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

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

Wow

"is that track representative of what's found on it?"

yeah pretty much, could be the same band on some tracks but is a good 'un.

oh man this patricia majalisa collection is like honey to my ears (partic track "Impumelelo")

btw almost all of these gallo covers are hideous

yeah, i hit several bummers on that mix

Forgive the self-promo but I'm sure there are some tunes here that people will dig. I particularly like Mourad, the young Morrocan rapper who joined Of Golden Visions to record Elodie.

My Middle Eastern and North African playlist column for the Guardian

Thanks

Its gonna be a busy late summer and fall for African acts touring the Us of A:

Noura Mint Seymali now and over the next few weeks; Yousouu N'Dour, Salif Keita, Vieux Farka Toure and more coming in September

Noura was great live, moved the crowd.

Excited about Chronixx this Saturday.

I need to watch online Chronixx from the Jimmy Fallon show last night. Heard local DC reggae fanatics raving about his recent DC show.

his album was a fave around the house through the late spring

I wrote a retrospective piece on King Sunny Adé's three Island albums (Aura turns 30 this year!) for Red Bull Music Academy.

http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2014/07/photos-from-king-sunny-ades-daughters.html

1 of King Sunny's daughters just got married. One photo suggests that there might have been a rocking band at the reception

http://www.avclub.com/article/hear-soundtrack-new-fela-kuti-documentary-finding--207235

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pysa7ETEFFU/U4ih03BlROI/AAAAAAAAFqk/W0k0FKkvzpQ/s1600/artworks-000074958091-c9uw3n-original.jpg

I saw a great photo exhibit associated with that album-- pics taken before the destruction and unrest in Syria now

Sadly, I think ISIS are destroying many of the old religious sites that I saw in the exhibit associated with that Nawa Sufi release. That includes Christian, Jewish and Muslim ones.

Was eating in a suburban D.C. Kenyan restaurant Saturday night and they were booming nothing but Afrobeats loud. Sounded great...

― curmudgeon, Monday, August 4, 2014 1:22 PM

I love some of the new Afrobeats stuff but old-school folks like Salif Keita as well...plus the more obscure Kenyans I heard at the Smithsonian Folklife Fest...

Lots of African country leaders are in DC this week for an African Summit. Here's some of the related media on it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/08/05/lionel-richie-will-perform-at-the-africa-state-dinner-at-the-white-house/

Uh, really...Hugh Masakela is doing a year-long residency at Howard now still I think, couldn't he at least be added

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/alternative-african-summit-challenges-the-official-one/2014/08/04/bac14f52-1bfe-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/08/04/a-playlist-in-honor-of-this-weeks-africa-summit-in-d-c/

One Group Campaign's song "Cocoa na Chocolate" with musicians from many African countries in support of African agriculture. 9 of these musicians including Femi Kuti, D'Banj and Fally Ipupa did a little publicized appearance Monday night in DC during African Summit week

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

http://pulse.ng/events/dbanj-and-femi-kuti-will-be-representing-nigeria-dbanj-to-join-one-in-washington-dc-for-historic-us-africa-leaders-summit-id3025068.html

Still liking that "Cocoa na Chocolate" song...We are the world

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/07/338586411/before-war-a-punk-drummer-preserved-syrian-chants

Good to see him getting this coverage, but its sad that some of the buildings he went to and people he met, are no longer with us. He also sought out old Jewish synagogues too.

Heard some of last night's Fresh Air interview with the guy who recorded the xpost Sufi invocations albums; I need to check the FA archive for the rest of that. Also last night: a bit of Tinariwen in concert on Carson Daly's show. Light In The Attic's re-releasing a couple of their early albums.
Details and samples of The Radio Tisdas Sessions here:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1177-radio-tisdas-sessions

Ditto for Amassakoul
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1178-amassakou

https://light-in-the-attic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/artist_image/1577/storage/original_tinny.jpg

Wow---at first listen, Amassakoul sounds like one of their most consistent sets ever: no acoustic ruminations, which is okay by me, though always thoughtful and watchful, while tending flexible razor guitar grooves and more variety than expected, especially vocal, incl.throat-singing, call-and-response melodicism with females, and even a hip-hop excursion (very much in their own direction). Also the occasional flutes. Gotta look into the back story of this album, incl. the line-up.

Still enjoying hearing the Lijadu Sisters.

and so you shall, until you die

Aren't they living in and doing ocassional gigs in NYC? How can I get them to come my way...

last "gig" i know of was the onyeabor thing; they never play out here that I'm aware of. would love it if they did!

Some lovely tracks on this Sublime Freq comp. Great cover too.

http://www.cmj.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Sublime-Frequencies-1970s-Algerian-Folk-and-Pop.jpg

Been listening to Algerian Rachid Taja lately, but still have not gotten around to that older Algerian comp (though I should)...

That's Taha

i'm loving that comp btw

Global Village is a good show, streaming every week night at 7 Central. Tomorrow: "an Afrobeat extravaganza," celebrating Tony Allen's birthday; lots of African music Wed too. Not as consistently amazing as Afropop Worldwide, but usually pretty cool:
http://kmuw.org/post/birthday-salutes-afrobeat-legend-tony-allen-english-folk-rocker-maddy-prior-and-more

Africa tonight also, like just about every night---at the moment,"Oscarine," by
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal.

Oh I remember hearing a Sissoko & Segal album.

i'm kinda in love w/ this track
https://soundcloud.com/somimusic/somi-ankara-sundays

Will check. Oh yeah, before I forget to mention it: xpost Sissoko & Segal play koro & cello, maybe with some other instruments, but maybe not; they get a lot of sounds out of their main axes.

http://static.squarespace.com/static/5128322ce4b006d82fb7218b/t/52db06cbe4b0a428d2e470a6/1390085921081/

Alas, I missed Somi at a Maryland fest last weekend.

In February 2013 I said:

This Sissoko/Segal release is too subtle at times.

Just picked up these comps, all very good in different ways:

Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo - Siriá (Analog Africa)
Bombay Disco: Disco Hits from Hindi Films 1979-1985 (Cultures of Soul)
1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (Sublime Frequencies) - I know people have been repping for this itt

Oh yeah reminds me must check promo of Rough Guide To Bollywood Disco---hadn't heard of Bombay Disco; will look it up too. Cheers!

It's obviously super cheesy but it's a lot of fun too - you know yourself whether you're in the market for a Bollywood cover of "Billie Jean" or Asha Bhosle singing "boogie boogie boogie":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjfsuGA1ho0