Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2016 Thread Once Known as World Music

Same title as last year, but new year. You know the drill-

this is the thread for funky, bluesy, new + reissued music from lots of different places that may include ghana, congo, kenya, niger, mali, south africa, syria, lebanon, israel, iraq, iran, turkey, and other places that make cool music that doesn't always get enough press in the west. some labels that might be relevant here: sublime frequencies, honest jons, sahelsounds, light in the attic, voodoo funk, awesome tapes from africa, analog africa, kindred spirits, soundway.

Plus I like to hear about live music. Last year's thread: Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2015 Thread Once Known as World Music

Last year's thread--Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2015 Thread Once Known as World Music

http://www.voanews.com/content/bamako-downloaders-guide-mali-music-scene/3107338.html

Update on a situation that was described earlier in 2015--

excerpt below

Katarina Hoije
December 17, 2015 1:51 PM

BAMAKO—
For practically no cost, young men on the streets of the Malian capital, Bamako, will put the latest hit songs onto your cell phone or memory stick. They are called “telechargeurs,” or “downloaders.” With limited means to stop the pirating of their songs, musicians are now using the downloaders to promote their work.

When Sidiki Diabaté, the son of Mali’s kora-master Toumani Diabaté, wanted to promote his latest release he did not bother with radio or TV spots. Instead, he sent his manager to Fankélé Diarra Street to see the “telechargeurs.”

The young men crouch over their laptops. They transfer tunes to mobile phones and USB sticks for as little as four cents a song (25 CFA). Sidiki is the most asked for artist.

Playing his music on slow days can draw dozens of customers.

"The street is like a market. If you want to reach people, this is where you go. You can’t sell cassettes and CD's any more. Everyone uses memory cards," said Downloader Alfouseyni Ballo.

Frequent power cuts and a spotty internet that is still too expensive for many Malians have created a niche for the city's tech-savvy youth.

"We know the popular songs, the tunes that make people dance. People are always looking for the latest songs. If I like a particular song, I’ll recommend it," said downloader Aboubacar Coulibaly.

The most popular request is Malian rap.

These days rappers are the only ones, besides religious leaders, who can sell out Bamako’s big stadiums.

And the internet is pushing the African music industry toward new business models, ones that are turning mobile phone companies into the new record labels.

Malian rapper Mylmo recently signed a lucrative sponsorship deal with the mobile provider, Orange Mali. His new releases are only available from Orange, bought by way of Orange mobile money. Other artists have signed up with Malian mobile companies, Malitel or Sotelma.

But not all artists are happy to see their records ripped and shared on the street. The street downloaders do not share their profits.

I'll be doing this MUCH differently this year, but if you want to listen along:
ILM's Rolling Global / Outernational Thread 2016

It's literally the worst day of the year to be looking back at 2015 but... my last Middle East and North African column for the Guardian published late on New Year's Eve, was a best of last year and my final for that publication. I'll be resurrecting it on the Quietus (with their blessing).

Digital remixes of Bolivian Quechua-language singer Luzmila Carpio:

Luzmila Carpio Meets ZZK
https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2787331170_16.jpg

bump

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/

Folk Roots Critics poll

1. Stick In The Wheel From Here (From Here)
2. Anna & Elizabeth Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)
3. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Ba Power (Glitterbeat)
4. Sam Lee & Friends The Fade In Time (Nest Collective)
5. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Quaranta 40 (Ponderosa)
6. The Rheingans Sisters Already Home (RootBeat)
7.=Emily Portman Coracle (Furrow)
Leveret New Anything (RootBeat)
9.=Simpson, Cutting & Kerr Murmurs (Topic)
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin Touristes (Six Degrees)
11. Mbongwana Star From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
12. False Lights Salvor (Wreckord)
13.=Olivia Chaney The Longest River (Nonesuch)
Jackie Oates The Spyglass & The Herringbone (ECC)
Songhoy Blues Music In Exile (Transgressive)
Spiro Welcome Joy And Welcome Sorrow (Real World)
The Unthanks Mount The Air (Rabble Rouser Music)
18.=Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal Musique De Nuit (No Format!)
Blick Bassy Akö (No Format)
Kandia Kouyaté Renascence (Stern’s)
Tom & Ben Paley Paley & Son (Hornbeam)

NPR are streaming the new Baaba Maal album
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/06/462154178/first-listen-baaba-maal-the-traveller

It's last year, but the EEK album is really awesome. If you like North African dance music and hardcore techno, jump in

maybe I should say "nuum" instead of hardcore techno... I'm a big fan of MENA dance music, so I was kinda suspicious at first (wire, fact, etc) but it really kicks ass.

https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/mali-kady

http://globalfest.org/gf2016/wavelengths/

marketing global music conference has been going on in NYC since yesterday.

Speakers announced shortly, but will include colleagues from National Sawdust, Modiba, Brooklyn Raga Massive, Rumblefish, Kennedy Center, NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center, Bonnaroo, rock paper scissors, and more

NYer Forks should be there telling them, to follow this thread

x-post--

I still need to listen to this one mentioned above--

Maal collaborated with producer and multi-instrumentalist Johan Hugo (from the London Afropop band The Very Best) on The Traveller, and they sometimes struggle to reach a comfortable balance between ancient and modern sounds, African and global themes.

Two great compilations coming out via the Now-Again label this spring (April, I think): Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock 1972-1977, Vols 1 and 2. Really fried stuff from the Hygrades, the Funkees, OFO the Black Company, and a bunch of similar/related acts. Each comes packaged in a 100-page hardcover book with tons of rare photos, really informative liner notes, etc.

Worth sharing here i suppose; would love to know if anyone has ever seen a compilation of Semantron playing in album format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44gggoAk3XY

That closing song on the Baaba Maal album with the guest rapping and pretentious spoken word vocals is terrible. Whole album is uneven.

I don't mind the autotune on another track, btw.

new bombino single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWv1ASUNWJI

i'm excited i'm going to see him in march

https://soundcloud.com/awesometapesfromafrica/dj-katapila-cocoawra

interesting stuff here i want to check out: http://www.jta.org/2016/01/27/arts-entertainment/meet-the-israeli-composer-of-indian-muslim-music-who-collaborates-with-radioheads-guitarist

Last February, Greenwood visited Ben-Tzur — a Jewish composer of Sufi Muslim Qawwali, or religious devotional music — in the Rajasthan region of northwest India, where Ben-Tzur has written and performed his songs for more than a decade. For three weeks, they and a 19-member Indian band, The Rajasthan Express, recorded an album of Ben-Tzur’s songs in a picturesque 15th-century Indian fort.

“We wanted to spend time playing together, not just go into a studio and record an album,” Ben-Tzur told JTA. “Recording the album was maybe the excuse in order to experience the music rather than the other way around.”

Anderson captured the entire process — from the tensions of nailing perfect takes to the pigeons that perched on the soundproofing boards. His film, “Junun,” which translates to “the madness of love,” premiered at the New York Film Festival in October. The director’s first documentary release, it eschews dialogue and wider context for an immersive, behind-the-scenes look at crafting the sprawling album.

The record, produced by longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and also called “Junun,” was released on the American label Nonesuch Records in November. More than half the songs contain lyrics in Ben-Tzur’s native Hebrew, which supplement the rest sung in Urdu and Hindi.

http://indiefiend.com/2015/10/09/video-johnny-greenwood-rocked-dir-paul-thomas-anderson/

trailer here for the PTAnderson film of the album Mordy just mentioned. Plus it says in this October 2015 posting: Greenwood’s new album will be entitled Junun and is expected on the shelves next month. However, PTA’s album documentary of the same name (Junun) is available now exclusively through streaming service Mubi. I’ve honestly never heard about Mubi before today, but apparently they cost $5 a month to subscribe; and considering you can watch a brand new PTA film for $5 then cancel right after that’s not too damn bad.

Kiran Ahluwalia

Kiran Ahluwalia sings ghazals and Punjabi songs from India but she has also collaborated with Tinariwen. I've been listening to her 2014 album lately

Am guessing her husband, Pakistani guitarist Rez Abbasi's event this past weekend got cancelled because of snow--

Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 8PM
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), New York City

Asia Society is delighted to present the New York premiere of Invocation, Pakistani-born jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi's quintet featuring pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, Johannes Weidenmueller (acoustic bass), Dan Weiss (drums), and Elizabeth Means (cello). In this special performance, the group unveils a new project that explores Carnatic classical music from Southern India through the idiom of jazz.

Titled Unfiltered Universe, this is the final installment in a trilogy that puts a jazz lens on the musical traditions of South Asia. Their 2009 debut, Things To Come, employed Hindustani North Indian music and featured Indian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia. DownBeat magazine chose the album as one of the decade's best. Suno Suno was released in 2012. Featuring compositions that were influenced by Abbasi's long time love of Pakistani Qawwali music, it also received many accolades.

I need to hear the album with Ahluwalia on it

Rez and Kiran Ahluwalia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ZeVicy5PE

This looks good---but I am not in NYC

Pioneer Works Residency Launch Party: Africa/India Series
February 3rd, 2016, 8pm

Africa/India Series, Residency Launch Party!

Brooklyn Raga Massive will launch its Pioneer Works residency with a special concert celebration, a retrospective of it’s popular and joyful Africa/India Series.

Awa Sangho “Golden Voice of Mali”, featuring BRM All-Stars
Orakel – duo featuring Kane Mathis (kora) & Roshni Samlal (tabla)
Africa Meets India – Kevin Nathaniel (mbira) and Eric Fraser (bansuri)

Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Kiran Ahluwalia & guitarist Rez Abassi will be there March 23 and they'll be in DC on March 4th

love this > https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/tumastin

Lush studio compositions with rolling rhythms and wistful melodies from Northern Mali’s standout Tuareg guitar band. Disrupted by political conflict in the Sahara, Amanar’s follow up is years in the making. Soulful call and response in a charged reclamation to the origins of Tuareg guitar: messages to a people divided. Songs about change, nostalgia, and hope from Mali’s band-in-exile.

I will be curious to hear that Amanar album.

playlist is updated.

ILM's Rolling Global and Outernational Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Posted this on the Modern Brazil music thread, but in case you miss that---

Just got back from an incredible trip to Brazil (Rio and Salvador, Bahia). Alas, a connecting flight got cancelled and then our luggage got misplaced on the way there, so We missed a free Romulo Froes gig. But we did hear that MC Joao cut "Baile de favela" everywhere (that Rob mentioned upthread). Mostly a remixed version (the light remix I think its called). Thousands were chanting the words to that in a Carnival bloco parade we attended at Copocabana beach. The song certainly got stuck in our heads.

We saw a late-night Maria Rita gig, a number of bands playing Carnival gigs on various streets, the 2nd night of the Sambadrome event with samba schools composed of 1,000 or so folks, plus the amazing Salvador Campo Grande Carnaval circuit with afro-blocos like Olodum and Ilie Aiye.

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there's a new rokia traorè out

She's gonna tour the US again too.

On her upcoming 2016 release, Rokia turns to friends John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), and Devendra Banhart to help her express her deep sadness at the state of turmoil in her native Mali. Lamenting her homeland’s loss of life, culture, and traditions, Rokia will draw audiences in with a striking translation from emotion to song, including transcriptions of some of Toni Morrison’s prolific writings.

x-post-Saw some bands in Brazilian carnival events in various neighborhoods of Rio and Salvador that I enjoyed but alas, I never figured out their names. Gonna see what I can figure out online and via some carnival newspaper guides I picked up.

In Salvador da Bahia, we were the only customers twice at Cana Brava Records, a store run by an American ex-pat who knows everything about Brazilian samba, bossa nova, jazz, and more. He mostly just sells cdrs of hard to find Brazilian vinyl. He is pals with various old Brazilian musicians and would like to help them record some more, but he doesn't have the money to do so himself. Here is his website

http://www.salvadorcentral.com/guide/index.php/salvador/cana-brava-records

http://www.afropop.org/27401/afropop-returns-to-mali/

Rokia Traore album sounds good on first listen

Angelique Kidjo, one of Africa's most prominent musicians, won her third Grammy on Monday, this time together with Luxembourg's Philharmonic Orchestra under well known Luxembourg musician Gast Waltzing.

Kidjo dedicated the "Best World Music Album" award to aspiring artists on the continent of Africa.

x-post--that afropop.org Mali article is worth a read

The Dogon Festival listed Oumou Sangare as the final night headline, but apparently she dropped out and accepted a gig in China. We can’t blame her. For all the ambition and richness of these festivals, the crowds were not large. Money is scarce, and despite appearances, people we spoke with report that there is a reluctance by some to gather in large outdoor crowds.

....
One of the biggest changes in Mali in the decade since we were last here has been the dramatic rise of young rappers, who now draw bigger crowds than nearly all the old-school stars, and wield more influence over youth than any politician. When Master Soumi took the stage at the Dogon Festival, the energy lifted palpably. Teenagers and 20-somethings surged forward, shouting affirmations to his boldly barbed raps. Soumi gave us a hard-hitting interview on the roof of his humble home where he still lives with his parents. Even a rapper of his stature still can’t get rich in Mali.

...One exception to that rule may be Sidiki Diabaté, the charismatic 24-year-old son of Toumani Diabaté. Their 2014 kora duo release Toumani and Sidiki (Nonesuch) showcases the son’s fidelity to the family tradition. But Sidiki is also a huge pop star—“more popular than me!” says Toumani with a mixture of pride and pique. We saw Sidiki perform as headliner at a 4,000-seat sports center, packed with teenagers swooning and screaming for his pop rap. When Sidiki hit the stage at around 3 a.m., the place went berserk

I wanna go to Mali, but...

same

http://www.afropop.org/27604/afropop-returns-to-mali-part-2/

Noura Mint Seymali's on the west coast soon. I should go, right? Anyone seen her this time around?

I haven't but yes 100% gogogo

She's been great in years past live-- her powerful voice and her band's nearly psychedelic sound

DJ Katapila's Ghanaian Ga dance music on Awesome Tapes from Africa now

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/arts/music/spinning-tunes-in-ghana-with-the-world-on-his-mind.html?ref=arts

. Mr. Shimkovitz found two bootleg tapes of Katapila’s music, including “Trotro,” and began trying to track the musician down immediately.

“I was really excited because it reminded me of the kind of electronic music we like back home, Chicago- and Detroit-type stuff,” Mr. Shimkovitz said. On closer listen, however, Mr. Shimkovitz said he realized that Mr. Abbey’s music was full of “bell patterns, drum patterns, clap patterns and vocalizing that are all total one-to-one connections with Ga dance music.”

Mr. Shimkovitz said that Mr. Abbey stood out among his Ghanaian peers, most of whom play soukous-influenced Francophone club music or the highlife-derived local hip-hop known as hiplife. “In the context of Ghana,” Mr. Shimkovitz said, “where electronic music in the form of dance music like house or techno has never had a foothold, it’s quite interesting that there’s something that sounds like that being made there.”

Might be a little too programmed dancey for this thread, but DJ Katapila does offer some qualities that readers of this thread might like

Noura Mint Seymali is amazing live. Highly recommended.

I've transferred my playlist of Middle Eastern and African music to the Quietus from the Guardian if anyone's interested.

Yes! Thanks, nice coverage of the ethical issues involved for those of us interested in such music.

Now I just have to listen to the music

Movie “On The Banks Of The Tigris: The Hidden Story Of Iraqi Music” at 7 pm at the DC JCC in W. DC (its about Iraqi Jewish musicians, who are now in exile I believe) Showing Monday night in DC too at the West End Theatre. I don't think this doc has a distributor yet

sounds interesting - are you going?

Yes, gonna see it tonight

Playlist somewhat updated.

ILM's Rolling Global / Outernational Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

how dare u ;)

L and I are going to see Noura Mint Seymali in Portland on Wednesday, excited.

x-post-- The documentary movie “On The Banks Of The Tigris: The Hidden Story Of Iraqi Music” was great. Very touching and emotional. An Iraqi Muslim actor who fled from Sadaam's Baathists in the 90s (and was shot in the arm) ended up in Melbourne, Australia. He loved folkloric Iraqi songs growing up but had no idea of their roots. He began researching online and discovered that Iraqi Jews from the 1920s to 1948 or so created and played many of the songs, occasionally working with Iraqi Muslim musicians. He then goes to Israel and elsewhere around the world in search of the musicians and their descendants.

http://www.fruitfulfilms.com.au/films/tigris

A celebration of Iraqi music, featuring Farida Mohammad Ali, Yair Dalal and Ahmed Mukhtar

The movie will be on dvd beginning in April. It is also being shown at certain film fests.

Here's the movie doc's trailer--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ok7Aodd33c

It's gonna be on dvd in April and they're still showing it at filmfests.

10 years now since Ali Farka Toure died. There's gonna be a weekend of tribute gigs in Mali, and some unreleased material coming out

Noura Mint Seymali was great, god damn can her husband play guitar. loved how the opening band were Portland guys fussing over their electronic tuner pedals, and then this dude gets up and tunes his guitar to some crazy modal variation in like ten seconds, by ear.

He is great. I think I saw an interview saying that he listens to just Tuareg/Sahel region players and old Dire Straits tapes, but his sound is so much more than that-- feels psychedelic.

haha that is awesome

http://label.glitterhouse.com/files/image/releases/AB%20COVER%20SMALL.jpg

love this; very worth checking out imho

portland had Jepsen and Seymali on back to back nights #blessed

x-post--like Brahim's strong voice on the one song I checked out on Youtube--"Julud" from that album.

Listened again to Rokia Traore's latest. Some cuts I like a lot, others sound like forced experiments that have weaker vocals and less groove

agreed - v uneven

i've been listening to the new debo band. so far it's not sticking with me but it's definitely listenable. i need to give it some more time bc i loved their last one.

this looks interesting:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1243412199007657&set=a.103845412964347.8928.100000166659970&type=3&theater

That Cambodian collection does look nice.

This movie, from a different part of the world, looks like it could be good too

MORBAYASSA

Thirty-year-old Bella (singer Fatoumata Diawara, previously seen in Oscar®-nominated TIMBUKTU) works in a mafia-run cabaret in Dakar, struggling to accept the limitations of her miserable life. Having given up her daughter for adoption 15 years prior, Bella is wracked with guilt over her past actions. But when she meets Yélo, a fellow Guinean, working for the UN, she has a chance for redemption as the two set out to find her daughter and rebuild a life worth living. This inspiring drama celebrating the female spirit comes from filmmaker Cheick Fantamady Camara (CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY, 2008 New African Film Festival). Official Selection, 2015 Seattle, FESPACO and Zanzibar Film Festivals. DIR/SCR/PROD Cheick Fantamady Camara; SCR Marc Gautron, Catherine Foussadier. France/Guinea, 2015, color, 124 min, DCP. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED

I missed that movie at the African Film Fest at the AFI Silver in MD last night. I did see on opening night of the Fest a very good Ethiopian movie called Lamb (in Amharic with English subtitles) , about a half-Jewish Ethiopian kid in a rural mountainous part of the country with a pet lamb. The kid's mother died from the drought, and the movie then follows issues relating to the kid, his father and relatives. Some old testament bible analogies included (although these and the kid's half-Jewishness is not highlighted broadly). Lots of great Ethiopian music on the soundtrack.

Mordy, you should see this.

I also saw Necktie Youth, a South African film about middle class white and black youth (soundtrack of pop dancey stuff was not that memorable)

an affluent group of adolescent friends living in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa are shocked by the live streamed suicide of a young girl in her parent's family home. A year and some months after the incident, two disillusioned new generation Zulu youths, Jabz and his best friend September rummage through the sleepy manicured northern suburbs of Johannesburg in search of answers, drugs, distraction and salvation.

sounds like really good stuff. for some reason "about a half-Jewish Ethiopian kid in a rural mountainous part of the country with a pet lamb" reminds me of

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/ZlatehTheGoat.jpg/220px-ZlatehTheGoat.jpg

Maybe and of course ...Abraham and Isaac and the lamb or ram that got sacrificed

Cutesy kid and animal stuff in the movie was balanced by realistic family rituals and anger and violence and sadness.

Thurs 3-17- “They Will Have to Kill Us First” movie doc at the AFI, near W. DC at 7:15pm (Malian musicians trying to survive despite extremists

Fri 3-18-- “Rain The Color Blue With A Little Red In It” at the AFI (a Tuareg nomad in the desert Purple Rain homage)

http://www.tadias.com/01/14/2016/ethiopia-film-lamb-makes-american-debut-gets-u-s-distributor/

NY Times Magazine Section from the 13th had a "25 Songs that tell us about the Future of Music" feature, with different writers talking about 25 tunes. There was 1 song by a Bulgarian--Aziz's "habibi" plus Pitbull doing "Taxi" and a Vybz Kartel song

Most of it was US rap and indie and pop

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/25/mokoomba-zimbabwes-new-sound

This Zimbabwean band is about to tour the US

They mix together a bunch of different styles--80s South African, Congolese soukous, Zimbabwean group harmonies, and they have special dance remixes too. New album coming soon.

Gonna go see Rokia Traore tonight. She's been good live when I have seen her in the past.

ooo i really like her, i bet that show will be great. we're hopefully gonna see bombino on tuesday.

I am spoiled in that some of these artists come through DC every year or even twice a year. Bombino will be back here Wednesday. I saw one of his earlier appearances.

some new albums i like:
afrobeat makers - Nu Guinea - The Tony Allen Experiments
Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad
Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra - Abra Sua Cabeça
Khun Narin Electric Phin Baand - II
Sahra Halgan Trio - Faransiskiyo Somaliland
Aziza Brahim - Abbar el Hamada

I think I've only heard the Aziza Brahim.

So Rokia Traore emphasized her new album live last night. Which is both good and bad. Her great voice makes me like her, but she's not powerful like some tradtional Malian divas. But that's ok. She's doing her own self-titled "contemporary Malian " thing. The trite feel good English lyric songs worked a bit better live but still aren't dazzling. Her more rhythmic Malian numbers worked even better, but some of those sound alike. She dances on some numbers, has a strong backup vocalist, and a good band(ngoni player, another guitarist in addition to her, bass, drums) . She closed with her rendition of "Strange Fruit."

Forks and other New Yorkers should go to this tonight

March 26th
World Music Institute Africa Now! Festival
The Apollo Theater,
NYC, NY Featuring: Bombino (from Niger), Jojo Abot, Alsarah and The Nubatones and Mokoomba (from Zimbabwe)

new Rokia Traoré album really isn't very good. :(

i know one of the women who is producing that Apollo festival curmudgeon; she is v v smart. I shoulda gone but got caught up in other business.

Playlist updated through March.

ILM's Rolling Global / Outernational Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

From Mordy's list--

I listened to some of Khun Narin Electric Phin Band, from rural Thailand. I like their Thai psych instrumental sound. Curious about their rendition of Cranberries "Zombie" that I saw referenced in an article(I wonder if its on Youtube or somewhere)

Need to hear more of the Sahel Sounds act on his list -- Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad

http://naxos.rockpaperscissors.biz/dispatch/18953/iCdjb40w8Yszzzq7rkTmAQ

Naxos Music Library World has created a new tool to enrich curious listeners’ music discovery experiences—an interactive map of the world. As the first streaming service dedicated to world music, NML World has already cornered the market on providing recent releases from today’s popular labels along with historically significant field recordings and everything in between. The map now enables users to start searches with “from WHERE do I want to hear music?” rather than “This music is from WHERE?”

^ between $13 and $21 a month to subscribe and (afaik) online terminal streaming only but still tempting.

Excellent proggy/jazzrock from Lebanon, the awesomely monikered Johnny Kafta Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra. Maybe a bit western influenced for this thread but these Middle Eastern psyche bands have something a bit different about them imo.

http://www.discrepant.net/products/555525-johnny-kafta-anti-vegetarian-orchestra

that sounds awesome actually - thank you v much for sharing

here's something off the beaten path - gospel metal from bamako: http://sahelsounds.com/2016/03/shine/

I was listening to on the beaten path but good, strong-voiced Malian female singer Awa Sangho this morning. She moved to NYC within the past few years. Tonight she's at the Howard Theatre in DC as part of an event to raise awareness for fighting child poverty (via a transactional tax--good luck getting that past Paul Ryan...)

she's solid live.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/arts/music/review-bombino-mokoomba-jojo-abot-and-others-play-africa-now-at-the-apollo.html?_r=0
Pareles liked that show at the Apollo, but noted they gave Bombino a full set, and opening acts just 3 songs or so.

I saw Bombino here in Toronto last week, playing at the Horseshoe Tavern. Great show, started with a short acoustic set. Very crowded & sweaty. Once the band discovered that at least some of the crowd spoke French, they even talked to us a little bit.

I missed him this time, but liked his playing when I did see him. I think he mostly spoke French here too, between songs

I like the initial electric tracks on the new Bombino album, but overall the acoustic ones engage me more often. Think this set might be better as background for car, work, etc, something that needs the limber yet getting-predictable grooves (not too distracting for reasonably caffeinated background support). His shows can be compelling, and one is linked in this intro; also def check the grabbers from his SXSW set on that new Vuhaus site, with lots of other Public Radio live music selections and extended performances.
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/24/471603450/first-listen-bombino-azel

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NY based Malian Awa Sangho did do a nice gig last night. Energetic dancer and strong-voiced singer

Tues. April 5th--Movie “The Midnight Orchestra” (the son of a Jewish Moroccan musician who had to leave Morocco, returns to try to find musicians his Dad played with) at 7:30 at the Washington DC JCC

In 2013 I saw a movie doc with a similar theme about Algerian Jewish musicians, and just a little while ago the one about a Muslim Iraqi exile seeking out Jewish Iraqi musicians. Have found 'em all interesting so far.

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/08/208270269/reunited-after-50-years-an-algerian-buena-vista-social-club-makes-its-u-s-debut

Mbongwana Star are doing some dates in California but not elsewhere in North America

15.04.2016 / Coahcella / Indio, CA (US)
16.04.2016 / The Roxy Theatre / Los Angeles, CA (US)
19.04.2016 / The Independent / San Francisco, CA (US)
22.04.2016 / Coahcella / Indio, CA (US)

cough

A NyC gig too?

Just something stuck in my throat

Mokoomba, from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, were so good last night in a sold-out small 80 person room in W. DC. Their singer has a wide vocal range--he can wail soulfully or do a Mahlathini like frog-voiced croak or rap. The band added fine vocal harmonies and made the call and response sections work well. The guitarist played acoustically so the Congolese tinges he sometimes adds on the electric guitar (on their album) did not come through as well, but the Latino ones did. The whole group did some fine choreographed dance moves both on rockin numbers and the a cappella ones that resembled South African ones. The bass player kept the rockin songs funky, aided by a drummer on a snare and calabash, a percussionist sitting on and hitting a Peruvian box cajon, and another percussionist using congas and a cowbell. This is not Thomas Mapfumo style Zimbabwe music, these guys are from a border town near a tourist site(the waterfall) and near Zambia and Botswana. They used to play regularly in a restaurant frequented by tourists and visitors from across the borders, so they developed a diverse, versatile style to please all. It works and does not feel forced or affected.

They have recorded a new album but its not out yet (issues with their new record label). Their 2012 one is on Spotify. They did a session with Voice of America yesterday, and many folks tweeted and Instagrammed video clips from last night.

Mokoomba were so great live, I have to say it again.

http://www.ethnolyrical.org/?page_id=381

A buncha tweets raving about Ali Colleen Neff's EMP Pop Conference presentation on gender dynamics in Senegalese griot pop

I read a bunch is what I meant. I wasn't there

She apparently mentioned Senegalese rapper Toussa Senerap

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/senegal/140616/toussa-senerap-GOTAL-rapper-west-african-hip-hop

I think someone else did a presentation on Natacha Atlas

King Sunny Ade and Orlando Julius double bill in Central Park - July 3, and free. Gonna be amazing.

Yes in deed. Have seen both live.

I saw Ade in 1990 - same summer I saw Fela - but have never seen Julius. (I've interviewed him, though.)

here's the full lineup of interest:

International Sounds at SummerStage 2016: Featuring King Sunny Adé, CharlElie Couture, Paolo Flores, Mbongwana Star, Sweet Micky, Alpha Blondy, Boogarins, Mexrrissey, Taiwanese Waves, León Larregui and more

Yiddish Soul: A Concert of Cantorial and Chassidic Stars
June 15 – Wednesday - 6:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Fete de la Musique: CharlElie Couture, Yael Naim, General Elektriks, La Femme
June 21 – Tuesday - 5:00pm - Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

King Sunny Adé, Orlando Julius and The Afro Soundz, Rich Medina
July 3 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Latin Alternative Music Conference: Mexrrissey, Los Cafres, La Dame Blanche
July 6 – Wednesday – 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Latin Alternative Music Conference: León Larregui, Rodrigo Amarante, Grenda
July 8 – Friday – 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Joe Bataan meets SETENTA, Joan Català
July 13 – Wednesday - 7:00pm – St. Mary’s Park, Bronx – FREE SHOW

Taiwanese Waves: Anpu, Wonfu, Sunset Rollercoaster
July 16 – Saturday – 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Paulo Flores, Herencia de Timbiquí, Monsieur Periné, DJ Greg Caz, DJ Manny
July 17 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Brasil Summerfest: Monobloco, Cabruêra, Boogarins, DJ Luiz Santos
Pre-Show Panel Discussion
August 6 – Saturday – 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Mbongwana Star, Batida, Young Paris, OkayAfrica Electrafrique with DJ Underdog
Pre-Show Panel Discussion
August 14 – Sunday – 5:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Alpha Blondy
August 16 – Tuesday – 7:00pm – Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Sweet Micky, MHD, Erick La Peau
August 21 – Sunday – 2:00pm – Central Park, Manhattan – FREE SHOW

Sweet Micky! Saw him live way back when (think it was kind of raunchy and I don't even speak French Creole), then he became Haiti prez and now he's back to gigging again.

Orlando Julius is doing a free show in Arlington, VA near DC. Mbongwana Star is too! Yay, who needs NYC.

Listened to South African band the Muffinz who are gonna be at Kennedy Center for free. A couple of great retro cuts with noticeable guitar, but alas too many polished urban contemporary ones. It's like they are two different bands

Papa Wemba RIP

https://mpasho.co.ke/legendary-singer-papa-wemba-faints-on-stage-dies-moments-later-video/

hadn't seen this update, sorry (posted it to the rolling obit thread)

Terrible news. I saw him do a great set back in 1998 as part of a free Africa Fete tour.

http://hyperallergic.com/292105/remembering-malick-sidibe-the-photographer-who-captured-modern-malian-life/

some music related shots that are great

That Papa Wemba news is still sad. Congo has had so much sad news for decades now

been listening to a bunch of viva la musica since i heard the news. he was in so many important congo bands - in addition to vlm he was in zaiko langa langa from the very beginning, isifi lokole, kinshasa's wa fania all-stars, collaborated w/ tabu ley -- makes me want to go back and reread rumba on the river.

2 cool podcasts this week -

awesome tapes from africa did resident advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=517
weisburg from transpacific sound paradise on tablet: http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/200390/dj-rob-weisberg

The Awesome Tapes mix is top notch.
The only Papa Wemba album I own is 'Pole Position'. Great stuff and Dally Kimoko absolutely shreds on the guitar.

Playlist updated through April.

ILM's Rolling Global / Outernational Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Music video for "Nlele Kalusimbiko" from the new Crammed Discs album Konono N°1 meets Batida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBiWxHS2F4

Sounds good. So Konono No 1 are still going on after the passing of founder Mawangu

Thurs 3-17- “They Will Have to Kill Us First” movie doc at the AFI, near W. DC at 7:15pm (Malian musicians trying to survive despite extremists

Worth seeing if its in your local cinema or you can find it online or dvd some day

Its back for 2 showings at the AFI- 14th & 16th of May

THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST

Music is the beating heart of Malian culture. But when Islamic hardliners took control of northern Mali in 2012, they enforced one of the harshest interpretations of Sharia law in history and banned all forms of music. Radio stations were destroyed, instruments were burned and Mali’s musicians faced torture, even death, and were forced into hiding or exile. But rather than lay down their instruments, the musicians are fighting back, standing up for their cultural heritage and identity. With a specially commissioned soundtrack from Mali’s most exciting artists, a score written by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, this documentary leaps headfirst into a tale of courage in the face of conflict. Official Selection, 2015 SXSW and London film festivals. DIR/SCR/PROD Johanna Schwartz; SCR Andy Morgan; PROD Sarah Mosses, Kat Amara Korba. UK, 2015, color, 105 min, DCP. In French, Songhay, English, Bambara and Tamasheq with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Zinner is not that noticeable or intrusive, if you were wondering.

I thought I read about a Mdou Moctar U.S. tour in this thread but now I don't see his name.

Anyone know dates? I can't find anything beyond stuff in Europe.

Or is this like 2 shows in NYC and DC, and that's it.

It was a mixup. I think it is no dates. When I saw the Malian Purple Rain movie, someone at the theatre near DC, said an artist like in the movie will be coming here soon. It turned out Bombino was returning, and Mdou Moctar has no US tour plans as far as I know.

moctar played nyc yesterday i think; i had to miss it for work

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/al-qaeda-affiliates-are-threatening-west-africas-most-peaceful-cities/2016/05/15/4210ecf2-1643-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop_b

Not specifically about music, but related. Focus is on Senegal

this one just came up on my tidal feed:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/song-of-lahore-mw0002936395/user-reviews
I guess it's inspired by the movie - first song was cool instrumental, 2nd one a kinda weird cover of "Shelter from the storm" feat. Tedeschi's... anyone see the film?

No, but Pakistani classical musicians travel to New York to perform with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra sounds like it could be of some interest

yup! trailer looks a bit corny though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reMlqvb_WAA

like, I'm sure that just wasn't possible and many good reasons etc., but "Wynton travels to Lahore to jam w/ Pakistani musicians" would've been a better narrative imo

they're a really strong band on their own tbh, i think the wynton angle is overplayed.

http://www.afropop.org/29167/hip-deep-in-mali-growing-into-music-in-21st-century-bamako/

https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/space-echo-the-mystery-behind-the-cosmic-sound-of-cabo-verde-finally-revealed

great story in the notes on that.

TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART TOP 15

April’s favourite albums compiled from a worldwide panel of broadcasters and writers.
BOMBINO Azel (Partisan)
AZIZA BRAHIM Abbar El Hamada (Glitterbeat)
ROKIA TRAORÉ Ne So (Nonesuch)
LA BANDA MORISCA Algarabya (Fol Musica)
KONONO No.1 Konono No.1 Meets Batida (Crammed)
LAKOU MIZIK Wa Di Yo (Cumbancha)
FANFARE CIOCARLIA Onwards To Mars! (Asphalt Tango)
THE GLOAMING The Gloaming 2 (Real World)
STEFANO SALETTI & BANDA IKONA Sound City (Finisterre)
KATERINA TSIRIDOU Aman Katerina: A Tribute To Panayiotis Toundas (Protasis)
SOCIEDADE RECREATIVA Sociedade Recreativa (La Chaudiere)
DAMIR IMAMOVI´C’S SEVDAH TAKHT Dvojka (Glitterbeat)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Every Song Has Its End (Glitterbeat)
LAS HERMANAS CARONNI Navega Mundos (Les Grands Fleuves)
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Land Of Gold (Deutsche Grammophon)

http://www.dust-digital.com/morocco/

From July to December 1959, Paul Bowles crisscrossed Morocco making recordings of traditional music under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Although the trip occupied less than six months in a long and busy career, it was the culmination of Bowles’s longstanding interest in North African music. The resulting collection remained a musical touchstone for the rest of his life and an important part of his mythology

Once released by the Library of Congress as a 2 record set, it is now being put out as a 4 cd box set

my #1 album vote from last year - Songhoy Blues - on World Cafe today:
http://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/05/25/479477071/songhoy-blues-on-world-cafe

thanks. They were in that Malian doc too. Nice take on that style.

It's pretty much midyear I think so here are the ten albums from 2016 that I've been enjoying the most. Not sure if I've mentioned all of these on this thread yet - I haven't been quite as diligent about updating the thread this year... but there have been lots of good stuff imo. In no particular order, includes new releases + reissues:

Afrobeat Makers - Nu Guinea: The Tony Allen Experiments
Bombino - Azel (Niger)
Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad (Niger)
VA - Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde)
Amanar - Tumastin (Mali)
Konono Nº1 - Konono Nº1 meets Batida (Kinshasa, Congo)
VA - Wake Up You! The Rise and Fall of Nigerian Rock, Vols. 1 & 2 (Nigeria)
Ukandanz - Awo (Addis Abeba, Ethiopia)
Debo Band - Ere Gobez (Ethiopia)
VA - Soul Sok Séga: Sega Sounds from Mauritius 1973-1979 (Mauritius)

ugh the new arat kilo is such a bummer. i was all excited for a full lp of sweet ethiojazz and they sprinkled all this terrible singing + 'meaningful' spoken word interludes over the gorgeous instrumental tracks.

I am researching a sorta Ethiopian supergroup of old-timers, some based in DC. Stay tuned.

x-post

Konono No 1 have a formula and they're sticking to it. Its one I like

Am curious about this album, that I have yet to hear:

Tuareg Music of the Southern Sahara

Various Artists FW04470 / FE 4470

These field recordings from 1960 will sound familiar to fans of the refined, guitar-based Tuareg music that has gained popularity in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, such as Malian ensemble Tinariwen or Nigerien musician Omara “Bombino” Moctar. This album showcases the historic Tuareg musical tradition, which emphasizes vocal performance, embellished with the imzhad (violin), tendi (drum), and the terelilit (alt. terlilit), a trilled vocal call unique to the region. Included are wedding songs, a hunting song, and several camel songs, indicative of the animal’s importance in this nomadic society. Liner notes offer background information on Tuareg history and society as well as photographs of performances.

Year Released 1960
Record Label Folkways Records

yes that does sound super interesting -- i'd love to read a history of tuareg / sahara music that starts w/ traditional music and goes until the current day scene. it has always been fascinating to me how music moves from ritual / contextual performance to this kind of international audience pop music construct. wedding songs obv the big one in a lot of different music scenes (this is the primary context for klezmer music, dabke eg) but like hunting songs and camel songs remind me of indigenous american music i've studied that all occurs within v specific contexts. and then what happens when you remove them and make them palatable to broader audiences - they discourse w/ this western model of music that is like music for its own sake. anyway, the album is on spotify so maybe i'll check it out later today.

oo speaking of klezmer - new naftule's dream!
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/01/480279190/naftule-s-dream-returns-with-a-fleshy-folkie-new-album

I heard that! I turned on my kitchen radio (which is always on local NPR) and heard music I actually liked but when they announced the name I was like who? Thanks for clearing it up!

We regret to inform you the 47SOUL show scheduled for June 8th at Le Poisson Rouge has now been canceled. Despite allocating sufficient time for visa application, and employing a highly reputed lawyer specializing in artist visas, the group has received notification of a rejection for just one member of the band following their interview at the US Embassy in London. The band and teams are deeply disappointed in this news but plan to reapply ASAP and reschedule the entire tour for October 2016.

h/t zs: https://www.facebook.com/SoundwayRecords/photos/a.10150396466516199.342431.183458776198/10153406802226199/?type=3&theater

72.5 hours

oho!

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/06/1970s-nigerian-rock-music-stars-wake-up-you

Only know 2 acts from that I think-- Lijadu Sisters and Fela, who are not exactly rock but are rock stars. Am curious about the others.

great album!

https://mikaelseifu.bandcamp.com/album/zelalem

this looks like a good show for dc ilxors:
https://www.wjmf.org/events/geulah-trio/

Thanks.

Also, I keep forgetting to listen to that Zelalem Ethiopian thing. Need to remedy that

Any thoughts on La Yegros? I liked the first album and am just now getting to this year's. She's good.

eee! first listen to the A-WA album!
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/480603312/first-listen-a-wa-habib-galbi?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=world

x-post-- have not yet heard Argentine electro-cumbia singer-songwriter (that's what wiki calles her) La Yegros yet.

Just got an email informing me that it is "world music day." Woo Hoo!

want! (although p. sure I've heard a few, very few, collections of early 70s Venezuelan rock---)

http://i2.cmail19.com/ei/i/8A/BF2/03A/192518/csimport/sjr-lp335-venezuela-70-slve1_1.jpg

Venezuela 70
Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Out in all good retail and internet stores worldwide this Friday 24 June.

Soul Jazz Records’ new Venezuela 70 is the first-ever album of its kind to take a look at the groundbreaking experimental rock music made in Venezuela and created in the 1970s – during a time when the country was both a modern cultural and economic powerhouse in Latin America on account of wealth from its vast oil supplies.

Venezuela lies at the northern part of South America, with neighbouring Colombia to its west and Brazil to its south. The north coast borders the Caribbean.

Whilst much of 1960s Venezuelan rock music emulated British and USA styles, the 1970s saw the evolution of a new generation of creative artists such as Vytas Brenner, Angel Rada, Pablo Schneider and Miguel Angel Fuster, who all explored the possibilities of mixing together rock with elements of electronica, funk, jazz, latin rhythms simultaneously exploring their links with Venezuelan roots music, creating a new sound which blended a multitude of new and old world influences, uniquely Venezuelan.

These Venezuelan artists looked to the future while exploring their country’s own musical heritage to create a new cultural identity. Similarities can be drawn with then contemporary movements around the world such as the Trópicalia and post-Trópicalia 1970s scene in Brazil of Os Mutantes, Novos Baianos, Secos e Molhados (all of which feature on Soul Jazz Records’ earlier Brazil 70).

A similar parallel can be made in Europe with the experimental German groups of the 1970s (Can, Amon Duul, Harmonia, Neu all featured on Soul Jazz Records’ Deutsche Electronische Musik) who deconstructed and reconstructed the links between rock music and electronics to define a new German cultural identity.

Most of these artists featured on Venezuela 70 remain practically unknown outside of Venezuela’s borders and yet their progressive forward-thinking music is some of the most sophisticated in the world – a stunning ‘melting pot’ mix of underground rock, synthetic electronics, funk, jazz and Latin American rhythms all of which explored new sounds and broke down musical boundaries to create a distinct and unique Venezuelan music and cultural identity.

2×LP, CD, MP3

Tracklisting
1 Vytas Brenner – Araguaney
2 Pablo Schneider – Amor En Llamas
3 Un Dos Tres y Fuera – Machu Picchu
4 Miguel Angel Fuster – Polvo Lunar
5 Angel Rada – Basheeba
6 Fernando Yvosky – Barcos De Papel
7 Un Dos Tres y Fuera – Son De Tambor y San Juan
8 Vytas Brenner – Bang-Going-Gone
9 Aldemaro Romero y Su Onda Nueva – Irene
10 Miguel Angel Fuster – Dame De Comer
11 Un Dos Tres y Fuera – San Juan, Tambor y Fuera
12 Ofrenda Vytas Brenner – Caracas Para Locos
13 Grupo C.I.M. – Joropo No. 1
14 Angel Rada – Panico a Las 5am
15 Apocalipsis – Ayudame a Encontrar Mi Camino
16 Miguel Angel Fuster – La Quema De Judas

More Info & Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/cosmic-visions-of-a-latin-american-earth

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival in DC, on and off from June 29 to July 10 will be feauring music from Basque artists plus various international traditional musicians who now live in California...freeeeeee on the national mall

http://www.festival.si.edu/visitor-information/evening-concerts/smithsonian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/22/pakistani-sufi-singer-shot-dead-in-karachi

Taliban killed Amjad Sabri, who along with his family sang Qawwali devotional music from the Sufi tradition

Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2016 Thread Once Known as World Music

Mordy posting on last year's 2015 thread had me confused

He posted this Npr piece that has a few more details than the one posted above

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/26/483231557/why-was-a-prominent-muslim-musician-gunned-down-in-pakistan

oops, my mistake

from another thread:

I have no idea where to put this but searched Barbes and there was mention on this thread. I was in NY last week and went to Barbes on Wed to see the Mandingo Ambassadors and it was incredible. They're there every Wed and would highly recommend. So fun. http://www.mandingoambassadors.com/

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, June 27, 2016 8:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cool. Barbes nightclub hosts some Latino acts which is why it got mentioned on this thread. But probably goes better on this 2016 "global" "whirled" thread where old-school Guinean dance music led by guitarist Mamady Kouyate is more likely to be appreciated. Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2016 Thread Once Known as World Music

― curmudgeon, Monday, June 27, 2016 9:25 PM (0 seconds

strut has a fantastic retrospective of tanzanian band Sunburst w/ a fab cover (it's on spotify too)

http://i0.wp.com/www.strut-records.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SUNBURST-FINAL-FRONT-COVER-HI-RES.jpg?resize=768%2C768

Cool. Will check it out. In other news, funky hornman Orlando Julius is touring North America again in July. He was fun live before a tiny crowd last time I saw him (a last minute added show that was not well publicized)

http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-king-sunny-ade-orlando-julius-afro-soundz-dj-rich-medina/

Looks like King Sunny is skipping my locale on this tour...I see Massachusetts gigs, and Midwest and west coast and NY online

x-post-- Listened to that Ave Africa early 70s music album by Sunburst. It starts off nicely enough, but similar to any other album from that era and style, but then they add variety nicely mixing funk and soul and was that violin on one of the tracks? Will need to listen to it some more

yeah, i am really digging it. v warm summer sounds. i know it's not terribly different from similar zamrock but i've listened to we intend to cause havoc a dozen times so obv a. i love the style and b. i could use some new stuff. if anything the sunburst sounds even warmer + summerier.

Such a classic style

Now-California based Afghan musicians Homayoun Sakhi(who plays the stringed lute-like rubab) and Salar Nader(percussionist) were pretty impressive in a low-key sort of way last night for free on the national mall in W. DC. They have some albums out

Is there a good book on the mid 70s African psych and rock scenes? Or possibly longer scale interaction with Western musical influence?
I think I saw something along the lines in Foyles in London a couple of Xmases back but I don't remember what the title was.
Would like to read something along the lines.

Does the book that comes with the recent Wake Up You! sets cover much of that area?

Wake Up You! is presented in two 100+ page books full of never-seen photos and the story of the best Nigerian rock bands told in vivid detail by musicologist and researcher Uchenna Ikonne (Who Is William Onyeabor?).

Each volume is presented as both a hardbound book with CD in a resealable plastic sleeve, and as a double LP with a soft-cover book included in a custom-made 12″x 12″ book holder

http://venturesafrica.com/features/behind-the-music-the-rise-and-fall-of-nigerian-rock-makes-a-case-for-why-history-and-culture-preservation-in-nigeria-should-matter/

I think the book I was looking at in Foyles may have covered a wider area and was specifically a book. But I can't remember what it was. But definitely covered rock in Africa.
& I'm thinking it was xmas before last that I was looking at it.

Not sure what search terms to look up something like that on a search engine with. Any ideas?

I have books from the '80s that profile various artists from all over Africa, including a book by John Collins that I think includes Nigeria, but nothing specific like you are looking for. Collins spent more time in Ghana

Thanks.
I think the book I was looking at wasn't necessarily dedicated to a single part of Africa.
THough it is possible it was specifically West.

I'm also i9nterested in some of the music from the East, Benge, Taraab etc and the Ethiopian stuff.

Which side of the Continent is Zambia on too?

Just discovered King Sunny Ade is playing an hour north of me tomorrow, Friday night (poorly promoted show in a hall I have never heard of with tickets going for $50 to $150) Kings palace hall - 1730 Whitehead Road, Woodlawn, Md

KSA was solid live; he's lost a lotta weight!

playing for free in chicago a week from monday! looking forward to it.

The last time I saw him was a gig shortly after he had been in an auto accident that killed some bandmates and injured his arm. Am hoping he has recovered all his strength, albeit he is also getting older. Haven't had a chance to check out recent live footage I saw linked on twitter

he's onstage dancing, looking good. kinda stunning for his age tbh!

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2878671511_16.jpg

x-post--King Sunny Ade was so great early this morning. At the show near Baltimore, they didn't come onstage till 1 am and were still onstage going at 3:25 am when my wife and I headed out (I had to get up early to work, a long drive, etc). The show was most impressive from 1 am to 2:40 am or so when the 12 piece group plus King Sunny were doing call & response vocals, guitar, percussion, keys and more grooves, and coordinated choreographed dancing. At 2:40 am it was praise song time, with Nigerians coming onstage to throw money at and paste it on King Sunny Ade while also requesting recitation of their names. King Sunny did not play guitar at the beginning of the night or during the praise song portion, but there was a long middle stretch where he did. He's about to turn 70 and was energetic.

The promoter as I mentioned before did a lousy job getting the word out about this gig. There were only around 50 people there (mostly Nigerian) some who paid $150 (regular standing room price was $50). The 3 times I have seen him over the years in DC there was always at least 1,000 there. This gig was supposed to start at 8:30, but the opener Elikeh didn't start till 11 pm.

So the King Sunny Ade gig went from 1am to 3:50 am (according to former V. Voice and NY Times and elsewhere contributor Don Palmer who I met at the show). It was awesome. Better than when I last saw him in 2009.

I do a semi-regular show on NTS in London called - whoops! - Outernational, which I use to play, the nebulously defined "African and Middle Eastern party music". Anyway, I don't usually mention it here but I've got an exclusive play of the title track from the new Noura Mint Seymali album, Arbina and I know there are a lot of fans here. I'm terrible at speaking IRL so I apologise in advance to anyone who sits through it.

Outernational on NTS Live, July 5

Thanks

So Femi Kuti is gonna be in W. DC July 29th, as is Nigerian afrobeats/afropop singer Tiwa Savage. Although her gig is likely to start much later.

Old-school Nigerian horn player Orlando Julius Ekemode is going to be in the area earlier--July 23rd, so its a fairly busy summer for seeing Nigerian acts (King Sunny having already been here)

anyone here happen to know a press contact for King Sunny Ade? thanks in advance!

just ilxmailed you

btw, KSA is doing Brooklyn for free tomorrow
http://www.bam.org/music/2016/r-and-b-festival-at-metrotech

great podcast about goma this week from afropop worldwide:
http://www.afropop.org/26411/congo-goma-music-conflict-and-ngos/

thank you, ulysses!

np!

Again apologies for the self-promotion but there's a ton of stuff here I guess people may be interested in - not the least of which is Soundway's entire back catalogue streamed but also two Arabic funk/disco mixes, killer Lebanese electronica, new Islam Chipsy/Amr HaHa collab etc.

Middle Eastern & African Playlist

Saw the UK-based Ethiopian trio the Krar Collective the other day. Impressive combination of krar strumming with a percussionist and a woman vocalist.

Saw Krar last night for the second or third time; they're okay but it was a bit slow?
Hakim from Egypt though... that was a party!

Krar has some songs that are a tad slow and are too similar, but they had a number of faster-tempoed songs in DC (Virginia actually) with the female singer shaking her shoulders Ethiopian style and some Ethiopians in the audience doing the same. Plus the show here was in the library and there were a bunch of kids there who were dancing and jumping about too.

If Hakim made it down here, I didn't know about it.

Hakim was a last second fill in for Rachid Taha. One of the better shows I've seen this year.

Just got home from the show -- King Sunny Ade so fresh for his age!!

Loving the new Philou Louzolo EP, Alkebulan Republic. Congo/Nigeria/Sierra Leone via Amsterdam. This ("Kinshasa Anthem") is my favourite track, an absolute stormer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgSnJ0-POBY

thread playlist updated.

saw Wang Li and Wu Wei last night in what will certainly be one of the best shows of my year.
sheng and jaw harp primarily with music of their killer album Overtones (spotify/amazon/apple accessible).
If they tour near you, do not miss them. Often reminiscent of giallo horror soundtracks; i need to see a slasher movie that they score.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiQ_Ua6GXDA

Saw old-school Nigerian Orlando Julius and a great band do some fun afrobeat Saturday night for free outside DC. Second time I've seen him this year. His Chicago-born wife who has lived in Nigeria for 18 years now is an impressive dancer and an ok singer.

It's Nigerian music month it seems, with the great King Sunny Ade touring, Julius,Femi Kuti, Tiwa Savage, and Kiss Daniel.

afropop worldwide podcast absolutely killing it. new bamako episode is another a++

^^ listening now, WONDERFUL stuff, did not know about this podcast, thank you

Oh, listened to an earlier one. Will have to check out this latest one.

Malian guitarist/singer Mamadou Kelly & his band are touring North America now through August btw.

Ulysses, I just sent you a webmail via ilx

and i just hit ya back

Thanks.

Remaining Mamadou Kelly 2016 U.S. Tour Dates:

Aug 5 Kennedy Center, Washington DC
Aug 6 Balliceaux, Richmond VA
Aug 7 Bossa Bistro, Washington DC
Aug 10 Union Pool, Brooklyn NY
Aug 12 Half Moon, Hudson NY

While I was in NYC, I missed this Senegalese gig back in Silver Spring, MD

PAPE DIOUF et la Generation Conciente featuring special Guest Bay Babu

http://selam.se/eng/artists/pape-diouf-senegal

photos I saw on FB showed 200 person room packed for Pape (all Senegalese it appeared btw). I need to listen to his mbalax music

Saw some video and his band has awesome mbalax percussionists

Saw some photos of his Atlanta show on twitter or instagram ...Not sure where else he played.

http://www.vipeoples.net/VIDEO-Le-guichet-ferme-de-Pape-Diouf-a-Washington-100-live-show-Regardez-l-integralite_a26611.html

NUMERO GROUP ANNOUNCES BOBO YÉYÉ: BELLE ÉPOQUE IN UPPER VOLTA, OUT 10/28

3-DISC SET OF SEMINAL 60s & 70s UPPER VOLTA ARTISTS W/ INCREDIBLE ARCHIVAL PHOTOS BY SORY SANLÉ
Bordered by the former French territories of Niger, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin, the landlocked nation of Burkina Faso has been the site of near-constant tribal, colonial, and political unrest for centuries. During a spell of tranquility in the ’60s and ’70s, the arid savannah then known as Upper Volta became fertile grounds for innovations in music, fashion, and entrepreneurship. Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta takes an in-depth look at cosmopolitan city of Bobo-Dioulasso as it underwent a pop culture explosion, using rare recordings and remarkable photography to celebrate the region's vibrant and geographically isolated music scene. From the orchestral might of Volta Jazz, to the smaller combos of Tidiane Coulibaly, to the minor league titans Echo Del Africa and Les Imbattables Léopards, Bobo Yéyé offers an intimate peek into Upper Volta's prolific music scene. Accompanying the three-disc set is an incredible hardbound monograph book featuring the work of photographer Sory Sanlé.

From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, Sanlé documented his nation's transformation from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis. A melange of community elders and emboldened youth spill from the brightly lit confines of Sanlé's Volta Photo studio into the dimly lit nightclubs of Upper Volta's cultural capital. Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta will be released via Numero Group on October 28th.

Listen To "Wêrê Wêrê Magne” by Volta Jazz:
https://soundcloud.com/numerogroup/volta-jazz-were-were-magne/s-WKU68

BOBO YÉYÉ TRACKLISTING

DISC 1
1. Volta Jazz - Air Volta
2. Volta Jazz - Bi Kameleou
3. Volta Jazz - Fitri Mawaly
4. Volta Jazz - Djougou Toro
5. Volta Jazz - BB Peyrissac
6. Volta Jazz - Mama Soukous
7. Volta Jazz - Fintalabo
8. Volta Jazz - Wêrê Wêrê Magne
9. Volta Jazz - Nâgô Fâla
10. Volta Jazz - Mousso Koroba Tike
11. Volta Jazz - Dounya Te Soyé
12. Volta Jazz - Beni Djarabi
13. Volta Jazz - Chérie Nawa
14. Volta Jazz - Ma Douce Ledy
15. Volta Jazz - Na Dalo
16. Volta Jazz - Djougou Malola

DISC 2
1. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - De Nwolo
2. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Sie Koumgolo
3. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Dounian
4. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Si Tu Maime
5. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Tjiranama
6. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Yafamma
7. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Foli
8. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Ram Passomayé
9. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Bombossi
10. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Sondja Magni
11. Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Limaniya

DISC 3
1. Echo Del Africa - Gentlemen Doromina
2. Les Imbattables Léopards - Bissongo Lebguinw
3. Les Imbattables Léopards - Dja Tigui Kie
4. Les Imbattables Léopards - Milaoba
5. Echo Del Africa - Yiri Wah
6. Les Imbattables Léopards - Néné
7. Ouedraogo Youssef - He Ya Wannan
8. Idy-O-Idrissa - Arindo
9. Les Imbattables Léopards - Ne Toumdé
10. Les Imbattables Léopards - Boudou Nyida

pretty good track!

x-post-- Did additional listening to Senegal's Pape Diouf on Spotify. His studio tracks there sound like a young and raw Youssou N'dour. Senegalese mbalax with no crossover aspects

http://www.npr.org/event/music/488667943/watch-imarhan-perform-live-in-the-studio

next up on Pickathon webcast: King Sunny Ade---
http://livestream.com/pickathon/events/5911922

Wonder if it will go nearly 3 hours like the show I saw in July

I saw this KSA set live, thought it was terrific. can't go 3 hours bcz festival format.

they are a blast, he sounds great and certainly doesn't lack energy

his tshirts say something like "50 years touring 70 years alive!" (i may have that first number wrong)

Ava Rocha is included in a recent NY Times guide to Brazilian music, done in association with the Olympics (and linked to on the Modern Brazil ilm thread). She mixes traditional Brazilian samba singing and music with some noisy postpunk and avante-jazz interludes on some of her material

Ava Rocha Tour USA is coming!

August 5th – Joe’s Pub (New York) 9:30 pm - $ 15
425 Lafayette St, New York, NY
http://www.songkick.com/artists/8814094-ava- rocha

August 6th – Nublu (New York) - 11 pm - $10
Brasil Summerfest’s Closing Party
62 Avenue C, New York, NY (East Village)
http://www.nublu.net/

August 9th – Trans-Pecos Brooklyn (New York)
915 Wycoff Av, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
8:00 pm - concert Marcos Campello+ Steve Dalachinsky
8:30 pm - Nigth - film by Paula Gaitán
10:00 pm - concert Ava Rocha

August 12th – Tropicalia (Washington) - 11 pm
2001 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20009
http://www.tropicaliadc.com/

August 13th – Nublu (New York) - 10 pm - special guest Gui Amabis
151, Avenue C, between 9/10th Streets , East Village
http://www.nublu.net/

***

Ava Rocha launches her first tour in the United States

talked with some folks who saw her over teh weekend and they said she was amazing

I'm gonna be away for a family thing and miss that DC gig in a small club.

https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/arts/music/75-dollar-bills-arabic-inspired-sound.html?_r=0

So this rock band's guitarist Che Chen developed his style in part from a Mauritania guitar teacher. The percussion Rick Brown has been in NY bands like V-Effect, Fish & Roses, and Run On.

I was originally gonna grumble about how some folks I read on Facebook like this group's guitar sound but never tout Mauritanians like Noura Mint Seymali and her superb guitarist, but I guess folks can listen to whatever they want, without liking some of the origins of the sound

they are pretty dope... noura is too!

Maybe we actually need more rock guitarists influenced by Sahel region axemen

Congo's Mbongwana Star have one Congolese guitarist plus their producer Doctor L on guitar (this latter Irish guy living in Paris has a bit of post-punk in his approach in addition to various African styles he learned) .

They're in Chicago tonight, outside DC on Saturday the 13th and elsewhere including NYC this month

This sunday actually!
http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-mbongwana-star-batida-young-paris/

playing in chicago and i can't go bc of work :(

How was the NY show Ulysses? I was away and missed the DC area one

Doctor L sometimes plays bass and not guitar; and sometimes does not appear with them live

Batida was spectacular and Mbongwana did a full on punk set; really really fun time in the midst of some of the worst weather i can remember

that sounds like an amazing show weather notwithstanding

it was; quick squall in the middle of batida's set scared off a few but mostly led to ecstatic rain dancing

yeeeeah that's how it's done!
i'm so excited for the world music fest here but it's so confusing and disorganized
mulatu is playing!

Mulatu Astatke's last scheduled appearance near me sadly got cancelled. Still have never seen him. Ghanaian Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band at that Chicago fest looks good too.

feel like i mentioned this upthread but
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/mulatu-astatke-fy17
which i kinda feel like i need to do but $130 for a pair?

come to chicago, see it for free!

lol, it would probably cost me $130 to come to chicago by greyhound solo but then i have to like sleep somewhere and eat...

it would be an investment/adventure for sure

i'm just excited about it because my hometown friends are coming and my local friends are sure to be there too, it's going to be so fun
unfortunately i can't figure out anything about how to secure/RSVP tickets. that's what i mean about it being disorganized.

i dig.

I am finding things to say about it in dribs and drabs over on the Afro-Latin thread, but I want to at least draw attention to it here. This album is very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyrCD4Nd2K0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPZ9ibcuCIM

iLe is the artist formerly known as PG-13 when she performed with her brothers in Calle 13.

The album is bolero/ballad oriented, with songs by iLe and some of her extended family. More late 50s/early-to-mid 60s Latin pop than Fania era (although Cheo Feliciano does appear on one of the boleros). Definitely no reggaeton.

Just listened to Konono Noº1 Meets Batida for the first time: seems like some of it will have to grow on me, to an unexpected degree---prob. something to do with all those medium tempos, often *relatively* smoothed out on this occasion, while chugging right along, but almost laidback in cumulative effect, and most are at least 6 minutes long.
However, I did immediately get into "Yambadi Mama"--one for the Can fans---also the more overtly "electronic" than usual "Kinsumba", and the faster than usual "Kuna America", that one (my fave) with vocal interjections from all over the frame, as found on some others---especially the opener, "Niele Kalusimbiko", another obvious keeper. Will listen more for sure.

batida on tape isn't doing much for me. live, it all falls into place.

too straight-forward clubby on some recorded tracks

I've been listening to various old Manu Dibango efforts. "Soul Makossa" of course but other tunes that range from afro-psych-funk to schmaltzy jazz. He's gonna be touring North America shortly

playlist is updated.

new hailu mergia reissue out today! and it's v good. v pretty.

maybe came out earlier actually? but i'm first hearing it this weekend.

its recent--June I think.

I've been studying up on Ethiopian pianist Girma Beyene who was on Ethiopiques vol. 8 Swinging Addis and penned funky jazz standard “Muziqawi Silt. “ His arrangements were used by lots of Ethiopian musicians. Around 1984 when he was living in DC he gave up on music after his wife died, but after eventually moving back to Ethiopia he started playing again around 2008. He has DC and NY gigs set for October (maybe other places too)

new noura mint seymali!!!! (her last album was in my 2014 top 10) (incidentally right after angel olsen who also has a new album coming out v soon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4euzr4UaQI

I love the guitar sounds played by her husband, Jeiche Ould Chighaly

otm that stood out to me too

Wed. Sept. 28th --Jagwa Music ( Dar es Salaam, Tanzania street band uses interlocking drums, hacked mini casio keyboards, and hotwired megaphones) for free from 6 to 7 pm at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (and to be video-streamed and archived)

I don't recall(!) whether I have listened to this band, that I think has something out Crammed Discs, but I want to check them out based on that description. Music is on Spotify and Youtube

Seeing Fendika tonight, they're always a treat.
http://www.melakubelay.com/

Is there a POX thread for comps of this (very broad) category of music? I could really use a guide to the absolute best-of-the-best as there's a bazillion of them.

you'd be best to try by country/genre imo but the playlist for this and last year should offer some guidance?
2016 - https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/1nZtZEqVftetRt7w307hh5
2015 - https://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/301ODR3qGB9NiVeQrnewAR

here are 10 comps i've liked (don't think a thread on them is a terrible idea) (i'm assuming you want multiple artist comps and not single artist comps?):

Space Echo - The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed!

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0834826493_16.jpg

Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll

http://www.dust-digital.com/icn/DTD-42_600.jpg

Balani Show Super Hits: Electronic Street Parties from Mali

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4120423326_16.jpg

Haiti Direct - Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/haitidirect-8.26.2013.jpeg

Kenya Special (Selected East African Recordings from the 1970 & 80s)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/13039/kenya_1375972949.jpg

Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wkddrw6ictQ/hqdefault.jpg

Marvellous Boy: Calypso from West Africa

https://www.melomane.fr/9551-thickbox_default/marvellous-boy-calypso-from-west-africa-2lp.jpg

Ghana Special: Modern Highlife Afro-Sounds & Ghanian Blues 1968-81

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/203/MI0001203175.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978

http://staalplaat.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/product_slideshow/product/23195_0.jpg

Vintage Palmwine: Highlife Recorded in Ghana in the Bokoor Studios

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/351/MI0002351162.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

marvellous boy probably my favorite thing in that list

thanking you for Balani Show Super Hits, this is great. I don't know why I always ignore Sahel Sounds releases when I like basically everything I've ever heard from them. this new Kologo Power! compilation is already off to an amazing start: https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-kologo-power

If the Kenya and Ghana Specials aren't already too much to absorb, I'd also strongly recommend Nigeria Special

Our first radio show after summer break last Friday was especially outernational: 'Richa' by Noura Mint Seymali (such a great album), Li Daiguo (on Pipa), Hailu Mergia, Equiknoxx from Kingston, Dj Marfox from Lisbon. If you're into that kind of thing... https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-09-september-2016

--Jagwa Music ( Dar es Salaam, Tanzania street band

Listened to some of this on Spotify. Promising but a tad uneven. Its all about the rhythmic grooves

Saw Mali's Vieux Farka Toure and a small band (bass and Drummer) Saturday for free at a Festival in 95 degrees F heat. Probably the 4th or 5th time I have seen him. I like his upbeat, more danceable songs better than the more leisurely ones he started with. Although one quiet-tempoed song was more ballad than slow groover, and his vocals and playing took on a more mournful and dramatic feel.

That Kenya Special comp is one of my all time favourites, which is by the by... but there's a new edition in the series coming out soon on Soundway. This month I think.

The Dhol Foundation are embarking on their first North American tour. Kinda hit or miss with their blend of bhangra and other genres though

searched for an antibalas thread but didn't find one so i will post this here
saw them last night, they totally slayed and it was so fun
crowd was somewhat thin but the venue was sort of medium-large

they're pretty much undeniable live. just a super solid party band imo.

yeah it was a top notch good time, and for a chicago crowd it felt very alive. and it was free! people were more friendly than usual by a wide margin.

arbina = a+++

unrelatedly seeing A-WA this wednesday!

Looks like I missed A-Wa in DC awhile back opening for Balkan Beat Box, I'm just seeing NY & Philly and West coast dates now for current tour.

I should listen to Noura Mint Seymali new album -Arbina, as have liked her sound in the past.

Been listening to Kenya Special comp a bunch.

yeah a-wa is at the Knit tomorrow night. $20!

A-Wa played in Chicago last week same night as Antibalas but I missed it -- my friend went and said the show was top notch

also meaning to ask does Antibalas always cover that Rockwell song? They said it was for all the old sexy people, lol ;)

youtube suggests yes, as of last year
anyway, it was good even if i felt a hint of unwanted pandering

Saw a free gig from Tanzania's Jagwa Music last night at the Kennedy Center (video of the show should be up on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage website in a day or so, or maybe today). Pretty good but not great. They have one guy who uses a mini Casio keyboard, 2 percussionists, a woman tambourine player/dancer and a singer. Plus they have a megaphone on a pole, and some of their sounds get filtered through that. The rhythms are often speedy, and the dancer is adept, I just wasn't completely wowed by the singer's mix of singing and chanting.

Currently touring North America, but not together: Ifrikya Spirit from Algeria; and the late great Congolese singer Tabu Ley Rochereau's band L'Orchestre Afrisa International.Looking forward to the latter. They always impressively backed Tabu Ley when I saw him perform over the years.

Glad to see old-school Congolese musicians touring (at I assume that is who is in L'Orchestre Afrisa International)....

at least I assume...

I used to go look at an African music forum/chatboard that a bunch of Congolese ex-pats living in Europe and the US used to contribute to. They were so proud of 70s and 80s Congolese music, and expressed their takes that it was superior to everything else. Not sure if that board or a similar one still exists, but I wonder. Plus, that defunct magazine called The Beat, used to have a Brit contributor who also worshipped that era of Congolese sounds. Ah, the glory days of Congolese rumba & soukous--Franco, Tabu Ley, Zaiko Langa Langa, Kofi Olimede

I hope you New Yorkers saw Tanzanian band Jagwa Music. I'm liking their DC show even more in hindsight (plus looking at some video clips I made that showcase their great dancer/tambourine player)

missed that one sadly but caught Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino beforehand and they were awesome

I know nothing about traditional Italian music and dance, but will check them out later

they're kind of ridiculously good live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-IfNJyxA8w

I am looking forward to old-school Ethiopian pianist Girma Beyene live. He is doing gigs in DC & NYC with the DC based Feedel Band, that includes a couple of old-timers who played with Girma in the 1980s.

Beyene came to DC in the 80s, but then quit music for a bit after his wife died(his musical inspiration he said) and worked here as a gas station attendant. Later he moved back to Ethiopia and began playing music again.

Lol, you and i basically go to the same shows only separated by a few states

xxp - I've been caning Tabu Ley in the car recently. Namely the two Voice of Lightness comps on Sterns but also some of the Syllart albums / comps. He worked with some amazing guitarists.

Loads of Congolese album recommendations on this site: http://www.muzikifan.com/africaframe.html

Thanks. I am hoping that Tabu Ley's band who were just touring, will be the first of many old-school Congolese bands with great guitarists touring.

Although after I watched video of Afrisa International (that I now told only includes some members of Tabu Ley's band) I was slightly less wowed. Some good moments though.

So this past Friday I saw Ethiopian piano legend Girma Beyene with DC based Ethiopian group Feedel Band. Despite an arrogant soundman who wouldn't make Girma's gorgeous, melancholy voice and piano louder in the mix, the show was very nice. Ethiopian singing star Mahmoud Ahmed was in the crowd, and Girma's producer, Francis Falceto, the curator of the Ethiopiques series was also there.

A short US tour for Girma, who had lived in DC from 1981 to 2010. NYC show coming up. He's been just hanging out in DC.

Girma Beyene told me he enjoyed seeing Cuban jazz pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa at the Kennedy Center earlier this month.

Modern Brazil - s/d

Brazilian postpunk samba mentioned in recent posts

Merasi Musicians of Rajasthan India are kinda interesting (chanted vocals over harmonium and table and handclaps and finger cymbals)

Gonna have to miss Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed tonight live. Have seen him before, and he lives not far from me, but he rarely performs live locally

Saw video of Ahmed's gig last night, on Facebook. He sounded great and is using a band that has DC and Either/Or band members together. They're at Carnegie Hall in NYC tonight

Just saw this amazing video by Indonesian experimental duo (hand-built custom instruments and unearthly vocals) Senyawa. They've got 4 albums and a couple of EPs and live discs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZnzJIYsJ7s

Playlist is updated with lots from Mordy's haul of world music comps; it's 125+ tracks and 10 1/2 hours of whirled peas

ILM's Rolling Global Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Lots of songs to hear. I've been listening to Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol 2 .

Was also impressed live hearing an old-school Ethiopian guitarist trying to keep pace with a younger Ethiopian synth keyboardist pumping dance beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5kcOPDbkCs

hey, i can see myself in that video ^^

i am the bassist in KSA's band

j/k i am one of the schlubby dudes in the audience

I like the title track a lot of the recent Noura Mint Seymali album Arbina.

Here's an interview (below the review) from back in September someone did that's interesting

http://thequietus.com/articles/20886-noura-mint-seymali-arbina-lead-review-interview

Drawn more and more and more to Rough Guide To Ethiopian Jazz, though some of it took a while. Also intrigued by this news from Numero:

By now you know that we’re very good at making box sets. Look across your living room and you can probably see one of those 2” wide spines peering at you from the shelf. Whether it’s a complete overview of an under-recognized Chicago soul singer or an omnibus of 45s, we pride ourselves on our ability to exhaust ourselves and your wallet. We’ve been nominated, and have won several awards since we issued our first box, 2009’s Light: On The South Side, and we think our latest offering is an unlikely sequel to that crowning work.

When Florent Mazzoleni approached us a few years ago with a stack of photos from the former West African nation of Upper Volta, we were immediately intrigued. Just as Michael Abramson captured nightlife on the South Side of Chicago in the mid-1970s, a world away Sory Sanlé was doing the same. Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta provides an intimate look into the landlocked nation's pop culture explosion of the me decade. A melange of community elders and emboldened youth spill from the brightly lit confines of Sanlé's Volta Photo into the dimly lit nightclubs of Upper Volta's cultural capital as their nation transformed from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis.

And just as Light was accompanied by a double album of the kind of funky blues spilling from Pepper’s Jukebox, we’ve drawn together Bobo Dioulasso’s sonic titans Volta Jazz, Dafra Star, Echo Del Africa, and Les Imbattables Léopards to form a triple album soundtrack. Don’t own a record player? Don’t worry, we made a compact disc version with all the same material.

So let’s recap: For $70 ($35 on CD) you get three albums, a 120 page monograph (176 pages for the CD), a discography of Voltaic 45s and LPs, and a gorgeous slipcase to bind them all together. For Numerophiles ordering directly from our site we’ve also pressed up a limited edition replica LP of Echo Del Africa’s Récit Historique de Bobo-Dioulasso. The whole box is limited just 3000 copies on each format, and they will disappear.

Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta is out today in finer record stores everywhere and is always available on our website. Reminder: We no longer insert digital download cards into our LPs, but offer an instant download from our site upon check out.

http://www.afropop.org/32445/womex-2016-recommendations/?platform=hootsuite

fave acts at this European based, international music conference (more details at womex.com)

Rob Lokin, Artistic Director, Afrika Festival, Netherlands

Trio Da Kali (Mali)
Jupiter and Okwess (DR Congo)
Nakany Kanté (Guinée)
Derek Gripper (South Africa)
Mali Blues (film directed by Lutz Gregor)

Simon Broughton, Editor of Songlines magazine

Puerto Candelabra (Colombia)
Narf and Timbila Muzimba (Mozambique)
Tuuletar (Finland)
Derek Gripper (South Africa)
Black String (South Korea)

Paula Abreu, Associate Director, Programming, SummerStage, NYC

Delgres (Guadeloupe and France)
Bargou 08 (Tunisia)
Jupiter and Okwess (Democratic Republic of Congo)
H.A.T. (Morocco)
DJ Satelite (Angola/Portugal)
Anelis Assumpção (Brazil)

Jon Kertzer, radio host, “Music of Africa” KBCS-Seattle

Trio Da Kali (Mali)
Jupiter and Okwess International (Congo)
Calypso Rose with Kobo Town (Trinidad/Tobago/Canada)
Derek Gripper (South Africa)
Quinteto Bataraz (Argentina)

Jacob Edgar, President of Cumbancha Records and the head of research at Putumayo World Music, among other things.

Calypso Rose (Trinidad)
Xabier Diaz (Galicia) Spain
H’Sao (Chad)
Gisele João (Portugal)
Bixiga 70 (Brazil)

Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director, NYU Arts Center, Dubai; co-founder of globalFEST

Bargou 08 (Tunisia)
Vassnik (Sami artist from Norway)
Niño el Beche (Spain)
Delgres (Guadeloupe and France)
Oligarkh (Russia)

Slowly going through above acts...

Trio da Kali 's singer--Hawa Kasse Mady Diabaté, daughter of legendary Kasse Mady Diabaté, is the singer of the trio, one of the finest griot voices in Mali and often compared to Mahalia Jackson. At home, Hawa performs mainly on the wedding circuit, singing at parties held on the streets of Bamako (the main context in which most musicians in Mali make a living

http://fliartists.com/artists/global-roots/trio-da-kali/

Derek Gripper is gonna be doing a free gig at the Kennedy Center this month (and maybe in your town too). He's a white South African who melds classical, Malian kora and South Asian sounds together

Here's a list--- w/ Noura Mint Seymali at #1

http://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/11/01/transglobal-world-music-chart-for-november-2016/

still lots I haven't heard on these lists, but I have heard the recent Noura Mint Seymali and its a good one

I think me and the missus are gonna go see Seu Jorge doing his David Bowie songs in Portuguese tomorrow night at the Howard Theatre instead of watching election results at home

good call! pottery for me.

Seu Jorge did a nice if short set, an hour plus 2 encores of songs he had done earlier ("Rebel Rebel" and "Oh You Pretty Thing"). A certain non-David Bowie song got all the Brazilians in the crowd excited. Alas, I spent some of the time staring at twitter and 538 on my phone in disbelief and disgust and sadness.

Is it going to be harder for international musicians to come to the US now? Will have to see how this all plays out. Plus what will change with Cuba (or change back)?

Modern Brazil - s/d

Lots of Brazilian stuff for me to catch up on, plus some of those acts from that list I posted above on Nov. 1st

Brazilian singer Mahmundi's electro r'n'b pop with a touch of reggae is nice enough but only wows me on a few cuts. She's on Spotify.

I listened to Jupiter and Okwess (DR Congo) on Spotify. Despite being from the Congo, this band sounds more like Seun Kuti--sped-up afrobeats with horns.

love the bobo yéyé comp

I couldn't give it my full attention, but this Digital Zandoli comp sounded great: https://antillesseries.bandcamp.com/album/digital-zandoli

x-post-- will the reissue labels ever run out of old-school African music to reissue;

Thanks for the tip-- haven't listened yet to that Numero Group Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta

Oh, that comp Rob mentioned--80s zouk and more is a less researched area...

yeah I don't have the knowledge to talk much about it, but it was all new to my ears (I mean apart from the rnb and boogie influences) and a lot of fun

I listened to Kassav a bit way back when, but that's about the extent of my knowledge

Digital Zandoli is fantastic, maybe my comp of the year.

Was listening to current female artist Nakany Kanté (Guinée)...pleasant listen, need to listen again more closely

folks talking about Brazilian Rodrigo Campos on the Modern Brazil thread...Nice samba singer who sometimes gets a bit artsy

Thanks Rob for posting, been enjoying Digital Zandoli all week. Also looking forward to the Doing it in Lagos/80s Nigeria compilation on Soundway. Cuts I heard sound incredible

The opening track from Digital Zandoli , Puzzle Pulsion - Mwoin Ka Songe , has a bit of a Haitian konpa feel to it if you ask me even if the Dusty Grooves website description doesn't think so. Many Haitians were/are into zouk

WORLD MUSIC EUROPEAN AIRPLAY TOP 15
October’s most played world music albums, compiled from returns from radio DJs all over Europe World Music Charts Europe
© giftmusic 2016
1.NOURA MINT SEYMALI Arbina (Glitterbeat)
2.KRISTI STASSINOPOULOU & STATHIS KALYVIOTIS Nyn (Riverboat)
3.ELIZA SOARES The Woman At The End Of The World (Mais Um Discos)
4.ACID ARAB Musique De France (Crammed)
5.DZAMBO AGUVESI ORCHESTRA Brass Like It Hot (ARC)
6.ZOMBA PRISON PROJECT I Will Not Stop Singing (Six Degrees)
7.ALSARAH & THE NUBATONES Manara (Wonderwheel)
8.TUULETAR Tules Maas Vedes Tavaal (Bafe’s Factory)
9.VARIOUS ARTISTS Urgent Jumping! (Stern’s)
10.ORKESTA MENDOZA ¡Vamos A Guarachar! (Glitterbeat)
11.YISHAK BANJAW Love Songs Vol.2 (Teranga Beat)
12.LUISA MALTA Fio Da Memoria (Cumbancha)
13.DJ CLICK Labesse Club (No Fridge)
14.SÖNDÖRGÖ Live Wires (Riverboat)
15.CIGDEM ASLAN A Thousand Cranes (Asphalt Tango

TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART TOP 15
October’s favourite albums compiled from a worldwide panel of broadcasters and writers.
1.NOURA MINT SEYMALI Arbina (Glitterbeat)
2.CONSTANTINOPLE & ABLAYE CISSOKO Jardins Migrateurs (Ma Case)
3.KALHOR, AYNUR, GAMBAROV, QOCGIRI Hawniyaz (Harmonia Mundi)
4.KRISTI STASSINOPOULOU & STATHIS KALYVIOTIS Nyn (Riverboat)
5.VARIOUS ARTISTS Khmer Rouge Survivors (Glitterbeat)
6.RICHARD BONA & MANDEKAN CUBANO Heritage (Qwest/Membran)
7.TANGA Le Trésor Des Ancêtres (Buda)
8.REFUGEES FOR REFUGEES Amerli (Muziekpublique)
9.VARIOUS ARTISTS Urgent Jumping! (Stern’s)
10.TUULETAR Tules Maas Vedes Tavaal (Bafe’s Factory)
11.QUEYRAS, CHEMIRANI, SINOPOULOS Thrace Sunday Morning Sessions (Harmonia Mundi)
12.ABOU DIARRA Koya (Mis & Metisse)
13.BARCELONA GYPSY BALKAN ORCH. Del Ebro Al Danubio (Satélite K)
14.VIEUX KANTÉ The Young Man’s Harp (Stern’s)
15.ORKESTA MENDOZA ¡Vamos A Guarachar! (Glitterbeat)

both of these from the folk roots zine website

Best thing about the "Bobo Yéyé" comp is the book it comes with - many of the recordings were financed by this photography studio and there's tons of pictures. Some of people standing in front of a painting of an airport - aspirational.

So in 1983 after a military coup, Upper Volta became Burkina Faso. Listening to that Bobo Yeye comp now on Spotify. The comp with book sounds tempting. Numero group does a nice job with all of their releases.

So a few folks over the years on ilx have praised German producer Mark Ernestus for his remixes of African music and more. I somehow missed out, but see his new Senegalese remix effort got a nice review from Andy B*ta . I think the "Yermande" track from this may have come out in 2015

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22461-yermande/

César Lacerda & Romulo Fróes – O Meu Nome é Qualquer Um (google translate says that means in English): My Name is Anyone

Nice, quiet & folky yet bossa-samba-mpb inflected duo effort from Brazil

playlist updated with songs from those best of lists; probably another 80 or so tracks.

Thanks

My quick look at the year-end 2016 thread shows very few non-Western world albums...

I think I saw Bombino on one list & maybe Noura Mint Seymali on another, but no afropop/afrobeats, nothing from Central or South America....

Ben Ratliff, former NY Times writer, usually includes a Brazilian album in his list, but his 2016 list (in Esquire) doesn't have any.

Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

NPR picked A-WA as their #23rd best album of the year!

I like some of that Yemeni pop, but not sure about the whole album

they put on a fantastic show. i really like them.

Noura Mint Seymali at #76 on Quietus list. Hoped she would have finished higher. I think the guitar playing on her album is as or more interesting than that on many of the rock and experimental albums that finished above it on that list

Afropop.org "stocking stuffers" list

The complete list of this year’s recommended records, and where to find them:

Bitori, Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)

Elage Diouf, Melokàane (DEP)

Tiwa Savage, R.E.D. (Mavin)

Bisa Kdei, Break Through (BLMC)

Yishak Banjaw, Love Songs Vol. 2 (Terenga Beat)

Debo Band, Ere Gobez (FPE)

Various Artists, Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta (Numero Group)

Various Artists, Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics (Sterns Africa)

Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Madjafalao (Because Music)

Vaudou Game, Kidayu (Hot Casa)

Bossacucanova The Best of Bossacucanova (Six Degrees)

Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, Dois Amigos: Um Século de Música (Ao Vivo) (Nonesuch)

Elza Soares, A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (Mais Um Discos)

Los Hacheros, Bambulaye (Chulo)

Ibrahim Maalouf, Black Light (Impulse)

Tiken Jah Fakoly, Racines (Universal)

Vieux Kanté, The Young Man’s Harp (Sterns Africa)

Bombino, Azel (Partisan)

Noura Mint Seymali, Noura Mint Seymali, Arbina (Glitterbeat)

Mohamed Abozekry, Karkadé (Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi)

Osei Korankye, Seperewa of Ghana: Emmere Nhyina Nse (Akwaaba Music)

Richard Bona, Heritage (Qwest)

The Pedrito Martinez Group and Román Díaz, Habana Dreams (Motema Music)

Harold Lopez-Nussa, El Viaje (Mack Avenue)

Zomba Prison Project, I Will Not Stop Singing (Six Degrees)

Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni, Les Filles de Illighadad (Sahel Sounds)

Sahra Halgan Trio, Faransiskiyo Somaliland (Buda Music)

Aziza Brahim, Abbar el Hamada (Glitterbeat)

Rocky Marsiano, Meu Kamba Vol. Dois (Akwaaba)

Graveola E O Lixo Polifônico, Camaleão Borboleta (Mais Um Discos)

La Yegros, Magnetismo (Soundways)[i]

I couldn't give it my full attention, but this Digital Zandoli comp sounded great: https://antillesseries.bandcamp.com/album/digital-zandoli

― rob, Monday, November 21, 2016 3:25 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this

Los Hacheros, Bambulaye (Chulo)

This is fun retro Latin dance music (from NY I think)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/photography/finding-indias-lost-musicians/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20161210travel-indiamusic&utm_campaign=Content&sf45735326=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe7-MYliEzM

Got the Music of Morocco box yesterday finally and don't feel like I've come up for air since -- disc 1 on repeat, read the deets of disc 1 contents while waiting for band practice, learned tons already. And the package itself is pure delight to look at and anticipate. I'm saving the major essay for later.

Yeah, it's an astonishing collection. Worked my way through three times and each time a different disc is my favourite.

Haven't dug into Music of Morocco yet, but I did dig into some albums on that afropop.org list--

Vaudou Game, Kidayu (Hot Casa) was a fun listen. This is a band based in France I think, led by a guy from Togo who go for a Seun Kuti meets Orlando Julius afrofunk-afrobeat sound most of the time, but suddenly sound Ethiopian on a track or 2.

Richard Bona, Heritage (Qwest) -- he's a studio vet from the Cameroon who has played bass with African, Latino and jazz groups alike. He has played with a who's who of artists in Paris and NY. Also plays balafon and guitar. Its pleasant and sometimes more. A few cuts play up the clave beat more.

Listened to these too: Elage Diouf, Melokàane (DEP)-- kinda all over the map, I need to hear it again; one song sounds like Springsteen kinda

Tiwa Savage, R.E.D. (Mavin)-strong afropop/afrobeats that I listened to earlier this year and again recently

Bisa Kdei, Break Through (BLMC)--Ghanaian funky afropop sorta. I like it and need to hear again

Thanks to folks on this list for some of the great finds throughout the year. I've only been lurking on this thread, but I appreciate it.

http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-16/#breakdown

01. Thiago Nassif – Três
02. Dele Sosimi Meets Prince Fatty & Nostalgia 77 – You No Fit Touch Am in Dub
03. Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina
04. Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra – Abra Sua Cabeça
05. Anthony Joseph – Caribbean Roots
06. Fumaça Preta – Impuros fanáticos
07. Bombino – Azel
08. Alma Afrobeat Ensemble – It’s Time
09. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande
10. Saulo Duarte e a Unidade – Cine Ruptura
11. Mulatu Astatke + Black Jesus Experience – Cradle Of Humanity
12. Ukandanz – Awo
13. Céu – Tropix
14. Elza Soares – The Woman At The End Of the World
15. Rokia Traoré – Né So
16. Imarhan – Imarhan
17. Negro Léo – Água Batizada
18. A-Wa – Habib Galbi
19. Tom Zé – Canções eróticas para ninar
20. Metá Metá – MM3

didn't realize there was a new mulatu astatke project! thx for heads up.

Nor did I. The other Ethiopian pianist legend Girma Beyene has been sticking around on the east coast of the US for a bit. He's gonna do a January showcase gig in NYC for US arts promoters I think, plus more gigs there and a New Years Day one with Feedel band again backing him in DC. Someone needs to get them a show up your way Mordy.

i guess it's the time of making lists so i think this is my top world albums 2016 list:

1. A-WA - Habib Galbi (shocking I know) (Israel)
2. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina (could've been #1 easily) (Mauritania)
3. Fatou Seidi Ghali, Alamnou Akrouni - Les Filles de Illighadad (Niger)
4. Imarhan - Imarhan (Algeria)
5. Sahra Halgan Trio - Faransiskiyo Somaliland (Somalia)
6. Volta Jazz, Coulibaly Tidiane & Dafra Star - Bobo Yéyé: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta (Upper Volta)
7. VA - Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed (Cape Verde)
8. Luka Productions - Mali Kady (Mali)
9. Aziza Brahim - Abbar el Hamada (Algeria)
10. Sunburst - Ave Africa: The Complete Recordings 1973-1976 (Tanzania)
11. Bombino - Azel (Niger)
12. Afrobeat Makers - Nu Guinea: The Tony Allen Experiments (Paris)
13. VA - Turntables on the Caribbean (Caribbean)
14. Debo Band - Ere Gobez (Ethiopia)
15. Naftule's Dream - Blood (Boston)
16. Africaine 808 - Basar (Berlin, Lagos, NY)
17. Ukandanz - Awo (Ethiopia)
18. Hailu Mergia, Dahlak Band - Wede Harer Guzo (Ethiopia)
19. Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra - Abra Sua Cabeça (Brazil)
20. Malawi Mouse Boys - Forever is 4 You (Malawi)

subject to change, order is loose, etc etc, apologies for any errors, did not split original releases + reissues this year

With you on Noura....

x-post

Ah, So Astatke recorded with an Australian band

that mouse boys album is a quiet heatseeker it's true
they're secretly one of my fave live shows of all time

Osei Korankye, Seperewa of Ghana: Emmere Nhyina Nse (Akwaaba Music)

Nice, pleasant acoustic Ghanaian music

Was also listening to the Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra - Too Much Information - Laolu Remix on Spotify. That's a Dec. 2015 afrobeat goes club thing that is popping up on some 2016 year-end track lists.

Elza Soares – The Woman At The End Of the World

This seems to be the Brazilian effort getting the most crossover attention. But sometimes this is too avante-noisy for my tastes, and she sometimes shrieks too much. Romulo Froes who I like, wrote a song on this and Soares is hailed by many, so ignore my nitpicking if you want.

yeah I listened to a bit of that and it was pretty good, but it seems obvs that her life story is key to the attention it's getting. This is a reissue from 1970 but it was on bandcamp's list and is quite nice: https://josemauro.bandcamp.com/releases

Was also listening to the Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra - Too Much Information - Laolu Remix on Spotify. That's a Dec. 2015 afrobeat goes club thing that is popping up on some 2016 year-end track lists.

It makes no sense to me to list that rather than the dub album, but it's good -- I found a FLAC version from some comp and just appended it to the dub album.

Afrobeat Makers - Nu Guinea: The Tony Allen Experiments (Paris)

Is this a compilation of the two volumes, which came out in 2012 and 2014?

Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra - Abra Sua Cabeça (Brazil)

I love this and am trying to find a way to officially buy it (lossless files or CD) with no luck so far.

Here's a few others that were just outside my top 20 or on other genre lists:

Mohammed Lamouri – MOMOstLAMOURI tape (Lamouri) | Algeria
Baaba Maal – The Traveller (180 Proof) | Senegal
Konono No. 1 & Batida – Konono No. 1 & Batida (Crammed) | Congo
Douglas Germano – Golpe de vista (Digitalize) | Brazil
Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band – Wede Harer Guzo (ATFA) | Ethiopia
Susso – Keira (Soundway) | UK
Wardruna – Runaljod: Ragnarok (Norse Music) | Norway
Steve Lehman – Sélébéyone (Pi) | US & Senegal
The Eternals – Espiritu Zombi (New Atlantis) | US
Melt Yourself Down – Last Evenings On Earth (Leaf)
Luisa Maita – Fio de memória (Cumbancha) | Brazil
Horse Lords – Interventions (Northern Spy) | US
The Dwarfs Of East Agouza – Bes (Nawa) | Egypt
Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflows – Professional Sunflow (W.25th) | US
Shabaka and the Ancestors – Wisdom Of Elders (Brownswood) | South Africa
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans (Strut) | US

Ah, it's actually Volume 3:

https://afrobeatmakers.bandcamp.com/album/nu-guinea-the-tony-allen-experiments

yeah i like it a lot

Was also listening to the Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra - Too Much Information - Laolu Remix on Spotify. That's a Dec. 2015 afrobeat goes club thing that is popping up on some 2016 year-end track lists.

It makes no sense to me to list that rather than the dub album, but it's good -- I found a FLAC version from some comp and just appended it to the dub album.

They sound different-- the "Too Much Info" single is faster-tempoed and more funky goes clubbing while that album is dub. They both have their virtues.

César Lacerda & Romulo Fróes – O Meu Nome é Qualquer Um (google translate says that means in English): My Name is Anyone

Nice, quiet & folky yet bossa-samba-mpb inflected duo effort from Brazil

― curmudgeon, Saturday, December 3, 2016 6:23 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmar

This is really growing on me. Froes wrote a song (or more) on the Elza Soares album that gettting lots of love. He and Lacerda can do straight-ahead Brazilian samba stuff with nice melodies, and sometimes they add rock aspects to it.

They sound different-- the "Too Much Info" single is faster-tempoed and more funky goes clubbing while that album is dub. They both have their virtues.

I was just thinking in terms of it's a single 7:13 track (no one seems to be including the Rainy City Music Version) released in 2015, whereas the dub album is a full album from this year.

The Folk Roots magazine "world" and folk music critics poll is in their new issue, but is not on their website

that Dhafer Youssef album is growing on me, maybe a bit jazz for this thread but it does feature a Tunisian oud master.

Anyone hear some 2016 Congolese music you can recommend?

Was kinda underwhelmed by Brazilian rock group Meta Meta album on only listen, but I see it got nominated on ilx poll. Maybe I should give it another shot

this was a great podcast about congo music and NGOs: http://www.afropop.org/26411/congo-goma-music-conflict-and-ngos/

this Tswe song is pretty cool: https://soundcloud.com/thesongwriteredition/tswe-feat-patexx-we-let-it-flame-c-imsgllc

also the new Konono N1 meets Batida album: http://open.spotify.com/album/0dz2NmWVZ6XaFtFIGxQ0Lc

Thanks.

Oh, in another news I see that the fRoots crit poll is now on their website:

1. Shirley Collins Lodestar (From Here)
2. Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis Nyn (Riverboat)
3. Jim Moray Upcetera (NIAG)
4. Aziza Brahim Abbar El Hamada (Glitterbeat)
5. The Gloaming The Gloaming 2 (Real World)
6. Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker Overnight (Rough Trade)
7.= Maarja Nuut Une Meeles (Maarja Nuut)
Refugees For Refugees Amerli (Muziekpublique)
9. The Furrow Collective Wild Hog (Hudson)
10. Leyla McCalla A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey (Jazz Village)
11. Elza Soares A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo (Mais Um Discos)
12. Calypso Rose Far From Home (Because)
13.= Leveret In The Round (RootBeat)
Noura Mint Seymali Arbina (Glitterbeat)
15. Afro Celt Sound System The Source (ECC)
16. Bombino Azel (Knitting Factory)
17.= Lady Maisery Cycle (RootBeat);
Lakou Mizik Wa Di Yo (Cumbancha)
19.= Kris Drever If Wishes Were Horses (Reveal)
Orkesta Mendoza ¡Vamos A Guarachar! (Glitterbeat)

runner-ups are also listed

Pretty sure I listened to 4. Aziza Brahim Abbar El Hamada (Glitterbeat) but I have forgotten it

Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis' Nyn has some good things going for it, but it doesn't quite seal the deal for me. I think they need to intensify the guitar and bouzouk lines. It sounds like they could put more tension into the music by cutting loose a bit more (?). Worth checking out though. YMMV.

glad to see shirley collins on that list!

Pretty sure I listened to 4. Aziza Brahim Abbar El Hamada (Glitterbeat) but I have forgotten it

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:55 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha same, I went back to it the other day to see whether it was EOY-worthy and it's definitely nice while it's on but it didn't make much impact on me

Looks like Mordy liked Aziza Brahim more than we do, as I look back on the thread

Listened again to Brazilian Carlinhos Brown's latest (on Spotify)-- it's uneven. Some songs start strongly with Carnival like drumming and then change gears; others use guest vocalists including kids; there are ballads that work and some that incorporate too much melodramatic American pop-rock movie flavor

it's v listenable imo

New thread for 2017:

Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2017 Thread Once Known as World Music

Cleaned up playlist and added some 100+ tracks; mostly via these year-end roundups but plenty of stuff just switched onto the service over time. It's finalized for the year.

ILM's Rolling Global Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

digging this https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/afromutations

whole label is cool