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GIG: Love Chant @ Rakinos - Fri 6th May

Written By 1 - May 05 2011

Love Chant

Rakinos, 35 High St

Fri 6th May

9pm/$5

Classic Disco, Future Funk & Old School Boogie Jams All Night Long!

Upcoming: Ladi6 - The Liberation Of... LP (Question Music)

Written By 3 - May 04 2011

Recent winner of the 2011 Taite Prize, Ladi6's album "The Liberation Of..." is due for release on vinyl. To pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz

Handcrafted while Ladi6 was in the midst of a sprawling six month European/UK tour which saw her grace stages alongside the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, Mos Def and Mayer Hawthorne, The Liberation Of... was produced by Parks and respected German hip-hop producer/DJ Sepalot (of Blumentopf). With session features from drummer Myele Manzanza (of Electric Wire Hustle), German backing vocalist Esther Adams and Fat Freddy's Drop horn player Toby Laing, counting in at 10 songs deep, The Liberation Of... offers a unique blend of modern Antipodean soul'n'beats music and contemporary European grooves.

Further Info: Ladi6 Website

Rosanna Raymond - Pacific Sisters (NZ/UK) @ PIYN

Written By 3 - May 04 2011

People In Your Neighbourhood

The PIYN project involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland's diverse communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to collaborate, create and celebrate. The programme involves capacity building workshops, online and face to face collaborations and master-classes in creativity.

The PIYN project kicks off this week with the visit of cultural icon Rosanna Raymond, who presents and performs with Pacific Sisiters at the Pacific Arts Summit before working with the Colab team on events at AUT Manukau and City campuses. Rosanna will be a speaker in the Pacific Arts Summit Pecha Kucha Night AND feature in the exciting Pacific Sisters SOUTHSIDE: EyeKonik event, as well as also delivering a workshop and two presentations through a residency with CoLab at AUT University’s Manukau and Wellesley campuses.

For more details about the event visit the Colab site, the PAS blog, or download the full PIYN programme here.

Rosanna is a well-known figure in the NZ Pasifika movement, being an integral practitioner and inspiration from its earliest days. She has been based in the UK for the past decade where she has forged a career not only in performance, poetry, art installation and exhibition, but also as a cultural mentor, engaged at the highest level with intercultural dialogue, empowerment and cultural understanding.

UPCOMING: Charlie Clemons - The Devil Had Made This Land His Playground 12"

Written By 3 - May 04 2011

Charlie Clemons - The Devil Had Made This Land His Playground / God Is Fire (Tom Noble Remixes) 12" On Superior Elevation

To reserve a copy of 12" please contact us at info@conch.co.nz 1. The Devil Had Made This Land His Playground 2. God Is Fire

1980 - Inglewood, CA: Charlie's group of immediate music buddies included the members of the Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band, some of whom appear on these recordings. In 1980 he decided to enlist those buddies, and head out to Warner Bros studios to cut a few songs to have made into singles. Not really hoping to get a record deal as much as to make a statement about his own spiritual and political agendas. To get this message through best he decided to lace the songs in the popular Disco style of that era. Though the songs were technically Disco, they lacked the drug induced production and DJ crafted dance edits/mixes that many of the other East Coast indie labels were mastering at the time.

Luckily, Charlie held onto his 2" masters & Tom Noble convinced him to give a crack at them. The concept was to take an indie recording made in a world far from the NYC disco inferno, and give it the full on Tom Moulton era disco extensions, as well as a 70's "Crown Heights Affair" angel dust laced mix that the NYC indie labels like Salsoul, Prelude & De-lite would have done. Finding the team and proper studio took about one year. Finally, the mixing skills of stalwart Scott Stallone at Found Sound studios in Philly proved to be a great match for this project. Two slamming sides consisting of crushing drums, phaser bathed strings, space echoed (and previously muted) vocals. Not leaving out Dj friendly rhythm edits. No new instrumentation has been added, simply a late 70's disco face-lift for two previous songs which had mad potential, but weren't fully realized.

PODCAST: Earshot with Cian - Sun 1 May 2011

Written By 3 - May 04 2011

Earshot - Sunday 1st May 2011 by Conch Records on Mixcloud

Please contact us at info@conch.co.nz if you have any queries about the availability of any of the music from this show. Below are links to tracks that are currently available in store. Track List:

Suff Daddy - Gnac

Blu - Amnesia

DJ Vadim - Music Is Addictive

Chris Turner - Sticky Green

Leon King - Knowingness

Sa-Ra Creative Partners ft Rozzi Daime - Gemini's Rising

Chief - Anyway

Jneiro Jarel - Indigo Eden

Lunice - Fancy Forty

Julien Dyne - Loose Ends

Bibio - Anything New

Iman Williams & Bobby Blunt - Before