Archive for the ‘ INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ’ Category

ETERNAL BUZZ BRASS BAND

WE PLAY PARADES AND SHOWS. (we also clean up real nice for recordings and private parties) WE’RE OUT OF BROOKLYN, BUT WE’RE ALL OVER THE PLACE. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN MEMBERS OF THIS BAND PLAYING IN OTHER, MORE WELL KNOWN BANDS, (like Antibalas, Davy Jones Band/Monkees, Arcade Fire, Steely Dan, Imogene Heap, as well as [ READ MORE ]

THE CLIENTELE

The Clientele formed a long time ago in the backwoods of suburban Hampshire, playing together as kids at school, rehearsing in a thatched cottage remote from any kind of music scene, but hypnotised by the magical strangeness of Galaxie 500 and Felt, and the psych pop of Love and the Zombies. During a pub conversation [ READ MORE ]

MIDNITE DISTURBERS

Trevor C. Jones @Music & Happenin’s in New Orleans One could learn a lot about our city by heading to a Midnite Disturbers show. You could learn about older traditions or about the current state of music in New Orleans. You can see a band that provides new meaning for the word “supergroup” or get [ READ MORE ]

AU

Au (pronounced “ay-you”) is the work of multi-instrumentalist Luke Wyland. Begun while finishing up his degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, then moved across the US to find to its roots in the thriving community of Portland, OR. Currently a full time duo with Dana Valatka on drums (Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Mustaphamond), it is [ READ MORE ]

PROJETO AXIAL

Let’s made no-music, as solution or as alternative for the meanless sound of the begin of this century. Or in another hand, let’s hear and make the same music that was done, 50 or more years ago. Between these proposes there is a great fear: maybe there’s no options to do something new. A kind [ READ MORE ]

SONGORO COSONGO

Songoro Cosongo is a band formed by musicians from Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile, living in Rio de Janeiro. The band was born in August 2005; since then, various musical spaces and artistic events in carioca nights are cheered up by their incomparable musical style: PsychoTropical Musik[ READ MORE ]

ANTIBALAS

True, some bands are simply meant to lead, and Brooklyn’s Antibalas – as tough and diverse as the city that birthed them nearly a decade ago – has continued to do just that. The group, whose name means “bulletproof” in Spanish, has indeed proved they possess the mettle to not only survive but also thrive [ READ MORE ]

AK0YA AFROBEAT ENSEMBLE

Fusing a mixture of African, Afro-Cuban, Jazz, and Funk music, Akoya Afrobeat is New York’s finest example of a musical melting pot. Featuring members from Panama, Ghana, Benin, South Africa, Japan and the US, this 13-piece ensemble embraces unity and positive vibrations. Armed with original music and an arsenal of songs by Afrobeat founder, Fela [ READ MORE ]

AFRICA RULES

FELA KUTI (Expensive Shit, from the álbum with the same name, 1976) Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with over 141 million inhabitants, according to UN estimates in 2006. One of the largest producers of oil in the world, this is a country marked by violent and successive political conflicts, poverty and AIDS, [ READ MORE ]

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