Modern Brazil - s/d
Brazilian postpunk samba mentioned in recent posts
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
Merasi Musicians of Rajasthan India are kinda interesting (chanted vocals over harmonium and table and handclaps and finger cymbals)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 21 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
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
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 24 October 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
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
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 24 October 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5kcOPDbkCs
― Mordy, Wednesday, 26 October 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
hey, i can see myself in that video ^^
i am the bassist in KSA's band
― alpine static, Thursday, 27 October 2016 08:10 (seven years ago) link
j/k i am one of the schlubby dudes in the audience
― alpine static, Thursday, 27 October 2016 08:11 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 October 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dow, Friday, 28 October 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
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) SpainH’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)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Here's a list--- w/ Noura Mint Seymali at #1
http://worldmusiccentral.org/2016/11/01/transglobal-world-music-chart-for-november-2016/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
still lots I haven't heard on these lists, but I have heard the recent Noura Mint Seymali and its a good one
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 November 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
good call! pottery for me.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
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)?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Lots of Brazilian stuff for me to catch up on, plus some of those acts from that list I posted above on Nov. 1st
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 November 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
love the bobo yéyé comp
― Mordy, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
I couldn't give it my full attention, but this Digital Zandoli comp sounded great: https://antillesseries.bandcamp.com/album/digital-zandoli
― rob, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
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...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― rob, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
I listened to Kassav a bit way back when, but that's about the extent of my knowledge
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 November 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Digital Zandoli is fantastic, maybe my comp of the year.
― wanderly braggin' (seandalai), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
Was listening to current female artist Nakany Kanté (Guinée)...pleasant listen, need to listen again more closely
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
folks talking about Brazilian Rodrigo Campos on the Modern Brazil thread...Nice samba singer who sometimes gets a bit artsy
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
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
― maarten, Friday, 25 November 2016 08:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 November 2016 05:51 (seven years ago) link
WORLD MUSIC EUROPEAN AIRPLAY TOP 15October’s most played world music albums, compiled from returns from radio DJs all over Europe World Music Charts Europe© giftmusic 20161.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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART TOP 15October’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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 1 December 2016 10:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 December 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
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/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 December 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
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, 3 December 2016 06:23 (seven years ago) link
playlist updated with songs from those best of lists; probably another 80 or so tracks.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Sunday, 4 December 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2016 02:56 (seven years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 December 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
NPR picked A-WA as their #23rd best album of the year!
― Mordy, Monday, 5 December 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
I like some of that Yemeni pop, but not sure about the whole album
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:47 (seven years ago) link
they put on a fantastic show. i really like them.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
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]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 December 2016 04:59 (seven years ago) link
― rob, Monday, November 21, 2016 3:25 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love this
― just sayin, Friday, 9 December 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
This is fun retro Latin dance music (from NY I think)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link