Archipelagoes by Maga Bo - Kaxambu Records [KAX002]

Archipelagoes

Maga Bo

A 17 track worldbeat album (1h 9m 17s) — released October 14th 2008 on Kaxambu Records

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A crunk cosmopolitan, Rio de Janeiro's MAGA BO bumps more hot street-side beats than anybody we we've ever met. He's played everywhere from Zanzibar to Sri Lanka to Capetown, trading ideas and sonics with musicians along the way.


Archipelagoes is a collection of exclusive Maga Bo productions in collaboration with Senegalese hiphop godfathers Pee Froiss, new school Moroccan rap heroes Bigg and K-Libre, ragga dancehall champion Teba from Cape Town, Zanzibari taarab master Mohammed issa Matona and others.

When the freelance sound engineer works outside of his Brazil home-base, Maga Bo stays for weeks at a time: voicing dubplates, recording musicians, doing things like skills exchange and workshops (i.e. teaching young African hiphoppers how to rock pirated audio software...) Call it what you want – creating community, deconstructing the exotic, making collaborations in a fair and respectful way – the music speaks for itself.

"...another globe trekking album from the constantly ace Maga Bo fresh from another musical mooch through the sonic territories of grime, cumbia, reggaeton and of course hiphop, picking up collaborators and companions along the way. 'Nakhil' opens with an electro grime riddim providing a solid base for K-Libre's fiery delivery, while the two collaborations with Mohammed Issa Matona take in lush orchestral sweeps combined with Maga's laptop honed bass riddims. There's so much to take in on this album that it will take a fair few listens to peel pack the layers of multi disciplined instrumental styles and twisted tongues encrusted into it's seething mass of beats that we can't do it justice in a review. Dive in yourself and get lost in Maga Bo's global sound conundrum. Dense." - Boomkat

...Maga Bo blew me away with his hard-hitting debut album, Archipelagoes (Soot). - Chicago Reader Chicago Reader

...laced together with Bo’s deep understanding of global musical timbres and a keen appreciation for booty-shaking beat science, the result is the favela on blast Diplo strives for but doesn’t always achieve. Outta-national? Globalista? Sure, but Bo is speaker-bangin’ before all else. - XLR8R XLR8R

...layers of multi disciplined instrumental styles and twisted tongues encrusted into it's seething mass of beats that we can't do it justice in a review. Dive in yourself and get lost in Maga Bo's global sound conundrum. Dense. - Boomkat Boomkat

Maga Bo is a DJ and producer from Rio, who amalgamates a variety of street musics from all over the world to create his own imaginative style. 'Archipelagoes' follows his earlier releases on Soot (DJ/Rupture's label) and is a futuristic collaboration involving Morocco MC's K-Libre and Bigg. Grime and dubstep meet with seductive, arabesque melody and vocals from some of north Africa's most respected rappers - just as the UK has Dusk & Blackdown, the musically fertile East has this talent. Essential. - Warpmart Warpmart

...Essentially Archipelagoes allegorises the concept of reach. Reaching out far and wide for inspiration, using what is within immediate reach as a means of capture in order to provide insight into something that’s for most of us, out of reach. An album that proves low budget need not equate to low art, frankly brilliant. - Suneel Jethani Cyclic Defrost

An emphasis on collaboration and the exchange of knowledge and ideas makes Maga Bo’s work stand out from that of over-developed world producers who grab the signifiers of others’ cultures (usually acapellas or vocal samples, but often music, too) and use them in disembodied form to add an exotic veneer to their work. Archipelagoes, the product of several trips to Africa over the past few years, showcases a dizzying range of deep-rooted influences, moving around the continent to make unimagined connections between genres..." - Gervase de Wilde Shook

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