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Grant Phabao & The Lone Ranger - Sweet Talking - out now on COLORED-INC.

Tuesday 10 August 2010, 16:13 1

Grant Phabao and The Lone Ranger Sweet Talking july 2010

Grant Phabao & The Lone Ranger - Sweet Talking
(Digital/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI008, 2010-08-10

The Lone Ranger is one of Jamaica's most influential early dancehall DJs. He was twice voted N°1 deejay on the island, in 1979 and 1980. He helped pioneer a newly rhythmic, on-the-beat rhyming style that led DJ toasting into the modern age, and punctuated his lyrics with bizarre exclamations and sound effects ("bim" and "ribbit" were his favorites) that made him perhaps the most imaginative stylist of his time. Thanks to the incredible production skills of French dubmeister Grant Phabao, who crafted for him a splendid album in 2005 (Kulchaklash / to be pronounced "Culture Clash"), and a hit single in 2006 making waves all over the irie globe, with rub-a-dub partner Carlton Livingston and their cover of Dandy Livingston's Message To You Rudie, The Lone Ranger is now back with his 12th album, Sweet Talking, and another big step towards bringing back the golden age of rub-a-dub!

Franck Biyong & Massak - Realms Of Atlantis - out now on COLORED-INC.

Tuesday 27 July 2010, 16:47

Franck Biyong and Massak Realms Of Atlantis

Franck Biyong & Massak - Realms Of Atlantis
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI018, 2010-07-27

Pursuing their productive collaboration with the Colored-Inc. label, this is yet another release from Franck Biyong & Massak. This collection of moods and athmospheres explores a more relaxed and spiritual dimension of their music.
"We try use sounds and tension/release effects in our musical narratives the same way an archeologist would do with words while relating the lost treasures he encounters in his private diary" says Franck about these haunting athmospheres that are real "conceptual continuity" clues to be found in each of Massak's instrumental releases.
Remixed,remastered, with a different running order of songs this new edition of Realms Of Atlantis features the underground hit B.L.A. that got it all started for Massak on the international level.

Franck Biyong & Massak - Rhythms of our Memory - out on COLORED-INC.

Monday 21 June 2010, 16:29

Franck Biyong and Massak Rhythms of our Memory

Franck Biyong & Massak - Rhythms of our Memory
New Directions In Afro Music - Volume 2
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI017, 2010-06-21

This is the second 'straight from the vault' recordings from Afrolectric Music, a compilation of Massak's most adventurous music, with limited commercial potential (needless to say)... but, who really cares about that?? Based on the celebrations of the abolition of Slavery in France (that took place only 4 years ago officially...), this music dives deeper inside a 'dark night of the soul' state of mind, while bringing forth new sonic dimensions to this bold free-form Afro Jazz madness. The highlight tracks include fine orchestrations combined with the spirit of (outer space) improvised music. These Rhythms of our memory pay homage to a long time oral tradition: Continuity in spontaneity...

Franck Biyong & Massak - Visions Of Kamerun - out now COLORED-INC.

Monday 07 June 2010, 15:43

Franck Biyong and Massak Visions Of Kamerun

Franck Biyong & Massak - Visions of Kamerun
New Directions In Afro Music - Volume 3
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI011, 2010-06-07

Recorded in Cameroon, this Afrolectric 9-tracker - with 9 spoken interludes of some selected elders' wisdom - tells the history and the links of a Southern country with Europe, with an interrogative and perplexed glance over the present state of things.

Mixed by Grant Phabao in Paris, Visions Of Kamerun gathers African harmonies, delicate traditional percussions, subtle afro-jazz drummings, delicious minimal guitar riffs, the tropically powerful Massak horn section, with soulful vocals from Franck Biyong, Sandra NKaké and Gladys Gambie.

Defining a salutary musical movement called Nuevo Afropean Jazz, with a solid, deeply sincere emotional core, the album balances equally between Jazz exploration, rhythmic vivacity, Soul depth and cultural immersion.

All tracks composed and arranged by Franck Biyong

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Doctor L - Land-Escape - out now on COLORED-INC.

Monday 31 May 2010, 00:26

Doctor L - Land-Escape
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI005, 2010-05-31

In those troubled times, where the world goes upside down, we do need good medecine to cure our sorrows... Hopefully the good Doctor is back with a new remedy, a full LP set untitled Land-Escape.

Some may call it ambient jazz, some others avant-garde or contemporary, the music you're about to hear is the result of hours of rehearsals and musical 'rencontres' at Doctor L's studio. It's free and improvised music with attitude, definitely different and personnal stuff, uncompromised yet popular, one for the road or for your living room, a great combination of live sounds and studio wizardry.

Production duties by Doctor L

One Foot In Jail - Hard 2 Find Vol.3 - out now on COLORED-INC.

Friday 21 May 2010, 15:11 1

One Foot In Jail - Hard 2 Find Vol.3
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI005, 2010-05-17

One Foot In Jail is the first venture for the Colored-Inc. label into African vibes. Blending Nigerian harmonies with American Soul or Jamaican Funk, European folk & electronics with Afrobeat, Jazz with souful reggae or deep poetry, with some hefty doses of Reggae, Psychedelia and African percussions in between, this is indeed a kind of a Afrofunk Jazz Thing, a fantastic record pushing the Colored-Inc. label's identity quest deep into the exploration of African, Carribean and Afro-American music.

Production duties by David Murray (10), Doctor L (2,4,8,9), Franck Biyong (7), Grant Phabao (3,5,6), Loik Dury (1), with star guesting Amayo from the Fu-Arkist-Ra, Antibalas, Clip Payne and The Deacon from The Duke & The King (USA), Kiala Nzavotunga and Oghene Kologbo (from Nigeria), Ranking Trevor and The Jays (from Jamaica), and The Gwo Ka Masters (from Guadeloupe)

Franck Biyong & Massak - Spirits Into Sound - out now on COLORED-INC.

Friday 21 May 2010, 14:57

Franck Biyong and Massak Spirits Into Sounds

Franck Biyong & Massak - Spirits Into Sounds
New Directions In Afro Music - Volume 1
(Limited CD/Download) Colored-Inc. COLI006, 2010-05-10

As so called "world-music" invaded the western hemisphere two decades ago, the concept of Afro-Futuristic-Jazz pioneered in the sixties and seventies gradually vanished…
This re-issue release Spirits into Sounds explores this very dimension of African Jazz in a unique blend of "controlled freedom" music where the lines blur between the collective improvisations, tight Afrobeat jams with M’base-sounding-like horn lines, strong percussive work, psychedelic synthesizers, rock guitars…
These new directions in Afro music called Afrolectric sound recall these familiar "sounds" while pointing new directions towards the future...

Diesler feat. Laura Vane vs Grant Phabao - Reggae Magic

Monday 03 May 2010, 01:32

Diesler feat Laura Vane vs Grant Phabao - Reggae Magic
(limited 7"/Digital) Social Beats/Unique UNIQ176-1, 2010-04-05

Reggae Magic is a bubblin' re-work by Parisian producer Grant Phabao of the song Samba Magic from Diesler's 4th LP Ties Breakers which is due out June 2010. Featuring the vocal stylings of regular collaborator Laura Vane, this has been released on a limited edition 7" (with a nice 'Dub' on the B Side) on Social Beats/Unique.

Grant Phabao & Carlton Livingston - Bridge Of Life - out now on COLORED-INC.

Monday 05 April 2010, 00:52

Grant Phabao and Carlton Livingston Bridge Of Life

Grant Phabao & Carlton Livingston - Bridge Of Life
(Download/Limited CD) Colored-Inc. COLI003, 2009-03-29

Grant Phabao presents Carlton Livingston - Bridge of Life is an album resulting from various sessions recorded between 2006 and 2009 in Paris. Grant Phabao plays all instruments (with the help of keyboard wizard Soul Sugar, formerly from Seven Dub). He produced, polished and mastered himself the 11 tracks, along with three other full length albums (!), for respectively The Lone Ranger, The Silvertones and The Jays, an astounding vocal trio with former members of Black Uhuru, The Royals or The Chantells...

The single Teenager In Love is as sweet as veteran rub-a-dub singer Carlton Livingston's soulful reggae can be. It's another instant classic you'll have to hunt down: pressed in Jamaica and released by T.I.M.E.C., it's only available as a 100 copies limited edition 45 - so act fast or cry later!

T.I.M.E.C. - Time(c) To Relax - out now on COLORED-INC.

Monday 05 April 2010, 00:39

T.I.M.E.C. - Time(c) To Relax - French downtempo madness
(Download/CD 500 ex. limited edition, hand-numbered) 2010-03-29, reissue from 2005-08

Pollution, stress, anguish, life is harder and harder on your nerves... In order to cure these nervous problems, the Détendu Laboratories have selected for you the cream of electro down-tempo (also called Lounge music) to bring you calm, serenity and fullness. That's how the artists of the T.I.M.E.C. collective, as real lab assistants, have created in their studio the ultimate formula: peaceful music + out-of-step humour = absolute happiness.

Here are the first signs that have been observed on a sample of the population after the very first listen of this album: better relations with the surrounding environment, a spreading happiness, an irresistible desire to relax (TIME(C) TO RELAX would even stop the fall of the hairs!!!). So don't hesitate to get a prescription for this album at your usual CDs store to finally live and enjoy without stress and in perfect harmony with your inner-self.

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