Artsy-post Tropicalia pop type sounds I mean; or any other kinds...?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 December 2017 06:23 (six years ago) link
Yes that keyboard livens that up
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 December 2017 06:26 (six years ago) link
http://afropop.org/articles/stocking-stuffers-2017-feature
Still going through this list. Madagascar’s Toko Telo are afropop-folky . They are doing some UK gigs
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
yeah that was a great episode
heard another amazing afropop worldwide ep this week about the Biafra movement which i really knew nothing about
it's prob the best podcast going atm
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
I haven’t even checked out recent episodes (but I should). I just read the text listing their fave 2017 albums.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/arts/design/malick-sidibes-work-reveals-a-hidden-africa-it-loves-to-party.html?_r=0
There's an exhibit in Paris running to February 25 of the recently(2016) deceased photographer Malik Sidibe's photos of 1960s and 1970s Bamako, Mali called "Mali Twist." Great photos. Sidibe was a music fan and took lots of photos of music fans there dressed up,going out and dancing.
Some 250 black-and-white photographs crowd every inch of wall. In one, a pair of teenage boys in wildly patterned bell bottoms pose moodily with a guitar.
I haven't seen the exhibit, but my wife splurged for the book for me for Chanukah (awww) and its impressive and fun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/arts/malick-sidibe-photographer-known-for-social-reportage-in-mali-dies-at-80.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
Yes, posting about it on another thread, but a pick from lex's list might be of interest here:
Ariwo - Ariwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWeIqmz6Xx0
Jazz, electronic, but some borrowing from the sort of music that normally appears on this thread too. Definitely a Latin feel to some of the jazz. Very difficult to describe. One of them new-fangled fusions. Caldera in particularly is pretty Latin jazzy, but still electronic.
While I'm on this, Auntie Flow was also on lex's list, and might appeal to Rolling Global Outernational listeners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMBYN7JF4E
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
As I've mentioned on the generic Arabic music thread, there has been quite a bit of good underground/indie Arab music coming to my attention this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NxyE6yUElchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW5aM_LxnWghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-6SQjdgdg4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nwCbZfPxcY
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
Been catching up on lots of music the last 2 days. Just listened to the Afropop stocking stuffers podcast and now hearing some albums mentioned on it. Listening now to Soweto Soul, an album put together by Dutch producer/guitarist Joep Pelt who loves old-school South African Pennywhistle Jive, Hip-Hop, Mbaqanga and Kwaito. He got lots of old-school folks to participate. Alas, some of it sounds forced. He wants to make it modern. But some cuts work.
I havent listened to that Lex pick Ariwo yet, but I have heard some of the afropop/afrobeats he likes--Mr. Eazi and Serge Beynaud.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 December 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2018 Thread Once Known as World Music
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 January 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Today I will mostly be listening to the Nyege Nyege Tapes label from Uganda. Namely: Nihiloxica, The Sounds of Sisso compilation and the album by Riddlore
― Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 09:20 (six years ago) link
Maybe not for this thread but I just saw the articles and haven't listened to these acts yet
http://www.okayafrica.com/congolese-music-artists-new-killing-it/
I don't know any of these Congolese rappers and r'n'b acts-- Maître Gims and others
http://www.okayafrica.com/black-panther-album-south-african-artists/
Sjava and 3 others.
I don't know these folks either
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:52 (six years ago) link
Oops ..2017 thread
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 February 2018 05:53 (six years ago) link