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Jonny Alford – Escape

Armed with an acoustic guitar, a mandolin and a pot of gravy granules for percussion, Jonny Alford has produced an album of timeless uplifting songwriting. With tinges of folk and country but without the indulges of either, Jonny’s songs have a simplistic beauty which speaks for themselves. His music is the perfect soundtrack to this summer with its sun soaked harmonies and lifting melodies. Jonny’s music has already been used on tv by the BBC/PBS series Monarchy: The Royal Family at work. Which is in the top 10 DVD sales in the UK at the moment, in the documentary Freedom Fuels by Mofilms and by Apple for its Telluride Film festival podcast about the film festival.

Jonny Alford – Escape the Requiem

Genres: Folk / Indie / Folktronica

Release Info

Release Date: Out Now
Artist: Jonny Alford
Release: Escpae the Requiem
Genre: Soundtrack / Various / Indie
CAT No: MMR001
Label: Menial Monkey/ Three Sixty Records
Format: Digital, CD, Reel to Reel
Distributor: IODA – Digital
Territory: Global Release
Album Art: Jonny Alford

Tracklisting

01 It Won’t Be Long – 3:54
02 Quiet Places – 4:46
03 I Can’t Close My Eyes – 3:20
04 Remover – 4:11
05 All That You’ve Got – 3:31
06 Now & Then – 3:31
07 Wainbody Ave – 4:06
08 On the Road Three Wheels – 3:00
09 Gone – 4:07
10 Smile – 2:25

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A message from Jonny
“I started recording early. There’s a tape of me playing ‘Peggy Sue’ aged 3 years old. I studied composition at Coventry and then at Birmingham. Coventry being the inspiration for the song ‘Wainbody Ave’ – it was the road that led to the college and it had the freakiest trees all the way up it. The ones that have had the branches cut thick and straight so they look awkward and stunted yet strangely imposing. The ones I’ve drawn are a bit friendlier looking than the real ones. At Birmingham I played a lot of Gamelan music, which is good for the soul and gentle on a hangover. For most of my time as a student I kind of forgot about writing songs and mainly wrote contemporary classical music, finished my degree then immediatley returned to writing simple guitar music, oh well…Somewhere along the line I also played with the Birmingham band Delta for about a year. I appear briefly on the album ‘Hard Light’. Since then I’ve been doing a few gigs around London, Reading and Bucks, often with Chris, Dave and Steve(the band) backing me. ENJOY.”

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Sr Mandril live

smimage_live_windowSr Mandril have played all over Mexico, South America and the Caribbean, here they are on rocking the stage on a trip to Canada to play at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (Montreal, Canada). At the head of Mexico City’s musical avant garde, Sr. Mandril synchronize bossa nova and Latin jazz with electronica grooves that bathe their audience in tropical warmth. Founders German González and Ramsés Ramirez marshal percussion, guitar and sunny vocals that pull every posterior out of its seat and propel it to the dance-floor. Rolling Stone raved about their 2006 Festival show, so they were asked back. They return with more irresistible rhythms and a new album perfectly titled Terragroove.

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Sr Mandril

Genres:Jazz/Funky House/Electro-acoustic

Sr.Mandril´s first album was released on 2005 when Germán González and Ramsés Ramírez mixed their ideas on the creation of this project. This way the electronic elements are combined with acoustic and electrical instruments, creating a construction of colours, sounds and influences that go from acid jazz and ambient to latin, and from lounge to funk with a slice of house.

After releasing a debut homonym album, which “Rolling Stone” considered one of the 10 best latin albums of the year , Sr. Mandril released it´s second production in 2008, “Terragroove”, which was considered by “Indie Rocks Mag” one of the 100 best albums of the decade with an exquisit blend of funk, acid jazz, and rock with electronic and latin elements.

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DISCOGRAPHY:

“Naco es Chido-Botellita de Jerez Soundtrack (2010)

“Music for moving images vol.3 (Three Sixty Records 2010)

”Uni Radio 3 Años” (Uni Radio 2010)

“Soundtrip Mexico” (Piranha / Germany 2009)

“Juegos Inocentes Soundtrack” (Intolerancia Mexico 2009)

“Sr Mandril – Terragroove (Three Sixty Records 2009)

“Intolerancia 2.2” (Intolerancia Records 2008)

“Sr. Mandril – Terragroove (Intolerancia / Discos Konfort 2008)

“Music for moving images vol. 2” (Three Sixty Records 2007)

“Sr. Mandril – Lover” (Three Sixty Records 2007)

“Sr. Mandril – Brillo” (Three Sixty Records 2007)

“Sr. Mandril” (Discos Konfort / Noise Kontrol 2005)

“Androide Prazer” (Noise Kontrol 2005)

“Adán y Eva (todavía) Soundtrack” (Noise Kontrol 2005)

“Antojitos Mexicanos Vol. 1” (Cremosonic.com 2005)

“The Now Sound of Mexico” (King a Groove Records Canada 2004)

“Máximas Texturas 06” (Discos Konfort 2004)

“Máximas Texturas 10” (Discos Konfort 2004)

“Mexico Sessions Vol. 1” (Bons Records 2003)

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Jimmy the Fingers

Genres: Electronica / House / Indie

Artist Bio

The Debut single from Jimmy The Fingers is positive message to all the girls out there, in a way only Jimmy The Fingers could do. The Single comes with remixes from The Melovskys of Mexico City and Darkhorse from San Francisco.

Look out for the increasingly popular video to the single shot by Steve Glashier at Nothing To See Here productions, with a little help from a lot of friends, and fast becoming a hit on youtube

Born under a bad sign between a rock and a hard place, Jimmy soon hit the skids and took to loitering outside the local chip shop in his cape, playing his demo on an old ghetto blaster whilst scrabbling around for tit-bits and narrowly avoiding kebab meat thrown at him for trying to drink peoples beer. Darkhorse AKA Graham Shrimpton of Three Sixty Records heard the tape, found him covered in chips in a nearby dumpster, dusted him down, and discovered the kid actually had some talent. Taking him on and producing his debut album for release on Three Sixty Records. Graham co-produced the Grammy winning album Global Drum Project.

“Imagine Prince and Beck fighting over cider, Frank Zappa and Jack Johnson taking bets in the corner, dirty electro is playing in the background on the jukebox and you’ve got the Jimmy The Fingers sound.” 360

In his youth Jimmy busted out toons under the monikers Superdense Child and Zooface, and as a DJ has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Afrika Bambaata, Radio One’s Breezeblock show, Rahzel, Krafty Kuts, The Herbaliser, Fatboy Slim, Bonobo, and many more. He played keys in bands with Quantic, TM Juke, and Alice Russell from blossoming Brighton label Tru Thoughts. Then he found out he could sing, so he struck out on his own. Nowadays he works live with Kaoss Pads, synths and a cape.

“Jimmy The Fingers writes about life as he sees it; a joyous and just plain silly occasion, marred only by the wonders of temptation and the melancholy. His musical stylings ever changing, he’s always one step ahead of the kids.” 360

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Revolution Art Mag

We dig this mag. They put Electro 7 in the new issue, so we dig it even more.

REVOLUTION ART international magazine is a publication delivered in pdf format as a collective sample of the best of the graphics arts, modeling, music, and world tendences.

It’s a revolutionary platform, a massive propaganda to communicate global messages and make the people to think about them. We deliver pure talent to more than 70,000 suscribers and readers per edition around the world.

The objective of REVOLUTIONART is the one to serve as a inspirational source to artists, models, designers, advertisers, photographers, designers and communicators in general who wish to explore new alternatives of expression through graphical samples of design, photo, ads, fashion, music, and general visual arts. We’re coolhunters.

Download the PDF it’s free, with loads of great art.

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Buy and help

jnimage_jn_windowBy purchasing the track Justicia Now, you will be supporting the making of solution-oriented documentaries that tackle important social and environmental issues that are rarely seen in the mainstream media, issues that affect us all. Our films are then made available, Free of Charge, as High Quality downloads on the web, and you can support this for just 99cents and you get a song too!

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Cambodian Arts

Three Sixty Records has signed a deal to release recordings from the Cambodian Living Arts project. Three Sixty will be giving 100% of income from the song sales back to CLA to help support the program.

claimage_cla_windowCambodian Living Arts, a project of World Education, works to support the revival of traditional Khmer performing arts and to inspire contemporary artistic expression. CLA supports arts education, mentorship, networking opportunities, education, career development, and income generating projects for master performing artists who survived the Khmer Rouge as well as the next generation of student artists. We work with the vision that by the year 2020, Cambodia will experience a cultural renaissance so dynamic that the arts will become the country’s international signature.

CLA promotes an appreciation of the Khmer performing arts by sponsoring and supporting concerts, recitals, performances, and demonstrations to a wide range of audiences. Some of the CLA-sponsored classes practice art forms now that are quite rare, and CLA’s support helps to make these traditional art forms more accessible to local Khmer, both rural and urban, as well as to travelers and students from around the world.

sarikakeocover_250In doing so, CLA empowers arts students and masters to develop the performance skills and social and professional networks that will help them to make a living through the arts. Since 2003, the number of performances by masters and students has increased by 400% due to CLA’s support; consequently, some performing groups earn from $200-$4,000+ more in income each year from performances alone. 

The place of traditional performing arts is also changing; where once many shows were sponsored through local wats, the royal family, or private families for private celebrations or rituals, now traditional performances may also be incorporated into hotel or restaurant receptions, staged touring productions, educational initiatives, school partnerships, artisanal stores, television shows, and more. Through the performing program, Cambodian Living Arts supports the masters and students to take better advantage of the changing opportunities available to them.

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Jonny Alford

Jonny Alford

Genres: Folk / Indie / Folktronica

Artist Bio

Armed with an acoustic guitar, a mandolin and a pot of gravy granules for percussion, Jonny Alford has produced an album of timeless uplifting songwriting. With tinges of folk and country but without the indulges of either, Jonny’s songs have a simplistic beauty which speaks for themselves. His music is the perfect soundtrack to this summer with its sun soaked harmonies and lifting melodies. Jonny’s music has already been used on tv by the BBC/PBS series Monarchy: The Royal Family at work. Which is in the top 10 DVD sales in the UK at the moment, in the documentary Freedom Fuels by Mofilms and  by Apple for its Telluride Film festival podcast about the film festival.

A message from Jonny
“I started recording early. There’s a tape of me playing ‘Peggy Sue’ aged 3 years old. I studied composition at Coventry and then at Birmingham. Coventry being the inspiration for the song ‘Wainbody Ave’ – it was the road that led to the college and it had the freakiest trees all the way up it. The ones that have had the branches cut thick and straight so they look awkward and stunted yet strangely imposing. The ones I’ve drawn are a bit friendlier looking than the real ones. At Birmingham I played a lot of Gamelan music, which is good for the soul and gentle on a hangover. For most of my time as a student I kind of forgot about writing songs and mainly wrote contemporary classical music, finished my degree then immediatley returned to writing simple guitar music, oh well…Somewhere along the line I also played with the Birmingham band Delta for about a year. I appear briefly on the album ‘Hard Light’. Since then I’ve been doing a few gigs around London, Reading and Bucks, often with Chris, Dave and Steve(the band) backing me. ENJOY.”

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Electro 7

 

Electro 7

Genres: Electronica / Glitch / Indie

Artist Bio

Electro 7 are an interesting mixed bag. A Mexican, Cuban and Italian combine to create the sounds of Cuba merged with Electronica, Reggae, Hip Hop and Drum & Bass and then twisted into pop music!

“The idea behind the band is to create soulful, contemporary Cuban music while experimenting with electronic sounds.”

Electro 7 have been around a few years, but it wasn’t until band leader Dr Panic hooked up with long time friend and traditional Cuban musician, Raul Oviedo, that their sound started to take shape. They then bought in pop producer Paolo Marcellini and the band was complete.

All three have been very busy recording and touring musicians, that had other band projects taking up their time. But in the last year the focus has been on this exciting new band and they are quickly picking up a fan base in Mexico and around the world.

The sound is still very authentic and at times is pure Cuban, and  really hits the spot. A mix of exotic Latin rhythms and vocals from sun bleached, rum soaked Havana back streets with cool, contemporary, electronic, urban sounds from Mexico City’s burgeoning dance music culture.


Electro 7

Raul Oviedo (Cuba) : Vocals, Background Vocals and Percussions.

Rodrigo Baills aka. Dr. Panic (Mexico) : Acoustic, Electric Gtrs and Programming.

Paolo Marcellini (Italy) : Electric Upright Bass and Synth Bass.