{"id":9872,"date":"2005-01-12T15:30:05","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsdigital.net\/fatplanet\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:12:50","slug":"carlos-libedinsky-novalima-calamalka-jens-lekman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/12\/carlos-libedinsky-novalima-calamalka-jens-lekman\/","title":{"rendered":"CARLOS LIBEDINSKY, NOVALIMA, CALAMALKA, JENS LEKMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

it’s hard getting back into the groove after new year, especially when sydney has just exploded with touring bands, festivals, film events and so much more. january in sydney is when most of the year’s major cultural events happen, both high brow and low brow. last week i caught the wonderful\u00a0philip glass<\/strong>\u00a0and his orchestra playing a live simultaneous score to the classic ‘koyanasqatsi’, plus the opening international program in the flickerfest short film festival. this weekend, i’m looking forward to the\u00a0tom waits<\/strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0william s.burroughs<\/strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0robert wilson<\/strong>\u00a0theatre collaboration ‘the black rider’, the sydney premiere of\u00a0the ramones<\/strong>\u00a0documentary, plus i’m dj-ing as support for sydney’s excellent\u00a0decoder ring<\/a><\/strong>. and then there’s\u00a0next<\/em>\u00a0week…
\nCARLOS LIBEDINSKY<\/strong>\u00a0[ARGENTINA]
\npiano secucencia<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nsome tango electronica for you (by way of introduction to two latin influenced tracks on today’s blog). there appears to be a growing body of artists working in electronica in argentina –\u00a0acida<\/strong>,\u00a0el cholo<\/strong>,\u00a0index<\/strong>,\u00a0alex krygier<\/strong>, but it would seem that\u00a0carlos libendinsky<\/strong>\u00a0is at the forefront of this movement thanks to his recent release ‘narcotango’. described as a collection of music for the moment at a tango club where exhaustion gives way to experimentation, where tradition fades and improvisation takes over. libendinsky talks about this being the ‘narcotic power of the tango’. you can find more information and short audio extracts at\u00a0carloslibedinsky.com<\/a>.
\nNOVALIMA<\/strong>\u00a0[PERU]
\nsunday canon<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\none of the best (in many cases only) way to find new music from some regions is the glorious compilation CD. don’t be fooled by dumb titles (e.g. ‘bellydance extravaganza!’) or garish covers of latin women in bikinis – behind many a facade can lie some excellent music. the ‘essential beats \/ flavas’ series has been consistently excellent – three volumes of contemporary asian beats, one brazilian and two latin.\u00a0novalima<\/strong>\u00a0are a peruvian band that i found through the compilation ‘essential latin flavas dos<\/a>‘ with their track ‘ritmos negros’. they are a four-piece ‘collective’, scattered around the world in bacelona, hong kong, london and lima. that’s what i call a real international collaboration. they describe their music as “heavily driven by afro-peruvian and latin percussions, blended with downtempo, dub, broken and house beats”. [site<\/a>]
\nCALAMALKA<\/strong>\u00a0[CANADA]
\nhear the most<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nvancouver based musician michael campitelli surfaces here with an outstanding collection of electronic dub on his newly released for the plug research label ‘shredder’s dub’. i do enjoy a healthy dose of old school dub now and again – but i’ve also been impressed with the newer schools too, such as france’s\u00a0jarring effects<\/a>\u00a0label, and the material on\u00a0~scape<\/a>\u00a0(such as deadbeat).\u00a0calamalka<\/strong>‘s album also touches on the crossover region between dub and downtempo hip hop, and is a great addition to the plug stable. check out plug’s\u00a0epitonic page<\/a>\u00a0for downloads from\u00a0daedelus<\/strong>,\u00a0dntel<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0john tejada<\/strong>.
\nJENS LEKMAN<\/strong>\u00a0[SWEDEN]
\nat the department of forgotten songs<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\ni featured this guy back in october, but you can’t keep a good blackly comedic singer \/ songwriter down. this track is culled from a large collection of rare and unreleased songs over at\u00a0secretlycanadian.com<\/a>\u00a0– as it also doubles for the section name on the site, it seemed like an apt mp3 to pick. i also dig this mp3 as it kicks off with a mournfully eerie instrumental segment that plays for half the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

it’s hard getting back into the groove after new year, especially when sydney has just exploded with touring bands, festivals, film events and so much more. january in sydney is when most of the year’s major cultural events happen, both high brow and low brow. last week i caught the wonderful\u00a0philip glass\u00a0and his orchestra playing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[614,625,445,949,1178],"class_list":["post-9872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-calamalka","tag-carlos-libedinsky","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-jens-lekman","tag-novalima","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15572,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions\/15572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}