Project Blowed

Nyege Nyege Tapes is a Kampala based label exploring, producing and releasing outsider music from East Africa as well as showcasing international collaborations. For its first batch of releases the label is showcasing the electro-achoi sound coming from Northern Uganda, a compilation of the new beats scene from Dar Es Salaam Tanzania, and the first studio album of Uganda's legendary thumb piano player Ekuka, plus a few other surprises from Congo DRC and South Sudan.

The Best of Broadside, Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine. Eighty-nine songs, including some never commercially released. Compiled and annotated by Jeff Place and Ronald D. Cohen. A five CD boxed set. Broadside was a small underground magazine smuggled out of a New York City housing project in a baby carriage, filled with new songs by artists who were too creative for the folkies and too radical for the establishment. A still-underground Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and dozens of others first published songs like "Blowin' in the Wind," "Little Boxes," and "Society's Child," in Broadside.

With patches put together from organic sound-sources that are blowed, bowed, plucked or stroked (+ a few synths). Then cuddled with, time-stretched, granulated and processed into a sumptuous universe.