133 - Solidarity - SoulJazz Orchestra

Now, just in case U are not familiar with the SoulJazz Orchestra, U ought to know that this Canadian bunch of horn players slash vocalists (slash Ganja lovers) are practitioners of the delicate art of musical eclecticism.

I suppose most fellow listeners would be surprised to find out these folks ain't no Africans, or even 'colored'! All we get here is a 6 pack of white northern - yet hot blooded - dudes (one of them is indeed a lady...), who fancy rhythms so much they needed to do something serious about it.
So they came up with a solid salad of AfroBeat, Soul, Jazz, Funk and Reggae. It's tasty, it's spicy and will probably make U wanna move Ur dancing feet.

I had been considering a post dedicated to their 2010 release, Rising Sun, which is a pretty good album overall, if not more... so that might come up someday.

However, a coupla days ago, I haphazardly stumbled upon their latest offering... and after an avid listening, I knew I would be posting Solidarity without delay!

2012 - SOLIDARITY

Suffice to say this one has got a bold number of awesome Reggae tracks and U should shove it up Ur iPods coz that is just the kinda soundz U and I need to imbibe while cruising the wacky weird world...             out there.  

N'joy!

Alac!                                  

132 - Spiritual State - Nujabes

Uno the best thing about blogging again after nearly 2 years of absence?

Well, I dig up new stuff from the free web and I give my brain some unheard soundz on a regular basis, which is sooo precious!
Seems like the mind needs to be fed with unknown items in order to stay young and open.

That's how I discovered Nujabes and Uyama Hiroto when I started this blog, and now it is pretty amazing to find out a new (at least to me) release by Hydeout Prods as I do my come back here.

Fans be amazed! Nujabes tracks keep on coming post mortem and this album has a few gems in it, as usual.

                                                                   

Spiritual State - 2011

Alac

Far Fowls - Nujabes

Down On The Sides - Nujabes

131 - 45's - Hugh Masekela

Voila! I have been through the whole thing of re-uploading. I found out during the process that my links were being killed faster than my uploading rate.

I wonder what's left of the work I just finished in fact, and I now have to verify all the links to find out. So I decided to get an account on 4Shared.com in order to get my very own uploading space and hopefully a much more durable and safer space to host the files for this blog thingy.

I hope that it will be convenient for y'all to download for free from 4Shared.com. 

I also recommend getting an account at RealDebrid for all Ur downloading purposes.
Then U can convert links from 4Shared and a big bunch of other host sites
 into easily resumable premium links.

For now, I can't wait any longer to share with U something new, even though it's an old one.

So here we go: A couple of 45's from South Africa and from before I was born.

       Just four tracks indeed, and that's my re-birth post?

Well, wait until U get them playing and U'll also feel it is deserved. Or at least U should. 

That's right!

Alac

Hugh Masekela - "Do Me So La So So"

Hugh Masekela - 'Puffin' on Down The Road"

Gotta Love It! Welcome Back In Times Like These...!!

In Times Like These IS BACK!!

Namaste Folks!

I hope U are in the mood, coz I have got a broadband, finally... and I have decided to resuscitate this blog of mine, yep, for all those who have come before and found the links dead, and no update, let me tell U: NEVER GIVE UP!

For the new folks, please bear in mind: this is all about sharing and feed back, so please let me know what U think about the posts and whatever U wish to share with me through links is welcome.

In case U were looking for MP3, then just look elsewhere... I nearly forgot about these over the last 2 years.

Uno, since I found out how to play lossless on my iPod, I just convert all Flac into Alac, the FREE lossless audio coded from Apple. It is just as good as Flac, and the size is similar (a tiny bit more).

So in case U're not a geek, Alac is actually Audio MP4 and delivers great quality. It is commonly played by most media players and most crucially, it is favored by the inevitable iPod.

That's it, U will find here neat Alac files, ready to shove in Ur iPods and/or other players for maximum lossless pleasure.

If U are not willing to change a habit, then just pass these through Ur favorite Audio Converter app, and watch them change into good'ol Flac in no time at all.

Well, that's it for now. It will take me some time to re-up the whole blog so be patient, I am going from the top down unless there are some requests.

HOPE TO HEAR FROM U SOON, NJOY!!

Live In Harmony

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130 - Free Patri Ation - Patrice

Aloha dudes and gals, back here for a post that will give U some chills and might cause U an open heart spaced-out session... so be warned.

Now, this is a special new moon we are in... today is the alignment of Earth, Moon, Sun, Mercury and  the mysterious 'comet' Elenin.

Major disaster as been announced and we've been told that many government heads took an unusual pause and are running underground to save their lives. Meteorites are reported falling in various places and a 'fire ball' destroyed two houses in Argentina, killing one woman and leaving six injured.

All the medias are keeping quite but warnings are issued in Russia for instance to stay away from the solar flares which are being reported every other day for a week now...X class flares, the biggest.

So, this might be the last days of the electronic era and maybe we are even going to upgrade DNA and become superconductive light beings very soon. 

So before that, I felt like sharing another killer record...here it is.

Patrice has got some words to say on his last album Free-Patri-Ation.
download and enjoy right now...before U can't.

TO LISTEN URGENLY!!

Alac~1

Alac~2

Stealing Riddim Mix - Inna Babylon Kingdom

Aloha my Brethren & Sisthren...

As U may have noticed, I have been too busy the last month to post much music in here...unfortunately.

World events and my physical condition took the 1st stage... I see the month of August 2011 as one of the most profoundly mind altering periods of my existence. The amount of data I collected and the expansion of my understanding of the current depopulation agenda of the New World Order has struck me with a sense of urgency.

It is urgent to find peace and to accept...to SURRENDER to the higher knowledge and embrace the last hours of this epic dream of humanity. 

Each one should know that the gift of Jah is eternal life. Love Jah and Live, hate Him and die.

 A gr8t mix on John Holt's 'Stealing Riddim'...because Babylon is now stealing whatever U ever though was Urs!

JUDGMENT TIME A COME...WAKE MY PEOPLE!

129 - Transa - Caetano Veloso

Ultimately, patience works. It took me about three month to complete the download of this file from the ED2K network!

How come this lossless jewel of great appeal has been kept so completely hidden? 

Let me bring it back to the light In Times Like These...!!!

Amazon Review......................................................................................................................... Salty Saltillo

This review is from: Transa 

This record is a masterpiece of tropicalia music. The Context: The tropicalia poet has been sent into exile in London by the forces of repression and artistic control in Brasil.
London, 1970: at the height of hippie culture. Surrounded by the sounds of 1960's British rock, the harsh noise of the English language, with the warmth of tropical Brasil and the soft Portuguese language only dreams and memories in a primitive, neolithic, rock-dominated nightmare of exile. He wakes up in the morning, singing an old Beatles song. It is a long way back to his homeland.
At home, in Brasil, the Poet is a star. In England he is a just a long-haired South American man with a guitar and a funny accent. He hears his voice among others... just a common man. His presence in London goes unnoticed. ... "You don't know me..." he says and "You won't see me." He feels anonymous and the feeling pervades these songs.
He has no idea when or if he will ever be allowed to return to his homeland. He might as well learn to play rock chords and sing in English. But it is awkward. He cannot take the hippies or the rock-&-rollers completely serious. He is an outsider to their ideas and life style. He mocks them: "You sing about waking up in the morning but your never up before noon!"
And he cannot escape his memory and his language. Bits of Portuguese surface up from his subconscious, even as he struggles to sing and write in this new, rhyme-less language. Verses in Portuguese force themselves into his English songs. The sound of cuicas and bossa nova chords intervene, even as he tries to play his guitar in the English style. But the sounds of Brasil, and the sounds of Portuguese words, come across as hallucinations, chunks of dream, trance-inducing (trance, a play on words on the title "transa", which is itself a word full of sexual, sensuous overtones).
The Poet goes into the streets of London. He walks down the street and hears a tropical sound: but it is just reggae, not the samba and bossa nova sound of his home land. He remembers a lesson from his days as a school boy, another poet 300 years his elder, Gregorio de Mattos, whose outrageous art earned him the nickname "Hell Mouth" and earned him an exile in Angola. "Triste Bahia" becomes a sort of seance, a dialogue of exiled poet to exiled poet, across the cosmos and the centuries, a communion of language and rhythms that evoke a homeland, Bahia, from which they have both been expelled.
So much for the context, now for the music. It is amazing how dreamy it is while maintaining a bare, minimalist production. No lush tracks recorded one on top of the next. Just a man, a microphone, an acoustic guitar, some background percussionists, and a bassist. If you close your eyes it almost sounds like you are in the sound studio with Caetano as he plays. And how he plays! Every one of these tracks is an amazing typically tropicalia journey to the limits of the accepted, conventional norms of mainstream music. Each starts off soft and conventional, and then builds, builds, repeats, repeats, until finally you are overwhelmed with the absolute force of the noise coming out of your speakers. And then silence. And typically a return to the beginning again."

I proudly introduce the majestic Transa , who's fame has crossed all frontiers and made Caetano Veloso an influential figure of his time.

1972 - TRANSA

INEVITABLE!

Alac

128 - Open The Gate - Lee Scratch Perry & Friends

There is always some part of myth associated to the actual facts when it comes to a figure such as Lee Scratch Perry.

His genius for giving birth to the reggae/dub genre is undeniable, 

as much as his lack of scruples to exploit the talents of too many young artists 

for his sole profit, acting as a shark in the business arena. Go figure.

Conjectures will remain among those who live in conjectures. Others will move on and delight on records such as Open The Gate . Truly one piece of pure gold in the pantheon of absolutely awesome Jamaican music.

1996 - OPEN THE GATE

Walk Through That Gate

Alac

History - Carlton Jackson

Sons Of Slaves - Junior Delgado

127 - Music Sangam - Don Cherry & Latif Khan

Here... 

a very brilliant record by american trumpeter Don Cherry and North Indian percussionist Latif Khan.
A raw, earthly, yet smooth and sweet Music Sangam (Convergence).

1982 - MUSIC SANGAM

             GOODIES

Alac