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Music and Visual by Ogeon / eccodusk.
Meditaciones: Secuencia started as an exploration of the sequences of an analog synthesizer, through which the artist tries to induce a kind of meditative state with each of these 10 sequences.
The creation process for this album was very introspective and highly meditative, I only worked on the sequences when I was in a certain state of consciousness, using the project as a canvas to release energies and thoughts stuck in my consciousness. This album is a mirror of consciousness. I want to shed light on mental health and how important and necessary it is to maintain sanity and hope in times of frustration.
released November 21 on No Problema Digital.
For anyone who listened to Outkast for some time, yall know Andre has always been…different. he’s had some of the most poetic bars, some of which I’m still trying to fully digest..
This is just more of his art, if you can’t feel this, that’s fine..as MF DOOM said….those that don’t get it, ain’t suppose to.
by from tokyo to honolulu on No Problema Tapes.
Soon available via Hiraeth Records for European customers.
Mong Tong 夢東 is a sample-based psychedelic trio.
Album Tao Fire 道火 released on Guruguru Brain.
It’s been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia re-emerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC. His first show back appeared on the front page of the New York Times along with a stellar review and he took off from there performing his flavor of Ethiopian jazz all over the world in the years since, including Radio City Music Hall and Montreal Jazz Festival.
Finally, we have a recorded document of the keyboard player’s powerful DC-based trio—which practices each weekend in his basement—featuring Kenneth Joseph on drums and Alemseged Kebede on bass. Beautifully captured at one of their fiery live shows at the venerable Brooklyn non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016, the concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA’s expert audio extraction collaborator Jessica Thompson. The performance clarifies what many people across the globe already know: in his fifth decade of music-making Hailu Mergia continues to push the boundaries of his remarkable abilities.
Mergia and his veteran band energetically and playfully unpeel layer after layer of harmonic and rhythmic interest out of a spectrum of Ethiopian repertoire. Modern jazz demands constant reinvention and improvisation, night after night creating new works out of known modes and classic standards. This band is unstoppable when it comes to turning age-old melodies (like “Tizita” or “Anchihoye Lene”) upside down and inside out until they emerge as molten new works, often spontaneously. Mergia’s original compositions (like “Yegle Nesh”) shine brighter than ever here as well. Moving from keyboard to organ to accordion to melodica, he deftly switches instruments—often during the same song. Mergia at 77 years old seems to be working harder than musicians half his age.
“Pioneer Works Swing (Live)” brings into focus the kind of onstage group improvisation and deadly solo passages that reach for places Mergia and the band have never gone, on festival and club stages across four continents.
Now that Mergia has released two new recordings along with four classic reissues, he is eager to let everyone hear what he’s been doing on the road since he re-took the global stage for his victory laps. So much more than an old act from yesteryear, Mergia balances his legendary Ethiopian recordings with good old-fashioned sweat-soaked live concert triumphs such as the one we have here.