The Afro-folk of Madagascar group Teko Telo is pleasant enough
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 15 December 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
Transglobal WM Chart Best of 2018!BEST ALBUM OF 2018: Monsieur Doumani2-Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita3-Fatoumata Diawara4-El Naán5-Ammar 8086-Gabacho Maroc7-The Turbans8-SANS9-Vigüela10-Samba Touré
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 December 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
20 = Ammar 808 Maghreb United (Glitterbeat)
This on Folk Roots poll. I like it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 December 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
Monsieur Doumani did not wow me. It turns out that they are a three-piece Cypriot band
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4cRw6TIIg
Guitarist Ronnie Moipolai from Botswana has over a million views
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
Check out the flashy fingerwork, people!
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
That Jupiter & Okwess album from Congo is a keeper. Great guitar sound, unusual arrangements, head nodding but not typical rhythms
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
Some albums on the Quietus list of 100 that I need to check out. Heard a little of this one and liked it:
The sheer range of what Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh are trying to combine on Lekhfa - trad chaabi, mahraganat, Nile Delta psych, classic Egyptian pop, Middle Eastern jazz, smoky... ...That's a choice by the Q editor who has posted here on ocassion
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 20 December 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Listening to Qhizzo- Gqomm Plug now. More interesting than European techno, but still the club beats can get a bit tiresome. This is from South Africa and the vocals are melodic and interesting in how the interact
― curmudgeon, Monday, 24 December 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
Ammar 808 Maghreb United (Glitterbeat) has made a few polls
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
looking for Mdou Moctar bookings in florida, charleston sc, savannah, open to house shows - get at us at booking (at) sahelsounds (dot) com
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
didn't know you were repping Moctar curmudgeon! Hoping to see him briefly at Drom early next month.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
That was from a Sahelsounds tweet. I am just trying to help Moctar and Sahelsounds out. Have seen Moctar live 3 times and he and his band are wonderful. They deserve well-paying gigs in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
Jason King in his year-end piece as part of the Slate discussion among critics:
Though Africa has largely fallen off the American news radar, the music rocketing out of the continent remains straight fire. Projects by GuiltyBeatz, Aka, Fatoumata Diawara, Seun Kuti, Femi Kuti, Emmanuel Jal, Burna Boy, Muzi, Tal National, and Ammar 808 are all worth streaming. My favorite contemporary record this year, however, was I’m a Dream, the sophomore set from Gambian-Swedish chanteuse Seinabo Sey.
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/2018-music-both-directions-at-once-coltrane.html
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 December 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
xp ah, okay.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
https://www.stereogum.com/2027032/barack-obama-best-songs-2018/news/
Jupiter & Okwess are on it; Fatoumata Diawara too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2019 Thread Once Known as World Music
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link