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Discover: Vampisoul

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

For Vampisoul founder Iñigo Pastor, it all began as a fanzine that mutated into a label with global aspirations. At age 15, Pastor began publishing La Herencia de los Munster (The Legend of the Munsters) from his home in Spain's Basque region. Following flexidisks featuring Spanish garage bands, Pastor's first vinyl release on his Munster label was an EP containing one track by Spacemen 3 and "two Spanish bands nobody outside of Spain knows." Although… more »

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Red Baraat: An All-American Immigration Saga

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

Describing New York's Red Baraat dhol 'n' brass band is like those blind guys and the elephant, only in reverse: What you hear depends on what touches you. South Asians will immediately recognize Bollywood hits like "Dum Maro Dum" and "Mast Kalendar," devotional music like "Samaro Mantra" and "Aarthi, and the joyous party vibe of the baraat, a bridegroom's wedding procession. Dancers in Virginia and Washington, D.C., will hear a go-go influence right off the… more »

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Discover: Finders Keepers

By Sharon O'Connell, eMusic Contributor

An enthusiasm for sounds lost, unknown, ignored or brain-meltingly weird is the principle behind Finders Keepers, the reissue label Andy Votel founded in 2005 with Doug Shipton. A mainstay of Manchester's music scene, Votel made his name as an electronic musician, respected DJ and the man behind the Twisted Nerve label, which first brought Badly Drawn Boy to the public's ears. Votel is a long-term enthusiastic crate-digger and his early love of hip-hop taught him… more »

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I Remember Syria

Mark Gergis

2013 | Sublime Frequencies

Mark Gergis, I Remember Syria

2013 | Label: Sublime Frequencies

By Richard Gehr eMusic Contributor

04.19.13 The final track on 2004′s I Remember Syria — producer Mark Gergis’s evocative man-to-nation “love letter” consisting of street sounds, political commentary, homosexual confession, random bursts of radio, plus a few actual musical selections — is a conceptual stunner. “The Norias of Hama (Blood Irrigation on the Orontes)” is eight minutes of what sounds like jets but is actually Hama’s famous wooden water wheels, which have been adopted as a symbol of resistance to current president Bashar al-Assadh, son of former president Hafez al-Assad, whose tanks and bombs killed some… more »

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You Have Already Gone to the Other World

A Hawk And A Hacksaw

2013 | LM Dupli-cation / Revolver

A Hawk & A Hacksaw, You Have Already Gone To The Other World

2013 | Label: LM Dupli-cation / Revolver

By Luke Turner eMusic Contributor

04.02.13 Over the past decade, the New Mexican duo of Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost, aka A Hawk & A Hacksaw, have taken a fascinating journey through the music of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and beyond. They also have a long-standing connection with cinema: Their first release was the soundtrack to a documentary about Slovenian thinker Slavoj Žižek. This album, their sixth, is loosely based on a score written to accompany Sergei Parajanov’s 1965 documentary film Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors, about the Slavic Hutsul people in the Carpathian mountains that… more »

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Ticklah vs. Axelrod

Ticklah

2007 | Easy Star Records / The Orchard

Ticklah, Ticklah vs. Axelrod

2007 | Label: Easy Star Records / The Orchard

By Nate Patrin eMusic Contributor

03.20.13 Victor Axelrod can do it all, or at least everything he feels like doing. As a contributing member of Antibalas, the Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band and Easy-Star All Stars, he has covered Afrobeat, Latin soul, Southern funk, dub reggae, and any genre he feels like adapting into that already-broad scope. But it’s under the roots-reggae identity Ticklah that he originally made his name, and Ticklah vs. Axelrod is a fine amalgamation of all the styles Axelrod’s got stashed under his hat. There’s some deep dub, naturally… more »

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Gamak

Rudresh Mahanthappa

2013 | ACT Music + Vision / The Orchard

Rudresh Mahanthappa, Gamak

2013 | Label: ACT Music + Vision / The Orchard

By Kevin Whitehead eMusic Contributor

02.07.13 Indian-American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa sometimes looks for ways to bridge jazz and South Indian music, as on his celebrated two-alto collaboration with Kadri Gopalnath, Kinsmen. On Gamak, Mahanthappa’s point of departure is the gamakas, the specific ways Indian classical musicians sculpt a note: sliding into it from just above or below, intensifying it with wide or narrow leaps, ending it with an upward swoop; it’s these rococo designs that give Indian melodies their distinctive character. Mahanthappa has written striking tunes with the same sort of pungent inflections (“Abhogi,” “Stay I,”… more »

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Looking for the newest and best on eMusic? Look no further than Freshly Ripped Radio. Every week, our editorial team combs through the crates and pulls out the best of the best, all the better to help you spend your money wisely. more »