Posts Tagged ‘hiphop’

Guts new arts & music project out on their own label – alternative hip hop

Thursday, March 18th, 2010


After ten years of releasing with Alliance Ethnik, and ten more of various and eclectic collaborations, plus a solo album with Wax On, Guts introduces you, in collaboration with Mambo the painter, to the Art&Music project called  “ Freedom”, on Guts´s own label Pura Vida.

Freedom” is an album of bipolar music, dark, yet coloured, oscillating between joy of living and melancholy. The result, as in Guts life, is a musical and emotional voyage. Just like DJ Shadow, Guts albums are entirely composed with samples. In “ Freedom”, for the first time, he lets the samples talk, in order to have them express his thoughts.

This brings on a more conscious and committed conception of beatmaking. He affirms his difference, trying to personalize his music with new messages and sounds.

This way, he tries – with his own words,  to enrich this HipHop getting poorer. As Keith Haring used to say, “I see in my music something that will last and give joy of living”.

Mambo, on his side, is indefinable: Graffiti artist in the beginning, street artist at the Centre Pompidou, painter at the Galerie Agnès B, designer for different brands, illustrator for Canal+ Grosland, graphic designer, he travelled the world with his talent under his arm/in a backpack. Right before leaving for an exhibition in Rio, he has created for “ Freedom” a whole graphic universe overflowing with imagination, you will discover in the inner sleeves of the album.

Guts: “We love what we do way too much to treat our followers as mere consumers, or to abuse/mistreat their ears. From the beginning, our mission has been to offer the best quality in every step of the creative process.  In order to fight against the impoverished sound of dematerialized music, I chose to provide the 2 best supports available nowadays, which are vinyl and cd,  tied together in one packaging.

Freedom is also the possibility of choice. To discover Guts mew world, you can also visit www.analoglife.fr .”

tracklistING A1.  Introducing Mr. F

A2.  Trouble in France

A3.  I AM what I eat

A4.  Bubble (part1)

B5.  Keep the air in my music

B6.  L.U.V

B7.  You’re living like pigs

B8.  Give up your guns

C9.  Teenage rebellion

C10. We want to be different

C11. We hope

C12. Cause we undestand

D13. I want you tonight

D14. Bad side of sex

D15. Te enamores de mi

D16. Silence, ça fume (part1)

Listen to snippets here

<a href=”http://www.ganga.dk”>Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music</a>

http://www.ganga.dk

http://www.flincmusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/gangalounge

http://www.youtube.com/gangalounge

http://www.last.fm/music/Ganga

http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ganga

http://www.gangamusic.info

http://www.bandbase.dk/ganga

http://www.reverbnation.com/ganga

Your voice – what else do you need?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Austrian vocal ONLY band astonished with their genre crossing live performances in Mumbai India – at The Blue Frog.

It must have been a surprise to the audience the forst couple of times they performed there. No instruments, only voice.

But really talented people makes for good live performances, and now they released a limited edition CD with recordings

captured the six nights they played at “The Blue Frog” in Mumbai.

Here is what they write about the project – (courtesey MCON):

“NOTHING BUT HUMAN VOICE AND A MICROPHONE

Austrian vocal acrobats Bauchklang (”gut-tone”) have already received international accolades for their unique genre-crossing sound, created without using any instruments other than their voices.

Which makes Bauchklang the epitome of a live band, and an unforgettable experience for audiences after they overcame the initial surprise.

Their stunning mix of Electro, Dub, and Hip Hop earned Bauchklang two “Amadeus Awards” (the alpine version of a Grammy) at home, and travelled well abroad.

With just their microphones to bring, they became regulars at the most prestigious European music festivals, and now can boast fan communities in over 20 countries, including diverse places such as Canada and India.

Four years after their latest album release, the self-professed “vocal groove collective” now emerges tightened to five members, audibly ripened, and with two new releases ready. Which marks the launch of a new phase of Bauchklang going global, including a fresh web platform, new collaborations with artists around the world, and an international film project.

What started in January 2008 with the first Indian live appearance of an Austrian band completely unknown, and in a newly opened club in Mumbai, just a year later culminated in three sold out nights at what had become India’s premiere live-venue:

Bauchklang live at the Bluefrog club.

Bauchklang first ever live-album, “Live In Mumbai”, features a selection of songs performed on these six nights, including the new track “Signs” – a first taste of the like-titled upcoming studio album – and guest appearances of gifted young Indian singer Shilpa Rao and prolific Indian percussionist Vivek Rajgopalan.

The album “Live In Mumbai” is released as a limited edition collectors item including a bonus DVD with four live performances on video.”

Indeed a very special treat that I would love to experience live. Check them out here.