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

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

former ilxor cybele with post on ethiopian pop reggae http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/23/the-playlist-reggae-dancehall-soca

Thanks. Teddy Afro regularly comes to DC. Saw him once. Not bad (not amazing either)

i don't know him, curmudgeon - i'll have to check him out. i've been listening to that calypso comp i mentioned upthread a lot lately, some May tzadik releases, and this hypnotic mamman sani taaritt reissue.

as noted above, he's playing summerstage with seymali:

Saturday, July 5, 2014
TEDDY AFRO
NOURA MINT SEYMALI
HAHU DANCE CREW
Presented by SummerStage
Central Park, Manhattan
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
FREE SHOW
Raised by musical parents, it was apparent at an early age that Tewodros Kassahun, (now known as Teddy Afro) had a deep love of music. Over the past ten years, Teddy has emerged as the number one voice in Ethiopia, breaking records for album sales and show attendance. He is known far and wide as the rising star of East Africa. Using Reggae rhythms combined with traditional sounds his songs are sung exclusively in the national language of Ethiopia, Amharic. Influenced by Ethiopian Maestro Tilahun Gessesse and international Reggae superstar Bob Marley, he sings of freedom from tyranny and self-emancipation.
Artist Website: http://teddyafro.info
Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries. Having begun her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her legendary step-mother Dimi Mint Abba, Noura Mint Seymali was reared in a transitive culture where sounds from across the Sahara, the Magreb, and West Africa coalesce in the dynamic language of the Moorish griot. Fueled by the exploratory sound of her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly’s distortion-fueled psych guitar lines and a declaritive rhythm section, Ousmane Touré (bass) and Matthew Tinari (drums), Noura Mint Seymali has already made a formidable debut on the international stage. Performing at events like Festival-au-Desert (Mali), Hayy Festival (Egypt), and Festival Timitar (Morocco) and collaborating with artists like Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyaté, and Baaba Maal, Noura Mint Seymali is steadily gaining wider recognition, determined to bring Mauritanian music to the world.
Artist Website: http://www.nouramintseymali.com/
Hahu Dance Group are a contemporary modern traditional group that aims to promote Ethiopian culture, art and indigenous knowledge all over the world. Hahu won Ethiopian Idol in 2011, and represents Ethiopian multiculturalism, by including four traditional dancers each hailing from different ethnic groups, showing a true sense of community. The group’s early works were inspired by the poor Addis neighborhoods and performances were focused on community awareness creation and empowerment. The group has been working in collaboration with nongovernmental organizations (Andugna dance company, Hope for children organization, Music Media, Addis Ababa city administration theater, A.A. Culture and tourism bureau) on various community issues.

Seymali and her band are great. While her voice is not necessarily Western-ear friendly, its power can win over folks. Her band's psych-funk aspects are more Western-friendly but done distinctively enough to please those who want a more trad Mauritanian/North African sound.

As I noted, I am not as wowed by Teddy Afro's meld of Ethiopian traditionalism and pop-reggae. But obviously many Ethiopians are.

Life's not fair--why would a think tank pay for for this right-wing extremist Washington Post columnist's trip to and stay in Morocco-

I happened to arrive on the day of the annual music festival, which has been held for the last 10 years. The event with its large outdoor stages is free and therefore a magnet for young people. There is traditional Moroccan music, but also an international stage with European and American performers. A representative from the Moroccan government emphasizes this is an outward manifestation of the country’s affinity to the West. With the brush of the back of his hand he suggests Moroccans are signaling that strict Islamism is not for them. Many young women still wear a hijab (headscarf), but with jeans, jewelry and stylish sandals, and couples stroll arm in arm in the centuries-old souk (open market).

I’ll continue to post on Morocco during the remainder of the week and occasionally on other topics as well. As previously noted, my hotel and air travel are being paid by a Moroccan think tank, the Moroccan Institute for International Relations. My observations are strictly my own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/06/02/rabat-the-capital-of-a-country-in-transition/

if Morocco is trying to signal modernism/westernism opposition to radical islamism, jennifer ruben is like the perfect person to pitch to

That's true I guess, since she is normally so knee-jerk in quickly finding radical Islam everywhere.

Red Baraat will lead over two hundred musicians in the world premiere performance of 100+ BPM on the steps of The Brooklyn Public Library.

Take that Glen Branca, Phillip Glass & Steve Reich. This is on June 21st

NYC ain't the only place with great international music outdoors this summer. For free within view of the monuments in D.C. we have the following (y'all should visit) plus not yet announced performances during the day by many of those acts:

Thursday, June 26

· “Sounds of the Southwestern Mountains: Dong and Miao Music”— A concert featuring two ethnic communities from southwestern China’s Guizhou Province: the polyphonic singing tradition of the Dimen Dong Folk Chorus, followed by singing and dancing by the Leishan Miao Music and Dance Group. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moonrise Pavilion.

· “Divas Night: Homage to Kenyan Women in Music”— A concert featuring Iddi Achieng, a multi-talented Afro-fusion artist and activist; Gargar, a group from Garissa preserving traditional culture and empowering women through music, and more. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

Friday, June 27

“Ralph Rinzler Memorial Concert: A Tribute to Pete Seeger, Citizen Artist”— An annual concert presented in memory of Ralph Rinzler, the co-founder of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. This year’s is a Smithsonian Folkways Tribute to Pete Seeger. Featured artists include Abigail Washburn, Quetzal, Tony Seeger, Radmilla Cody, Holly Near, and others to be announced. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

Saturday, June 28

· “Expressions of China: A Musical Revue” — A gala concert featuring a wide range of musicians, dancers, singers, folk theater artists, and puppeteers from the China program. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moonrise Pavilion.

· “Taarab Classics and Pwani Grooves from the Kenyan Coast” — A concert featuring veteran taarab musicians, Mohamed Shigo and Mbarak Ali Haj. They will be accompanied by female vocalist Nyota Ndogo. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

Sunday, June 29

· “Crossroads China: Abigail Washburn and Shanghai Restoration Project”— A concert of reimagined sounds—reminiscent of 1930s Shanghai jazz and with new spins on traditional material through American clawhammer banjo alongside hip-hop and electronica. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moonrise Pavilion.

· “Crossroads Kenya: Samba Mapangala” — A concert featuring Kenyan lingala music, a genre of dance music that came out of Cuban rumba music from the Belgian Congo and French Congo in the 1940s. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

Wednesday, July 2

· “Nomadic Soul: Qiang and Mongolian Music”— A concert featuring the traditional polyphonic singing of the Qiang people followed by a mix of throat singing and long songs from Inner Mongolia. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moonrise Pavilion.

· “Zilizopendwa: Remembering 50 Years of Kenyan Hits” —A concert featuring music from western Kenya, characterized by rhythms inspired by a traditional dance of the Luhya community. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

Thursday, July 3

· “Chinese Theater Traditions: Puppetry and Opera”— A presentation of two distinct dramatic performance traditions in China, featuring the Quanzhou Puppet Troupe and the Zhejiang Wu Opera Troupe. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moonrise Pavilion.

· “Fusion Night: Nairobi Now”— Featuring Kadir Kotola, a singer/songwriter of the Oromo language. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

Saturday, July 5

· “Crossroads Asia: Wu Man and Friends”— A concert featuring a virtuosic Smithsonian Folkways Recordings artist who blends traditional and contemporary music on the pipa, a four-stringed plucked lute. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Moonrise Pavilion.

· “Benga Night”— A concert featuring young Kenyan musicians performing root music of the JoLuo community from western Kenya with lyrical arrangements that reflect influences from the popular benga pop-music style. From 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ngoma Stage.

The June 29th gig featuring this guy should be great(wiki bio below. I think I have a cd by him):

Samba Mapangala was born in Matadi in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. He spent early 1970s with various bands in Kinshasa, before moving to Uganda in 1975 where he and some other Congolese musicians formed the Les Kinois band. They moved to Nairobi in 1977. He formed a new band, the Orchestra Virunga, in 1981. The band is named after Virunga volcano located in Congo.

Orchestra Virunga released their first album, It's Disco Time with Samba Mapangala in 1982. In early 90's the group gained some international popularity through album releases like "Virunga Volcano" and "Feet on Fire".

He has continued to record, and is still one of the leading musicians in East Africa. He is now based in the United States . Mapangala began performing with Occidental Brothers Dance Band International in the fall of 2009.[1]

Mapangala is considered as one of the golden era of Kenyan Lingala music acts alongside Les Mangelepa, Baba Gaston and Super Mazembe.[2]

oh wow - some great stuff in that list. the kenyan stuff sounds really promising, i already love shanghai restoration... kinda want to check it all out

Is there a link for those? Particularly the Samba Mapangala gig - I want to point a friend to it but Google isn't giving me anything.

Right now its an ILX exclusive! I had been bugging the Smithsonian Folklife festival folks for weeks to get me the schedule, for an article I want to write and for my blog. They just emailed me that info Friday afternoon. Eventually it will be posted on their site:

http://www.festival.si.edu/visitor/schedule.aspx

There are some other links with a bit of related information there. They also emailed me Word Doc bios for the Chinese acts. but they haven't finished the bios for the Kenyan ones yet. There will be crafts and music during the day (under tents mostly) from around 11 am to 5 each day, followed by the special evening shows every day but the 4th of July. There's lots of family-friendly kids-oriented craft stuff too, and there will be food from the respective countries (likely tasty but also likely overpriced).

Just saw the end of a BookTV.org presentation by Hisham Aidi, AKA UptownBerber on Twitter, and author of Rebel Music: Race, Music, and the New Muslim Youth CultureIt explores the influence of and response to hip-hop in various parts of the world (also the cross-influence, like when leading American jazz musicians converted to Isalm in the 40s and 50s). He considers the State Department's attempts to reach Muslim youth via hip-hop to have had rather mixed results (and deals with the twists of cultural translation in various ways. This has an interview and a link to the first chapter: http://www.npr.org/2014/03/16/289825550/rebel-music-when-hip-hop-met-islam
This Times review gives a better sense of the book's range ( for instance, Muslim South America, and Shakira's initial splash as a Lebanese-Colombian prodigy of belly-dancing)(and singing, or anyway vocalizing)(not a dis)http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/books/rebel-music-by-hisham-d-aidi.html

NY Times magazine has a Brazilian funk overview. Also worth reading is the Sublime Frequencies label guy profile (with pics of him home) at brownbooks.me

Both of those are linked on other threads

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1938886835/schizophonia-cantorial-recordings-reimagined
yes plz!

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

http://www.festival.si.edu/visitor/evening.aspx evening events

http://www.festival.si.edu/2014/schedule/june-25
daytime schedule lists themes but not specific artists for some reason

Updated Smithsonian Folklife Festival Kenya and China skeds

some stuff i've liked lately:
Vaudou Game ft. Roger Damawuzan - 'Pas Contente' (SoundCloud): "Vaudou Game is a contemporary live band playing an authentic Togolese funk based on voodoo chants scales. 300 copies LTD - TIP!!" Dangerous Bees track also super groovy + fantastic
Djanka Diabate - Djanka (AwesomeTapes): funky West African pop from late 80s (i think?)
Rocky Marsiano - Meu Kamba (Bandcamp): hard to describe but like MPC african vinyl project?

um and like ten albums from the year halfway point i really like:
Mamman Sani - Taaritt (Bandcamp)
Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 (Spotify)
Various Artists - Calypso: Musical Poetry in the Caribbean 1955-1969 (Spotify)
Eyvind Kang - The Book of Angels, Vol. 21: Alastor (Youtube Track)
Al-Namrood - Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq (Youtube Track)
Various Artists - Beyond Addis
Baba Sissoko - Tchiwara (Spotify)
Golem! - Tanz (Spotify)
Dobet Gnahore - Na Dre (Spotify)
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Libation (Spotify)

Oooh, I gotta listen to that Dobet Gnahore. I have liked her previous efforts.

Was just skimming this re another region:

http://www.afropop.org/wp/18633/when-algerian-music-travels-beyond-its-frontiers/

not for everyone, but i've been listening to a lot of "mc bin laden" lately.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhI_s2chP48

Good stuff mordy - love that calypso record

Been listening a lot to sonido gallo negro and the acid arab collections comp this summer

enjoyed la mechanica popular last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXmXG9qbF8

hyped about dj spoko tonight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ontbjnQPrGo

I mentioned la mechanica popular I think over on the Afro-latin thread. I missed the old-school guys that were near me Friday night-- Ismael Rivera Jr. and Ommy Cardona (Puerto Rican salsa vets ) at the Palace, Woodbridge, VA.

Stayed in to reogranize house and books and records but listened a bunch to my Pacifica radio station WPFW where a Ghanaian dj Koffi Kissi Dompere was playing long sets of '80s and '90s I think African dance music without ever saying the specific names of the groups. Great tunes, I just don't know who they were by. Intend to get out of the house in a few days for the Kenyan and Chinese acts at the Smithsonian Folklife festival

FIFA World Cup officials do not want certain sounds there:

It is not only the England Band which faces disappointment in Brazil, with samba bands that are a feature of the country’s football matches also set to be snubbed by organisers.

The ban even applies the official instrument of the World Cup, the caxirola, Brazil’s answer to the vuvuzela from the 2010 tournament in South Africa.

this is great and perfect for this heat we've been getting:
http://www.awesometapes.com/2014/06/teshome-wolde/

Ooh, anything associated with Ethiopia's Dahlak Band I need to hear. Will listen to that soon.

x-post to me

Intend to get out of the house in a few days for the Kenyan and Chinese acts at the Smithsonian Folklife festival

"In a few days," means I am jumping the gun a bit. Fest does not start till June 25.

x-post to : i already love shanghai restoration...

initial listen to a few tracks did not wow me

The ban even applies the official instrument of the World Cup, the caxirola, Brazil’s answer to the vuvuzela from the 2010 tournament in South Africa.

This is partly because the first time they were tried out in a live game in Brazil hundreds of them were used as missiles, iirc. They changed the design to make them out of softer materials so they would do less damage but people threw them anyway.

Sports fans throwing things. I'm shocked

i want to sub out that sierra leone allstars album from my list above for another old timey long awaited follow-up act that is so great -- kasai allstars - beware the fetish. love these guys.

Just got the comp that Mordy started this thread off with, and it is some wonderful music.

VA [1906-33] Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings From Iran

I need to listen to that. I'm still liking current Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat, who has a great duet album with soul & blues singer Mighty Sam McLain

McClain 2 "c"'s

http://www.afropop.org/wp/18894/volunteer-with-afropop-this-summer/

They're looking for NYC area volunteers and promise you some swag

On La Rumba SoYo, Ricardo explores his Angolan roots, blending Afro-Portuguese flavors with his trademark Cuban son and salsa meets Congolese soukous and rumba sound

Cool, a new Ricardo Lemvo album (on Cumbancha) and tour. I gotta hear this recorded and live. I know they're playing NYC this week, hopefully there's a DC gig too

Buika was fucking AWESOME btw

Ned S*blette was raving as well, although I must admit to finding her more recent albums less interesting than her older ones (and likewise with her choice of music live. She seems to have less Afro-flamenco in her more recent material that I have heard from her in the past. She still has an amazing voice, and her interests are so varied, maybe she is sounding different now than she did when I last saw her a year and a half or so ago).

than I have heard from her