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The Unofficial Soundtrack to
The 2008 French Film Festival.
Spread the love in 2008 with The 4th volume from the succesful So Frenchy So Chic series, featuring the freshest sound from France’s diverse musical landscape: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Daphne, $olal, Ultra Orange & Emannuelle,Keren Ann...
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The songwritter and producer Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan project founder) brings you the 'Moonshine Sessions'.
Recorded outside Nashville in The Tennessee Countryside with the cream of musicians and singers from the bluegrass and alternative country scene, the album comprises 12 acoustic songs including 2 cover versions and the tracks are spread across two sides of vynil like your favorite old records. Relax spend an hour in the countryside with the Moonshine Sessions. moonshinesessions.com
Gritty, real and passionate **** Rolling Stone
**** The Sunday Age
"Their album is an essentially acoustic, dreamy mix of music and songs, background sounds and spoken words... Remarkable"- 4 & 1/2 stars- THE AGE GREEN GUIDE
****&1/2 The Weekend Australian
Nouvelle Vague Bande A Part
"Each original songs is transformed into a masterpiece’" Inpress
"Best of all is the acordion in the metro station version of Visage’s Fade to Grey.... After dinner party music for old punks" The West Australian
"Punk’s not dead; it’s just gone to the bar for a cocktail" The Sydney Magazine (Album of the Month)
"We loved the uneasy listening take on 'Visage Fade To Grey' redone with whisppering chanteuse, wheezing accordion and Spooky Marimbas" The Sunday Age
"There are a few magic moments to be found in these inventive re-imaginings" The Age
Disko Partizani! sees Shantel successfully synthesizing his experiences as a producer, musician and DJ to create catchy, energetic and festive pop songs, full of hooks and surprises. Eastern European elements are adopted with real respect for their cultural roots, and then fused and transformed into a new form of urban music which works as an interface between east and west. Venerable melodies and rhythms – some of them dating back to the Byzantine Empire – are being rejuvenated, and used as a new source of inspiration for modern, trans-European pop, a welcome alternative to some of the more worn-out Anglo-Saxon musical models… But, beyond these underlying concepts, this is first and foremost an album of pure, unadulterated fun.
'A savvy Balkan record with strong commercial appeal. Once again, Shantel’s bravery has been rewarded' BBC
Ska-punk chansons under the big top? Babylon Circus exciting and fresh sound would identify with Les Negresses Vertes, Mano Negra or Manu Chao; a sound that blends a whole spectrum of music genres ranging from ska, punk, funk, chanson and folk to afro-beat and reggae.
Touring Australia this summer, 7 dates inclusive of Woodford Festival, Sydney Festival, East Coast and Melbournes show. December 29 - January 15 2008.
Rachid Taha is a great showman, and this guy knows how to deliver a groove, delivering rude-boy witticisms and hilarious insights with sweaty passion whilst his band fire off raucous rock riffs and snaky Arabic melodies. It’s a clear case of never mind the world music bollocks, here’s Rachid Taha. The Best Of is released initially in a strictly Limited Edition of 200 units with additional DVD recording his return to Algeria.
The world loves an enigma, and enigmas rarely come as talented, beautiful, honest and courageous as Souad Massi. Her music has been welcomed as a brave new dawn in the history of Maghrebi music. Her youthful obsessions with western rock, folk, country music, as well as the chaabi and classical andalusian music of her native land, gave birth to a style uniquely her own, an emotionally charged vehicle for themes of loss, nostalgia and the bonfire of innocence. She is now one of the leading female World Music Artists, having sold over 300,000 albums around the world. She has stamped her own identity, her own style, with her culture-blending sound - a mix of traditional, rock, folk, classical, flamenco,while her ballads are melodic, poignant, achingly beautiful. Just as Souad Massi herself is all light and shade, innocence and experience, melancholy and optimism, so is this beautiful representation of the best of her 3 albums reinterpreted, recorded during her World tour in 2007.
the 2007 Italian Film Festival
Dig the Italian groove with this selection of acoustic songs, quality pop, jazz and classic movies melodies. Featuring Paolo Conte, Pino Marino, Nino Rota, Cristina Dona...
From his first solo release L'heroine au bain and his work as co producer and guitarist with French pop sensation Nouvelle Vague Olivier Libaux has earned a reputation of crafting songs of subtle elegance with a fine line in pop sensibilty. His newest release Imbecile takes his skills to a whole different level as an album that works as a simple release but has also been written as an intimate stage performance involving different musicians and singers including Philippe Katerine, Helene Noguerra, JP Nataf and Barbara Carlotti.
Brazilian bossa nova star Bebel Gilberto is heading to Australia to perform at The Sydney Opera House Friday 5th October and Hamer Hall, the Arts Centre on Sunday 7th October.
With favourites from 'Tanto Tempo' and the critically acclaimed latest 'Momento' Bebel will take her audience through a lush backdrop of warm bossa nova grooves, summer sambas and exotic rainforest percussion - this is one of the must-see music events of the year.
"Dreamy, erotic... Deliciously good" The Times (UK)
Tinariwen Aman Iman
"This is music for the ages - ancient, modern, passionate, timeless and
amazingly, very accessible to western audiences'. Bruce Elder, The Sydney Morning Herald
'The Sahara is the latest part of the globe to be discovered by the world
music community... Tinariwen's music from the harsh world has universal
meaning'. Michael Rofe, The Weekend Australian
With their roots firmly planted all around the Mediterranean rim and their solid rock+reggae foundations, this New York-based band are the new sensation. Their name, their personal history and the enthusiastic media & audience reactions suggest a link with the so-called Gypsy Rock movement, but their scope is reaching way beyond that: Balkan Beat Box really transcend categories (pop, electronic dance music, world, rock) by creating a new breed of 21st century music, deeply connected to their folk upbringing yet forward-thinking, which appeals to audiences across the geographical and stylistic borders. This very strong new album weaves elements of ragga and hip hop with Balkanoid horns, Arab & Bulgarian guest singers, Greek guitars and more... Hence Nu Med (for "New Mediterranean"), a title which can be understood both as a musical and a cultural/political statement.
The Unofficial Soundtrack to the French Film Festival 'It's a delight to uncover something so eclectic and interesting'. Inpress Magazine
'The Music spans neo chanson, postcolonial grooves, urban electronica, cosmopolitan jazz and quirky indie'. **** The Herald Sun
'This is a superior summer cocktail soundtrack'. The Age
"She is from another era, an era of beautiful work and melodies as fine as lace," Elle Magazine - France
'Emilie is a gorgeous French girl with a delicate and irresistible voice. Some of her lyrics are in English, but all her songs are quirky, sexy and lingering concoction of electric guitar synths or understated rhythms. With a theme of blooming buds and nature, the flower book is an album to fall in love to'. Yen Magazine
'Evora's melancholy rendering is as moving as ever on this fine CD.'
Larry Schwartz- The Sunday Age
'This is one diva worth tapping your feet to' The Sunday Magazine
'An hautingly beautiful record as Bruni herself' Vogue
'With her smoky voice and deft acoustic guitar work, Carla Bruni smashes
supermodel stereotypes on her second solo album, no promises'.
Kathy McCabe - The Daily Telegraph
On this new album (their first studio recording since 2001's acclaimed "Band Of Gypsies"), the world's leading Balkan Gypsy band tackles classical music! Starting out in a virtual concert hall, Maskarada takes us through various stages which inevitably lead back to the type of repertoire for which the Taraf are known and loved. We fi rst imperceptibly move into a cabaret, where Gypsy musicians have long been adapting classical pieces to entertain their audiences during the early hours of the night. After a couple of pieces featuring distinguished singer / cymbalum player Virginica Dumitru (the first-ever female Taraf guest), the mood gradually heats up and the album closes with a wild party piece.
The follow-up to the album, which started the electro/Balkan
explosion across Europe's clubs. Featuring Balkan Beat Box, Oi Va Voi, Smadj, Shantel), by several mainstays of the new Balkan club
scene (DJ ClicK, Forty Thieves Orkestar, Gaetano Fabri, Russ Jones, Russendisko), and by more unexpected contributors coming from totally
different musical areas (Tunng, Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Cibelle).
Experience the music and life story of this giant of a man, with this double CD 'BEST OF' chosen by his musician son Fémi plus the incredible DVD documentary MUSIC IS THE WEAPON. An essential feature film for all who wish to know more about an artist at the heart of African musical history.
'Once a listener fall under Kuti's spell, its highly likely they'll be fan for life' - The Sunday Mail