Label: UNITED ONE 0122
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ABFAHRT - Artists: Sambodromo - Tracks: Abfahrt !; O.P.C. - Overnight Parcel Courier; Texas; Two steps; Um; Frustration; I.T.N.O. - In the Name of; Severance; Guaguanco Paraiso; Cara Preta; Brücke 4; Maracatu Eclypso - Brazil clashes with Hamburg. Samba Funk joins Space Rock. Tradition meets modernism and asks for a dance. Sambodromo comprises 13 young and highly ambitious musicians from Hamburg who have developed a reputation through excellent live performances. Sambodromo is a melting pot of the Arfo-Brazilian background and the various musical tastes of its members. Far away from any musical cliché Sambodromo utilizes the whole range of Afro-Brazilian instruments plus guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, saxophone, vocals, flute, DJ-ing and sampling to cross over to Reggae, HipHop, Funk, Rock and Pop.

Label: UNITED ONE 3031
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Tracks: Dori Dori/As Time Goes By; Schokran/Thanks; Gharib/Strange; Ismaa!/Listen!; Dikrayat/Memories; Al Hadoui/The Vagabond; Massir/Destiny; Hada Hali/So Am I; Baid Aani/Far Away From Me

Artists: Orak naa naa: Abdel-Illah Hajim, oud/vocals; Peter Horcher, piano/percussion
A Moroccan musician from Kenifra met a German musician from Nürnberg. Both had learned to play music using different instruments, had worked in and explored different countries, and came from very different cultures. Their approaches to music were equally divergent and based on disparate music principles. They began talking to each other and soon became friends. They naturally gravitated towards playing music together. Their collaboration led to the development of a completely new style of music that combines Oriental-Moroccan and German- European music elements in a harmonic playing field of suspense Music so spicy required an equally evocative name so Abdel Illah Hajim and Peter Horcher named themselves “Orak Naa Naa”, which means peppermint leaves in Arabic. Abdel Illah Hajim is a master of the ancient Arabic oud, a fretless lute. While Hajim accompanies his own chants on the oud, Peter molds this traditional style into a new one using the piano. He adds compositions to existing music and plays European elements accompanied by Moroccan-Arabic ones. These two very different music traditions enrich each other, culminating in a harmony never heard before. The texts are written and sung by Hajim himself in Moroccan and Berber as well as Arabic dialect. Many of his compositions have been published in Paris and Morocco.

Label: UNITED ONE 3036
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Tracks: Police Woman; Bus Ride; Buttah; A Letter From Africa; The Rhythm Clone/Worksong; Skajazz Feeling; Changing Your Life; Some Girl; Take Four/Take Five; Arachnid; Hackensack; Guns of Navarrone; Whole Lotta Love;
BONUS: Vom Winde verweht

Artists: Achim Goettert, alto, tenor sax; Andrea Goettert, baritone sax; Johannes Ammon, violin; roland Muller, guitars; Stefan Holweg, keyboards; Harald Weigel, e-bass; Gharles Blackledge, drums; featuring Poppa Double U, vocal
Imagine, you get an inviting “Letter From Africa”, take a real hip “Bus Ride” to “Hackensack” in New Jersey, enjor “A Whole Lotta Love” there and then sit in with Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Page and the New York Ska Jazz Ensemble to fuse all these grooves into one. Yet, the session is not in New York but in Nuremberg, South Germany where they even add a fantastic violin to it all. This is the exciting trip you take with Papa SKAliente on this album.