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

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

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.

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

http://bodegapop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/palestinian-wedding-music.html

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)

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)

I guess so...

TANGO NEGRO: THE AFRICAN ROOTS OF TANGO

This movie is showing in NYC and DC this weekend

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

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

http://www.afropop.org/wp/19948/borderless-sounds-the-new-north-africa/

Should check out some of this too

If it were not for this years incredible "world" releases, 2014 has otherwise been pretty lackluster.

What are some of your faves?

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...

this is insane (in the best way):

http://theglobalbassexperience.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-Bombay-Royale.jpg

yeah, i don't care for those guys much at all

Kinda uneven I recall...Aussie based

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

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

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/27/343489439/latitudes-the-international-music-you-must-hear-in-august

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.

I did not know that had turned into a series, and they're up to 5?! the first one is excellent

The Dimanche Gras event with Sparrow and David Rudder looks great. xps.

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).

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/29/the-playlist-middle-eastern-and-north-african-blufrank-el-rass-and-more

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!

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

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.

No it's different, they brought out another Algerian comp this year

okay, i could be interested in that.

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

Didn't have a chance over the weekend to catch up on Sub. Freq comp listening as I was listening to touring acts I am previewing for my local weekly's Fall Arts Preview Issue. Think we might have mentioned the below last year and before, but here's my followups anyway:

Malian Oumar Konate's power-trio approach to the Sahel desert style (on Clermont) took awhile to grow on me but eventually did. "Power trio" is a bit of an exaggeration, but Koante does like to throw in more guitar solos than his colleagues (but he can still keep it rhythmic too).

Malians Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba wowed me live last year and on Jama Ko. Last year's touring group was a 6 piece, this year he is returning with a 4-piece called Ngoni blues with 4 folks from the 6-piece group including his wife, brother and a son. Amy, Bassekou's wife, has a passionate voice, and Bassekou can make his ngoni sound pretty like a harp, or into a high-pitched string instrument that helps create dance rhythms. Plus they can slow it down, occasionally in a bluesy way.

x-post -I think Sharivari and I are the only ones here who like Sparrow and David Rudder

well hang on now and add me to that list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns_ROvH7TNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFh9rFRxTp4

I don't know David Rudder but I love sparrow

Rudder's younger than Sparrow but no youngster. He's done a number of great songs, many with socio-political lyrics, since the '80s-- "Rally 'round the West Indies", "High Mas," his Haiti album and more

glad to see we are at 3 supporters of these veteran artists

Youssou N'Dour put a new release out in April that I just discovered. Youtube link to it is over on a Youssou thread.

I know, I know, you hated that collaboration he did with Neneh Cherry from years ago and then never bothered with anything else. But really you should. At least try his Egypt album that sounds different than anything else he's ever done and then figure out how to see him live where his Senegalese band's mbalax polyrhythms will make more sense and his amazing voice will stun you.

one of my friends is releasing a new volume of Ghanaian music, very raw field-recording style, and it's great: http://artsextract.com/2014/09/04/album-stream-bawku-west-collective-upper-east-untouched/

I know, I know, you hated that collaboration he did with Neneh Cherry from years ago and then never bothered with anything else. But really you should. At least try his Egypt album that sounds different than anything else he's ever done and then figure out how to see him live where his Senegalese band's mbalax polyrhythms will make more sense and his amazing voice will stun you.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay you've sold it to me.

http://www.okayafrica.com/news/orlando-julius-heliocentrics-jaiyede-afro/

can stream the new album ^