Maduro - Black Magic Kingdom - forthcoming release on Octofoil Records

[Octofoil Records]

Maduro - Black Magic Kingdom

Coming Fall 2011 on Octofoil Reocrds

New Album: Maduro's forthcoming full-length digital release "Black Magic Kingdom" is a short concept album highlighting the American occult tradition in the context of New Orleans voodoo, magic, and spiritual totems. It is a gothic cacophony of distorted breakbeats, voodoo rhythms, vocal chanting, hip hop and industrial progressions, street-sampled tarot readings, jazz brass stabs and ragtime piano bursts.    The album was spawned from field recordings in the New Orleans French Quarter in the summer of 2011 and conjures dreams of hidden rituals, funeral dirges and speakeasy cabarets. Like Maduro's previous release "Fin de Siecle" (or end of the century in French), "Black Magic Kingdom" is sample-driven and raw.

Audio: Listen to three new tracks "Hex Appeal," "Gris Gris Girls," and "Love For Snakes" on Soundcloud here - http://soundcloud.com/maduro

- or listen to two new tracks on myspace here - http://www.myspace.com/maduro

Video: Watch the video for "Catnaps & Cabarets" - http://youtu.be/anBYOFS6jxk

Bio: Hailing from the Washington DC area, the artist who calls himself Maduro blends textured dark world fusion electronic music with breakbeats, hip hop, and dubstep elements. His work has been popularized by renowned belly dancers performing and teaching to his work around the world. He has appeared on compilations with the likes of Amon Tobin, Beirut, Bassnectar, Balkan Beat Box, Venetian Snares, and Muslimgauze and on DVD dance productions with Wumpskut, Terrorfakt and Enduser. Talking about Maduro's music, Bob Duskas, owner of the renowned San Francisco-based Six Degrees Records (The Orb, Banco de Gaia, Azam Ali) stated, "If you ever wondered what Trent Reznor might sound like if he incorporated global sounds into his musical palette, you may want to delve deeper into Maduro's repertoire."