“Bailando Por El Mundo” which dominated the Top 10 of Billboard’s Latin hits for 31 weeks and charted at #3 for top Latin Pop Songs, was nominated for ‘Best Party Song of the Year’ on Premios Tu Mundo. Juan Magan, co-composer and performer of the track, featured the talents of artists Pitbull and El Cata for a classic Latin hit.
Listen to it here.
A Train proudly congratulates our winners of Downbeat Magazine’s 60th Annual Critics Poll: Bill Frisell and Zakir Hussain.
We are equally proud of our other talented artists whose work was deemed worthy of attention: SF Jazz Collective, Wadada Leo Smith, Ben Goldberg, Kenny Werner, Charlie Hunter, Scott Amendola, Airto Moreira and Lee Townsend.
Six time Grammy nominee Peter Rowan just finished demoing new material for his second recording for Compass Records. Peter returns to Europe later this year with dates in the UK, Ireland, The Czech Republic, France and Italy. Jake Troth has been in the studio with Big Boi and Sia—expect to hear much more from Jake in the coming months. Alvin Risk is performing a series of dates with Kaskade; Alvin’s latest recording recently released on Dim Mak.
Juan Magan’s “Bailando por El Mundo” continues to rule Latin radio, Peter White’s Here We Go album maintains its grip in Smooth Jazz and Jenny Gosling’s three co-writes grace the Ed Sheeran Deluxe release that is currently #1 on the iTunes album charts.
Called by The New York Times “The Chant Master of American Yoga”, Krishna Das is the best-selling chant artist of all time, with over 300,000 records sold. His collaborations with Sting, producers Rick Rubin and Steely Dan’s Walter Becker and David Nichtern, a multiple Emmy Award-winning composer and songwriter (including the pop classic “Midnight at the Oasis”), have broadened his audience as have his more than 150 performances a year around the world. Now Krishna Das has launched his very own channel on Sirius/XM Radio; culled from recordings by Ali Akbar Khan, Choying Drolma, Deva Premal, Jai Uttal, Lama Gyurme, Pandit Jasraj, Shantala, Sultan Khan as well as his own releases, Krishna Das Yoga Radio is destined to take Krishna Das and his listeners to new worlds.
Another new label for A Train is the dynamic reggae force Zion High Productions. Their first release through A Train, Jah Golden Throne, is described by The Bahamas Weekly as “a brand new various artist compilation for 2012 delivering a rich, full-bodied, and rootsy survey of the best in contemporary roots from the most respected voices and rising stars in reggae today including U Roy, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Pressure, Toussaint and more. Staying true to the legacy of the music, Jah Golden Throne offers a seat at the reggae table where the roots of the music and the message stimulate heart, mind and soul.”
Following hot on the heels of Jah Golden Throne is Glen Washington’s Masterpiece produced by the same stellar team of Zion I Kings (David “Jah David” Goldfine/ Zion High Productions, Alfred “Tippy” Laurent/ I Grade, and Andrew “Moon” Bain/ Lustre Kings.