If you’re into the electronic dub hybrids, you can never go wrong with the Nonplace labeled managed by none other than Bernd Friedmann himself. His Burnt Friedman releases and especially his work with Can’s Jaki Liebezeit are cornerstones of this sonic space that takes Jamaican dub further with added electronics.
His Nonplace partner in crime, multi-instrumentalist [...]

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I’ve downloaded 2 hard to rare albums of the 57 year old Indian saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath from Meshes of the Afternoon. Born in the Karnataka region in southern India, it took Gopalnath 20 years to master the Saxophone. I’ve personally never heard saxophone in Indian music, no wonder he’s the first musician to incorporate the [...]

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Live @ Tokyu Bunkamura Theater Cocoon (3rd Oct ‘06) by Smashing Mag
Another essential middle-eastern dub & electronic fusion album you’ve got to own is a joint project by DuOud & Abdulatif Yagoub. DuOud is an obvious play on “duo oud”, and consists of French Musicians Mehdi Habbab (Algeria) and Jean-Pierre Smadj (Tunisia) who [...]

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Wadi Rum, Jordan
Melting. That’s how we feel in Istanbul right now. The weather’s supposed to go 5 degrees hotter in the coming days thanks to desert winds from Africa, combine it with Istanbul’s world renowned humidity and you get the inspiration for today’s middle eastern sounds with suitable instruments like kanun and oud.
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Based on well-known anonymous folk songs from the Turkish Black-Sea region, this album from ‘98 is one of the best Turkish folk & jazz fusion albums i’ve ever had the pleasure to check out.
The album is successful not only for being a very well executed and nicely interpreted jazz album but also for not [...]

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Back to intellectual music after a week or so of party music and easy listening now that the weather is a bleak gray again. It’s easy to classify me as an aspirant layman in avant jazz & rock & contemporary classic, that’s why I haven’t heard of Aka Moon, before a trio composed of [...]

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