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Elmir Records is pleased to present a reissue of a collection of "unreleased songs" by the one called the Star of the East, both for her magnetism on stage and her somptuous voice.
Born in Tmaïe al-Zahayira (Egypt), Oum Kalsoum, also spelled Oum Kalthoum (1898 ≈ 1904/1975) is unanimously considered the greatest singer of the Arab world, which music she modernized for nearly five decades.
Produced on 78 rpm records between 1926 and 1936, these short but rare works are among her earliest recordings and contrast with the diva's long and iconic pieces.
A remastered collection with biographical notes written by Rabah Mezouane that invites the listener to (re)discover these masterpiecewith the best conditions.
Tracklisting:
1. Talet Layaly El Be'Ad / Longues Sont Les Nuits De Notre Séparation
2. Mehtar Ya Nas / Oh! Inquiétude
3. Ya Eshret El Mady / L'Amour Jadis
4. Ya Nassim El Fagr / La Brise De L'Aurore
5. Einy Fiha El Doumou / Mes Yeux En Larmes
6. Yally Shaghalt El Bal / Toi Qui Occupe Mon Esprit
7. Saddeq We Hobbak "Min Yaqoul" / Qui Dirait Que Ton Amour Est Sincère
8. Ala Eany El Hagr / Dans Mes Yeux Se Lit La Séparation -
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Collective from the south of France, the Chinese Man trio (composed of High Ku,Matteo & Sly) has been performing independently since their debut under their own label Chinese Man Records.
Formed in 2004, they draw their influences primarily from hip-hop, trip-hop, but also from dub, electro and reggae. With over 600 shows worldwide, the band returns in 2024 for their 3rd album, with an unprecedent and explosive live show!
This new (and third) album was recorded in the label's studios in Marseille, as well as in Paris, at Studio Zarma and at the famous Studio Ferber in Paris, in particular with the orchestra "L'Ensemble Hors Champ". The direction of the orchestra was entrusted to Gilles Alonzo, a musician close to the group, who co-composed and arranged the orchestral parts for 6 of the 13 tracks on this album. Among the album's featured guests are General Elektriks, KT Gorique, Stylo G,Isadora, Youthstar & Miscellaneous, FP & Green T (ASM), Stogie T...
The group has also invited Ferdinand Lemoine (Ferdi) for brass arrangements. Ferdi has previously collaborated with funk producer Dabeull and pianist Sofiane Pamart. Just as they did ten years ago for their first album, the group has decided to enlist Sodi (Studio Zarma) to co-produce and mix this new album, and on Antoine Chabert (Studio Chab) to master the project.
The group returns with the desire to once again confront the show in larger audiences, with several Zeniths scheduled between 2024 and 2025. 2024 will also mark the 20th anniversary of the group and of the label Chinese Man Records.
Tracklisting:
1. Salune
2. We've Been Here Before feat. Stogie T, Isadora & Miscellaneous
3. ¡Que Si!
4. Trouble feat. Stylo G
5. Cycle feat. General Elektriks
6. Too Late feat. Stogie T, KT Gorique & FP (ASM)
7. No One Left feat. Theo Perek
8. The Code feat. ASM, Stogie T, KT Gorique, Youthstar & Miscellaneous
9. Déjà vu
10. Where I Go feat. General Elektriks
11. Fidelio
12. Sacre Bleu feat. Miscellaneous, Stogie T, ASM, Youthstar
13. Lune -
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THE GROOVE SESSIONS VOL.1 is the compilation of the 3 EPs released by CHINESE MAN between 2004 and 2007 since the creation of the CHINESE MAN RECORDS label.
Tracklisting:
1. Pandi Groove
2. Searching For The Space Monkey
3. Eight y Cinco
4. Bunni Groove
5. Washington Square – LEO LE BUG feat.BIONIC MAN SOUND
6. I’ve Got That Tune
7. You Suck Me
8. Indi Groove
9. Skank In The Air
10. Artichaut
11. More
12. Chinese Man -
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Rise Of The Northstar is the rising star of French metal internationally. Known for their incredible stage performances, the band has recently set fire to the stages of the biggest French and European festivals such as Hellfest (FR), Cabaret Vert (FR), Resurrection (ES), Full Force (DE), Jera (NL), Alactraz (BE)...
After ranking top 20 in France with its latest album "SHOWDOWN" released on April 7, 2023, and top 30 in Germany (Number 1 Amazon), ROTN releases for the first time on vinyl its EP "DEMONSTRATING MY SAIYA STYLE" whose eponymous title is a fan favorite counting more than 8M views on Youtube.
The bonus track "Phoenix", so far only available on the Japanese edition of the debut album "Welcame", is also added to this edition.
Tracklisting:
1.Bejita's Revenge
2.Sound Of Wolves
3.Show Me Your Respect
4.Against All
5.Demonstrating My Saiya Style
6.Protect Ya Chest
7.Phoenix
UK Tour Dates May 15th Manchester Academy 3 / May 16th Leeds Key Club/ May 18th London The Dome / May 19th Bristol The Fleece -
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It's a project that Francis Cabrel felt very strongly about. To compose a song as a hymn to his town, his region.
In addition to the musical aspect, Francis painted the cover, storyboarded the video and produced it. So it's with this same logic that this collector's item is naturally released on an independent structure.
Here are a few words from Francis Cabrel:
"The pun is as small as the character is big.
Un morceau de Sicre donc de positivité, de bienveillance, d'humour, d'érudition tout ça dans ton café noir.....une journée toulousaine commence.
It's a tribute to this city of great importance to me. Between rue Caraman and rue Matabiau, I sang and recorded my first songs there.
A number of people could and should have featured in the chorus, but as there's no room, I'd like to thank them here, in particular Richard and Daniel Seff, Jean-Pierre Mader, Michel Art Mengo, Émile, Images and Gold, all those who have taken Toulousan chanson to the top behind the great Claude, whom everyone follows.
Claude Sicre is one of the pioneers of the defense and recognition of Occitan culture, also known as a member of the Fabulous Trobadors.
Tracklisting:
1. Un Morceau de Sicre -
Leroy Se Meurt is a French musical duo known for their eclectic and experimental sound.Visit product page →
Formed in 2018 in Paris, their music can be described as a fusion of various genres, abrasive and hypnotic, an energetic old school EBM fused with fierce electro and bound by punk ethos.
Retaining the minimalist and raw qualities of punk rock, and replacing the complement traditional punk rock instruments like guitars and drums with drum machine and synthesizers, LSM sound is characterized by a blend of influences, including electronic, experimental, and noise elements, which contribute to their unique and distinctive style.
If you enjoy post-punk music or are interested in exploring this genre, you may find aspects of it in Leroy Se Meurt's work, but their music also transcends traditional genre boundaries.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Baskı Iklimi
2. Yanan Kurban
3. Kacis
4. Crève tes yeux et regarde
Side B
5. Veuve 909
6. Liquide
7. Bencil Ilki
8. Orage -
Thousand Shadows volume 2, a second chapter was needed to highlight the many shadows that still linger everywhere.Visit product page →
The shadows that linger on the borders, hiding the violence of the fights for them. The shadows that time has on the relationships and their persistence, because the shadows move.
Plato's cave, modern version, would be the one of toxic relationships, antidepressants and the acceptance of the regression of freedom and/or the vision of a dying world...
Between shoegaze, noise pop and psychedelic rock, You Said Strange absorbs its time to incant a music in which melancholy, love and the search for plenitude meet.
Tracklisting:
1. No way Out
2. The raft (No way In)
3. (Song for a) Wasted land
4. Control
5. Rats
6. Trade your soul
7. Eastern side
8. What a day -
After the "curfew" (cf. album Out Past Curfew) and the "strange time" of adaptation following the health crisis (cf. EP Stranger Times), comes the relief and the open up to the world until now confined: the Salvation.Visit product page →
Third artistic collaboration for Youthstar & Miscellaneous, the album Salvation is a 13 tracks journey with strong and optimistic subjects such as motivation, the quest for happiness, mixed with more melancholic themes such as addictions or dependency but always through incredible percussive flows and chorus with heady gimmicks that make you want to headbang!
Faithful to the rap/hip-hop that forged the duo, this album also borrows the codes of electro, trap, bass music or even reggae. We find on this album a whole crew of top notch beatmakers such as Tha Trickaz, La Fine Equipe, as well as renowned artists & MCs like Biga*Ranx, Dope D.O.D, FP from ASM...
Tracklisting:
1.Salvation (feat.Vex) – Trifouille 1er
2. Rap Rap Rap Rap - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Tha Trickaz
3. Don Dada - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Biga*Ranx
4. Finish Line – Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Dj Slade
5. Drip - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Trifouille 1er
6. The Soundtrack - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Screen Djeh
7. Love, Need, Hate - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Olo
8. Heads Up - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Ennemi
9. Whips x Chains (feat. La Fine Equipe, FP) - Youthstar, Miscellaneous
10. Don’t Sleep (feat. Eiko No Klast) - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Dope D.O.D
11. 2 Left Shoulders - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Tha Trickaz
12. Heaven - Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Senbeï
13. Peace Out – Youthstar, Miscellaneous, Dj Slade -
Phases of a journey beyond space-time references, the six tracks of UZHUR's first eponymous album, summon as many post-apocalyptic visions as there are brains to imagine them — a blackhole where Emptyset, Godflesh, Ben Frost, Khanate and Whitehouse are mixed with a very particular grace, a poetry which takes the time to navigate the extreme and evoke in its turn moments of cinema. In a stream of total improvisation, everything that emanates from the sessions recorded by this mysterious duo of sound engineers and musicians (who recently produced Oiseaux-Tempête's last opus) feeds an eminently organic matter, which while giving voice to the machines, touches a little more closely what makes us human.Visit product page →
Then, amidst the strange vocoder mantras, the hissings and the interferences, through the wire of settings and textures which interlock and startle, you fully let yourself be immersed in their film, and in a certain idea of disaster which extends its shock wave into the crevices of the spaces we live in.
Featuring Mondkopf & Arnaud Rhuth (Le Réveil des Tropiques).
Tracklisting:
1. IC
2. Fals
3. Xulon
4. Genus
5. Gamma
6. Logos -
Delacave started making music in a very intimate space, a bedroom, discovering and gathering all the imagination necessary for their slow gestation to initiate Gloomy Wave.Visit product page →
In this fourth album, Liliane Chansard and Seb Normal intermingle their melodies even more, their harmonies sound and dissonance, and their voices adjust. Feverishness becomes strength. The different elements are linked in a blurred gap between coloured impressionism and black baroque. They take us on a journey through the great nowhere on disparate grounds where the efforts that cannot be avoided are never in vain.
The strength of lack, the wisdom of emptiness and loss, and the intensity of friendships and discoveries never perish and are always renewed. "Everynight is a Moon Rising" Destinies are linked for a while and then they drift apart. Every atom of our beings is nature.
And every night, dark and impenetrable, suddenly lights up under the white, clear, uncertain and detached lights of unknown planets and systems. If every bit of matter can become a home, the heart and the mind deliver in emotion the secrets of the whole world.
Tracklisting:
1. Fatherless
2. Stranger in the day
3. Crossing Times
4. Enter in
5. Biotop Babe
6. Us or Dust -
This work is the result of a musical exploration between Joseph Muñoz and Faunes Efe where their principal influence was the traditional rhythms of colombian caribbean territory like Cumbia, Porro and Vallenato, merging it with other musical styles like IDM, Ambient, Industrial, Techno, Drone, Field Recordings, No Wave and everything they felt like to listen.Visit product page →
The recording process of this album was made by processing acoustic percussion, voices, samples and field recordings of the atlantic coast in Sucre, Colombia.
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. La Cumbia Salió de la Tumba
2. Porro Ninja
3. Cumbia Moribunda
Side B
4. El Bembeo
5. Congas
6. El Viento del Mar -
Mercury Prize-winning British rapper Speech Debelle returns with a new album. ‘Sunday Dinner On A Monday’ is an examination of family, friends, lineage, and ancestral DNA, through the lens of afro-futurism.Visit product page →
“It’s about how we imagine and then create our own futures”, says Speech. “The album is about our journey through life, as we learn from experiences that expand our senses. We learn internal management and get closer to ease. Some of us even become nourished, like a good meal. This is THAT album.” Corynne Elliot
(born 17 March 1983 in London, England), better known as Speech Debelle, is a British rapper signed to the Big Dada record label.
She was the winner of the 2009 Mercury Prize for her debut album Speech Therapy.
She released her second album, Freedom of Speech in 2012 and her third album, tantil before i breathe in 2017. Debelle's single from Speech Therapy, "Spinnin" has been re-worked by Tinchy Stryder and Dionne Bromfield and was used as one of the official anthems of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
She has also been politically and socially active with a number of charities and movements, and hosted the BBC documentary Hidden Homeless in 2012. In March 2010 Speech Debelle teamed up with Bonobo to co-write and sing on the song "Sun Will Rise", taken from Ninja Tune's 'XX' Boxset.
Tracklisting:
1. Curry Mutton
2. Away From Here
3. 1111
4. Come Your Way
5. Bless Up
6. 101010
7. Susu
8. DNA
9. A Reading – Dylema
10. Atlantis - Aleysha Lei
11. Magic
12. Ital - Baby Sol
13. Wayward
14. Exercice
15. Sweet Dreams -
Jay - Jay Johanson's 14th album is one of the most refreshing of his discography. After an introspective and intimate trilogy (“Bury the hatchet” (2017), “Kings Cross”(2019) “Rorschach Test” (2021), FETISH open a new era for the iconic swedish artist.Visit product page →
With this new album Jay - Jay Johanson explores the melancholic, aerial atmosphere that makes the DNA of his music with a cinematographic view.
On the other side he offers songs made for the most elegant dancefloors with " Stars Aligns" and " Jeopardize" with their electronic hypnotic melodies. The new Album will drive you from intimate and lounge atmosphere to the dancefloor. An epic journey on the line of the most popular album of the artist.
The opening track "Seine" is inspired by the one who disappeared in the water of the Seine in Paris in the 19th Century. It opens with all the romantism of Jay - Jay.
"Finally“ sounds like a new classic, sampling the famous 3rd Symphony by Brahms, it reminds all the movies of the 50's calling the phantom of Chet Baker, one of his inspiration.
The First part of the album is based on quartet of modern Jazz mixed with Jay - jay's Touch like in Puppet on a String. With the Uptempos "Jeopardize" , "The Stars Align", "Summer Night of Love" , he brings us from the NY voguing scene to the decadent Berlin clubs. Flesh For Frankenstein offers a rendition of the piano melody by Andy Wharol. One of the icon of the artist.
The Album closes on Happy Birthday, a smooth and shiny song, with his crooner and lovely voice that will ravish all the lovers.
After 27 years of career, the prolific artist continues to deliver an ambitious and marvelous album that would be appreciate by the fans of the first era and the new ones who discovered him this last decade and with his live performances.
Tracklisting:
1. Seine
2. Finally
3. I did my best
4. Jeopardize
5. Labyrinth
6. Puppet on a string
7. The stars align
8. Summer night of love
9. Andy Warhols flesh for Frankenstein
10. Happy Birthday