Ebony Steelband - Popular Beatles Songs: Caribbean Steelgrums - The Ultimate Chill-Out Album - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2018 . Tahdig is the long awaited debut from New York City's only Farsi Funk group, Mitra Sumara, showcasing '60s and '70s Iranian pop and funk songs, spun with updated beats, modern production, and psychedelic touches. This international party band revives this vibrant music silenced by the Iranian Revolution; lost popular hits which combined disco, funk, and Latin beats with Middle Eastern melodies and poetic lyrics. Mitra Sumara interprets songs by Iran's beloved singers such as Googoosh, Soli, Leila Forouhar, and remakes intoxicating Southern Iranian Bandari beat tunes. The band is comprised of all-star musicians drawn from NYC's indie-rock, jazz, and avant-garde scenes and was founded by singer Yvette Saatchi Perez. After studying Farsi and uniting with her Iranian birth father, Tahdig is an outgrowth of Perez's journey to reclaim her personal identity, and a love letter to the beauty of Iranian culture and music.

The Burning Hell perform a densely populated, genre-shifting music, packed with an abundance of literary, historical, cultural, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks. They move with heavy rhyme and a light step, incorporating a frequent fixation on apocalypse and ruin into work that ultimately enacts a potent celebration of participation in a mutually created, ever surprising, delightful, and even occasionally beautiful world. Garbage Island is an album about what we lose when things fall apart, and what we can gain from collaborative regeneration. It takes place in a crumbling near-future world that bears a distinct resemblance to our own, beginning with the violence of collapse, loosely narrating the escape of the album's unnamed protagonists on a pedal-boat swan, as they trade doom for danger on their way to a future home built from the detritus of the old world. Along the way, the band narrates both the need for action and the joys of refusing the hustle, nostalgically pines for the days of post-apocalyptic touring life, celebrates escape and solitude, and ends with the hesitant suggestion that the end of the world can't last forever. Garbage Island showcases songwriter Mathias Kom's irreverent, surrealist lyricism, but while there is humour, there are few jokes. It's either the darkest record The Burning Hell has made, the most reassuring, or the most fun. It might be all three. RIYL Silver Jews, Talking Heads, B-52's, Magnetic FieldsNo Peace Nigel the Gannet BirdwatchingDirty Microphones The Last Normal DayEmpty World Minor CharactersAll I NeedSwan BoatBird Queen of Garbage IslandSpeechlessnessThe End of the End of the World

Classics of this genre take the listener on a fun trip to the Caribbean. The steel drum is a popular instrument used in the islands that creates a unique sound. Dating back to the 19th century, calypso music uses improvised lyrics and languages such as Spanish and African dialects.