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Cumbancha
Cumbancha is a record label, booking agency and music publisher (popular music), music publisher based in Charlotte, Vermont, United States. The company was founded by ethnomusicologist and music producer Jacob Edgar in 2006. In 2007, Cumbancha Music Publishing was established to expand opportunities for artists, helping them license songs to various movies, television programs, and advertisements, including ''Boyhood (2014 film), Boyhood'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', and ''High Maintenance.'' Cumbancha Booking was founded in 2010 to book tours for artists on and off the label, bringing them to venues such as Hollywood Bowl, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, City Parks Foundation, Central Park SummerStage, and Austin City Limits Music Festival, Austin City Limits. Artists on the label include Idan Raichel, The Idan Raichel Project, Habib Koité, Habib Koité and Bamada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idan Raichel Project
Idan Raichel (, ; b. 12 September 1977) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his "Idan Raichel Project" (Hebrew: ), distinctive for its Jazz fusion, fusion of Electronic music, electronics, traditional Hebrew texts, and diverse musical influences. Prior to the project, Raichel was a keyboardist, collaborating with artists such as Ivri Lider. Biography Idan Raichel was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish family. He began to play the accordion at the age of nine. He was attracted to gypsy style, gypsy music and Tango music, tango, and studied jazz piano in high school. Raichel played in the Israel Defense Forces army band at the age of 18, performing covers of Israeli and Western pop hits at military bases around the country. As the musical director of the band, he learned to do arrangements and produce live shows. Following his military service, Raichel worked as a counselor at Hadassim, a boarding school for immigrants. There h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idan Raichel
Idan Raichel (, ; b. 12 September 1977) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his "Idan Raichel Project" (Hebrew: ), distinctive for its fusion of electronics, traditional Hebrew texts, and diverse musical influences. Prior to the project, Raichel was a keyboardist, collaborating with artists such as Ivri Lider. Biography Idan Raichel was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He began to play the accordion at the age of nine. He was attracted to gypsy music and tango, and studied jazz piano in high school. Raichel played in the Israel Defense Forces army band at the age of 18, performing covers of Israeli and Western pop hits at military bases around the country. As the musical director of the band, he learned to do arrangements and produce live shows. Following his military service, Raichel worked as a counselor at Hadassim, a boarding school for immigrants. There he met young Ethiopian Jews who took him to Ethiopian bars and clubs in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umalali
Umalali is a collaborative project put together by Belizean musician and producer, Ivan Duran. Umalali is defined by the stories that comprise The Garifuna Women's Project. Background For Ivan, in part, Umalali is his own story, built on 10 years of recording various female vocalists and collecting songs that told the stories of the women of Garifuna. The Garifuna people are the descendants of shipwrecked African slaves who intermarried with indigenous people and lived on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in the 17th century. In the 1790s, they were shipped by British authorities to Roatán Island off the Central American coast, and had soon created settlements in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Duran recorded women and the traditional songs in everyday settings: kitchens, in the streets etc... "The project was always about the stories, about the lives of these women, about capturing the essence of their voices and putting them in a modern context. I was looking f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Palacio
Andy Vivian Palacio (December 2, 1960 – January 19, 2008) was a Belizean punta musician and government official. He was also a leading activist for the Garifuna people and their culture. Biography Palacio was born and raised in the coastal village of Barranco. He worked briefly as a high school social studies teacher before turning to music. Palacio received the award for "Best New Artist" at the Caribbean Music Awards in 1991, WOMEX Award in 2007 and was posthumously awarded the BBC3 Awards for World Music award in the Americas Category, in 2008. Contributions to Belizean music and media In addition to the traditional Garifuna music that he played, Palacio absorbed the diverse sounds disseminated by radio from neighboring Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Jamaica and the United States. Palacio pursued his musical ambitions in a series of high school bands, covering a diversity of popular music from abroad. Attracted by the ideals of the Nicaraguan revolution, he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (also called Refugee All Stars) is a band from Sierra Leone which was formed by a group of refugees displaced to Guinea during the Sierra Leone Civil War. Since their return to Freetown in 2004, the band has toured extensively to raise awareness for humanitarian causes. Their story is documented in the 2005 documentary film ''Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (film), Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars''. Their debut album, ''Living Like a Refugee'', was released on the label Anti in Europe on 25 September 2006, and in the US on September, 26 2006. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars' second studio album, ''Rise & Shine (Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars album), Rise & Shine'', was released 23 March 2010 by Cumbancha, and earned 2010 Album of the Year on the World Music Charts Europe. The album was produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, recorded at Piety Street Studio in New Orleans and features local guest musicians Trombone Shorty, Washboard Chaz, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Touré-Raichel Collective
The Touré-Raichel Collective was a musical group led by Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli singer and pianist Idan Raichel. The group's debut album, ''The Tel Aviv Session'', was released on Cumbancha in March 2012. History In 2008, after a chance meeting at an airport terminal in Berlin, Germany, Raichel and Touré forged a friendship with an intention to perform together in concert. This came to fruition in November 2010 with the duo performing at the Tel Aviv Opera House. The following day they entered a recording studio in Tel Aviv. Joining Vieux and Idan in the studio were Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian Calabash player Souleymane Kane. According to Raichel, the group "recorded a mix of Malian rhythms mixed with Israeli melodies — all originals, but very influenced from both our cultures." This spontaneous and improvised acoustic recording session lasted for three hours and marked the birth of The Touré-Raichel Collective. The group's debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupa & The April Fishes
Rupa and the April Fishes is a global alternative group based in San Francisco, California, fronted by composer, singer and guitarist Rupa Marya. Marya is also an author and physician, who teaches internal medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine. The group's songs are a mixture of musical styles ranging from jazz to punk to reggae to chanson, with lyrics in multiple languages (primarily French, Spanish and English). The group began as a duet between Rupa Marya and cellist Ed Baskerville, and then grew to a band in San Francisco. The name derives from the French saying " poisson d'avril r, which means " April Fools'". The group was featured on BBC World Service's and Public Radio Internationals ''The World''. The group has toured around the world and played at WOMAD, the Sziget Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Central Park Summerstage, Chicago Millennium Park, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, and the Mosaic Music Festival. Discog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afriki
''Afriki'' is the fourth studio album by Habib Koité & Bamada, published by Cumbancha Cumbancha is a record label, booking agency and music publisher (popular music), music publisher based in Charlotte, Vermont, United States. The company was founded by ethnomusicologist and music producer Jacob Edgar in 2006. In 2007, Cumbancha M ... & Contre-Jour Track listing *All Songs Written By Habib Koite # "Namania" 4:11 # "N'tesse" 4:33 # "Africa" 4:51 # "Fimani" 4:28 # "N'ba" 4:40 # "Mali Ba" 4:44 # "Barra" 3:48 # "N'Teri" 4:36 # "Nta Dima" 3:05 # "Massake" 3:53 # "Titati" 3:23 References 2007 albums {{world-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wátina
''Wátina'' is the final album by Belizean musician, Andy Palacio, released in 2007 on the Cumbancha label. A member of the Garifuna people, Palacio utilizes grooves and melodies that are deeply rooted in Garifuna traditions. Backed by a multigenerational group of Garifuna players, Andy Palacio put together an album that gained massive success and spread Garifuna culture around the world. Wátina is considered an important piece of cultural preservation for a people group who find themselves sometimes in fear their that their culture is at risk of extinction. The album is seen as "a monumental tribute to the Garifuna of yesterday and tomorrow." The album reached #1 on the World Music Charts Europe in June 2007. Due to ''Wátinas success, Andy Palacio was named a UNESCO Artist for Peace and shared the 2007 WOMEX Award with Ivan Duran Ivan Duran is a Belizean music producer and musician, and the founder and director of Stonetree Records, an independent record label and music recordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garifuna Women's Project
''Umalali: The Garifuna Women's Project'' is musical collection of stories, organized and produced by Ivan Duran. The album is built upon the voices of local women in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The Garifuna people are residents of these countries' Caribbean coasts. Background In the 1600s, shipwrecked West African slaves intermarried with the native Carib/Arawak people on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and lived there until the 1790s, when most were exiled to Central America by British authorities. Process In 1997, Ivan Duran Ivan Duran is a Belizean music producer and musician, and the founder and director of Stonetree Records, an independent record label and music recording studio based in Benque Viejo del Carmen in Belize. He has produced over 30 albums featuring th ... set out to capture the stories of the Garifuna women. He began by connecting with many of the women in the various villages that he visited. After deciding the types of voices that he want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Koité
Habib Koité (, born 1958 in Thiès, Senegal) is a Senegalian-born Malian musician, singer, songwriter and griot based in Mali. His band, Bamada, was a supergroup of West African musicians, which included Kélétigui Diabaté on balafon. Musical style Koité is known for his approach to playing the guitar by tuning it on a pentatonic scale and playing on open strings as one would on a kamale n'goni. History Habib was born in Mali in 1958 and enrolled in the National Institute of Arts in Bamako. In 1988 he formed his first band, Bamada. He released his first solo album, Muso Ko, in 1995, followed by further solo works in later years. Two of his songs, ''I Ka Barra'' and ''Din Din Wo'', from ''Muso Ko'', were included in the Sample Music package included with Windows Vista. Discography Albums * '' Muso Ko'', 1995 * '' Ma Ya'', 1998 * '' Baro'', 2001 * '' Live!'', 2004 * ''Afriki ''Afriki'' is the fourth studio album by Habib Koité & Bamada, published by Cum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
