Laraaji’s – ‘Ambient 3: Day of Radiance’
October, 23rd 2015
Laraaji’s – ‘Ambient 3: Day of Radiance’
Happy release day! Laraaji”s album ‘Day of Radiance’ is now out.
Buy the album here.
CATHERINE GRAINDORGE A thrilling collaboration between the Mbira Queen of Zimbabwe. DAMIR IMAMOVIĆ'S SEVDAH TAKHT One of the most inspiring forces behind the rebirth
A feverish mix of angular electric guitars,
circuit-bent beats, found percussion and
rapid-fire incantations.
Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital
Nicosia, Buzz’ Ayaz creates a transfixing
Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia.
A careening orchestra of percussion, horns,
strings, electricity and el Wahab’s own DIY
instruments. Mesmerizing retro-futurist sounds.
A buzzing juxtaposition of dense Indian
rhythms and pulsating electronic patterns.
Ethereal and otherworldly this is music that
treasures the space between the notes.
Krautrock and the experimental beyond.
The Irish quartet sings centuries old ballads
as well as more recently penned folk songs.
Sometimes unaccompanied and at times with
subtle instrumentation, their vocally rich music
is dark and patient; spellbinding and gorgeous.
Gordan mirror the mysticism of legends and
stories from the Balkan region, creating a music
that stretches between expressiveness and
abstraction; tradition and the avant-garde.
Caiano’s music melds rural Portuguese
musical traditions with layered vocals,
synthesizers, insistent beats and field
recordings.
Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge
uses strings, harmonium and electronic
treatments to explore intimate corners
and widescreen vistas.
Music that stretches between
expressiveness and abstraction;
tradition and the avant-garde.
A Burkinabe urban griot (vocalist
and multi-instrumentalist Kaito Winse)
meets a Brussels noise punk duo.
Hypnotic Walkman jams meet industrial
rhythm loops and trad-folk songs interpreted
by a lineup of thrilling female vocalists.
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heavy riffs and Russian folk mystery.
This ten-piece, Sao Paulo based combo,
unleash a ground-breaking fusion of
African and South American rhythms and
sounds.
Interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy.
A leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock
scene. Explosive, funky and transcendent.
An exhilarating weave of rich textural
drones, trance atmospheres and
instrumental folk traditions.
A lush sonic tapestry of polyrhythms, modern
dancefloor styles, amapiano, Nile basin
ceremonial chants and Pan-African field recordings.
Ghanaian legend creates a raw,
emphatic sound that fuses kologo music
with contemporary sonics.
An explosive mix of heavy
Arabian grooves, global psychedelia
and North African trance music.
featuring IGGY POP
acclaimed Belgian composer/instrumentalist
Catherine Graindorge and the ever-iconic
Iggy Pop.
Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces
the natural world and living ancestry,
through joyful experimentation and
deeply rooted sonics.
Yanna Momina’s Afar Ways
was recorded live in a stilt-hut
on the horn of Africa when Grammy-
winning producer & author, Ian Brennan
LED BY BACHIR ATTAR
A collective of Jbala Sufi trance makers,
committed to creating a contemporary
representation of their centuries-old
musical tradition.
rock quartet delivers a potent, galvanizing album.
A thrilling Tokyo based tribal-psych
trio bolstered by diverse global sonics
and powerful female vocals.
A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments,
multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end.
The legendary Malian singer/guitarist returns with his
most personal and immersive album to date.
"We Are an Island, but We’re Not Alone”
provides a vivid opportunity to hear unvarnished,
original songs from Grande Comore island.
Futurist syncopations meet hypnotic, timeless narratives.
The roots of Saami's music go back to the 13th
century - but it's message is contemporary and
universal: “to sing is to listen.”
pulsing dance rhythms and retro
Persian sonics.
Krononaut is a richly textured new
ensemble helmed by guitarist /producer
Leo Abrahams and drummer Martin France.
Music always is a borderline experience.
Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana.
Hypnotic kologo excursions.
Highlife meets afro-funk.
Spirited and horn driven.
Border music withut borders.
Forget type, genre or influence: this is the
start of a brand-new trip by one of the most
questing musicians at work anywhere.
Lina_Raül Refree is fado for today,
a sound that goes beyond geography.
Sufi trance musicians and rituals –
from the depths of the Tunisian desert –
in conversation with post-industrial sonics.
and choosing from an early age to embrace
Slippery West African beats, dystopian
electronics & echoing, shamanic chants.
Sonido Gallo Negro is a stunning 9-piece,
instrumental combo from east Mexico City
(Aragon) that channels both the mystique
and mysticism of 1960's Peruvian cumbia.
The joys and sorrows of Southern Albanian song.
Assembled by veteran producer Joe Boyd.
Bargou 08 deftly combines the little-known soundscapes
and rhythms of the Tunisian highlands with driving electronic
and rock textures.
Rough-hewn, tribal sonics from
Mesmerizing and explorative.
A nexus of non-western traditional musics,
minimalism, krautrock textures and jazz.
of the traditional style of sevdah (also known as sevdalinka).
Otherworldly sonics, Zimbabwean beats,
Congolese guitar ambiance and political resistance.
and the heat lightning vocals of his wife Amy Sacko
Boston-based Chris Brokaw has made an indelible
mark on rock music both on his own as well as
with his iconic bands Codeine and Come, and as
a collaborator with Thurston Moore, Evan Dando,
Stephen O’Malley and many others.
through imaginary 60/70’s soundtrack music
and post-folk sonics from Italy, Europa and beyond.
dance floor of a midnight party.
Lobi Traoré was a true African original,
a guitarist of profound depth and originality,
a singer and songwriter with universal appeal.
Mesmerizing acoustic and electric guitar explorations
meet sampled street recordings,
haunted voices and hushed electronics.
October, 23rd 2015
Laraaji’s – ‘Ambient 3: Day of Radiance’
Happy release day! Laraaji”s album ‘Day of Radiance’ is now out.
Buy the album here.