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Videoclip Konono N°1

Watch the videoclip of the well acclaimed album of Konono N°1

Konono N°1 is the first volume of Crammed’s new series Congotronics, which is devoted to electrified traditional music from the Congo.

New Tour Dates added

Check for latest added tour dates and updates on Crammed LIVE website section.

New Tour dates added for DJ Dolores, Cibelle, Konono N°1, Zuco 103, Taraf de Haïdouks, Mahala Rai Banda and Koçani Orkestar

Six Degrees' internet radio broadcast

Six Degrees Records, Crammed Discs/Ziriguiboom’s US licensee, launched a couple of weeks ago their own weekly internet radio broadcast on live365.com.

You can listen now to their show on i-Tunes‘ Radio Section (Under the Eclectic or Electronica headings) or at

This week’s Traveler features an extended set of “Future Soul” music including King Britt’s great remix of Curtis Mayfield’s “Little Child Running Wild”, Bebel Gilberto remixed by Yam Who?, new “glitch soul” from Telefon Tel Aviv and hot new Warp Records “digital soul” singer, Jamie Liddel.

Peruse the full playlist here.

Ziriguiboom - Crammed Discs’ Brazilian imprint, is dedicated to presenting original aspects of Brazilian music to an international audience.

Dreams That Money Can Buy

Cibelle will be performing with The Real Tuesday Weld new dark and decadent Live Music Premiere Film Score to Hans Richter‘s 1946 American Freudian Surrealist Drama: "Dreams That Money Can Buy", a film by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst and Fernand Leger.

"Are you a dream dealer? I will sell one to you, for I have so many, you see.”

REALITY & THE NATIONAL FILM THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENT 21st CENTURY PSYCHOANALYTICAL CABARET WITH THE REAL TUESDAY WELD LIVE ON STAGE - INTRODUCED BY PEEP SHOW NABOB DAVID PIPER AND HIS BURLESQUE BEAUTIES - PERFORMING THEIR NEW DARK AND DECADENT LIVE MUSIC PREMIERE FILM SCORE TO HANS RICHTER’S 1946 AMERICAN FREUDIAN SURREALIST DRAMA: “DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY” .

PRODUCED BY MAREK PYTEL

NATIONAL FILM THEATRE. SOUTH BANK
SATURDAY 30th APRIL 2005. 8.45 pm
TICKETS: £ 15.50 MEMBERS: £ 14.50

Advance Bookings: 0207 928 3232 / http://www.bfi.org.uk/nft

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Surrealist painter and Dada film-theorist Hans Richter wrote, produced, and directed the experimental exercise Dreams That Money Can Buy, one of the most significant contributions to the 20th-century “avant garde” movement.

The project began in 1944, while Richter was director of the Institute of Film Techniques at City College in New York. Combining short scenarios written by world-renowned artists Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamps, Man Ray, Alexander Calder and Fernand Leger, Richter came up with a full-colour, feature-length study in dreamlike “wish fulfilment.”

The film’s only nod to continuity is the presence of a self-styled heavenly psychiatrist, whose patients purportedly visualize the images which play across the screen. Described by one observer as “surreal yet somewhat Jungian,” Dreams That Money Can Buy cost $25,000 and was three years in the making.

Its New York premiere was greeted with a mixture of bravos and bewilderment, especially when the projectionist elected to show the film on the wall and ceiling rather than the screen. 

Dreams That Money Can Buy won a special prize at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. 

Tuxedomoon in Wire Magazine (UK)

Tuxedomoon gig at Colegio Mayor San Juan Evangelista in Madrid
reviewed by John Gill in Wire Magazine (UK)

I don’t remember a Tuxedomoon concert this raw and visceral, not least the full-on Situationist funk of “Luther Blisset” - imagine Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter jamming with A Certain Ratio with some Charles Ives-like intertextuality at work.

Bebel Gilberto Remixed

CD out in May

An album in which all the (predominantly acoustic) tracks from Bebel’s eponymously-titled second album are given new interpretations by a great cast of dance, hip hop and electronica remixers including hip hop and electronica remixers including DJ Spinna, Thievery Corporation, Yam Who?, Nuspirit Helsinki, Tom Middleton, Spiritual South, Dubstar’s Steve Hillier, Telefon Tel Aviv and more… ... The initial pressing will be a limited edition including a second CD with 6 additional remixes.

Mahala Rai Banda in Japan

Mahala Rai Banda will perform 03 & 04/05 in Roppingi Hill, Tokyo.

Check also the Mahala Rai Banda video live in Clejani (Romania)

More Tour dates here:

03/03 FRANCE PARIS NEW MORNING
06/03 GERMANY ESSEN (tbc)
11/03 SWITZERLAND LES CAVES MANOIR MARTIGNY
03/05 JAPAN TOKYO ROPPINGI HILLS ARENA
04/05 JAPAN TOKYO ROPPINGI HILLS ARENA
28/05 HOLLAND TILBURG GYPSYFESTIVAL
29/05 HOLLAND TILBURG GYPSYFESTIVAL
17/06 SWITZERLAND ZÜRICH (tbc)
07/07 CANADA QUEBEC FESTIVAL D’ETE
08/07 CANADA QUEBEC FESTIVAL D’ETE
10/07 FINLAND KAUSTINEN (tbc)
11/07 FINLAND KAUSTINEN (tbc)
13/07 FRANCE LA TESTE DE BUCHE
20/07 FRANCE ROCHEFORT
07/08 AUSTRIA HAAG (tbc) M.OST FESTIVAL
09/08 FRANCE LE MONASTIER FESTIVAL DES CUIVRES
13/08 HUNGARY BUDAPEST SZIGET FESTIVAL
15/08 HUNGARY SAROSPATAK

DJ Dolores & Aparelhagem Band Tour Dates

DJ DOLORES & APARELHAGEM BAND (* = DJ SET)

01/04 BELGIUM BRUSSELS ANCIENNE BELGIQUE
02/04 HOLLAND AMSTERDAM PARADISO
12/04 BRASIL SÃO PAULO CC BANCO DO BRASIL *
16/04 BRASIL SÃO PAULO SKOL BEATS *
17/04 BRASIL RECIFE ABRIL PRO ROCK 2005
28/04 BRASIL SÃO PAULO VIVO OPEN AIR
13/05 BRASIL SÃO PAULO FESTIVAL HYPE, SESC POMPEIA
24/05 BRASIL BRASILIA VIVO OPEN AIR
03/06 FRANCE ANGOULEME MUSIQUES METISSES
04/06 FRANCE LYON AUDITORIUM
05/06 FRANCE SAINT BRIEUC ART ROCK FESTIVAL
09/06 FRANCE PARIS NEW MORNING
10/06 MARTINIQUE FORT DE FRANCE (tbc)
11/06 MARTINIQUE FORT DE FRANCE (tbc)
12/06 MARTINIQUE FORT DE FRANCE (tbc)
17/06 SWITZERLAND RUBINGEN
18/06 FRANCE MEYLAN MAISON DE LA MUSIQUE
19/06 HOLLAND TILBURG
21/06 FRANCE TOUOUSE RIO LOCO
24/06 FRANCE VENISSIEUX NUIT METISSE
25/06 UK GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL
30/06 FRANCE PARIS TRIPTYQUE
02/07 FRANCE BOBITAL TERRE NEUVAS
08/07 ESPAÑA CARTAGENA
09/07 PORTUGAL LISBON MECO FESTIVAL
10/07 SWITZERLAND MONTREUX FESTIVAL JAZZ CAFE
13/07 FRANCE SAINT MALO (tbc)
14/07 FRANCE NANTES FESTIVAL D’ETE (tbc)
15/07 FRANCE VITROLLES THEATRE DE VERDURE
03/08 ILE DE LA REUNION SAINT LEU (tbc)
04/08 ILE DE LA REUNION SAINT LEU (tbc)
05/08 ILE DE LA REUNION SAINT LEU (tbc)
06/08 ILE DE LA REUNION SAINT LEU (tbc)
07/08 ILE DE LA REUNION SAINT LEU (tbc)
14/08 BELGIUM BREDENE (tbc)

Audio previews of Zuco 103's forthcoming 'WHAA!' album

Preview ‘Real’ audio samples available at Crammed website.

Direct previews here of the forthcoming ‘WHAA!’ album:
“It’s A Woman’s World" and “Na Mangueira".

Konono No. 1: Congotronics: Pitchfork Review

Great Congotronics review on Pitchfork!

"It is entirely possible that an amplified, slightly distorted likembe creates the most awesome sound on earth. There’s no other sound quite like it, and there’s no other band like Konono No. 1, the assemblage of Bazombo musicians, dancers, and singers from Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) that makes the likembe the center of their sound. It’s something of an accidental update on Bazombo trance music, and it’s thrillingly unique stuff, a torrent of kinetic sound that straddles the line between the traditional and the avant-garde."

... and more:

"Konono No. 1 are the kind of band that remind us that music still possesses vast wells of untapped potential, and that there’s virtually no limit to what can be developed and explored. There’s little precedent for a record like Congotronics, even as the music at its core goes back many generations and predates the discovery of electricity by some time. It’s important to note that these are not pop songs in any sense of the word-- this is traditional trance music with an electric twist, and should be approached as such. That said, it’s among the most fascinating music I’ve heard and deserves a listen by anyone with even the remotest interest in the possibilities of sound."

Zuco 103 Live Dates!

Following their forthcoming album ‘WHAA!’ (to be released in May) Zuco 103 Live dates:

(check also Crammed web for more detailed info)

15/04 HOLLAND LEEUWARDEN MC SCHAAF
16/04 HOLLAND DORDRECHT BIBELOT
22/04 HOLLAND AMSTELVEEN P60
23/04 HOLLAND ZWOLLE HEDON
05/05 HOLLAND S’HERTOGENBOSCH BEVRIJDINGSFESTIVAL
05/05 HOLLAND WAGENINGEN BEVRIJDINGSFESTIVAL
06/05 ESPAÑA ALHAMA DE MURCIA MUSICA DE FRONTERAS
07/05 HOLLAND EINDHOVEN DE EFFENAAR
11/05 BULGARIA SOFIA NATIONAL PALACE OF CULTURE
14/05 HOLLAND OSS DE GROENE ENGEL
19/05 HOLLAND NIJMEGEN SPEVE STUDENTPARTY
20/05 HOLLAND BREDA MEZZ
21/05 HOLLAND AMERSFOORT JAZZDRIEDAAGSE
26/05 HOLLAND DEN HAAG SHOW PAARD
28/05 HOLLAND DEN HAAG SHOW A.PHILIPSZAAL
29/05 HOLLAND DEN HAAG SHOW A.PHILIPSZAAL
04/06 ESPAÑA SEVILLA FESTIVAL TERRITORIOS
10/06 FRANCE PARIS CABARET SAUVAGE
18/06 HOLLAND BROEK OP LANGEDIJK INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL
19/06 HOLLAND TILBURG MUNDIAL
22/06 ESPAÑA BARCELONA SALA APOLO (CD presentation)
24/06 ESPAÑA MADRID METRO ROCK FESTIVAL
26/06 BELGIUM EUPEN EUPEN MUSIK MARATHON
15/07 GERMANY KOBLENZ HORIZONTE FESTIVAL
16/07 GERMANY BIELEFELD WELTNACHT
30/07 HOLLAND MARSEVEENSE PLASSEN ROCKIT FESTIVAL

DJ Dolores interview in Cucamonga program on VRT Radio

Read and listen to the interview (a bit in Dutch, a bit English and a lot of Portuguese!) of DJ Dolores in the Cucamonga program on VRT Radio on 21-03-2005.

Brazilectro community at Orkut

Sabrina Fidalgo started the Brazilectro community at Orkut.

If you’re an Orkut member (if not, you can easily join!) you can join the community here and start sharing news and discussions on Ziriguiboom label artists such as Zuco 103, Cibelle, Bebel Gilberto, Bossacucanova, Suba, DJ Dolores ...

There are also many other Ziriguiboom artists communities available such as Zuco 103, Cibelle, Bebel Gilberto, ...

FLY reviews DJ Dolores 'Aparelhagem'

Excellent review on DJ Dolores new release ‘Aparelhagem’ from Damian Rafferty from FLY - Global Music Culture magazine.

”... this release marks a coming of age after only two albums for a musical force who could be the South American Manu Chao."