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

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!!