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New Music by Motéma Music Recording Artist MALIKA ZARRA

21 Monday Mar 2011

Posted by Rob Young in Afro Beat, Biography, Contemporary Jazz, Modern Jazz, Music, New Music, Vocals, What's New?, World Music

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Female Vocalist, Jazz, Malika Zarra

Malika Zarra - Berber Taxi

Jazz has been called one of America’s greatest contributions to the world’s culture, but it’s important to remember it’s an art form that has grown from countless cultural exchanges with artists and styles outside the U.S. An inspiring new international voice, who is both influenced by jazz and is bringing her own culture and creativity to the melting pot, is MALIKA ZARRA. Born in Morocco, raised in France, and now thriving in the polyglot metropolis of New York City, this gifted composer, producer and singer has invented a new Moroccan urban-world-jazz by tastefully using traditional North African chaâbi, Berber and Gnawa polyrhythms to underpin her distinctly contemporary urban compositions, all the while maintaining a sophisticated improvisational modern jazz approach.

Joining other fresh New York faces of the international jazz scene, such as Afro-Latin bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding, Zarra’s sultry multi-lingual vocals move effortlessly between Berber, Moroccan Arabic, French, and English.

With the release of Berber Taxi on April 12th, 2011 by Motéma Music (home to legendary innovators Randy Weston and Geri Allen, and powerhouse newcomers such as Gregory Porter (GRAMMY®-nominated for Best Jazz CD on his debut release), Zarra takes her rightful place as an important world-jazz artist on New York’s multicultural music scene. Berber Taxi takes up its journey following Zarra’s self-released 2006 debut, On the Ebony Road, which has sold over 2,000 copies, largely from her gigs and by word of mouth reputation. Whereas that first album was recorded jazz-style, mixed and mastered in two days, Zarra has, in her words, “fought” long and hard to make this one sound exactly the way she wanted it to. –BIOGRAPHY

The multilingual vocalist and composer appeared on CNN earlier this year.

..:: SOURCE: Motéma Music.com ::..

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Afromassive -][- GRIDLOCK [AfroMassive]

18 Friday Feb 2011

Posted by Rob Young in Afro Beat, Afro Pop, Music, New Music, What's New?, World Music

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Aaron Bortz, AfroMassive, Greg Camphuis, Humboldt State University, Jazz, Soul

AfroMassive - GRIDLOCK

Afromassive -][- GRIDLOCK – [AfroMassive, 2010]

Birthed out of the tall trees and lush green earth known as Humboldt County, California, AfroMassive is collective of like-minded musicians exploring the groove-based music of West Africa, known as Afrobeat. While trying to model the instrumentation from the sounds made famous by Nigerian musician and political activist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, AfroMassive musicians are also bring their own set influences to the table.

The group was the brainchild of Humboldt veteran musician, Greg Camphuis (guitar) and Cleveland native, Aaron Bortz, bassist of Bay Area super-group, ALBINO! Afrobeat.

They soon enlisted the help of other community musicians such as Jesse Jonathan and Chris Noonan, as well as students from Humboldt State University’s vast Percussion department led by the renowned, Eugene Novotney. As the ball continued to roll, the group immediately kept the booty’s shakin’ and the audiences growing. Before too long, the AfroMassive decided to put their sound on tape. The resulting creation is a hard-hitting groove machine, producing a greasy slew of West African traditional rhythm with elements of 70’s funk and psychedelic jazz. –Album Notes | CDBaby

Check’em out at http://www.facebook.com/afromassive, and http://www.myspace.com/afromassive!

..:: SOURCE: CDBaby.com ::..

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TONY ALLEN w/ special guest Amp Fiddler and Props DJs Rich Medina & Akalepse presented by LPR and Props

17 Thursday Feb 2011

Posted by Rob Young in Afro Beat, Concerts, Festivals & Tours, Live Music, Music, What's New?

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(Le) Poisson Rouge, Akalepse, Amp Fiddler, Rich Medina, TONY ALLEN

(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street
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Tony Allen

Tony Allen

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it’s most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat – the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.

Special guest Amp Fiddler
Joseph “Amp” Fiddler, originally a keyboardist from Detroit, is a funk and soul musician who has worked with Enchantment, the Dramatics, George Clinton, Moodyman, Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies, Fishbone and Maxwell. Continue reading →

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