TUMI AND THE VOLUME - Pick A Dream
TUMI AND THE VOLUME - Pick A Dream
release date: 11.06.2010
Amidst the frenzy of the first ever African World Cup, the South African band Tumi And The Volume set out to garner some excitement for their come back album. After 2 years of concerts, encounters and rich exchanges, these perennial champions of Hip Hop Otherness are today at the summit of their art. Pick a Dream, their 3rd album, is paintbrush fodder for the eager hand. At times it is dancefloor marvellous Afrobeat, other times it is the melancholic poetry of questioning lyrics, moving into a forceful hip hop exhibit… Tumi And The Volume - Pick A Dream » read more …
BACHATA ROJA - Acoustic Bachata From The Cabaret Era
BACHATA ROJA - Acoustic Bachata From The Cabaret Era
release date: 04.06.2010
The Roots of the internationally popular music style Bachata … iASO Records’ Bachata Roja is the first ever compilation of classic Dominican bachata. From the early 1960’s to the late1980’s the legendary voices of Eladio Romero Santos, Leonardo Paniagua and Blas Duran spoke to the hearts of a generation. The dizzying guitar accompaniment of pioneers like Edilio Paredes and Augusto Santos charted the course of bachata’s rise, and for three decades theirs was the sound of the streets of Santo Domingo. iASO has selected here some of the defining songs of bachata’s pre-electric era…. Bachata Roja » read more …
Puerto Plata - Casita de Campo
PUERTO PLATA - Casita de Campo
release date: 12.02.2010
Celebrating his recent 86th birthday, the Dominican Republic’s veteran sonero, Puerto Plata, returns with a glorious selection of classic love songs and lilting dance numbers composed during the brutal, repressive regime of the dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1960). ‘Casita de Campo’ follows Puerto Plata’s internationally acclaimed 2007 debut album ‘Mujer de Cabaret’. Under Trujillo, Dominican musicians were largely blocked from recording and so, like other popular singers of the time, Puerto Plata found eager audiences at the underground cabaret dance halls of Dominican Santiago’s red light districts… Puerto Plata - Casita de Campo » read more …
SEUN KUTI - Many Things
SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 - Many Things
release date: 29.05.2009
Fela Kuti was Nigeria’s most beloved popular musician and most powerful social critic until his death in 1997. Seun Kuti is Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s son. At home in Lagos he is seen as the true successor of Fela and has been fronting his fathers famous band Egypt80 since early 2000…
VICTOR DÈMÈ – Victor Démé
VICTOR DÈMÈ – Victor Démé
release date: 06.03.2009
After a 30-year career in Burkina Faso, the Mandingo singer finally releases his first album…