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Taj Weekes, the freshest voice in contemporary roots reggae, returns with his long-awaited second CD, DEIDEM. With DEIDEM, Taj follows the critical success of 2006’s Hope & Doubt with another triumph, a mixture of message and music with a timeless groove and an eye to the world.

The global consciousness of DEIDEM resulted from a spiritual epiphany following personal tragedy. Weekes lost both of his parents within a year and wrote an album’s worth of songs expressing his grief before completely reversing his direction. Weekes says:

I realized that it’s not about me.
Sure, I lost two people, but there are millions of people dying every day.
So right then I scrapped all the songs I had and wrote 12 new ones.
I wrote about the world instead of myself.



Over hypnotic rhythms, Weekes sings about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in  ...   Continue




"And The Grammy Goes To..."

LIVE Worldwide! has WON the 2008 GRAMMY for Best Zydeco or Cajun Album! Terrance appeared on the first ever online Pre-tel Grammys: Feb. 10, 2008, GRAMMY.com. Simien's Grammy comes in the inaugural class of the new "Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album".


This also marks the first Grammy nominees for an Australian label (Simien AND Cubanismo), for AIM Records.

You can hear the entire  ...   Continue





UPDATE: Greetings from Havana earned a GRAMMY Nomination for "Best Tropical Latin Album". Congrats to Cubanismo, Jesus, Susie, our own Joel for the liner notes and AIM Records.


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It all started as so many worthwhile stories do, over drinks at the local pub. That was where Peter Noble, owner and director of AIM Records, and trumpeter Jesús Alemañy first discussed the idea of recording a new  ...   Continue





OFFICIAL INVITATION:


Fly on the Wall Media, The Giving Tree Band
and the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center

Welcome your presence


during the recording of the

World's First Carbon Free Album




Recording the 'world's greenest album' is taking place at the 'world's greenest building', the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. Carbon Free meaning no pollutants are made during the recording and production, a step farther than offsetting emissions (Carbon Neutral). Recording began June 23 and  ...   Continue





Albert Einstein spent the last two decades of his life searching for a Unified Field Theory. This led to a great deal of fascination with the subject and drew people from outside the physics community to work on this "Theory of Everything". Einstein believed such a theory would attempt to explain and interpret all the physical constants of nature.

Chicago quartet, The Giving Tree Band use this scientific synonym to  ...   Continue





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The Skatalites have broken ground in Australia. Performing and recording a new album while down under may seem an odd match for a Jamaican band. However, The Skatalites found that the people on the big island of OZ have a familiar vibe about them. Although the local wildlife and ancient landscape created an atmosphere unlike any The Skats had seen before. "The  ...   Continue





At a time when the hammering dancehall beat has all but drowned out the traditional skank, and angry voices shout out, comes a voice with positive messages: modern and distinctive, but steeped in Reggae’s tradition, drawing on R&B roots, soul and world flavors.

Abijah’s international flair is exemplified by the flamenco-tinged title track of his new album, Moving to the Top to be released by Azion Music on April 20,  ...   Continue





The rediscovery and artistic rebirth of Claudius Linton, aka Kingman, is the reggae resurrection story of the decade. Indie rocker/producer Ian Jones (aka Jonah) met Linton, the artist behind 1976’s #1 hit "Crying Time," on a Jamaican beach and struck up the partnership that has resulted in Linton’s 2008 comeback album as Kingman & Jonah, entitled Sign Time.

Kingman, as Claudius Linton is known, recorded as a member of the Angelic  ...   Continue





Title: In Search of a Song with Jason Wilber
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Radio program and podcast
Web: isoasradio.com
Frequency: Weekly
Content: Exclusive artist interviews with live musical performances
Sounds Like: Piano Jazz meets Inside The Actors Studio meets Austin City Limits

Description: Through in-depth interviews and exclusive live performances, In Search of a Song seeks to explore  ...   Continue





Three songs from Alkebulan’s upcoming album are available here as pre-release downloads. They are guiding songs that point to the important things in life, troubles with the world and happiness within yourself. The release of the full-length album is sure to bring more of the same positive emotion and classic reggae vibe.

"Take it Easy" is a classic Rastafarian anthem in which Alkebulan sings the virtues of looking within yourself and  ...   Continue





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