Get free downloads of 2 exclusive new tracks by MOCKY and GONZALES!
Over the holiday season, Gonzales and Mocky went into the studio and cooked up two new versions of "Guiding Light", that little gem from the "Saskamodie" album.New Decade, New Crammed Discs
So what new joys await from Crammed in this, the first year of the second decade of the century?Staff Benda Bilili rocking Europe!
In what has become one of the most talked-about tours of 2009, Congolese rumba-funk warriors Staff Benda Bilili have been ripping through Europe with a string of scintillating live shows.
AND...
Balkan Beat Box Preview
See Balkan Beat Box sitting on a sofa in the middle of an orange grove, performing "Move It" (from their upcoming album "Blue Eyed Black Boy") on children's toys... and in a festival in front of thousands of ecstatic fans... Watch it HERE.
Blue Eyed Black Boy drops in March on Crammed Discs (worldwide, except in North America, where the album will come out on Nat Geo Music).
Balkan Beat Box will be performing a string of dates in April and May:
Paris (13/4)
London (14/4)
Lille (15/4
Brussels (16/4)
Hamburg (4/5)
Cologne (5/5)
Amsterdam (6/5)
Munich (7/5)
Berlin (8/5)
Blue Eyed Black Boy drops in March on Crammed Discs (worldwide, except in North America, where the album will come out on Nat Geo Music).
Balkan Beat Box will be performing a string of dates in April and May:
Paris (13/4)
London (14/4)
Lille (15/4
Brussels (16/4)
Hamburg (4/5)
Cologne (5/5)
Amsterdam (6/5)
Munich (7/5)
Berlin (8/5)
MADE TO MEASURE on digital
One of the hidden treasures of the Crammed catalogue is the MADE TO MEASURE composer series, in which no less than 35 albums of fascinating instrumental music were released between 1984 and the mid-90s.
16 of the Made To Measure albums have now been made available again through the Crammed shop, in digital download and (for most of them) CD format. The rest will follow soon.
The cover above is that of volume 33, an album by Brion Gysin, the legendary American poet, painter and writer who has influenced two generations of artists, and who recorded most of this album back in 1986, shortly before his death. A unique document featuring Brion Gysin singing/rapping his own texts on music by Ramuntcho Matta, with performances by Don Cherry, Elli Medeiros, Steve Lacy, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Caroline Loeb, etc.