Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2016 Thread Once Known as World Music
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
oops, my mistake
― Mordy, Monday, 27 June 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 June 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
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
― Mordy, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
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)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-king-sunny-ade-orlando-julius-afro-soundz-dj-rich-medina/
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Looks like King Sunny is skipping my locale on this tour...I see Massachusetts gigs, and Midwest and west coast and NY online
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 June 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 July 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Friday, 1 July 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Such a classic style
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 July 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
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/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 July 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
KSA was solid live; he's lost a lotta weight!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 7 July 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
playing for free in chicago a week from monday! looking forward to it.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 July 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
he's onstage dancing, looking good. kinda stunning for his age tbh!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 9 July 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2878671511_16.jpg
― Mordy, Saturday, 9 July 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 July 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― Doran, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
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)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 05:05 (seven years ago) link
anyone here happen to know a press contact for King Sunny Ade? thanks in advance!
― alpine static, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 06:02 (seven years ago) link
just ilxmailed you
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
btw, KSA is doing Brooklyn for free tomorrowhttp://www.bam.org/music/2016/r-and-b-festival-at-metrotech
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
great podcast about goma this week from afropop worldwide:http://www.afropop.org/26411/congo-goma-music-conflict-and-ngos/
― Mordy, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:06 (seven years ago) link
thank you, ulysses!
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 July 2016 07:34 (seven years ago) link
np!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
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
― Doran, Saturday, 16 July 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
Saw the UK-based Ethiopian trio the Krar Collective the other day. Impressive combination of krar strumming with a percussionist and a woman vocalist.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 July 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
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!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 16 July 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 July 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Hakim was a last second fill in for Rachid Taha. One of the better shows I've seen this year.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 18 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Just got home from the show -- King Sunny Ade so fresh for his age!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 04:15 (seven years ago) link
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
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
thread playlist updated.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Sunday, 24 July 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 July 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
afropop worldwide podcast absolutely killing it. new bamako episode is another a++
― Mordy, Monday, 25 July 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
^^ listening now, WONDERFUL stuff, did not know about this podcast, thank you
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Ulysses, I just sent you a webmail via ilx
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
and i just hit ya back
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link