AW YEAH
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, 4 October 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
brace yerselves for this:
Coldplay, Beyoncé, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mumford & Sons, Plan B, Bruno Mars, REM, Fleet Foxes And More Collaborate With African Musicians For Charity Album Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa
To Be Released November 20th on The End Records
'Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa' Tracklisting
01. Viva La Vida (Africa Mix) [feat. Coldplay]02. I Miss You (Africa Mix) [feat. Beyonce] 03. She Said (Africa Mix) [feat. Plan B.] 04. I Need a Dollar (Africa Mix) [feat. Aloe Blacc]05. Not Afraid (Africa Mix) [feat. Eminem ft TS1] 06. Timshel (Africa Mix) [feat. Mumford & Sons] 07. Is This Love? (Africa Mix) [feat. Rokia Traore] 08. Under the Bridge (Africa Mix) [feat. Red Hot Chili Peppers]09. Mykonos (Africa Mix) [feat. Fleet Foxes]10. Losing My Religion (Africa Mix) [feat. R.E.M. ft Ali Farka Toure Band]11. I Am Because (Africa Mix) [feat. Shanade] 12. Grenade (Africa Mix) [feat. Bruno Mars]13. John and Yoko (Africa Mix) [feat. Rokia Traore]
Links
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Coldplay, Beyoncé, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mumford & Sons, Plan B, Bruno Mars, REM and Fleet Foxes are just some of the superstar artists lined-up for this great release.
‘Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa’ is the latest project from Artists Project Earth (APE) and features high profile western and African musicians collaborating on exclusive African mixes of contemporary hits. APE travelled to Mali to record African musicians, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate, Ali Farka Touré Band, and Rokia Traoré. Sessions also took place in Kenya, South Africa and Swaziland. Members of Miriam Makeba’s band and Senegalese musicians also added their brilliant musicianship to the collaborative tracks.
‘Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa’ is the long-awaited follow-up to the 2006 smash ‘Rhythms Del Mundo: Cuba’, its successor ‘Rhythms del Mundo: Classics’ in 2009, and 2011’s ‘Rhythms Del Mundo: Revival’, all of which were released in aid of the charity Artists Project Earth (APE).
Formed in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster in 2004, APE was the brainchild of founder Kenny Young and aims to raise awareness and funds for climate change and disaster relief projects.
To date the organization has mobilized some of the worlds biggest artists to help champion their cause and has provided funds to support over 300 projects worldwide, such as:
- Reforestation initiatives in the UK, Africa, Mexico and Brazil
- Wetland conservation in Uganda and orangutan conservation in Sumatra
- No Tar Sands, Anti-Fracking and Biofuelwatch campaigns
- A Special Award for the global Transition Towns movement
- … and in times of need, to help alleviate those suffering from natural disasters.
Funds raised from this campaign will support organisations working throughout Africa to mitigate the impacts of climate change and drought.
Kenny Young, Founder and Trustee of Artists Project Earth said, “Artists Project Earth is funded entirely by sales of Rhythms Del Mundo albums. If you value our work addressing climate change and environmental justice, then please do make a donation to this good cause by purchasing a copy of our new album. Unlike most charitable donations, you get something tangible and enjoyable in return - as well as the knowledge that you are actively supporting some really well-respected organisations and projects. We are known as the ‘Fairy God-Funders’ of the climate change movement - please help us to continue spreading our magic!”
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― dow, Thursday, 4 October 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
it sounds awful but i'll probably check it out
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
Here's hoping for some radical transformations.
― dow, Thursday, 4 October 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
Hopefully it makes a lot of money and that money actually goes to the causes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 October 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
Or at least buys some administrative assistants health insurance.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 5 October 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
I just keep listening to Joe Bataan old-school sounds on Spotify lately
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 October 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Bataan did some salsa like tunes live Friday night, along with the old school Latin soul. A fun gig
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
Any charanga fans here who can encourage me to go see Orquesta Aragon Wednesday night?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Not a charanga fan, obviously, but that is a major charanga outfit. On the other hand, wasn't their heyday back in the 50s and 60s (or earlier)?
― hello, I just had a quick question? (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Yep.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe they are the Beach Boys or Rolling Stones of charanga despite more membership changes and deaths and such
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Charanga Beach Boys, there's a scary idea.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 1 November 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
yamulee's performance from the philly salsafest is up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIuwz59zgE0
― fauxmarc, Saturday, 3 November 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Received an email about bachata group Optimo appearing out in Hyattsville, MD November 10. Eh, can't excited enough to listen, although maybe I should give 'em a try.
Unrelated:
I see that Puerto Ricans voted to seek US statehood yesterday. Wonder if anything will come of that?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen a few comments that us reportings on the vote had a lot of fallacies in terms of the actual numbers and that the majority really didn't vote for statehood. dunno the specific deets. also: FTW if puerto rico becomes a state before dc.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
I now see that it is discussed over on ILE:
I don't fully understand what's going on in Puerto Rico. . .
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot the Latin Grammys started at 8 US eastern time on Univision. Probably nothing surprising. Just turned it on at 10:20 and saw a cowboy hat act with an accordionist in the band performing. Mexican or Mexican-American I am guessing. Not bad
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't catch the name of the sappy female pop balladeer I just watched. Pepe Aguilar just won best ranchera album. They speak Spanish too fast for me. A schlocky rock band is on now with a grey-haired 60 something male singer and a spikey haired 60 something woman singer. The chorus is actually kinda catchy.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
If I am reading my Toy Selectah tweets correctly 3Ball Mty won best new artist
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, Brazilian Caetano Veloso performing with a big band. This is great.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
Alt-pop singer Carla Morrison just won an award. I think I would like her. The little sample they played as she came onstage resembled Julieta Venegas. I think one of the hosts just interviewed 3Ball Mty
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Juanes' MTV unplugged album just won album of the year. Caetano veloso and Carla Morrison were 2 of the many acts nominated
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
fuckin' juanes man
― fauxmarc, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yep
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewId40ega0
3Ball Mty and too many guests
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 05:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.latingrammy.com/en/winners/113
Luis Enrique won best salsa album
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
Don Omar won best Urban album over the below nominees
MTO2 New GenerationDon Omar [Machete Music]La BalaAna Tijoux [Nacional Records]The Most Powerful RookieFarruko [Siente Music]The Original Gallo Del PaísTego Calderón [Jiggiri]Otro Nivel De Música ReloadedJ Álvarez [Nelflow Records/Codiscos]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe a few decent videos will pop up from the performances; but probably not many are worth seeing
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Restaurant I am eating at has a Bacalao special tonight so I made them play "Te conozco" off Cosa Nuestra.
― Listicle Vogue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 November 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of food, reading a reference to pigeon peas in Love Goes to a Building on Fire has me regretting not buying any when I just saw 'em in a Caribbean/African international grocery store.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Acts appearing locally who I don't know much about:
Thurs. Nov. 22
*Thanksgiving cumbiabomba bash with live cumbia band from Mexicoa La Sabroso Sabrosura + DJ Jaime Flores (Peru) AKA K-593. (live music that circumnavigates cumbia, reggae, funk, and electro)9PM at Tropicalia
*Aniceto Molina at the Palace in Woodbridge__________________________________________________________Fri. Nov. 23
* Los Rieleros at at the Palace in Woodbridge
*Bachata Heights at Cococabana
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
bachata heightz is pretty popular, i'm sort of under the opinion they're the biggest pop bachata group next to aventura (but i don't really know at all)
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks wiki: Aniceto Molina is an accordion playing bandleader from Colombia who lives in San Antonio now and comes to the DC area frequently. Los Rieleros are a Mexican norteno band.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Love Goes to a Building on Fire
That book is going to make me even more unsympathetic toward the rock/punk/bohemian ethos. "And then Patti Smith spit on the floor. . . And then [some third rate nobody singer] hit an audience member with the mike stand. They threw food in the hotel room."
Oh, wow, man.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
The musicians from other genres don't come off sounding so bad, generally, but the rockers seem like a bunch of assholes.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
I don't care about most of those bands anyway.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I'm checking out the Billboard charts this morning--Romeo Santos and other bachata and merengue performers are dominating the tropical album chart (a Ruben Blades live album/dvd is there too; although its old I think); and the top Latin song is "Algo me gusta de ti" by Wisin y Yandel with Chris Brown and T-Pain. Nothing too surprising
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 November 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Is there any reggaeton left that is not Euro-dance club influenced?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
I heard this bachata cover on the radio:
Be My Baby by Lala Rodriguez
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
She and others will probably re-do the whole Phil Spector Christmas album bachata-style next
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I heard that on the radio recently too and wondered who was singing -- is that the same person who did "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"?
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
I think Leslie Grace did the bachata version of "Will You Stll Love Me Tomorrow" (if my google search is correct)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Saw old-timers El Gran Combo near W. DC. many years ago and thought they were great, and they're back there tonight at Cococabana. They're busy touring the East coast, were in North carolina last night and are gonna be back in DC itself at the Howard Theatre in a few months.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
I think they have a Christmas album coming out. I wish they'd just put out a regular album, it's too easy to hide behind Christmas album conventions and muddle through. There has been a small flurry of big name releases for the end of the year. Gilberto Santa Rosa has a new album out, and going by the no-nonsense cover I was hoping it might be a mostly salsa dura recording, but no such luck, at least from what I heard of it last night. (It's already on Spotify.) Ismael Miranda and Victor Manuelle both have Christmas albums out. Hard not to yawn.
This Sammy Gonzalez reissue looks good, but the audio clips don't make this thing sound that carefully re-mastered:
http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/24986.10?n3Sr4xmc;;402
I am way overdue to buy a few salsa CDs/downloads so I can stop listening to the same stuff over and over again in the car.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
cuba bans vulgar / degrading music from the airwaves
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-04/reggaeton-banned-in-cuba-as-castro-cracks-down-on-music.html
― fauxmarc, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
latina.com's 25 greatest afro-latino musicians of all time
i haven't read through because it's an obnoxious paging through for each entry. only went there because i was appalled when i heard los rakas are on it. i mean they're fine or whatever but in the 25 greatest of all time!?
― fauxmarc, Friday, 7 December 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't visited this thread before, as I have very little to contribute. But, as I'm taking salsa lessons (mostly to get out of the house, I'm very decidedly not very good), I was wandering if anyone here is aware of salsa musicians who sound a part of the 21st century. By which I mean retaining the typical salsa rhythms (not 4/4 bangers with salsa horns), but introducing a bit of electronic novelty or production touches to the arrangements.
― Chinchilla! Chinchilla! Chinchilla! (Sanpaku), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Can answer more at home. See what you think of Michael Stuart's Back to da Barrio. I could recommend a lot of salsa with some electronics here and there or very audible production goings-on, but it isn't necessarily going to sound 21st century.
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
How about something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6BShvK3dk
― redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link