Baaba Maal - The Traveller (2016)

Baaba Maal, the Senegalese master-musician and cultural warrior, has an electrifying new sound and exhilarating live presentation.

The Traveller, his imminent album, Baaba’s eleventh, is scheduled for release in January 2016, a mixture of roots African sounds and cutting-edge western electro elements.

Complementing the record Baaba has a tight new road-band, a six piece, a departure from his previous larger line-ups, that will express the fresh sound, soulful truth and pulsating excitement of his latest innovative music.

A number of keynote headline concerts are scheduled. These include a performance in December 2015 at the Blues du Fleuve, the festival Baaba Maal has established in his home town of Podor, on the river Senegal.

The Traveller was recorded in London and Senegal; in making the record Baaba Maal has collaborated with Johan Hugo Karlberg from The Very Best. The Very Best’s two albums were genre-shattering, bright meshes of Afropop and electro; Karlberg has also worked with M.I.A, Coldplay, and Amadou and Marian, among many others.

‘Baaba is an amazing guy: he’s seen it all and done it all,’ says Karlberg. ‘He’s heavily involved in amazing projects all over the world that help people, so he’s a very inspiring person to be around and work with. It was just an honor to be able to have so much fun together and make music.’

‘I am so inspired by The Traveller,’ says Baaba Maal. ‘Working with Johan I feel we have achieved a perfect blend of sensibilities drawn not only from Africa and Europe but from all over the globe: I feel The Traveller defines how the planet looks at this time from the point-of-view of Senegal, Africa’s most westerly country. And despite many problems in many places, that view is extremely positive and inspiring.’



01. Fulani Rock
02. Gili Men
03. One Day
04. Kalaajo
05. Lampenda
06. Traveller
07. Jam Jam
08. War
09. Peace

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Jordi Savall - The Routes of Slavery (2017)

Un homenaje a la memoria de las víctimas de la trata de esclavos. Este nuevo proyecto multicultural de Jordi Savall y sus músicos sobre Las Vías de la Esclavitud (1444-1888) marca el primer lugar en la historia de la música y de los tres continentes involucrados en el comercio de esclavos africanos y su explotación en el Nuevo Mundo Se unen a través de la música antigua del período colonial, las tradiciones musicales de Malí y las tradiciones orales de los descendientes de esclavos en Madagascar, Brasil, Colombia y México. Esta "Memoria Musical" está acompañada de textos históricos sobre la esclavitud, comenzando con las primeras crónicas de 1444 y concluyendo con textos escritos por el Premio Nobel de la Paz Martin Luther King poco antes de su asesinato en 1968. Patrocinado por la UNESCO, esta reconciliación musical es Fundada en la igualdad, la armonía y la inspiración recíproca, constituyendo la conmemoración de un capítulo trágico y vergonzoso en la historia de la humanidad. Un vasto fresco histórico y musical que arroja luz sobre la actitud de Occidente hacia los africanos en América Latina, Estados Unidos y Europa, así como su indiferencia hacia ese continente africano "olvidado". Pero también es una alegre celebración de corazones y espíritus unidos a través de la música y la danza, ofreciéndonos a todos una fuente vital de supervivencia, un refugio de paz, de consuelo y de esperanza.

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Obadikah - Obadikah

Brand new, rambunctious, rootsy, spiritual brass-band music from Lagos, with singing, drums and home-made percussion. Obadikah is a group of old friends who play together in the Cherubim & Seraphim and Baptist churches of the Ikeja and Isale Eko districts. A couple of them were founder-members of the Eko Brass Band; they’ve played with pretty much all the key Nigerian reggae artists. The tunes are mostly traditional Yoruban melodies, often sung at bed-time. The songs are mostly original, sung in Yoruba (though Jomido is an Egun song from the Badagry area of Lagos state).



A1 April 8
A2 Keke Kan
A3 Olorum Kan
A4 Agbara Temi Ko
A5 Iwo Ore Mi
B1 Ajantiele
B2 Erin
B3 Obadikah
B4 Jomido
B5 Orbete

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Orange Blossom - Discografia (3Cd´s)

Orange Blossom is a French band that plays a mix of electronic and world music.

The band was formed in Nantes in 1993 with Pierre-Jean Chabot (known as PJ Chabot) on violin and Jean-Christophe Waechter (known as Jay C.) on percussions and vocals. In 1994, Éric (organ) joined the band and a first audio tape was recorded in September. In 1995 the band stabilized with the arrival of Carlos Robles Arenas on drums, djembé, and sample, and the departure of Éric.[1] Their first disc, Orange Blossom, came out in 1997 on the Prikosnovénie label, selling 15,000 copies.

Before their second album came out, the group was influenced by ethnic and traditional music. They met and collaborated with several non-French artists, like Ivorian percussion group Yelemba D'Abidjan and Egyptian group Ganoub. They toured in Egypt, France, and Belgium. Vocalist Jay C. left the band in 2000 and created Prajña. In 2002, percussionist Mathias Vaguenez and vocalist Leïla Bounous joined the group. The album Everything Must Change came out in 2005 on the Bonsaï Music label.

Carlos Robles Arenas is Mexican. Leïla Bounous is part Algerian, part Breton.She later left and Hend Elwary from Egypt, joined the band in 2014.

1997 Orange Blossom

1 Anaconda Girl 

2 Maria Del Sol 

3 Bata 

4 N. 

5 Die Stadt 

6 I'm Dying 

7 Trinity 

2005 Everything Must Change

1 Maldito (Cursed) 

2 Habibi (My Darling) 

3 Cheft El Khof (I've Seen Fear) 

4 Desert Dub 

5 Nafsi (My Soul) 

6 Souffrance 

7 Blama 

8 Yazaman (A Long Time Ago) 

9 Denya (Life) 

10 Bendimina (My Heart Is Aching) 

11 Ayoub (hidden track) 

2014 Under the Shade of Violets 

1 Ommaty 

2 Lost 

3 Ya Sîdî 

4 Pitcha 

5 Jerusalem 

6 Maria 

7 Goodbye Kô 

8 Mexico 

9 The Nubian 

10 Black Box 

11 Pink Ma 

12 Aqua 

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Vegetal Jam - "Valnerols" (2014) [España]

Vegetal Jam es una mermelada de ritmos con sabor a tierra de aquí y de allá, una mezcla de músicas de raíz, con sonidos clásicos y contemporáneos. Para ser degustada con los cinco sentidos, saboreada con los oídos y escuchada por los pies.
Vegetal Jam son scottish, mazurkas, jotas, fandangos, arin arin, valses, rondos, chapeluas, bourrée, polkas y un sin fin, temas de composiciones propias inspirados siempre en la tierra. Música neo-trad, folk independiente. Vegetal jam es música natural, sin azúcares añadidos, aptas para bailar, escuchar, sentir y disfrutar. Los ingredientes de esta mermelada son Miguel Guallar (Chelo y violín) y David Aznar (Acordeón cromático)
Entre noviembre y diciembre de 2013, grabamos nuestro segundo disco Valnerols de nuevo en los estudios de Luna Nueva. Tiene 15 temas compuestos en su totalidad por el dúo. El 22 de febrero de 2014 lo mostramos al mundo en el Teatro Arbolé de Zaragoza.
 Es un disco auto financiado 100% En el disco colaboran Jonás Gimeno con las panderetas en "La Vascorelli" y "Tximeleta", Julian Ansuátegui con el Bodhran en "Tchai" y "Espantacierzos" y Susana Arregui (Violín), Pilar Gonzalvo (Arpa), Julián Ansuátegui (Udu) y Miguel Ángel Fraile (Whistle) del grupo O'Carolan en "Nana de Marzo". El diseño es de la gran María José Llorente de nuevo. "Soñar hace que un jardín se convierta en una gran montaña, que un canal sea un gran río, que un árbol con un agujero cuente cuentos y que la libertad se produzca cada noche junto a la almohada. Tal vez soñando se encuentre lo que tanto se busca. Sólo hay que querer, Sólo hay que soñar:; de todo lo demás se encargan esos seres de siempre, esos a los que nunca se les ha llamado; esos que siempre están ahí, felices, alegres y traviesos, en cualquier elemento de la naturaleza, esos que te aunan a ella; hojas, polen, aromas, sensaciones, recuerdos... Al final del día, cuando cierras los ojos, descubres todo aquello que te han aportado, incluso intuyes que alguno te ha acompañado... ya sabes quienes son los Valnerols."
 Podéis conseguir el disco a través de nuestro mail: vegetaljam@gmail.com



 Vegetal Jam-Valnerols

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Tinariwen - Elwan

The new album Elwan by Tinariwen could well have been called Exile on Main Street. Others have already thought of that, but the idea is apt. As is the painful paradox, if you consider that while Tinariwen were criss-crossing the globe on their recent triumphant tours, the frontiers that encircle their desert home were closing and forcing them into exile to record their new album Elwan.

In recent years, Tinariwen's homeland, a Saharan mountain range between north-eastern Mali and southern Algeria, has been transformed into a conflict zone. While the songs on the new record evoke those cherished deserts of home, they were recorded a long way away in two distinctive bursts.

In 2014 the band stopped at Rancho de la Luna studios in the desert of California’s Joshua Tree National Park. While location proved particularly propitious in terms of creativity, the human climate was just as favorable, as musicians dropped by to add their own touch. Guitarist Matt Sweeny (Johnny Cash, Bonnie Prince Billy and Cat Power), Kurt Vile, musician Alan Johannes, who produced Queens of the Stone Age, a band with whom Mark Lanegan, the other guest has been a singer. All of it honed by engineer Andrew Schepps, who has worked with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Johny Cash, and Jay Z. Two years later in M’Hamid El Ghizlane, an oasis in southern Morocco, near the Algerian frontier, the band set up their tents to record, accompanied by the local musical youth and a Ganga outfit (a group of Berber ‘gnawa’ trance musicians).

The resulting album is called Elwan (‘The Elephants’), not Exile On Main Street, though it fits nicely into that ‘road record’ category. In American cinema, a road movie always unfolds the same way. Characters travel in search of some truth or revelation. But they always end up reconnecting with their own past. Of course, it’s an impossible return, because that past has been erased. It’s the same for this record, so musically powerful and yet poignant: every song evokes a land that can no longer be found, with all that this implies in terms of emotional range, from nostalgia for a joyous past to the tragic recent loss of a territory, and of the dream that it nourished.

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1. Tiwàyyen
2. Sastanàqqàm
3. Nizzagh Ijbal
4. Hayati
5. Ittus
6. Ténéré Tàqqàl
7. Imidiwàn n-àkall-in
8. Talyat
9. Assàwt
10. Arhegh ad annàgh
11. Nànnuflày
12. Intro Flute Fog Edaghan
13. Fog Edaghàn

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Abou Diarra - Koya (2016)

Abou Diarra es un músico Malíen de la región de Sikasso que ahora vive en París. Su instrumento principal es el kamale ngoni o arpa joven, una versión secularizada del donso ngoni (arpa de cazador) que tiene usos principalmente ceremoniales es algo así como un cruce entre el pequeño ngoni y la kora. Diarra era discipulo del último Vieux Kante, ampliamente reconocido como el gran innovador del instrumento. Este es su cuarto álbum; Su concepto es unir las tradiciones Mandé con el blues americano. Está trabajando con el director musical Nicolas Repac, el hombre detrás de los maravillosos álbumes de Mamani Keita, conocidos como Mali-meets-electro, y el resultado es otro éxito. La unidad de trabajo de Diarra, la Banda de Donko, es aumentada por una serie de invitados: Repac está en la guitarra y muestras en todas partes, Toumani Diabate se sienta en kora, el arpista de blues Vincent Bucher sobresale en varios números. La pista 2 es la más directamente basada en blues, pero también cuenta con Simon Winse en la flauta exagerada de Fula y una voz principal de la madre de Abou, Koya. 4 saca una página del cancionero Amadou & Mariam, 9 es un atasco atmosférico bluesy 10 recuerda a las colaboraciones de Repac-Keita. Este es Afropop de primera categoría.



1 Né Nana 05:09
2 Koya Blues 03:04
3 Djarabi (feat. Toumani Diabaté) 04:07
4 Tunga 03:35
5 Djalaba 03:19
6 Mogo Djigui 03:51
7 Sougou Mandi 03:52
8 Kamalen Kolon 04:40
9 AbouNicolas 04:08
10 Ma chérie 03:47
11 Labanko (feat. Toumani Diabaté) 04:40

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BraAgas - Fuerte (2012)

Las canciones de edad media - melodías suaves, vocales espléndidos - un repertorio compuesto de Cantigas de St. Maria, Carmina burana, Libre Vermell, canciones antiguas sefardíes, occitanas, nórdicas y centroeuropeas acompañadas con instrumentos musicales históricos.
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The fourth studio-album by BraAgas. The title alone (Fuerte means strong in Spanish) shows that there were some changes compared to previous recordings, the album contains more dynamic, almost dance songs. Of course, it is still the typical production of BraAgas, selection of folk songs from Iberia or the Balkans, countries whose songs BraAgas love to arrange. Fuerte has no aspiration to be compared to previous successful album Tapas, more likely the album loosely picks up where Tapas left off, mostly in the more dynamic moments of the band.

Kateřina Göttlichová - voz, cistra, gitarra, gaita
Karla Braunová - voz, flutas, chalumeau, bastardillas, clarinet
Michala Hrbková - voz, fidula, cistra
Michaela Krbcová - percusiones, voz

01 Chin Glin Din
02 Jana i Turcin
03 Gledaj mi Libe
04 Caje Šukarije
05 La Serena
06 Lewone
07 Fraile Cornudo
08 Yo me Levantí
09 Nazad (Diginla Viper Version)
10 Tua Nai e Meiga (Diginla Dark Version)
11 Radule
12 Caje Šukarije (Balco Chromium Version)

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