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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
“I like the idea of giving people the opportunity to hear what I hear when I’m producing — a separate candomblé percussion track or some painstakingly constructed soundscape. If mixing is part of the compositional process, it’s only natural that I try sharing the compositional responsibilities with anyone interested in taking them on.” — Apollo Nove
“This is what every intelligent musician should do. The idea is to share and allow one’s work to be cut up, reinvented and — who knows — transformed into something even better than the original. This isn’t about generosity; it’s about inventing new ways of creating musical products that go well beyond the world of physical carriers like vinyl and CDs.” — DJ Dolores
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
(click an image for each snippet)
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 !
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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.
Tags: Cibelle Folktronica Tunng MuLiMob Crammed Discs Apollo Nove Seu Jorge
Congo Band Finds an International Voice in a Junkyard
Excellent article on Konono Nº1 in NYTimes.
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Konono Nº1 nomination for BBC Awards
Konono Nº1 has been nominated for the BBC World Music Awards.
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Exclusive video preview of «Congotronics 2 - Buzz'n'Rumble In The Urb'n'Jungle»
The KONONO N°1 album (Congotronics 1) has started giving worldwide exposure to the strange and spectacular electro-traditional mixtures which are being concocted in the suburbs of Kinshasa, Congo. World music, electronica and avant-rock aficionados have been equally amazed by this otherworldly music, which has driven the international press to come up with extremely surprising comparisons (from Can and Krautrock to Jimi Hendrix, Lee Perry and proto-techno !...).
Hot on the footsteps of Congotronics 1, here comes a fresh selection of even more amazing sounds, courtesy of no less than seven electro-traditional bands from Kinshasa, which have all been especially recorded and produced by Crammed’s Vincent Kenis
Included here are excerpts of videos by the following bands :
Technorati tags: Congotronics Konono N°1
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Les Nuits de la Bossa Nova in Paris
Celso Fonseca plays this weekend at “Les nuits de la Bossa Nova” festival in Cirque d’ Hiver Bouglione in Paris.
Check the website of Festival d’Ile de France for details and ticket info.
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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Brazilectro Crammed Crammedblog Crammed Discs Musicblog Ziriguiboom Zuco 103
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KONONO N°1 American Tour Dates
04/11 SEATTLE, WA EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL
06/11 SAN FRANCISCO, CA SF JAZZ FESTIVAL
10/11 MINNEAPOLIS, MN CEDAR CULTURAL CENTRE
11/11 CHICAGO, IL LOGAN SQUARE AUDITORIUM
12/11 COLOMBUS, OH WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
13/11 DAYTON, OH BOLL THEATER
14/11 ANN ARBOR, MI THE ARK
15/11 PITTSBURGH, PA THE WARHOL MUSEUM
16/11 NEW YORK, NY JOE’S PUB
17/11 NEW YORK, NY S.O.B’S
18/11 SOMERVILLE, MA SOMERVILLE THEATER
20/11 PHILADELPHIA, PA WORLD LIVE CAFE
Check the images below fore some steaming live footage from their first European concert in Paris on Sunday, May 29, at a special event organized by daily paper Liberation. Video images by Césarine Bolya.
Congotronics on iTunes
(click here icon for direct Congotronics acces to the iTunes US store )
Technorati tags: Congotronics Konono N°1
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CONGOTRONICS 2 - BUZZ'N'RUMBLE FROM THE URB'N'JUNGLE
After the explosive KONONO Nº1, the Congotronics series presents 6 other astounding bands from the suburbs of Kinshasa, including Kasai All Stars, Masanka Sankayi and 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.
More info soon here on Crammedblog.
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Preview of new Bebel Gilberto video
After her successful Brazilian tour, Bebel Gilberto is touring the USA in September. Tour dates here below:
08/09 - SAN DIEGO, CA - HOUSE OF BLUES
09/09 - LOS ANGELES, CA - HOLLYWOOD BOWL
10/09 - LOS ANGELES, CA - HOLLYWOOD BOWL
29/09 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
30/09 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
01/10 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
Check also the exclusive preview of her new video of the fine remix of Winter by Finland’s Nuspirit Helsinki.
For more details on "Bebel Gilberto Remixed", go to the Crammed website
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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)
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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.
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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.
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