COLORS MUSIC is a new series of compilations featuring contemporary music from around the world. It is not about folklore and tradition, it is rather aimed to capture contemporary productions around the world, beyond established musical genres.
COLORS MUSIC will be published 3 times a year, each issue featuring contemporary music from artists and labels that highly represent their own musical context.
COLORS MUSIC intends to undergo new ways of compiling music, new themes and new critical paths that allow the listener to understand music through different channels.
COLORS MUSIC is produced in collaboration with international record label IRMA, and distributed by Sony Music International.
COLORS MUSIC will be published 3 times a year, each issue featuring contemporary music from artists and labels that highly represent their own musical context.
COLORS MUSIC intends to undergo new ways of compiling music, new themes and new critical paths that allow the listener to understand music through different channels.
COLORS MUSIC is produced in collaboration with international record label IRMA, and distributed by Sony Music International.
INNER ASIAN POP presents the best in pop music from Central Asian new republics of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan.
INNER ASIAN POP After just a decade from their independence of the Soviet Union (USSR), the record industry of all this new dubious democracies is inexistent, with only a pirate market populated by western popular music and “Estrada”, their incarnation of pop music developing a mix of western and autochthonous traditional compositions, that mainly fall under the spell of the western repetitive pop formula. This compilation features for the first time in the west, the most interesting and innovative musicians that still keeping a good knowledge of traditions maintain them alive through a right mix of contemporary influences and traditional modes.
Some of the artists featured are well known in their countries other are less, some are self produced, others are produced in the west, but the selection certainly represents the best in Central Asian pop productions. In this context traditional music is struggling to survive, sometimes only through foreign funding for concert tours abroad, or through NGO organizations, that try to preserve it in its most traditional incarnation. But unfortunately Central Asian music remains still unknown for the western public.
Nordic the first issue of Colors Music, focuses on the more sophisticated context of Scandinavia where jazz clubs and jazz music has a strong presence and where traditional music has given a new insight of atmospheres that recall Scandinavian traditions. The Nordic context is full of atmospheric melodies and new jazz structures.
Released November, 2002. Featuring music from Blue Foundation, Royskopp, Xploding Plastix, Jimi Tenor, He Said Omala, Pan Sonic, Mind Over Midi, Motion Control, City of Women, Goran Kajfes, Nils Petter Molvar, Hilmar Orn Hil³arsson and Sigur Ros, Mum, Deathprod.
CUMBIA is Latin America’s new musical fever. This compilation features the best of this modern electro-tropical sound.
CUMBIA is the name given to a series of unfolding musical forms which originated on the Atlantic coast of Colombia as a hybrid of Amerindian instruments, African rhythms and European melodic structures. For centuries, the Atlantic coastal cities of Colombia–important trade points and ports for arriving immigrants–were exposed to musical forms from other parts of the Caribbean and Atlantic world, including Cuban rumbas, boleros, and Argentinean tangos. As Cumbia shifted and transformed itself to accommodate these new musical idioms, it never lost the irresistible back beat which distinguishes this coastal music from every other form of well-known Latin dance music. This is why Cumbia resembles the rock-steady forms from Jamaica far more than it does the fluid forms of salsa and Afro-Cuban music. Cumbia was never meant to be contained by national boundaries and it quickly filtered across Colombia’s borders. Today, modern Cumbia is rapidly spreading across the Americas, influencing and creating new musical genres.
Released September 2003. A newly refreshed vision on Latin American Cumbia, this compilation features the best of this new tropical phenomenon..Mambotur, Celso Piña Y Su Ronda Bogotá, La Sonora Dinamita, King Changó, Grupo Fantasma, Los De Abajo, Rossy War, Chicos De Barrio, Sebastián Escofet, Gilda, Señor Coconut, Gonzalo Martínez, Los Diplomáticos, Yerba Brava, Juan Carlos Quintero.
OTTOMANIC features the best in contemporary Middle Eastern sounds, an eclectic musical journey from Turkey to Egypt, from Iraq to Palestine.
OTTOMANIC presents music from an imaginary modern Ottoman Empire. The longest of the Middle Eastern empires lasting for more than five centuries and gathering the cultural richness of the Byzantine, Greek, Balkan, Persian and Arabic cultures, the Ottoman Empire became an example of cultural synthesis and mix never seen before. During that long period, music managed to absorb all of these traditions and survived by giving up its autochthonous richness to become the synthetic form that has lived on to this day. This compilation pretends to retrace that spirit, taking as a musical epicenter Turkey, from where more electronic and jazz influenced western sounds are spreading, and traveling through Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Egypt.
The track selection is wide-ranging, keeping alive traditional structures and modes, while also giving space to experimentation with other styles and forms. A true eclectic musical journey into Middle Eastern contemporary music.
Released May 2004 - Featuring the music of Burhan Öçal Tracky All Stars, Mohammad Reza Shajarian & Kayhan Kalhor, Bustan Abraham, Amhed Mukhtar & Sattar Al-Saadi,Soliman Gamil, Kudsi Erguner, Yuval Ron feat. Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Baba Zula, Mercan Dede Secret Tribe, Fathy Salama, Sultana, and a previously unreleased track by Muslimgauze.
Rio Funk presents the best contemporary funk tracks produced in some of Rio de Janeiro's 600 favelas.
RIO FUNK features the best of contemporary funk straight from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, with an exclusive video extra track, where Thiago Da Silva of the Bonde do Minasgas group features a cappella of the song “As gatinhas” in the middle of a street in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's biggest favela. The video was shot in March 2003 by Carlos Casas. Plus the compilation will also have a 48 page photo booklet.
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