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Ebo Taylor - Love And Death - out on Strut Records

Monday 25 October 2010, 11:09

Ebo Taylor - Love And Death
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Strut/K7 Strut073CD/LP, 2010-10-25

Ebo Taylor's Love And Death will be released in CD / 2LP / digital formats. He will be touring with Afrobeat Academy beginning in December 2010. Interest in Ebo Taylor's music has grown in recent years with some incredible live shows in Paris and Berlin in 2009, a series of Ghanaian compilations on Soundway Records and Analog Africa and an unexpected sample as Usher lifted a riff from Heaven for his hit with Ludacris, She Don't Know. A new Ebo Taylor album was a natural progression. For new album, I wanted to advance the cause of Afrobeat music. Fela started it and we shouldn't just abandon it. We should push it so it is a standard form of music. The result is a firing new set backed by Afrobeat Academy, a Berlin-based collective featuring members of Poets Of Rhythm, Kabu Kabu (Jimi Tenor collaborators) and Ghanaian legends Marijata. Tracks include new versions of Taylor classics Victory and Love And Death and a selection of new compositions including Kwame, celebrating Ghana's late, lamented leader Kwame Nkrumah.

Ebo Taylor's Journey Through African Music (video)

Wednesday 15 September 2010, 09:50

Ebo Taylor's Journey Through African Music

A musician since the age of six, Ebo Taylor is one of the most achingly honest voices in African music. His songs have a timeless quality to them, and continue to reach new audiences worldwide.

On the eve of his first internationally distributed solo album, Ebo Taylor sat down with the Strut crew to speak about his entrance into the professional music circuit, his interaction with African legends like Fela Kuti and CK Mann, and how he hooked up with Berlin outfit Afrobeat Academy.

Love And Death will be out in October on Strut.

Ebo Taylor Love And Death

Ebo Taylor - Love And Death
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Strut/K7 Strut073CD/LP, 2008-10-25

More info : parisdjs.com/index.php/post/Ebo-Taylor-Love-And-Death
Official site : ebotaylor-loveanddeath.com
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Ninja Tune 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop Funk and Jazz

Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop, Funk & Jazz - Selected by Djouls

Saturday 28 August 2010, 12:44 3

Grant Phabao & Djouls - Ninja Tune - 20 Years of Psychedelic Hip Hop, Funk & Jazz (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2010-08-28 We're still celebrating 20 years of musical activism from the english label Ninja Tune! The huge boxset is now coming out very soon... Parties in Paris and London are starting to get sold-out quite fast, and french magazine Trax has released a special (Ninja Tune 20 Ans...), in which I've written 3 articles. The first one is about 20 of the rarest pieces of wax released by the label. The second is a selection of 20 astonishing or stunning remixes, you might...

Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer (3 parts video)

Saturday 07 August 2010, 13:35

Legendary Highlife and Afrobeat guitarist, composer, and arranger Ebo Taylor (b.1936) spent 6 weeks in the summer of 2009 in Berlin, Germany with the Berlin-based afrobeat band Afrobeat Academy. This film gives some special insight into Ebo's life and ideas and features some live clips of the band in Frankfurt, Germany in July 2009.

Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer part 1

Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer part 2

Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer part 3
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Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Extravaganza

Saturday 10 July 2010, 21:52 14

Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Extravaganza (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) Colored-Inc., 2010-07-10 The Paris DJs extended family has among the most pro-active in spreading the good word about worldwide African music. Celebrating the recent releases by One Foot In Jail or Franck Biyong on our brand new Colored-Inc. label, and announcing the upcoming albums from Oghene Kologbo (thru Kraked) or Ebo Taylor (thru Strut), here's nearly 4 hours of 21st century afrojazz, afrobeat, ethio-jazz, afrofunk and afrolatin grooves - selected and mixed by Grant Phabao and Djouls who are...

The Whitefield Brothers + warm-up by Djouls jeudi 11 mars à la Bellevilloise

Thursday 11 March 2010, 18:02 2

THE WHITEFIELD BROTHERS (live) + Warm-Up by DJOULS
JEUDI 11 MARS 2010 - 20h

9 ans après In the Raw, les Whitefield Brothers (alias les POets Of Rhythm) reviennent avec Earthology, véritable perle soul funk signée sur le label Now-Again, subdivision de Stones Throw!
En warm up, nous avons fait appel a un des plus gros diggers de Paris: DJOULS, membre du collectif Paris DJs et nouvellement a la tête de sa boutique de disque déjà réputée SUPERFLY RECORDS (avec Manu Boubli et Paulo 'Superfly')! IL nous fera une sélection spécial diggin pour l'occasion!

Impromptu drink with JJ WHITEFIELD from the POETS OF RHYTHM at the Superfly Records store tomorrow tuesday march 9th 2010 - 18h/22h

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:57

The Whitefield Brothers at Superfly Records

You might own a record or two from those guys already. The Whitefield Brothers just released a new album on Stones Throw/Now-Again, Earthology, and many others before that as The Poets of Rhythm, Karl Hector & The Malcouns. (check nearly all their releases listed here on Paris DJs).

They will be playing next Wednesday in Lille and next Tuesday in Paris, at La Bellevilloise, with Djouls (yours truly) for the warm-up. To celebrate those dates in France we're organising an impromptu drink party with JJ WHITEFIELD from the POETS OF RHYTHM at the Superfly Records store tomorrow tuesday march 9th 2010 - 18h/22h, 53 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth 75003 Paris (access).

Come and meet a Poet of Rhythm, a Whitefield Brothers, the producer for Poets, Whitefield and Karl Hector at the Superfly Records store!

Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti

Tuesday 23 February 2010, 22:33

Various - Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti
(4x10" boxset/CD) Now-Again/Stones Throw NA50566, 2010-02-23

Fela's music, and that of his organization inspired musicians across the global village when Afro-Beat was new and novel. This compilation focuses on the music Fela inspired – whether by fellow Nigerians recording alongside him in the early 70s, neighbors in Ghana, then-modern Colombian cumbia ensembles inspired by the man who injected a new feel into the Yoruban rhythms that formed cumbia's base, Trinidadian steel bands or the select few organizations left that have maintained Fela's fury in the new millennium. Compiler Egon has written extensive liner notes – and sourced never before seen Fela photos and other ephemera - for this project, included in the hardbound book that contains the CD and in a large-format booklet in the 4 x 10” vinyl box set.

Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Live at ChoiceCuts

Saturday 30 January 2010, 13:09

Karl Hector and the Malcouns Live At ChoieCuts Dublin

Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Live at ChoiceCuts, Dublin
(free MP3 Recorded may 2009)

"This show is a recording from May 09 with our good friends Karl Hector & The Malcouns who have performed for us about 6 times now. One of the tightest collectives of musicians we have had the pleasure of welcoming to ChoiceCuts, this show will take you all over the world with some incredible rhythms, melodies and arrangements all tied together with afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and played by some of the tightest German funk musicians you can hear these days." (Source : ChoiceCuts.ie)

The Whitefield Brothers - Earthology

Monday 11 January 2010, 23:48

The Whitefield Brothers – Earthology
(CD/LP/Digital) Now Again/Stones Throw NA5047, 2010-01-11

While In The Raw's hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk music was grounded in the great musical traditions of both America and Africa, Earthology finds the Brothers infusing their funk with musical traditions that span the globe. With this new album, The Whitefield Brothers - and a multitude of guests ranging from vocalists Edan, Mr. Lif, Bajka, Percee P and MED to musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Quantic, Poets of Rhythm and the Dap-Kings - blend together what might seem to be disparate music into global-psychedelic-jazz using the fierce funk their fans have grown to love.

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