RhoDeo 1320 Roots

Hello, Germany has no colonial connection to the Caribbean, however they did devellop a reggae / dubscene, though less extensive as the UK/France one. Interestingly there have been plenty of interest for a few acts that have been picking up platinum albums.

A sprawling, multi-ethnic, and multilingual lineup German reggae/dancehall band from Berlin. Founded in 1998, they have become well-known in Germany and its neighboring countries. Also today a gentleman who lives in the Neubrück area of Cologne, but sometimes names Jamaica as his home away from home. He is the son of a Lutheran pastor. He is the father of two children, named Samuel and Tamica, and is married to Tamika, a background singer of the Far East Band, which has been supporting him since his first concert tour of Germany in 2002..... Germaican ....N'joy

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Seeed consists of eleven band members, their sprawling, multi-ethnic, and multilingual lineup is comprised of vocalists Pierre "Enuff" Baigorry, Demba "Ear" Nabé, and Frank "Eased" Dellé; DJ Luke; guitarist "Rudeboy" Rudy; bassist Tobsen Cordes; keyboardist "Dubmaster" Reibold; saxophonist Moritz Delgado; trombonist Jerome "Tchamp" Bugnon; drummer Based; and percussionist Alfie Trowers. Seeed is recognized for their unusual use of horns. They have worked with Cee-Lo Green, Anthony B, Tanya Stephens, General Degree as well as other Jamaican artists and producers. Almost all of their music releases feature a popular guest experience. Seeed's lyrics are in German, English and Patois. Their biggest hits in the German Sprachraum were "Dickes B", "Aufstehn", "Ding" and "Music Monks". Although their lyrics are in English and German, most of the songs in German were completely translated into English for the international releases of the Albums Next! and Music Monks.

They won three ECHO Awards. With the international versions of Music Monks and Next!, they found broader success in Germany's neighboring countries, especially France. After their initial success with "Dickes B" (ode to Berlin), in the year 2000, they released their first full length album a few months later, in 2001: New Dubby Conquerors. Followed up by another Gold album "Music Monks" in 2003, their big breakthrough in Germany came out in 2005, Next ! a platinum album (200,000 +)
In the following years, members Peter Fox, Dellé and Demba Nabé (Boundzound) each released solo albums. Peter Fox started working on a solo album named Stadtaffe ("Urban Ape") in 2007. The album was released in Germany on the 26th of September 2008. It was a huge success 6xPlatinum even outside Germany (Austria/Switserland/ Netherlands) He has since announced that he will be returning to Seeed due to unwanted stress and attention generated by his highly successful solo album Stadtaffe.

On September 2012 Seeed released their fourth studio album, Seeed, their first release in 6 years.  The album Seeed went straight to number 1 at the German album charts. It was the first time an album of Seeed achieved the Top of the album charts.

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Released in 2001, New Dubby Conquerors is the debut album from Germany’s reggae and dancehall favorites, Seeed. The 11-piece band’s debut single “Dickes B” is here, along with its follow-up hit “Dancehall Caballeros.” Topped off with their chilled cover version of “The Tide Is High,” the album climbed into the Top 20 of Germany’s album chart, and reached gold status..

Seeed - New Dubby Conquerors (flac  361mb)

01 Dancehall Caballeros 3:14
02 Riddim No 1 3:53
03 Papa Noah 4:03
04 Walk Upright 3:33
05 Dickes B 4:45
06 Psychedelic Kingdom 4:13
07 Sensimilla 6:06
08 We Seeed 5:07
09 Tide Is High 4:25
10 Top Of The City 4:12
11 Fire The Hidden 4:19
12 New Dubby Conquerors 8:21

Seeed - New Dubby Conquerors (ogg 132mb)

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This 2005 release is third album from Germany’s reggae and dancehall favorites Seeed. Here, the 11-piece band is joined by special guests Cee-Lo Green (“Rise & Shine”), Lady Saw (“Please, Please”), and Tanya Stephens (“Double Soul”). Next! was a giant success for the group, climbing to number two on the German album charts and receiving that country’s platinum sales certification award.

Seeed - Next (flac  313mb)

01 Schwinger 3:20
02 Next ... !! 3:07
03 Aufstehn ! 3:50
04 Stand Up 2:38
05 Tight Pants 3:06
06 Please 3:36
07 Ocean's 11 2:53
08 Can't Hold Me 2:39
09 Goosebumps 2:52
10 Slowlife 4:18
11 Ding 3:26
12 She Got Me Twisted 3:11
13 Light The Sun 3:01
14 End Of Days 3:38

Seeed - Next (ogg 129mb)

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German reggae singer Gentleman (born Tilmann Otto) fell in love with Jamaican music when he first visited the island at the age of 17. He had already heard and appreciated the sounds of Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh, and Bob Marley, but when he heard more contemporary artists like Sizzla and Anthony B., it made him realize that roots-flavored reggae was still alive and well, and all he had to do was bring the good word back to Germany. In 1997 he got his chance when the German hip-hop group Freundeskreis asked him to lend his singjay skills to their track "Tabula Rasa." A series of solo singles led to his 1999 debut, Trodin On. The album was a mix of dancehall and hip-hop with Gentleman singing in English and Jamaican patois. It was an important release and laid the foundation for what would eventually be dubbed the "Germaican" movement, but it failed to make an international impression.

In 2002 he returned with his breakthrough long-player, Journey to Jah, a very roots-oriented album that was influenced by the birth of his son. There was no more swearing or gun talk, and guest appearances from righteous reggae artists like Morgan Heritage, Capleton, and Luciano along with production from Richie Stephens, Bobby Digital, and the Firehouse Crew earned Gentleman respect among the roots reggae faithful. Stopgap releases like the Runaway EP and the live CD/DVD Gentleman and the Far East Band -- both released in 2003 -- kept the fans happy as Gentleman spent his time touring the world and playing to an ever-growing audience. His 2004 single Superior was a worldwide reggae hit, landing on compilations in the U.S. and Europe and making an impact well past the Germaican scene. By the end of the year he released the album Superior, another well-received effort with special guests Anthony B., Cocoa Tea, and Barrington Levy.

The 2010 fifth studio album from internationally acclaimed German reggae artist Tilmann Otto, aka Gentleman, is his first to be released since defecting from Four Music to Universal Records. Produced by the likes of Benny Blanco (Ke$ha) and others, Diversity features collaborations with Sugar Minott and Patrice, and includes the singles "It No Pretty," "To The Top," and "Lonely Days." It reached no 1 and platinum sales

Discography

1999 Trodin On
2002 Journey To Jah
2003 Gentleman & The Far East Band Live
2004 Confidence 1
2007 Another Intensity
2010 Diversity 1
2011 Diversity Live
2012 Live Your Life (with Richie Stephens)
2013 New Day Dawn

Gentleman - Diversity (flac  453mb)

01 The Reason 2:51
02 Changes 3:23
03 Hold On Strong 3:47
04 Tempolution 4:12
05 To The Top 3:10
06 Lonely Days 3:16
07 Ina Time Like Now 3:09
08 Moment Of Truth 3:16
09 Another Melody 4:02
10 I Got To Go 3:50
11 Good Old Days 3:32
12 Fast Forward 3:34
13 The Finish Line 3:33
14 It No Pretty 3:09

Gentleman - Diversity (ogg 164mb)

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RhoDeo 1320 Falcon 03

Hello, story of the day... Karp had been interested in tumblelogs (short-form blogs) for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own tumblelogging platform. As no one had done so after a year of waiting, Karp and developer Marco Arment began working on their own tumblelogging platform. Tumblr was launched in February 2007and within two weeks, the service had gained 75,000 users. As of May 19, 2013, Tumblr has over 108 million blogs, 13 billion views each month... and today it's been sold for 1.1 billion $ to Yahoo. Poor mr Karp he now has to figure out how to spend his money for the rest of his life.

Sci-fi fans can prepare themselves for 10 weeks of excitement   ... NJoy

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The Falcon Banner
By the twenty-second century, mankind had stretched forth its hand to command the stars. Other races were discovered, and, as the human sphere of influence expanded, they were happy to live in peaceful coexistence, and humanity was on the verge of an evolutionary leap.

The Terran emperor was the first to ascend to the next step of human evolution. His advisors, who now styled themselves holy clerics, sought to force the other races to see the light of their religion. They began to subjugate the other races to the will of the empire. The Amsus, who saw the Empire as decadent, illogical and chaotic, waged war upon it. Admiral VonGrippen, the brightest military mind in centuries, betrayed the empire, and removed the entire home fleet, collapsing the jump gate after them, leaving Earth and the Empire to be squashed under the heel of Amsus oppression.

Now, three hundred years after the fall of the Terran Empire, humans find themselves the subject race, Stagnating on their own world unable to evolve either technologically or otherwise. It is into this oppressive world, that the most unlikely of men are thrust into the roles of heros.

Based on The Falcon Banner, a novel by Christopher Patrick Lydon
Original music composed and performed by Kai Hartwig, Kevin MacLeod and Phil Craigie

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The Falcon Banner 03 - For Duty and Crew ( 50mb)

03 - For Duty and Crew 50:00 Featuring the voice talents of:

Seth Adam Sher as Darien Taine
Fiona Conn as the Bursor
Mark Kalita as Kendrick
Chris Snyder as Matt Elias
Laura Post as Lauren
Karl Puder as the Orion Captain
Eric Busby as Nazzien
Delon Eubena as Amsus officer and Captain R'Shar
June Lathrop as Eisenhower Control
Mark Bruzee as Shale
Shire Smith as Newscaster
Dan Gorgone as the Guard Commander
Linda Townsend as the Salvage Dealer
Clym Angus as Archduke Walker VonKarin
Ben Harmer as the Slaver

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previously

The Falcon Banner 01 - Freedom's Spark
The Falcon Banner 02 - New Friends, Old Enemies ( 55mb)

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Sundaze 1320

Hello, Europe calling, here are our 125,000,000  votes, yes it was that time of the year again the Eurovision night, no less then 39 countries got to vote and the bookie's favorite, Emmelie de Forest, won. Not my choice, too flat and readymade for me, that it won just proves that many have been brainwashed into liking this kind of music fast-food, a forgetable song.  But it's good to have 39 countries compete in a friendly way, where each has a say in the outcome an estimated 125 million viewers saw the show which is great but will be easily surpassed next week with the Championsleague final, even if it's an all German one.

He's been a man in the background, unassuming but he's been present so many times ..... N'Joy

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Richard Barbieri (born 30 November 1957, in London, England)  was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London. Originally coming to prominence in the late-1970s and early-1980s as a member of new wave pioneers Japan (and their brief 1989–1990 reincarnation as Rain Tree Crow), he is now best known as the keyboard player in the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, of which he has been a member since 1993. Despite being known for work in bands with prominent musicianship, Barbieri's key skill lies not in virtuoso instrumental performance, but in developing and processing synthetic electronic sound. This is either generated entirely by keyboard input or by processing a sound source from a musical collaborator.

During his time with Japan, Barbieri worked (with the assistance of lead singer/occasional keyboard player David Sylvian) on programming the band's analogue (and early digital) synthesizers to create original sounds and textures. On record, these were played by whichever member of Japan could interpret the performance best (generally drummer Steve Jansen, as "he had the best timing.") Barbieri would, however, perform the bulk of the keyboard playing live. His keyboard-playing role in Porcupine Tree is similarly split with frontman/producer Steven Wilson, with Barbieri processing the sound of other musicians in the band as well as playing more orthodox keyboard parts.

Despite his emphasis on sonic experimentation, Barbieri is also an accomplished keyboard player who has become more overtly traditional in his playing during his years with Porcupine Tree (and who currently plays electric and acoustic pianos and Mellotrons in addition to his analogue-styled synthesizer work).

After the break-up of Japan, Barbieri continued his association with David Sylvian, playing on the latter's early solo albums (and on the 1986 In Praise Of Shamans tour). During this time he worked alongside such other innovators as Holger Czukay, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Robert Fripp. In 1987 he started a long musical association with another Japan colleague, Steve Jansen. This has produced six collaborative albums to date, initially under the name The Dolphin Brothers (Catch the Fall, 1987) and later as Jansen & Barbieri (including Stories Without Borders, 1993,Worlds in a Small Room, 1996, and Stone to Flesh, 1997).

The Rain Tree Crow collaboration was short-lived due to David Sylvian's assumption of control over the project (which he claims was necessary for financing but which the other members saw as controlling arrogance). The group parted company shortly after recording the album, for which there was no supporting tour. However, the project was key to the reuniting of Jansen, Barbieri and Karn as a creative unit (sometimes referred to as "JBK").

In 1993 Barbieri formed the Medium Productions label in 1993 with Jansen and Karn. Their objective was to enable themselves to create music and collaborate with fellow musicians on projects without record company interference and restriction. They kicked off the label with the Jansen/Barbieri/Karn album Beginning to Melt (a collection of varied pieces including some trio work and other recordings featuring various permutations of the basic trio with other collaborators including David Torn and Robbie Aceto). Thirteen diverse albums were released during a ten-year period; Jansen and Barbieri's collaboration with DJ Takemura on the album Changing Hands being one of the highlights. During this period Barbieri also made two other collaborative albums, one with his wife Suzanne J. Barbieri under the name Indigo Falls (1996), and one with Tim Bowness from the band No-Man titled Flame (1994).

In late 1993 Barbieri joined the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree (having previously played as a guest performer on the album Up the Downstair). The band released eight studio albums to increasingly greater chart success, and toured in support of many of them. Their first major success was the album In Absentia, which enjoyed chart success around Europe with sales of over 120,000. The following studio albums Deadwing and Fear of a Blank Planet met even greater success, charting highly worldwide. The band transitioned somewhat away from metal with their last album, The Incident, with leader Steven Wilson expressing a desire to enter a different genre. They are currently inactive, though with plans to eventually reform.

The new album 'Not The Weapon But The Hand' from Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri was released by Kscope Records February 2012. Hogarth is best known as the frontman of Marillion.'Not The Weapon But The Hand' was completed in late 2011 and features appearances from Danny Thompson on double bass, Arran Ahmun (John Martyn) and Chris Maitland (ex Porcupine Tree) on drums and Dave Gregory (XTC) on guitar, bass and string arrangements.

In 2005 he released his debut solo album Things Buried. Although he has made many albums as part of a group, trio or duo, surprisingly this is his first solo work. The instrumental album also features the distinctive performances of Andy Gangadeen on acoustic and electronic drums, and Percy Jones on fretless bass.

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One of the least-known releases in both the Japan and No-Man family trees -- it fell out of print shortly after release -- Flame is unsurprisingly a lush, romantic album that lets both Barbieri and Bowness show off their considerable skills. Hearing Bowness away from his usual collaborative foil, Steven Wilson, makes for a nice contrast; Barbieri sounds less interested in exploring modern pop styles as he is in creating his own evocative style, a bit of stripped-down Sinatra gone electronic in ways, nightclub cabaret for the end of the century. There's also something of both Scott Walker and quieter Peter Gabriel in their '80s incarnations in the music, low-key avant-rock with a moody undertow and unexpected arrangements, with Steve Jansen's drumming especially worthy of note. "Brightest Blue" is a particular winner in this vein, Barbieri's piano taking the lead there, while Bowness matches this perfectly, his just wonderful voice, softly sighing and gently passionate, giving one of his best romantic lyrics the delivery it deserves. "Time Flown" is another fine highlight, with Bowness taking a commanding tone -- only just, but enough to make an impact -- on the chorus, suiting the darker, more intense music there very well. With the help of both performers' regular circle of friends and fellow musicians -- Mick Karn and Michael Bearpark, besides Jansen and Wilson himself, among others -- the partnership creates some wonderful songs to luxuriate in. Indeed, no track is solely recorded by the two on their own, though a couple come close, including the keyboards/drums/vocals approach on "Trash Talk" (with an especially captivating choir vocal sample woven in) and the instrumental "Torch Dance."

Richard Barbieri & Tim Bowness - Flame ( flac 213mb)

01 A Night In Heaven 5:44
02 Song Of Love And Everything (Part I And II) 6:10
03 Brightest Blue 4:33
04 Flame 5:18
05 Trash Talk 4:35
06 Time Flown 5:56
07 Torch Dance 8:24
08 Feel 4:10

Richard Barbieri & Tim Bowness - Flame( ogg 99mb)

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If you were impressed by Sunday All Over the World (Robert Fripp's collaboration with his wife, Toyah Wilcox), then you will probably be so by this. More or less it's the same minus Fripp. Suzanne Barbieri has an interest in the occult and that mood is conjured up by both the sleeve and some of husband Richard's synth textures. The collection commences well with the Celtic-flavored "Only Forward." "The Wilderness," a beautiful piece with folky infusion that is also featured on the medium label-sampler Beginning to Melt, also fares well, but some of the album falls to lengthy dirge -- "Worlds End" does it no favors but does feature an excellent guitar stretch by Jakko. "Falling Into Years" is another superb atmospheric piece which wouldn't have seemed out of place on Stories Across Borders, his 1991 pairing with Steve Jansen. Barbieri's other Japan sidekick, Mick Karn, is in full command on the funky "Feed the Fire" and Steven Wilson takes a break from Porcupine Tree to guest on said "Wilderness."

Richard n Susan Barbieri - Indigo Falls ( flac 213mb)

01 Only Forward 7:07
02 World's End 8:05
03 Feed The Fire 4:40
04 Falling Into Years 7:00
05 The Wilderness 4:45
06 Towards The Light 5:14
07 Sky Fall 3:20

Richard n Susan Barbieri - Indigo Falls ( ogg 84mb)

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Considering that Richard Barbieri has been a professional musician for close to 30 years, it may seem hard to believe that Things Buried is his first solo outing.Things Buried gives Barbieri the opportunity to step into the spotlight. And shine he does on this disc - a rich collection of electronic instrumentals that features Brand X bassist Percy Jones and Massive Attack and fellow H band drummer Andy Gangadeen. Barbieri's analog keyboards shimmer on songs like “Nevada” and the cinematic “Fear and Trembling,” a number that sounds like it’s longing to be used in a science fiction film.

 “Light on Glass,” with Jones’ funky bass and Gangadeen’s pounding rhythm, sounds very reminiscent of Barbieri’s work with JBK. Barbieri drives the track along with some cool synth noises and effects. The closing “Path Not Taken” takes the same route – some funk bass matched by Barbieri’s programmed percussion. The song’s simple yet highly effective piano line will bore into the listener’s brain.

But the true standout song on Things Buried is the majestic “Red Square.” Barbieri plays what sounds like a harpsichord while Jones adds some subtle fretless bass. Eerie sound effects lie in the background. Nearly three minutes in, a lovely piano part takes over. This song so perfectly encapsulates why Barbieri is such a stellar musician – nothing really reaches out and grabs you, but if anything was missing, you’d notice it. Barbieri layers his instrumentation so deftly that it’s easy to under appreciate what he does.

Richard Barbieri - Things Buried ( flac 299mb)

01 Nevada 5:08
02 Fear And Trembling 5:40
03 Light On Glass 6:33
04 Drops Of Mercury 7:39
05 Flaw 4:59
06 Medication Time 6:54
07 Red Square 7:52
08 Path Not Taken 6:29

Richard Barbieri - Things Buried ( ogg 114mb)

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