Pete Lee - Velvet Rage - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In many ways, DJ Black Low's debut album, Uwami, shows the signs of an artist's first offering in any musical genre. Showcasing fluency in a broad range of styles and stuffing a number of ideas to the record's brim is the 20 year-old producer's attempt to both introduce himself to a wide listenership and stamp a recognizable sound in their minds. In other ways, somewhat out of the young South African producer's control, Uwami goes against the grain.The 11-track album released on the Awesome Tapes From Africa imprint comes at a time when South African electronic music is being fundamentally disrupted. Amapiano, the electronic music movement which first gained popularity with a small, core group of followers, now dominates the mainstream. Well-known and pervasive, amapiano borrows from a diverse palette of musical styles which are popular in South Africa's largely Black townships- jazz, kwaito, dibacardi, deep and afro house among them. Instead of pandering to the seemingly insatiable local appetite and growing global penchant for amapiano though, on Uwami DJ Black Low seeks out the limits of the sound du jour and tries to stretch them. On his solo productions, he uses the samples and compositional norms that make amapiano hits the bedrock on which to experiment and improvise. With collaborators, DJ Black Low improvises within the boundaries of listener-friendly grooves.The sound he creates has foundations of what could easily have progressed into captivating amapiano songs on their own. But he uses improvised but structured electronic percussion and distortion sounds to drive the tracks in a particular direction. What remains is something like a deconstructed amapiano.For a young producer living in the townships of the greater Pitori area of South Africa's Gauteng province, there were few avenues available for Radebe to pursue a career in music. His trajectory shows th

Among the top Jazz trumpeters of their generation, Pete and Conte Candoli have played on over 5,000 sessions and have backed some of the world's greatest jazz artists. Conte was a founding member of the revolutionary be-bop big band Supersax, while brother Pete became a huge figure on the West Coast jazz scene, working with several bands, most notably that of Stan Kenton. On this classic from 1978, the Condoli brothers (on trumpet and flugelhorn) join forces supported by an all star back-up band Joe DiOrio (guitar); Lou Levy (piano); Fred Atwood (bass) and John Dentz (drums). All selections newly remastered.

Inspired by the mid-1960's Latin brass explosion spearheaded by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Pete Galladoro and his Latin Brass were part of a whole West Coast movement of bands capitalizing on the infectious Mexicali rhythm and brass sounds that seemed to dominate the airwaves at the time. Gallardo's outfit was better than most and his 1965 LP , InchSenor Swing!Inch has become a highly prized collector's item by fans of the genre. The classic album, which boasts interesting arrangements of popular tunes such as InchHarlem Nocturne,Inch InchLa PalomaInch and InchCaravan,Inch is finally available in the digital domain. All selections newly remastered.