Direct iTunes links to new Crammed releases
From today on we will integrate direct iTunes links to the Crammedblog with automatic links to iTunes online shop where you can preview and buy Crammed Discs songs.
Check the link (iTunes icon) below for direct iTunes acces to the new “Bebel Gilberto Remixed” album.
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Konono Nº1 & Swede Swede @ Bozar
Konono N°1 will be topping the bill of a free concert organised by BOZAR (Centre For Fine Arts) in parallel with the exhibition ‘Kinshasa, The Imaginary City’ which won a Golden Lion in Venice this year.
The concert takes place in Brussels on July 21st.
Also on stage: tradi-modern band Swede Swede whose album ‘Toleki Bango’, released by Crammed in 1991, can be considered as numero zero of the Congotronics series.
More KONONO tour dates can be found at Crammed website.
“Congotronics" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)
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Interview DJ Dolores on ArteTV
A video interview including live concert excerpts with DJ DOLORES is available on ARTE TV website
DJ Dolores summer tour dates can be found at Crammed website.
“Aparelhagem" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)
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Tuxedomoon mini-Tour
Tuxedomoon will perform at the New Atlantis Festival which takes place in Amsterdam from July 4th to 15th (workshops, conferences and small concerts).
Other summer dates here below:
25/06 HOLLAND - AMSTERDAM - TEST PORTAL FESTIVAL
28/06 ITALY - NAPOLI - RISTOFUSION
30/06 ITALY - MESTRE (Venezia) - PARCO SAN GIULIANO
02/07 GREECE - ATHENS - SYNCH FESTIVAL
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Cibelle at Montreux Jazz Festival
Cibelle will perform on July 10 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
The “New Sounds of Brazil” night includes also Seu Jorge and Tom Zé.
More Cibelle tour dates can be found at Crammed website.
“About a Girl” EP on iTunes
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Zuco 103 in Spain
Zuco 103 will present their new album in Sala Apolo in Barcelona tonight.
Tomorrow they will be present at the MetroRock Festival in Madrid.
Check also the fantastic “le cool" magazine to stay updated on interesting stuff happening in Spain.
More Zuco 103 tour dates can be found at Crammed website.
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KONONO #1 this evening in Court Circuit
KONONO #1 will be live this evening with the infamous Luc JANSSEN in the Court Circuit program on VRT Studio Brussel radio. The show can be followed live from Studio Brussel website from 23.00 hrs. till 01.00 hrs.
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Bossacucanova in Paris
Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal will perform at the Copacabaret Festival in Cabaret Sauvage in Paris. They will perform several gigs between 23/6 and 10/7.
Check for more tour dates at Crammed website
Info on tickets and reservations, you will find here.
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Konono in NY Times
Referred to as “Post-Colonial Electronica", Konono keeps surprising. Read the article published yesterday in the New York Times by Andy Pemberton.
But what really makes “Congotronics” (Crammed Discs), the debut album by the African band Konono No. 1, one of the most startling of recent world-music releases - and drawn comparisons to the German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk and the reggae producer Lee Perry - is the amplification system the band has used for the last 30 years.
(...) “Congotronics” was recorded outdoors using an Apple laptop and a handful of microphones, and was mixed in Mr. Kenis’s hotel room with members of the band. It has sold 15,000 copies worldwide, a respectable number for such an esoteric record, and will be released in the United States on June 28; the band has embarked on its first tour of Europe, with the United States to follow in November.
“Congotronics" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)
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KONONO N°1 LIVE! (Visas finally granted)
Konono N°1 aficionados across Europe had been holding their breath as the Congolese band waited to be granted their visas. The unexpected, additional 2-week delay unfortunately resulted in the cancellation of all their scheduled appearances alongside Tortoise, who had invited Konono N°1 to share the bill with them on a 10-date European tour.
After many vicissitudes, the visas were finally issued last Friday, and the band has played a steaming, first European concert in Paris on Sunday, May 29, at a special event organized by daily paper Liberation.
Check here fore some steaming live footage from that evening. Video images by Césarine Bolya.
Konono N° 1 are now proceeding with the scheduled summer tour which will take them through France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy Portugal etc
For more details check the Live section on the Crammed website
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