COSMIC BARRIO w/ DJ Delphinus
February 7, 2010
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NICKODEMUS - SUN PEOPLE REMIXED (world dance beats)
ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS – WE ARE THE ANSWER (elctronic, hip pop, lounge, down tempo)
LUCKY DRAGONS – DREAM ISLAND LAUGHING LANGUAGE (experimental minimalist electronica)
JON BALKE, AMINA ALAOUI – SIWAN (experimental ethnic fusion – not electronic)
V/A - A SINGLE MAN – SCORE/SOUNDTRACK (haunting and beautiful)
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TWILIGHT ARCHIVE – RITUAL FICTION (downtempo, lounge with a thread of Miles Davis)
MOMO LOUDIYI – LOUD OASIS (eclectic songs by Moroccan artist MoMo Loudiyi)
ARTIST: Nickodemus
ALBUM: Sun People Remixed
LABEL: ESL Music
“Danceable 'house' beats mixed very consciously with instruments, voices and psyounds from around the globe”
From AMAZON
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Nickodemus’ second solo album Sun People gets the full remix makeover with Sun People Remixed! Among the plethora of exclusive remixes by a variety of music luminaries, Earthrise Soundsystem add tribal flavor to the track “Sun Children,” while Tal Klein blesses “N’Dini” with a groovey rework. Trip-hop veteran J Boogie puts an electro twist on “Didibina” while Swedish producer Red Astaire funks up “Sun Children” with rubbery basslines, hand-claps, wah-wah guitar, and cowbell to spare. Available digitally 11/24/2009 and physically 12/15/2009.
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After a strong debut album, Endangered Species, Nickodemus unleashes his second solo album, Sun People! Inspired by sunny days and good people, the album mixes positive dance music from all over the globe including Guinea, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Romania, India, Turkey, United Kingdon & his hometown Brooklyn, NYC! Some of the original Endangered Species cast returns for Sun People including Jay Rodriguez, Quantic, Hector "Tempo" Alomar & the Candela Allstars, Zeb, Nappy G & Real Live Show. New additions to the signature Nickodemus sound on Sun People include Guinean born singer Ismael Kouyate, Indian classical & pop singer Falu, Richard Shepherd of Radio Mundial, Brazilian born singer Liliana of the band Maracatu, the versatile voice of Nuriya, members of Taraf de Haidouks, and The New York Gypsy Allstars.
From being a regular DJ in the early days of Giant Step to running one of NYC's longest running parties, Turntables on the Hudson, Nickodemus has been a steady force on the music scene for over 12 Years. He has traveled the globe as a DJ since the age of 18 and has been dropping musical productions of his own since 1999 with his cult classics "Cleopatra in New York" & "Mariposa" in 2001. His last album featured "Mi Swing es Tropical" which was not only a worldwide club anthem but was also featured in the iTunes + iPod adverts for the summer of 2007. He's weighed in heavy with remixes for Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, Thievery Corporation, Sultan Kahn, Omar Faruk Tekliebek, Balkan Beat Box, The Pimps of Joytime & many more. Like his live DJ sets, with Sun People, get ready to go on a musical journey through the world of funky, organic, urban dance music all seen through the eyes of a New York native who consistently makes music without borders!
From ESL Music
ARTIST: Ancient Astronauts
ALBUM: We are the answer
LABEL: ESL Music
The newest ESL signing, the Ancient Astronauts released their album on June 9th. The album, titled "We Are To Answer," features a variety of new sonic collaborators including Bootie Brown and Imani of legendary hip hop group The Pharcyde, Azeem, Tippa Irie, Bajka, Phat Old Mamas, Ulf Stricker, Raashan Ahmad and Entropik. A block-rockin’ boom-bappin’ sonic tour-de-force, "We Are to Answer" is a musical vision of life on Earth and beyond!
Their very name, “Ancient Astronauts,” implies a mash-up of the distant past and the far future; traits exemplified in their melding of old school hip hop, funk, and dub reggae with forward-thinking flair and production technique. The Ancient Astronauts are Kabanjak and Dogu hailing from Cologne, Germany . . .via outer space! Coy with their true origins, the duo can only confirm that they returned to planet Earth in 2001 after traveling the musical cosmos for thousands of years.
Those familiar with the phenomenon of “ancient astronauts,” a belief that extraterrestrial beings visited Earth in ancient times to mingle and trade ideas with early human civilizations, won’t be surprised that upon returning this particular spaced-out duo quickly set up a terrestrial sound studio, a record label (Switchstance Recordings), and a successful production, remixing and DJ career dropping sound bombs all over the world.
Already having remixed for Fort Knox Five, Up Bustle & Out, Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets, Zion I, and Dr. Rubberfunk, the Ancient Astronauts have linked up with a variety of new sonic collaborators including Bootie Brown and Imani of legendary hip hop group The Pharcyde, Azeem, Tippa Irie, Bajka, Phat Old Mamas, Ulf Stricker, Raashan Ahmad and Entropik to record their debut album We Are To Answer! A block-rockin’ boom-bappin’ sonic tour-de-force, We Are to Answer is a musical vision of life on Earth and beyond!
From ESL
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The German hip hop duo of Kabanjak and Dogu from Cologne known as Ancient Astronauts have unleashed their album "We Are to Answer" to the masses. The group has called their album "a musical trip through the cosmos returning back to Earth with spacey flutes, intergalactic lyrics and earthy drum beats".
Featuring break beats, funked out vibes and galactic grooves, the new album features collaborations with The Pharcyde, Phat Old Mamas, Raashan Ahmad, Entropik, Tippa Irie, DJ Zeph & Azeem and Bajka.
From AMAZON
ARTIST: Lucky Dragons
ALBUM: Dream Island Laughing Language
LABEL: Marriage Records
March 2006: “Under the name Lucky Dragons, Luke Fischbeck creates ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what his music actually sounds like always falls short of the magic he is making. I guess you could say it sounds like—ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Fischbeck’s liveshow, though conducted via computers, is at ruly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope or the techno-future our society is racing toward.
By BrendanFowler, ArtForum
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Lucky Dragons, is composed of Los Angeles-based duo Luke Fischbeck and Sara Rara. Their music has often been compared to ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.
Dream Island Laughing Language therefore sounds more like a sketchbook than an album, but it's quite rewarding if you meet it on its own terms. Lucky Dragons throw a lot of stuff at the wall here; it's remarkable how much of it sticks. The short interludes are clever and seductive-- the 36 seconds of numinous peals on "Clipped Gongs", the mini-madrigal "Oh I Understand", the minute or so of whiplash interference on "Where's Adam". A whole album of this might have been frustrating, although there's more than initially meets the ear-- there are secret melodies stashed in precise tangles of pitched percussion on tracks like "Morning Ritual", "Typical Hippies", and "Desert Rose".
Mysterious as they are, the set pieces work great as mortar between more realized, intelligible bricks. There are sleek beats folded in, like the vigorous ostinato on the Crystal Castles-esque "I Keep Waiting for Earthquakes". "Free Guys by the Sea", with its clattery percussion and sprightly flutes, is just a few vocal affectations away from bhangra. Electro-acoustic spasms full of cut-up singing, such as "Wooden Cave Loop" and "Givers", evoke the cartoon glitch-world of Dan Deacon. The overall impression is that, almost 10 years into their career, Lucky Dragons still haven't chosen a certain kind of cultural product to be. That redounds to their credit on Dream Island Laughing Language, where each track seems to document the group's rebirth as (to borrow from their manifesto) "new and temporary creatures."
By Brian Howe
ARTIST: Jon Balke feat. Amina Alaoui
ALBUM: Siwan
LABEL: ECM
Siwan is a breathtaking new musical project initiated by Jon Balke, with Amina Alaoui, Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche and Jon Hassell fronting a large ensemble that includes a group of early music players. The listener is at first struck by the power of Alaoui's voice, soaring above Jon Balke's remarkable compositions for baroque ensemble. The soloists are drawn from jazz, scattered improvisational traditions, and the world of early music. Together they perform new music inspired by Arab-Andalusian traditions, a great melting together of styles, forms and ideas.Creative, strongly melodic, song-based music in which west meets east at many levels. Will appeal to followers of ECM's transcultural directions and `world music' as well as jazz listeners and early music enthusiasts. Powerful song texts with words from St John of the Cross, Lope De Vega, Mansur Hallaj and other mystics - variously sung in Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese (CD booklet includes translations).
Norwegian pianist Jon Balke is an avant-garde-leaning musician with a bent toward mixing various stylistic influences, including contemporary jazz, post-bop, rock, folk, world, and classical. He released his debut album, On and On, in 1991. A year later he made his ECM debut with Nonsentration. A member of the Magnetic North Orchestra, Balke has also released several albums with the ensemble, including Kaynos in 2002 and Diverted Travels in 2004. In 2009, Balke paired up with a similarly inclined group of musicians -- including trumpeter Jon Hassell, violinist Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche, vocalist Amina Alaoui, and others -- for the experimental ethnic fusion album Siwan. ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide
From ECM
ARTIST: Various (Abel Korzeziowski, Shigeru Umebayashi, Etta James, Jo Stafford, Booker T. & The MGs, Miriam Gaudi)
ALBUM: A single man (SOUNDTRACK)
LABEL: Relativity Music Group
Haunting & beautiful, poetic & deeply moving, fun & groovy, old school gems to fresh compositions: this album is a treat for your musical senses. If you liked the score /soundtrack of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, and MORE IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, this is an instant classic: a must have … a rare and flawless soundtrack!
DJ Delphinus
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Korzeniowski's score is best described as a combination of the string-based classicism of Michael Nyman and the minimalism of Philip Glass.
In addition to Korzeniowski's score, the album also features three cues from Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi, best known to audiences in the west for his score to House of Flying Daggers.
His other major contribution, the cue "Carlos", is no less beautiful, and features another sumptuous cello performance that simply shines. The album is rounded out by several source music cuts from artists as varied as Etta James, Booker T. & The MG's and even an opera track from Catalani's La Wally performed by Miriam Gauci.
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ARTIST: Twilight Archive
ALBUM: Ritual Fiction
LABEL: Electrophonogram
This long awaited 2nd album continues to raise the bar. A sumptuous brew of ambient/jazz and down-tempo enhanced by an essence of organic electronica. Sip with caution… may be intoxicating.
Recommended if you like Groove Armada, Thievery Corporation,Tosca and Miles Davis
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ARTIST: Momo Loudiyi
ALBUM: Loud Oasis
LABEL: self-released
Loud Oasis is a journey through musical songs, recorded (in English and Moroccan) throughout Morocco (Marrakech, Fes, Essaouira, Casablanca, Tangiers, Mohammedia), New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, California. Almost two years in the making, this project has seen the contribution of over 40 talented musicians from several continents.
The debut album by MoMo Loudiyi, Loud Oasis crosses boundaries not only among musical genres but across continents, emotions, languages, and even religions. The songs are emotionally distinct from one another but share a common root: a base of artistic integrity grounded in sensuous melodies, a deep layering of instruments from around the globe and undulating, transporting rhythms.
By Momo Loudiyi
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