Orchestre International Du Vetex | tl

From the Republic of Benin, West Africa, T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo is one of Africa’s least-known big-bands outside of their home country. Here, it’s hoped to redress the balance with a collection that reflects their many poly-rhythmic moods. A mixture of hard Afro-Funk, driving Afrobeat, deep Afro-Latin and Cuban grooves all with a unique flavor that ruled the dance-floors of 70’s urban Benin. .
Ernesty International was founded by Ernst Tiefenthaler in November 2007 when he recorded a couple of songs in the house where his grandparents had lived and where he had spent many summers as a child. In 2009 the first album "Ernesty International" was released on the small Styrian label pumpkin records, followed in 2010 by "It could be the Sun, Mr. President", and in 2011 by "Not a Ship an Aeroplane" - the first album of the newly founded label EMG (Ernesty Music Group). In November 2012, exactly 5 years after the first click on the record button, EMG publishes...
International Orange was a short lived band from North Carolina featuring Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five fame, singer/songwriter Django Haskins of The Old Ceremony, Snuzz of Bus Stop and Ben Folds, and the drumming of Jason Fagg. .