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    Cale Pellick
     
    In The Loop
    This CD creatively fuses electronic music with New Orleans influenced funk while exploring several moods, grooves and tempos - Funktronica, y'all!
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    Slicnaton
     
    Basendrums
    improvisations using electro-acoustic percussion, live electronics, bowed pieces of wood, found objects, extended bass techniques, multi-phonics and computer editing.
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    Various Artists
     
    Sanity and Soundness
    Five top Drum Funk producers created Drum & Bass tracks inspired from free jazz unleashing whole new styles of music ranging from funky to mellow and murky to open. (Includes two bonus tracks with heavy Jungle vibes.)
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    El David & Carlos Cartagena
     
    EL Nuyoriqueno
    Nuyorican Roots Music that fuses Bomba and Plena percussion, Bass and Guitar, Contemporary Hip Hop and Caribbean influences by lead guitarist and vocalist of the NJ Based Bomba and Plena Group Segunda Quimbamba, El David and Carlos Cartagena
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    Rocksta Mjonase
     
    Tshe tshe EP
    A rare combination of genres to produce a sensational electronic release, from easy listening to deep and tribal house mixes, gospel delivered in a silver platter get your grip on, feel South African house scene on the rise.
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    Los Ladrones
     
    Montana Rusa
    For anyone into that lovely samba fusion bossanova rhythm sound....a definite must get. And if you're just getting into it, the sound will push you over the fence quite quickly. Very infectious. Terrific grooves, smooth vocals.
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    suranjana ghosh
     
    vibration
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    Chad Taylor
     
    Circle Down
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    Emanuel Xavier
     
    Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier
    A spoken word/music collaboration between award-winning poet, Emanuel Xavier, and Nuyorican producer, El David, which celebrates one of the most significant voices of our generation.
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    Nyinomugisha
     
    Labongo Lewich
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    Paoli Mejias
    Jazzambia
    Mysterious & moving, a fusion of African, Mediterranean, & Caribbean rhythms with straight-ahead jazz, featuring the best players of the NY Latin jazz scene: Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo, Jaleel Shaw, Hans Glawischnig, Tony Escapa, Antonio Sanchez.
    NEW YORK TIMES: LATIN & WESTERN SWING BANDS TOUCHED BY JAZZ Latin bandleaders these days are making music that becomes simultaneously more modern and more ancient. "Jazzambia," by the Puerto Rican percussionist Paoli Mejías, is the latest proof. It includes several other like-minded musicians, including the pianist Luis Perdomo and the saxophonist Miguel Zenón, and it's exciting to see where it goes. There are standard structural elements of Afro-Cuban music here — tumbaos and montuno sections — but there are also rhythm strategies that come from various kinds of new jazz that many would say are not Latin at all. (One track, "Diaspora," culminates brilliantly with Mr.Zenón soloing with more free-jazz gusto than he ever seems to use, over the interlocking patterns of two hand drummers.) The point is that jazz was part Latin from the start, and has become only more so. - Ben Ratliff ******* EDITOR'S PICK (DESCARGA): A historic recording, if only for the depth of the talent involved, featuring some of the best players in the New York scene, including the ever present Hans Glawischnig on bass, Luis Perdomo on piano, Antonio Sanchez and Tony Escapa on drums, Miguel Zenon, Jaleel Shaw, Ricardo Pons and Chris Cheek on saxophones and the leader Mejias on drums; he’s helped on two tunes by Tito De Gracia. And they produce some fierce and intelligent music, as might be expected. It’s searching jazz, flexible, and at this point so much modern jazz has taken on the Spanish tinge that it’s hard to separate this as Latin jazz; it’s just modern, part of the geometry of invention that includes Havana, Puerto Rico, New York and a good part of the rest of the world. Some tunes have tumbaos, like the tag on Jibarology; some don’t. Hard to find a cliché; this is the sound of the modern world. Again, historic. Highly Recommended. - Peter Watrous ******* TIEMPO DE EXPERIMENTAR (NUEVO DIA) En su tercera entrega discográfica, el percusionista Paoli Mejías perfecciona una aleación de ritmos atados a las raíces negras del puertorriqueño. Si se tratara de comparar al percusionista Paoli Mejías con un pintor de renombre, el idóneo sería Salvador Dalí. Y es que la música creada por Mejías, al igual que las obras de Dalí, muestran elementos diferentes cada vez que se toma el tiempo para apreciarlas. Mejías gusta de fusionar ritmos, innovar y mantenerse a la vanguardia. - Gloria Ruiz Kuilan ******* TOP 20 CDS OF 2008 (Fundacion Nacional Para La Cultura Popular Puertorriqueña): Ya a la altura de los maximos exponentes de la percusion en el mundo, Paoli Mejias reafirma con esta, su tercera grabacion, por que es reconocido como uno de congueros de mayor peso en el ambito del jazz latino. En esta oportunidad, rinde tributo a sus ancestros africanos, aunque en la pieza Jibarology incorporó el cuatro, magistralmente ejecutado por Christian Nieves. Definitivamente, un trabajo digno en el que prueba su ingenio y creatividad. ******* PAOLI DOES IT AGAIN!! Driving and progressive Latin Jazz with a Afro-Rican attitude! It made my top 10 for 2008 after the first listening. - Goyo Pappas, Music critic and writer, moderator of Latin Jazz eGroup. ******* LOS MEJORES 20 DISCOS DE 2008: JAZZAMBIA (Nuevo Dia) Con su tercer disco Paoli se establece como uno de los percusionistas más polifacéticos y visionarios del umbral del siglo 21. Su madurez en la selección del repertorio y en el desarrollo de un sonido propio en el jazz son encomiables. Su identidad, por supuesto, descansa en sus fusiones de jazz con bomba y plena. "Jibarology", con Christian Nieves en el cuatro y Miguel Zenón en el saxofón alto, es un manjar por la fusión del aguinaldo con elementos de la improvisación jazzística. - Jaime Torres Torres ******* Paoli Mejias’ latest release, Jazzambia, features Miguel Zenon. It is some of the best Latin Jazz to be played here in the USA in years IMHO. You will not be disappointed. - Street Level Productions Blog ******* PAOLI MEJIAS Y `JAZZAMBIA' (Nuevo Dia) Cuán agradable es ver -en este caso, escuchar es la palabra- un concepto que se va precisando, que va adquiriendo contornos cada día mejor dibujados hasta llegar a una expresión más diáfana! Ese es el caso de `Jazzambia', el tercer CD como líder de Paoli Mejías. En él, el percusionista puertorriqueño retomó las ideas de sus dos discos anteriores -`Mi tambor' y `Transcend'-, las pulió y las llevó a un nuevo nivel de universalidad… Para ello no sólo contó con una banda formidable (que incluye entre otros a los saxofonistas Miguel Zenón, Jaleel Shaw y Ricardo Pons y al pianista Luis Perdomo) sino también con buenas composiciones, algunas de ellas de los propios músicos… `Jazzambia' es música fresca, vital, de esas que mantienen al oyente preguntándose cuál será la próxima sorpresa que traerá. Sirve de clara señal de que Mejías está seriamente comprometido con su arte, con la definición de un concepto propio. (www.paolimejias.com). - Rafael Vega Curry ******* Paoli Mejias transcends the conventions of mainstream jazz, creating a rich tapestry of original, Latin-flavored, improvisational music - JAZZ IMPROV After the success of Paoli’s two earlier productions (“Transcend” and Grammy nominated “Mi Tambor”), Puerto Rican percussionist Paoli Mejías releases “JAZZAMBIA” accompanied by the greatest musicians on the jazz scene: Miguel Zenon & Jaleel Shaw - sax, Antonio Sanchez & Tony Escapa - drums, Luis Perdomo - piano, Hans Glawischnig – bass, among others. Recorded at Kaleidoscope Studios June 4-5, 2008 and mixed by Grammy Award Winning Engineer Jon Fausty at Morrisound Studios, “JAZZAMBIA” is another great milestone in Paoli’s international career. “JAZZAMBIA” includes original compositions by Miguel Zenon, Nestor Toro, Hans Glawischnig, Robert Rodriguez, Luis Perdomo, Yan Carlos Artime, Ricardo Pons and Luis Raul Romero. Please visit Paoli's website www.paolimejias.com for additional information & reviews. Also check out Paoli's Grammy nominated CD "Mi Tambor" www.cdbaby.com/cd/paolimejias and “Transcend” www.cdbaby.com/cd/paolimejias2
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    Anarchy Club
    A Single Drop Of Red
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    Betsy Olson
    Lonely Woman Blues
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    Guaschara
    Influencias
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    Wild Dogs
    Reign of Terror NEW package 8 page booklet
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      Top Songs

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      1.
      Riding the Wave - 20-min Journey With Rattle & Call Back
      Carol Weaver
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      A Rising Wind - 10-min Journey With Call Back
      Carol Weaver
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      Diving Deeper - 30-min Journey With Call Back
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      4.
      Alhamdullilah (intro)
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      Deen You Know
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      6.
      Intentions '05
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      Dedication
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      8.
      Looking Glass
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      Normalizer 2- the Drumsolo
      Marco Minnemann
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      10.
      One With the Universe
      Osho Drummers
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