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

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

I'm looking forward to the free Smithsonian Folklife Fest starting tomorrow in DC. Since some of the Kenyan and Chinese artists will also be doing Kennedy Center Millennium Stage 6 to 7 pm shows, the rest of you can check out some of the groups via the K. Ctr. video stream or later via their video archives.

i like buika's recorded material okay but holy shit, live

Buika--Afro-Spanish Singer (Who's more than just one of NPR's "50 Great Voices")

I started a thread for her in 2010 but noone else on ilx was interested

heh, that really is all you huh

Saw for free on the national mall in D.C. last night a Kenyan women divas show w/ Afro-pop artists Iddi Achieng’ and Suzanna Owiyo, Muslim women trio Gargar from northeastern Kenya backed by a funky band, plus strong-voiced Doris Chepchumba from the Kalenjin community in the Rift Valley, and taarab-pop artist Nyota Ndogo

New Orlando Julius album in September, with some band from the UK called the Heliocentrics backing him.

He's a Nigerian highlife guy. Glad to see older artists still around

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/06/29/kenyan-musicians-back-at-smithsonian-folklife-festival-after-one-day-strike-against-their-government/

Crazy weekend. Samba Mapangala was great tonight

Very interesting discussions I had with the Kenyans and Folklife people. The music that I did hear was great. Caught only a bit of the Chinese.

Wednesday is Kenyan oldies night from 6 to 8 and Thursday night is Kenyan artists fusing together elements of benga, soukous, hip-hop, and gospel. A bunch of folks in the audience the other night spoke Swahili and engaged in call & responses with the band. That helps add to the live music flavor

Kenyans live through Sunday for free in DC. Chinese too--but I have barely checked them out

yes plz

http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/releases/38328/w/sublime-frequencies-1970s-algerian-folk-and-pop.jpg

ooh what label is that on?

sublime frequencies

http://static.squarespace.com/static/52b31b17e4b01abea06d053d/t/52bc8485e4b0db704e378a27/1388086406191/Imarhan-cover-12-23-300pxls.jpg?format=750w

this is on spotify and is fantastic
http://www.clermontmusic.com/akal-warled/

This is old I think but I would love someone to elucidate on this incredible vocalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLZXoyTzEWU&list=PL5E0973A16439E74A&index=2

i like it! very funky.

I bumped into this from a Sound Of Siam comp, the vocal gymnastics are amazing. She is an incredible vocalist but cant find much more on her other than what is on youtube.

i still have to hear that comp. i love the cover. is that track representative of what's found on it?

26 hours of Gallo compilations of South African pop hit Spotify today. I put them into a playlist to facilitate shuffling.

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6AeU1h68UJi4Bv2vxzF38X

oh wow thank you so much glenn

Seriously. So astonishingly great, even compared to the other astonishing thing that happened today.

Not entirely clear how I get myself to stop listening to this and go to sleep.

WOW!
I have a few of the albums these lift from(as my father had a business relationship with a guy working at Gallo in the 80's) but LOTS of new stuff. Wow. That Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queen collection has me freaking out