f013 - "the emigrant’s lament" - Kieran Fahy / Jacques Pirotton

True Irishman Kieran Fahy came up with the idea of asking the Belgian jazzman Jacques Pirotton to work with him at a musical training course he was due to give at Virton in Belgium.
At this unlikely musical encounter, Kieran was won over by the musicality and originality of Jacques’ interpretation of the repertoire chosen for the performance that evening, whish comprised dances (jigs and reels), ballads and the music of Turlough O’Carolan. Drawing on their long experience, these two musicians offer you an emotion-packed, impressively interpreted repertoire from the Emerald Isle.

Kieran Fahy : fiddle/viola/lilting /Jacques Pirotton : guitar / Guests : Simon Donnelly : bouzouki / Lorcan Fahy : mandoline, cistre / Stephan Pougin : bodhran, cajon

f012 - "Parceria" - Osman Martins & Pierre Gillet + guests

Osman Martins (cavaquinho) and Pierre Gillet (7 strings guitar) demonstrate that Brazilian music reaches far beyond the beloved forms known by casual listeners. Theirs is a deeper, more exploratory take on the music aided in part by their absolute mastery of two unique Brazilian instruments. Together their compositions and arrangements plump native rhythms and possibilities with taste, dazzle and harmonic sophistication.

Osman Martins - Cav - perc - guit / Pierre Gillet - 7 strings guitar / + Guests - Steve Houben - flute / Manu Hermia - sopr. sax / Helbe - cavaco / Osvaldo Hernandez - percussion / Augusto Rego - Zabumba

f011 - "30° A Cappella" - Wappa Tonic

Wappa Tonic is the story of 5 singers, 2 Latin-americans & 3 Belgians, meeting around an audacious vocal coktail of classic latino and original compositions. They share a common sense of humour and love for crazy rhythms or syncopation.

Olivier Berten, Nedjelka Candina, Johan Fostier, Maria-Helena Schoeps, Gilles Wiernik : vc.

c002 - mogno music 10 years anniversary - 104 musicians / 32 projects

This compilation (2cds) celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Belgian independent label Mogno Music. You will find tracks from almost every album released by us between 1997 & 2007, that means 2h30 of musical substance that could positively affect your brain!
Don’t hesitate to buy the cds of the artists you like or to see them live.
(Remember that the production costs are supposedly paid by the sales of the cds, so try not to make copies…thanks!)

104 musicians / 32 projects

f010 - "Tempo Feliz" - Boris Gaquere & Renato Martins

"Tempo Feliz is a great recording, bare, sober, incisive, full of life and rhythm. An original duo formed of a Belgian guitarist and a Brazilian percussionist. The material is written and arranged by contemporary Brazilian guitarists and composers (Paulo Bellinati, Marco Pereira). Also to be found, music from Baden Powell and Luís Bonfá arranged by the great Sérgio Assad. Boris Gaquere also proposes his own music imbued with the colours of Brazil. There is in Boris a marvelous control of the guitar, a beautiful essential rhythmic sprightliness for this demanding repertoire. He finds in Renato Martins, straight out of São Paulo, an ideal partner for these melodies.”
Philip Catherine

Boris Gaquere, Renato Martins + D. Stokart, H. Greindl

f009 - La Tregua - "No hagan bandera"

South American and Caribbean rhythms, tango, jazz, guitars, violin, voices, cajon, congas, etc... make the inspiration and the substance of this fine and authentic music, in a unique project that matches the musicianship of these three exceptional South American musicians.

Sebastian Quezada / Fulvio Paredes / Alfonso Pacin

c001 - Inspiração Brasil

This first mognomusic compilation gathers Brazilian artists and musicians inspired by Brazilian music. Why Brazil? Because the founder of the label is passionate for it and also because all the earnings from this cd will be donated to the community of Corumbau in the state of Bahia, Northeast of Brazil.

B. Mansion, Carmiña, Cheiro de Choro, V. Da Costa, W. Iago, Parfum Latin, B. Gaquere & R. Martins, Apikon Dia

f008 - O'TCHALAÏ

A Belgian trio leads us in a journey through East-European songs played with a lot of emotions. The sound of the violin, the doublebass and of the interleaving voices take us "Au gré du vent" through a repertoire of traditionnals east european and gipsy songs.
We are all "children of the wind"!

Monique Gelders / Pascale Trussart / Alexandre Furnelle

Du Bresil dans les oreilles

Close yous eyes, open your ears : you are at the same time in Brazil, Belgium, France and a little bit in California! "Chanson française" with a jazz touch by belgian singer Benoit Mansion.

Benoit Mansion
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mirando al sur

This cd by Bolivian singer Carmina explores the rhythmic elements and harmonies that come from the diverse Latin American cultures (Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil,…), while flirting with the soul of jazz.

Carmiña
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Orbis Mysticus

Solange Labbé & Pierre Coulon have set to music texts derived from Christianity's heritage of sacred literature, in a spirit of meditation. They follow the practice of hymns found in all spiritual traditions, an influence combined with that of Western minimalist music.

Solange Labbé
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Mi Amado

Belgian mezzo-soprano Solange Labbé has set to music texts derived from Christianity's heritage of sacred literature, in a spirit of meditation. In this she is guided by the practice of hymns found in all spiritual traditions, an influence which she combines with that of Western minimalist music.

Solange Labbé
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Entre Nosotros

An intimate journey through Latin-American song, in wich Laura Lahera and Fulvio Paredes offer a very personal approach, allusive, full of nuances, based on an intense dialogue between voice and guitar.
Henri Greindl (Belgique), doublebass
Osvaldo Hernández (México), percussion
Alfredo Marcucci (Argentina), bandonéon
Thierry Marinelli (Belgique), Violin
Matias de Oliveira Pinto (Brasil), cello

Laura Lahera & Fulvio Paredes
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Bitsibitsiho

MOGNO MUSIC is proud to introduce to you a talent from Madagascar: Miary Lepiera, a young songwriter and poly-instrumentalist whose music, pleasing and true, is at the same time rooted in the tradition of Southern Madagascar and enriched with modern influences.
Miary Lepiera: guitars, bass, percussion, lead vocal and backing vocals;
Duke Quarcoo: bass and backing vocals;
Iadela Gellé: lead vocal and backing vocals;
Hannar Zwrachtos: congas and djembé;

Myari Lepiera
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Teriya

Emilien Sanou, West-African balafon player/drummer/singer/composer who builds his own instruments, presenting a selection of his different projects. Creative musicians from Africa and Europe collaborated with him to form the multi-cultural “Lamogoya”, the roots-oriented “Duo Balafon” or the colourful “La Fête au Village”.

Emilien Sanou
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