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the official video from Shantel.
please check the official artist website as
well:
www.bucovina.de
directed by: noaz deshe
Shantel // Disko Partizani!
Katalog-Nr.: AY CD 15
Release: 24.8.2007,
Crammed Discs and Essay Recordings are
delighted to announce the release of Disko
Partizani!, the first artist album by Shantel
in seven years. Please find already 3 new
tracks on this EP.
After pioneering the concept of Balkan
clubbing with his now-legendary Bucovina Club
parties and albums, after working his DJ
voodoo around the world (and driving crowds
to ecstatic bliss), after setting very high
standards for dancefloor-oriented Gypsy music
with his own seminal tracks and with his
remixes of tracks by Mahala Rai Banda, Taraf
de Haidouks & more...
...Shantel has now moved on to the next step
with the fab Disko Partizani! album, which
lays the groundwork for a new brand of pop
music. This is the sound of new Europe,
centered in the middle of our old continent,
but incorporating vibrant influences from the
emerging new frontier which stretches all the
way to Mitteleuropa, the South East, Greece,
Turkey and beyond...
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. The album features great
performances by a host of musicians from
southeast Europe and by Shantel himself, who
also appears on lead vocals, gracing several
tracks with an unexpected, elegant deadpan
delivery.
Essay Recordings (Shantel's label) and
Crammed have joined forces for this very
special album, which will come out in early
September 2007.
Shantel will be extensively touring with the
Disko Partizani project, accompanied by his
Bucovina Club Orkestar, a full 8-piece band.
Shantel, who started out as a respected
electronica producer (with two albums out on
Studio K7), has taken to the music of Eastern
Europe following a trip to Bucovina, in
search of his family roots. His Bucovina Club
albums have earned him several awards
(including a BBC World Music Award).
Stop press: Shantel has written the original
music for "The Edge Of Heaven", the new Fatih
Akin movie which just won an award at the
Cannes Film Festival.
Disko Partizani will be released through
Crammed worldwide, except in the following
countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Japan.
Tags : guilty76am SHANTEL DISKO PARTIZANI BUCOVINA CLUB ORKESTAR ORKESTRA LIVE |
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Affichage : 2253418
Durée : 259 s |
| Señor Coconut and his Orchestra SMOKE ON THE WATER |
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Smoke on the Water Live Sonarsound Tokyo
October 2006
Señor Coconut and his Orchestra (feat.
Argenis Brito)
Yellow Fever!
Essay Recordings AY CD 11
Release date: June 9 2006
Atomâ„¢ on his latest album
As early as the eighties, the Yellow Magic
Orchestra was merging the eclectic Exotica
attitude of Martin Denny with an ultimate
update of Japanese music. "Martin Denny and
his line-up created an imaginary musical
landscape of luscious tropical delights:
damp, foreboding jungles, vibrantly plumed
birds in full flight, grimly silent Tiki gods
in clearings overgrown by creepers, sleepy
fishing villages on bamboo stilts, volcanoes
erupting with molten orange lava, alluringly
smiling little brown nymphs in grass skirts
-- the land of lotus blossoms -- in a word:
Exotica. If rock'n'roll is the musical
equivalent of a good hard fuck, Exotica
brings us the multi-orgasmic joys of tantric
sex in endlessly flowing combinations of
mystic union. Or, in the words of Lex Baxter:
'Ports of Pleasure'" (Stuart Sweezy). Today I
am trying to go one step further by
transferring the Yellow Magic Orchestra 'back
to the future': a digital, fully artificial
simulation and cut and paste style recreation
of Latin Exotica sound. We may call it
'hypereclectic'. I have left both the
historical timeline and ethnical space and
move back and forth between musical periods
and styles of Latin music. YMO covered Martin
Denny's originally Exotica style
"Firecracker" in a futuristic yet folkloric
manner. Now I am covering the cover and
transforming it back into a simulation of a
Martin Denny sound.
In "Yellow Fever!" I combine the production
techniques of the last three Coconut albums
"El Gran Baile" (1997), "El Baile Aleman"
(2000) and "Fiesta Songs" (2003): "El Gran
Baile", was not based on song structures. It
was abstract cut and paste. It became the
prototype of the Electrolatino genre. Latino
samples fused with the track logic of
European electronic music. "El Baile Aleman"
put the focus on Kraftwerk covers that were
meant to sound as though they had been played
by a Latino line-up. But this simulation was
created by sampler, without 'real' musicians.
The fusion of Latino and Electro that was set
in motion in "El Gran Baile" is given a new
slant -- partly because of the production
method, but also by processing prototypical
songs (Kraftwerk). "Fiesta Songs" abandons
the obvious reference to my electronic roots
to concentrate on simulating an acoustic
retro-Latin sound, covering Anglo-American
pop hits. In places, the simulation is
revealed by digital artefacts. Again, I
wanted to try taking a new direction in my
production approach: instead of total
programming, I recorded musicians for the
first time, merging the material and original
Latino samples to create something completely
new.
"Yellow Fever!" combines these three working
methods and approaches: abstract cut and
paste emerges in the interludes between the
tracks, and a digital/electronic sound in the
"El Gran Baile" style reappears. It contrasts
with the acoustic passages, reveals the
simulation and is a musical style in its own
right. As in "El Baile Aleman" programming
and covering feature strongly here, merging
with yet another milestone in the history of
electronic music. The Yellow Magic Orchestra
tracks undergo the same kind of distortion
that was applied to the Kraftwerk songs:
bringing Electronica back to the future! The
third step involves working with session
musicians, as to some extent on "Fiesta
Songs". The acoustic aspect of the music is
perfected by the detailed structuring of
complex arrangements, but at the same time it
is contrasted more strongly by the inclusion
of digital elements. The album as a whole is
an extremely complex patchwork of thousands
of parts. Within a single song the musical
course of things changes dozens of times. You
could see "Yellow Fever!" as my first
experiment on the way towards hypereclectic
music. I experiment with breaking down all
musical boundaries -- but this time "only"
within the Latino genre. Another important
point is the cinematic principle: every
moment of "Yellow Fever!" is meant to provoke
images. In this respect, there is a very
close correlation with the concept of
Exotica. I'm not just interested in
recreating styles. Above all, I want to
trigger emotions, images, déjà -vus, and so
on.
Tags : guilty76am Senor Cococnut Smoke on the Water Deep Purple Uwe Schmidt Atom Heart |
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Affichage : 55626
Durée : 296 s |
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