18-01-2008 Hooverphonic Nederland - Utrecht - Tivoli 19-01-2008 Naõ sou Malouco Belgium - CC Lokeren - Favela Força (capoeira, dance, world music Brazil) - www.mundialproductions.nl 24-01-2008 Hooverphonic Nederland - Eindhoven - De Effenaar Grote Zaal
04-03-2008 Mafalda Arnauth Nederland - Den Haag - De Regentes 05-03-2008 Mafalda Arnauth Nederland - Amsterdam - Concertgebouw 12-03-2008 Cristina Branco Nederland - Eindhoven Airport Zaal - Muziekcentrum Frits Philips 20-03-2008 Tcheka France - Festival de jazz de Grenoble - Saint-Martin 23-03-2008 Cristina Branco Nederland - De Meervaart
01-04-2008 Mineral Jazz # 5 Mineral Jazz Club, Onderbergen 25, Gent, 20.30, 5 euro www.handelsbeurs.be 20-04-2008 Sara Tavares Luxembourg - Philharmonie 23-04-2008 Sara Tavares Belgium - CC Hasselt 24-04-2008 Sara Tavares Belgium - Turnhout - De Warande 26-04-2008 Sara Tavares Belgium - Stadsschouwburg Leuven 27-04-2008 Sara Tavares Belgium - Arenbergschouwburg Antwerp
07-05-2008 Pedro Caldeiro Cabral Belgium - Antwerpen - De Singel 09-05-2008 Mariza Portugal - Lisboa - Torre de Belem - 7 Maravilhas EDP
27-06-2008 Couleur Café Music Festival at "Thurn & Taxis" in Brussel with Arsenal, MC Solaar, James Deano, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, Jimmy Cliff and Kery James 28-06-2008 Couleur Café Music Festival at "Thurn & Taxis" in Brussel with Arsenal, MC Solaar, James Deano, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, Jimmy Cliff and Kery James 29-06-2008 Couleur Café Music Festival at "Thurn & Taxis" in Brussel with Arsenal, MC Solaar, James Deano, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, Jimmy Cliff and Kery James . Act of Zucchero
A simple melody can touch all people over the world. Life is like playing an instrument. The older you get the better you play.
21-04-2008
Brazil - João Gilberto
João Gilberto, de son vrai nom João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, est un musicien brésilien, considéré comme le principal créateur de la bossa nova. Il est né le 10 juin 1931 à Juazeiro dans létat de Bahia. Il remporte un vif succès au Brésil avec la chanson Chega de saudade en 1958. C'est véritablement en 1962 que son succès devient international avec son interpétation de Garota de Ipanema, accompagné de Stan Getz, aujourd'hui devenue une chanson internationale chantée en plusieurs langues par de nombreux artistes prestigieux tels que Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole ou encore Ella Fitzgerald. De nos jours, João Gilberto continue à donner des concerts à travers le monde.
À l'âge de 14 ans, João Gilberto entre en contact pour la première fois avec la musique lorsque son grand-père lui offre sa première guitare. À 18 ans, il quitte son village natal pour se rendre dans la grande ville de Salvador de Bahia. Guitariste autodidacte, il monte finalement à Rio de Janeiro en 1950 et y obtient quelques succès au sein dune formation de lépoque, Garotos da Lua, dont il est congédié un an plus tard après trois enregistrements en tout. Suivent plusieurs années derrance et de marginalité, pendant lesquelles il na de cesse de se trouver un mode dexpression à la guitare.
Ses efforts sont récompensés à partir de 1957, notamment par la rencontre du compositeur Tom Jobim avec qui il enregistre les premiers et les plus grands succès de la bossa nova, d'abord comme guitariste sur un disque de Elizeth Cardoso, Canção do Amor Demais, co-composé par Jobim et le poète Vinicius de Moraes. Il sort en 1958 ses propres 78T et 33T Chega de Saudade, lesquels lancent au Brésil à la fois la carrière de João Gilberto et tout le mouvement musical bossa nova. Ce premier album de João Gilberto obtient un succès énorme au Brésil. Il est en général considéré comme le premier véritable album bossa nova. Outre l'inoubliable Chega de saudade, il contient Desafinado, Rosa morena et Brigas nunca mais.
Deux autres 33T, O amor, o sorriso e a flor et João Gilberto, suivent en 1960 et 1961, contenant, outre des compositions de Jobim/Moraes (Corcovado, Insensatez, O amor em paz), des chansons de leurs aînés Dorival Caymmi (Samba da minha terra, Saudade da Bahia, Rosa Morena), des sambas des années 30 (A primeira vez), de nouvelles compositions de Carlos Lyra (Você e eu, Coisa mais linda) et Roberto Menescal (O barquinho), mais exécutées dans ce style novateur mis au point par João. Son style peut se résumer en une adaptation à la guitare solo de la rythmique syncopée du samba traditionnel.
À partir de 1962, la bossa intéressant certains jazzmen aux États-Unis, dont Stan Getz, Gilberto et Jobim se rendent à New York afin de travailler sur ce qui devait devenir le best-seller du jazz, le 33T Getz/Gilberto, sur lequel la femme de João, Astrud, commence aussi sa carrière de chanteuse, notamment avec la chanson Garota de Ipanema/The Girl from Ipanema. Le disque est un triomphe et un concert historique a lieu au Carnegie Hall le 9 octobre 1964. Ce dernier sera d'ailleurs enregistré et un second album Getz/Gilberto vol.2 paraît en 1966.
João Gilberto continue à jouer dans les années 1960, mais attend 1970 pour produire un nouvel album studio, Ela é Carioca, réalisé lors d'un séjour à Mexico. Le disque João Gilberto, parfois surnommé lalbum blanc de la bossa, sort en 1973. Interprété presque uniquement au chant-guitare, et dune sensibilité cool, presque mystique, ce disque marque un certain éloignement du son de João jusqualors. Cet album reprend le succès Aguas de março et regroupe entre autres Falsa bahiana et E preciso perdoar.
En 1976 paraît The Best of Two Worlds, nouvelle collaboration avec Stan Getz regroupant la plupart des chansons précédemment interprétées sur lalbum blanc. Y chante aussi Miucha, femme de João depuis 1965. Amoroso, en 1977, vient ajouter à cette voix-guitare les orchestrations de cordes de Claus Ogerman, lequel avait collaboré à de précédents albums de Tom Jobim. Cet album reprend Retrato em branco e preto ainsi que des succès étrangers (S Wonderful, Estate, Besame mucho). Une constante de ces albums et des suivants : leur répertoire consiste pour presque moitié de compositions de Jobim, le reste étant des reprises danciens sambas, voire des succès populaires dautres pays.
En 1980 paraît Brasil, collaboration avec Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso et Maria Bethânia, la nouvelle génération de la musique populaire brésilienne dalors (le mouvement tropicaliste). D'anciens succès populaires brésiliens, tels que Aqualera do Brasil, No tabuleiro da Bahiana et Bahia com H, font de cet album un véritable manifeste de l'âme brésilienne. En 1991, l'album João a la particularité de ne contenir aucune chanson de Tom Jobin. Mais il y revient en 2000 sur Voz e Violão, produit par Caetano Veloso, en réenregistrant ses premiers succès Chega de Saudade et Desafinado.
Personnalité excentrique que celle de João Gilberto, réputée pour sa réclusion et son perfectionisme quasi névrotiques, capable de vivre dans un hôtel de luxe de Rio de Janeiro pendant des années, refusant toute interview, ne sortant presque jamais , ou dabréger ses spectacles pour cause de public irrespectueux, ou de sonorisation inadéquate. Cependant il continue à donner des concerts tant au Brésil que dans les principales villes du monde, concerts dépassant généralement deux heures, et dont plusieurs enregistrements sont disponibles sur disques compacts : Live in Montreux (1985), Prado Pereira de Oliveira (1980), Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar (1994), Live at Umbria Jazz (1996), et In Tokyo (2006)
João Gilberto nasceu a 10 de junho de 1931 em Juazeiro, na Bahia, em família de músicos amadores e ali, ainda adolescente, formou o conjunto Enamorados do Ritmo. Aos dezoito anos tornou-se crooner da Rádio Sociedade da Bahia, em Salvador, transferindo-se para o Rio de Janeiro em 1950, onde integrou o conjunto vocal Garotos da Lua, que atuava na Rádio Tupi, com quem gravou dois discos no ano seguinte. Iniciou depois carreira solo, gravando mais um disco e, logo após, integrou dois outros conjuntos, tendo também sua primeira composição gravada.
Retirou-se do Rio de Janeiro entre 1955 e 1957, quando se dedicou ao aprimoramento técnico e aperfeiçoou um novo estilo. De retorno à capital, lutou para apresentar a novidade, que, afinal, nasceu pronta, inteira, em um disco de 78 rpm gravado em julho de 1958, cujo impacto mudou o rumo da música brasileira. Em março de 1959 foi lançado seu primeiro álbum, Chega de saudade, seguido de mais dois nos anos subseqüentes; estava consolidada a nova linguagem musical.
A sonoridade criada por João Gilberto, acrescida de um ritmo original, popularizou desde cedo o samba moderno com o nome de bossa nova. Toda uma geração de jovens músicos foi influenciada pela nova estética, provocando uma onda comercial. Depois de revolucionar a música brasileira, o som de João Gilberto atingiu os músicos de jazz, que o identificaram como fenômeno. Seus discos começaram a ser levados do Brasil por músicos americanos em turnês, copiados, transmitidos em programas radiofônicos de grande audiência entre jazzistas e por fim, antes de se encerrar o ano de 1961, foi lançado nos Estados Unidos o álbum Brazil's Brilliant João Gilberto.
Durante o ano de 1962 a bossa nova ganhou popularidade internacional. O sucesso comercial de um álbum do violonista Charles Byrd com o saxofonista Stan Getz ocasionou a corrida dos jazzistas aos estúdios e a onda do "jazz samba", com dezenas de álbuns lançados naquele outono americano. Em novembro, João Gilberto apresentou-se no Carnegie Hall, em Nova York, fixando residência ali até 1979 (entre 1969 e 1971 morou na cidade do México). Seu primeiro álbum gravado nos Estados Unidos, Getz/Gilberto, permaneceu um ano no depósito da gravadora, por estar o mercado já saturado das imitações. Lançado em 1964, depois da onda comercial, foi aclamado como a bossa nova verdadeira, dividiu o topo das paradas de sucesso com The Beatles por 96 semanas, recebeu nove indicações e quatro prêmios Grammy, atingiu vasta audiência internacional, tornou-se best seller durante anos, lançou a canção Garota de Ipanema e a cantora Astrud Gilberto, então Sra. João Gilberto.
A porta estava definitivamente aberta para a música popular do Brasil no exterior, que, a partir daí, passou a exportar regularmente não só música, mas também músicos. O trabalho de difusão da moderna música brasileira manteve João Gilberto residindo no exterior por dezessete anos, tempo em que firmou a bossa nova como idioma musical brasileiro e conquistou prestígio pessoal definitivo. Por três vezes esteve concorrendo ao Grammy como melhor cantor de jazz: com Getz/Gilberto (1964); com Amoroso (1977); e com Live in Montreux (1988). Seu álbum, João Voz e Violão, levou a estatueta em 2001.
Considerado uma das personalidades artísticas mais originais e um dos músicos mais influentes do mundo contemporâneo, João Gilberto vive no Rio de Janeiro, de onde sai para disputadas apresentações em festivais e salas de concerto ao redor do mundo.
It's her first album in 5 years and a big event for all her fans, who have been so patient all this time. You can check out some of Alsou's [pronounced alsoo like soon] vids (or just search youtube):
Chango Spasiuk nació en septiembre de 1968 en Apóstoles, pequeña localidad de Misiones, una provincia con características culturales sumamente particulares. Región fronteriza con el sur de Brasil y Paraguay, en ella conviven y se fusionan en un complejo tejido social las comunidades nativas originales (mbya-guaraní), la población criolla y las colectividades extranjeras llegadas al país a principios del siglo XX, entre ellas la ucraniana a la cual Chango está estrechamente relacionado, ya que sus abuelos eran inmigrantes.
La infancia en la carpintería de Lucas, su papá violinista y de Marcos, su tío cantor; los patios musicales de tierra colorada, el clima subtropical, la selva, los anchos ríos; los agricultores de azadas y machetes, las plantaciones de yerba mate, los dúos de cantores. Todos estos elementos son parte del mundo que hay detrás de la textura de su música y su acordeón.
Hereda la tradición de las polcas rurales tocadas en familia, pero es específicamente en el ámbito del chamamé, la expresión folklórica más significativa del nordeste argentino, donde Spasiuk despliega su mayor actividad interpretativa y compositiva, valorando el legado de figuras como Cocomarola, Abitbol, Montiel y Martínez Riera entre otros.
Desde un lugar sin prejuicios y absoluta libertad, hace un cóctel de ricas sonoridades donde también hay schotis, polcas rurales, rancheras y rasguidos dobles.
They are childhood friends, growing up together in the narrow streets of the Western part of Athens. Their songs focus on living in lower-class inner-city areas. Perhaps they feel homesick. Their childhood is marked by the poverty of people living next door and their music has been influenced by the revolutionary passion of their neighbours. They know well that resistance, the ultimate fortress against degenerative one-way lives, lies in these inner-city neighbourhoods, in villages and small towns. Places where a hand shake is still meaningful and not a mere formality.
In 1990 they lay their cards on the table with their first LP entitled "TI ALLO BORIS NA PIS PIO APLA?" [What else can you say more simply?] thanks to which they overcome the critics reservations and gain popularity among youth. In 91 they release an LP called DISKOLI KERI [Tough Times]. Their consistency slackens inhibitions and the group s popularity increases among the same audience, an audience open to various and varying musical styles.
In 93 PIX LAX present their own views and feelings about the winter with the LP O ILIOS TO XIMONA ME MELANHOLI [The sun in winter makes me sad]. The following year they release O BABOULAS TRAGOUDAI MONOS TOU TIS NIHTES [The Bogeyman sings all alone at night] which features the voice of Gordon Gano, singer of VIOLENT FEMMES on one track. 1997 was a very fruitful year for PIX LAX, following the release of an LP recorded live at the IERA ODOS club with participation of George Dalaras. Moreover, that same year they also release another compilation, this time in limited edition, entitled PEXE PALIATSO, TA TRAGOUDIA SOU TELIONOUN [Clown keep playing, your songs will soon be over].That summer they tour all over Greece, a tour highlighted by their amazing appearance at the ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL and their two sold-out concerts at Lycabettus theatre.
In November 1998 they compose the soundtrack of the film made by Panagiotatos MONAXIA MOU OLA, O EROTAS KIMITHIKE NORIS, [My loneliness is everything, love went to sleep too soon] while the winter of the same year was marked by a number of appearances at the Near the River club. In March, PIX LAX travelled to Great Britain for a series of appearances in London, Oxford, Manchester and Coventry. It was the first time that a group whose lyrics are solely in Greek gave four sold-out performances. Their next release was called STILVI and included a cover of Bob Dylans Tales of Yankee Power along with their own hit My loneliness is everything... recorded live at Near The River club.
In March 1999, band musician Alkis Papadopoulos composes the soundtrack of Yiannis Paraskevopoulos film Netrino, and PIX LAX participate with their own GEFIRES ME PETRES TIS SIOPIS [Bridges of stones of silence] and their rendition of IPARHOUN DROMI STH SIOPI [There are ways in the darkness].
In July 1999, PIX LAX joined their voices with those of I MUVRINI, the most popular Corsican band and one of the biggest ethnic artists in France. This Greek-Corsican co-operation resulted in a CD single entitled ASE TIN IKONA NA MILA [Let the image speak...] containing three songs with Sting participating in the last one. The CD was available in record shops throughout Europe and went platinum. That years live appearances were topped off by their opening for R.E.M. in Athens under the banner of the Rockwave Festival.
Filippos Pliatsikas He was born and grown up in Kaminia of Piraeus.He has written many songs of Pix Lax and also singed some.In April of 2002 he published his CD-Single named 'Dahtilidia tis augis'.In Semptember of that year he published an album called 'Ena vrohero taxi'.His calm and hopeful voice makes him different.
He was born in Voupertal of Germany,but he was grown up in Menidi of Athens.He has singed the most of Pix Lax songs and written a few of them.In 2000,he published his own album named 'Poulia tis nihtas' and these days he published his new CD-Single.He is famous about his loud folk voice which makes him lovely to Pix Lax fanatics.
Manos Xidous He was born in Agi Anargiri in 1950.He has been working as a music producer at Minos EMI and he has some gold and platinum albums in his collection.He has written many songs of Pix Lax and singed too.He has also written some songs of other artists as Vasilis Karras,Lakis Papadopoulos,Giorgos Dalaras,Giannis Parios and others.He likes singing rock songs and he absolutely makes it.
2004 is the last for the Greek band. On 18 & 20 September they gave their last concerts in Athens and Thessaloniki and after these concerts they published their last LIVE recording disc.
Like the atmosphere created by the sound .... even though we don't know a clue what they are singing about
Sigur Rós est un groupe musical islandais apparenté au mouvement post-rock/space rock/ambient, créé à Reykjavik en 1994. Le style de Sigur Rós a des éléments classiques et minimalistes, et il est éthéré. Le fausset de Jónsi est aussi célèbre.
Jónsi alla chitarra. Concerto a Reykjavik (2005)
Sigur Rós durante una presentación en vivo en Roskilde Festival, año 2006.
Los Rodríguez fue un grupo de rock, formado en España por dos argentinos y dos españoles, que desarrolló su carrera en la década de los 90. En su formación tuvo a grandes músicos como Andrés Calamaro, Ariel Rot y Julian Infante.
The group was born in 1990 when Ariel Rot and Julián Infante (members of the famous group Tequila) joined Andrés Calamaro from the band, Los Abuelos de la Nada, and Germán Vilella. They started touring around small clubs in Madrid. In 1991 their first album, Buena Suerte, was released . Its song Mi Enfermedad was a hit in Argentina with Fabiana Cantilo's cover.But was their 193 album Sin Documentos that brought the group to the hit parade. With songs as Dulce condena, Sin documentos, Mi rock perdido, and Me estás atrapando otra vez. The next album, 1995's Palabras más, palabras menos, was another success. The album contains Mucho Mejor (with Coque Malla), Todavía una canción de amor (with lyrics by Joaquín Sabina, whom they toured with that year) and Milonga del marinero y el capitán. In 1997 they realesed Hasta luego, a compilation album, and went on tour. The band broke apart due to economic conflicts.
La idea de Calamaro era crear un sonido a medio camino entre el rock anglosajón, con importantes influencias de los Rolling Stones, y la música de raíz española, principalmente la rumba y el flamenco. Buen ejemplo de ello son "Sin Documentos", "Engánchate conmigo" o "Para no olvidar", que contó con la guitarra de Raimundo Amador. Aún así, tanto Rot como Calamaro, los principales compositores del grupo, siempre se han caracterizado por su eclecticismo musical, también presente en su etapa en Los Rodríguez, en la que flirtearon con géneros como el bolero ("Copa rota"), la ranchera "Salud (dinero y amor)", "Sol y sombra" o "El último trago"), la milonga ("Milonga del marinero y el capitán") el funk ("No estoy borracho", "Algo se está rompiendo") y el blues ("El profesional").
En lo que respecta a las letras, la batuta principal la sostenía Andrés Calamaro, que a sus influencias de los Stones y Bob Dylan y los compositores de rock argentino, intentó sumar otras de España, especialmente a través de la figura de Joaquín Sabina.El gran éxito que alcanzaron a partir de Sin Documentos hizo que muchos grupos posteriores, sobre todo en España, recogieran su influencia, llegando a algunos a ser acusados de burdos imitadores, como Los Cucas.
Mory Kante est lhéritier de la tradition des griots, les djéli du Mandé, empire dAfrique de lOuest qui à son apogée, sous le règne de Soundiata Keïta au XIIIe siècle, sétendait depuis la côte atlantique jusquà la région de Gao. Son premier enseignement musical, il le reçoit avant même sa naissance, le 29 mars 1950 à Albadaria près de Kissidougou en Guinée forestière. Sa mère Fatouma Kamissoko, communique avec lui en musique, alors quil est dans son ventre.
Dorigine malienne, Fatouma est la fille de Djéli Mory Sanda Kamissoko dit Sanda (le mot, le proverbe et le verbe), chef spirituel des griots des pays de Kouranko et de Sankarãn en Guinée. Cest le vieil homme lui-même qui baptise lenfant et lui transmet son propre nom. Dans ce nouvel album, Alamina Badoubaden, splendide air traditionnel enregistré live par un ensemble réunissant quelques-uns des meilleurs griots résidant en France, est un hommage du petit-fils à ce grand-père illustre
Luna's song - first single Philippe Cohen Solal - album Moonshine Sessions
The thing I like in music is when people look straight, but inside they are wild. Tango musicians are like that. And bluegrass musicians are also like that. They look very straight. But behind the curtain its, like, moonshine. Philippe Cohen Solal
The Moonshine Sessions - a new album from Philippe Cohen Solal, French composer, DJ/producer, co-founder of Gotan Project - is as unexpected as it is remarkable. Mostly self-composed, recorded near Nashville with an ensemble of virtuoso musicians, and devoid of dance beats or electronica, this is an album of purest acoustic country music. Haunting, beautifully simple, unobtrusively emotional, atmospheric and strangely contemporary, its a piece of creative risk taking that has paid off dramatically.
Beirut interpret gypsy folk from an indie perspective. At the center of the group is 22-year-old prodigy Zach Condon, who delves deep into traditional roots music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans as well as the mariachi of his native Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was first introduced to gypsy folk music through the films of director Emir Kusturica (Time of the Gypsies, Underground). Rather than trying to merely copy gypsy songs, he borrows its sounds to make emotive pop that's full of joy, sadness and longing. On the band's 2006 debut, The Gulag Orkestar, Condon takes a DIY approach where he sings and plays most of the instruments (saxophone, clarinet, mandolin, accordion and others). His very original take on regional folk brought Beirut critical acclaim, while their live shows -- complete with full brass and string sections -- drew international audiences throughout North America and Europe. On his sophomore album, The Flying Club Cup, with its decidedly French cabaret flair, Condon teamed up with multitalented violinist-producer Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy.
November - Song "Pokolenie" from the pop group Kombii on the car radio on channel RadioZet while driving on the Polish roads in the middle of an immense snowwhite landscape.
Kombii made other songs you can find on their website (you also can listen to their latest songs):
Mysle o tobie Slad Czekam wciaz na cud Sen sie spelni Nasze rendez-vous
La infancia en la carpintería de Lucas, su papá violinista y de Marcos, su tío cantor; los patios musicales de tierra colorada, el clima subtropical, la selva, los anchos ríos; los agricultores de azadas y machetes, las plantaciones de yerba mate, los dúos de cantores. Todos estos elementos son parte del mundo que hay detrás de la textura de su música y su acordeón.
November - Song "Pokolenie" from the pop group Kombii on the car radio on channel RadioZet while driving on the Polish roads in the middle of an immense snowwhite landscape. 
