Robbie Robertson - Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy - 1998

Excelente sucesor para el "Music for The Native Americans" de cuatro años atrás, éste "Contact from the Underworld of Red Boy" continúa explorando la música nativa americana sobre ritmos funk electronificados saludablemente

THE SOUND IS FADING

PEYOTE HEALING

MAKING A NOISE

Throughout his solo career, Robbie Robertson has been as fascinated with sonics as he was with songwriting, so perhaps it wasn't entirely surprising that he collaborated with techno DJ/producer Howie B and remixer Marius de Vries on his fourth album, Contact from the Underworld of Redboy. Anyone familiar with his moody, atmospheric solo efforts will realize that there's a bigger jump between Music from Big Pink and Robbie Robertson than there is between the Daniel Lanois-produced Robbie Robertson and the ambient-flavored Contact, but the electronic textures and dance beats still may come as a shock to some. The electronics are interwoven with blues, folk, country and rock, as well as American Indian music. And, as on Music for the Native Americans, Robertson is primarily concerned with American Indians throughout Contact, whether it's through the chants of "Peyote Healing" or the protest of "Sacrifice," which features Leornard Peltier -- a Native American who has been imprisoned since 1976 on charges of murder many believe are fabricated -- on a telephone call. Both his lyrical and musical concerns can get bogged down in their own pretensions, but often, the results are provocative and unique. 

-- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide

IN THE BLOOD

UNBOUND

RATTLEBONE

PROGRAMA

01. The Sound Is Fading

02. The Code Of Handsome Lake

03. Making A Noise

04. Unbound

05. Sacrifice

06. Rattlebone

07. Peyote Healing

08. In The Blood

09. Stomp Dance (Unity)

10. The Lights

11. Take Your Partner by the Hand (con Howie B.)

Robertson le cede la palabra a Leonard Peltier, preso desde 1976, de quien se dice que está encerrado por su condición de nativo americano, acusado de un crimen que no cometió.Personalidades como Nelson Mandela y el Dalai Lama intercedieron por él sin éxito.

SACRIFICE

PERSONAL

Robbie Robertson, vocals/guitar/producer

Tim Simenon

Nellee Hooper

Lucien Jordain

Johnny Mike

Jeremy Shaw

Joanne Shenandoah

The Six Nations Women Singers

Quinn Yarborough

Leah Hicks-Manning

James Bilagody

Jackie Bird

Star Nayea

Ivan Nevile

Rita Coolidge

Cree Summer

Caroline MacKendrick

Bonnie Jo Hunt

Anthony Begay

Verdell Primeaux

Priscilla Coolidge

Laura Satterfield, vocals

Chief Jake Thomas

Leonard Peltier, spoken vocals

Bill Dillon, guitar

Mazti Galindo,flute

Jim Wilson, keyboards/drum/percussion/programming/engineer

Marius De Vries, producer

Tim Gordine, keyboards/programming/engineer

Jules Brooks, keyboards

Geoffrey Gordon, drums/frame drum/percussion

Rupert Brown

Benito Concha, drums

Jony Rockstar

Vinez Pvel

Andrew Scheps, programming

Madeleine Allakariallak

Phoebe Atagotaaluk, vocals

Howie B, producer/engineer

Tim Stroh, engineer

Carmen Rizzo, engineer

El último track, nombrado como bonus en la edición que poseo, es una colaboración con Howie B., quien ya lo había publicado en su propio álbum "Turn The Dark Off" el año anterior.

TAKE YOUR PARTNER BY THE HAND

Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble - Music for the Native Americans - 1994

"Music for the Native Americans" es el tercer álbum de estudio del canadiense Robbie Robertson, originario de The Band.
Fue creado como banda sonora del programa de televisión The Native Americans.
El álbum está enfocado obviamente en la cultura y la música de los nativos americanos, recopilada y grabada por Robertson - de herencia mohawk - y varios colaboradores e invitados bajo el nombre de "Red Road Ensemble".Entre esos colaboradores se encuentran sus hijos Sebastian y Delphine, así como Rita Coolidge, Patrick Leonard, etc.
Éste álbum está entre los más preciados de mi colección personal, muy recomendable para quienes gustan de la llamada "world music" y del abanico de experiencias musicales llevadas a cabo por artistas como Peter Gabriel, Enigma, Deep Forest o Mike Oldfield.

COYOTE DANCE

With Storyville, Robbie Robertson's music began to directly incorporate more world music influences; Music for the Native Americans makes that connection more explicit. Most of the album is quite evocative, recalling an American version of Peter Gabriel's mediterranean exploration Passion. Robertson writes some fully formed songs, but most of the record is devoted to instrumental, incidental film music, and that's where he fully explores new musical territory. Music for the Native Americans is a soundtrack (to Ted Turner's TV Production, The Native Americans), yet it contains some of Robertson's most challenging and complex music. 
-- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide

GHOST DANCE

AKUA TUTA

MAHK JCHI

GOLDEN FEATHER

PROGRAMA
"Coyote Dance" (Dave Pickell, Jim Wilson) - (4:07)
"Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song)" (Pura Fé) - Ulali (4:17)
"Ghost Dance" (Robertson, Jim Wilson) - (5:12)
"The Vanishing Breed" (Robertson, Douglas Spotted Eagle) - (4:39)
"It Is a Good Day to Die" (Robertson) - (5:46)
"Golden Feather" (Robertson) - (5:22)
"Akua Tuta" (Claude McKenzie, Florent Vollant) - Kashtin (4:51)
"Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood" (Robertson) - (4:52)
"Cherokee Morning Song" - Rita Coolidge - (2:58)
"Skinwalker" (Robertson, Patrick Leonard) - (5:56)
"Ancestor Song" (Traditional) - Ulali (2:54)
"Twisted Hair" (Jim Wilson) - Robbie Robertson y Bonnie Jo Hunt (3:23

THE VANISHING BREED

PERSONAL
Robbie Robertson - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Rita Coolidge - Vocals (bckgr)
Priscilla Coolidge - Vocals (bckgr)
James Wilson - Programming
Kashtin
Alejandro "Alex" Acuqa - Percussion
John Barlit - Percussion
Charlie Brocco - Engineer
Bob Clearmountain - Mixin
Bill Dillon - Bass, Guitar, Chamberlain, Omnichord, Guitorgan
Douglas Spotted Eagle - Flute, Keyboards, Programming
Tony Green - Bass
Elodie Lauten - Keyboards
Patrick Leonard - Organ, Keyboards, Programming
Jared Levine - Associate Producer
Bob Ludwig - Mastering
Patrick McCarthy - Engineer
Dave Pickell - Programming
Charles Pollard - Editing
Laura Satterfield - Vocals (bckgr)
Silvercloud Singers
Ron Sunsinger - Engineer
Bill Dillion - Guitar
John Bartilt - Percussion
Benito Concha - Drums
Sal Fararas - Drums
Toby Gendron - Producer, Engineer
Claude Pelletter - Vocals (bckgr)
Delphin Robertson - Vocals (bckgr)
Denis Toupin - Drums, Vocals
Tommy Steele - Art Direction
David Williams - Design, Photography
Lavant Coppock - Assistant Engineer
Andy Fitich - Engineer
Bill Szawloswki - Engineer
Bonnie Jo Hunt - Vocals
Jeff Smallwood - Guitar (Acoustic)
Barry Goldberg - Assistant Engineer
Jim Wilson - Programming, Producer
Ulali - backing vocals

IT IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE

Kraftwerk - The Catalogue (1974/2003) - 2009

"The Catalogue" (en su edición en alemán, "Der Katalog") es una caja conteniendo ocho álbumes rde Kraftwerk editados entre 1974 y 2003. Remasterizados digitalmente y acompañados del arte original de portada y libros, ampliados con fotografías y diseños que no formaron parte de las ediciones originales.En mi humilde opinión en los cinco primeros está el verdadero tesoro de la obra de la agrupación alemana pionera.
El álbum de 1986 retoma el título que originalmente iba a llevar hacia 1983 cuando fue en principio cancelado, y ahora incluyendo una versión diferente del tema "The telephone call".
Definitivamente, ésta caja es un tesoro invaluable para los fans de Kraftwerk.
Y desde luego, un servidor, lo tiene entre sus más caras posesiones.

Autobahn (1974)

 Radio-Activity (1975)

Trans-Europe Express (1977)

The Man-Machine (1978)

Computer World (1981)

Electric Café (1986, retitulado como "Techno Pop" )

The Mix (1991)

Tour De France Soundtracks (2003, retitulado sólo como "Tour De France" )

"We've been digitally transferring all of Kraftwerk's original recordings and sound sources from our badly degrading master tapes while our engineers, Fritz and Henning, have been working in parallel to remaster our early albums for re-release. So for the first time, our recordings will be available in crisp, clear Kling Klang sound with all the fold-out covers and images our label at the time either messed up or wouldn't pay for. There will be some alternate mixes of tracks and some unedited versions, but unfortunately we don't have much unreleased material. We never recorded extra songs or twenty different versions of the same song. We would complete a song and then move forward, always keeping very focused on one Kling Klang project at a time."
"The sound needed remastering… it’s like a reconstruction, like when a painter takes his paintings from the archives and blows the dust off and puts them in a retrospective. It was quite time-consuming work, but I think once you see it you will immediately understand"
Ralf Hütter

THE TELEPHONE CALL

BOING BOOM TSCHAK/MUSIQUE NON STOP

THE ROBOTS