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

wow. Heard a few of those

Been looking at Congovibes.com and elsewhere for leads re Congolese and other African music in Paris.

Guitarist Diblo Dibala lives there and is recording. Another Congolese guitarist Beniko Popolipo who was in Zaiko langa Langa, lives there too I think and was recently in a group called Black Bazar. Still trying to figure out what he's up to now. Some consider him a legend.

Also read about a group called Bana C4 but haven't listened to them yet.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61JFFUaMEKL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

fyi this is great ^

ooh, that looks nice. the other Next Stop Sowetos that I've heard are amazing

Saw Senegalese kora player Ablaye Cissoko strum & sing with German horn player Volker Goetze in Paris last week. Mostly all quiet and nice music, but Cissoko has chops and a good singing voice so that mostly made up for the lack of tempo changes and speedier numbers. I heard North African music coming out of taxis and elsewhere in Paris as well. Never made it to the late-night afrobeats night as we were traveling on to Italy the next day. Was not able to track down Congolese guitarist Beniko Popolipo. In Italy we saw street musicians and part of a free fest in Rome with a mediocre rap-rock group, and an average ska-swing & more band...Saw a flyer for a punkier (I think) event that night, but again we were traveling the next day and it was farther away.

Wandered around the Barbes and Belleville and other areas of Paris where I saw posters pasted up for various shows that looked cool (taking place before or after we were in town). There's a month-long African fest starting there shortly

malombo comp is so great

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/tony-allen-film-of-life

i hope i am able to do anything at all half as well as allen is drumming here when i'm 74

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/26/366809831/remembering-sabah-an-iconic-and-thoroughly-unconventional-arab-star

Rip

I'm finding Songlines mag's fave album by Toumani and Sidiki Diabete a bit too nice and backgroundy

Diabate

have we talked about how good this is?

http://label.glitterhouse.com/files/image/releases/NMS.jpg

i remember u saw her earlier in the year curmudgeon?

i did as well; she's a great live show. album is dope

She and her band are a great live gig. I missed their most recent gig in my locale, but saw them twice before--Afro-psychedelic meets Sahel region sounds...Not sure I have listened to that latest (?) one-Tzeni-- but I should.

I need to check out that Tony Allen link too. He was great live when I saw him way back when. Plus I gotta research more stuff I noticed in Paris...

http://www.andymorganwrites.com/

blogsite for former Tinariwen manager, and author of books on Malian music and more

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/1128/Band-Aid-pushback-West-African-stars-sing-of-Ebola-their-way

Argh - heard Islam Chipsy for the first time last night and of course the album isn't available anywhere. Incredible stuff!

Wonder if its on Youtube

I see it on the Quietus best of 2014 list along with Tinariwen and others(yes that oh so pleasant Toumani and Sidiki Diabete one) including this below Congolese outfit I need to check out:

Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)

Fans of Konono No. 1 will supposedly like the above

Oh, I listened to Noura Mint Seymali's Tzenni over the weekend. Sometimes her voice can be an acquired taste, but I like it and her great band

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/toumani-diabate-sidiki-kora-music-industry-family

Toumani also wanted to bring the instrument "back home", to reassert its musical soul. He feels that the kora – much like the guitar in the wake of Jimi Hendrix – has become a vehicle for finger gymnastics and empty displays of virtuosity.

"People today think that the kora is all about speed," Toumani says, "like a Kalashnikov firing off rounds … rat-tat-tat-a-tat-a-tat! But our forefathers, may they rest in peace, were great players and very fast too, but they preserved the melody. We can all do brrrrrrr [ imitating a fast run ] but it's not just about improvisation. Where's the melody?"

Someone told me that a Chipsy/E.E.K album proper would be out soon on the same label as the live one. Fingers crossed.

My mate manages Chipsy and they have two studio LPs in the can.

Here are the relevant Quietus AOTY placings for this thread:

TWENTY ONE: Maurice Louca - Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Nawa)
TWENTY THREE: EEK ft. Islam Chipsy - Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute (Nashazphone)
THIRTY EIGHT: Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)
FORTY EIGHT: Olga Bell - Krai (One Little Indian)
FIFTY SIX: Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine (Soundway)
SIXTY EIGHT: Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
EIGHTY THREE: Tinariwen - Emmar (ANTI-)
EIGHTY SIX: Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki Diabate (World Circuit)
NINETY: Fumaca Preta - Fumaca Preta (Soundway)

And I know most people on here are all over these albums like a rash but if you haven't already heard it I can't recommend Maurice Louca's second album Salute The Parrot enough. Really great modern cross genre music from Cairo.

Thanks

Some of Louca's songs are too repetitive in a clubby way for me, but others I like.

More nitpicking--Kasai Allstars has its moments but its not Konono No. 1

finally got a hold of the EEK live at cairo high cinema and O_O wow

also this is fantastic + funky (just came out today):
http://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/congolese-funk-afrobeat-psychedelic-rumba-1969-1978

Can't find the whole EEK live thing on Youtube :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Z7MegmZH4

https://schizophonia.bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks for the xpost bandcamp Psychedelic Rumba! I posted the earlier press release upthread, but hadn't seen the link. Also thanks for mentioning Peru Bravo; I listened on Spotify and tweeted this:
Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul & Psych: converging urges in thee garageverse, often spying & flying w options unforeseen by this jaded cratedigger
That's the fascination of these late-breaking comps: just when I think I've heard all the 60s-70s local legends I can stand...

Keep seeing that Toumani and Sidiki Diabate album popping up over on the critics poll thread. Maybe I should give it another listen. I dunno. It's nice I recall, but eh...Maybe its me (don't have to be crazy about everything)

So when I was in Paris I saw several big posters pasted up in the Barbes neighborhood for an appearance by a woman performer with the last name Keita. Alas, a technological glitch has lost the photo I had of the poster. Alas, I don't remember her first name. Anyone know who that is?

idk still subject to change in no particular order but i kept seeing year end world lists that i don't like so i figured i might as well post my own:

Best World (New)

Eyvind Kang - The Book of Angels, Vol. 21: Alastor (Tzadik)
VA - Beyond Addis (Trikont)
Dobet Gnahore - Na Dre (Contre-Jour)
Somi - The Lagos Music Salon (OKeh)
Khun Narin - Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure)
Zebrina - Hamidbar Medaber (Tzadik)
Orlando Julius and the Heliocentrics - Jaiyede Afro (Strut Records)
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering (Daptone)
Zion 80 - The Book of Angels, Vol. 22: Adramelech (Tzadik)
Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Unstraight Ahead (Now-Again)
EEK & Islam Chipsy - Live at the Cairo High Cinema Institute (Cargo)

Best World (Reissues)

VA - Balani Show Super Hits: Electronic Street Parties from Mali (Sahel Sounds)
Mamman Sani - Taaritt (Sahel Sounds)
VA - Calypso: Musical Poetry in the Caribbean 1955-69 (Soul Jazz)
VA - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978
VA - 1970’s Algerian Folk and Pop (Strut Records)
Nawa - Ancient Sufi Invocations & Forgotten Songs from Aleppo (Lost Origin Sound Series)
Les Ambassadeurs, Salif Keita - Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako (Sterns Africa)
Mdou Moctar - Anar (Sahel Sounds)
Malombo Jazz Makers + Jabula - Next Stop Soweto presents Spirit of Malombo: Malombo, Jabula, Jazz Afrika 1966-1984 (Strut Records)
Verckys et l’Orchestre Vévé - Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978 (Analog Africa)

Nice. Was just sent the link for Dobet Gnahore the other day but haven't listened yet. Saw her live some years back and liked her (she is touring the US again in January). Will check this out.

So when I was in Paris I saw several big posters pasted up in the Barbes neighborhood for an appearance by a woman performer with the last name Keita. Alas, a technological glitch has lost the photo I had of the poster. Alas, I don't remember her first name. Anyone know who that is?

― curmudgeon, Friday, December 5, 2014 3:11 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mamani Keita?

Sounds like that could be who it was. Thanks

Afropop Worldwide List http://www.afropop.org/wp/21641/stocking-stuffers-complete-list/

Need help tracking down the music heard on this week’s “Stocking Stuffers 2014!” program? Well, we got you. What follows is a complete list of the tracks, ordered by their appearance in the program.

Balani Show Super Hits: Electronic Street Parties from Mali : “Bala” DJ Balani – “Furu Djougou,” Kaba Blon – Sahel Sounds.

Kasai Allstars, Beware The Fetish: “The Chief’s Enthronement / Oyaye” – “He Who Makes Bush Fires For Others” - Crammed Disc

Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca, La Rumba SoYo : “Rumba SoYo” - Cumbancha

Aurelio Martinez, Lándini: “Nando” / “Milaguru” - Real World

Caetano Veloso, Abraçaço: “Um Abraçaço” - Nonesuch

Moreno Veloso, Coisa Boa: “Um Passo a Frente” - Luaka Bop

Brazil!: The Birth of Bossa Nova: “Outra vez,” Elizete Cardoso - Soul Jazz Records

Dona Onete, Feitiço Cabloco: “Moreno Morenado” - Mais Um Discos

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, Libation: “Maria” / “Rich But Poor” - Cumbancha

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, A Long Way to the Beginning: “African Airways” - Knitting Factory Records

The Fela! Band, Finding Fela : Orginal Motion Picture Soundtrack: “Zombie” - Knitting Factory Records

Fela Kuti, Music of Many Colours, Box Set #3–Curated by Brian Eno: “Upside Down,” - Knitting Factory Records

William Onyeabor, Anything You Sow: “This Kind of World” - Luaka Bop

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, The Skeletal Essences of Afro-Funk 1969-1980: “Houzou Houzou Wa” - Analog Africa

Angélique Kidjo, Eve: “Orisha” - 429 Records

Noura Mint Seymali, Tzenni: “El Madi” - Glitterhouse Records

Busy Signal: “Well Prepared” - Web Only Release

Popcaan, Where We Come From: “Everything Nice ” - Mixpak Records

Chronixx, Dread and Terrible: “Here Comes Trouble” - Chronixx Records

Ibibio Sound Machine, Ibibio Sound Machine: “Let’s Dance” - Soundway

Hassan Hakmoun, Unity: “Zidokan (Just Go)” - Healing Records

Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, Danger Zone: “Chikonzero”

Chigamba, Yangu Ndega: “Gandanga / Tinovatenda”- Available on CD Baby

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Always With Us: “Mamizolo” - Ladysmith Black Mambazo Records

Mamani Keita, Kanou: “Djalal Kibali” - World Village

Tinariwen, Emmaar: “Chaghaybou,” - ANTI Records

Imarhan Timbuktu, Akal Warled: “Aïcha Talamomt/Aïcha/Aïcha” - Clermont Music

Anansy Cissé, Mali Overdrive: “Sekou Amadou” - Riverboat Records

Oumar Konate, Addoh: “Henibombey (A Swindle Is No Good)” - Clermont Records

The Touré-Raichel Collective, The Paris Session: “Dèni Dèni” - Cumbancha

Habib Koité and Bamada, Soô: “Bolo Mala” - Contre Jour

Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté, Toumani & Sidiki: “Hamadoun Toure” - Nonesuch

Djessou Mory Kante, River Strings–Maninka Guitar: “Coucou” - Sterns Africa

Cumbia All Stars, Tigres En Fuga: “Lobos al Escape” - World Village

Zongo Junction, No Discount: “Tunnel Bar” - Electric Cowbell

Somi, The Lagos Music Salon: “Love Juju #1” - Okeh

has this been posted before?
http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/samap/

Don't think so. Did you make it to any of those special South African related shows that were in the Big Apple a little while back?

i've been sort of not going out much tbh

http://www.awesometapes.com/ata-kak-obaa-sima-march-3-2015/

Cool that he finally tracked the guy down after first releasing his tape online back in 2006

Ata Kak is very excited that everyone is into his music and he has given ATFA his blessing to push forth with this release packed with archival photos and exclusive biographical information

that's so good

The NY Times critics sometimes pay attention to African, Caribbean and Latin American sounds, but not too much this year in their year-end album lists. Pareles has Calle 13 but I am not seeing too much else.

In the New Yorker, Sasha Frere Jones has Tineriwen on his top 50 album list

Tineriwen on his top 50 album list

in his p4k review of the album earlier this year, joe tangari -- whose reviews i really like -- said no one else makes guitar music like tineriwen. there's some knockoffs around these days, but i think he's right. there's a swirling, hypnotic vibe that tineriwen has sort of perfected. appropos of nothing, but i wish nels cline had a bigger role, in terms of guitar playing, on their last album. that drone-y part he added to the first song was fantastic, but i wanted more.

I've broken down our reissues and comps chart for the purposes of this thread in case anyone's interested. (And I f'kin love the Toumani & Sidiki LP fwiw.)

SEVEN: Mdou Moctar - Anar (Sahel Sounds)
SEVENTEEN: Omar Khorshid - Live In Australia 1981 (Sublime Frequencies)
TWENTY: Nana Love - Disco Documentary: Full Of Funk (Nestor)
TWENTY FOUR: Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. 2 DISmagazine Soundcloud)
THIRTY TWO: Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982 - 1984 (Born Bad)
THIRTY FOUR: Mumdance - Dummy Mix 205 Mahraganat Mixtape (Dummy)
THIRTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 (Strut)
FIFTY TWO: William Onyeabor - Volume 1 & 2 box set (Luka Bop)
FIFTY SIX: Cairo Liberation Front - The Church Of The CLF (CLF Soundcloud)
SIXTY THREE: Koudede - Guitars From Agadez Vol. 7 (Sublime Frequencies)
SIXTY NINE: Hailu Mergia And The Walias - Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
SEVENTY SIX: Various Artists - Gipsy Rhumba (Soul Jazz)
EIGHTY THREE: Various Artists - The Sound Of Siam 2 (Sound Way)
NINETY: Chistie Azumah & The Uppers International - Din Ya Sugri (Voodoo Funk)
NINETY THREE: Ariel Kalma – An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972-1979) (RVNG INTL.)
NINETY SIX: Various Artists - Folk Music Of The Sahel: Niger (Sublime Frequencies)
ONE HUNDRED: Various Artists – Oriental-Trap Mix (Norient)

Good to see Omar Khorshid up there. still need to check several of the others.

from that xpost Afropop Worldwide playlist:
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, The Skeletal Essences of Afro-Funk 1969-1980: “Houzou Houzou Wa” - Analog Africa
This is Volume Three from the Orchestre archives; I love it and Vol. Two, Echoes Hypnotique. (haven't found the first volume)They just took at as a given for professionals, that they could define their style, and then assimilate appropriate elements from international trends, incl. funk, psych, more back and forth with Latin America(s) than I can chart. Vol. 3 starts digging into the home recordings (some outdoors, but no prob). Sure hope there's more, from wherever.

I've liked all the Tinariwen albums I've heard, which is most of 'em, to various degrees (some of the later tracks can seem too introspective, introverted, even) But was really struck by first-time encounters with Amassakoul and Radio Tisdas, both reissued this year. The excitement really comes across, and there's a variety of engaging voices, incl. females. These seem like the ones to start with for sure.

"They just took *it* as a given," I meant