Month: February 2015

• L.A folk duo Caboor and Kaufman brought to the light on ‘Songs From Suicide Bridge’

  Light In The Attic are releasing a haunting folk compilation – Songs From Suicide Bridge – featuring the compositions of Eric Caboor and David Kaufman. The duo released Greetings From Suicide Bridge in 1984 and today it will deservedly find a new audience. It provides an insight into the sleazy, dysfunctional life of the Hollywood scene,…

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  February 24, 2015

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  Bob Dylan, Colorado Street Bridge, David Kaufman, Eric Caboor, Folk music, Hollywood, Joni Mitchell, Light In The Attic, Los Angeles, Native North America (Volume 1): Aboriginal Folk, Randy Newman, Rock and Country 1966-1985, Songs From Suicide Bridge, West Coast

• South African jazz reissue – another piece of the jigsaw

  Ndikho Xaba And The Natives was an LP that was recorded in the United States, but expresses much about South Africa. Great music from the country continues to emerge for new listeners and fans. Spiritual jazz, jive, kwaito, as well as Shangaan and township dance music express a distinct identity in music and culture. The reissue of…

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  February 17, 2015

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  anti-Apartheid, Apartheid, Black Power, Jazz, John Coltrane, Matsuli Music, Ndikho Xaba And The Natives, South Africa, Strut, Sun Ra

• Hot Casa do it again: synth-highlife bomb fronted by child

  From 1977 and featuring top musicians like bassist Victor Edimo and guitarist Toto Guillaume, here is seven-year-old Cameroonian, Francis Mbarga, chatting and singing over some deep, hypnotic grooves. All hail Francis The Great and his LP Ravissante Baby. Go straight to Side B (Look Up In The Sky) for the highlight of the year so…

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  February 17, 2015

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  African music, Cameroon, Francis Mbarga, Hot Casa Records, Ravissante Baby, Toto Guillaume, Victor Edimo

• Letta Mbulu reissue of rare groove classic

  Heads up, Be With Records are to reissue the Sweet Juju LP from 1985 with the blinding Nomalizo. The LP by Soweto-born Letta Mbulu has fetched high prices on Discogs before and is another welcome addition to the influx of South African music recently compiled and released. Strut are also to release a fourth addition…

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  February 4, 2015

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  Be With Records, Letta Mbulu, Nomalizo, South Africa, Sweet Juju

• African musicians reinterpret Terry Riley

  To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Terry Riley’s In C, a pioneering work in minimalist composition, Tate Modern, band Africa Express and The Space, London, have launched an interactive online film. The film follows the African musicians brought together by Africa Express (featuring members Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Nick Zinner) and led by classical…

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  February 3, 2015

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  Africa Express, Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, In C, Mali, Tate Modern, Terry Riley, The Space London