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AFRO FUNK >^< ETHIO JAZZ. Get your Dose of Deep Grooves

Woima Collective (Berlin) - live concert. This Sat, May 12 @Lovelite, Berlin.

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Released by: WONDERWHEEL Recordings
Released on Mar 3, 2012

A special Celebration of the fascinating Musiculture of the Northeast of Brazil with its famous carneval cities Recife & Olinda and irresistable rhythms and dances. Traditional Sounds and Styles such as Maracatu, Forró and Coco fuse with modern clubmusic. Live: Anastácia, Eugenio & Band (Brazil/Berlin/France), Rainhas do Norte (Drums & voices), Dj GArRinchA (YAAM), MC/DJ Tikogo. 

  Wed, 22nd Feb., dj zhao/NGOMA SOUND live @soju bar, Berlin.

> 3min. U1-Görlitzer Bhf./Kreuzberg. We welcome a super dope guest straight from NYC, an Afro-Futurist with his feet firmly planted in timeless rhythm roots - CHIEF BOIMA.

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Carnaval Tropical de Paris, july 2012 www.carnavaltropicaldeparis.fr

for current dates check http://www.myspace.com/dogato

Intercultural african dance collective ALLATANTOU at cultural center "Aqui Ha Gato" - Porto/PORTUGAL.

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Big up LaChusma Crew for their development, passion and impact on the tropical music scene in Berlin over the years - "Penetrating beats, clinging bass lines, funky grooves: La Chusma, “the riffraff”, is more than just an urban sound crew. They issue the ticket for the Transglobal Underground Express, which rides through the parties of the banlieues, townships and barrios populares. Tropical rebel dynamite sounds which blow up borders as well as bourgeois migration clichés."

www.chusmarecords.com

Nomadic Wax Records

New track from MC Diamondog (Berlin/Angola)

Mixtape “Nomadic Wax” Say Word --Promo Track out now--

download:

http://hiphopangolano.blogspot.com/2011/12/diamondogmixtape-nomadic-wax-say-word.html

We deeply appreciate the crosscultural global campaign www.nationlessworld.com

"The distances which once existed between continents, countries &

cultures is disappearing. Join "Emerging Face of a Nationless World" campaign to connect communities, worldwide."

by www.sfenyc.com

"combining raw jazz with latin and arabesk flavours"

-premiere!- Thursday,15th Sept. 2010. A new exiting project by our friend, percussionist and author alfredmehnert.de

*new track. DJ zhao/Ngoma Sound. "Grimey Rough Electro Rai-Step for the end of Summer". Fusing arabic/north african roots with urban european clubsound. dig it!

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In June 2010, Terrakota celebrated its 10th birthday with the avant-première of the documentary ‘On top of the world – Roadmovie of Terrakota in the Himalayas’ about the band’s adventures in India and with a big, three-hour long concert in Lisbon with a battery of guests. That same month, the bands first single of it’s upcoming fourth album came out, ‘World Massala’, a first product of the band’s trip to India. The single is a groundbreaking musical fusion that might never have been done before: Punjabi afro-reggae. Bridging the gap between India and Jamaica, but also between Rajasthani folk and classical India. While the gypsy musicians of Rajasthan Roots take care of the rhythm and give the song some authentic gypsy guts, the carnatic singers Mahesh Vinyakram and Bollywood-star Vasundhara Das take the song to new mystical heights.

The single announced the arrival of the fourth studio album, “WORLD MASSALA” (2010), recorded and produced and released in October 2010 by Ojo Música/Galileo Music Communication. On this new work, Terrakota keeps on mashing up frontiers to bring together music and people from around the world, expanding their musical horizons to Rajasthan, Angola, classical India, urban Cuba, and beyond. Terrakota’s Afro/world mestizo explosion now also has a proper term: world massala! World standing for world music and massala for the fusion, as massala is a mixture of species used a lot in Indian cuisine. The recipe? Bringing new innovative musical fusions without any fear of experiment, just jamming until you find a formula where ancient musical traditions embrace the 21st century.

Other than the Indian guests, the album includes recordings with the Angolan singer-songwriter Paulo Flores, the Cuban rapper Kumar and keyboard, bass and brass from the Lisbon-based funkband Cool Hipnoise. That song with brass is a powerful afrobeat, born in the wake of the band’s side-project, the KotaCool Afrobeat Orchestra, that has done some powerful gigs around Lisbon since 2009.

Maturity On “World Massala”, once again the masters of Afro-Lisboa fusão have used a broad palette of colours to paint a world without borders, masterfully recorded and mixed by Lisbon’s Afro-scene producer Bruno ‘Beat Laden’ Lobato. Whether it’s mbalax, funana, samba, reggae, Afro-Cuba, gnawa, afrobeat, desert blues, batuque, flamenco, maracatu, rap or chimurenga, Terrakota intermingles it with ease in its world massala.

It’s no secret that Terrakota is a live band with one of the most energetic shows of the world music scene. Now, with this fourth recording, Terrakota has reached its tremendous potential in the studio too. The band has found a new maturity, making a more balanced studio album that doesn’t only show Terrakota’s explosiveness but also some calmer, acoustic songs. An exceptional album that should bring the band to new horizons, taking their music to even wider audiences and spreading their message of changing the world into a more positive, equal and balanced planet, where an optimistic and vibrant humanity can exist in harmony, TOGETHER.

Tropical Squeeze! Club Party Special at Betahaus, Prinzessinenstr.19, Sa, 9.4. embrace spring, dance & let loose! DJ marcel (tropicfusion)/DJ diamondog "infectious rhythms" souljazzafrofunkbrazilatinhiphopelectropical
ab 22pm/5,-

Tropicfusion supported  "KOALAS DESPERADOS"-Reggae meets worldwide HipHop". 11.6.2010, Glashaus ARENA BERLIN

Mit Thilo 'Teka' Jacks und Manar El-Abed haben sich zwei Veteranen des Reglerschiebertums zusammengefunden, um ein neues Projekt zu ge“bär“en. Der Kölner und der Franzose, die sich schon seit Schul-zeiten kennen, haben für das Debütalbum der Koalas Desperados insgesamt 17 Musiker und 17 Vokalisten (u.a. Nosliw, Bezegol, Nubla, Jaqee, D-Flame und Maxim) aus 15 Ländern auf Rille gebracht. Jetzt geht das Soundkollektiv mit seinem Drops aus Latin-Beats, Soca und Reggae aus der Karibik, Afrobeat, französischem HipHop und portugiesischem Fado endlich raus auf die Bühnen.  

A good friend, Fabiano Lima, brazilian percussionist & inspired teacher based in Berlin, presents his workshop results "mangue beat". A fusion of funk & rock grooves and traditional rhythms from the northeast of Brazil.

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