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Owiny Sigoma Band - out on Brownswood Recordings

Saturday 14 May 2011, 14:16

Owiney Sigoma Band
Owiney Sigoma Band - Owiney Sigoma Band
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Brownswood Recordings BWOOD062CD/BWOOD 062LP/BWOOD 062DD, 2011-05-11

May 2011 will see release of the Owiny Sigoma Band's self-titled debut album on Gilles Peterson's label Brownswood Recordings. The record, which is being tagged as a "cross-cultural clash of London and traditional Kenyan music", is the result of a collective of London-based musicians travelling to Kenya in 2009 to collaborate with musicians from the region. The jam sessions that transpired form the basis of this forthcoming release on Brownswood Recordings. If you're expecting the now usual Afrofunk new band, you're in for a big suprise since this album is really a new crossover sound of traditional Kenyan melodies and vibes with UK Jazz!!

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Owiney Sigoma Band - Wires - out on Brownswood Recordings

Sunday 24 April 2011, 14:14

Owiney Sigoma Band Wires
Owiney Sigoma Band - Wires
(12"/Digital Single) Brownswood Recordings BWOOD063, 2011-04-16

The traditional folkloric music of Kenya has not received the same global exposure as that of Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa or North Africa for example and one of the objectives of this project was to try and build on this. The Owiney Sigoma Band draw on a broad spectrum of African influences, from Fela Kuti and Tony Allen to the likes of Thomas Mapfumo and Oumou Sangare, but bar Jesse's participation with Damon Albarn's Africa Express, this was the first opportunity for Jesse Hackett (keys), Louis Hackett (bass), Sam Lewis (guitar), Chris Morphitis (bouzouki/guitar) and Tom Skinner (drums) to visit specifically for a musical project. The results are documented on the band's forthcoming album - a collection of gloriously hypnotic Afro grooves symbolic of the true culture clash between the Luo and London. The project will finally be released in May 2011, preceded by a 12" boasting a monstrous Theo Parrish remix available exclusively via Record Store Day on 16th April 2011. The Motor City legend stripped back the melodic content to the bare essentials and built one of his trademark twisted trips in a whirlwind session with Floating Points at Eglo Studios, London.

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Owiney Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam / Jalako Onyoono Paka - out on Brownswood Recordings

Sunday 24 April 2011, 14:12

Owiney Sigoma Band Doyoi Nyajo Nam
Owiney Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam / Jalako Onyoono Paka
(12"/Digital Single) Brownswood Recordings BWOOD046, 2010-08-22

In 2009, a handful of London-based musicians travelled to Nairobi in Kenya to collaborate with two local musicians: Joseph Nyamungo and Charles Okoko, who hail from a village up country called Owiny Sigoma. The workshop/rehearsals were a lot of fun and pretty fruitful so they set about finding a studio that could accomodate a 7-piece live band. The resulting four tracks made their way to Gilles Peterson who promptly signed the band to his Brownswood imprint and sent the boys back to Nairobi for another week-long recording session with Joseph, Charles and their extended musical family. The results are documented on the band's forthcoming album - a collection of gloriously hypnotic Afro grooves symbolic of the true culture clash between the Luo and London. A 12" featuring two tracks from the original session in Nairobi - 'Doyoi Nyajo Nam' b/w 'Jalako Onyoono Paka' - is out now (go bag it at the Brownswood Store and you get the MP3s for free!!!)

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grant phabao and djouls 21st Century Blaxploitation

Grant Phabao & Djouls - 21st Century Blaxploitation

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 12:43

Grant Phabao & Djouls - 21st Century Blaxploitation(MP3 Podcast on ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2008-02-06 Info : From oldschool wah-wah rides to psychedelic soul, from deep funk to b-boy partying, from soul rock to electronic grooves, from pop to disco, here's the first volume of a new series of mixes, covering the '21st Century Blaxploitation' genre. This is an imaginary soundtrack to a smashing flick yet to be filmed, starring vintage shots of Pam Grier in her prime, animation fused with real-time shooting, uncanny 3D special effects and even more amazing stuff we can't divulge yet!...

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