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With 10 band members from 7 South American countries, the musicians of América Contemporânea enjoy contributing to and learning each other’s musical styles.

On their CD Um Outro Centro, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela are represented. Not only are the different countries merging their musical styles, but folk, jazz and rock are meeting.

Playlist

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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

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CD Cut 3 - 'Mysteries of May' [Misterios de Mayo]
Alvaro Montenegro
Pub Not Spec
Nucleo Contemperaneo NC 030 www.nucleoart.br (also available in the USA through Adventure Music and online through more English-Friendly online retailers
América Contemporânea - 'Um Outro Centro'
5:05
(Acoustic guitar and drums play a saya-caporal rhythm in 6/8 time then sax and flute play counter line and piano and guitar solo in piece based on folk structures also with flute and accordion)

Segue

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CD Cut 5 - 'Alleca Bugum'
Ajak Kwai
Control
available from www.ajakkwai.com/ , from Blue Moon World Wide Music in Melbourne and Aroma Records and Tracks Music in Hobart'
Ajak Kwai - 'Come Together'
3:13
(Austral comp and perf: Thumb piano, electric guitars and drums in song that says 'you are nothing without a home' with fuzz guitar solo)

AJAK KWAI GIG ALERT:

AJAK KWAI with her 8-piece band The Ajak Kwai Band featuring Chris Basile on guitar and oud, Simon Lewis on drums, Michael Havir on accordian and keyboards, and Bun & Duk - two vibrant Dinka female backing vocalists and dancers, will appear on Friday 25 July 2008 at CARNI a licensed warehouse venue at 60 High St South Preston, phone 9484-4581 for details

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CD Cut 1 - 'Carmelita, Goodbye' [Carmelita, Adiós]
Traditional Folk Song
Pub Not Spec
Nucleo Contemperaneo NC 030 www.nucleoart.br (also available in the USA through Adventure Music and online through more English-Friendly online retailers
América Contemporânea - 'Um Outro Centro'
6:37
(Lucia Pulido sings a Women's song with ritual origins from Colombia's Atlantic coast, accompanied by percussion including berimbau, soprano sax, double bass and piano)

Segue

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CD Cut 2 - 'Mérua'
Trad and Ivan Duran, arr Ivan Duran
Stonetree Music BMI administered by Cumbancha Music Publishing
Cumbancha Stonetree Records CMB-CD 6 ( in Australia, through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.cumbancha.com )
The Garifuna Women's Project - Umalali
3:10
(Percussion, acoustic and electric guitar and vocalists Chella Torres and Desere Diego singing Garifuna work song)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:

The Garifuna Women's Project - Umalali will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Thursday, 31.7.08

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CD Cut 5 - 'Basin Street Blues'
Spencer Williams
Edwin H. Morris and Co, Inc. ASCAP
Blue Note Records 509999 5 04454 2 4 (Through EMI)
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - 'Two Men With the Blues'
Fade to 4:55
(Dan Nimmer's rolling piano introduces this tour de force for Willie's distinctive vocal phrasing with Walter Blanding's sax answering Mickey Raphael's harmonica and Wynton's subtle, powerful trumpet following Willie's Django-inflected guitar solo)

Segue

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CD Cut 1 - 'Lover Come Back to Me'
O Hammerstein/S Romberg
Bambalina Music Publishing Co/Warner Bros, Inc ASCAP
Blue Note Records 50999 5 07699 2 6 (Through EMI)
Cassandra Wilson - 'Loverly'
4:13
(All are swinging in a modern way on this jazz standard but pianist Jason Moran in particular re-makes the song with his simple opening motif and genre-less solo. Trumpet too, from Nicholas Payton)

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CD Cut 7 - 'Jucá's Valley' [Vale Do Jucá]
Trad
Pub Not Spec
Nucleo Contemperaneo NC 030 www.nucleoart.br (also available in the USA through Adventure Music and online through more English-Friendly online retailers
América Contemporânea - 'Um Outro Centro'
Five minute excerpt
(Lucia Pulido's wordless voice, then Siba's male vocal with a poem that talks about the search for origins, set to the rhythm of the ciranda, a circle dance in Brazil's Pernambuco state. Backing on assorted drums, accordion, piano and cuatro, then tenor saxophone)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans