25 Years of People Like Us "I woke up at 5am yesterday and realised that I'd been publishing music for 25 years, to start with I thought it couldn't be possible, must be 15 or something, since it's easy to get your decades muddled up once you get past the first two! It's often occurred to me that although the internet is fantastic in terms of being a self-distributor or spiders web of connections, people can often be overwhelmed by how much you have on offer if they haven't been with you from the beginning. So I have made a "small" (well it's 25 years of stuff!) collection going through the years of things that I've released, often on CD and LP, but always subsequently online. I have been putting mp3s online since 1998, so it will be an anniversary for that too!" - Vicki Bennett
We are proud to introduce to you our new label Cougouyou Music, a
division of Staubgold. Linked to our record store of the same name in
Perpignan in the deep South of France, Cougouyou Music has a focus on
the local scene in Northern and Southern Catalonia.
Recorded over a ten-day period in Essaouira in 2014, Road To Essaouira fuses Gnawa with jazz, hip-hop, electronic, and modern classical ideas for a unique take on this traditional Moroccan music, rich in history and potential. Composed using keyboards, percussion, gembri, voices and samplers the album features original tracks by Fawda Trio, two reinterpretations by SwamiMillion, and covers of traditional Gnawa and Moroccan works. In addition the album features both local Essaouira and Bologna musicians, including the acclaimed Gnawa master Maalem Soudani.
The extraordinary debut album from percussionist, drummer and producer Sarathy Korwar – “Day To Day” – fuses traditional folk music of the Sidi community in India (combining East African, Sufi and Indian influences) with jazz and electronics.
Yes! This was featured on a Bandcamp weekly podcast last spring
and it's been played a lot around this house. If I remember correctly, there's at least one YouTube vid of the musicians performing (or maybe rehearsing?)
This, by way of contrast, I do not like at all. It encapsulates much of what I dislike about most "remixes" (ignore the original aesthetic and add a house beat) and to my ear it gets wrong exactly what the original album gets right about the relationship between the Western and non-Western sources.
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25 Years of Us
25 Years of People Like Us
"I woke up at 5am yesterday and realised that I'd been publishing music for 25 years, to start with I thought it couldn't be possible, must be 15 or something, since it's easy to get your decades muddled up once you get past the first two! It's often occurred to me that although the internet is fantastic in terms of being a self-distributor or spiders web of connections, people can often be overwhelmed by how much you have on offer if they haven't been with you from the beginning. So I have made a "small" (well it's 25 years of stuff!) collection going through the years of things that I've released, often on CD and LP, but always subsequently online. I have been putting mp3s online since 1998, so it will be an anniversary for that too!"
- Vicki Bennett
"Ryuichi Sakamoto invented vaporwave 30 years ago" - Vektroid
Ian Boddy - As Above So Below
Specifically Trio Mediaeval, Julia Wolfe: Mountain
A really pretty nice ambient release that I stumbled across that I could see GP and some others maybe liking, NYOP:
https://staargirl.bandcamp.com/album/dont-turn-the-lights-off-yet
"staar girl makes drawn out, muddled, dreamy bugs in the grass music"
don't turn the lights off yet
by staar girl
Thanks, @amclark2 - nice so far.IV
by staar girl
This one has singing. Nice too.Ghosting by Aaron Yabrov
Road To Essaouira by Fawda Trio ft. SwamiMillion
https://hantasi.bandcamp.com/album/vacant-places
- Interesting stuff . . .
Sarathy Korwar - Day to Day
Really liking this one. Streamable at bandcamp.
This, by way of contrast, I do not like at all. It encapsulates much of what I dislike about most "remixes" (ignore the original aesthetic and add a house beat) and to my ear it gets wrong exactly what the original album gets right about the relationship between the Western and non-Western sources.