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MIMI MAURA
Most of the posts for this wonderful website so far have been about the more well known bands from both overseas and Japan. For my final post I thought I would give readers of this site and people going to the festival a brief insight into of the lesser known artists which both sing in Spanish and have Latinesque feel to their sound. The main connection between the two artists is not the fact that they both have a strong grounding in the music of Argentina but they both released their latest albums this year on the label Japonicus, which specializes in bringing attendtion to the minor genres of world music such as Cumbia, Tango, Folklore, Pachanga and Rebel music. What I would really like to tell people reading this about though is the Japanese distributor/label which distributes Japonicus releses, Inpartmaint. This is probably my favorite music related company in all of Japan and they have several sub labels which release everything from hip hop to post rock, modern classical, ambient and electronica. I highly recommend going to their site and checking out their staff recommendations. They even occasionally do Japan only releases of artists from overseas which they think are worth of exposure. As well as that they distribute some of the best labels from the U.S. and the UK like Kranky and Type.
Che Sudaka are a group which originally came from Columbia and Argentina but moved to Barcelona in 2000 and have since played over 1000 shows in 23 countries. They released their 5th studio album called “10″ last week and it mixes ska, rock and south American influences. Born in Puerto Rico in 1972 Mimi Maura also released her latest album on Japonicus just a few weeks ago which is described as a mix of Rebel Music, Rock Latino and Mestizo. She has performed with The Skatalites and Rico Rodriguez and it isn’t surprising with her strong love for ska coming out stongly on several of the tracks.
