Before certain matters disappear beneath the surface and finally perish … … here exclusively some sounds from almost ten years ago. jetzt & hier, 1999 late, 1998 Craving for more? What used to be an unpolished diamond originally at Callasong, seems to have already vanished into the deep and unfathomable grounds of somewhat called Open […]
Artist: Macako (y su grupo Arena Caliente) Title: Arabu Album: Umalali Garifuna Editor: Tim Lambey, Garinet Global Inc.
This short clip is a special preview of the upcoming album of the Umalali Project released soon on the earlier mentioned record label Cumbancha. The project focuses on the amazing voices and cantos of women in GarÃ- funa communities along the Central American Caribbean coast.
Aurelio MartÃnez, singer, composer, guitarist, and an apprenticed sacred dügü drummer from the small fishing village Plaplaya on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, was named newcomer of the year in 2006 by AfroPop Worldwide for his debut album Garifuna Soul produced by Stonetree Records. Titled „the new voice of Paranda„, MartÃnez follows in the footsteps […]
Ethnomusicologist Jacob Edgar, head of music research and product develop- ment at the independent record label Putumayo World Music in the last years, has founded a new record label called Cumbancha, a „Cuban word of West African derivation that refers to an impromptu party or musical jam session“ (Cumbacha). The first release was the album […]
Nothing much happened during my absence of You Tube. Apart from another Ooolalaa music clip featuring The White Stripes with „Seven Nation Army“, the Littleloca stuff is still the same and gets kind of boring actually. Nevertheless other interpretations by Stevie Ryan keep my attention. Once again she has done a wonderful nostalgia vid that’s […]
It has almost been a week since I returned from my short-break holiday in southern France and I am already all the way up into preparation for the real gig. Besides digging my head into the correction and evaluation of the midterm exam at our department and going at it hammer and tongs to finish […]
As promised … trying to do the „East Bay Way“!!!