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Crammed Discs Remix Contest

Creative Commons weblog and Crammed Discs anounced the Crammed Discs Remix Contest.

The Creative Commons remix contest is organised in conjunction with Crammed Discs over at the Creative Commons community remix site, ccMixter. Crammed artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove—some of Brazil’s most innovative contemporary musicians—are offering new sounds online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so people throughout the world can legally use them in remixes, mash-ups, and new compositions. Nine winning remixes will appear on a Crammed/ccMixter EP project to be sold online through digital music stores.

Participating is easy: read the official rules of the contest. (Also available for download as a PDF), download the audio sources, make your remix and upload your mix to ccMixter under a CC BY-NC license between April 26, 2006 and May 24, 2006.

Go to the Crammed Discs Remix Contest pages for all details and separated audio elements downloads of Cibelle’s “Noite de Carnaval,” DJ Dolores’s “Sanidade,” and Apollo Nove’s “Yage Cameras”.

Check the artists view on remixing content on the Crammed Discs Remix Contest pages:

“The whole process of making music has changed. The very concept of composition now extends to the creation of sounds and textures. I’m very curious to see how other people will use and manipulate my sounds and how they will use them as tools to create new music.” — Cibelle

The nine winning remixes will appear on a Crammed/ccMixter remix compilation, to be sold online through digital music stores. Your chance to engage in a creative dialogue with Crammed Discs artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove and get your mix of their work on the Crammed/ccMixter remix EP!

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Cibelle-Devendra Banhart duet

These barely listenable, lo-fi 3gp snippets (filmed with a mobile phone from the side of the stage) only give a very vague idea of what happened when Cibelle joined Devendra Banhart on the stage of the Paris Olympia to perform a version of Caetano Veloso’s « Lost In Paradise ». This was during the Inrockuptibles Festival, in front of a packed hall. Antony & The Johnsons and Arctic Monkeys also performed that night. On clip #2 you can just about see Cib & Dev sitting on the same chair, to the left of the bass amp. A very sweet & inspired performance….

News From The Studios!

CIBELLE is putting the finishing touches to her second album, due for release in April 2006. The tracks were recorded mostly in São Paulo and London, and were coproduced by Cibelle, Apollo Nove and Mike Lindsay (from up and coming UK folktronica act Tunng). Final takes and mixes are taking place in Paris with engineer Yann Arnaud.

TARTIT: Crammed are about to start recording the new album by this Tuareg band who live in the Sahara (in northern Mali), and recently took part in the Desert Blues shows alongside Afel Bocoum & Habib Koité. The album will be recorded in the desert by (Congotronics man) Vincent Kenis on his mobile studio, and in collaboration with Michel Winter, who has been looking after the career of Tartit (with his management company Divano, which also takes care of Taraf de Haidouks, Mahala Rai Banda and Konono N°1 among others).

BEBEL GILBERTO has been writing and recording songs for her 3rd album.

TUXEDOMOON are working on a largely instrumental soundtrack album.

THINK OF ONE: the ebullient Belgian combo have just signed a recording agreement with Crammed, and are working on their new album, due out in late March 2006. Entitled « Chuva em pô 2 », the album was recorded with several musicians & vocalists from the Brazilian northeast, including legendary veteran singer Dona Cila do Côco. Their first « Chuva em pô » project had come out on their own, tiny label, yet had managed to obtain a BBC Award for World Music. Think Of One think of themselves as musical explorers, and have previously travelled around the globe to record with Moroccan and Inuit artists.

CONGOTRONICS 3 : watch this space for more news on the recording of the forthcoming volume in the series !

Cibelle at MuLiMob Event

Cibelle has come a long way since the release of her 2003 debut album, which had established her as one of the most imaginative and original young artists to come out of Brazil. Deeply involved in sound research, and true to the motto of the Anthropophagists (the 1920s arts movement which inspired several generations of artists in her native country - Tropicalia to name but one), she’s been absorbing sounds and ideas from all over to create her own, even more personal brew.  Cibelle likes to use her life as a lab, and claims to be the hamster and the scientist all at once…

Now based in London, Cibelle is currently producing her new album (due out in April 2006), along with a couple of co-producers including Mike Lindsay (from UK folktronica act Tunng), Apollo Nove, and guests such as Seu Jorge (of ‘City Of God’ and ‘The Life Aquatic’ fame) and CocoRosie collaborator Spleen. The album features acoustic instrumentation and electronic processing, noise guitars and children’s toys, textural soundscapes and pure melodies carried by her unmistakable voice.

This Wednesday at the MuLiMob Event in London, Cibelle will be showing us yet another aspect of her multi-faceted personality, as she’ll be playing an eclectic DJ set of exotica, swing, cabaret & assorted oddities.

Meanwhile you may watch this video extracted from Cibelle‘s “About A Girl EP” Dualdisc, which includes 4 new songs on the audio side and 4 videos on the DVD side.

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SETE DO BRAZIL

This real nice and charming review of Cibelle’s performance at the Fiest’à Sète Festival on August 7 describes her as a cross between Beth Gibbons (the voice) and PJ Harvey (the energy)....

Lenine also performed at Sète, and duly invited Cibelle to join him onstage for a duet.

(Pictures © Copyright Patrice Jahanpur)

INDIAN SUMMER

While you’re still enjoying diving, climbing, walking, escaping and doing other exciting summer things, the little bees at Crammed are preparing a beautiful Indian Summer for you…

APOLLO NOVE, the amazing young producer/musician/singer from São Paulo, the man who produced Cibelle’s first record, has come up with an exquisite album: modern yet retro, electronic yet folk, and definitively Brazilian, groovy and sexy. He has invited some seductive voices to sing with him: Cibelle, Céu, Tita Lima and Seu Jorge. His album is called “Res Inexplicata Volans”.

We will also release THE NOW SOUND OF BRAZIL 2 , the new Ziriguiboom compilation. Great songs, unreleased tracks & exclusive mixes from our adored Brazilian artists incuding Cibelle, Zuco 103, Celso Fonseca, Bossacucanova, Bebel Gilberto, DJ Dolores and more… and last but not least the compilation will be sold at a nice price.

Ahhh! HUGO and his album "La nuit des balançoires" : if you don’t understand French, you will miss some of the content of his Twin-Peaks-meets-Conan-Doyle-on-a-surnatural-sarcastic-tip stories, but then again you’ll feel it simply by hearing the atmosphere of his arrangements (ranging from limpid to quirky), his high-pitched voice and his wonderful melodies....

TARAF DE HAÏDOUKS: you were probably wondering when we were going to make a DVD with our lovely honourable brigands? Well, it’s almost done! 2 young directors are working on it. It will include a program with the Tarafs in concert in the UK, when Neacsu was still alive, very touching, and Johnny Depp telling the world why he loves them so much, filmed by UK director Marc Allen. Also, a documentary about the Band of Gypsies playing in their country, Romania, for the first time on their 10th anniversary, shot by Elsa Dahmani. There will also be several bonuses, interviews, video postcards of the Tarafs playing around the world etc.

CONGOTRONICS 2: “BUZZ’N’RUMBLE FROM THE URB’N’JUNGLE” : after the explosive KONONO N°1, professor Vincent Kenis will present us 5 other stupendous electro-traditional bands from the suburbs of Kinshasa, including Kasai Allstars, Masanka Sankayi & Basokin. More heavily-distorted sounds, more DIY amplification… but also a whole array of different rhythms, buzzing drums, swirling guitars and hypnotic balafons. A DVD will be included to show it all.

NOW SOUND OF BRAZIL 2

Soon to be released…

Ziriguiboom/Crammed is widely recognized as one of the major sources of new Brazilian music, having signed and developed artists such as Cibelle, Suba, Zuco 103, Trio Mocotó, Celso Fonseca, Bossacucanova and of course Bebel Gilberto, whose debut album "Tanto Tempo" has become a worldwide success.

This second volume of the NOW Sound Of Brazil series showcases Ziriguiboom’s latest exciting signings Apollo Nove and DJ Dolores, and comprises album tracks and exclusive remixes by all the artists currently on the Ziriguiboom roster.

More info soon here.

Cibelle at Montreux Jazz Festival

Cibelle will perform on July 10 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

The “New Sounds of Brazil” night includes also Seu Jorge and Tom Zé.

More Cibelle tour dates can be found at Crammed website.

“About a Girl” EP on iTunes
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Cibelle 'About a Girl' Exclusive Preview

Exclusively visible on the Crammed Blog, this video is extracted from Cibelle‘s forthcoming "About A Girl EP" Dualdisc, which will include 4 new songs on the audio side and 4 video on the DVD side.

"About A Girl" is Cibelle‘s very personal rendering of an early Nirvana song. This video was directed by Elsa Dahmani.

For more details on the “About A Girl EP”, click here

ARTE Television teams up with Crammed to celebrate Brazil at the Cannes Film Festival

To celebrate the Year of Brazil in France, the Cannes Film Festival is organising a special screening of the mythical Marcel Camus film Orfeu Negro (which was awarded the Palme d’Or in 1959), followed by a cocktail party on the boat which hosts Franco-German TV channel ARTE, during which a documentary entitled Searching For Orfeu Negro will be shown in the presence of Brazil’s Minister Of Culture (and megastar) Gilberto Gil and of ARTE president Jérome Clément. This event takes place on May 18.

On this occasion, ARTE Television has teamed up with the CRAMMED DISCS label to produce a limited-edition DVD containing excerpts from a documentary by Simon Brook (Magical Jungle), an interactive map of Brazil, music videos by Bebel Gilberto and Zuco 103, and six audio tracks by Cibelle, Bebel Gilberto, DJ Dolores, Zuco 103, Celso Fonseca and Suba (*), who rank among the best exponents of the new wave of Brazilian music, and who have all been discovered and released by Crammed on its Ziriguiboom imprint.

(*) The Suba track happens to be “Felicidade”, a modernist version of a song taken from the Orfeu Negro soundtrack.

CIBELLE 'ABOUT A GIRL'

"About A Girl EP" is a DualDisc EP by Cibelle, featuring 4 new tracks and 4 videos. Her debut album established her as one of the most original and seductive young artists to come out of Brazil.

Out in May

Cibelle is about to do a giant leap forward with the new album she’s now working on. This limited-edition EP points to the new directions she’s exploring (more folk, more microbeats, more sonic inventivity...). The CD side contains four new songs, including the title track, a cover of an early Nirvana song. The DVD side contains four videos made by young filmmaker Elsa Dahmani (Tony Gatlif’s daughter) and by Cibelle herself.

New Tour Dates added

Check for latest added tour dates and updates on Crammed LIVE website section.

New Tour dates added for DJ Dolores, Cibelle, Konono N°1, Zuco 103, Taraf de Haïdouks, Mahala Rai Banda and Koçani Orkestar

Dreams That Money Can Buy

Cibelle will be performing with The Real Tuesday Weld new dark and decadent Live Music Premiere Film Score to Hans Richter‘s 1946 American Freudian Surrealist Drama: "Dreams That Money Can Buy", a film by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Fernand Leger.

"Are you a dream dealer? I will sell one to you, for I have so many, you see.”

REALITY & THE NATIONAL FILM THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENT 21st CENTURY PSYCHOANALYTICAL CABARET WITH THE REAL TUESDAY WELD LIVE ON STAGE - INTRODUCED BY PEEP SHOW NABOB DAVID PIPER AND HIS BURLESQUE BEAUTIES - PERFORMING THEIR NEW DARK AND DECADENT LIVE MUSIC PREMIERE FILM SCORE TO HANS RICHTER’S 1946 AMERICAN FREUDIAN SURREALIST DRAMA: “DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY” .

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NATIONAL FILM THEATRE. SOUTH BANK
SATURDAY 30th APRIL 2005. 8.45 pm
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Surrealist painter and Dada film-theorist Hans Richter wrote, produced, and directed the experimental exercise Dreams That Money Can Buy, one of the most significant contributions to the 20th-century “avant garde” movement.

The project began in 1944, while Richter was director of the Institute of Film Techniques at City College in New York. Combining short scenarios written by world-renowned artists Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamps, Man Ray, Alexander Calder and Fernand Leger, Richter came up with a full-colour, feature-length study in dreamlike “wish fulfilment.”

The film’s only nod to continuity is the presence of a self-styled heavenly psychiatrist, whose patients purportedly visualize the images which play across the screen. Described by one observer as “surreal yet somewhat Jungian,” Dreams That Money Can Buy cost $25,000 and was three years in the making.

Its New York premiere was greeted with a mixture of bravos and bewilderment, especially when the projectionist elected to show the film on the wall and ceiling rather than the screen. 

Dreams That Money Can Buy won a special prize at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. 

"About A Girl" DualDisc EP to be released in May.

"About A Girl” DualDisc EP, by Cibelle, featuring 4 new tracks and 4 videos, to be released in May.

Her debut album established her as one of the most original and seductive young artists to come out of Brazil. Cibelle is about to do a giant leap forward with the new album she’s now working on. This limited-edition EP points to the new directions she’s exploring (more folk, more microbeats, more sonic inventivity...). The CD side contains four new songs, including the title track, a cover of an early Nirvana song. The DVD side contains four videos made by young filmmaker Elsa Dahmani (Tony Gatlif’s daughter) and by Cibelle herself. Out in May.

Cibelle Paris Gig

Au Triptyque, le 29 avril

More about Cibelle at Crammed web