The new Filewile album «Blueskywell» was released on CD only and shall now be pressed onto vinyl!
Mouthwatering Records & Filewile are looking for at least 250 people to make this possible, by pre-ordering the vinyl for at least 20 Euro. If you take part, you become one of the albums producers and get your name printed on the sleeve.
The vinyl will be manufactured, if enough people participate. You will only need to pay, if there's sufficient people taking part and we can actually press the record. So spread the word!
Everyone taking part, will receive the record by post without further cost as soon as its produced. Go here to order
Do 26.11.2009 - 21:00 im Bonsoir.
Terry Lynn (Phree/Last Gang Rec. / Kingston, JAM)
"Terry Lynn ist so etwas wie M.I.A. in echt", rief die New York Times dieses Jahr aus. Seit ihrem Debüt-Album "Kingstonlogic" wird Lynn von den Musik- und Trendjournalisten dieser Welt frenetisch gefeiert. Die Idee von Lynn ist indessen nicht neu: sie vermengt Dancehall mit Elektro - das haben Diplo und Co. schon vor ihr getan. Bei der Jamaikanerin ist es die Ghetto-Authentizität, die es ausmacht - die Tatsache, dass sie mit ihrem Sohn trotz grosser Aussichten immer noch in einer Blechhütte in Kingston lebt; dass sie die kriminalisierte und verrohte Gesellschaft ihrer Heimatinsel in ihren Texten kritisch vorführt und dabei mutig die ansässige Reggae-/Dancehall-Industrie mit Hilfe ausländischer Elektronika-Produzenten umgeht, um von ihr nicht verschluckt und Mundtot gemacht zu werden. Einer dieser Produzenten ist der Berner WILDLIFE!, der fast alleine für die innovative Soundästhetik auf Lynns Debüt verantwortlich zeichnet und Lynn seit Monaten auf Touren durch die USA und Europa begleitet.
«Tony Allen ist vielleicht der grösste Schlagzeuger, der je gelebt hat», das sagte kein geringerer als Brian Eno. Und in einer Songzeile der britischen Band Blur heisst es: «Tony Allen got me dancing». Allen war es, der gemeinsam mit dem grossen Fela Kuti in den Siebzigern den Afro Beat erfunden hat. Über sechzig Alben hat der Nigerianer bis heute eingespielt. Sein neustes Werk zeigt, dass der 69-Jährige alles andere als alt ist. Seine Songs haben immer noch diesen Wahnsinns-Groove, darüber blitzen funkige und jazzige Linien und füllige Gesänge. Allen reist mit einer Gross-Band nach Bern an und präsentiert eines der grössten Stücke afrikanischer Musik. read more
An other outstanding collection from Honest Jones is the "London is the place for me" series. We have all of them and keep listening them again and again.
"When the Empire Windrush, an old troop-carrier, arrived at Tilbury on June 21, 1948, and inaugurated modern Caribbean immigration to Britain, it also supplied calypso with its best-known image — on Pathe newsreel, Lord Kitchener singing his new composition London Is The Place For Me.
Kitch had boarded with Lord Beginner at Kingston docks, Jamaica, on Empire Day, May 24. In London they joined a milieu of fine band musicians familiar with Caribbean musical forms, and already represented on numerous recordings crucial to the development of British swing and jazz music.
Travelling with their own core audience, the Trinidadian calypsonians brought with them the vocal music of Carnival. Traditionally this ranges from social satire to sexual double-entendre, from voodoo to the most pressing issues of the day, from sporting events to competitive insult. The experiences of Britain’s growing Caribbean population were to be fabulously rich in raw material.
'... a witty and joyous testament to the creative power of popular culture and a document of more innocent times. It constitutes one of the best starting points for that rich, unfinished history of the black British diaspora and its intricate interweaving with British life that remains to be written' (Stuart Hall, The Guardian).
'... Not only is it a momentous record of real historical significance, but it comes in a finely produced sleeve with evocative photographs, background notes and recording details that bring the performances on the disc to life even more... a unique and marvellous compilation that lays open a whole era' (Chris Searle, Morning Star)."
Honest Jones is one of the most interesting labels of our time. Among new stuff they re-release vintage recordings and make wonderful compilations. Perfection from the music to cover artwork to the descriptions.
Africa Boogaloo?The Latinization Of West Africa
Rocking the party and ramming the dancefloor is the first priority of this review of Latin styles in classic West African dance music, as it emerged with 1950s anti-colonialism, and ran on gloriously into the 70s.
Drawn from exceedingly rare records, mixing the celebrated and unknown, this is the sequel to The World Is Shaking.
A fantastic album.
The World Is Shaking?Cubanismo From The Congo, 1954-55
The new music grew in concert with a burgeoning night life — especially in the twin capitals of Leopoldville (today's Kinshasa) on the Belgian side, and Brazzaville on the French, where humming factories lured increasing numbers of rural Congolese with the offer of a steady, relatively well-paying job. Brazzaville had its celebrated nightclub, Chez Faignond, but most of the action took place across the river in much larger Leopoldville. There, Avenue Prince Baudouin, a ribbon of pavement connecting the white ville and black cite sections of the segregated capital, afforded easy access to a giddying number of bars. Labourers and clerks, fresh from work, jostled with thieves and dandies and a few adventuresome whites in the thicket of the Avenue's cross streets. Music wafting from hangouts like the Kongo Bar and Congo-Moderne, the pungent scent of cooking fires, hawkers' cries — Chewing gum! Cigarettes! Roast meat! — bombarded the senses and enfeebled self-control.
