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| Thanks for visiting Ocote Soul Media, the digital portal to the creative mind of Martín Perna. What I do: 21st century clave music, utopian ventures, music, kids stories, cooking, biodiesel fuel, and earth architecture. Not all at once, but sometimes.
October 8, 2008: NEW WORKS/COLLABORATIONS: My annotated DISCOGRAPHY of over 40 albums is online! Click on any album titles to see cover art, hear audio clips, read reviews. Antibalas is wrapping up a fall touring season with shows in DC, North Carolina, France, and the Canary Islands. Members of the group were part of the Fela! musical, a collaboration with Bill T Jones and company. Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada's "The Alchemist Manifesto," is now available on ESL Music, featuring 12 new songs, plus remixes by Nickodemus, Chico Mann, and Toy from Sonidero Nacional/Control Machete. Vinyl is being pressing right now. I just started a master's degree in Education. Recorded output will be slowing down. Reading, writing, composition, and practice will increase. Keep your ears peeled for the upcoming releases of collaborations with Grand Analog and Cocker Spaniels. COMMUNITY in AUSTIN, TX: REGISTER TO VOTE NOW! That's right, I'm a Deputy Voter Registrar in Travis County. We need to get people registered and organized ASAP for this November and beyond. Do you have a record? If you've served out your time, probation and have paid all court fines your voting privileges are restored, but you still need to register. Make your voice heard! Austin, TX Quilombo Garden Collective. Want to grow organic foods in East Austin and link up with like-minded individuals? Get in touch. We have 30,000 square feet in E/NE Austin awaiting your seeds and love. "Buscando El Monte" Afrocuban Percussion Workshop is up and running here in East Austin. We are learning primarily traditional conga habanera and conga santiagüera rhythms (often called comparsas) under the tutelage of Leonel Rojas Estevez we are looking for more drummers, dancers, singers and trumpeter/trombonists.
YESTERDAY's
News: I
have been volunteering for the Obama
campaign, doing canvassing, and registering voters. ¡Sí
se puede! Scarlett
Johansson's "Anywhere
I Lay My Head"" is out as of 5/20/2008 on Atco, collaborators
include David Sitek , Tunde Adebimpe, and Jaleel Bunton (TV on the Radio),
David Bowie, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Ryan Sawyer, and Stuart
Bogie and myself. ANTIBALAS's
latest record "SECURITY" is out on CD on Anti/Epitaph
Records and vinyl (finally!) on Daptone.
We just completed an tour in UK, France, Belgium, and Ile
Reunion. Beginning in Augustwe'll be performing several FREE shows
in Paris, and at the following festivals:Street
Scene (San Diego), Sunset
Junction (LA), Treasure
Island (San Fran), Austin
City Limits, Electric
Picnic (Dublin) and Paris. Check our myspace
page for dates. TV
on the Radio is making another album, in my humble opinion their
best AND funkiest to date. Hopefully my horns and flutes will stick
to the final mixes and travel into your ears later this summer. Rhythm
Roots Allstars passed through Austin a few weeks ago backing Ghostface
Killah at the Parish. Their live set was amazing, and I got to sit in
with them on a version of Tony Allen's "Jealousy." Their opening
set ended too short but they held it down strong with the classic Wu-Tang
tracks behind Ghostface. From Austin they went on to Houston, Atlanta,
and Raleigh. Other
recent work: Hear Stuart Bogie and I go crazy on the new record by Celebration
produced by David Sitek of TV on the Radio on 4AD.
I play shekere recent debut album by Brownout,
masters of latin funk and breakbeats. Loveconjureblues
is a multimedia poetry/visual/music/movement piece in the jazz aesthetic
dreamed up by the warrior poet Sharon
Bridgforth and brought to life by collaborators from Austin and
elsewhere. I contributed music and parts of the visual were filmed in
our garden. Follow the developments online... Also
new out: Finally! A collaboration with one of my favorite Austin DJs,
Chicken George. He jumped
on a version of Ocote Soul Sounds/Adrian Quesada's "Overthrowed"
on DJ Chicken George Presents: The Swed.u.s.h Connection 2
(Swedish Brandy)" Also on the EP are Illvibe Collective with Lady
Alma, Nick Nack, and J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science. COMING
SOON: June
Tunes--the audiovisual sequel to Electric
Tides--is in the making with Rilkeanheart.org.
COMMUNITY
STUFF in AUSTIN, TX: REGISTER
TO VOTE NOW! That's right, I'm a Deputy Voter Registrar in
Travis County. We need to get people registered and organized ASAP for
this November and beyond. Do you have a record? If you've served out
your time, probation and have paid all court fines your voting privileges
are restored, but you still need to register. Make your voice heard! Austin,
TX Quilombo Garden Collective. Want to grow organic foods in
East Austin and link up with like-minded individuals? Get
in touch. We have 30,000 square feet in E/NE Austin awaiting your
seeds and love. "Buscando
El Monte" Afrocuban Percussion Workshop is up and running here
in East Austin. We are learning primarily traditional conga
habanera and conga santiagüera
rhythms (often called comparsas) under the
tutelage of Leonel Rojas Estevez
we are looking for more drummers, dancers, singers and trumpeter/trombonists.
RECENT
WORKS by Martin Perna / Ocote Soul Sounds and friends. Electric
Tides Parts One and TWO (lo-res)
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