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

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.

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