Oakland's Tight

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Goodfeather - Goodfeather

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Touching countless listeners with his unique vocal and guitar style, singer / songwriter Jeremy Goodfeather is quickly becoming the most popular Native-American artist in the world. Using a combination of modern and ancient themes, Goodfeather deftly weaves together the intertwined threads from past to future generations in a way that makes sense to modern audiences. Take a listen to the Native artist that is taking the world by storm.

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Pamela - En la orilla

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Pamela Rodriguez is a Latin Grammy Nominated artist, who is exploring the cross-cultural musical languages within her home city Lima, Peru. She records with the award winning and three time Grammy Nominee producer Greg Landau and together work to find a modern homogenous sound and a connecting thread to her music that contains a wide range of styles such as landó, festejo, Peruvian waltz, zamacueca, the Peruvian jungle’s Cumbia, indie rock and reggae.

Her first album Peru Blue explored the new arrangements of Peruvian Classics like Augusto Polo Campos´ "Cuando llora mi guitarra" and Chabuca Granda´s "Cardo o Ceniza", next to her own compositions. Being a Peruvian folk composer is quite an achievement since most singers and musicians in the Afro-Peruvian genre tend to sing the same songs from the Afro-Peruvian songbook. "Peru Blue" was also controversial since she decided to sing a Jazz Ballad written by her ("silent tears") as the ending track of the album, in a Peruvian folk production scheme.

She has recently released a new album "en la orilla". In this new work she explored more deeply into her Peruvian roots, and sets in stone a style of her own. She writes all of the songs, except the landó version of Billie Holidays “Don’t explain”. The melodies are very strong and also her lyrics that speak about women identity in the new Lima, politics and intimate poetry.

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Los Cojolites - No tiene fin

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Young Son Jaroch masters LOS COJOLITES bring you an album that no Jarocho enthusiast can be without - No tiene fin. Making the short list of must-have Son Jarocho records next to Son de Madera's “Las orquestas del dia” and Mono Blanco, No tiene fin is a beautiful sounding record recorded in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. Don't miss special guest Lila Downs singing on the song “La Herlinda.”

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Pancho Quinto - En el solar la cueva de humo

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Pancho Quinto is a legendary figure in Cuban music, an innovator and pioneer pushing the limits and boundaries of percussion. In this recording Pancho changes the rules, by shifting between rumba, batá, abakuá, and iyesá rhythms, and effortlessly creating a pastiche of Afro-Cuban music that digs deep into the traditions and collective memory of Cuban culture.

“The group Pancho brought together for this recording was directed by Octavio Rodríguez, master drummer, babalawo, and innovator in the fusion of Afro-Cuban drumming with jazz and rock. Octavio’s percussion arrangements shift from one rhythm to another, from prayers to the orishas to rumbas, crossing back and forth across the clave. [At the same time this] recording provides the listener to hear the dynamic sound of a rumba as it is played in neighborhood gatherings and sung in the patios…of Old Havana and the shipyards.” ---Greg Landau.
Pancho Quinto grew up in Old Havana’s barrio of Belén, and worked on the docks. He began playing with the great Olú-batá Jesús Pérez, and became an Olú-batá himself. His broad and deep musical experience spanned participation in Havana’s noted carnival groups, local Rumbas, Ocha, Palo, and Abakuá ceremonies, and the popular La Sonora Matancera. He was a founding performer of the National Folklore Group of Cuba (Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba) and of the now world-renowned Grupo Yoruba Andabo.

Personnel:
Drummers: Pancho Quinto, Octavio Rodíguez, Isidro Lead Vocal and Coro: Lazaro Rizo, Guillermo Triana “El Negro,” Juan Campos “Chan”
Background Vocals:“Santica Caridad Maldonado Alfonso, Arlyn González, Pablo Menendez, Luís Badell “Luisito,” Lilia Esposito “Bellita”
Additional Percussion: Michael Spiro
Piano: Omar Sosa (“Lenguasá”)
Bass: Rahsaan Fredericks (“Lenguasá”)
Tres: Greg Landau (“Lenguasá”)
Produced and Recorded by Greg Landau

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¡Fuga! - Relatos Rebeldes

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Blistering accordion licks with haunting lead female vocals combining cumbia, punk, son, ska, rock and other feisty rhythms for album that will keep you awake on the road and sweaty on the dance floor. This is the place to download the new album from the El Paso / Oakland based Fuga!

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Machina Sol

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Machina Sol is the creation of four Bay Area musicians whose individual musical voyages include performances and recordings with an incredible mix of artists from a wide range of musical styles. Drawing inspiration from bands such as Herbie Hancock, Irakere, The Meters, Fela Kuti, Weather Report, and a wealth of folkloric music from across Latin America, Machina Sol is a band of four friends in pursuit of new music that works for both the feet and the soul.

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MoAD Suite

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The MOAD Suite was created for the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) in San Francisco. The museum is an exciting new technology-driven facility focused on human migration from Africa, the cradle of humankind. MOAD is dedicated to celebrating the universal connection of all people.

In music we find the threads of our soul, interwoven and intersecting with those of our universal family.

Wherever we live in the world - India, Fiji, Germany, Japan, France, Mexico or the United States - everyone is part of the African Diaspora, literally, the scattering of people from their ancestral homeland in Africa, birthplace of us all.

Listen carefully and you will find familiar strains in the emotional movements of MoAD suite, as you move from the most basic of rhythms to compelling and complex scores.

MoAD showcases the art, culture and history of the African Diaspora to encourage an awareness of cultural diversity, and the inclusion of all rather than the exclusion of some.

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Los Terry - From Africa to Camagüey

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Los Terry are a family of musicians from the Camaguey province of Cuba. Their unique blend of musical styles includes elements of folklore, classic charanga and modern jazz, creating a bridge across generations. The title From Africa to Camague reflects the deep African influences in the music and the culture of Camaguey. Eladio Terry, the patriarch of the family, known to many as Don Pancho, grew up surrounded by the music of the Afro-Cuban religions and learned the traditional drumming and vocal styles that date back centuries. Eladio followed the path of the apprentice drummer as he learned the prayers, songs and rhythms that accompany the religious ceremonies- watching, listening and playing for hours. Like many Cuban musicians, he also learned to play popular music styles, incorporating his knowledge of African traditions into the secular dance music of the day.

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Soul Vibrations - Black History Black Culture

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Nicaragua's Soul Vibrations provide ample proof that non-Jamaican musicians are capable of putting out reggae that is as straight-ahead and rootsy as that of their island cousins. Philip Montalvan and Raymond Myers, both of African-Caribbean descent and hail from Nicaragua's Atlantic coast -- which unlike the Pacific side, once held by Spanish colonists, is made up of many Caribbean transplants and is heavily influenced by early British colonialists -- provide the driving forces behind the band. Personality-wise, the two men are opposites. Myers is the charismatic, playful front man while Montalvan is the intense, serious songwriter noted for his thoughtful songs of love, harmony, and hope that call for Africans everywhere to unite. Many of their songs promote the teachings of Marcus Garvey, whom they regard as one of the 20th century's greatest black leaders. Though many of their songs are not political per se, they do point out the hypocrisy, egoism, and injustice they see surrounding political leaders. Still Montalvan considers himself apolitical, something that may stem from his experience of having been kidnapped and imprisoned at different times by both the Contras and the Sandanistas during Nicaragua's revolution.

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Los Venturas - Besame Mucho

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The best Belgian Surf band! Los Venturas bring you a Flemish classic in neo-surf style. No surf music collection is complete without these hit-landers from Flanders. Check out this single of swinging surf songs, lovely loungified lullabies, ripping raucous refrains, and tantalizing tube-riding tunes.

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Oaktown Irawo - Funky Cubonics

Adding an urban flavor to Afro-Cuban music is a sure way to destabilize an already fearsomely volatile musical Molotov (. Funky Cubonics the debut CD from Bay Area troupe Oaktown Irawo, is a stellar example of Afro-Latin jazz given a '90s funk-jazz makeover. Yoruba-influnced chants bump up against muscular soloing (check out sax player Yosvany Terry on "I will Always Remember You)" and pianist Omar Sosa on "Kimiko") and locked in grooves, courtesy of Tower of Power drummer Dave Girabaldi and percussionist Jesus Diaz. Drawing from forms like the danzon, and rhumba, as well as more modern influences like Steve Coleman and Herbie Hancock, Irawo's modern disaporic fusion is capable of stirring even the most resolute wallflowers.

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Santero - El Hijo de Obatala

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In a few beats, Santero can evoke the flatbed truck sonidero DJs of his native Guatemalan mountain village, his father’s cumbia band, and the memories of multiple family deportations. His rhymes are informed by running away from home at thirteen, rough times on the Bronx streets, and the neo-Nazi firebombing in New Orleans that nearly cost him his life (and did take his vinyl collection).

Yet on El Hijo de Obatala (Siete Potencias Trading Co. Distributed by City Hall Records; May 19, 2009), the DJ, MC, and Lukumí (Santería) spirit walker summons the Orishas, or spirits, and deepens hardcore hip-hop and reggaeton street cred, into the world of violin-loving river spirits, the great mother who protects and yet rules death, and the light-filled divine father of humanity.

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Outhead - Quiet Sounds for Cofmortable People

$6.23

A tasty and heady blend of piano-less jazz compositions and improvisations with an earthy finish.

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