Lo nuevo de los Cadillacs: 1° impresión
Ya está en las disquerías La luz del ritmo, el nuevo trabajo de la banda. Lee un análisis canción por canción del álbum, y mirá los dibujos de Jorge Alderete incluidos en el sobre interno del CD.

Gabriel Fernandez Capello, alias Vicentico. Jorge Alderete.

 
Ya es un hecho: está en las disquerías La luz del ritmo, el disco que marca el regreso de Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Acá va un análisis tema por tema del disco.
“La luz del ritmo”: estrenado en el concierto de regreso en el Planetario, es un mambo que plantea, según su letra, “Vivir del amor”.
“Mal bicho (Soulbacho versión)”: el clásico de los Caddys con un tratamiento soulero que, créase o no, mejora al original, lo que no es poco.
“Flores”: otro tema de Flavio Cianciarullo, con un beat de percusión latina que afianza el “alivio de las flores”.
“Padre nuestro (Kumbia hot rod versión)”: con producción de Pablo Lescano de Damas Gratis, no debería sorprender a nadie la unión, ¿o acaso LFC no bendijo aquel mítico show de La Mona Jiménez en Cemento? Una cumbia con aires mexicanos, y la voz de Vicentico a pleno. Hitazo.
“Nosotros egoístas”: dedicada al desaparecido Gerardo “Toto” Roblat, una melodía bien sixties con ecos a los Housemartins para el “as del ritmo”, cantada por Flavio. “Palermo, los tambores y nosotros egoístas, hoy ya no somos lo mismo…”.
“Hoy”: Vicentico se luce en esta nueva canción, una típica composición suya, que también puede tener una lectura dedicada a Toto: “Voy a aprender a verte partir, nuestro deber es dejarte ir…”.
“Should I Stay or Should I Go (Guajira Rocker Hispano Parlante Versión)”: Toma en castellano del hit de The Clash, en una versión más cercana al ska que la original.
“El genio del dub (Siambreta hereje versión)”: Vicentico “toastea” con su acento del sur de la ciudad, y la banda se da el lujo de meter en el medio del tema “Radio Kriminal”, aquella olvidada canción de Volumen
“Basta de llamarme así”: Lo que es quizás el mejor tema de Bares y fondas es aquí un reggae hecho y derecho, con arreglos para orquesta de Hugo Lobo.
“El fin del amor”: Sergio Rotman, en poco más de dos minutos, le devuelve al combo su esencia punk rocker mod modelo Londres 1977.
“Muy, muy temprano”: Otro inspirado reggae.
“Wake Up and Make Love with Me”: el segundo cover es este temazo de Ian Dury, lo que confirma que el costado rude boy de LFC sigue intacto.
“Condenaditos (Nueva Orleáns funeral pop versión)”: el cierre, junto con los Dancing Mood, muestra a los Caddys en estado de jazz mortuorio. Excelente coda final. ****

“What’s hot in Sweden: October 31 - November 6

Published: 30 Oct 08 12:33 CET

What’s hot in Sweden: October 31st - November 6th. Keane and Balkan ecstasy in Stockholm; Nortec Collective and Aimee Mann in Malmö.

Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible  (MEX)

“Nortec collective is not a band or a group but a series of compilations created in (and about) Tijuana Mexico..” is what the band from northern Mexico have to say about themselves. 

The Nortec Collective began as a musical manifestation at the end of the 1990s mixing the local norteñon beats with techno and developed to mix in the new and the old from this frontier town that is constantly in transformation. 

The band are joined on their three date Scandinavian tour by the 14 piece ensemble Agua Caliente. 

Price: 290 kronor
Location: Musikens Hus, Djurgårdsgatan 13
Time: Wednesday November 5th, 8pm
Tickets: www.pusterviksbiljetter.com
More information: www.musikenshus.se“

We bring it to you first people! Check out the The Pinker Tones new MYSPACE page for their Trilogy Remixes. We can’t wait to hear the remixes all over the place - stay tuned for more news on that! Until then, get on YOUR space and add them now! CLICK ON THE PICTURE BELOW!

Did you miss the last viewing of the Black Uhuru DVD at the Dub Club? Well here is your chance to make up for that. Afro Funké at Zanzibar in Santa Monica is presenting the movie at 9PM this thursday night! Get there by 9PM SHARP so you don’t miss out on the high octane performance captured on this “Live In London” DVD.





Afro Funke’ Thursdays is hosted by ROCKY DAWUNI (www.rockydawuni.com) with resident deejay’s JEREMY SOLE (www.myspace.com/musaics) and GLENN RED (www.myspace.com/glenn_red)

Afro Funke’ Thursdays
Zanzibar
1301 5th Street @ Arizona
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310.451.2221 / 21+ / 9pm - 2am / $10
www.zanzibarlive.com
www.myspace.com/afrofunke
www.rockydawuni.com/afrofunke.html

We want to send a big THANK YOU to Nima and Rud of www.DubCNN.com - check out this ERIC BOBO Free Download of the song “The Good, Bad & Ugly” - we’ll keep you posted on all the Bobo-motion!

 Eric Bobo Of Cypress Hill Prepares Solo Project [Audio] - October 25, 2008 By : Nima

Nacional Records is proud to announce that percussion phenom Eric Bobo (of Cypress Hill) will release his debut album ‘Meeting of the Minds‘ on November 18th. ‘Meeting of the Minds‘ brings together many of Bobo’s friends and creative collaborators from across his life, including B-Real, Sick Jacken, Ill Bill, Mellow Man Ace and Eric’s father, the latin Jazz legend Willie Bobo.

In August 2005, Bobo entered the studio in Tucson, Arizona to record his debut album, ‘Meeting of the Minds‘. The album is an eclectic collection of songs that represent what Eric Bobo is all about. “I am really excited to be able to make an album that has songs with artists from Ill Bill, one of most dope MCs in underground hip hop, to Toy Selectah, whose group Control Machete were influenced by Cypress. That was the concept of ‘Meeting of the Minds’, to put all these different worlds together. Making some of the most oddball combinations and seeing what comes out.“

Throughout his career, Bobo has been known for recording and performing with a large variety of leading artists including The Black Crowes, 311, Gnarls Barkley, Rage Against The Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Soulfly, Ella Fitzgerald, Fort Minor (feat. Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park) and Psycho Realm. “I’m very chameleon-like,” Bobo explains. “I feel comfortable playing in a lot of different settings. I can do a hip-hop album but also play with The Black Crowes on something very rootsy. Or I can play with Soulfly, a heavy metal group. To do all these things, it has really opened me up musically.”

Dubcnn has the pleasure of bringing you an exclusive track off the album for your listening pleasure. Check out “The Good, Bad & Ugly“, featuring The Hoodcats:  Eric Bobo - The Good, Bad & Ugly (ft. The Hoodcats)

Make sure to pick up your copy of “Meeting Of The Minds” when the album drops on November 18th!

Cool backstage pics: 

Caption: Joe and Maya get ready backstage before the show!

Caption: Paty and Nova before stage time!

Click above to go to the complete story

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Alternative: Aterciopelados – Rio

Aterciopelados’ Oye was one of the better albums of 2006, thanks to the powerful rock-with-a-message of Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago (review). They conquered our hearts with sheer positivism, a mesmerizing lead voice and the odd political viewpoint.

“The new album Río brings us more politics: title track “Rio” supports a recently voted law to keep Bogotá river clean, and “Bandera” is about immigrant rights. But Aterciopelados always was the band that paired political correctness with powerful and inspiring music, and those two tracks are no exception.

Río also brings us more creativity - from the childisch innocence of “Attaque de Risa”, with a charming appearance by Echeverri’s six year old daughter, to the funky Andean rhythm of “Madre”. The best track must be “28″, a pure song about pregnancy and hope by the two warmest voices of Colombia: Echeverri, and Goya from Choc Quib Town. She hijacks the end of the song with a zestful, vibrant Caribbean rap.”

Read more by clicking the foto above.

Colombian rock band explores nature on seventh studio album

Over a driving, electronic groove that sounds like updated B-52s minus the cheese factor, Aterciopelados singer Andrea Echeverri goes to the heart and soul of what her band is all about in the song “Bandera” (“Flag”). “Who said that a piece of fabric closes doors and borders?” she sings, in Spanish, about halfway into the group’s new album, Río. It’s classic Aterciopelados, and one of the many highlights of these environmental prayers, songs of peace and odes to motherhood.

The album’s title—River, in English—serves as a metaphor for the unbounded nature of life on Planet Earth. Ignoring boundaries is something Aterciopelados (The Velvety Ones) have long practiced, not just in their lyrics but also in their sonic juxtapositions: hardcore punk with acoustic folk, electronics with traditional Andean instrumentation, metal riffs with ska shuffles. Río, the band’s seventh studio album and another creative peak, begins with the soothing sound of flowing water before the group launches into the polyrhythms of the title song, its poetic lyrics anthropomorphizing the river whose waters run, sing, and dream of becoming clearer and cleaner.

Aterciopelados have become clearer and cleaner, too, in the 15 years since the release of their 1993 debut, Con el Corazón en la Mano (With Heart in Hand). The whiplash punk of that disc found Echeverri shouting and railing about social injustice over gurgling bass, distorted guitars and clattering drums. The band’s sound grew by leaps throughout the ’90s, moving from the jangle pop of 1995’s El Dorado to the dazzling, eclectic art rock of La Pipa de la Paz (The Peace Pipe) in 1996 to the electronic dalliances of 1998’s Caribe Atómico (Atomic Caribbean), which featured cameos from New York avant-rock and jazz guitarists Arto Lindsay and Marc Ribot.

After 2000’s underrated Gozo Poderoso (Powerful Joy), the group went on hiatus, during which time Echeverri birthed her first child, Milagros (Miracles). Four years later, Echeverri returned with her self-titled solo debut, a collection of trip-hop-based folk songs, many focusing on childbirth and motherhood. Guitarist and bassist Hector Buitrago—Echeverri’s musical partner and Aterciopelados’ co-founder—followed the next year with his own solo disc, Conector, an experimental mix of rock and ethnic fusion. The duo returned in 2006 with a new Aterciopelados album, Oye, that combined the Echeverri’s strengths—politically and environmentally charged folk songs—and Buitrago’s maturing experimentation with rock, electronics and traditional ethnic sounds. Although they’d toyed with that combination on previous albums, Oye found them locking in on a consistent sound and vision.

Río continues in this vein, building on the duo’s strengths in songs like “Gratis” (“Free”), fired by a tremolo guitar line with Echeverri singing of earthly things that are purely God-given: rain, wind, fire, waves. Nature is the predominant theme here, each song tied together by the ambient, meditative sound of water. “Hijos de Tigre” (“Children of the Tiger”)—its lyrics using the fiery stripes and predatory nature of the tiger as a symbol for human violence—is the only track that points to the band’s weaker tendencies: a repetitive melody with tempo shifts that offer little sonic payoff. But these shifts work in “Dia Paranormal,” which warns of global warming over an energetic mix of jazzy bass, guitar, flute, percussion and a cacophony of voices shouting in Spanish. “Madre” (“Mother”) begins with deep, primal, tribal drums, a pan flute and native chanting, with Echeverri’s lyrics celebrating femininity, from the macrocosm of Mother Earth to the microcosm of an individual woman’s womb.

Pregnant with her second child, Echeverri sings again of personal motherhood on one of the album’s strongest tracks, “Treboles,” a melodic, guitar-based pop beauty with lyrics that find the singer at home amid flowers, trees and buzzing bees. In “28,” a soothing wash of electronics evolves into a reggae-based ballad featuring guest rapper Gloria “Goyo” Martínez, with Echeverri singing of the new life growing inside her. But the drop-dead highlight of Río is “Ataque de Risa” (“Laugh Attack”), an uplifting children’s song in which Echeverri and daughter Milagros sing together pun-filled lyrics with rhymes (“En vez de una guerra, millones de estrellas / En vez de balas, yo quiero alas”) that don’t translate well to English (“Instead of war, millions of stars / Instead of bullets, I like wings”). The innocent appeal of Milagros’ tiny voice, though, is universal. And so is Aterciopelados’ music, which transcends all language barriers.

Aterciopelados new album “Rio” is now available everywhere!
Purchase now on iTunes, Amazon.com or in Target stores.

Click on the image to read more from our friends at “The Latin Americanist” about Atercio’s new album, “Rio”.
 

Caption: Photo from the video set of “Hijos de Tigere” from the film “La Milagrosa” 

From “The Latin Americanist”: Entitled “Rio” the album emphasizes environmentalism and, more specifically, the need for clean waterways and access to potable water. Lead singer Andrea Echeverri and partner/bassist Hector Buitrago have lent their support to a campaign calling for constitutional amendment preserving water as a fundamental right.