Today we released another a new track from ElectroBluesSociety on Instrumental Blues Records. It is another ‘back-to-basic’ track from the Riffs & Blues recording session.
new track ElectroBluesSociety
Black and Tan stock clearance
Since regular sales of CD’s have almost disappeared it is time to clear our stock. This is the moment for CD collectors to get your missing items from the Black and Tan catalogue. We can offer you the following titles. The more CD’s you order the better the deal as you can see at the price list below.
| Cat # | Artist | Title |
| CD B&T 001 | Roscoe Chenier | Roscoe Style |
| CD B&T 002 | Percy Strother | Home At Last |
| CD B&T 003 | Big George Jackson Blues Band | Beggin’ Ain’t For Me |
| CD B&T 004 | Dave MacKenzie | Old, New, Borrowed & Blue |
| CD B&T 006 | Erskine Oglesby | Blues Dancin’ |
| CD B&T 010 | Erskine Oglesby | Honkin’ & Shoutin’ |
| CD B&T 011 | Sunset Travelers | For The Sake Of It |
| CD B&T 019 | Ernie Payne | Coercion Street |
| CD B&T 023 | Billy Jones | tha’ Bluez |
| CD B&T 025 | Harrison Kennedy | VOICE + STORY |
| CD B&T 027 | Roscoe Chenier | Waiting For My Tomorrow |
| CD B&T 028 | Turnip Greens | Carry Me Down The Aisle |
| CD B&T 030 | Billy Jones | my Hometown |
| CD B&T 031 | VA | Keeping Living Music Alive vol. 2 |
| CD B&T 036 | miXendorp | blues + beat |
| CD B&T 039 | Tangled Eye | Dream Wall |
| qty | total price (shipping included) |
| 1 CD | € 7,00 |
| 2 CD | € 12,50 |
| 3 CD | € 16,00 |
| 4 CD | € 19,00 |
| 5 CD | € 22,00 |
| 6 CD | € 24,00 |
| 7 CD | € 27,00 |
| 9 CD | € 29,00 |
| 10 CD | € 30,00 |
Send me us mail with the requested CD’s and your postal address. We will then send you a PayPal payment request. As soon as the money arrives we will put the CD’s in the mail.
new single Bone Union Records
Today we released a new single on Bone Union Records.
BUR 1103 – Sarp Keskiner & Kemal Begtas – Nobody Has No Time (to Listen to Music Completely)
Coming from overtly eclectic backgrounds by means of musical tastes and practices, “Nobody Has No Time (to Listen to Music Completely)” is a singular collaboration effort of two veterans of Smyrnian music scene. Recorded in 2017 and only broadcasted on Vimeo briefly before, the unreleased track suggests a unique blend, based on old school Mancunian beats resembling early 90’s, with a pinch of Mediterranean salt and a spoonful of gravy. This track shall be called and treated as a strict imposer of “Izmir sound”.
Kemal Begtaş: Irish bouzouki, bass, beats
Sarp Keskiner: electric rhythm and slide guitars
Recorded, arranged, edited and mixed by Kemal Begtas (Izmir, Turkey – 2017)
The single is released digital and available on all the download and streaming platforms. Here are the links to a few popular ones:
Bone Union Records was founded in June 2020 by Sarp Keskiner (TR) and Jan Mittendorp (NL) in order to create a ground for mutual cultural exchange. The label aims to document a neglected musical scene in Turkey not just by releasing archival material from mid-90’s to this date; but also keen on releasing brand new material from Turkish artists. Though the scope mainly consist rare recordings of local traditional blues, urban blues and gospel acts, the material varies wildly by inclusion of folk, funk, dub, noise and experimental releases, that goes way beyond the borders of conventional blues. Thus, the label supports any musical efforts to improve the chances of exchange of blues and neighboring genres between Netherlands and Turkey.
Black and Tan tracks in new series on Apple TV +
Tracks form o.a King Pug and Blu ACiD are used in this new series on Apple TV +
Album The Old Ramblers out on Bone Union Records
after the first single, a few weeks ago, we now release the full album from The Old Ramblers on Bone Union Records.
BUR 1102 – The Old Ramblers – Find Me On The Road Somewhere
Located in Izmir, Turkey; since 2016, The Old Ramblers cover pre-war rural blues classics, and post-war urban blues standarts besides gospels, spirituals, work songs, edgy ragtime and bluegrass tunes with a bravado.
The album is available on all the download and streaming platforms.
The musicians are
Sarp Keskiner: Vocal, electric guitars, bass, maracas
Orhun Keskinbıçak: Harmonica
Türker Özer: Acoustic guitar
single The Old Ramblers
this week we released the first single on Bone Union Records.
BR 1101 – The Old Ramblers – Bourgeouis Blues
The single is an appetizer from the upcoming album of The Old Ramblers. The album will be titled “Find Me On The Road Somewhere” and is scheduled for release early September 2020.
Located in Izmir, Turkey; since 2016, The Old Ramblers cover pre-war rural blues classics, and post-war urban blues standarts besides gospels, spirituals, work songs, edgy ragtime and bluegrass tunes with a bravado.
The musicians are:
Sarp Keskiner: Vocal, electric guitars, bass, maracas
Orhun Keskinbıçak: Harmonica
Türker Özer: Acoustic guitar
The track is released digital and available on all the download and streaming platforms.
new single ElectroBluesSociety feat Boo Boo Davis
today we released a new single on KuvVer Records, one of our sub labels.
In 2018 ElectroBluesSociety did a recording session with Mississippi blues man Boo Boo Davis. During one of the European tours of Boo Boo they went in the studio and in 3 hours they recorded 8 songs. Together they went back to the classic Chicago blues and afterwards added a little electro blues. Here is another Howlin Wolf cover from that session. This track is released digital only and available on all the download and streaming platforms.
review from Croatia
Činjenica je da sa starim, provjerenim bluesmanom teško možete “fulati”. Nizozemski duo ElectroBluesSociety feat. Boo Boo Davis EP-jem “Chicago Blues Covers” objavljenim 31. svibnja preko izdavačke kuće KuvVer Records zapravo ne bježe od svoje životne i glazbene priče. Drugo je pitanje koliko su u svemu tome uspjeli…
EP “Chicago Blues Covers” je zapravo okupljena kolekcija singlova koji su nastali tijekom 2018. i 2019. za europske turneje Boo Boo Davisa. Naime, eksperimentalni elektro blues duo ElectroBluesSociety ušli su u studio i nakon tri sata svirke dobili smo sedam skladbi koje su objavljivane kao singlovi a sada su svi izdani kao ovaj EP. Chicago blues spajan s elektro bluesom a sve kroz poznate blues standarde dali su više–manje uspješne rezultate. Što to znači? U nekim odabranim pjesmama ovaj spoj je bio uspješan i nadahnut, u drugim je ostao pomalo sterilan i nedorečen. A sve ovisi opet na koji način se doživljava i reaktivira cijela ova glazbena priča.
Chicago blues klasici Howlina’ Wolfa i Elmorea Jamesa teško da mogu “fulati”, mogu samo biti, da to tako napišem, sterilni i pomalo nedorečeni u glazbeno-prezentacijskoj formi. Pred nama je zapravo nastojanje da se uglazbi staro i novo, tradicionalno i moderno i da onda sve to ostavi upečatljivi dojam kod slušatelja. Moram priznati da je taj glazbeni projekt ostavio uglavnom dobar dojam na mene osobno, što ne znači da će svi to doživjeti na taj način.
Davis je rođen i odrastao u gradiću Drew, u srcu Delte. Znamo da je cijelo to područje bogato pamukom, koji je zahtjevao puno radne snage, među baš tim radnicima, bilo je dosta sjajnih glazbenika, koji su obilježili blues kao glazbeni stil. Primjerice, Charley Patton samo je jedan od njih. Ljudi su trebali da ih netko odmakne od teškog rada, od sunca, znoja, i da im u smiraj dana ponudi nešto što će ih oraspoložiti i dati im snage za novi radni dan. To je zapravo bila glavna zadaća glazbenika koji su izvodili blues, boogie, R&B i sve ono što ima dodirnih točaka s ovim glazbenim pravcima. Od najranijeg djetinjstva Boo Boo okružen je glazbom, crkvenim pjevanjem, a njegov otac Sylvester Davis, osim što je bio nadničar, svirao je s imenima kao što su John Lee Hooker, Elmore James i Roberta Pete Williams. Nije čudno što Davis Jr. pamti kako su svi oni vježbali u njihovoj kući i to je zapravo urezalo itekekve duboke i neraskidive veze i brazde u njegovom biću.
S nepunih osamnaest već je nastupao s ocem i starijom braćom. Sve to značilo je biti non-stop “on the road” po cijeloj Delti. U ranim šezdesetim Boo Boo i njegova braća odlaze na sjever, u St. Louis, gdje su nastupali uz velikane glazbene scene St Louisa (Albert King, Ike Turner, Chuck Berry i drugi).
The Davis Brothers Blues Band svaki vikend bio je kućni bend u Tabby’s Red Room u istočnom St. Louisu punih osamnaest godina. Činjenica je da ga život nije mazio, to je 100% točno jer Davis nije naučio čitati ni pisati, jednostavno nije bilo vremena ili novaca za njegovo školovanje, no pronašao je načina da opstane u modernom svijetu. Da se ne osjeća manje vrijednim, dapače, Boo Boo Davis stekao je reputaciju izvrsnog blues glazbenika, kome taj i takav blues pomaže da zadrži svoj duhovni mir i život na razini dostojne čovjeka. Jer treba preživjeti svaki novi dan i to je zapravo taj život. Iz njega Davis čupa elemente za svakodnevni opstanak i o tome on pjeva. Život donosi i dobro i loše, on je običan i jednostavan i stvaran je.
Ušavši u studio Davis samo krene i pjesme izlaze jedna za drugom. Na ovom tonskom zapisu uz Boo Boo Davisa na vokalu i usnjaku uz eksperimentalni elektro blues duo, koji su snimili ovih sedam skladbi onako u uživo, bez puno mudrovanja, kako su nekada to radili i snimali legendarni blues glaznenici. Baš zato sve ovo što čujete zvuči tako stvarno i životno Davis i ElectroBluesSociety odradili su doista dobar posao. A sve ostalo ovisi o ukusima slušatelja i poklonika bluesa.
new sync placements
recently we got some nice sync placements for tracks from our catalogue. Below you find some info and a Spotify playlist.
911 Lone Star; a tv series on Fox used:
- What Is Wrong With You – Boo Boo Davis
Monsterland; a new tv series on Hulu will use:
- Headache – Boo Boo Davis
- Trying To Get Ahead – Boo Boo Davis
new single ElectroBluesSociety
Today we released a new single from ElectroBluesSociety on Instrumental Blues Records. It is a little appetizer for an upcoming instrumental EP that we will release later this year. The guys go back to basic on this one: two instruments and one take.
The track is available on all digital platforms.