Hy Brazil Vol. 1 | 2 • Chico Dub

Listening and enjoying vol.1 while putting this post together. Since being exposed to the musics of Brazil since the early 80's from Batacudas, Bossa Nova, Tropicália, Olodum, Timbalada, even briefly playing the surdo drum in a Maracatu bloco band in the early 90's (I wasn't that good but I did introduce the band to the Sergio Mendes track "What is This?" which we rip off and played out).
Anyway I will post most of this stuff in the near future. Back to this post of two free downloads of new Brazilian artists curated by Chico Dub, which I stumbled across via Technocumbia blog.
I drop in and out of discovering whats coming out of Brazil and hadn't a clue whats been happening for a time so this is welcome awakening for my ears. You can also read an interview with Chico about the albums and artists on Spin here.

Sty•lo

 Hy Brazil Vol 1
Fresh Electronic Music From Brazil 2013

A selection of 14 tracks from 14 new Brazilian electronic music producers, with styles as different as baile funk, tecnobrega, trap, house, bass music and future beats,curated by Chico Dub, from local festivals Sónar São Paulo and Novas Frequências.

Hy Brazil Vol 1: Fresh Electronic Music From Brazil 2013 gathers 14 tracks from 14 new “Made In Brazil” electronic projects. Most of these artists have been into musical production for only a very short period of time. The age group is also quite low: many are in their early 20s. Other common factor is that almost none of them are signed with record labels. Besides that, their Soundclouds and Bandcamps are updated on a weekly basis with new tracks available for free download.

Some of the artists are more well known locally, having played at festivals such as Sónar São Paulo, Eletronika and Novas Frequências, like Pazes, the beatmaker from Brasilia and Psilosamples, a producer from Minas Gerais who blends traditional folklore music with techno and IDM. Not to mention Rio’s Leo Justi, who recorded an official remix for M.I.A. and has done beats for her new record as well.

Chico Dub  

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Hy Brazil Vol 2
New Experimental Music From Brazil 2013

New Experimental Music From Brazil 2013 is the second volume of Hy Brazil, a series dedicated to compile the new Brazilian music with the aim of promoting it locally and abroad. Just as in the first volume (Fresh Electronic Music From Brazil 2013), the compilation gathers 14 previously unreleased tracks from 14 new (or nearly new) “Made in Brazil"projects.

Much more interesting than joining them in groups for reasons of aesthetic affinity (musical genre) or geographical frontiers (six Brazilian States were included in the compilation), is to point out several points in common that they establish among themselves.

Chico Dub

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Curated by Chico Dub

Ramiro Musotto • Sudaka

Argentine master-percussionist Ramiro Musotto was born in La Plata, grew up in Bahía Blanca and at age 18 moved to Brazil, where he spent most of his professional career, although he made frequent trips back to Argentina. In Brazil, he lived in Sao Paulo, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.

Since 1982, Ramiro Musotto explored the rhythms of Brazil and became a master of the berimbau. In his recordings, he used the instrument as percussion, melody, and with background loops. Ramiro started with pumped-up versions of Afro-Brazilian grooves, but later added multiethnic global music, with elements from Africa, South America, Asia and Europe.

Ramiro Musotto worked with just about every great Brazilian and Argentinean artist in the world today including Sergio Mendes, Caetano Veloso, Gato Barbieri, Daniela Mercury, Gilberto Gil, Marisa Monte, and Virginia Rodriguez.

Sudaka was his debut album and combined his field recordings of Amazon Indian chants, Candomble spirit rhythms, Brazilian percussion, and everyday street sounds, all layered over a percolating electronic dance-groove production. Musoto called it “a psychedelic trip throughout and into the Afro-Brazilian and South American culture; an optimistic way of interpreting the effects of technology in our everyday life and art.”

Discogs

1. Caminho    
2. Ginga
3. Raio
4. Botellero
5. Bayaka
6. Antônio Das Mortes
7. Ijexá
8. Xavantes
9. Torcazas Neuquinas
10. La Danza Del Tezcatlipoca Rojo

 

Recorded, Programmed, Played, Mixed & Produced by

Ramiro Musotto

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Label: MCD World Music ‎– MCD172
Format: 320
Country: Brazil
Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic, Folk, Latin
Style: Freestyle, Future Jazz, Samba

Ayibobo • Freestyle

At the time of the Duvalier regime (1958-86), Roots music was considered subversive on Haiti and was banned as a result. However, groups formed in the island's forests and fought the ban with their music. Such a group was Foula, gathered around bassist and bandleader Chico Boyer. In the early 1990s, as repression increased, the musicians left Haiti and founded Ayibobo, together with Jean-Paul Bourelly, in New York. The band's concept combines Voodoo music traditions with the aesthetics of modern urban improvisation. Rosna, the band's singer, is a fascinating figure: the incarnation of gracefulness and femininity within Voodoo culture - Brooklyn style.

Freestyle's fusion of Haitian singing and drumming with jazzy horns and guitar finds Ayibobo's leader, guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly, looking back to his heritage for some inspired new ideas. The result is danceable, pan-cultural jazz at its most enjoyable, exemplified on songs like "Voodoo Blue".

Alphonse Piard, Jr

1. Dessalines
2. Lenglensou
3. Voodoo Blue
4. Ayibobo
5. Afrika
6. Sondjemen
7. Afro Logic
8. Euzelie
9. Spirits
10. Plante
11. Tchouboum
12. Sing
13. M.C Tido

Wilfrid Ti Do Lavaud • Lead vocal, Drums, Guitar
Jean-Paul Bourelly • Guitar, Vocals
Chico Boyer • Bass, Background vocals, Drums
Ju Ju Julius House • Trap Drums
Gaston "Bonga" Jean-Baptiste • Drums, Background vocals
Booker T. Williams • tenor sax, flute
Craig Harris • trombone, didjeridoo
Vincent Henry • alto sax
Carl Bourelly • keyboards
Roy Robinson • organ

Recorded at Eastside Sound, New York,
between April 30 and May 24, 1993
 Produced by Jean-Paul Bourelly

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Label: DIW
Format: 320
Country: Japan
Released: 1993
Genre: Funk, World
Style: African, Funk, Jazz, Voudon 

U.M.A. [Ubiquitous Musicians Association] • JA-CK

In the wake of a tremendously great Japanese-only CD featuring Bill Laswell's extreme bass talents in their best light (Akira Sakata's "Fusherman's.com" with Pete Cosey and Hamid Drake) comes another great "blow"! This time another quartet - Laz with 3 great Japanese players: drummer Hideo Yamaki of Toshinori Kondo/IMA fame (whose  impossible-to-get 1992 CD "Shadow Run" ranks as one of the great recordings featuring the "Laz" as both player and producer outside of his own work); multi-saxman Genji Sawai (remember the 1984 "Sowaka" LP where he's backed by Material?) and madman sampler/synth/keys player Hoppy Kamiyama!. Together they come up with something that straddles various areas of great improv, a unique jazzy take on "jam" bands. A great Rave-Up!

DMG

1. Nagare
(U.M.A.)

2. Wa
(Sawai)

3. Mizu
(U.M.A., Konda)

4. Yen
(Sawai)

5. Minamoto
(U.M.A., Konda)

6. Nagare (Remix Version)
(U.M.A.)

7. Ki
(U.M.A.)


Genji Sawai • alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Hoppy Kamiyama • digital president, slide geisha, ass hole box,
scum tape from garbage, klavier, gram pot
Bill Laswell • bass
Hideo Yamaki • drums
Kiyoto Konda • guitar (3, 5, 6)

Recorded at Sound Dali Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Produced by Genji Sawai
Co-Produced by Hoppy Kamiyama

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Label: Tokuma Japan Communications – TKCB-72370
Format: 320
Country: Japan
Released: 2002
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Avantgarde, Experimental

Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players • Just Landed

JUST LANDED catches Burnt Friedman romping in green New Zealand with antipodean allies the Nu Dub Players. Crucial Guenther’s bass is the bottom line here, providing the rock-steady seismic undertow that buoys the crew’s piping, old-school-Kingston melodies and expertly integrated nu-school digital mischief. DJ Booth’s trippy turntable effects, Bernie the Bolt’s crafty drumming, and Friedmann’s constant production tampering send the dream-paced JUST LANDED skanking down the daffiest of digi-dub detours. And when dubwise heritage, high spirits, and microprocessor monkeyshines meet, as they do so vividly in “Hut Selector,” “Cassock Attack,” “Railway Palace, Melbourne,” and “I Shot the Fashion Victim,” it all makes for a memorable, marvelously musical mixing-desk melee.

Pete Antonio

 

1. Hut Selector

2. Just Landed

3. Cassock Attack

4. Worldwide Watchdog Peepshow

5. The Big Black Other

6. Railway Place, Melbourne

7. Hohoura Heads, Far North

8. I Shot The fashion Victim

9. It´s Thunder
10. Dub To The Music

The Cousin Of The Sausage Smearer • Guitar, Jew's Harp
DJ Booth • Keyboards, Effects, Turntables
Crucial Guenther • Bass, Strings
Bernie The Bolt • Drums, Percussion, Programming

Recorded on the Great Barrier Island, NZ

Mixed and premastered in Cologne 1999

Produced by Burnt Friedman

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Label: ~scape ‎– ~scape 004 cd
Format: 320
Country: Germany
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic, Reggae
Style: Dub, Future Jazz, Downtempo

Flanger • Templates

The Flanger project was founded in 1997 by Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart) and Bernd Friedmann (aka Burnt Friedman), who have both been active in the music business since the early 1990s. The two musicians met up to program their first album Templates at Mira Musica, Santiago de Chile in 1997. Their musical goal was to generate their own vision of non-repetitive, organic and extremely complex music that is far removed from the well-trodden paths of techno and other established styles of so-called contemporary music.
Templates was released the following year on Ntone, together with separate 12-inch pressings of several tracks. Clearly electronic, it moved beyond dance or electronic formulas, tapping into the spirit of exploration that characterised jazz during the ’60s.

ninjatune.

1. Music To Begin With
2. Options In The Fire
3. Endless Summer
4. Short Note With A Few
5. Studio Tan
6. Full On Scientist
7. Lata
8. Quicksilver Loom

Performed and Arranged by Flanger
Burnt Friedman • Gretsch Drums, Percussion, Sampling
Atom Heart • Rhodes, Yamaha Motion B, Vibraphone, Guitars, Sampling
Recorded and edited at Mira Musica, Santiago de Chile, 1997

Produced by Flanger

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Label: Ntone ‎– NTONE CD33
Format: 320
Country: UK
Released: 1999
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Future Jazz, Experimental

Eardrum • Last Light

Last Light is the debut album by Eardrum, the group put together by percussionists Lou Ciccotelli and Richard Olatunde Baker. The album is comprised of ten percussion-dominated rhythmic leviathans - the missing link between 23 Skidoo, Afrobeat and Jon Hassell's Fourth World project. Recorded live, the album applies the pioneering attitudes of Lee Perry, King Tubby and Teo Macero as the studio becomes an instrument of manipulation, warping the musicians contributions and electrifying the groove, fusing African concepts of rhythm with dub and electronics.

Both musicians have distinguished musical histories: Ciccotelli has played with Laika, Spleen, Mass and Kevin Martin's God and Ice projects among others, while Baker toured with Tony Allen on his promotional world tour for "Lagos No Shaking" album , as well as the Peewee Ellis' African Tribute to James Brown, as well as with everyone from Cath Coffey, NT and poet Akure Wall, amongst other African percussion groups. The pair released a 12" as Eardrum on Soul Static Sound in 1996, and also had a track included on the acclaimed Macro Dub Infection II compilation on Virgin. Two tracks from Last Light ('Swarm' and 'Nightcrawler') were included on the Osmosis sampler on Leaf.

theleaflabel

1 Swarm
2 Lizard
3 Roach
4 Swamp Doctor
5 City Collision
6 Nightblind
7 Plummet
8 Nightcrawler
9 From The Nucleus
10 Low Order

Lou Ciccotelli • Percussion
Richard Olatunde Baker • Percussion
with
Nana Tsiboe • Percussion, Flute
Gary Jeff • Electronics
Ike Leo • Saxophone (2)
Matt Barge • Trumpet (1, 7)

Produced by Eardrum

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Label: Leaf – BAY 7CD
Format: 320
Country: UK
Released: 1999
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Abstract, Experimental

Asa-Chang & Junray • Jun Ray Song Hang

Asa-Chang started to make career as a percussionist and a bandmaster of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra in 1989 with a multiplied openness to all kinds of genres and approaches. In 1998, Asa-Cang started Asa-Chang & Junray as a duo with guitarist / programmer, Hidehiko Urayama, with a first album “Tabla Magma Bongo”. In 2000, a third member joined the band, namely tabla player, U-Zhaan, for performing live together. In 2001 they released the mini-album “Hana” with much success, resulting in a rerelease of this album for Leaf and this full CD, with raving reviews.

Asa-Chang plays the Indonesian "Dandud" bongo in a style influenced by the Indian tabla style. This original idea came also from Indonesia. In Jakarta there exists a contemporary style of drumming called "Dandud" based upon the playing of tabla.

Other member U-Zhaan has spent some years studying tabla and Carnatic South Indian kanjira drum under the tutelage of percussionist V. Selvaganesh. The new technique they present in the group is completely new. It has elements and ideas of Indian vocal percussion duet with tabla. A few times I also recognized some Indonesian communicative rhythmic singing patterns too. Here it becomes a tabla-over-normal-speech style. In our modern commercialized music business times, where the still primitively minded hip-hop style is over-promoted, now this is what I call a thoughtful vocal percussive and musically interesting communication area with vocals and rhythms.

But this is far from a percussion driven album..

psychemusic


1. Hana
2. Preach
3. Kobana
4. Nigatsu
5. Goo-Gung-Gung
6. Kutsu #2
7. Jippun
8. Kokoni Sachiari
9. Tabla Bol (Catastrophe)
10. Radio-No-Youni (Comme A La Radio)
11. Kutsu

Asa-Chang • Congas, Trumpet, Voice
U-Zhaan • Tabla
Hidehiko Urayama • Guitar, Programming
Kiyoshi Kusaka • Effects

Miki
Kazufumi Kodama, 
Punku Boi, 
Yoshimi P-We
•
Voice

Arranged by Asa-Chang & Junray
Recorded and mixed by Kiyoshi Kusaka
Produced by Asa-Chang

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Label: Leaf ‎– BAY 22CD
Format: 320
Country: UK
Released: Jun 2002
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental 

Bill Laswell's Material • Warsaw Summer Days 11th July 2007

As requested by hideo

Featuring the trumpet of Nils Petter Molvaer who is no stranger to Laswell projects and the incredible guitarist Eivind Aarset, both on the cutting edge of the Norwegian music scene.

I snatched this from http://www.dimeadozen.org sometime ago.

1. Applause, Mariusz Adamiak speaks

2. Improvisations
(Molvaer)

3. Darker • Solid Ether
(Molvaer)

4. Untitled
(Laswell)

5. Bernie Worell keyboard solo • Cosmic Slop
(Worrell - Worrell, G. Clinton)

6. Mantra
( Laswell, Caroline, Shankar)

7. Applause

8 encore: KAKONITA
(Molvaer)

Bill Laswell • bass

Nils Petter Molvaer • trumpet, electronics

Aiyb Dieng • percussion

Bernie Worrell • keyboards

Guy Licata • drums

Eivind Aarset • electric guitar

Label: non
Format: 2 x 320 1/2
Country: Poland
Released: 2007
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Free Jazz, Rock