"Hasta Siempre, Comandante," ("Until Forever, Commander" in English) or simply "Hasta Siempre," is a 1965 song by Cuban composer Carlos Puebla. The song's lyrics are a reply to revolutionary Che Guevara's farewell letter when he left Cuba, in order to foster revolution in the Congo and later Bolivia, where he was captured and killed.
The lyrics recount key moments of the Cuban Revolution, describing Che Guevara and his role as a revolutionary commander. The song became iconic after Guevara's death, and many left-leaning artists did their own cover versions of the song afterwards. The title is a part of Guevara's well known saying "¡Hasta la victoria siempre!" ("Until victory, always!").
Like many of the songs of the author and in line with the tradition of the Cuban and Caribbean music, the song consists of a refrain plus a series of five verses (quatrain), rhyming ABBA, with each line written in octosyllabic verse.
The song has been covered numerous times, there are more than 200 versions of this song. The song has also been covered by Compay Segundo, Soledad Bravo, Óscar Chávez, Nathalie Cardone, Robert Wyatt, Nomadi, Inés Rivero, Silvio Rodríguez, Ángel Parra, Celso Piña, Veronica Rapella (whose performance is attributed to Joan Baez by a common mistake), Rolando Alarcón, Los Olimareños, Maria Farantouri, Jan Garbarek, Wolf Biermann, Boikot, Los Calchakis (commonly wrongly attributed to Buena Vista Social Club), George Dalaras, Apurimac, Giovanni Mirabassi and Al Di Meola, Ahmet Koç, Mohsen Namjoo, Enrique Bunbury, Verasy, Interitus Dei among others. Although Victor Jara never sang this song, many attribute the Carlos Puebla version to him by mistake.
So for today we have the Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek's version, along with Rainer Bruninhaus (piano), Eberhard Weber (basse), Marilyn Mazur (percussions), the tune was released on his "Witchi-Tai-To" from 1974. The clip is from Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2004, enjoy!
As it's Halloween atm I though we play something that is a bit scary. So why not "Frankenstein", the instrumental tune by THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP from their 1972 album "They Only Come Out At Night".
The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in May 1973, being replaced by Paul McCartney's "My Love". It sold over one million copies. In Canada it fared equally well, reaching number 1 on the RPM 100 Top Singles Chart the following month. That same month the song peaked at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. The following month, the song peaked at number 10 in Mexico. The song also peaked at number 39 in West Germany, remaining on the chart for one week. The single was certified gold June 19, 1973, by the RIAA.
The song's title, coined by the band's drummer Chuck Ruff, derives from the fact that the original recording of the song was much longer than the final version, as the band would often deviate from the arrangement into less structured jams. The track required numerous edits to shorten it. The end result was spliced together from many sections of recording. Winter frequently refers to the appropriateness of the name also in relation to its "monster-like, alumbering beat". (One riff was first used by Winter in the song "Hung Up", on his jazz-oriented first album Entrance. He later tried a variation on it, "Martians" on the 1981 Standing on Rock album.)
Winter played many of the instruments on the track, including keyboards, saxophone and timbales. As the release's only instrumental cut, the song was not initially intended to be on the album, and was only included on a whim as a last-minute addition. It was originally released as the B-side to "Hangin' Around", but the two were soon reversed by the label when disc jockeys nationwide in the United States, as well as in Canada, were inundated with phone calls and realized this was the hit. The song features a "double" drum solo, with Ruff on drums and Winter on percussion. In fact, the working title of the song was "The Double Drum Song". The single was one of the few No. 1 chart records to include an extended passage featuring the ARP 2600 synthesizer. The group performed the song, with Rick Derringer on guitar, on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973.
The song was actually performed three years previously when Edgar was playing with his older brother Johnny Winter at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970. This rare recording was released in 2004 as one of several live bonus tracks included in the two-disc Legacy Edition CD of Johnny Winter's Second Winter.
Today's tune "Frankenstein", taken from the album "They Only Come Out At Night", enjoy!
"Cissy Strut" is a 1969 funk instrumental by THE METERS. Released as a single from their eponymous debut album, it reached No. 4 on the R&B chart and No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011, which honors "recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old". The A.V. Club called the song a "classic" deeply rooted in New Orleans music tradition.
THE METERS are an American funk band formed in 1965 in New Orleans by Zigaboo Modeliste (drums), George Porter Jr. (bass), Leo Nocentelli (guitar) and Art Neville (keyboards). The band performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977 and played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint. Their original songs "Cissy Strut" and "Look-Ka Py Py" are considered funk classics.
Enjoy today's tune "Cissy Strut", the video clip is filmed live at the new orleans jazz & heritage festival 1993.
LOS PIRAÑAS are an instrumental group featuring three musicians from across the country's musical landscape.
The three members of LOS PIRAÑAS can all remember when they were in high school together in Bogotá, Colombia and just beginning to play music. Back then, the joy of a riff, the heavy beat and a ripple of guitar noise were all they needed to make life worthwhile. Twenty-five years on and they’ve become internationally well-known musicians, spread across different bands, traversing multiple continents.
"Historia Natural", their third album, released October 11, 2019, recapturing the spirit that moved them as teenagers. Yet it’s a record that’s anything but basic. That youthful desire has been filtered through the prism of knowledge and time. Now it’s fuelled by a wily sophistication in the sound, and a deep, ingrained understanding of the rhythms that power their homeland. It’s innocence plus experience. And all through the album, Alvarez’s guitar is a shapeshifter, constantly mutating sound and texture. It rarely sounds straight up, but there’s never a doubt that someone is plucking the strings and bending the notes. Alvarez darts around and through the lines created by Ojeda and Galeano, leading or snapping at their heels. This is a band bristling with ideas, where the unspoken communication is so acute that all three of them can swerve together or turn on a dime.
“To me, this album is going back to where we were in high school,” says drummer Pedro Ojeda, also known for his work in ROMPERAYO. “We didn’t have so many goals back then. We wanted to play riffs, to express ourselves, to find that rough spirit.”
“We’re looking back, but with all this experience,” agrees guitarist Eblis Alvarez, who’s been part of the MERIDIAN BROTHERS for two decades. “We were too much in a comfort zone, we were getting lazy about what to do next. So we talked and came up with some concepts. The three of us have a soul bond and a long history together.”
Although they’d played music together when young, LOS PIRAÑAS only came into being as a band 10 years ago. It gave them the chance to explore the complex vitality of Colombian rhythms mixed with Alvarez’s unique blend of computer and guitar. A combination of past and future, and a power trio unlike any other.
A swirling, electric universe of music, created right in their own neighbourhood. That’s the real Historia Natural of LOS PIRAÑAS.
Eblis Alvarez: electric guitar, computer
Mario Galeano: bass
Pedro Ojeda: drums, percussion
Today's tune "Palermo’s Grunch", is a surf trip along Colombia’s Caribbean coast powered by a vallenato rhythm that suddenly dives into deep, rippling dub, enjoy!
"E22" is a massive tune by the Swedish experimental, instrumental, ambient, post-rock band PG.LOST.
The band was founded in 2004 in Norrköping, Sweden, PG.LOST is guitarist Mattias Bhatt, drummer Martin Hjertstedt (ex- GHOST), guitarist Gustav Almberg (THE GREAT DISCORD) and bass Kristian Karlsson (CULT OF LUNA, keyboardist). Formed in pursuit of a singular love of post-rock, ambient and shoegaze with a bent towards post- metal, the band released their self-titled and the "Yes, I Am" EPs in 2006 and 2007. From there PG.LOST dropped their 2008 LP "It's Not Me, It's You!" quickly followed by 2009’s "In Never Out", "Key", "THE WANG WEN" split LP and "Versus" followed in 2012, 2013 and 2016 respectively.
Sovereign in execution and mammoth in scope, "Oscillate" is ten tune of pure dramatic bombast and a massive step forward for the decades-old band. The four years away have been worth it.
"Oscillate" was released November 20, 2020 via Pelagic Records.
3 years have passed since the release of "Gravity Works". We have been through unique experiences and colossal changes during this time, not only as musicians but as human beings as well; this is our vision of those experiences.
"Of Dimensions & Theories" stands on a thin line between sci-fi and an impending doomed reality.
The year is 2061 and humanity is ready to become a planetary force with a complete scientific and technological mastery boosted by the invaluable data transmitted from cosmonaut Fritz on her way into a black hole, but the final piece of the puzzle lies hidden in deep space.
Rushed by the constant threat of nuclear war, disease and the imminent collapse of the environment (known as the Sixth Glare) humans have set the ultimate expedition; four earthling cosmonauts prepare to be the first ones in deep space exploration.
Their mission: to reach and explore the "point one" location in order to collect the missing data required to avoid this crisis and finally leap into inter-planetary conquest.
The Album is divided into two "Dimensions" and two "Theories", best represented on the vinyl edition. The 12" holds the two sides of this story while the 7" introduces different points of view from the general public about the current situation on the planet.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by KB in Testa Estudio.
León, Gto. México. January 3rd - 5th 2020. The album was released March 27, 2020.
Cover artwork by Asep Yasin Abdulah
Make sure to check out the very special vinyl version which includes a 12”, 7” as well as booklet. The 12” inch will be blue, green, and white mix to represent earth and the 7” black and cream to represent the moon. The booklet includes transcripts from the record as well as images that go with the album.
Today's tune "In Search of M Theory" is taken from "Of Dimensions & Theories", enjoy!
"Omens", ELDERs fifth full-length record is on the way, set to be released on April 24th. In the meantime we take a peak on the ELDER side-project "GOLD & SILVER" featuring Nick DiSalvo and Michael Risberg. It's an entirely instrumental project. 1 track each side. Side 1, "Azurite" a mesmerizing psychedelic rock journey clocking at almost 16 minutes and Side 2, "Malachite" captures your mind for slightly over 10 minutes.
The copper minerals from which GOLD & SILVERs two-song debut EP takes its name, "Azurite And Malachite", are blue and green, respectively.
The EP was released on limited vinyl (250 copies, tri-color platter, etc.) through Totem Cat Records. GOLD & SILVER began as Risberg and DiSalvo writing for acoustic guitar, and if “Azurite” (15:42) and “Malachite” (10:08) were constructed the same way, then they maintain that jam-based sensibility, despite being at least directionally plotted and recorded in layers (unless DiSalvo has concocted a way to play guitar and a full drum kit at the same time; live, GOLD & SILVER brings in ELDERs Jack Donovan on bass and John DiSalvo on drums).
"Azurite And Malachite" are available once more on vinyl from Stickman Records - this time on 3 color, 180 gr. marbled vinyl including a download code. This album has been remastered and re-cut for a new pressing by Carl Saff and sounds better than ever!
Also, they are playing their first gig in years and also their first-ever European show at Hintertreffen 2020 in Berlin this March!
They are planning more music to be recorded this winter and will hopefully begin regular musical activity once again.
"Azurite And Malachite" was recorded july 2013 @ the soundbox by Clinton Lisaboa
Today's tune "Azurite" is recorded live in Providence, December 3, 2014, at AS220. (Poor Sound Quality)
KOSMODROM is a four-piece instrumental Stoner-Psyche-Rock band from Upper Franconia, Germany. Formed in 2013.
An interesting mix of all kinds of styles blended into one. These Germans funk's up the classic rock tones and blends it with heavy riffs and with a stoner approach. I wish I could hear this in the elevators instead of the easy listening stuff that you are forced to hear.
KOSMODROM are:
Matthias - Guitar
Timo - Guitar
Hechti - Bass
Mirko - Drums
Today's tune "Funkgerät" is taken from the 2017's album "Gravitationsnarkose", enjoy!
Upcoming Tourdates:
Jul 20
Zentrum Zinsholz
Esslingen, Germany
Aug 02
Sticky Fingers
Marktredwitz, Germany
Oct 17
Glashaus
Bayreuth, Germany
Oct 18
Freiraum
Dachau, Germany
Nov 01
Nikola Tesla
Chemnitz, Germany
Nov 08
Grüner Jäger
Hamburg, Germany
Dec 20
Altes Spital
Viechtach, Germany
"Fall River" is a full-length debut by the Belgian Psych/Progressive/Doom/Noise band DORRE. An album that took a two year journey of writing, rewriting, sound-searching, recording and collaborating with profoundly talented artists and partners. The album is a dark and murky sensory undertaking, wandering through the alluring town of "Fall River".
DORRE was born at the Rock Café in Leuven when Adriaan De Raymaeker (guitar) and Wolf Overloop (drums) decided to head up to the attic that PEKTOP (Adriaan’s former band) used to rehearse. Picking up a guitar and settling behind the drums respectively, the noise began to fill the room. Deep, dark, heavy riffs were made and quite possibly enjoyed by several blocks of flats and houses around the building. No big plans were made. One show every year, free beer, towers of cabs and amps, guest musicians joining in the jam.
After several years of this continued tradition, DORRE was asked to play more shows. Obligingly, several small stages around Leuven were played and Erik Heyns (guitar) joined the steady line-up. Deciding that the time had come to widen the scope of DORRE, a more serious approach was taken to write long pieces of music that incorporated every aspect of each musician. A cohesion of doom, noise, psychedelic rock, blues and stoner was organically formed between the two guitars and the drums. In 2015 DORRE played a select set of shows as a build-up towards an EP release in December. The EP was made and released following a first stint outside of the borders, touring throughout England and Scotland in January of 2016 and sharing the stage with many great bands.
Mid-2016, a longtime friend and sound guy Andrew Hockley joined the line-up, taking up bass duties for the band. In 2019 the full-length album "Fall River" saw the daylight.
A beautiful red/black version on vinyl, limited to 100 albums. Get it while you can.
Today's tune "Satisfying Sadistic Urges" is taken from "Fall River", just listen to this amazing tune, wait for the middle part, picking guitars give you goose bumps, enjoy!
"Voice Of The Soul" is a tune by the American death metal band DEATH. It's taken from the bands seventh and final studio album "The Sound Of Perseverance", released on September 15, 1998, by Nuclear Blast. This is the only album to feature guitarist Shannon Hamm, drummer Richard Christy, and bassist Scott Clendenin.
"Voice Of The Soul" is an instrumental track that contrasts with almost every other work of the band in its inclusion of softer guitars and lack of percussion.
In an interview done in March 1999, Chuck Schuldiner stated that the acoustic guitar-driven "Voice of the Soul" was actually written during the "Symbolic" sessions. DEATH has produced only two instrumentals (the other being the more electric guitar driven "Cosmic Sea" from the album "Human"). The album also featured a cover of JUDAS PRIESTs "Painkiller", which shows Schuldiner attempting a different, high-pitched style of death growl more reminiscent of Rob Halford's original vocals and also singing for the first time with a clean voice through the end of the song. All the solos in the song are rewritten.
Some of the song names and music on "The Sound of Perseverance" was originally going to appear on the first "Control Denied" album, "The Fragile Art of Existence". Schuldiner himself denied this in an interview with Metal Maniacs in 1998 by saying that none of his compositions for "Control Denied" had been used to fill space for a DEATH album. Schuldiner implied that some "Control Denied" songs were used for "The Sound of Perseverance" in an interview with Scream Magazine in October 1999, when he stated that "The Fragile Art of Existence" contains a lot of music I didn't have in mind originally. Most of the material was completed in 1996-97. Also, Tim Aymar, in December 2010, confirmed that a few of the "Control Denied" songs had been, in his words, "'Deathized' and recorded on TSOP." When DEATH was signed on to Nuclear Blast, Schuldiner agreed to make one last DEATH album before moving forward with "Control Denied".
20th Anniversary 3LP Edition, Deluxe limited edition one time pressing of DEATH’s seminal final album, featuring gorgeous expanded packaging and a third LP featuring 10 bonus tracks!
Enjoy today's tune!
Death - Voice of the Soul (Live in San Francisco) 6/22/12 Death To All 2012
THE BUDOS BAND, the Staten Island instrumental afro-soul act with influences as the CAIRO JAZZ BAND, J.C. Davis, Mulatu Astatke and BLACK SABBATH coming together to form a mind-bending combination of rhythm and melody, record junkies like me nodding their heads to the soul-infused melodies; metal heads thrashing to the dark and ominous guitar and bass riffs.
THE BUDOS BAND is an instrumental band recording on the Daptone Records label. The band has nine members (with occasional guests) who on their first studio albums, played instrumental music that was self-described as "Afro-Soul", baritone saxophone player Jared Tankel elucidated as being drawn from Ethiopian music the band had been listening to that had a soul undercurrent to it, which the band then "sprinkled a little bit of sweet 60's stuff on top" of. Since this time, the band has moved toward playing what they refer to as "70's Psychedelic Instrumental Music."
On the electric guitar is Thomas Brenneck, congas, drums is handled by John Carbonella Jr., organ - Mike Deller, bass guitar - Daniel Fode, trumpet, Andrew Greene, bongos, congas – Rob Lombardo, drums – Brian Profilio and percussion – Dame Rodriguez,
Jazz, deep funk, Afro-beat, soul and heavy-metal influences can be heard in the Budos Band recordings, all of which were released on Daptone Records and recorded at the label's own studio, Daptone's House of Soul, in Brooklyn, New York. Though they reside in Brooklyn THE BUDOS BAND have toured most of North America, Several countries in Europe and parts of Australia.
That this is very cool music to play on high volume on a Friday evening, but beware, it's easy to get the "Budos Fever"
Today's tune is the title tune from "Burnt Offering", released 2014, enjoy!
ULURU is an İstanbul-Kadıköy based Psychedelic/Stoner Rock trio, formed to produce and experience new sounds and nuances.
They started their first recordings on September 2015 for the EP called "Dazed Hill", which is released on November 2015. Their second EP "Imaginary Sun" was released on March 2016. Five tracks from the first two EP's were released by Tonzonen Records(GER) as LP vinyl on summer of 2016.
And their new LP “Acrophilia” released on 07 January 2019. The album is an eastern themed instrumental jams. It's heavy and psychedelic but with class.
ULURU consists of:
Ege Çaldemir
Ümit Büyükyüksel
Ogibur Ertürk
Wonder if the name ULURU is taken from the massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid "Red Centre". The nearest large town is Alice Springs, 450km away. Uluru is sacred to indigenous Australians and is thought to have started forming around 550 million years ago. It’s within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, which also includes the 36 red-rock domes of the Kata Tjuta (colloquially “The Olgas”) formation.
Today's tune "Şark", filmed live at Kadıköy Sahne, İstanbul 14.10.2018. The tune is taken from the latest album "Acrophilia", enjoy!
“The sickest desert group of all time”, as apparently Brant Bjӧrk described YAWNING MAN.
The Californian rockers YAWNING MAN have released the album "The Revolt Against Tired Noises" on December 6, 2017, an album that showcases the band’s talent to drift away with their adoring listeners across a dusty plain of companionship and innovation.
The aural experience of YAWNING MAN summarizes as an intense yet graceful kaleidoscope of polyphonic musical textures. Dramatic and flowing, dark, intense and emotional. July 2018 finds the band releasing their most musically exciting recording to date with their 6th full-length LP, "The Revolt Against Tired Noises" on the ambitious up and coming independent label, Heavy Psych Sounds. The songs on this release are described as “an emotional and visceral expression of pure melodic darkness and beauty”, the album was recorded at Gato Trail Studios in Joshua Tree, CA and produced and engineered by friend and long time collaborator, Mathias Schneeberger (Mark Lanegan, Greg Duli, SUNN O))), EARTH, THE OBSESSED).
YAWNING MAN consists of:
Gary Arce: Guitar
Mario Lalli: Bass
Bill Stinson: Drums
Mathias Schneeberger: Keyboards (Songs 1 - 5)
Rob Peterson: Drums (Ghost Beach)
A full European, UK, North American / Canadian, and South American tour is in planned to support the release.
Today's tune "Ghost Beach" is taken from the album "The Revolt Against Tired Noises", the tune was recorded by Sebastiaan van Bijlevelt at Galloway Studio, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, enjoy!
The northern Swedish rockers GUDARS SKYMNING released a brand new instrumental album "Grodans Sång", recorded just a few months after the monumental album "V". Just as the latest albums, this record was done at Malmer Productions in Umeå, Sweden. This time, 3 days of tinkering with tractor snow chains, Old Ox empties, Marshall cranked shaku flutes, bacon steaming fuzz drenched guitars, blaring drums, and seasoned neighbours did the trick. "Grodans Sång" contains 8 instrumental beautiful pieces of music, with which the band proves to be more than the umpteenth hard rock band and I can recommend this album to every music lover.
GUDARS SKYMNING with roots in the heavy rock of the '60s and' 70s, blues, folk, and the Swedish prog. The band took their first steps in 2006 and recorded their self-titled demo.
Today's tune is the title track from the latest album "Grodans Sång".
Midsummer, is the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening.
The exact dates vary between different cultures. The undivided Christian Church designated June 24 as the feast day of the early Christian martyr St John the Baptist, and the observance of St John's Day begins the evening before, known as St John's Eve. These are commemorated by many Christian denominations, such as the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheran Churches, and Anglican Communion.
In Sweden, the Midsummer is such an important festivity that there have been serious discussions to make the Midsummer's Eve into the National Day of Sweden, instead of June 6. It may also be referred to as St. Hans Day.
Today's the is the Swedish Midsummer's Eve, I will be out with the family to celebrate this day, lunch, the Swedish tradition with fresh and newly taken potatoes and herrings with some "dip in cup", a tornedalia classic. Then we raising and dancing around a maypole and some games before the evening barbecue. And for today we play a tune that suits the Summer Solstice.
IF THESE TREES COULD TALK is an instrumental post-rock band from Akron, Ohio. They released their third studio album "The Bones of a Dying World" on June 3, 2016. The album was produced by drummer Zack Kelly. The album was announced in late April 2016 alongside premiere track and today's tune "Solstice", enjoy and happy midsummer!
Monday, new week, time to introduce "Record Of The Week"
"Black Heaven" is the fifth studio album by the San Diego-based trio power trio, EARTHLESS. A band known for the instrumental jams thru out the years and now suddenly guitarist Isaiah Mitchell found out that he can do two things, play the guitar and sing, woohaa, and with drummer Mario Rubalcaba and bassist Mike Egington who adds a solid rhythms to the tunes. So with "Black Heaven" we get an EARTHLESS with a twist, nothing bad about it at all, on the contrary, it gives the music much more substance, a meaning, and facelift of an already classic band.
"Black Heaven" is a six tune album with full of mind-bending riffing, classic rock-influenced kraut with a light psychedelic atmosphere. The album opens up in a typical EARTHLESS style, improvised rock with the great album starter "Gifted by the Wind", melodic and catchy boogie, same formula is used on the next following songs "End to End" and "Electric Flame", as well as closer "Sudden End", the first single and video is the sub-two-minute punky "Volt Rush", a fast, full-power and all-go-down-hill tune. The title tune, "Black Heaven", starts with the ZEPPELIN alike intro, blending guitar riffs and soloing by Isaiah Mitchell. "Black Heaven" is a solid and well composed album with a great deal of spontaneity.
Nice looking Vinyl!
Sum: A boldness effort by EARTHLESS with "Black Heaven" ends up stronger than ever, don't miss this one!
Today's tune "Volt Rush" suites perfect as a week starter, enjoy!
