News From The Great Beyond: Six Degrees Records

Six Degrees Records has an eclectic mix of world music. They also feature one of TGB's favorites: Los Mocosos. The months of June and July will be rather at this San Francisco-based label.

Nigerian born Cheb I Sabbah has elected a group of remixers to create new sounds based on his 2005 release, La Kahena. Temple of Sound, Bill Laswell, Fnaïre, Bassnectar, The Chakadoons and Yossi Fine all have contributed their talents to the forthcoming release of remixes aptly entitled La Ghriba: La Kahena Remixed. This release hits stores on June 13th.

The 4th of July brings Farewell Ferengistan from Banco De Gaia. According to the Six Degrees website, "Toby Marks, under the pseudonym Banco de Gaia, has spent most of his career focusing on issues that he finds bewildering by expressing his thoughts and observations through music. He wrote his critically acclaimed 1995 album Last Train To Lhasa to highlight the plight of the Tibetan people and successfully mixed electronica with a braver vision. Farewell Ferengistan, his upcoming release from Six Degrees, captures the spirit and mood of Last Train To Lhasa but this time Banco de Gaia's concerns are much closer to home: what are we doing to ourselves? Where is our materialism taking us, would it not be wise to consider our position?"

Recife-born Lenine is well known to music fans all over the world. He combines original music with the rhythms of Northeast Brazil over a base of rock, pop and electronica. Now, Lenine will bring his music to American ears when Six Degrees releases his self-titled, full-length, American release on July 25th. FYI: Lenine's website is in Portugese.

For more information, go to www.sixdegreesrecords.com.