Den Tredje Verden // Studentradioen i Bergen // 9 de Março 2008

”The Best of 2007”, part 2!

Audinho da Vitrola a.k.a. Audun Stokke Hole

1. Quantic Soul Orchestra: Tropidélico

Album: Tropidélico (Tru Thoughts)

2. Quantic feat. Noelle Scaggs – Politik Society

Album: An Announcement to Answer (Tru Thoughts, 2006)

http://www.quantic.org/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Holland

Quantic, a.k.a. Will Holland, is a Colombia-based English DJ, producer and musician. His incredible vintage sound is actually not very vintage, as he prefers to play most of the instruments on his album himself, be it guitars, basses, keyboards, sax or percussion. His two latest albums as himself and with his Soul Orchestra outfit, are both splendid explosions of latino mayhem. Highly recommended.

3. Federico Aubele – La Esquina

Album: Panamericana (Eighteenth Street Lounge Music)

http://www.eslmusic.com/artist/federico_aubele

During the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina, porteño singer-songwriter Federico Aubele fled to Berlin where he has been living until recently returning to his beloved Buenos Aires. He has released two records on Thievery Corporation’s Eighteenth Street Lounge label. His latest album is best explained by the title’s album itself: a Pan-American journey through reggae, dub, hiphop, bolero and tango – although the result is a highly consistent light latino-pop sound of his own making. This guy is a soon-to-be superstar.

4. Group Inerane – Kuni Majagani
5. Group Inerane – Awal September

Album: Music of Niger / Guitars From Agadez (Sublime Frequencies)

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/item.asp?Item_id=37&cd=Group-

Sublime Frequencies, the most amazing and ever-surprising record label ever, this time ventures into war territory in the Sahara Desert. The Tuareg is, as usual, rebelling against the state forces of their respective home countries. Uranium deposits, the War Against Terrorism, Tuareg training camps in Ghadafi’s Libya and thrilling desert blues-rock – that should suffice to describe the context and content of this great record, recorded live in Agadez.

6. Rosa Negra – Esta Pena de Ser Eu

Album: Fado Ladino (Arc Music)

http://www.arcmusic.co.uk/shop/fadoladino-p-711.html?osCsid=785f4fda4d33b161cb3306a7d7944222

http://www.espantaespiritos.com/site/detalhe_artista.aspx?id=45&lang=PT

To circumscribe the great philosopher-sociologist Caetano Veloso, Rosa Negra is the pseudo-tropicalist attempt on the Evolutionary Line of fado: it start where the ”folkloric” fado ends, and incorporates several Spanish and North African influences. Again, the title of the album itself is an adequate description of the music: Ladino, an obvious corruption/refinement of latino, is ’originally’ (but who knows?) one of the names for the Sephardic (Iberian) Jewish language, but today also denotes several popular European-descendant populations of Mesoamerica. In short, it alludes to Iberian history itself, as a melting-pot of cultures, peoples and musics since time immemorial. More is more!

Kontentum: taken from the Los Malandros album ”Fuego de Cumbia”.

An incredible Brazilian cumbia record, supposedly from 1968, one you’re guaranteed to hear more from on all forthcoming Den Tredje Verden occasions!