Rolling World Music Thread 2013

That newish cd with cellist Vincent Ségal and kora player Ballaké Sissoko is very pretty on a number of compositions in a classical kind of way, but some of it is just too tasteful and nice for me. I think they're gonna be touring the US of A and elsewhere shortly

http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/festivals/12-13/nordic/

I think most of the Nordic musicians participating in this Kennedy Center month-long fest from Feb. 19th to March 17th are jazz musicians.

only new "world" music i've heard this last week is monoswezi's 'the village' which is so sleepy + boring that i just don't know.

I've been listening to Eddie Palmieri mostly

x-post-F Roots is pushing that Zimbabweian/ whatever hybrid Monoswezi and other things I see

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/issue/charts/frplaylist/

so sleepy

Folk Roots mag is now FRoots btw.

I'm more interested in checking out this Senegalese collection called Teranga! that is at #1 on the Sterns chart

http://www.sternsmusic.com/topchart.php

haaaaaaaaaaaaahahha FRoots
that's totally frooty and stupid

it's on spotify! xp

that looks really cool, thanks for posting it DOods

Maybe this should go over on the ile mid-east thread where some Mali talk is going on, but anyway--Tuareg band Tinariwen's former British manager (and writer) Andy Morgan weighs in with an opinion piece on Mali

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/201313094034781783.html

I kinda love that the two threads have become kinda companion threads on Mali...

I just wasn't sure that most of the folks reading the ILE Mideast one see this one.

It was Froots when i was in high school!

this looks like a must go to event
http://nmai.si.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D103653987
Special NATIVE SOUNDS DOWNTOWN Presentation of Tanya Tagaq and Nanook of the North Sunday, March 3, 2013, 2 PM
Inuit performer Tanya Tagaq has refashioned traditional Inuit throat singing into her highly contemporary sound. Tonight for Robert Flaherty’s iconic 1922 silent movie Nanook of the North, she performs her own composition. The film itself was a breakthrough in its day, confronting the imagined remote life of Inuit with a picture of one man living a full life with his family. Over the years, it has been reinvented and reinterpreted through the use of sound, from full orchestra to original scores for chamber music performance. Tagaq premiered this live performance at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

New Very Best song (and new album coming out this year!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-bC6MsjtlI

Can download full track here: http://bit.ly/TgiWJv

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/timbuktu-endured-terror-under-harsh-shariah-law.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130201&_r=0

Those who remained told stories of how they survived the long occupation: by hiding away treasured manuscripts and amulets forbidden by the Islamists, burying crates of beer in the desert, standing by as the tombs of saints they venerated were reduced to rubble, silencing their radios to the city’s famous but now forbidden music.

“They tried to take away everything that made Timbuktu Timbuktu,” said Mahalmoudou Tandina, a marabout, or Islamic preacher, whose ancestors first settled in Timbuktu from Morocco in the 13th century. “They almost succeeded.”

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba's Jama Ko is the first great album of the year afaic (Mali)

http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ay102464461bk_jama-ko-cover.jpg

not on spotify yet, sadface. bump when it is?
i set up an interview with bassekou and pareles and got to sit in; he's a lovely lovely guy

This Cesaret album from Grup Yorum (leftist Turkish protest music w/ associations to the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front) is pretty great imo.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/57693065/Cesaret+Grup+Yorum.jpg

I haven't heard this yet, but it sounds interesting:

Scattered Melodies is a compilation of Korean Kayagum Sanjo Music. Sanjo, meaning "scattered melodies," is a form of stylized string improvisation developed in the 1890s originally for the Korean kayagum, a smaller distant cousin of the Japanese koto. Stark and haunting, falling in the gaps between folk and classical music, kayagum sanjo employs a gradually increasing tempo, focused improvisation (the "scattering of melodies"), elastic rhythms, and intense snaps and vibrato that seem to power through the hazy abstractions of the 78rpm recording technology (these are old, exceedingly rare records that have survived nearly insurmountable odds: invasion, occupation, war, division.). Presented here are a few of the masters of sanjo as it originally emerged in the early part of the 20th century on 78rpm recordings from 1925 to the early 1950s. This limited edition LP comes enclosed in a beautiful tip-on jacket with two-sided insert featuring extended liner notes by compiler Robert Millis.

LP SF078 The Crying Princess (SF078) compiles rare Burmese 78rpm records gathered by Robert Millis and Sublime Frequencies co-founder Alan Bishop during various trips to Burma (Myanmar) and continues the tradition of amazing music from this Southeast Asian nation released by SF. Spanning the years 1909 to 1960 these unique and ridiculously rare records feature early sides by Po Sein (one of the giants of early Burmese music and theater), vocal and harp music from 1929,

This I have heard (single from Fanfara Tirana's upcoming album Kabatronics) and it's like balkan/lauturi wedding beat.

Just bought that Scattered Melodies. Just the thing I want.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNR-_hH_qOM

One of my favorite things on the internet.

Wow

Yeah, that's fabulous.

one more:

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/images/SF079.jpg

A+ kayakuming

that is rad as fuck

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/03/170849486/first-listen-ballake-sissoko-for-peace?ft=1&f=10004

This Sissoko/Segal release is too subtle at times.

very light listening

I really like Sissoko. Yeah, it's not challenging stuff. Great for my working morning, though!

I'll second the new Bassekou Kouyate recommendation. Fantastic record. I had the good fortune to see BK and Ngoni Ba as part of the Sahara Soul tour last week, along with Tamikrest and Sidi Toure. Heck of a night of music. BK is a real star, with a louche charisma and incredible chops. His son got to shred some ngoni at the start. Tamikrest were really good, if not quite in the same league as Tinariwen. Sidi Toure was superb - beautiful songs and playing and a great voice.

That Turkish protest records sounds interesting. Will investigate.

The stuff Ballake Sissoko is doing with Vincent Segal kinda reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Anyone else?

That's a really good thing in my book.

Lots of stuff to catch up with. Was out last night at a Peace in Mali benefit show in W. DC attended by a number of African Ambassadors to the US including Mali's plus UN & ngo people and others, with locally based Malian rapper Supernova King, Malian traditional ngoni player Master Griot Cheick Hamala Diabate, and Afro-r'n'b Cameroonian singer Taka Tanni, and Afro-r'n'b singer Finckya of the Congo.Diabete's not bad and the rest were ok, but nothing amazing to be frank. A good cause.

that sounds amazing tbh

The Very Best & Seye scored a documentary about street kids

in Kenya, sniffing glue and trying to survive. It's called

Tough Bond, and was directed by Village Beat

(who also did The Very Best's Yoshua Alikuti and Kondaine

videos).

Watch the trailer and listen to one of the songs

from the score/soundtrack over at Fader:

http://www.thefader.com/2013/02/05/preview-tough-bond-a-documentary-on-street-kids-in-kenya-scored-by-the-very-best-and-seye/

The film is premiering at Berlin International Film Festival

next week Wednesday 13th of February 2013.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/music-review-new-albums-from-bongos-ikwue-and-teni/2013/02/06/c36a1644-6ca9-11e2-8f4f-2abd96162ba8_story.html

Bongos Ikwue is an old Nigerian guy and Teni is a young Nigerian/UK based gal; and I am curious about both of their albums

The Teni album is on Spotify.

I wonder what lex would think about this Teni album.

Based on the description of her style I think he might

Finally listened to that Senegalese comp I mentioned upthread. Eh, its just mostly average mbalax.

good stuff update:

http://www.magesy.me/uploads/posts/2013-02/1360234150_cover.jpg

and on spotify i think?

^ this btw sounds amazing in my ears fyi esp track #6

https://soundcloud.com/yadiyadiyadi/yadi-unbreakable-chris-baio

also this is worth reading:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/15/staff-benda-bilili-where-did-it-go-wrong

That's so sad.

I came here to post that :-(((( definitely gives the movie a bittersweet tinge

I never did see the movie but I saw them do a poorly publicized, overpriced gig in Washington DC. I thought they were great live--charismatic and clever musically, and I liked the last album a lot too.

this reissue is hot

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0165/3366/products/ck-mann-1_large.jpg?1351

http://morevietnamese.com/vietnamese-pop-music/

cds, no