http://www.myspace.com/siriusmo

Origine du Groupe : Germany

Style : Electro , Electronic

Sortie : 2009

By Tone from http://www.illegalsmokingrobot.com



Always a fan of this guy, love his tunes and there's a couple of gems on his new EP. Still that eclectic funk type sound, but my only complaint is that the tunes are relatively short, but still,
there's flashes of sheer brilliance in each one of them. This is the first release from Modeselektor's new label Monkeytown Records and the tunes to check are 'High Together'& 'Nights Off'.
More of this please.



Tracklist :   

1 The Door

2 The Uninvited Guest

3 High Together

4 Night Off

5 Let me in

6 Von Kopf Bis Kuss

http://theblueseeds.com

http://www.myspace.com/theblueseeds

Origine du Groupe : Canada

Style : Alternative , Folk , Psychedelic

Sortie : 2011

Par  Frantic
pour http://www.paperblog.fr



The Blue Seeds vient présenter son nouvel album Belt of Venus le jeudi 28 avril. Traitant de solitude, de fuite, de désirs et désarrois amoureux, sans toutefois renoncer à l’espoir, les textes de
François Dufault se veulent toujours aussi imagés et bien ancrés dans la musique. Portrait d’une réalité existant entre la lumière et la noirceur, entre le jour et la nuit, voici un album sorti
tout droit de la ceinture de Vénus.  



Enregistré à Montréal au Breakglass Studio ainsi qu’au studio Ricochet, Belt of Venus est le résultat d’une constante évolution de la formation qui se remarque autant dans la composition que pour
l’enrobage sonore. Ainsi, alors qu’on reconnaît immédiatement le spleen planant associé au groupe dans certaines pièces comme « Might As Well Dream » et « Far Away », d’autres comme « Exit Light
», « Ghost Song » et « Sixteen Days » mettent en lumière un nouveau visage du groupe : le groove.



 Toujours aux commandes des guitares, François Dufault et Roger Miron découpent les rythmes avec des sons mordants et texturés alors que Eric Rathé enrobe le tout avec de riches sons de
claviers à la fois psychédéliques et harmonieux. La voix chaleureuse d’Amélie Laflamme et son interprétation empreinte d’émotion nous livre chaque récit parfois avec intimité, tantôt à grand
déploiement. Notons aussi la collaboration spéciale de Sophie Trudeau (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mount Zion) au violon.

 

 

Tracklist :    

1.Exit Light 04:19    

2.Passing By 03:38

3.Might As Well Dream 03:02

4.Shine 03:36    

5.Ghost Song 04:23    

6.Voices 03:49

7.Sixteen Days 04:00    

8.A World Left Behind 04:38

9.Far Away 05:10

http://www.michelcamilo.com

Origine du Groupe : Dominican Republic

Style : Jazz , Piano

Sortie : 2007

By Rick Anderson from http://www.cduniverse.com



After 20 years of developing his chops as a trio player, pianist Michel Camilo took a few years off to do other things -- a solo album titled Solo and a lovely orchestral homage to George
Gershwin were two results of that break. With Spirit of the Moment he returns to the trio format, and he sounds refreshed and happy to be back. As always, his style is powerfully energetic and at
times ideas seem to be flying out from under his fingers almost more quickly than he can fully process them. But with the help of a crack rhythm team (drummer Dafnis Prieto and bassist Charles
Flores), he manages to keep his feet on the ground and generate lots of inspiring moments. Notable among them are an all-too-brief rendition of the John Coltrane classic "Giant Steps" that sounds
almost like "Flight of the Bumblebee," a lovely version of Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti," and the aptly titled "Hurry Up and Wait," a jittery and edgy uptempo original with a Latin feel. Despite
his obvious affinity for faster material, Camilo also shines on the ballads: he delivers sweetly lyrical renditions of "My Secret Place" and "A Place in Time," both of them originals. Highly
recommended.

 

Tracklist :

01. Just Now

02. My Secret Place

03. Spirit of the Moment

04. Repercussions

05. Nefertiti

06. Nardis

07. Trilogy

08. Giant Steps

09. Place in Time

10. Hurry Up and Wait

11. Liquid Crystal

12. Solar (Explorations)

http://davidgouldmusic.com

http://www.silent-watcher.net/billlaswell

http://www.myspace.com/billlaswell

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Reggae , Dub

Sortie : 2011

From Official Site :



"Laswell has worked closely with many of the greatest names in Reggae: Sly and Robbie, Lee Scratch Perry and many others. A Dub Master Supreme, he turns his fabulous creativity to the classic
Tzadik release Feast of the Passover. Featuring some of the greatest Passover seder songs, it is perhaps David Solid Gould's most varied and spiritually inspired projects. Connecting the Rasta
and Jewish traditions through the miracle of music, Laswell's imaginative dubs are the perfect background to anyone's 21st Century seder. Moody, atmospheric and essential!" - John Zorn

Tracklist :

1. Divine Dub 5:34

2. Dub Of Affliction 3:43

3. Dub Questions 3:20

4. Dub Plagues 4:59

5. Jah Dub 3:23

6. Dub Is Mighty 3:38

7. Who Knows Dub? 4:12

8. Goat's Dub 3:18

9. May The Dub Arise 3:48

10. Once We Were Dub 2:39

11. Peace Dub 3:46

12. Next Dub In Jerusalem 4:40

http://www.myspace.com/mrmoods2

http://dustedwax.org

Origine du Groupe : Canada

Style : Abstract Hip Hop

Sortie : 2011

From http://dustedwax.org



Originally released on Dirtybird Rexx netlabel in 2007, here comes "In Love We Trust... And We Hate" with 6 bonus tracks.

Melancholic, extremely atmospheric, chilled, phat and jazzy - the signature of Mr. Moods you never go wrong with!



Tracklist :

1.Intro 01:36    

2.A romantic affair 04:13    

3.The birds (feat VPD) 04:02    

4.A little something 04:11    

5.The only one (feat.VPD) 04:56    

6.Daylight 03:49    

7.Tribute to mario lanza 04:48    

8.Interlude 00:53    

9.The endless story 04:39    

10.Apologize to... 03:45    

11.For a moment 04:59    

12.Sensuality 04:29    

13.L.O.V.E. 03:38    

14.Before you die 03:44    

15.Flying things 04:08

FREE DOWNLOAD FROM NETLABEL DUSTED WAX
KINGDOM

http://www.themightyflyers.com

http://www.myspace.com/rodpiazzaandthemightyflyers

Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Blues Rock

Sortie : 2009

Duration : 75min

From Official Site :



Don't make the mistake of thinking of Rod Piazza as one of the "young turks" of the blues, or part of the "new generation" of blues greats. At this point in his career, Piazza has been recording
longer than his mentor George "Harmonica" Smith did, or Sonny Boy Williamson (either of them!), or Big Walter Horton. He's been making records for more years than Little Walter was alive. Piazza
is a tried-and-true, dyed-in-the-wool blues veteran with credentials that are second to none.



From his first recordings as a leader in 1967 fronting The Dirty Blues Band, through his multiple W.C. Handy Award winning with his current band The Mighty Flyers, to his countless appearances
both live and on record with legendary blues figures, Piazza has set a standard for harmonica virtuosity that has established him as one of the most influential living blues harp players. He's
consistently surrounded himself with players who bring out the best he has to offer, and epitomize the very best in blues: fresh, swinging, tasteful, exciting and creative. The core of his band
has been together for over three decades, and developed the kind of musical telepathy that simply cannot exist without years of experience on the bandstand and in the studio. The Mighty Flyers
are a well-oiled machine, with Piazza in the driver's seat.



Born in 1947, Piazza's infatuation with blues began at a time when many of the masters were still in their prime years, and in the mid 1960s when the first blues revival was picking up steam, he
was in the thick of it. By the 1970s, he'd already released five albums, and was one of the leading lights of the West Coast Blues scene. In the early '70s he joined forces with Otis Spann
disciple Honey Alexander (now his wife) on piano, and when they formed the Mighty Flyers over three decades ago, his career really hit its stride. Since then Piazza and the Mighty Flyers have won
or been nominated for just about every award that can be bestowed upon a blues band, played literally thousands of gigs around the world, recorded over a dozen highly acclaimed releases, and
along the way virtually created a new style of blues - a combination of low-down Chicago grit, suave West Coast swing and jazz, and the rhythmic drive of the best early R&B and rock &
roll. Quite simply, Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers are one of the best, most experienced, and most distinctive bands in blues today.

 

http://www.myspace.com/missraggamuffin

Origine du Groupe : Colombia

Style : Reggae , Raggamuffin , Hip Hop , Alternative

Sortie : 2008

From Official Myspace :



Miss Muffin, la nueva promesa del Reggae en Colombia y Latinoamérica • Su primer disco como solista se llama HEAR THIS y el productor de este trabajo discográfico es Carlos Iván Medina. (del
Bloque de Carlos Vives) En Colombia nace una nueva artista, Miss Muffin, que comenzó su vida musical a los 12 años y poco a poco ha ido incursionando en el mundo del Reggae. Esta artista lanza en
Colombia su primer disco titulado HEAR THIS, gracias al apoyo de personas como Carlos Iván Medina, productor junto con Carlos vives de el CD mas vendido en Colombia en este momento que pronto se
convertirá en platino "Pombo musical" con la participación de Juanes y Fonseca, y Carlos Vives, el gran activista de la música y de la cultura en Colombia y especialmente en la costa y el Caribe
que se enamoró del proyecto Estos grandes representantes de la música en Colombia le apuestan a MISS MUFFIN porque es artista integral, pinta, diseña, grafitea, escribe, toca guitarra y piano,
compone su lírica y armonía. Es una cantautora excepcional y uno de sus rasgos más fuertes es su individualismo, donde lucha por la libertad del pensamiento, expresión, ideología y estilo; "Ella
quiere que sus palabras lleguen a tus oídos", "sueña con la verdad y el amor", cree que "la Música con conciencia llenara la audiencia". HEAR THIS es una producción independiente donde se puede
oír su diversidad de estilos: Miss Muffin es Freestyle, hace scatterin, y raggamuffinea, su música contiene elementos de Reggae jamaiquino y California style. La indiscutible mezcla de sus
líricas y el balance entre sus dos opuestos, la urbe (Medellín y Bogotá) y el caribe, (Old Providence island y Cartagena) hacen de esta artista y de su música, una explosión única de ritmo y
energía. Gracias a esta combinación nace su versatilidad de intercalar su bilingüismo y estilo urbano-caribbean.



Tracklist :

1. Dread boy (4:08)

2. Kiss me stoopid (3:18)

3. Bitter sweet (3:56)

4. Bway n gyals (3:45)

5. Paper hearts (3:34)

6. Leon en babilon (3:09)

7. Las razas (3:47)

8. Lullaby (3:57)

9. Lord have mercy (3:31)

10. Sound Selecta (3:10)

http://nattymusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/natty4d

Origine du Groupe : U.K

Style : Alternative , Reggae , Folk , Funk , Nu-Soul , Pop 

Sortie : 2009

Par http://www.lalibre.be



Son nom d’artiste indique une direction, cfr. "Natty Dread", l’album de Marley en 1974. Comme tout reggaeman, Natty est influencé par l’artiste jamaïcain, mais ce n’est pas l’aspect le plus
marquant de sa musique. Originaire, comme tant d’autres, du nord de Londres, né d’une mère du Lesotho et d’un père anglais, Natty fait un reggae connoté pop, folk, afro, funky, soul. Les amateurs
d’un genre pur et dur ne s’y retrouveront peut-être pas. Pourtant, cette musique acoustique, joyeuse et très bien enregistrée, est relevée par des propos empreints de conscience sociale
revendicative. Comme aux sources du genre.

 

Tracklist :

1. July

2. Cold Town

3. Stones On You

4. She Loves Me

5. Revolution

6. Badman

7. Burn Down This Place

8. Hey Man

9. Bedroom Eyes

10. Last Night

11. Coloured Souls

12. Say Bye Bye

http://ghostly.com/artists/pale-sketcher

Origine du Groupe : U.K

Style : Electro , Electronic 

Sortie : 2010

By D.M. Edwards from http://www.popmatters.com



Altered States



I came late to Justin Broadrick. In 2005, he donated a remixed and retitled Jesu track for a compilation to benefit the New Orleans radio station WTUL where I was a volunteer. At the time, in the
aftermath of the notorious man-made flood, WTUL was broadcasting from a coffee shop, one of the glimmers of optimism in a city temporarily suffused with a sense of monumental doom.



I forgot about Broadrick until 2007 when he released a new Jesu record, Conqueror, and also Pale Sketches, an album of his Jesu offcuts from the preceding seven years. Now, in 2010, he adopts the
name Pale Sketcher to issue this “de-mixed” version of the latter, wherein different elements are brought to the fore and others erased (as in dub) as he traverses a terrain dominated by beats
and synthesizers—at times under a thin mist of recognizable guitar or voice.



Things begin very well as “Don’t Dream It (Mirage Mix)” is bristling with melodic vibrations and glitchy rhythm harnessed to a heavy thump and sonorous synth suggestive of an enormous robotic
thief limping along spilling coin bags and cash registers. The track has some layered sounds which are near-impossible to describe: Is he being accompanied by a bunch of titanium weasels rubbing
their paws over wine glasses? “Can I Go Now (Gone Version)” is mainly interplay between a percussive throb akin to the huff of a steam train and Broadrick’s processed voice. The effect is
quasi-choral and industrial, as if Sigur Ros were somehow arriving at Birmingham New Street station for a spot of winter shopping (in the late 19th century).



As with the entire album, it would be easier to describe “Wash It All Away (Cleaned Dub)” if Broadrick’s methodology were mechanical rather than digital (see how he puts the violin bow over the
guitar strings and then shakes his ample mane etc). But the relative invisibility shrouding the whole digital process shouldn’t detract from any of Pale Sketches Demixed, including this fantastic
if simple instrumental. The piece resembles part of a soundtrack to a science fiction film as imagined by the Blue Nile (if they had a sense of threat or danger), and eventually winds down for
the final half minute or so to set a quieter mood from which emerges “The Playgrounds Are Empty (Slumber Mix)”. This track will be the highlight for some listeners, as of the eight tracks it
sounds most like a song and its gnawing gorgeousness is hard to shake off. Listen to this driving on a wet road on a dark night and you might be immersed in the feeling that you are not just in a
movie, but that you are the star.



Pale Sketcher ranks with any of Broadrick’s various projects (such as Godflesh, Jesu, and Final) and may even prove to be the most popular. It is less “metal” sounding or guitar based than his
other work, but the balance of gentleness and heaviness is as apparent as ever and the quality is as consistent as we have come to expect. Keen ears will find these reinterpretations quite broad,
and should any listeners discover that “Tiny Universe (Interstellar)” and “Dummy (Banhoff Version)” are as welcome on the floor in a hip dance club as might be imagined, well, please report back.
Final track “Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)” is a marvelous warbling slab of ambient-dub that shows how to make a song seems both spacious and suffocating. Play this loud at the traffic lights and
people will run a red one to get away from the weird feeling of conducting a seance underwater.



At times, listening to Pale Sketches is the hypnotic equivalent to watching a mountain as seasons slowly pass over it. The basic landscape of the tracks is massive and consistent, allowing small
changes to take on greater significance: A direction which Umberto Eco once predicted for popular music, although presumably he meant it as a monotonous bad thing. In Broadrick’s hands, though,
the mountain is composed of liquid and gas, is swathed in sad, melodic sounds, and the passing seasons flicker with the light of hope.



Tracklist :

1. Don't Dream It (Mirage Mix) 5:22

2. Can I Go Now (Gone Version) 5:46

3. Wash It All Away (Cleansed Dub) 5:08

4. The Playgrounds Are Empty (Slumber Mix) 6:58

5. Tiny Universe (Interstellar) 4:47

6. Supple Hope (2009 Mix) 6:38

7. Dummy (Bahnhoff Version) 5:40

8. Plans That Fade (Faded Dub) 6:26

Origine du Groupe : Ghana

Style : Highlife, Afrobeat , World Music

Sortie : 1977

Tracklist :

1 Nya asem hwe

2 Nko nngya m'akyir

3 Osu a meresu

4 Ofie nipa see wo a

5 Akutiabo

6 Ankwanoma dede

7 Baabi dehyee

8 Nko besie