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Hurray for the Riff Raff: The Navigator

October 24, 2017 By guillaume

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator (2017)

I feel like my generation, through groups like Black Lives Matter, is really focusing on that type of intersectionality—if one of us is not free, then none of us are free. The Navigator’s role is to tell the story, tell it to the people who don’t know their own story, so they can be free. Alynda Segarra Born and raised in the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk Tagged With: Hurray for the Riff Raff, indie, latin, rock, songwriting

Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca: At Home

January 20, 2016 By guillaume

Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca - At Home (2015)

With his 2012 release Yo, Cuban jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca launched a new phase in his musical career. Including African instruments such as the talking drum, the n’goni and the kora alongside a Hammond organ, the musician initiated an interesting fusion of his trademark Afro-Cuban groove with African-based griot traditions ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Jazz Tagged With: Fatoumata Diawara, fusion, latin, piano, Roberto Fonseca, songwriting

Metá Metá: Metal Metal

December 5, 2014 By guillaume

Metá Metá: Metal Metal (2012/2014)

From São Paulo in Brazil, Metá Metá is a jazz fusion band formed in 2007 around the core trio of Juçara Marçal (vocals), Kiko Dinucci (guitar & vocals) [both of whom collaborated on the 2008 album Padê] and Thiago França (saxophone & flute). Released in 2011, Metá Metá’s first self-titled album anchored the trio’s sound ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz Tagged With: fusion, guitar, latin, Metá Metá, saxophone, songwriting

Manu Chao: Clandestino

August 16, 2014 By guillaume

Manu Chao - Clandestino (1998)

Released in 1998 and followed up in 2000 by its “little sister” Próxima Estación: Esperanza, Manu Chao’s Clandestino turned the former front man of cult Latin rock band Mano Negra (1987/1995) into a global superstar. In total contrast with the high-octane punk-rock of Mano Negra, the solo and all-acoustic album mixed various ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk Tagged With: fusion, latin, Manu Chao, songwriting

Dom la Nena: Ela

July 27, 2014 By guillaume

Dom la Nena - Ela (2013)

Instantly adding to the canon of poems and songs in Spanish dealing with exile and the constant dream for a return home, "Golondrina" (the swallow) is an original composition by the-then-24 year old Brazilian singer songwriter Dom la Nena. The title track of her November 2013 EP Golondrina is also an apt metaphor for the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk Tagged With: accordion, cello, Dom la Nena, latin, songwriting

Radio Tarifa: Temporal

March 4, 2014 By guillaume

Radio Tarifa - Temporal (1998)

20 years before Jon Balke’s project Siwan, a group of passionate musicians going by the name of Radio Tarifa set out to explore what the music of mediaeval Spain might have sounded like. Over the course of four albums released on the World Circuit/Nonesuch record labels between 1993 (with the groundbreaking [amazon text=Rumba ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Folk Tagged With: bansuri, flamenco, latin, Radio Tarifa, songwriting

Danay Suárez feat. Roberto Fonseca: Hay un lugar

January 10, 2014 By guillaume

Danay Suárez - Havana Cultura Sessions (2010)

Since 2009, UK-based DJ and music producer Gilles Peterson has been partnering with the Havana Cultura project, “a global initiative to promote contemporary Cuban culture”. While the highly successful Buena Vista Social Club project delved into Cuba’s rich musical past to highlight forgotten Son Cubano gems, Havana Cultura looks ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Jazz Tagged With: Danay Suárez, latin, Roberto Fonseca, songwriting

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