Axel Krygier is back with "Hombre De Piedra", a new album and music video!
The brilliant musician/composer/singer from Buenos Aires tells us the fantastic and hilarious story of a bigfoot from the Stone Age, who travels through the history of mankind, from its early days to the 2.0 era. A delirious road movie about the paradoxes of civilization.
Watch the first music video for the title track "Hombre De Piedra". Shot in his backyard with the help of director Mariano Mucci and visual artist Ian Kornfeld, the video is a combination of HD formats, Super 8 and animation revolving around a map of the sky drawn up by the first painters of mankind.
Taraf de Haidouks celebrate 25th anniversary with new album and tour!
In their new album "Of Lovers, Gamblers and Parachute Skirts", Taraf de Haïdouks are revisiting some of the old styles which have enchanted Western audiences on their earlier albums: Gypsy love songs, old-school dance tunes, Turkish-flavoured instrumentals, and poignant Romanian ballads. Let's all join the party!
11/02/2015
FR Paris New Morning
12/02/2015
NL Groningen Oosterpoort
13/02/2015
NL Amsterdam Paradiso Noord
14/02/2015
NL Rotterdam Lantaren Venster
15/02/2015
BE Brussels AB
16/02/2015
GB London Union Chapel
21/02/2015
DE Dortmund Domicil
17/05/2015
GB Norwich Norfolk & Norwich Festival
SKIP&DIE return with much awaited 2nd album, "Cosmic Serpents"
... and an extensive world tour 2015After setting stages on fire around the planet during their successful two-year Riots In The Jungle tour, pan-tropical future bass band SKIP&DIE are back with an exhilarating new album, entitled “COSMIC SERPENTS” - luring their audiences into a landscape somewhere between paradise, the apocalypse and beyond.
With its re-imagining of global music, irresistible rhythms and beats, acoustic instruments, field recordings and spacey synths, SKIP&DIE’s upcoming album, “COSMIC SERPENTS”, reveals a poetic sonic collage that toys with ideas of transient life, looming death, and the notion that our collective DNA coils throughout eternity like a cosmic serpent.
Set for release March 2015, the new album was written and recorded in Brazil, Egypt, Argentina, Colombia, La Reunion island, South Africa, Portugal and the Netherlands. It incorporates a rich variety of musical styles (from digital cumbia, creole maloya, brazilian rasterinha and electro chaabi - to dub, footwork and psychedelic rock) which have been inventively merged into an intimately layered SKIP&DIE universe.
SKIP&DIE consist of South African songwriter, vocalist and visual artist Catarina Aimée Dahms aka Cata.Pirata, producer Jori Collignon on keys and FX, Gino Bombrini on percussion & guitar and Daniel Rose on guitar and other string instruments. They are joined on "COSMIC SERPENTS" by a handful of exciting guests from around the globe.
The first single and video is the title track, “Cosmic Serpents”, scheduled for release this December.
The dates for the first leg of their COSMIC SERPENTS World Tour are:
16 Jan 2015 Eurosonic, Groningen, Netherlands
17 Jan 2015 Noorderslag Oosterpoort Groningen, Netherlands
06 Mar 2015 Where The Wild Things Are, Zeewolde, Netherlands
31 Mar 2015 La Lune des Pirates, Amiens, France
01 Apr 2015 Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, France
02 Apr 2015 Le 106, Rouen, France
03 Apr 2015 L'UBU, Rennes, France
04 Apr 2015 Festival Chorus / La Défense, Paris
07 Apr 2015 La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
08 Apr 2015 Stereolux, Nantes, France
09 Apr 2015 Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux, France
10 Apr 2015 Bikini, Toulouse, France
11 Apr 2015 La Belle Electrique, Grenoble, France
14 Apr 2015 Ampere, Munich, Germany
15 Apr 2015 Club Stereo, Nuremberg, Germany
16 Apr 2015 Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld Cologne, Germany
17 Apr 2015 Privatclub, Berlin, Germany
18 Apr 2015 Molotow, Hamburg, Germany
22 Apr 2015 Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 Apr 2015 Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands
24 Apr 2015 ABclub, Brussels, Belgium
29 Apr 2015 Pandora - Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
30 Apr 2015 Vina Rock, Villarrobledo, Spain
07 May 2015 VERA, Groningen, The Netherlands
and many more to come!
Maïa Vidal's new single & video: "Bones", a voracious love song...
... verging on the cannibalistic: "Skin so soft I could tear it off / to reveal your platelets..."
Juana Molina gets award, directs new video...
... and is coming to Europe to play 2 special shows in Paris and Bari
Juana Molina's latest album Wed 21 was ecstatically welcomed by the press around the world (see quotes below). Her native Argentina has not lagged behind, as Wed 21 has just earned the Carlos Gardel Award (the equivalent of a Grammy) for Best Alternative Rock and Pop Album of 2013.
On the video front, Juana has made a giant leap forward by co-directing the eerie and supremely charming "Lo decidí yo" ("The decision was mine", directed with Mario Caporalli). This 3rd video from the Wed 21 sees her performing considerable, ninja-like physical feats (thanks to a chroma key which she set up with lengths of fabric in her back yard).
Juana Molina will also bring her lively, exciting live show to Paris, where she has been invited by the prestigious Fondation Cartier, and to Bari Festival.
On the video front, Juana has made a giant leap forward by co-directing the eerie and supremely charming "Lo decidí yo" ("The decision was mine", directed with Mario Caporalli). This 3rd video from the Wed 21 sees her performing considerable, ninja-like physical feats (thanks to a chroma key which she set up with lengths of fabric in her back yard).
Juana Molina will also bring her lively, exciting live show to Paris, where she has been invited by the prestigious Fondation Cartier, and to Bari Festival.
07/11/2014 IT BARI BARI FESTIVAL
10/11/2014 FR PARIS FONDATION CARTIER
From the press on Juana Molina's Wed 21 album
A universal playfulness that’s entirely her own. (Washington Post)
Her music still perches on the verge of delirium (NY Times)
It's as if extra-terrestrials have had a bash at making contemporary Earthling pop music but didn't quite nail it. Fascinating, enjoyable and original, (The Independent)
On an evolutionary journey of her own devising…Transportative, like a fantastic fable…like all good storytellers, Molina's gift is in the delivery (Pitchfork)
This might be her best work yet (Mixmag)
Eerie, hypnotic, building to increasingly haunting heights (Spin)
Colourful worlds with buzzing electronics swarming around psychedelic rhythms (Uncut)
Always in motion, this effortless fusion of airy melody and playful eccentricity follows a perpetually fluid course (Mojo)
Like other great popular music musicians who toe the avant-garde line—Tom Waits comes to mind, as does Radiohead—there is a vision here (Pop Matters)
Composer/lutenist Jozef Van Wissem to release new album on Crammed's Made To Measure series
The New York-based Dutchman's very personal work was recently showcased in his award-winning soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive". Both Jarmusch & Yasmine Hamdan are guesting on the new album.The entrancing "It Is Time For You To Return" is Jozef Van Wissem's brand-new album (his first for Crammed Discs' revived Made To Measure series), and functions as a perfect introduction to his music which, this time around, is enhanced by a new feature, as Jozef wrote and performed hypnotic vocals for some of the nine pieces.
The album also benefits from the presence of young Chilean filmmaker Domingo Garcia-Huidobro, who contributed electronic programming on a couple of tracks. And Jim Jarmusch (on guitar) & Yasmine Hamdan (on vocales) appear on one of the songs.
"It Is Time For You To Return" will be coming out on November 10, 2014.
Jozef Van Wissem will be extensively touring around Europe and the USA, check the dates here.
Crammed Discs is happy to welcome CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO!
Check out the first video from the forthcoming new album!Argentian producer Pedro Canale aka Chancha Via Circuito returns with his long awaited third album, Amansara. Originally coming out of Buenos Aires' famed digital cumbia scene, Chancha has notoriously expanded beyond those boundaries to forge unprecedented mergers between Brazilian rhythms, Paraguyan harp, Andean mysticism and the solitude of Argentinian folklore - all processed through his own futuristic strain of electronic music. Chancha's sound is without question truly unique and instantly recognizable, to the extent that he has become a key reference point for an entire crop of artists which have begun to carry his genes.
Chancha Via Circuito new album, Amansara, will be coming out after the Summer, but you can see the first video "Coplita" here.
"Chez les Aborigènes", the first single off "Ex-Futur Album"...
... the avant-pop opus from 1980-83 by Véronique Vincent & Aksak MaboulWritten & recorded by Véronique Vincent (Honeymoon Killers vocalist) and Marc Hollander (Aksak Maboul & Crammed Discs founder), in collaboration with Vincent Kenis (Aksak Maboul/Congotronics), this album was announced in Crammed's early catalogues, but was never completed. It has now been assembled (and partly retrieved from demos, rough mixes and cassette tapes), and will come out in October 2014, with a slight delay of 30 years.
The single also comprises a new remix by great electronic music duet Easy & C.O.U. (who are stalwarts of the Nordic skweee scene).
Watch the visual illustration created by McCloud Zicmuse from his gorgeous album artwork.
Crammed Discs artists take Glastonbury Festival by storm
Juana Molina, SKIP&DIE and Yasmine Hamdan will all perform at the UK's premier festival this week.SKIP&DIE, who are working on their new album to be released in early 2015, have completed a last video for their acclaimed album "Riots In The Jungle". The video was just premiered by Vice's music channel Noisey, in the UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands. You can watch it here. The band will be performing on the Silver Hayes Stage on Thursday 26th, 2:00 a.m.
Juana Molina, whose recent performances at Primavera Sound and Villette Sonique delighted the audiences, is performing at Glastonbury (Sunday 29th, Park Stage, 2:00 p.m.), before going on to play Roskilde Festival, Nuits de Fourvière, Pohoda Festival and Summer Stage in New York. All dates can be found here.
Juana Molina's latest video 'Sin guia, no", shot in Tierra del Fuego, can be watched here.
After a very busy Spring, sold-out shows in Paris and London, and her appearance in the new Jim Jarmusch movie "Only Lovers Left Alive", Yasmine will be performing at Glastonbury Festival on June 29h, Glade Stage, 5:40 pm
She will be also appearing on BBC2 TV and BBC6 Music, broadcast live from the Festival.
Here's a video of Yasmine Hamdan performing earlier this month at the Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room)
Kasai Allstars' wild new album now on preorder
The long-awaited 2nd LP by the mindblowing Congotronics collective from Kinshasa, DRC, will come out as a 2CD and a limited-ed. vinylFilmed during the recordings, "The Chief's Enthronement", the first video off the album was premiered on Pitchfork.
The album just got an enthusiastic and extensive write-up in The Wire Magazine who, among many other things, points out that "this is why Kasai Allstars connect so strongly with us. When these musicians get on stage it's easy to draw lines to VU-inspired rock, dub and the tracier areas of club music. Moreaover, nowadays we get Js and software wranglers, whereas these guys handle chunky, often self-built instruments, physically creating the music. It's exhilarating just to watch this much physical work from a musician."
The 2CD and 1LP versions of "Beware the Fetish" can now be preordered HERE
