Alone tonight : music galore!

Hi ya'all,
My woman is out, kids are at sleep, I'm all yours.

Tonight, let's change the format : I will try to post many different things that I like, from different eras and places, with just few words, and let you enjoy.

First comes, from the magnificent "El triangulo des flamenco" project (Winter & Winter label), the opening tune of the first CD which is simply titled Marxa. I love the percussion / violin combination (violin is not so usual in Flamenco as far as I know, but I know few...).
Hear this and run buy you a copy of this great disc!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtos42ad1zn3v40/Raul%20Cantinazo%20%26%20Antonio%20Montiel%20-%20Marxa.mp3
(try open the link above in your browser, maybe this time it'll work...)

Next tune is one of my all time favourites of Brasilian music, taken from "Os Afro Sambas" LP, from Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell (and many top notch personnel). My copy is on the Barclay imprint and the song featured here is Canto de Iemanja. The tune is dedicated to the goddess of the seas and has beautiful harmonies by Quarteto en cy.

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Ok, let' move to our third feature which is a childish memory to me, as my dad used to listen to this LP on K7. And this proves I already had an ear for both jazz and reggae! It is the opening tune from Don Cherry's "Home boy" LP from 1985 and it's titled Butterfly friend. It is one of those cool cool tunes that warms your heart in a few seconds, nice and easy, even with that 80's sound that I usually disregard. Enjoy!

Share Don Cherry - Butterfly friend.mp3 - 9 MB

updated link...

Let's move on!

Next tune is for hip hop heads and is one little known tune by the legendary Cypress Hill, as a B side of the Lick a shot 12' and titled Scooby Doo. It features a simple but efficient beat made of a crazy double bass loop, finger snapping and "I don't know what the fuck is that brass" classic DJ Muggs productions sound the back. Killer tune and mad rap, pure west coast shit!

Share Cypress Hil - Scoby Doo.mp3 - 8 MB

OK, so next comes some reggae niceness as I think you understood this is my primary musical love...

The tune of the day is a classic from little known but much valued Reggae George (the author of the mythical fig root tune!). It is titled Three wicked men and the version here is teh canadian 12' on the S&W Soul King Records, which I got in a nice company sleeve. The tune is great and concious late 70s/early 80's sound (the JA print 7' on 56 Hope Road label seems to be from 1981...).

Share Reggae George - Three wicked men 12'.mp3 - 15 MB

Eh, wait, Three wicked men? Here is another one, from the late and great Sugar Minott called Three wise men, ah, ah, I can't resist to post it too (and one other day I'll post the Earth & Stone Three wise men, which is also great...). And it's the 7' version so you get the dub side as a bonus, early eighties killer deep roots, with nice label design with some kind of what would be a baby ganja plant...

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Let's go latin for a while, but "con sabrosura"...here comes the Chicha moment with this nice tune from Humberto Caycho A. y Los Destellos titled Por las Mananas (in the morning). Love the 60's sound of the guitar in this Peruvian form of Cumbia, this is made to crowd the dancefloor! The 33 rpm 7' came as a bonus with the excellent El Sonido de Tupac Amaru comp, with nice fluo design. This was made in collaboration with the recommendable Masstropicas blog (masstropicas.blogspot.com).

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Last tune and I'll say good night, we'll finish with Guinean music from the 70's.

This one gives me goose bumps any time, so much feelings, so much sentiment, only African musics delivers like this! he tune is from "22 Novembre" Band and is titled Kouma. It is taken from the excellent Guinee 70, The Discotheque years, which digs deep in the Editions Syliphone Conakry label catalog. The whole comp is diamond in the rough beauty, but this one tune I can't get enough : there is hope, joy, faith, love, all at the same time : beautiful music indeed.

Share _22 Novembre_ band - Kouma.mp3 - 11 MB

Well that's all for today folks, I hope you'll make a nice trip in musicland with all this, as I did putting it together. as always, feel free to comment if you like, if you want more of this or that, etc.

Love music always,

Peace,

ben