Mor Thiam - Dini Safarrar

Mor Thiam is a Senegalese drummer and Jazz player, and father of rap star Akon. He released this lovely rarity in 1973. The track "ayo ayo nene" was recently featured on "Spiritual Jazz:Esoteric, modal and deep jazz from the underground 1968-1977". Beautiful sounds. Enjoy!

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Jose Mangual- Mai Kinshasa ( Turnstyle records)

Jose Mangual- Mai Kinshasa ( Turnstyle records)
Latin jazz legend, José Mangual, known as “Buyú”, was born on 18 March, 1924 in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico. Mangual demonstarted a love of music early in his youth, listening to mostly Cuban music: rumbas, guarachas, and son montunos. From that music he took an interest in playing the bongos and taught himself to play on makeshift instruments made from tin cans.This track is from 77' yet the build up sounds like something from the late 60's. The way the heat drops about 30 seconds in is straight fire.When the pace starts picking up it goes into blast mode. I always had the album and loved the diversity of styles being played. Finding this 45 of my favourite track was the icing on the cake. Long live this legend who died in 1998 leaving a great legacy in the world of Puerto Rican music. Mangual performed with artists and orchestras such as Eddie Palmieri, Chico O’Farrill, Cal Tjader, the Count Basie Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon, Cachao, Ray Charles, Tito Rodriguez and Tito Puente. -Dj Aware

Harry Ray- Ride Your Pony Girl (All Platinum Records)

Harry Ray- Ride Your Pony Girl (All Platinum Records)
Harry Milton Ray was born on 15 December 1946 in Longbranch, New Jersey, died 1 October 1992, Bound Brook, New Jersey. He played with the Moments and Ray, Goodman & Brown. This track right here is a straight Slapper! Just the way it comes in and drops into the vocals...Priceless. The continuous melody ripping through like a sweet lady's touch. Saucy soulful funk with a touch of boogie all packaged in one slapper of a track. On the coldest day this one brings the heat in all ways..This track stands along side with my favorite Moments cut " I Won't Do Anything".. -Dj Aware-

Dj Darkat pick of the week

Kazuko Shiraishi featuring Sam Rivers
Music Works 3001
Sam Rivers -saxaphone, flute, piano and percussion
Andrei Strobert - percussion
Buster Williams - Bass
Abdul Wadud - Cello

Liner notes:
KAZUKO SHIRAISHI is a cult figure to the young people of Japan, Her haunting, lyrical creations, read to the backgrounds of jazz in Tokyo's Shinjuku nighclub district, established her as "Shinjuku's Queen of Poets."
Hers is the most outstanding voice of her generation in Japan and elsewhere in the world. In the U.S., Kazuko has worked very closely with Kenneth Rexroth, whom she considers the godfather of poetry reading with jazz.
Kazuko has been awarded Japan's top cultural prize for poetry and has been in the forfront of cultural events in Japan. She has been one of the key forces in Japanese creative writing and has appeared at many cultural seminars in the United Stated and Europe. Her poems continue in the tradition of explicit erotic urgency of famous Japanese poets such as Onomo Komachi and Yosano Akiko.
Kazuko Shiraishi has written more than ten books of poetry, many articles and short stories. Her most recent work, issued by New Directions, is "Seasons of Sacred Lust: The Selected Poems of Kazuko Shiraishi.""
On this recording Kazuko is accompanied by a select group of musicians, including Abdul Wadud, Buster Williams, Andrei Strobert and featuring SAM RIVERS about whom Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone: "It seems indisputable that he will go down in history as one of the great jazzmen of the sixties and seventies, but he is already looking ahead."

Dj Aware Pick of the week

Oko's Guitar Band
A side - Mena Saman
B side - Mo Nsusu mmo me din

Dj Aware Pick of the Week

Cortijo y su combo
track1 side 1.. el negro bembon (guaracha)

A Trip to the Mall - Darkat XMAS mix 2009

A TRIP TO THE MALL
23 320 kbps Mp3 files in a zip file

01 The Night before Christmas - Rudy Ray Moore
02 Christmas is here - Tino corp.
03 12 days of xmas - Bob And Doug Mckenzie
04 Ring de bells -The De Paur Chorus
05 daddys drinking up our christmas - Commander Cody
06 spread out christmas - Mikey Jarret
07 all I want for christmas is you - Carla Thomas
08 A merry monster christmas - Len Maxwell
09 Santa clasus is surfin' to town - Soupy Sales
10 Christmas at mickey and elvins house - C-Bank Orchestra
11 we wish you a merry interlude - Carolers
12 The night before Green Christmas - Louis Armstrong vs. Tino Corp
13 Christmas in Hawaii - Tino Corp
14 Captain Santa Clause (and his reindeer space patrol) - Bobby Helms
15 Santas night before christmas - Santa Clause
16 Santa Mambo Santa - Enchanters
17 santa and the sidewalk surfer - The Turtles
18 a surfers christmas list - Surfaris
19 Don't belive in christmas - The Sonics
20 run rudolph run - chuck berry
21 Frosty the dope man -Marc Zydiak
22 santa clause is watching you - Ray Stevens
23 lets make this christmas mean something - James Brown

Tapajos et dos santos

Guitare Et Percussions Insolites Du Bresil
Sebastiao Tapajos / Pedro Dos Santos

1. Ganga (S. Tapajos)
2. Dora/Saudade Da Bahia (Dorival Caymmi)
3. Catedral (A. Barrios)
4. Feitico Da Vila (Noel-Vadico)
5. Laberinto (S. Tapajos)
6. Escola De Samba (Pedro Santos)
7. Samba Do Aviao (A.C. Jobim)
8. Feito De Oracao (Noel-Vadico)
9. Emboscada (Danilo Caymmi)
10. Rio Dos Ostras (A. Silveira)
11. Tornei A Caminhar (Pedro Santos)
12. Sambaden (Pedro Santos)

Recorded in Buenos Aires in 1972
Production - Alfredo I. Radoszynski
A Trova Recording