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Enrique Chi & Making Movies’ Carnival
+ Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor of LA Jones

1. “It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Orig. Motion Picture Soundtrack All That Jazz / Casablanca / Dec 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme]

2. Soultru – “Must Be”
from: Must Be – Single / The Record Machine / August 24, 2019
[Drums and Piano by Kierstyn Graham, Vocals by Terrance Banks. Singer, songwriter, poet and emcee Terrance A Banks aka Soultru is a native of Davenport, Iowa and is currently based out of the Quad Cities area of NW Illinois/NE Iowa. Combining his poetic and lyrical talents with a soulful voice, Soultru has forged his own unique sound. Soultru credits a wide range of influences, including Gavin Degraw, John Legend, Yelawolf and Son Little.]

[Soultru plays the MOTM Film Presents: with NuBlvckCity, and Duncan Burnett at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, NKC, Saturday, August 31 at 7:00 PM as part of Middle of the Map Film Festival that start TONIGHT August 28, and runs through September 4 at Screenland Armour, 408 Armour Rd, NKC. More info at: http://www.middleofthemapfest.com]

3. Seratones – “Gotta Get to Know Ya”
from: Power / New West Records / August 23, 2019
[Seratones are from Shreveport, Louisiana and include: AJ Haynes on vocals & guitar; Adam Davis on bass & backup vocals; Jesse Gabriel on drums, percussion, vibraphone & backup vocals; Tyran Coker on keyboards, piano, synth, guitar & backup vocals; Travis Stewart on guitar & backup vocals, and Matt Combs on strings. Produced by Bradley Shultz – A Small House Production. Additional Production on “Crossfire” by Chris Sunday. Recorded by Jeremy Ferguson at Battle Tapes Recording, Nashville, TN. Mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer. Mastered by Adam Grover at Sterling, Nashville, TN]

4. Purple Mountains – “My Happiness is Gone”
from: Purple Mountains / Drag City Records / July 12, 2019
[Purple Mountains was an American indie rock project formed by musician and poet David Berman. The project debuted in May 2019, over a decade after the dissolution of Berman’s previous group Silver Jews. An eponymous album was released in July 2019. The album was recorded primarily in Chicago and produced by Jarvis Taveniere and Jeremy Earl of the band Woods. The project’s name is a mondegreen of the lyric “Purple mountain majesties” from “America the Beautiful”. The project was presumably dissolved upon Berman’s death on August 7, 2019. Berman returned to music in 2018, co-producing Yonatan Gat’s critically acclaimed album Universalists. On December 12, 2018, former Pavement and Silver Jews member Bob Nastanovich revealed on his podcast Three Songs that David Berman would release new music in 2019 under the name Purple Mountains, which was also the name of Berman’s blog. Although, his blog was also titled Menthol Mountains at times. On May 10, 2019, Berman released his first music in over a decade, a single entitled “All My Happiness Is Gone” on vinyl by Drag City, using the moniker Purple Mountains. The single included two remixes of the song, “All My Happiness Is Wrong” by Noah Count and “All My Happiness Is Long” by Mark Nevers featuring clipped recordings of Dave Cloud, and also indicated that a full-length album was a “couple months away.” It also credited Berman, Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere of Woods, Aaron Neveu and songwriter Anna St. Louis. The single was released digitally on May 17, 2019 with the announcement of a full-length album. The eponymous debut album, accompanied by a US tour, was released on July 12, 2019. “Darkness and Cold” was released as the album’s second single on June 11, 2019. “Margaritas at the Mall” was released as the album’s third and final single on June 28, 2019. A remix of “All My Happiness Is Gone” by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches, who Berman has collaborated with in the past, was commissioned by him, but a licensing issue prevented their version from being released. A few reviews: David Berman is back from his post-Silver Jews void and moving Purple Mountains onto our fruited cultural plain. His iconic literary lyrics sit astride immaculate country-rock tunes, evoking jukebox-ready disaffection with twists of pathos, comedy and tragedy – an indie poet laureate at false dusk! Stop the world! Purple Mountains’ inaugural voyage launches with a five-alarm weep-rocker – and total self-destruction never sounded so good. Amid sumptuous mellotron strings n’ galloping tom-toms, David Berman’s stone-cold account of middle age’s wild unkindnesses takes on a positively heroic glow.]

4. Hannah Norris & the Band – “Ego Death”
from: Ego Death – Single / Hannah Norris & the Band / October 30, 2018
[Lawrence / Hays Kansas based Hannah Norris, on lead vocals & guitar, Kenny Singleton on drums and Matt Mozier on bass. Recorded in September 2018 at Fire & Ice Studios, and engineered by Steve Squire.]

[Hannah Norris & the Band play The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS. Saturday, August 31, at 8:00 PM with The Una Walkenhorst Trio, & Teri Quinn – This show will also be celebrating the 6th month anniversary of our Survivors’ Stories: Stand Against Sexual Violence event, which all three acts were involved in. “Stand Against Sexual Violence” will be available wot proceeds benefiting MOCSA, the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault.]

[Hannah Norris & the Band play the 15th Annual Crossroads Music Fest, Saturday, September 7, 2019]

5. The Nude Party – “Water On Mars”
from: The Nude Party / New West Records / July 6, 2018
[All songs written and composed by The Nude Party. Lyrics by Christopher Patton Magee. Produced by Oakley Munson. Recorded by Matthew Cullen at Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, NY. Mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering in Boston, MA. The members came together in the freshman dormitories of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina in 2012. Patton Magee (lead vocals, guitar), and later Austin Brose (percussion, vocals), linked up with childhood friends Connor Mikita (drums) and Alec Castillo (bass guitar, vocals), and stepbrothers Shaun Couture (lead guitar, vocals) and Don Merrill (organ/piano, vocals). The following summer, with the shimmer of The Kinks, Velvet Underground, and other still-unsurpassed classic rock masterpieces as their soundtrack, the young men moved into a lake house outside of town, began acquiring and learning to play instruments, and jamming on rudimentary riffs. Friends came by the lake house to swim and canoe and party and soon ritual nudity was a part of the festivities. When the fall semester came around the friends moved into a house in Boone and the jamming continued in the basement on a nightly basis. During this time the Dionysian Adamite sextet began developing a following as the house band at a notorious Boone party palace referred to as the 505 House. The bare honesty of their performances was contagious and their audience also started partying au naturel. While these traditions may appear risqué to the casual observer, the band explains, “These weren’t orgies, they weren’t sexual even. It was just kind of a wild exhibitionism that we felt gave us freedom.” ]

[The Nude Party play Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester St, KCMO on Sunday, September 1, at 8:00 PM, with Pinky Pinky.]

6. Ceremony – “In the Spirit World Now”
from: In the Spirit World Now / Relapse Records / August 23, 2019
[Rohnert Park, California based band, CEREMONY were formed in 2005. They make their Relapse Records debut with their highly ambitious new album, ‘In the Spirit World Now’! The album sees CEREMONY at the height of their creative output, as the always-evolving Rohnert Park quintet take various influences from post punk and rock to create one of the summer’s most compelling and infectious records. “In the Spirit World Now” is full of layered sonic fury and anxiety, each song building up to a point and then descending down through a militant, catchy hook. “Turn Away the Bad Thing” sets the tone, guitars climbing around the driving bass line, as Ross Farrar sings, “It’s getting harder for me to be alright/Eyes adjusting to the dark/The momentum of all these last resorts built inside of me.” Songs like “Presaging the End” and “Calming Water” feel romantic and distressed, while “Further I Was” and “Years of Love” are driven by Farrar’s rebellious energy as he repeats the hook with a deadpan realness. “Years of love can be forgotten/In the hatred of a day.” But the true stand-out is the title track, “In the Spirit World Now”, a haunting pop gem with a sticky chorus and lead synth riff that plants itself in your head as Farrar chants the track’s name over and over like a mantra. “In the Spirit World Now” is a sort of nebulous and ectoplasmic place where things may not be quite what they seem,” he says. “It means sh*t is about to get weird.” The album marks a milestone for this Northern California punk outfit who have stayed true to themselves as songwriters throughout massive sonic growth throughout their storied career.]

7. The Sluts – “Break Their Heart”
from: Break Their Heart / The Sluts / February 12, 2019
[New 6 song EP from the Lawrence based band The Sluts formed by Ryan Wise & Kristoffer Dover in 2011. Produced recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording and Mastering Studios, KCMO]

[The Sluts play Riot Room, at 4048 Broadway, on Friday, August 30, at 8:00 PM with Mild Cats and The Typing Pool.]

10:30 – Underwriting

9. L A Jones – “Addicted”
from: Bring Me Back Down EP / L A Jones / April 12, 2019
[LA Jones is a soul-pop band from KCMO. Formed in 2016 by partners Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor, They blend a style of funk and soul with contemporary pop/rock music drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and The Revivalists. Band Members include: Danielle Jones on lead vocals, Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals, Marcus Grimes on keyboards, Jeramy Johnston on bass, Daniel Dissmore on trumpet, Trevor Turla on trombone, Matt Cook on saxophone, and Cade Pool on drums.]

[L A Jones plays Plaza Art Fair, Friday, September 20, at 7:40 PM on the INK Live Stage.]

[L A Jones play Camp Leavenworth Festival, Saturday, September 21.]

Danielle Jones and Tom O’Connor on the August 28, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.

10:34 – Interview with Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor

Danielle Jones and Tim O’Connor formed the KC based soul-pop band formed in 2016. LA Jones in 2016. after a string of singles they released their debut EP Bring Me Back Down this past Spring, and played an EP Release Show, at The Rino. L A Jones includes: Danielle Jones on vocals, Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals, Marcus Grimes on keyboards, Jeramy Johnston on bass, Daniel Dissmore on trumpet, Trevor Turla on trombone, Matt Cook on sax, and Cade Pool on drums. Danielle and Tim are back on WMM to premiere their new single, “Behind The Times” to be released next week on September 4, 2019.

Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor thanks for being with us on WMM.

L A Jones plays Plaza Art Fair, Friday, September 20, at 7:40 PM on the INK Live Stage.

L A Jones play Camp Leavenworth Festival, Saturday, September 21.

Danielle Jones has worked as a Substitute teacher at Blue Springs School District she has also worked in the Independence School District and Liberty Public Schools. Danielle Jones Studied Music theatre at Kansas State University from 2011 to 2015. She is originally from Dodge City, Kansas and currently lives in Independence, Missouri

Danielle Jones is engaged to Tim O’Connor

Tim O’Connor has worked as a Percussion Instructor at Liberty North High School, Percussion Instructor at Blue Springs High School and Percussion Instructor at William Chrisman High School. Tim O’Connor studied at Kansas State University from 2011 to 2016. Tim is originally from from Louisburg, KS and currently lives in Independence, Missouri.
Bring Me Back Down was engineered at Soundworks Recording Studio.

Last time Danielle and Tim were here was just before LA Jones played recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO on Thursday, July 25, at 7:00 PM with Sulu Moon, and Belle & the Vertigo Waves.

New Single: “Behind The Times”

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10. L A Jones – “Behind The Times”
from: Behind The Times – Single / L A Jones / September 4, 2019
[LA Jones is a soul-pop band from KCMO. Formed in 2016 by partners Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor, the band has now grown to feature a three-piece horn section, keys, bass, and drums. They blend a style of funk and soul with contemporary pop/rock music drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and The Revivalists. Band Members include: Danielle Jones on lead vocals, Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals, Marcus Grimes on keyboards, Jeramy Johnston on bass, Daniel Dissmore on trumpet, Trevor Turla on trombone, Matt Cook on saxophone, and Cade Pool on drums.]

[L A Jones plays Plaza Art Fair, Friday, September 20, at 7:40 PM on the INK Live Stage.]

[L A Jones play Camp Leavenworth Festival, Saturday, September 21.]

L A Jones

10:46 – Interview with Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor

LA Jones is a soul-pop band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 2016 by partners Danielle Jones and Tim O’Connor, the band includes a three-piece horn section, keys, bass, and drums. They blend a style of funk and soul with contemporary pop/rock music drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and The Revivalists.

Danielle and Tim are back on WMM to premiere their new single, “Behind The Times” to be released next week on September 4, 2019.

Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor thanks for being with us on WMM.

L A Jones includes:
Danielle Jones on vocals
Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals
Marcus Grimes on keyboards
Jeramy Johnston on bass
Daniel Dissmore on trumpet,
Trevor Turla on trombone
Matt Cook on sax
Cade Pool on drums

Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor thanks for being with us on WMM.

More information at http://www.officiallajones.com

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11. L A Jones – “Switch”
from: Bring Me Back Down EP / L A Jones / April 12, 2019
[LA Jones is a soul-pop band from KCMO. Formed in 2016.]

[L A Jones plays Plaza Art Fair, Friday, September 20, at 7:40 PM on the INK Live Stage.]

[L A Jones play Camp Leavenworth Festival, Saturday, September 21.]

12. The Milk Carton Kids – “Younger Years”
from: All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do / Anti / JUne 29, 2018
[The Milk Carton Kids are an American indie folk duo from Eagle Rock, California, United States, consisting of singers and guitarists Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, who began making music together in early 2011. The band has recorded and released five albums: Retrospect, Prologue, The Ash & Clay, Monterey, and All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do. They are noted for releasing their first two albums for free. Pitchfork writes about their new album: “Pattengale and Ryan have loosened their restrictions, inviting a cast of session pros that includes Wilco’s Pat Sansone to add splashes of piano, strings, and thumping drums to their songs. The additions are often subtle—conceptually, they have more in common with Beach House’s quiet amalgamation of synth tones than with Bob Dylan going electric—but they have an outsized impact on the group’s dynamics. These songs continue the world-weary narratives of earlier tracks like “Michigan” and “Years Gone By,” albeit with heightened urgency: Pattengale overcame a cancer diagnosis and the dissolution of a long-term relationship before recording got underway. Paradoxically, though, the album crackles with newfound levity and muscle.”]

[The Milk Carton Kids play Knuckleheads Saloon 2715 Rochester, TONIGHT, Aug 28, 8:00 PM]

11:00 – Station ID

13. Bob & Una Walkenhorst – “For Tomorrow”
from: For Tomorrow / BAT Records / October 12, 2018
[25 year old Una Walkenhorst is a singer/songwriter from Kansas City, Missouri. Following the release of her debut album “Scars” in 2014, Una immediately had “new fans. . . coming out of the proverbial woodwork” (AXS). Paired with refreshingly raw vocals, Una’s heartfelt lyrics “will stop you in your tracks (at once beautiful and chilling),” wrote Gilded Palace Radio, as she weaves stories of genuine human experience. Una told KCUR FM that her father was one of the people who made her love music. But having a famous father can be challenging: “I knew that if I started my music career here I would have a lot of opportunities, but not all of them would be because of my music. They would be because I am someone’s daughter,” Walkenhorst says. Loading up her 97 Honda Civic, Una then spent a year traveling across North America promoting her music and connecting with listeners one-on-one. She ended up living in New Orleans. Una Walkenhorst is the youngest daughter of Bob Walkenhorst, a founding member of The Rainmakers, which had national and international hits in the 1980s and 90s, and continue to this day touring and recording new music. In January of 2018 Una Walkenhorst returned home to Kansas City from New Orleans. Over the past several years, Una and Bob had performed together at selected events, including Folk Alliance International. This year the father and daughter duo decided to record an album together, where they split the difference, taking turns as songwriters for the album’s songs, written individually, and recorded together, in clear beautiful harmonies, with that extra special shared musical DNA, that can be heard in the harmonies of The Carter Family, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, or Shy Boys.]

[Bob and Una Walkenhorst at Light Up The Lawn, Hosted by Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art on Friday, August 30, at 8:30 PM at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS.]

14. Hadiza. – “God is 7”
from: Gone – EP / Hadiza./ December 29, 2018
[Madi Mclaughlin on bass & guitar, JL Bolinger on drums, and Hadiza Sa-Aadu on keyboards & vocals. Recording & Engineering: JL Bolinger & Madi Mclaughlin. Mixing & Mastering: Madi Mclaughlin. Hadiza. is a singer-songwriter who wants you to know SHE IS NOW BASED IN KANSAS CITY. Previously based in her hometown of Iowa City, she has spent the past year slowly but surely carving out her place in the Kansas City scene both as a solo performer (as Hadiza.) and as lead vocalist and songwriter of experimental electronic group Collidescope. Blessed to have had parents who are very much NOT students of music, but recognized the importance of music education, Hadiza spent her childhood and adolescence in part as a student of piano. Vocally, Hadiza takes her cues from American artists including Fiona Apple, Tracey Chapman, and Billie Holiday and African artists including Angelique Kidjo,. Her sound/genre is best described as an eclectic blend of blues, soul, folk, jazz and classical. Her songwriting is a process of release and acceptance of life events navigating an often brutal bleak and harsh world and is a form of therapy. If you don’t relate to the content, you just don’t relate. Oh well. The most amazing experience however is when a stranger in the audience connects with a song in their own way and is courageous enough to share that with her. Aside from the therapeutic aspect of creating music, this is why she continues to write and perform]

[Hadiza plays An Evening with Hadiza. Friday, August 30, at 7 PM at Gaslight Gardens, 317 N 2nd St, Lawrence, Ks]

[Hadiza. plays The 15th annual Crossroads Muic Fest, Saturday, September 7, 2019]

15. Timbers – “I Could Be The One”
from: Timbers / Timbers / March 1, 2018
[Timbers first professionally recorded, mixed and mastered release. Recorded in the basement of Jacob’s Well Church in Kansas City, Missouri. Tracked, mixed and mastered by Mike Crawford. Timbers includes: Aaron Mitchum on guitar & lead vocals; Abigail Jones on banjo, guitar & vocals; Devon Teran on guitar, lap and pedal steel guitar, & dobro; Riley Taylor on upright bass & electric bass; and Nate Lewis on drums.]

[Timbers play The Stockyards Brewing Company, on Sunday, September 1, at 3:00 PM]

16. Erin Keller – “Moonlight in Vermont”
from: Distracted / Erin Keller / May 9, 2016
[KC based vocalist Erin Keller is originally from Waukee, Iowa. She was born in August, in 1980. Erin has been singing on a professional level for 25 years. Erin sang with the internationally competitive Des Moines Children’s Choir for 5 years, and 3 years in All-State choir in high school, which helped her earn a voice performance degree from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, in 2002. Erin peforms with the Grammy-Award winning Kansas City Chorale. Erin has also worked as a featured soloist with Owen Cox Dance Ensemble, New Ear, KC jazz musicians, the big band at University of Colorado, a West African Highlife Ensemble, the Balkan brass band Gora Gora Orkestar. Erin also has experience writing her own music, singing in rock, folk, and free improv settings and she more recently earned a Master’s in Music Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In Colorado she worked for two years in public schools teaching music and moved back to KC to continue her career as musician and educator. In April Erin released her new album, “Distracted,” and has been playing live shows while also being upfront and honest about her recent cancer diagnosis where she has received multiple rounds of chemo treatments. Erin Keller wrote the song “Distracted” and recorded her songs with Chad Meise. Immediatedly after the album was released Erin diagnosed with liver cancer and began treatments, while also going through a divorce, and moving to a new home. During her chemo treatments Erin continued performing and producing shows, keeping an incredible sense of humor and strenght through such a difficult period. She has successfully completed multiple round of chemo.]

[Erin Keller & the Love Basement play The Ship, 1217 Union, KCMO, tomorrow August 29, 9:00 PM. It’s Charlie Parker’s Birthday and also Erin Keller’s Birthday! Steve Lambert on saxophones & flute, Nick Howell on trumpet & tambourine, Arnold Young on drums & percussion, Brian Steever on drums & percussion, Jason Emmond on bass, Andrew Ouellette on keyboards.]

17. Like A Tiger – “Home Movies”
from: Home Movies / Like A Tiger / January 18, 2019
[Pete Marten on guitar & loops, KR Azad on drums, John O’Keefe on bass. Recording Engineer: Ross Brown. Mastered by Mike Nolte. Like A Tiger began playing together in early 2018 and draws on influences of rock, jazz, and electronic music. The band presents a refreshing take on instrumental rock, using live looping and exploring effects, textures, and timbres. Members Pete Marten, John O’Keefe, and Krishnaswami Ramachandran Azad recorded their debut album Home Movies in September of 2018.]

[Like A Tiger play miniBar, 3810 Broadway, Sat, August 31, 9:00 PM w/The Sexy Accident and Miki P.]

18. Barnaby Bright – “Just The Same”
from: Barnaby Bright / Shortest Night Music / June 21 , 2019
[Brooklyn-based indie folk rock duo Barnaby Bright, have garnered high accolades for their lyrically captivating and impeccably balanced songwriting and sound. Finalists in the New York Song Circle Contest for two years in a row, Barnaby Bright was awarded the Grand Prize, winners in November 2010 for their song, “Don’t Look Down.” Formed in 2009, Barnaby Bright is Becky Bliss on lead vocals, harmonium, Keyboards, & Ukulele ; and Nathan Bliss on guitar, vocals, loops, and banjo. Both classically-trained, the duo has made some cool Americana records, lived in Brooklyn, Nashville and Kansas, toured coast to coast, run out of money, toured Europe, run out of money again, won high-falutin’ prizes for songwriting in New York, generally not argued, done benefit shows for prestigious US AAA radio stations, given away 200k+ tracks on Amazon, played Lincoln Center & NPR’s Mountain Stage, eaten copious amounts of vegetarian food, attracted 19k+ listeners a month on Spotify and opened for Norah Jones & the Lumineers. “This is Life,” was co-produced with Cason Cooley (Ingrid Michaelson, Matt Kearney) and speaks to where they’ve been, who they are, what they want and where they’re going. It’s smart pop with an authentic Americana stamp, not the other way round. Somewhere in there they got married, but they’d rather not talk about that.]

[Barnaby Bright play the Kansas City Songwriter Series, at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Thursday, August 29, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, curated by KC Trumpeter Hermon Mehari. More info at: http://www.kemperart.org]

11:30 – Underwriting

19. Making Movies – “Delilah (ft. Rubén Blades)”
from: ameri’kana / 3/2 Recordings / May 24, 2019
[Produced by Steve Berlin and Ben Yonas. 3rd full length release from KC based 4-piece band and made up of two sets of brothers: Enrique Chi on guitar and lead vocals; Diego Chi on bass & vocals; Juan-Carlos Chaurand on percussion & keyboards; and Andres Chaurand on drums. The band draws their influences from the origins of their families: Santiago, Panama, and Kansas City, Missouri, and Guadalajara, Mexico. The notes for this album read: “ameri’kana is a canary in a coal mine, the watchman at the tower. It is a desire to remember where we come from and assure that we better ourselves in every step along our journey. Every chapter is an example, a reason to not be silent and not accept corrupt leaders as something inevitable. ameri’kana is based on faith, faith that every person on this continent carries within themselves the ability to grow, to awaken their consciousness and merits the the same rights. We were accomplices to get ourselves to this point so we will have to be accomplices in the solutions.” This was their follow up released to their critically acclaimed I Am Another You, released May 26, 2017. The quartet has toured with Arcade Fire, Thievery Corporation, Cold War Kids, Los Lobos, Ozomatli, Tennis, Sergio Mendoza of Calexico, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Hurray for the Riff Raff.]

[Making Movies play the 5th annual Making Movies Carnaval, Saturday, September 7, at 8:00 PM at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO featuring Las Cafeteras from Los Angeles, ÉSSO funk from Chicago, Grand Marquis, youth performers from The Rebel Song Academy, and folkloric dances from Mexico and Panama – the heritage of the band’s members. There will also be live art, street vendors, food trucks and more. The festival serves as benefit fundraiser for the band’s music education non-profit, Art As Mentorship. Tickets at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com. More info at: http://www.mkngmvs.com]

11:34 – Interview with Enrique Chi

Enrique Chi is lead singer & co-founder of the KC based and internationally known band Making Movies. Enrique joins us to talk about Making Movies critically acclaimed new album, ameri’kana. Enrique is also here to share details about the 5th annual Making Movies Carnaval, Saturday, September 7, at 8:00 PM at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO, featuring Las Cafeteras from Los Angeles, ÉSSO funk from Chicago, Grand Marquis, youth performers from The Rebel Song Academy, and folkloric dances from Mexico and Panama – the heritage of the band’s members. There will also be live art, street vendors, food trucks and more. The festival serves as benefit fundraiser for the band’s music education non-profit, Art As Mentorship. Tickets at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com. More info at: http://www.mkngmvs.com

Enrique Chi, thanks for being with us again on WMM.

Last time Enrique here was just before your intimate solo show “From the River to the Delta” on July 18, in Carl Butler’s Gospel Lounge a Knuckleheads. Accompanied by special guests the Altoro Sisters, and John Kizlarmut. Malek Looney, Rebel Song Academy Alumni opened the show with a mini set.

Making Movies Carnaval, will be Saturday, Sept 7, at 8:00 PM at Knucklehead’s Saloon.

ameri’kana, the highly anticipated album from Making Movies and Rubén Blades, is out today. It’s an album that is as striking musically as it is narratively. It’s the power of collaboration across generations/languages/borders- it’s a call to action.

The album is a collaboration with none other than Rubén Blades. The collaboration began at the 2017 Latin Grammys, when Blades said he wanted to work with Making Movies, setting into motion their first collaboration, No Te Calles, a calling to all artists and the general public to speak out against corruption. Inspired by the poetry of Blades on “No Te Calles” Making Movies entered the studio and dreamed up ameri’kana, an “oldies” station from the future, where the injustices sung about are long gone. The album features artists that align with speaking out against divisions, corruption, and injustices, with the hope that in the future those ills will be a memory. Steve Berlin of Los Lobos signed on to produce the album, his third time working with the group, along with co-producer Ben Yonas and together helmed the sessions that brought the featured cast of ameri’kana: Flor De Toloache, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Asdru Sierrra of Ozomatli, Frankie Negrón, and Las Cafeteras. Blades offered himself as a guide and resource to the band during the process, and appears on three tracks of the record, including one co-penned by Lou Reed.

“For the first time in our journey we have aimed at a focused message to stand up against the political corruption and injustices that are plaguing our beautiful continent, Abya Yala.” said Enrique Chi, guitarist & frontman of Making Movies. “We are all accomplices in it and we must be accomplices in the solution which begins with raising our voices.”

The album’s genre-breaking sound pulls from Latin music as well as rock’n’roll, which Making Movies attests are one and the same: without the influence of Latin music in North America, jazz and blues would have never been born, nor would its successor rock’n’roll. ameri’kana marks the band’s sound and mantra: “ROCK’N’ROLL IS LATIN MUSIC,” they are as inseparable as the continent itself.

Making Movies is currently celebrating the release on a tour across the U.S. and Panama. Rubén Blades and Making Movies will share the stage for the first time at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on November 20th.

Upon the release of this album I Am Another You, (May 26, 2017). Making Movies kicked off a 22-date Immigrants Are Beautiful Tour, a celebration of solidarity in the face of fear-mongering and hate. Frontman Enrique Chi shared, “It’s time to realize we are all part of this continuum, this beautifully flawed human race that has migrated from every continent to bring us all the beauty we enjoy today.” The band’s social statement is straightforward enough that they can express it in four words: “We Are All Immigrants.” In supporting that cause, a portion of all proceeds from the album and tour go to the National Immigration Law Center. Enrique Chi, describes, “since making the album, the tides have shifted and the underbelly of systematic racism has reared its ugly head. It is no longer time to be silent is time for us to raise our voices.”

Making Movies play the 5th annual Making Movies Carnaval, Saturday, September 7, at 8:00 PM at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO featuring Las Cafeteras from Los Angeles, ÉSSO funk from Chicago, Grand Marquis, youth performers from The Rebel Song Academy, and folkloric dances from Mexico and Panama – the heritage of the band’s members. There will also be live art, street vendors, food trucks and more. The festival serves as benefit fundraiser for the band’s music education non-profit, Art As Mentorship. Tickets at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com. More info at: http://www.mkngmvs.com

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20. Making Movies & Las Cafeteras – “Montańa”
from: Montańa – Single. / 3/2 Records / June 8, 2018
[Las Cafeteras’ album “Tastes Like L.A.” (released April 14, 2017) was part of WMM’s 117 Best Recordings of 2017. They call themselves a Chicano band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music fuses spoken word, folk music, with traditional Son Jarocho, Afro-Mexican music and zapateado dancing. The band started out as students of the Eastside Café, a community space in El Sereno, LA, where they took Son Jarocho classes. Influenced by music from Veracruz, Mexico and eager to teach others about it, they started formally playing in 2005. Since forming, they have shared the stage with artists such as, Caifanes, Lila Downs, Juanes, Ozomatli, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Their namesake derives from the organization where they took classes. To honor women, they feminized their group name by naming themselves Las Cafeteras, rather than Los Cafeteros. Las Cafeteras’ songs have themes and references that range from the Civil Rights Movement, United Farm Workers, DREAM Act, immigration reform to female homicides in Ciudad Juárez. Their song, “La Bamba Rebelde”, a remake of The traditional Mexican song from the state of Veracruz “La Bamba”, denotes their Chicano pride. They say that they construct their music as a tool for creating positive change and inspiring others to do so. Band Members include: Daniel French on vocals, jarana, MC; David Flores on requinto jarocho; Denise Carlos on vocals, jarana, zapateado, glockenspiel; Jose Cano on cajón, Native American flute, harmonica; Hector Flores on vocals, zapateado; Leah Gallegos on vocals, quijada, zapateado.] [Las Cafeteras played Folk Alliance International 2017 Conference.]

Enrique Chi

11:44 – Interview with Enrique Chi

Enrique Chi, lead singer & co-founder of the KC based and internationally known band Making Movies is here with us in our 90.1 FM Studios to share details about the 5th annual Making Movies Carnaval, Saturday, September 7, at 8:00 PM at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCM, featuring Las Cafeteras from Los Angeles, who we just heard in a collaboration with Making Movies.

Enrique Chi, thanks for being with us again on WMM.

Making Movies play the 5th annual Making Movies Carnaval, Saturday, September 7, at 8:00 PM at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO featuring Las Cafeteras from Los Angeles, ÉSSO funk from Chicago, Grand Marquis, youth performers from The Rebel Song Academy, and folkloric dances from Mexico and Panama – the heritage of the band’s members.

Tickets at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com. More info at: http://www.mkngmvs.com

Enrique Chi thanks for being on WMM.

21. ÉSSO – “La Calle”
from: Juntos / Esso Afrojam Funkbeat / September 8, 2017
[ESSO’s second full length album on their own “Sonic Octopus Records” brings a more concise and focused approach for the diverse multi-faceted band. “Juntos” is a step forward in the arrangement and definition of this Chicago based collective. “ESSO might just be the band the country needs in these dark days of the Trump presidency.” -Agúzate.org (Sept 2017) Esso Afrojam Funkbeat is a large conglomeration with a rich guest list, mixing upbeat salsa on pieces like “Baila” and “Mariposa Negra” to hip hop tunes such as “Mi Gente” and the electric grooved “Cumbia Del Encanto.” Some folk guitar and lovely voice by Diana Mosquera create a rich atmosphere on “Cumbia Triste” and folk driven flute from Matthew Davis teams with indie moods on “Stone Eagle.” Traditional sounds with Millennial hearts – JazzWeekly (November 2017) “Music is an amazing thing. You don’t have to understand any of the lyrics of a song to be moved by the melody and the rhythm. Juntos, the latest album from Esso Afrojam Funkbeat is a great testament to this phenomenon. Even if you don’t understand a word of Spanish, you’re likely to find yourself moving when you listen to it.” – AXS (Sept 2017) All songs performed by ¡ESSO! Afrojam Funkbeat. Armando Pérez recorded + mixed = produced at Belmont Electric Studios, Chicago IL. Rollin Weary mastered at IV Labs, Chicago IL. Mark Ettinger, piano recorded at the Lethe Lounge, NYC. AfroQbano beats, Patrick’s piano, and Jess’ batá drums recorded at Ekibo’s, Chicago IL. Aaron Feder, guitar recorded at Alma Studios, Barcelona, Spain. Music and lyrics by Armando Pérez except for: additional music and lyrics on “Mariposa Negra, Cumbia Triste, Sangre” by Diana Mosquera. “Mi Gente” music and verse by Kevin Miller. “Homenaje” lyrics are traditional Yoruban Chants. Programmed beats on “Meet Me Out, Piramides, Stone Eagle” by AfroQbano. Rhymes and spoken word poems written by all emcees respectively Poetas mexicanos invitados por Syncretik Productions. Sonic Octopus Recordings Copyright 2017 Fantasy Bunker Publications ASCAP.]

22. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Next week on Wednesday, September 4, Madisen Ward, of Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear join us with KKFI Development Director Bill Sundahl to share all the details and play music from the 15th annual Crossroads Music Festival, featuring 30 bands in 6 venues with Day parties and Drumlines More information at CMFKC.COM

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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