Comments on: The Tangled Questions Of Yalla Yalla

By: gilscottheroin

gilscottheroin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:57:40 +0000

There are many labels doing exactly the same thing on all or some or a few of their releases(Shadoks/QKD media/Trikont/Subliminal Sounds/Parallel Worlds and many many more!). There is so much sampling going on unchecked and the stories of Folkways, Ocora, and Lomax and all the rest ripping people off blind for decades is legendary if you look it up. Anyone who would want to be a music cop or feels like they need to defend developing countries from THESE particular guys have their heads up their asses. I tend to look at it as them promoting those musicians and their music, not the other way around. These releases are incredible and seem much more honest in their approach to me. We would probably never hear this music otherwise. And, since these labels aren’t hiding anywhere and seem available to access, I suppose that, in this age of communication if someone has a problem with it the labels can be easily contacted and accessed for whatever can be worked out. And they probably are. Not to mention that many more copies of these CDs are downloaded or burned for free than ever actually sold. Hardly enough money to go around for anyone I would guess.

By: the rich girls are weeping

the rich girls are weeping — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:14:58 +0000

Dearest Idolator, the recent rash late-afternoon cultural imperialism posts is kind of a bummer.

By: Paperboy 2000

Paperboy 2000 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:00:37 +0000

Oh: and how about the thorny issue of linking to a blog that's linking to a "MegaUpload" of the whole album?

Ultra-classy.

By: Paperboy 2000

Paperboy 2000 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:54:54 +0000

Does anyone know if the artists on the Soul Jazz or Numero Group releases are paid? Those records are much more "properly documented," but I just wonder if it's still the same kinda deal.

At the same time: I seriously doubt that there's a lot of profit coming from this label or the SF stuff...

By: Bazooka Tooth

Bazooka Tooth — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:24:21 +0000

“The best of Carneal’s discoveries so far–a disc of four long, winding tracks split between musicians Pekos and Yoro Diallo taken from an overdriven cassette–feels almost like a razor-edged African take on the lapidary jams of the classic Gil E Jorge. The pair’s electrified Malian lutes shoot off sparks like Link Wray’s rumbling guitar and the force of the singing can jolt you right out of your office chair and onto your ass.”

This music sounds not interesting at all to me.

By: Al Shipley

Al Shipley — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:20:16 +0000

Funny, I never realized this guy was working in the English dept. at Towson probably at the same time that I was a student there. But yeah, this kind of thing has always seemed sketchy to me. I’m sure it’s a little harder to go through all the legwork of permission and detailed credits and royalties to release music by someone who lives in another country and doesn’t speak English. But if you just put out their music without doing all that stuff, you’re not really a label, you’re just a bootlegger. I kinda doubt this guy would borrow an American friend’s demo or rehearsal tape and then release it without permission on his label with vague/misleading liner notes and no songwriting credits and get away with it.

By: PengIn

PengIn — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:53:23 +0000

You lost me at “Baltimore”.