BGKO - Nova Era - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Limited vinyl picture disc pressing. Squawk is the second studio album by the rock band Budgie. It was released in September 1972 on Kapp Records. The album was certified Gold in 1973. The cover art was done by Roger Dean.

American Football's original triumph, on their 1999 self-titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings emo and post-rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it. - Fifteen years later, American Football reunited (now as a four-piece, with the addition of Nate Kinsella). They played far larger shows than in their original incarnation and recorded their long-anticipated second album, 2016's American Football (LP2). The was widely praised, but the band members still felt like their best work was yet to come. - Enter American Football (LP3). 'We put a lot of time and a lot of energy into it,' says Mike. 'We were all thoughtful about what we wanted to put out there. Last time, it was figuring out how to use all of our different arms. This time, we were like - Ok we have these arms, let's use them.' The band used the same producer, Jason Cupp, and recorded the album at the same studio (Arc Studios in Omaha, Nebraska) as it's predecessor - yet they approached it in a markedly different way. There was a determination to let the songs breathe, to trust in ideas finding their own pace. The final result is a definite, and deliberate, stretching of the band. - The album also features Hayley Williams from Paramore on the album's catchiest moment, 'Uncomfortably Numb', and Elizabeth Powell, of the Québécoise act Land Of Talk. Mike wrote lyrics in French especially for her. - LP3 is contemplative, rich, expressive, yet with a queasy undercurrent. It is heavy with expectancy, revealing it's ideas slowly, eliciting the hidden stories people carry around with them. 'I feel like my lyric writing has changed a lot over the years,' says Mike. 'The goal is to be conversational, maybe to state something giant and heavy, but in a very plain way. But, definitely in this record, I keep things a little more

2011 . William Magalhães forms a modern-day Banda Black Rio, epitomizing the spirit of his father Oberdan's original '70s Brazilian samba soul and funk group, on Super Nova Samba Funk. BBR defined the Black Rio movement now enjoying a revival headed by Magalhães's incarnation with the passion of soul and funk again linking Rio and New York for a feel-good blast that also takes in hip-hop, samba, pop and bossa. Brazilian icons Seu Jorge, Marcio Local and Elza Soares are featured, alongside bossa pioneers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as well as Flame Killer and GOD PT3 from the famed NYC Mobb Deep crew. Super Nova Samba Funk brings Rio's black music cultures together to embody the ecstatic revival of Brazil and the Black Rio movement. Formed in Rio de Janeiro, 1976, Banda Black Rio pioneered the soul-funk movement in Brazil led by renowned saxophonist Oberdan Magalhaes. As global stars of the politically charged Black Rio movement, emerging almost a decade earlier from the Soul Brasileiro genre, BBR brought together Rio's black funk scene to rally against repression, a conservative record industry and white middle class press to mobilize disenchanted black Brazilian youth against the military dictatorship that mirrored the struggles in North America. Banda Black Rio released a string of unforgettable recordings in the late-1970s from 1977 debut album, Maria Fumaça, on Warner Music to 1978's Gafieira Universal on RCA Recordings that is considered one of the all-time great Brazilian jazz-funk records. Their third album, SaciPererê, was also released in 1978 by which point the band had made a lasting impact both in Brazil and abroad. Following the death of original band leader Oberdan Magalhães in 1984, the band stopped recording and performing. With a renaissance in Brazil's black music culture led by a new generation of soul, funk and hip hop artists, BBR finally arr