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

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.

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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/