[Music] Looking For The Balearic Beat / December 2018 — Ban Ban Ton Ton

December 26, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

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Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfie & Leo`s Amnesia dance floor. JMS have reissued Henri Texier`s first two LPs. Amir from 1976, and Varech from 1977. The cover of the latter will be familiar to anyone who`s visited the Growing Bin, since Basso has […]

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What a wonderful blog they run! If you haven’t squandered all of your Christmas loot yet, Ban Ban Ton Ton have quite an impressive list of records you might want to consider adding to your collection, as well as a Mixcloud podcast to give you a sample of each.

[Music] MATHIAS EICK-RAVENSNURG. — dereksmusicblog

August 24, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Mathias Eick-Ravensburg. Label: ECM Records. Thirty-nine year old Norwegian composer and multi-instrumentalist Mathias Eick is prodigious talent who has released four critically acclaimed solo albums, including Ravensburg which was recently released by ECM Record. It’s the latest chapter in the Mathias Eick story, Mathias Eick was born in the village of Furnes, in Norway, on […]

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[Music] Tomas Stańko – Twet

July 29, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Polish trumpeter Tomas Stańko passed away today at the age of 76. We say farewell by sharing his 1975 masterpiece, Twet.

[Music] An introduction to Ethio-Jazz in 10 records

July 15, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Chris May at The Vinyl Factory has done a great job making choices for introducing their vinyl junkie readership to the best of Ethiopian jazz from the 1960s onward. Special thanks to Al Clark for pointing this wonderful link out to me.

[Music] Jon Hassell at 81 — Avant Music News

June 30, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Many thanks to Mike at Avant Music News who is a wealth of amazing information.

Source: Billboard. A half century into an odyssey that’s seen him work with musical prime movers such as Terry Riley and Brian Eno while pioneering his own distinct lane of so-called fourth world music, composer-trumpeter Jon Hassell is still active and vital at 81. His latest album, Listening to Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1), finds rhythms […]

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[Music] Opa Tsupa – Les Deux Guitares

June 30, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

A bit of gypsy jazz to warm your night a bit courtesy of Opa Tsupa (only in French, I’m afraid), a quintet out of France who specialize in Manouche Jazz.

[Music] Horace Silver Quintet – Song For My Father

June 17, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Perfectly appropriate for the day, no?

[Music] Momo Wandel Soumah – Matchowé

May 12, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Momo Wandel Soumah was a saxophonist and vocalist from Guinea who did a stunning job mixing jazz (especially that of the Charlie Parker and John Coltrane variety) with ethnic music from his region of the world. This session was recorded in 1991.

He passed away in 2003, but left this album as his legacy.

[Music] Kyriakos Sfetsas – Greek Fusion Orchestra Vol.1

April 29, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Kyriakos Sfetsas is originally from Lefkadia an island in Greece, and started this particular band in the mid-1970s in order to expand the boundaries of what Greek traditional music is. Apparently, there is a lot more music of his which has yet to be released. This is as fine an intro to his works as one could hope for.

Much love to Teranga Beat, the Senegalese label which will release this masterpiece on May 25, 2018.

[Music] Erlon Chaves – Procura-se Uma Virgem OST

April 23, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Procura-se Uma Virgem turned out to be a very pleasant slab of easy/cheesy/sleazy listening from soundtrack composer Erlon Chaves, who should have been working in Europe, where is mellow style would have been perfect for directors like Jess Franco and Mario Bava.