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
― dow, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dow, Saturday, 9 August 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
Still enjoying hearing the Lijadu Sisters.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 August 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
and so you shall, until you die
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
Aren't they living in and doing ocassional gigs in NYC? How can I get them to come my way...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
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!
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
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
― millmeister, Monday, 11 August 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Been listening to Algerian Rachid Taja lately, but still have not gotten around to that older Algerian comp (though I should)...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 August 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
That's Taha
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 August 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
i'm loving that comp btw
― Mordy, Monday, 11 August 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
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
― dow, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Africa tonight also, like just about every night---at the moment,"Oscarine," byBallaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal.
― dow, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
Oh I remember hearing a Sissoko & Segal album.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
i'm kinda in love w/ this trackhttps://soundcloud.com/somimusic/somi-ankara-sundays
― Mordy, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dow, Friday, 15 August 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
http://static.squarespace.com/static/5128322ce4b006d82fb7218b/t/52db06cbe4b0a428d2e470a6/1390085921081/
― Mordy, Friday, 15 August 2014 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Alas, I missed Somi at a Maryland fest last weekend.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 August 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
In February 2013 I said:
This Sissoko/Segal release is too subtle at times.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 15 August 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Monday, 18 August 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
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!
― dow, Monday, 18 August 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Monday, 18 August 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
Africa’s widespread influence in music is inevitable and Nigeria-born Founder/President Chetachi Ecton of ChiBase Productions plans to transcend fan bases in the U.S. and Europe. The primary objective of the recently formed New York City based company is to establish a global presence for the gorgeous, diversified sounds emanating from the motherland.
ChiBase Productions announces a series of events throughout August to celebrate the launch of their new African music label. On August 20th, 2014, an intimate press day will be held with Nigeria-born Founder/President Chetachi Ecton at the Time Warner Building in New York City. On August 30th, 2014, the official label launch party kicks off at a secret location in Manhattan. The following evening, ChiBase will sponsor the 9th annual Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA), which will honor numerous contributors in various sectors of Nigeria’s entertainment industry.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Was listening to some of that old-school Tsongan (spelling/) disco of South African Penny Penny, that Awesome Tapes from Africa reissued.Some nice tracks. They just put a remixes effort out as well.
This is npr re the original reissue http://www.npr.org/2014/02/06/272638152/before-he-joined-congress-a-south-african-janitors-disco-past
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
http://bodegapop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/palestinian-wedding-music.html
― slip jig (seandalai), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
So much to try to listen too. I forgot about that blog. Looks interesting (and as worthy as FKA Twigs or whatever that's getting the attention elsewhere on ilx and in 'hip' circles. (btw FKA Twigs ain't bad, just didn't wow me on first listen)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
It's different. People need a news cycle. Awesome comp of Palestinian wedding music could be from any time, the artists don't give good video, etc.
(I like FKA Twigs btw)
― slip jig (seandalai), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
I guess so...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
TANGO NEGRO: THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF TANGO
This movie is showing in NYC and DC this weekend
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
I missed that plus a Brazilian doc on singer Maria Bethania (Caetano Veloso's sister) "Music is Perfume" which the the Film Fest seemed to be inferring was new but IMDB tells me is from 2005.
I was home writing a preview of Moroccan band Ribab Fusion who energetically try to mix electrified Amazigh (formerly Berber) sounds on a banjo-like ribab and keyboard, guitar , bass , drums with jazz fusion, rock and Afropop rhythms as well. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. They are coming to the US for a month with a Pakistani instrumental band Khumariyaan who create a nice wall of sound with a rubab (not a ribab like the other group), a few guitars and percussion
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 August 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/first-listen-sinkane-mean-love/
I wonder if this is something I will like? He's Sudanese born, Ohio raised and Brooklyn living
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 August 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.afropop.org/wp/19948/borderless-sounds-the-new-north-africa/
Should check out some of this too
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
If it were not for this years incredible "world" releases, 2014 has otherwise been pretty lackluster.
― bodacious ignoramus, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
What are some of your faves?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Been listening to soca man Bunji Garlin's track "Differentology" for awhile, but just saw a mention of the album of his by that name in the Washington Post today...
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
this is insane (in the best way):
http://theglobalbassexperience.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-Bombay-Royale.jpg
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i don't care for those guys much at all
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Kinda uneven I recall...Aussie based
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I keep getting deluged with emails about a big all day bring your kids Haitian event Saturday at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow NY (Queens?)with Tabou Combo, NuLook, Carimi, Klass, Djakout and more...I can't make it up there though. I like Tabou Combo and Djakout
Lotsa awesome Caribbean Carnival Parade events in NYC all weekend starting tonight:
The 47th annual West Indian American Day Carnival will be held from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The carnival parade will be held Sept. 1 on Eastern Parkway. Pre-parade events will be held rain or shine on the Brooklyn Museum Grounds. Enter on Washington Ave. at President http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2014-labor-day-carnival-schedule-article-1.1919612
"Caribbean Woodstock" and Brass show look great
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
the below piece by an ilxer in thefader.com was mentioned over on the afrobeats thread but may also be of interest to some folks here
/say-yes-how-a-michelle-beyonce-and-kelly-gospel-record-points-to-pop-musics-nigerian-future
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 August 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/27/343489439/latitudes-the-international-music-you-must-hear-in-august
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Just ordered this interesting looking comp - http://www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk/various-artists-spiritual-jazz-5-the-world - no idea how it'll hold up but i'm psyched.
― radioplay vs coldhead (dog latin), Friday, 29 August 2014 11:00 (ten years ago) link
I did not know that had turned into a series, and they're up to 5?! the first one is excellent
― rob, Friday, 29 August 2014 12:02 (ten years ago) link
The Dimanche Gras event with Sparrow and David Rudder looks great. xps.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 29 August 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Awesome old-school doublebill. Rudder has always been great when I've seen him in DC. I've lost track of him in recent years (plus he hasn't been here in awhile).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/29/the-playlist-middle-eastern-and-north-african-blufrank-el-rass-and-more
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 August 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, that Spiritual Jazz 5 LP just arrived. It looks so good - there's a track called 'Destroy the Nihilist Picnic'. 5pm, hurry up!
― radioplay vs coldhead (dog latin), Monday, 1 September 2014 09:26 (ten years ago) link
1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (Sublime Frequencies) - I know people have been repping for this itt― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:03 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:03 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seandalai, is this the Proto-Rai compilation? I was listening to it at the weekend and it's really good. The first track, which is evidently about a car with an incongruous car horn tootling around it, has been on repeat these last few days.
― radioplay vs coldhead (dog latin), Monday, 1 September 2014 11:27 (ten years ago) link
No it's different, they brought out another Algerian comp this year
― slip jig (seandalai), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
okay, i could be interested in that.
― radioplay vs coldhead (dog latin), Monday, 1 September 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Where volume 1 focused on the early to mid-1970s Rai scene in western Algeria, this album features a variety of pop and folk styles from that same period. From the heavier rock and psychedelic sounds of Rachid & Fethi, Les Djinns and Les Abranis to the haunting folk music of Kri Kri and Djamel Allem and the Film soundtrack moods of Ahmed Malek, 1970s Algerian Folk & Pop documents a key period in the modern musical renaissance of a nation in transition. Most of these tracks are from 45 rpm singles, the key format during the early 1970s before the cassette took over as the medium of choice. Western musical influences can be heard throughout this extremely diverse record yet there is an undeniable Algerian sense of sadness contained here within a more tolerant space in time between two of the country’s most significant historical periods; National Independence from France and the darker times of a brutal civil war yet to come
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 September 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link