Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2014 Thread Formerly Known as World

Tarrus is the correct spelling. Listened to older cuts mostly, not his new album (that I have not heard yet)

What's new and exciting that you like (or old and exciting), folks?

Sidiki Diabaté & Toumani Diabaté - Sidiki & Toumani -- Toumani is always sublime on the kora, here, he and his son perform a nice set of duets. The interplay between the two is wonderful, even if not as fine as Toumani has done with Ali Farka.

can't stop listening to haiti direct comp

i've got this! i need to spend more time with it. are there any particularly interesting tracks, that i can use to find a way into the disc (they all seem v good, but i've kind of let it wash over me when i've listened to it so far).

If you're talking about Haiti Direct, try the track i linked above.

Haiti's Tabou Combo are usually impressive in the studio (I touted them upthread in discussions of this album too)

Free shows at SummerStage

Central Park, MN - Sat, June 7 - 7:00pm - TOQUINHO: Tribute to VINICIUS DE MORAES, DJ GASPAR MUNIZ
Central Park, MN - Sat, June 14 - 6:00pm - ROBERTO ROENA Y SU APOLLO SOUND, LA MECÃ NICA POPULAR, LITTLE LOUIE VEGA
Central Park, MN - Sun, June 15 - 6:00pm - BLACK COFFEE, DJ SPOKO
Central Park, MN - Sat, July 5 - 3:00pm - TEDDY AFRO, NOURA MINT SEYMALI, HAHU DANCE CREW
Central Park, MN - Sun, July 6 - 3:00pm - GLOBAL FAMILY DAY: OKEE DOKEE BROTHERS, HYBRID MOVEMENT COMPANY, SHAUN PARKER & COMPANY, ACROBUFFOS, NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE
Central Park, MN - Sat, July 12 - 3:00pm - BABASONICOS, JUANA MOLINA, LA SANTA CECILIA
Central Park, MN - Sat, July 19 - 7:00pm - LENINE & MARTIN FONDSE ORCHESTRA: THE BRIDGE, MAIRA FREITAS, DJ TUTU MORAES
Central Park, MN - Sun, July 20 - 3:00pm - CATALAN SOUNDS ON TOUR: MISHIMA, TXARANGO, DJ SETS BY HEADBIRDS
Central Park, MN - Sat, July 26 - 3:00pm - CHRONIXX & THE ZINCFENCE REDEMPTION, JUNIOR REID, THE RICE AND PEAS CREW

Central Park Summerstage got moved to Minnesota? Ha.

Impressive list as always

come get some!

I'm partic psyched about our ethiopian day, the LAMC show with Juana Molina, Lenine and Chronixx

very cool. curious about Toquinho: I have his Boca Da Noite from the 70s but have heard nothing else
seeing Chronixx for free on a July afternoon would be heavenly

psyched about our ethiopian day

Teddy Afro's Ethiopian reggae is nice. Saw him on a bill with Mahmoud Ahmed once. I don't know the Ethiopian Hahu Dance Crew but will check them out online. Not to be too annoying but Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania. She and her band are great--psychedelic, funky Sahel desert sound more in common with Malian Tuaregs, although they draw from everywhere musically.

speaking of ethiopian day, i like this new comp a lot:

http://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/2/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/u/s/us04521.jpg

Just know Budos Band and Debos Band from that comp

whole thing is fantastic

Saw Noura at globalfest, can recommend.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/03/mauritanian-singer-noura-mint-seymali-on-her-band-playing-weddings-and-arab-idol/

My q & a with her

nice piece, i read that when it was booked!

Great to see so much love for Noura Mint Seymali! Her new album Tzenni is a really good listen.

The title track from it kicks off my new North African And Middle Eastern column for The Guardian published today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCEeaERMfNo

Only 1 song from T Diabete & son new album is available on Spotify US, for now. Others are grayed out

this is a great reissue from soundway:
http://www.soundwayrecords.com/product/sndwcd062-sierra-leone-in-1970s-usa

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/18/312187878/first-listen-seun-kuti-egypt-80-a-long-way-to-the-beginning?ft=1&f=1039

Tune into http://dublab.com now for North African selections from @JewishMorocco This is a journey into sound...

Still need to listen to Seun Kuti's new one and that North African stuff on dublab (if still available).

Gonna try to go see Malian guitarist Oumar Konate & band live tomorrow night. He has, per press release, accompanied ... Vieux Farka Toure, Kounkako Sata, Roberto Magic, Alpha Diakité, Sidi Touré, Khaira Arby, Leila Gobi.
He is a featured player on many recordings including Sidi Toure's hailed 2011 album "Koima," and Leila Gobi's 2010 "Menaka" for which he also arranged.

Listened to Seun Kuti last night. I like it although much of it just sounds like his Dad's music sped up. Plus he offers with guests his take on "IMF".

Friday the 30th in D.C.

DrumPulse Entertainment will be playing the latest Afrobeat, Azonto, Highlife, Coupe Decale, Makossa, Mapouka, Hiphop, Reggae, Pop, Soca, and more.

and more!

this looks amazing but since it's not out in the US until next month i'll have to satisfy my craving for calypso w/ the honest jons compilations

oops forgot the link: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/25/calypso-musical-poetry-caribbean-review-neil-spencer

if anyone gets the chance to see toumani & sidiki diabate on tour you should jump at it. saw them last night & they were magnificent. the album is good but the live show is so much better, the tracks from the album spun out to twice the length & becoming these enormous pulsing webs. I've never heard kora duets before but the interplay between them was so fluid, often cycling through numerous time changes in a piece, I had to look at their fingers a lot to try and work out who was playing what. they built up incredible velocity at times, generated this amazing sense of airy space, phasing in & out, full of those cascades & grooves, as well as some much slower, more serene pieces. never heard anything like it, really blew me away

west african rhythm brothers - "oma laso" is total bliss

on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/6KIG377QO8FZvyW0kftvHV

nice relaxing groove & soft, lilting melody

The xpost DVD of Punk In Africa is really good, in terms of mixing durr-durr-durr punk rock with ska, jazz, reggae, sometimes dub (live turntables and basic electronics, on occasion--don't know if the Kalahari Surfers played out, but no prob excursing on the version in the living room), jazz, usually times various unmistakably indigenous (black African) folk and pop elements.In one of the many bonuses, leader of the South African black trio Genuines, who looks like he might be in his mid-60s remembers the township marching bands, playing what he later mixed with jazz and rock, and speeded up (as the Gs became known as the fastest punk trio, though no lack of tunefulness or texture in these selections), but also, some kids initially asked him why he was playing "that coon carnival music." Not every kid was that isolated---then again, a Mozambique musician remembers having to go to Portugal or Brazil to buy records he should have been able to get down the street.
I'd never thought about the mainly Afrikaans-associated artists: the leader of KOOS recounts (in Afrikaans) how he and his colleagues identified with underground post-punk and avant bands of Poland and Czechoslovakia another guy, whose family actually was from Czechoslovakia, became more of a durr-durr-durr Pistols-type player, although his lyrics were pointedly "I don't wanna talk about "Johnny Rotten/I wanna talk about/All about me). Another Afikaaner, a graphic artist, talks about the fecklessness of those who realized they've lost their one "save", at least a vestige of white privilege resulting: "disillusioned parents and clueless kids," also himself" "I hide in my books and comics...I'm glad there's a barbecue next Sunday, something I can not go to." (Also says Praetoria has thus become a fortress of metal and goth, "the two most conservative musical forms.") A professor adds that "Afrikaan existence has become ironic--what comes next after irony is 'Fuck You."
Well, lots more here---like the Zimbabwean band band leader who became wary of having his insurgent music being co-opted by politicians, and ended up exiled in South Africa--though he's not sure if this is more from his government's hostility or sheer disfunction. He's still leading a band, though. Would like to see interviews from some of the increasingly numerous female and androgynous performers in these decades of performance footage. Pretty good talk/music ratio, and the well-paced 82 minute feature is 'companied by a lot of uninterrupted performance and interview clips)(a bass player demonstrates different African pop and reggae patterns, and talks about changing his mindset from Stanley Clarke fusion aesthetic to punk in Africa).

Wonder what these guys think of Johnny Clegg and Savuka? "Well-intentioned but too mellow"? Never heard 'em much, but seems like they took some chances. Oh yeah, one of the early punks says, "You were never ruled desirable, you were either undesirable, or not undesirable." This DVD is rated Not Undesirable by Me.

Wish I had seen that movie when the Smithsonian Museum of African Art showed it in DC, and members of a group from the movie (I forgot who) played live.

new from sahelsounds:

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a1391650287_2.jpg

Cosmic synth. Polyphonic analog synthesizers and drum machines interpret ancient Saharan folk ballads in an imagined science fiction future. A proposed relaxation guide, sonically lying somewhere between ambient library music and minimal wave. Recorded in Niger and France in the late 1980s and never before released.

Looks very cool. I'll definitely check it out when it arrives in my local shop.
Kindred Spirits has been reissueing some great albums lately, I especially love this one.

are there any recordings of that lijadu sisters sing onyeabor show from earlier this month?

+1 on that q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAsCVio4OAw

moar plz :)

and board feed!

anything else from Lijadu Sisters live doing Onyeabor pop up

Forgot to look myself

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/for-ravid-kahalani-every-show-is-a-world-tour/2014/05/29/8f078c44-e4f6-11e3-a70e-ea1863229397_story.html?tid=gog_ent_article_grid

Mordy, do you know the music of this Israeli/Yemenite guy?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2014/05/29/punk-drummer-with-a-camera-jason-hamacher-is-now-a-syrian-art-preservationist/

What I have heard from the "Sacred Voices" he has released, I liked

So into this single from Senegalese singer Marema!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXX4WmbuFVo