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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.

4 Crammed albums in iTunes USA Top 10 World!

This week 4 Crammed/Ziriguiboom albums appear in the iTunes USA Top 10 World Music chart.

3 Bebel Gilberto albums ("Bebel Gilberto”, “Tanto Tempo” and her latest, “Bebel Gilberto Remixed") and “Uma Batida Diferente” by Bossacucanova.

More info on the albums and artist availble at Crammed website.

Direct iTunes links here below, you can also connect to your local iTunes store if needed:

Bebel Gilberto Remixed


Tanto Tempo


Bebel Gilberto


Uma Batida Diferent

Bossacucanova in Paris

Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal will perform at the Copacabaret Festival in Cabaret Sauvage in Paris. They will perform several gigs between 23/6 and 10/7.

Check for more tour dates at Crammed website

Info on tickets and reservations, you will find here.

Bossacucanova "Uma Batida Diferente"

CD out now

UMA BATIDA DIFERENTE ("A Different Beat") is Bossacucanova’s third and most accomplished album for the Ziriguiboom/Crammed Discs label to date.

In these new musical adventures, DJ Dalua, Marcio Menescal and Alexandre Moreira successfully pursue the mission they had started with “Revisited Classics” (1998) and “Brasilidade” (2001): updating the classic samba and bossa nova sound and bringing it to today’s audiences. On UMA BATIDA DIFERENTE, voices, beats, cellos, acoustic guitars and samples co-exist seamlessly in perfect harmony.