http://soundcloud.com/pepilpew
http://pepilpew.bandcamp.com


Origine du Groupe : Japan
Style : Abstract Hip Hop
Sortie : 2011

Tracklist :
1. Jellyfish Galaxies (Instrumental)
2. Springs Evening Breeze (Instrumental)
3. Midnight Blue (Instrumental)
4. Arabesque (Instrumental)
5. Beggar's Fairy Tale (Instrumental)
6. Kiss Your Eyes(instrumental)
7. Moonlighter's Serenade (Instrumental)
8. Blue Monday Message (Instrumental)
9. Birds Singin' In The Rain (Instrumental)

http://www.fannyberiaux.com
https://www.myspace.com/fannyberiaux


Origine du Groupe : France
Style : Jazz
Sortie : 2009

Pour http://www.cinetelerevue.be

Le classement des meilleurs ventes de Wallonie et de Belgique Francophone accueille cette nouvelle venue et son album "Blow Up My World". Faites connaissance avec Fanny Bériaux...

Fanny Bériaux signe avec « Blow Up my World » un premier album coloré teinté de fraicheur et de notes résolument pop et jazz. Cette jeune artiste bruxelloise y travaille depuis trois ans. Fanny est issue d’une formation classique, et après un premier prix en solfège au Conservatoire Royal de Liège, elle obtient un premier prix en jazz au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. Mais rassurez-vous, son univers est large: parmi ses influences, on peut citer Alice Russell, Madeleine Peyroux, Erykah Badu, Fiona Apple, Rita Hayworth, Melody Gardot, etc…

C’est une rencontre avec Jarek Frankowski, producteur et ingénieur du son, qui lui ouvre de nouvelles portes. Lui a déjà collaboré à la production de plusieurs enregistrements studio (Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, Philip Catherine, Zoé, Stéphanie Blanchoud) ainsi qu’à diverses musiques de film (Jaco Van Dormael, Arnaud Demunynck, Marian Handwerker) et des projets liés au monde de la danse (Frédéric Flamand, Michèle Noiret). Ensemble, ils décident de se lancer dans la création de ce premier opus.

Chanté en anglais, « Blow Up my World » révèle 15 titres originaux qui nous emmènent dans un univers chaleureux, un peu allumé, peuplé de jeunes amoureuses alanguies, de chats fous et de shamans aborigènes. Une artiste originale et une personnalité attachante


Tracklist :
01. Albinoni's Ghost
02. Crowded Bar
03. Blow Up My World
04. Sixty Years Ago
05. Scat Cat
06. Behind Your Smile
07. Chaotic
08. Uluru
09. Magic Radio
10. Cezanne
11. I'll Rob A Bank
12. Mannequin
13. You Know Too Much
14. In My Bed
15. Unforgettable Thoughts

https://www.myspace.com/siditoure


Origine du Groupe : Mali
Style : World Music , Blues
Sortie : 2012

Par Squaaly pour http://www.mondomix.com

En janvier 2011, Thrill Jockey Records, un label new-yorkais au cheptel principalement composé de moutons à cinq pattes (Tortoise, Fiery Furnaces, Nobukazu Takemura…), publiait Sahel Blues du songwriter et guitariste malien Sidi Touré. 15 ans après Hoga, ce deuxième album géolocalisait le groove entêtant de ces blues emmaillotés dans un nuage de poussière ocre. Enregistrées a minima, et en duo, dans la cour de la maison de sa sœur à Gao, ces neuf plages avaient été produites par le Nantais Covalesky (Molécules 5). Marquées du sceau de la sincérité, elles avaient ouvert au monde ce chanteur dont la carrière avait démarré sur les bancs de l’école. En 1976, Sidi Touré intégrait, comme benjamin, les Songhaï Stars, un des orchestres maliens réputés dont il finira par prendre la direction. En 2003, il collaborait avec le rappeur suisse Jonas puis participait cinq ans plus tard, accompagné d’un violoncelliste, au Concert à emporter, une série réputée sur la toile.

Pour ce nouvel enregistrement, Sidi Touré s’est rendu dans un studio de Bamako. Et c’est en quintet qu’il a enregistré cette dizaine de plages inspirées des traditions songhaï. On y entend le son rond de la calebasse ou celui frotté du sokou (vièle monocorde). On y retrouve évidemment celui des guitares évoquant comme sur Maïmouna les notes cristallines, égrenées une à une en chapelet, des koras. Et l’on se régale de ces voix du désert au grain remarquable. Bien sûr, l’on pense à Ali Farka Touré, chantre auquel le musicien né en 59 est souvent comparé, et l’on se dit que Sidi a réussi son tour : cet album dont le nom signifie «va écouter » évoque aussi une des dunes de Gao. Une dune au sommet de laquelle se retrouvent les plus grands marabouts du monde et au pied de laquelle coule le fleuve Niger, une dune qu’il a été autorisé à fouler et au pied de laquelle il s’est baigné. Koïma, un ravissement qui frise le divin !


Tracklist :
01. Ni See Ay Ga Done (It Is To You That I Sing) (3:44)
02. Maïmouna (4:44)
03. Aïy Faadji (I Am Nostalgic) (5:50)
04. Woy Tiladio (Beautiful Woman, Godess Of Water) (5:44)
05. Koïma (The Pink Dune Of Koïma) (5:07)
06. Ishi Tanmaha (They No Longer Hope) (7:53)
07. À Chacun Sa Chance (To Each His Own Luck) (4:33)
08. Kalaa Ay Makoïy (I Must Go) (5:21)
09. Tondi Karaa (The White Stone) (4:22)
10. Euzo (5:00)

http://www.spoekmathambo.com
http://www.myspace.com/spoek


Origine du Groupe : South Africa
Style : Alternative
Sortie : 2012

By Brian K.S.  from http://365aay.com

One of the most consistent ways of discovering new artists for me has been through the opening acts of other bands’ live shows. This was the case last week as Spoek Mathambo put on an electric performance opening for Saul Williams’ in Toronto. Spoek Mathambo is a South-African rapper, singer, DJ, producer, graphic designer, and pretty much all around creative guy. Influenced by everyone from M.I.A. to Joy Division, his music is very much out of left field, while still maintaining enough pop aesthetics to make it danceable and accessible. Father Creeper is the second album, and most recent effort from Mathambo, that does a good job of mixing fun and entertaining music with abstract sounds that also push the listener. Most top-of-mind comparison I could give this artist is Theophilus London, whose debut I touched on last year. Main difference here is that whereas Theophilus drew from ‘80s pop music, Spoek’s style is a lot more shaped by UK garage and dubstep. The song “Put Some Red on It,” which is also the album’s first single, is a solid example of this UK-influenced sound. The track is founded on a bass-heavy 2-step groove where Mathambo carries what is a pretty catchy chorus, mixed in with some pretty visual references about blasting 2Pac, snorting gun-powder, and the depletion of oil and minerals from Africa. Admittedly, there are a lot of Johannesburg references and slang on this album that go right over my head, but Spoek Mathambo has a good enough mic cadence and a very eclectic sound that make this album really enjoyable.

Another standout track on here is the song “Skorokoro.” This track which features another rapper by the name of Okmalumkoolkat, is definitely something you would more likely expect to hear out of a South-African hip hop song. Both the beat and the hook are infectious as the two MCs trade boastful verses about style and women. The end result is something I would definitely throw on a lazy Sunday afternoon playlist.

The last third of this album is where Spoek Mathambo really steps away from the electronic sounds and drifts in between genres with some more bluesy tunes towards the end. Both “Stuck Together” and the final track “Grave” feature some prominent blues guitar and showcase Spoek Mathambo’s singing vocals. Overall, for the amount of variety you get on Father Creeper the album stays really fresh from start to finish and is a pretty modest 11 tracks. If you appreciate alternative artists who tend to collage a bunch of different popular sounds together rather than sticking to one genre then Spoek Mathambo is right up your alley and this album is a good introduction.


Tracklist :
01. Kites 05:04
02. Venison fingers 02:40
03. Put some red on it 05:38
04. Let them talk ft. yolanda 05:00
05. Dog to bone 04:49
06. Skorokoro (walking away) ft. okmalumkoolkat 04:49
07. Father creeper ft. xander ferreira 04:56
08. We can work ft. rebone 03:34
09. Stuck together 04:56
10. Grave (intro) 03:00
11. Grave 06:24

http://www.soundwayrecords.com


Origine du Groupe : Colombia
Style : World Music , Alternative
Sortie : 2012

From http://www.soundwayrecords.com

From the sweltering tropical depths of Cali, Colombia Will ‘Quantic’ Holland’s studio band Los Miticos Del Ritmo (The Mythics of Rhythm) return with an album of hip shaking, dancefloor quaking instrumental cumbias. Released on CD, LP and download on the 30th April. The LP is 100% analogue and comes with an original screen-printed front cover designed by the London based artist Lewis Heriz.

Assembled using vallenato and cumbia musicians living in Cali, Los Miticos del Ritmo are a 7 piece studio band put together by British musician, producer and now Colombian resident Will ‘Quantic’ Holland.

Covers of Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop’, The Abyssinians reggae classic ‘Satta Massagana’ and Gildardo Montoya’s ‘Fabiola’ (as featured on Soundway’s ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’ sit along side original cumbias on this feel good, house party cumbia LP.

Recorded in Will’s home studio in Cali, his approach was to produce an album with the aesthetics of 1960s tropical recordings made in Colombia and the Caribbean. Careful attention made to preserve the analogue quality of the recording at every stage.

‘The idea of the record was to record something that sounded like a lost cumbia classic,’ said Will in a recent interview with Soundway ‘Like something dug out of a Barranquilla basement after decades of humidity and dust. In a modern climate of mashups and sampling, it seemed refreshing to record something with musicians doing covers and approaching new ideas for cumbia, rather than rehashing old tricks.’

The record was recorded entirely on 4 track tape, using a process of overdubs and tape transfers to record multiple sessions at different times with different musicians. As Holland began to play the dub plates of the project in his DJ sets around the world, tracks like ‘Cumbia de Mochilla’ and ‘Another one Bites the Dust’ slowly became sure-fire dancefloor winners.

Los Mitcios Del Ritmo first saw the light of day on Quantic’s vinyl only EP ‘Hip Hop En Cumbia’, released last year through Tru Thoughts. The group includes Ancer Rada (percussion) grandson of the great Colombian accordionist Franscisco Pacho Rada, one of very first Colombian troubadours to tour unaccompanied with just his voice and accordion. The band is also compromised of Combo Barbaro regulars Fernando Silva (bass) and Freddy Colorado (percussion).

Since moving to Colombia in 2007 Will has slowly immersed himself in the musical history of the country. The much acclaimed ‘The Original Sound of Cumbia’, a 55 track compilation of Colombian cumbia and porro released on Soundway in 2011, was the result of five years of field research from Will. Simply finding and compiling old records is not however in Will’s DNA. The research is more an education for Quantic the musician who has been learning accordion for close to five years now, even taking lessons from Colombian and Panamanian accordion masters such as Anibal Velasquez and Papi Brandao.

Los Miticos Del Ritmo sees Will as an accordionist for an entire long player for the first time and must be the first traditional cumbia record recorded on tape in Colombia for many years.


Tracklist :
1. Introduction
2. Cumbia Comejen
3. Otro Muerde El Polvo (Another One Bites The Dust)
4. La Libanesa
5. Samaria
6. Willy’s Merengue
7. Cumbia de Mochilla
8. Satta Massa Cumbia
9. No Pares Hasta Tener Lo Suficiente (Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough)
10. Noche de Tamborito
11. Fabiola