heh no offense taken
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
the pretty tracks work way better than the hip-hop ones imo
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/01/16/263070114/discoveries-from-globalfest-2014
― Mordy , Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
some of the groups we've been mentioning.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 January 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Was i the only person to go to globalfest?
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 January 2014 06:56 (ten years ago) link
I always do a double-take when I see this:http://sahelsounds.com
because it looks like my username
Maybe I'm behind the times, but did anyone listen to/pick up the vol. 2 of the saharan cell phones comp?
― ^ enlightening post (sarahell), Friday, 17 January 2014 08:32 (ten years ago) link
x-post --Forks you probably were. I've seen some of the acts here in DC and others I'm gonna check out videos(on Youtube, Kenn. Ctr. site & NPR)
I'm behind and haven't listened to Saharan Cellphones 2 comp either.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
i heard that comp - it's not my fave of what they do (tho if you like it they did release a full-length pheno s. album last year)
― Mordy , Friday, 17 January 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
http://sahelsounds.com/2014/01/rain-the-color-of-blue-with-a-little-red-in-it/
― Mordy , Saturday, 18 January 2014 06:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.djrocard.com/tag/serge-beynaud/
I like the song (via video) on this site by this Sierra Leonian dance pop guy. He's gonna be in DC on Friday
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
that sahel kickstarter got funded btw
― Mordy , Tuesday, 21 January 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
I can't stop listening to this old record of my Dad's - Ariel Raminez's 'Misa Criolla', an Argentinian folk chorale which is just incredible, a mix between Latin folk music and choir worship music.
― he said, sexily, (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 11:24 (ten years ago) link
the new tinariwen comes out soon - recorded in joshua tree bc of the conflict at home
― Mordy , Tuesday, 21 January 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link
Touring the US too
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M5714&type=A
The Bombay Royale's novelty Bollywood shtick is entertaining at times, but its mostly too cute for me
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
I couldnt deal with them at all honestly
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 January 2014 05:32 (ten years ago) link
Christgau likes African acts Tal National, Sidi Touré, Mariem Hassan, Tamikrest, & Bassekou Kouyate in year-end piece http://alturl.com/aj6o5
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 06:02 (ten years ago) link
a better link to his essay which also contains the link to his list
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-Consensus-Has-Consequences/ba-p/12189
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
He likes Rachid Taha too, which I need to listen to. I wonder if its on Spotify?
http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/The-2013-Dean-s-List/ba-p/12191
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
(English captions available.)
Hamza Namira - Wa Ollak Eh
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 January 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
http://obengerecordings.bandcamp.com
OBENGE RECORDINGS is a collection of field recordings by Roger Peet, recorded in the Congo in a now vanished village called “OBENGE”. It has since been burned to the ground by military. The village was very small, and unfortunately neighbor to a ruthless ivory warlord who terrorized them and put them in harms way. EWE OF NOW was fortunate enough to capture these songs on cassette for your listening enjoyment. They are full of life, from a place where life is more real than we are accustomed to. All proceeds from the sales of this cassette go to Roger’s relief work in the in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and hopefully this isn’t the last volume.
― Mordy , Saturday, 25 January 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Plenty of listening to do. With Congo calming down a bit, hopefully we'll start hearing more music from there again.
x-post to myselfSpotify does have Rachid Taha's Zoom album plus I see he did songs for a movie Cheba Louisa, and that's on Spotify too.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Freaky Trigger's Pop World Cup has started: http://freakytrigger.co.uk/pop-world-cup-2014/2014/01/pwc-14-group-a-match-1-brazil-mexico-cameroon-croatia/
― rob, Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Looks more interesting than the Grammy winners
Reggae Album “Ziggy Marley in Concert,” Ziggy Marley
World Music Album “Savor Flamenco,” Gipsy Kings“Live: Singing for Peace Around the World,” Ladysmith Black Mambazo (tie)
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 January 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
lol, I had no idea you could tie for a Grammy
― rob, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Dunno if this is the thread where we talk about archival releases but the new Haiti Direct comp on Strut is a very good time.
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:30 (ten years ago) link
this is def a thread for discussing archival releases!
― Mordy , Monday, 27 January 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
x-post--I've seen Tabou Combo who are on that Strut comp, who I think are still together, and I have an album or 2 of theirs; so I bet this is great. Will have to check it out. They meshed together trad Haitian sounds with funk and more
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
They meshed together trad Haitian sounds with funk and more
yeah that description fits most of the comp
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
Haitian music (classical, folk etc. (guitar works preferred)) s/d
The Haitian thread never gets many posts
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
just heard this segment on npr and thought it was pretty brilliant (+ beautiful) - excuse me while i crosspost it to the 2014 china thread too:http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/01/28/265468566/remaking-all-that-jazz-from-shanghais-lost-era
― Mordy , Tuesday, 28 January 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
i love this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLMBJntfV8
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 January 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
oh, that's not the one i thought it was - it's this one:http://open.spotify.com/track/04cPsJ4iXU5JHspgdwdXOc
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 January 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
Would love to get hold of this "electro chaabi" release but it's vinyl-only (and expensive!): http://thequietus.com/articles/14300-eek-islam-chipsy-dj-sardena-review
Short YouTube sample sounds absolutely banging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Z7MegmZH4
― a man with legs made of sausages - that's not real! (seandalai), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
wow no kidding
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 January 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
Ester Rada lp out!!!
http://esterrada.bandcamp.com/album/ester-rada
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2047931644_2.jpg
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
She was on my list of folks I should listen to, and I still haven't gotten to her yet. But I will.
I'm liking the new Angelique Kidjo album
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/ibrahima-sylla
― Mordy , Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
RIP. 57 is too young. That's horrible. Dude was an awesome producer. I once wanted to interview him and it never happened and now never will.
A case in point was his nurturing of the collaboration between the Senegalese singer Thione Seck and Indian and Egyptian orchestras on the album Orientation (released in 2005, but recorded a few years earlier), an idea later taken up with equal success by N'Dour.
This was a great cd as were the Africando albums he worked on. He loved Latin clave sounds as well as West African ones and nicely made them work together.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
And on the Thione Seck one showed he could work with Egyptian & Indian sounds as well
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
A couple of listing on my P&J Top Ten, perhaps right for this thread--from P&J comments archived inhttp://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/2014/01/ive-seen-bootage-pazz-jop-13-pt2.html Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou, Volume Three---The Skeletal Essences of Afro-Funk 1969-1980 isAnalog Africa's third collection of tracks from Benin's primo movers of "traditional Voudon rhythms to funk, sato, Latin, sakpata, psychedelia, and Afro-beat" includes reel-to-reel, one-or-two mic recordings in houses, and even outdoors: conditions which might have suggested the "Skeletal Essences" advisory. Still, the reel-to-reel was a Nagra, the outdoors settings were gardens, the sessions often nocturnal; the results are fully charged. They seem like a response to late-night Bay Area FM and UK pirate stations, who maybe turned on those trendy Voice of America and BBC World Service headz to Hendrix, Santana, Meters, James Brown, Sly & The Family Stone, then dialing in electric Miles, P-Funk, Stevie Wonder, the expanding Talking Heads: trace elements, as filtered/reduced by these gray rockhead American ears, of Cotonou's ricochet path around the encrusted periphery of textbook popular music history. Peripheral visions, flickering lightning, skeletal filaments: like Miles slipping in, stealing the scene on his own records, as the background becomes the foreground---not in a New Age sense, or anything rarefied; more like oops upside the head, as the searchlight and spotlight merge. Back in the day, these guys are still re-writing the books, the future----as now, Daddy-o. Keep 'em coming, Analog Africa! (Cotonou's founder passed in 2012, but think there have been some reunion shows in the fairly recent past?)
Jazz didn't make the list this year, in terms of obvious titles, but as usual (always?), it was a crucial ingredient of several selections---made a difference with Cotonou, the way I hear 'em, and Guerilla Toss even, as we shall see--but right now should mention the inclusively, still inadequately-titled Underground Sounds of Modern Brasil: Hip-Hop, Beats, Afro & Dub. The excursions that first swept me up were the penultimate-to-ultimate grooves cruising off Disc 1, both very reliably informed by kosmic Krauts and Miles Davis (most likely). And all of Disc 2 has something to do with various kinds of jazz, as only the Brasilians/Brazilians can iterate ( yes, getting essentalist with it, but there's your classy 2013 buzzword or meme or whatever it is, too).
― dow, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
This was in the Top Ten too: Key point in the p.r. pitch for Rough Guide To African Disco: "Creative scenesters put their own spin on the disco sound, mashing together the rhythmic pulse of funk, soul and Latin with African grooves; soukous, Afrobeat, township jive and more." Yes! There are a few let-downs, like the very first track, I think, but mostly amazing. Some of my faves are ones I wouldn't have thought to tag as disco, but no prob.
― dow, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
That's all old stuff on that Rough Guide to African Disco, or recent stuff? I can google later but thought I'd ask since you like it. Either way, its of interest, just curious re more details.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
It's all older, don't remember the cut-off date. Def check the two-disc version (on Spotify).And a couple of Right Hon. Mentions:
National Wake---Walk In Africa 1979-1980: Music made by young South Africans, of various RSA racial classifications: punk-funk-reggae-dub, reminding me of Australia's Us Mob, No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone, early live Police, some of Tom Robinson's combos, Bad Brains kinda. The finale, a dub workout, is over 17 min long, like over three times as long as any other, but despite my habitual editorial fantasies, wouldn't part with a particle so far. Would have Top Tenned this set, but already got all those reissues on there already….
Bombino---Nomad: None of Tinariwen's occasional late-night campfire acoustic ruminations, which is okay by me. Electric and maybe acoustic guitars, always plural, over and around bass, drums (usually a full kit), an organ, which is sometimes almost subliminal, but always at least flickering; I'd miss it. First few tracks have a distractingly buzzy, grainy midrange squeeze; whether it's the quality of the source, the stream, my usually okay headphones showing their limitations, I dunno. But then the mix of desert harshness times deftly. sometimes boldly applied fluidity kicks in, the latter taking over quickly enough, but never complacently. Some tracks seem a little, brief, ending abruptly; I'll have to check his concert links from this page too. Closes with maybe a little mellotron on the Garcia/Costello-ish voice, def hand drums and steel guitar, at times like uh T.Rex jamming on "Lively Up Yourself", ha comparisons. Wild set still here: http://www.npr.org/event/music/204500938/bombino-live-in-concert-newport-folk-2013
― dow, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
+1 on the bombino album
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, and this for sure: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba---Jama ko: Language proved not nearly as much of a barrier as it might have, mainly cos I can tell all the tracks apart right off, not a given to this non-ethnomusicologist, even w that Mali vibe. So, so far this is my guitar album of the year, even though it's generated by little ol' electrified lutes (which also provide sufficient bass), looking like something from the local produce market. Sharp-edged and fluid as wine, elegant yet never pissy, drawing rough-edged male and bold female vocals into further focus, landing and spinning on a dime, at times, but nothing too showy. Wonder if they ever work with drummers? Sneaky grooves anyway.
― dow, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
i was hoping jama ko or bombino or traore would show up in the ilx top albums thread
― Mordy , Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
I'm getting the debut album by a Sarahawi singer named Aziza Brahim in the mail soon; can't wait to hear it. I'm totally obsessed with the only other Sarahawi singer I know, Mariem Hassan. Her voice is just phenomenal. Her last album, El Aaiun Egdat from 2012, was surprisingly jazzy at times; my favorite is still her debut, Deseos, from 2005.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
x-post -I got swamped with stuff, and missed the Ilx deadline to vote. Wonder if my possible votes for African albums and tracks would have made a difference...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link