world of music where anything can happen, and their appearance, animation and enthusiasm make every performance a party! Merel Simons’ captivating presence on stage, his clear timbre and expression offer an outstanding contribution that immediately appeals to listeners. Leaving limbs and body parts unmoved is downright impossible. Amariszi is Balkan virtuosity at its best...