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New Zuco 103 Video

“Na Mangueira”, the video for the new single by Zuco 103, has just been completed.

The single is extracted from the band’s latest album “Whaa!“.

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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.

Zuco 103 in Spain

Zuco 103 will present their new album in Sala Apolo in Barcelona tonight.

Tomorrow they will be present at the MetroRock Festival in Madrid.

Check also the fantastic “le cool" magazine to stay updated on interesting stuff happening in Spain.

More Zuco 103 tour dates can be found at Crammed website.

Lee "Scratch" Perry Performs with Zuco 103

Zuco 103 will be presenting their new album “Whaa!” to the French
audience on June 10th at Cabaret Sauvage in Paris.

Legendary dub/reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry (who guests on the
new Zuco 103 album) will be joining them on stage for that special occasion !

Lee “Scratch” Perry appears on “It’s A Woman’s World” and “Love Is
Queen Omega”, two of the tracks on the “Whaa!” album, which he also
co-wrote.

For more Zuco 103 Tour dates info check the Crammed website, Live section.

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.

ZUCO 103 Exclusive on iTunes!

An exclusive album sampler will be available next week throughout Europe on iTunes Music Store, ahead of the physical release of the new Zuco 103 album “WHAA!". 

It will contain the following 4 tracks:

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1. It’s A Woman’s World (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry)
2. Duele Le Le (feat. Dani Macaco)
3. Vivente
4. Whaa !

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

Audio previews of Zuco 103's forthcoming 'WHAA!' album

Preview ‘Real’ audio samples available at Crammed website.

Direct previews here of the forthcoming ‘WHAA!’ album:
“It’s A Woman’s World" and “Na Mangueira".

Zuco 103 Live Dates!

Following their forthcoming album ‘WHAA!’ (to be released in May) Zuco 103 Live dates:

(check also Crammed web for more detailed info)

15/04 HOLLAND LEEUWARDEN MC SCHAAF
16/04 HOLLAND DORDRECHT BIBELOT
22/04 HOLLAND AMSTELVEEN P60
23/04 HOLLAND ZWOLLE HEDON
05/05 HOLLAND S’HERTOGENBOSCH BEVRIJDINGSFESTIVAL
05/05 HOLLAND WAGENINGEN BEVRIJDINGSFESTIVAL
06/05 ESPAÑA ALHAMA DE MURCIA MUSICA DE FRONTERAS
07/05 HOLLAND EINDHOVEN DE EFFENAAR
11/05 BULGARIA SOFIA NATIONAL PALACE OF CULTURE
14/05 HOLLAND OSS DE GROENE ENGEL
19/05 HOLLAND NIJMEGEN SPEVE STUDENTPARTY
20/05 HOLLAND BREDA MEZZ
21/05 HOLLAND AMERSFOORT JAZZDRIEDAAGSE
26/05 HOLLAND DEN HAAG SHOW PAARD
28/05 HOLLAND DEN HAAG SHOW A.PHILIPSZAAL
29/05 HOLLAND DEN HAAG SHOW A.PHILIPSZAAL
04/06 ESPAÑA SEVILLA FESTIVAL TERRITORIOS
10/06 FRANCE PARIS CABARET SAUVAGE
18/06 HOLLAND BROEK OP LANGEDIJK INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL
19/06 HOLLAND TILBURG MUNDIAL
22/06 ESPAÑA BARCELONA SALA APOLO (CD presentation)
24/06 ESPAÑA MADRID METRO ROCK FESTIVAL
26/06 BELGIUM EUPEN EUPEN MUSIK MARATHON
15/07 GERMANY KOBLENZ HORIZONTE FESTIVAL
16/07 GERMANY BIELEFELD WELTNACHT
30/07 HOLLAND MARSEVEENSE PLASSEN ROCKIT FESTIVAL

"Whaa!", the awaited 3rd 'official' album by Zuco 103 to be released in May.

“Whaa!”, the awaited 3rd ‘official’ album by Zuco 103
World/electronic/pop fusion pioneers Zuco 103 have included new ingredients in their multicultural blend.

To the now-familiar jazz, Brazilian and electronic components of their music, Zuco 103 have added Afro-Cuban, Ethiopian, West-African and dub spicings, which makes Whaa! a potent, organic and delicious brew… dub/reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry makes inspired, irresistible -and rare- appearances in two songs, and Dani Macaco, the lead singer with popular Spanish world fusion band Macaco appears in another. Out in May.