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"Anadol is a psychedelic synth folk project by Gözen Atila, a Turkish sound artist and photographer based in Berlin. Her third album Uzun Havalar is based on collective improvisations of middle eastern folk songs called "uzun hava". They turn out as rich, atmospheric ...
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""Atuy So Kata" is the closing track of Umeko Ando's "Ihunke" album. It is a poetic dedication to the surface of the ocean. Her voice is especially mesmerizing in this traditional Ainu song, and it perfectly captures all the brittle and enchanting qualities of her vocal ...
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"Hey-O-Hansen are a dub duo from Berlin. Helmut Erler and Michael Wolf are originally from Austria, their blend of folkloristic melodies of their home country with the bass-loaded echo chambers of Jamaican roots has been called Austrodub. In 2010, Pingipung compiled a ...
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"VIA is Andi Otto's fourth solo album, on which he presents his music under his actual name instead of the Springintgut moniker. Hundreds, mostly incognizable microsamples of vocal, instrumental and percussive snippets which Otto found on vintage Indian movie ...
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"Five years ago Sven Kacirek released his album The Kenya Sessions. The drummer's collaboration with musicians from Kenya connected electronic, instrumental and field recordings in a unique manner and received kudos from various scenes between techno and world music. ...
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"On his new album SONGS FROM OKINAWA Sven Kacirek searches for traces of a unique, traditional music of the famous Pacific islands in the south of Japan. He has recorded various musicians, amateurs as well as local celebrities and subsequently added his trademark ...
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"All strings tuned down, the introverted guitarist F.S. Blumm transforms into the Dub master F.S. Blummbastic. These "Riddims and Biscuits" came to life during the creation of material for future concerts of the Quasi Dub Development. F.S. Blummbastic played all ...
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"With his new album "What's Fruit", Schlammpeitziger touches the dancefloor more than ever before in his 22-year long career. Yet his dancefloor is a playful one. The Cologne based composer's sounds electrify with their multi-layered melodic structures. He weaves ...
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"The Quasi Dub Development (QDD) has been founded as a collective four years ago by Luca Fadda and F.S. Blumm. After "Limousine To The Guillotine" (2011) their second album is now about to be released. The QDD love Dub, obviously, but they play it by hand with their ...
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"Originally released as a limited vinyl edition in 2010 which had quickly sold out, this much sought after longplayer by the Austrian duo Hey-ø-Hansen now sees the light of day as a CD. On "We so horny", Hey-O-Hansen strip down dub rhythms mostly from the fifties and ...
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"Sven Kacirek, the much praised multi- instrumentalist from Hamburg, releases his third album with Pingipung. "Scarlet Pitch Dreams" presents intimate solo works, following his debut "The Palmin Sessions" and the international success "The Kenya Sessions". Whilst "The ...
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"Once in a while, at a certain point of their career musicians decide not to give their work some lyrical title, but simply name it after themselves. Often this decision is taken in order to convey that they have reached a point where their music is unique and ...
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