After Ascension it’s Ramadan now. Because of this, there is the The Nights of the Ramadan festival in Berlin. The first event of this festival was a concert of the first big band of the Arabic world . The Syrian Big Band played some classic Big Band tunes more or less in an Arabic style, but the band also covered some well-known Pop or Rock tunes, for instance by Led Zeppelin. Being a bit too sedate at first, they became quite impressive afterwards, especially after the break because of the sunset, and after the rain shower. The darling of the public was the beatboxing bassist (I’m the bassist only. ), who was bound to an encore. I liked very much the performance of the female singer.
Because of this impression, I was bound to select some Big Band sounds from my archive in turn. I do not have anything from The Syrian Big Band, but the music from the films Murder on the Orient Express, Lawrence of Arabia and Carry On Spying as well as the music by Tommy Dorsey & His Original Orchestra is also quite cool, isn’t it?
While The Syrian Big Band played a Led Zeppelin song, Hector Zazou, Barbara Eramo & Stefano Saletti have published a new album with lots of covers of famous Pop songs in an Arabic style. The album comprises many 1970’s Disco classics like Donna Summer’s I Feel Love , Y.M.C.A. by The Village People, Stayin’ Alive and Night Fever by the Bee Gees, Anita Ward’s Ring My Bell as well as Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive . I like this album.
Furthermore, I selected some Arabic Electronica between Techno & House (by The Kasbah Rockers & Bill Laswell, Oryx, Roger Abboud) and Dubstep (L-Wiz). In between some radio sounds from the Palestine, some curious by The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra, some reflective by The Forty Thieves Orkestar from London, traditionals from the Iraq, a classic by Natacha Atlas, Breakbeats from Prague by Le Pneumatique who performed a quite cool and phat concert on the “Karneval der Kulturen” (carnival of the cultures) in Berlin on Whitsun 2010, also some Asian and Arabian Breakbeats or Dub sounds from London by Fusing Naked Beats, Jah Wobble and Temple of Sound. The Punk classic Rock The Casbah by The Clash is interpreted by Rachid Taha.
Happy Fasting!
Links
In the following, there is the link for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud as well as the playlist.
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2010-08-13: The Ramadan Orchestra”
23 August 2010 | iskra | →  Deutsch
File under: Asian Beats, Big Beats, Brazilian Beats, Dubstep, Global Beats, Jazz, Latin Beats, Transglobal Beats, TripHop, X Beats, Flying Sparks, Recent listening
Before there will be a new Flying Sparks mix set (soon), here a flashback to one from October 2009: At that time I searched my vinyls to prepare a party and found the following. I hope, you’ll like the mix set between Funk, Big Beats, mashups, Bollywood and Global Beats and with some references to film classics.
The musical trip starts in the East (not the Middle nor the Far East), but in the eastside of Germany, because there is a really cool soundtrack of an espionage TV series (Das unsichtbare Visier) from the late 60’s. After that we listen to some Hollywood classics (Getaway, Get Carter, Enter The Dragon, Shaft), get some tunes from Egypt, Morocco, Bollywood, Peru, and Brazil. Finally, we come back to Europe and listen to some Asian dubstep tracks from the UK.
Please note, the mix set is split into two parts. The break is after the Letta Mbulu classic What Is Wrong With Groovin’? . If anybody has an answer to this, she/he can message me… 
In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud as well as the playlist.
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2009-10-28: Yippie Yippie Yeah!”
23 May 2010 | iskra | → Deutsch
File under: Arabian Beats, Asian Beats, Deutschbeats, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, Global Beats, Latin Beats, Mashups, Transglobal Beats, Türk Beats, X Beats, Flying Sparks, Recent listening
Ascension.
The trip starts in Argentina, we stay over in Damascus, make a detour to Berlin, then we travel along the Eastern highway. The journey ends on a strawberry field where we together with Zoe meet very closely the levitating president.
The music on our trip? Cumbia, Arabic and Indian sounds between jazz and electronics, German pop, bass-driven music between drum’n'bass and dubstep as well as Beatles sounds from Mumbai, Istanbul and Washington.
Remark:
I ran riot during the Headhunter & Djunya vs. Indigo’s tracks.
As already mentionend in the Flying Sparks post before, here now both the Milanese remix of Jahcoozi’s Close To Me and the dubstep interpretation of The Beatles’s Hey Jude by David Starfire. ‘cos it was so cool, we continue with the Turkish adaptation of Love Me Do by the D.E.F. Orkestra, the Indian version of Tomorrow Never Knows by Studio Pagol, Strawberry Fields Forever as a fidget house mashup, and conclude with Yesterday in the original. All my troubles seemed so far away… Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
In the following, there are the links for the listening pleasure @ Mixcloud. Have fun!
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2010-05-13: Ascension”
I’ve just browsed through some nice music on a Sunday evening in April… It resulted in a mix between cool jazzy, Latin, Balkan and Bollywood tunes, I hope.
One of my all-time favourites is the track I Love My Baby by the United Future Organization, here in a Norman Cook & Ashley Slater remix. The track got a new reverence by the The Jivers on the Jazz & Milk-Compilation Jazz & Milk Breaks Vol. 3.
Recently, I listened to the remix compilation I Like It Like That of Fania Latin classics in more detail. I already had put the remix of La Lupe’s interpretation of Fever into my 2009 review. Now I discovered another track on that compilation: Ray Barretto’s O Elefante in the SSH remix is really cool!
Miss Platnum’s If You Were Mine was also already in my 2009 review. She used a sample of a cool Bollywood tune which is on the Bombay Connection compilation Bombshell – Baby of Bombay: Kahan Hai Woh Diwana .
Apropos cover versions: Listening to the Balkan track of Fanfare Ciocarlia, I remembered Cake’s interpretation of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps . Then another one, perhaps? – Okay, the version of Sunray… Finally I digged out an older track from Fatboy Slim and one from Moby.
Here the links for a listening @ Mixcloud:
→ Weiterlesen “Flying Sparks 2010-04-11: On a Sunday Night in April”
  
Finally, I managed to finish my little work about a music-oriented review of the year 2009. It’s been a while since New Year’s Day, but good music keeps to be good music, doesn’t it?
Let us review some of the highlights of music, I caught in 2009. The focus is set on Dubstep as well as on Global Beats music somewhere between Baile Funk, Cumbia, Balkan, Asian Beats, Pop, Funk, and Electro.
The review is split into three parts. The first part is mainly in German language only.
- Culture & Politics 2009,
- Dubstep 2009, and
- Global Beats 2009.
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