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Dom Um Romao

The One Nero — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:09:50 +0000

If you don’t have this, you’ve been missing out. Essential vibes from one of the best Brazilian drummers ever recorded.

Dom Um Romao – Dom Um Romao; Muse, 1974

Takuapa Vegetarian Festival

The One Nero — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:38:35 +0000

Filmed at the Guan Ou Shrine procession, in Takuapa, Phang Nga, during the annual vegetarian festival that takes place throughout the south of Thailand.

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The Penny Black Remedy – No One’s Fault But Your Own

The One Nero — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:33:10 +0000

“Their Balkan country punk juggernaut exhumes Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Hank Williams, checks Nick Cave’s pulse for continued signs of life, and sets all of them go-go dancing till the bars close and the street cleaners come to pick up the bones. ” – Andy Lowe, 12 Bar Club, London

“The Penny Black Remedy don’t really play venues, more like storm them. A powerhouse of a band that reminds you just how powerful live music can be.” - Shaun Litton, Five Families

“… this single ["95 Charing Cross Road"] has everything, energy, attitude, contagious lyrics and a killer tune. Music is my mistress and I’ve just been spanked!!!” – Will Munn, Rhythm & Booze

The Penny Black Remedy – No One’s Fault But Your Own; ???, 2009

Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Revolutionary Jazz & The Civil Rights Movement 1963-82

The One Nero — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:15:21 +0000

This album features the work of revolutionary jazz artists who created new radical music infused with the values of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Self-determination, economic power and musical freedoms explode as the avant-garde collided with Black Power and Afro-centricity.

Released to coincide with the new book by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker on Soul Jazz Records, this album is jam-packed with super rare, deep jazz from artists many of which all feature heavily in the new book. The book itself presents an amazing collection of sleeves from the deepest, deepest jazz music ever.

Years before the D-I-Y cultural revolution of punk, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others ‘took control’ of their own work by recording, releasing and distributing their own music themselves.

The record sleeves of this era are as iconic and historically unique as the music itself and a striking reflection of the time; pre-desktop publishing, pre-internet these small-run (sometimes as low as 500 copies), self-made sleeves are graphically bold and radical.

Freedom, Rhythm and Sound is the first ever collection of this fascinating goldmine of album art, which represents the first wave of inspired independent production within popular music. Pick up the audible masterpieces here and grab a copy of the book for the accompanying visual masterpieces.

Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker – Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Revolutionary Jazz & The Civil Rights Movement 1963-82; Soul Jazz, 2009 Pt.1, Pt.2

Dennis Brown – A Little Bit More

The One Nero — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:51:10 +0000

A little bit more of Dennis Brown is no problem in my book. Especially when it is these cuts being served up. This set collects some tough-to-find gems, from The Crown Prince of Reggae’s time spent with Joe Gibbs, that originally appeared on 12″.

Dennis Brown – A Little Bit More: Joe Gibbs 12″ Selection 1978-83; 17 North Parade, 2008

Ernest Ranglin – Ska Wey Dat

The One Nero — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:45:19 +0000

The first disc in this 2-CD set features 16 studio cuts by the guitarist, recorded in 1999, that first saw issue on the album E.B. @ Noon, a collection that was pressed in very limited numbers. Now, at last, the album receives its long overdue official international release, finally providing his fans the world over the opportunity to experience & enjoy this stunning set.

Adding to the appeal of this already hugely attractive release is a second disc of a previously unreleased live concert, In O.D., featuring Ernest Ranglin performing some of his most popular Ska & Reggae sides live for an audience in the US with guest vocals from Floyd Lloyd.

Ernest Ranglin – Ska Wey Dat; Trojan, 2003

Infradig – Clinical Indifference & Graveltooth EP

The One Nero — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:44:54 +0000

Infradig was a group from Chattanooga, TN that played a blend of jazz, downtempo and breakbeats into one hella wicked groove. I was lucky enough to see them on quite a few occasions given their close proximity to the ATL. Supremely nice in the live setting and thoroughly pleasing on record. Picked these two up at a show during the Fall of 2006 at the Five Spot in Little Five Points. It’s their debut album, Clinical Indifference: The Psychology of Breathing (which unfortunately has track 7 missing), and an EP titled Graveltooth. Still need to get my hands on their last release before breaking up, in Sept. 2007, titled Ecstatic Everywhere. Send it over if ya got it.

Infradig – Clinical Indifference: The Psychology of Breathing; 2006

Infradig - Graveltooth EP; 2006

Ray Barretto – Hard Hands

The One Nero — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:20:23 +0000

Ray Barretto’s Hard Hands, the sequel to Acid, was released in 1968. He had come up as a conguero, working for Tito Puente and others but went solo after he had a hit with “El Watusi” in 1961. Perhaps because of the strong R&B component in his music, the vocals are in English, which obviously would give it a broader appeal in New York’s radio airwaves of the time, particularly among the African-American community. The title cut refers to the thundering power of Ray’s conga-playing, a nickname that would forever stick with him, and is followed by “Abidjan”, one of Ray’s biggest hits, a tribute to the Ivorian capital from which he had recently returned from exploring. The sounds of Mozambique, Mambo, Boogaloo, Funk, Bembé, and Soul are perfectly blended on this album making it an essential selection from the Fania catalog.

Ray Barretto – Hard Hands; Fania, 1968

Nicola Conte – The Modern Sound of Nicola Conte

The One Nero — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:40:07 +0000

Just a year after releasing the internationally successful Rituals album, Italian jazz-head Nicola Conte returns with a double full-length compiling the re-worked, i.e. entirely newly arranged, tracks he has produced in the last years as so called “remixes“ for some of his friends, who also happen to be some of the most interesting contemporary jazz artists of the world. From Italy to Brasil, Latin America, the USA, Japan and back to Scandinavia and Germany, The Modern Sound Of Nicola Conte takes us on a journey into the most tasteful sounds you can get when it comes to Bossa-flavored Jazz, Latin excursions and soulful grooves.

Nicola Conte – The Modern Sound of Nicola Conte – Versions in Jazz Dub; Schema, 2009 Pt.1, Pt.2

Lost in the Crates #11

The One Nero — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:11:30 +0000

Bomb It

The One Nero — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:18:00 +0000

Bomb It is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.

Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, Bomb It tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You’ll never look at public space the same way again.

Bomb It was shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo.

Bomb It – Directed by Jon Reiss; 2007

Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3, Pt.4, Pt.5, Pt.6, Pt.7, Pt.8

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R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

The One Nero — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:31:29 +0000

Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work, prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading-card sets he created in the early- to mid-1980s. This collection coincides with those sets and was selected and compiled by R. Crumb himself. A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him, R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country is a must-have collection for Crumb aficionados and music lovers alike.

R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006

View the collection of 36 trading cards