Get free downloads of 2 exclusive new tracks by MOCKY and GONZALES!
Over the holiday season, Gonzales and Mocky went into the studio and cooked up two new versions of "Guiding Light", that little gem from the "Saskamodie" album.New Decade, New Crammed Discs
So what new joys await from Crammed in this, the first year of the second decade of the century?Staff Benda Bilili rocking Europe!
In what has become one of the most talked-about tours of 2009, Congolese rumba-funk warriors Staff Benda Bilili have been ripping through Europe with a string of scintillating live shows.
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Introducing... Cibelle as Sonja Khalecallon
The London-based tropical punkster gives us a tasty morsel for her glorious technicolour new album 'Las Vênus Resort Palace Hotel' - for which she adopts the role of Sonja Khalecallon, a singer at the last cabaret at the end of the world - with this video for Lightworks, her addictive take on a 1960s cosmetics advert jingle composed by electronic pioneer Raymond Scott...
More news on 'Las Vênus Resort Palace Hotel' very soon...
But for now check out the Lightworks video,
which just premiered on tastemaking US blog Gorilla vs Bear.
MADE TO MEASURE on digital
One of the hidden treasures of the Crammed catalogue is the MADE TO MEASURE composer series, in which no less than 35 albums of fascinating instrumental music were released between 1984 and the mid-90s.
16 of the Made To Measure albums have now been made available again through the Crammed shop, in digital download and (for most of them) CD format. The rest will follow soon.
The cover above is that of volume 33, an album by Brion Gysin, the legendary American poet, painter and writer who has influenced two generations of artists, and who recorded most of this album back in 1986, shortly before his death. A unique document featuring Brion Gysin singing/rapping his own texts on music by Ramuntcho Matta, with performances by Don Cherry, Elli Medeiros, Steve Lacy, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Caroline Loeb, etc.