One of Portugal's Premier Jazz Musicians, Saxophonist Rao Kyao was Inspired by his Travels Abroad and his Extended Stay in the East to Record, in 1977, this Album Where He Combined the Unique Stylings of the Bamboo Flute with the Saxophone and Othermore Traditional Jazz Instruments. Kyao was to Become, in the 1980s, the Best-selling Portuguese Jazz Musician with a Series of Albums Based around the Flute.
Bambu,Rao Kyao,EMI Int'l,Int'l & World Music,Pop,World Music
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Big Bambu
Cheech & Chong Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002KJA Release Date: 1991-01-29 |
Tracks:
- Sister Mary Elephant
- Ralph And Herbie
- Streets Of New York Or Los Angeles Or San Francisco Or...
- Rebuttal: Speaker Ashley Roachclip
- The Continuing Adventures Of Pedro De Pacas And Man
- The Bust
- Television Medley: a) Tortured Old Man
- Television Medley: b) Empire Hancock
- Television Medley: c) Let's Make A Dope Deal
- Television Medley: d) Unamerican Bandstand
Customer Reviews:
Who'd-a thunk it?.......2007-06-19
big bambu.......2006-08-09
No Sophomore Slump On This One!.......2003-12-30
And they deserved it: BIG BAMBU was a great follow-up, from the huge rolling paper which came with the original LP to tracks such as "Sister Mary Elephant" (a hit single), "The Continuing Adventures of Pedro de Pacas and Man", our two favorite canines, "Ralph and Herbie", a right on the target skewering of every television cliche imaginable including the famous "Let's Make a Dope Deal", and so much more. These were all bits that you memorized and shared with your friends, falling into hysterics every time. Their first three albums are their very best, and all worth adding to your library. Of course they're silly, timely, sophomoric, socially astute, scatological, and sometimes profound. That's what makes the best comedy. Thank you, Tommy and Richard. You're the best.
Must Have for Party Animals.......2003-09-24
Mom hated it....dad *loved* it...and he was a 20 yr Army Vet (translated-POT IS DEADLY mentality).
I challenge even William Bennett not to laugh at this.
Cheech and Chong in '04.......2003-01-24
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Soul Adventure
Bambú Manufacturer: V & R ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000JD7L Release Date: 1999-06-01 |
Tracks:
- Open Door
- Soul Adventurer
- Conscious People
- Like the Sun
- Bambu Jam
- Roots
- Afternoon Tea
- Night Is on Fire
- Why Yo
- Crude Dub
- Somebody
Customer Reviews:
Innovative styles combine to blow your perception of reality.......2000-12-10
Great music for the body and soul!.......2000-06-22
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Talkin' Roots - Volume I
Bambu Station ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00006JO1Q Release Date: 2002-09-07 |
Tracks:
- Chant (Iba)
- Works of the Wise (Yah Shiloh I)
- Woe! (Dezarie)
- Massive Hysteria (Ankh Watep)
- See Me Now (Natty Empress)
- House of the Living (Jalani Horton - Bambu Station)
- The Draw (Star Lion Family)
- Out of Control (Ankh Watep)
- Tell Me Why (Iba)
- The Truth (Yah Shiloh I)
- Life (Natty Empress)
- Let it Out (Rafijah & Niyo - Star Lion Family)
- Only Jah Jah Know (Andre' "Andy" Llanos - Bambu Station)
Album Description
This album reaches heights fo' sure that the listener will enjoy. This maiden release of the Mt. Nebo Record label contains hard core multi-faceted riddims steeped deep in the roots vibration. Talkin' Roots I was produced by the Bambú Station Studio and features the lightning and thunder cries, wails and warnings from some of the Virgin Island's most talented artists. Featured on this volume are Dezarie, Iba, The Star Lion Family, Natty Empress, Ankh Watep, Bambú Station and Yah Shiloh I.Customer Reviews:
best true roots mix.......2005-07-27
respect to all higher knowledge deep perception
roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooots viiiiibe
Real Roots.......2004-09-14
Bless
Kader
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One Day
Bambu Station ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FSMGQ8 Release Date: 2006-02-28 |
Tracks:
- Humanity Bawlin'
- Even Man Cry
- Gunsmoke
- Pass It
- Man in Exile
- Fya!
- Eyes of Men
- Interlude
- How I Feel
- Move On
- My Actions
- Amadou Diallo
- One Day
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i scream bars for the children
Bambu ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000REOWJY |
Product Description
Bambu's second solo album ...i scream bars for the children, a bracing, emotional, and oftentimes, lighthearted account of his experiences as an organizer, a nationalist, and a representative of collective struggle. 1 I Scream 2 Chairman Mao 3 The Love 4 Pull It Back 5 Truth Serum 6 The Morning After 7 Riches To Rags (with Kronik Plague) 8 Fuck Yeah 9 Beach Cruising 10 Crack Talk (with Roscoe Umali and Eye A Sage) 11 Home Cooked (with Geologic, Kiwi, and Kuttin Kandi) 12 Guerra (with Quetzal) 13 Life In Rewind 14 Nicole 15 Jeepney (with Farmer John) 16 Always All Day 17 East L.A. Story (with Panama) 18 Gunshots (with Kiwi)
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Bambu
Manufacturer: Whatmusic.com ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00023FWZ8 Release Date: 2005-09-20 |
Customer Reviews:
A Brazilian Jazz Cornerstone Album.......2006-12-01
- Ricardo Silveira (who later placed 4 Jazz albums back-to-back in the top-ten in the U.S.)
- Jota Moraes (who later became key member of Azymuth and Cama de Gato)
- Leo Gandelman (several years in a row as the best instrumentalist in Brasil after this album)
- Armando Marcal (extremely sought-after studio player in the world)
- Marcelo Salazar
- and many more..........
If you are into Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and fantastic music; this instrumental gem is just for you.
Tracks are:
1. Bambu
2. A Ponte
3. Igarape / Chapada do Corisco
4. Humaita
5. Samba Torto
6. Mar
7. Dois Irmaos (First Ricardo Silveira song ever recorded)
8. Driblando (Dedicated to "Mane Garrincha")
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Bambu Sun
Corina Bartra Manufacturer: Blue Spiral ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000EXDXOI Release Date: 2006-03-03 |
Tracks:
- Guajira Son
- A Saca Camote con el Pie
- Enlightened Heart
- Black Bird
- Afro Peruvian folksong
- Footprints
- Canterurias
- Yambambo
- Sol Azabache
- Peace Loving People are on the Rise
- Magia y Ritmo Ancestral
- Majoral
Product Description
Bambu Sun From Now On Corina Bartras new CD represents a look both back and forward in musical direction. The new album is both a return to the Peruvian artists Afro-Peruvian jazz roots after two wonderful chanting/meditation records, and a look forward to joyful and rewarding musical days ahead. anbu Sun reflects a bright and joyous spirit that consolidates the artists pioneering incorporation of Afro-Peruvian and New Latin undercurrents into her own personal creation. Fans of Corinas previous jazz CDs, Corina Bartra Quartet, Son Zumbon and Travel Log, will find she has even revisited a couple of the key songs on those records, holding them up to the light of an Bambu sun to find new meanings. It is great to hear "Peace Loving People Are on the Rise" and its timeless message in a new version. As always, Corina fronts top-rate musicians like Rufus Reid, Jay Rodriguez, Cliff Corman and Vince Cherico, and their support of her mix of originals (like "Guajira Son" and "Sol Azabache") and covers (Wayne Shorter, Lennon/McCartney) is outstanding. Listen hard and you can hear a lot of things on Bambu Sun: bits of bebop, the complicated rhythms of Peru, energetic male voices on choruses or just exclaiming behind the music (the recording sessions must have been fun). It is really impressive and also the first time to hear in a jazz recording two cajon players playing counterpoint rhythms together on "Majoral." Lets hope there is nothing but bambu sun for this engaging artist from now on! --MARK FOGARTYCustomer Reviews:
Danceable music with an organic sound of cross-cultural fusion.......2007-07-15
Afro-Peruvian music, song and dance had its orgins with African slaves brought to the Spanish colony of Peru in the 16th century. As Peruvian slaves assimilated the culture and language of their new country, Afro-Peruvian music became a unique blend of Spanish, Andean and African traditions. While hundreds of years old, the music has experienced somewhat of a resurrgence within the past three decades. Because the Africans weren't allowed to play their own instruments, simple household items became percussion instruments. A hardwood wooden box called the cajon is one such instrument that is thought to have originated in Peru. On "Bambu Sun," the tone and slap of the cajon are provided by Perico Diaz or Oscar Torres. Diaz also offers thr traditional percussion sounds of the cajita and the quijada de burro. A small wooden box, the cajita is played with a stick while the other hand opens and shuts the top rhythmically to the music. The quijada is a donkey's jaw that is played by striking the wide part of the jaw with the fist to obtain a rattle sound. Other instrumentalists on the album include Cliff Kirman (piano), Jay Rodriquez (sax, flute), David Hertzberg (bass), Rufus Reid (bass), Vince Cherico (drums), Math Baranello (drums) and Oscar Hoyos (guitar).
Bartra's danceable music has an organic sound of cross-cultural fusion. It illustrates a healthy respect of tradition along with original, contemporary presentations.The Lando at track 11, Bartra's "Magia y Ritmo Ancestral" (Magic and Ancestral Rhythm) refers to the liberating dance of the wind, sand, sun. This may be the crowing moment on this project because this sentiment so accurately captures the objective of Bartra and Azu's magical music. (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR.)
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Break the Soil
Bambu Station ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MZTH0C |
Product Description
1 Brotherhood 2 Beloved People 3 I Rememba 4 Sense Enemy 5 Chance to Grow 6 King Baby 7 Who? (litany of Liars) 8 Bird's I View 9 Sing Upright 10 I Sing Prayses 11 New World Order 12 Dem Say So 13 Halle-lu-yah 14 InjoyCustomer Reviews:
The Reward. . ........2007-04-14
Bambu Station has been directly responsible for exposing great younger VI reggae talents to the masses as well. Constantly backing various acts on the road and the larger stage shows on the west coast of the mainland US, the group has performed with the likes of Dezarie, Ikahba Stone, Pressure Busspipe and a slew of others as well. The extent they have taken to push the younger artists hit its peak on their two superb Talkin Roots albums (both I believe are for sale on amazon). The first installment of the two featured The Star Lion Family, Dezarie, Iba and lead singer Jalani Horton himself with the excellent band backing all the various artists. The second, and even more solid installment, featured the wicked Danny I, Pressure Busspipe, Ras Bumpa and Bambu Station bandleader, the nearly legendary Tuff Lion. Bambu Station has seemingly made it theri goal to make the entire reggae listening world aware of the roots rumblings and tons of talent available in the VI and they are more than doing an excellent job (and would love to see Talkin Roots Vol. 3 in '07! Although they have already scheduled their next release Chant the Lions I for later this year)
Their style is one slightly more melodic and conforming to older styled roots from Jamaica. There are times listening to Bambu Station where you can literally lose your sense of time, they make some lovely rootical music and if you're a real fan of the music you would definitely enjoy their special blend. Although often compared to their more well known neighbors in Midnite, their musical style is slightly different from the Brothers' Benjamin. Bambu Station is slightly more melodic and straight forward and while probably not as overall spectacular as Midnite, they more than get the job done. Where Midnite teeters on the thin line between cryptically odd and brilliant, Bambu Station more clearly focuses on overall consistency. Their lead singer, St Thomas native Jalani Horton has a full voice although I wouldn't necessarily call him a singer. Horton's style is much more of an aggressive chant which bubbles nearly perfect over the fine backdrops Bambu Station provides. While Horton isn't nearly as lyrically dexterous as Midnite lead singer, lyrics sage Vaughn Benjamin, again, his type of vocalizing and writing works perfectly for Bambu Station's music.
This album, Break the Soil is actually their third release which features strictly the band itself after 1999's super hard to find gem Congo Moon and 2003's excellent One Day release (which is the first I encountered the group besides a few singles actually). You can definitely see a maturing in the group and them gelling together, besides being their most complete work to date, they also stray away from the norm on a few tracks (both musically and lyrically) and even involve a nice female singer on the album's only combination the wicked wicked Chance to Grow with the lovely Reemah. Having almost strictly been listening to them as a band not for themselves but for other artists (I actually got both Talkin Roots after the One Day album) its very very interesting to hear how they sound on their own as a fully functional unit. The remarkable way in which they can sound so fluid as to sound perfect as virtually anyone's band (largely due to Tuff Lion's genius), but even stronger backing Horton, is definitely enough to warrant the price of admissions for this one alone, but thankfully Break the Soil is a fine album.
Probably the first thing that I noticed about the deceptively massive 14 track Break the Soil (whose run time has it checking in at just over 71 minutes) is the time lengths of the tracks (I'm weird I know). Being used to the Jamaican almost cookie cutter dancehall track which, at such a fast pace, can fit 25 tracks on any given album and still be dangerously close to just a single hour long, it was immediately refreshing to check the 'richness' of this Soil, and the actual music doesnt disappoint at all! Break the Soil leaves nothing to be desired from the very first track, as the opener, Brotherhood, is definitely the album's finest offering.One of the faster paced tunes on the album and definitely one of the strongest musically, Brotherhood comes as a complete CHANT (and probably comes the closest to resembling something coming from Midnite's studio) and kicks off the album on a great note. The hook on Brotherhood is also probably the album's best and I'm not sure which tune the label (the fine) Mt Nebo, pushed as the single, but definitely I would not be surprised if such a tune was Brotherhood. Very nice track.
I'm also very impressed by the aforementioned combination with Siter Reemah, the outstanding Chance to Grow. Reemah, whom I've never of, has a very mature soudning sing and its a nice contrast to Horton's strong strong chant. It is also one of the more lyrically pleasing tracks on Break the Soil as both Reemah and Horton are in fine form with their word selection. Speaking of fine form lyrically, definitely check the nearly epochal Who? (Litany of Liars) over a nice hard driving Tuff Lion one-drop riddim. You need to really check that first verse on the tune and the various ways in which Horton turns phrases and words (particularly the word 'BLACK') into crafting just a perfect vibe with his words. I find myself drawn (all the time) to the more lyrical artists besides just the music; my favorite artist of all time is Sizzla who I also consider one of reggae's greatest lyricists (when he's truly on top of his game) and listening to Who? I get nearly that same vibe as it is nearly just as crucial to me as top notch Kalonji. And again, check the track lengths, so no point or vibe is pre-empted for time constraints, Horton gets to make his full point.
Other tracks worth checking include the track immediately following Who?, the lovely Bird's I View, again, lovely lovely lyrics, but the inclusion of a rather unusual saxophone (played by band member Warren Pedersen) even makes the tune stronger and a real highlight. That goes to the point of just going beyond the usual straight forward roots reggae making that you hear coming from the VI vibes, I LOVE that occasional change. The tune itself is about gaining a different perspective on one's self and giving thanks where you previously didn't think a 'thank you' was warranted, and Horton builds the point through a series of small stories about himself which is just brilliant.
Also check Sing Upright (which oddly enough directly follows Bird's I View making that stretch of 3 tunes, tracks 7-9 the album's strongest. Sing Upright is an admonishment/warning to fellow artists and musicians to go beyond singing of material and competition issues which often are harmful to the music (Horton even mentions certain singers bragging of bullet scars!), and checking the male and female artists alike. The album ends on another nice note with the very melodic Injoy. Injoy isn't actually amongst the album's strongest, but its still a very very fine way to end an album. You may NEVER see them perform the tune live (and that may be because they NEVER do perform it) but it goes to show the difference between making music for music's sake and making an album, two different things, both of which Horton and Bambu Station clearly seem to overstand to the fullest.
Overall, I started writing this review with Break the Soil as a 4 star album, then I wrote it in as a 4.5 star album before finally settling on it as a 5 star album, and I've been enjoying it for nearly a year now. While Bambu Station may be best known as almost a side dish to the ridiculous amount of vibes Midnite is currently pushing, more pieces like Break the Soil and they may become just as well known all over the world as that 'other band' from the VI. Break the Soil is one of the single best projects I have ever heard from a VI artist, ranking up there with Pressure's burgeoning The Pressure is On, Ikahba Stone's brilliant Troddin to Zion and Dezarie's stunning and groundbreaking FYA. For fan's of this music (well you already have this album dont you!) yes, it's that good. So should you track this one to the far corners of the reggae world (which you just may have to do to find it), the reward is there, 14 very very powerful tracks of some of the finest roots reggae being made in the VI or anywhere else for that matter.
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Los Soneros del Bambu
Canambu Manufacturer: Caribe ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000EQIPAM Release Date: 2006-02-28 |
Tracks:
- Mayeya
- Guaguanco A San Luis
- Para Bailar El Son
- Cubano Libre
- La Falsedad
- Que Bueno Toca El Canambu
- Santiago
- El Haragan
- Olvido
- Mayari
- El Son No Morira
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These Fires
Manufacturer: Bambu ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA7N76 Release Date: 2005-03-08 |
Pop Music:
- Bossa N Beatles [Import]
- Brizzi Do Brasil [Import]
- C'Hanno Preso Tutto [Import]
- Coleccion, Vol. 8 [Import]
- Comme Je Crie Comme Je Chante [Import]
- Copacabana [Import]
- Dame Mi Voz [Import]
- Dancing Through Ireland
- Das Beste Von Stefan Waggershausen [Import]
- Des Mots Qui Vonts Tres Bien Ensemble [Import]
