The 2008 Music Issue

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2008

Label: The Believer

Liner Notes:
MABELs (Musicians of American, British, or [Western] European Lineage)
ANABELs (Artists Not of American, British, or [Western] European Lineage)
Every track by a MABEL contains a prominent nod to an ANABEL
Each MABEL on this comp is matched with an ANABEL that functions as its inspirational counterpart.
Track 1: Tartit are a part of the Tuareg, a nomadic people who roan the Saharan desert from Mali to Sudan. Published by Les Editions de la Bascule/Strictly Confidential (BMI). © 2006 Crammed Discs
Track 2: Campfire Songs and Sung Tongs (from which "Winters Love" comes) reveal the band's self-proclaimed love of Sierra Leone guitarist S. E. Rogie, who plays palm-wine music--named for the palm oil-based liquor that "accompanies" the music. Other albums, such as Feels, are inspired by the guitars of Ghanaian highlife. © 2004 The Otterguild/FatCat Records
Track 3: © 2008 Taraneh Records
Track 4: Googoosh (a.k.a. the Queen of Persian Pop) © Taraneh Enterprises Inc.
Track 5: © 2007 Gang Gang Dance
Track 6: MC Madlib (a.k.a. Madvillain, Quasimoto, etc.). The Beat Konducta series is an opportunity for him to dig through his old record crates and splice songs of yore with beats, many of which are used as backing tracks for rhymesayers such as Guilty Simpson. Vol. 3-4: In India is Madlib's homage to the eerie and flamboyant production of Bollywood musicals. Produced for Madlib Invazion. © 2007 Stones Throw Records, LLC. Licensed courtesy of Stones Throw Records, LLC.
Track 7: This track is based on the typical 6/8 Berber rhythm used in Morocco's urban Shaabi music, and the lyrics are split between the band's Flemish dialect and Arabic. © 2008 Crammed Discs
Track 8: From his most recent album, Lightning Strikes, a full-length attempt to reinterpret the sound of Jamaican dancehall. © ℗ 2007 Project Blowed and Decon
Track 9: DJ Busy Signal (a.k.a. Reanno Gordon), "Knocking At Your Door" comes from one of the Ragga Ragga Ragga discs put out every year by the reggae-dancehall label Greensleeves. © 2008 Greensleeves Records, Ltd.
Track 10: © 2005 David Longstreth (ASCAP) and Western Vinyl
Track 11: Recorded in 1970 © 2008 Disques Cellier
Track 12: Skeletons And The Kings Of All Cities was born from the Oberlin, Ohio-based music collective Shinkoyo. Remix of a song from their album Lucas. © 2007 Skeletons, Inc. Una Falta de Oxigeno en el Cerebro Music (ASCAP)
Track 13: © Mahmoud Ahmed
Track 14: This track (which is not on their upcoming album) is influenced by Laotian traditional music. "The way the rhythm track sits back on the beat and the broken intervals of the guitar melody were inadvertently influenced by tracks we found on YouTube," the band says. © 2008 High Places
Track 15: This track is from Ethnic Minority Music Of Southern Laos, a collection of field recordings put out by Sublime Frequencies. It documents a man playing an unspecified ten-stringed instrument made from bamboo and a gourd. The whole thing sits atop a gong, which is what gives it that great buzz. © Sublime Frequencies
Track 16: From the album Widows, "The structure and the point of the song are borrowed from a song found on a compilation of gondang toba music from northern Sumatra" © 2006 Luke Fischbeck
Additional mastering at the Brewery.

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Spine:
Fifty-fifth Issue: Brioso

CD:
The Believer Music Issue * July/August 2008

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