New release from Awesome Tapes From Africa - Bola “Volume 7” ATFA002
Bola’s music melds sheer force of spirit with a sound not often heard by ears outside the remote Upper East Region of Ghana. This man who grew up herding livestock in the savannah, far away from the tropical coast and cosmopolitan cities of Accra and Kumasi, has aligned himself with national and international means of expression to transform his hometown sound into something downright avant-garde. His bold fury stems from the kologo—a two-stringed lute with a calabash gourd resonator—and Frafra language vocals, emitted in raspy bursts.
Traditionally, kologo performances occur at pito (local beer made from fermented millet or sorghum) bars, weddings, funerals, festivals or spontaneous jams on the street, which are the environments where Bola honed his craft as a solo musician. In recent years, he came into contact with people like his mentor Guy One who helped him get into the studio to document what is some of the most dynamic music to come out of Ghana since the emergence of hiplife in the mid-’90s.
Volume 7, which came out in 2009, is just one entry in a brilliant series of recordings Bola has released on CD and cassette. Although he employs a traditional instrument and the age-old mode of griot story-telling, Bola embraces elements of up-to-the-minute mainstream Ghanaian music—drum machines, synths, bone-shaking bass. Inspired by pioneering kologo greats like King Ayisoba, Bola has taken a dynamic instrument used by traditional healers and herbalists to sing to god in search of advice and taken it to futuristic heights.
January 2012
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I played some tunes before Richard Fearless of Death In Vegas in Kennedy’s last night. It was great fun. Big up the Big Dish Go lads for having me. This is what I played on the night.
Blondes - Wine
Glasser - Learn (John Talabot remix)
New Look - Nap On The Bow
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Dream On
Zomby - Labyrinth
Jim E Stack - Lemme
Blawan - Getting Me Down
SBTRKT - Look At The Stars
Boddika & joy O - Swims
DJ Sumthyn Black - Wena
Caribou - Odessa Beast Rave remix
Disclosure - Work it Out Q-Tip Booty call
Radiohead - Bloom (Jamie XX remix 3)Tanlines - Brothers
Paul McCartney - Temporary Secretary
At the top of Chuck’s list of relevant facts: Is she hot or not? One can assume this was not one of Chuck’s primary concerns when he started listening to LCD Soundsystem.
Scott Creney responds to that Chuck Klosterman Tune-Yards WTFbomb.
” —http://www.collapseboard.com/blogs/scott-creney/scott-creney-reacts-to-chuck-klosterman%e2%80%99s-article-about-tune-yards-pretty-much-exactly-the-way-you%e2%80%99d-expect-him-to/Never is a brand new track from Orbital which is available to download for free. It will appear on the forthcoming eighth studio album to be released in April 2012.
UK Tour - On-Sale Now. Please visit www.orbitalofficial.com for tickets
April 2012.
5th Manchester Academy
6th Leeds Academy
7th Glasgow ABC
8th Liverpool Academy
9th Cambridge Corn Exchange
10th London Royal Albert Hall
Captain Moonlight - The Minister for Responsibility
Digging this! bitzlbitzlr:
Compa - ‘Signals’
Dense dubstep slashed up by glassy shards; Compa’s music is dark and post-nothing, the producer lays out cutting new sounds through a classic format creating a fresh aesthetic.
In thanks for all his support, the Manchester lad has offered ‘Signals’ for free download - previously heard in Compa’s Rinse mix last November
[Click to download MP3]
Tracklist:
1. Compa - Dem A Talk (Forthcoming 12”)
2. Compa - Before U (Dub)
3. Compa - Sentence (Forthcoming Boka Records 12”)
4. Compa - Signals (Dub)
5. Distance - Drawn (Chestplate)
6. Compa - Security (Forthcoming 12”)
7. Skream - Midnight Request Line (Tempa)
8. Compa - Bacteria (Dub)
9. Loefah - Root (Compa Mix) (Dub)
10. Skream - Backwards (Deep Medi)
Sacred Animals’ mix to soundtrack the descent into Winter. Icy melancholy, percussive frosty mornings & snowy evenings, slow motion brain freeze as winter deepens & stretches, light adding contrast to the dark. So here’s a bunch of tracks new & old which I think will fit the remaining subdued winter months like a glove.
Tracklisting:
Balam Acab - See Birds (Moon)
Beat Culture - Midori
Glitter Bones - The Dark Tide
Jessica Jalbert - Necromancy (Kuhyre-oo Remix)
Three Fields - How It Rains Here
Oneohtrix Point Never - Power Of Persuasion
Evenings - [Lately] See You Soon
Dawn Golden And Rosy Cross - White Sun
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Icelandic Version)
I Am The Cosmos - Final Form
We Cut Corners - A Pirate’s Life (Low Sea Remix) *Exclusive
Fionn Regan - 100 Acres Of Sycamore
