I wonder if Saudi act Msylma who did the above song live in Saudi Arabia or abroad?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Intriguing; brings to mind Björk/Arca – I'll have to check out the rest.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
That Nigeria 70: No Wahala comp mentioned above awhile back is wonderful classic afropop
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 May 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
xpost to Curmudgeon, apparently Msylma is based in Mecca. ZULI, his producer (who also has a record out, from last year), is from Cairo.
The remainder of the record is just as interesting as that track, i think.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 16 May 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxdf8TBSkdU
I like this video for Iranian fiddler and electro musician Saba Alizadeh
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
love that, thanks curmudgeon!
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 24 May 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Hadn't considered the possibility of melding ambient with traditional Persian music before hearing Saba Alizadeh's album. As a side note, his father is the incredible shurangiz player Hossein Alizadeh.
The Msylma LP is sounding incredible so far. I mentioned Björk and Arca upthread but this holds my attention with more flair than anything the former two have released in years.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Saw Youssou NDour again . Great live. For one of the encores he said the song had a current Senegalese rhythm that he noted is being heard everywhere there. Alas, I didn’t catch the name. Doh.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 June 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Liking some of Cochemea album Mordy listed back on March 31, but other times the sax player gets too fusion jazz/ Kenny G for me
Listening now to Houssam Gania folkloric Mid East Northern Africa instrumentation with Call & response chanted vocals. It’s good , doesn’t completely wow me but yeah still good
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 June 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
Kings Aibologa from Mordy’s list is classic old-School afrobeat
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 June 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
I keep coming back to Mdou Moctar's latest album
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
On the Ethiopiques thread I wrote about the very good Hailu Mergia gig I saw last night in DC
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 June 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
Yeah great show
― Heez, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
I saw him earlier this year, thought it was a jam for sure.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
I like Hailu better with his DC Ethiopian rhythm section from the Feedel Band, than with the jazz guys
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Went to a local Afghan restaurant near me last night and I discovered the large main room was closed to the public for a graduation party. They sat in a side room where we could still hear the loud upbeat Afghan traditional with a modern twist music from. Good stuff. Occasionally we’d see little Afghan kids come out of the hall, and dance in the restaurant’s foyer, or play games on phones & tablets.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
The restaurant sat us in a side room I mean
― curmudgeon, Monday, 17 June 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
https://wmce.de/
World music chart of what’s being heard in Europe
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Am revisiting latest Ifriqiyya Electrique album that is a bandcamp 2019 fave . This (mostly I think) Tunisian band is too industrial at times for me.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 June 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
I find this oddly grating, but maybe it's because I've been in a cloud of ambient music due to the poll....
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 30 June 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
Saw Helado Negro the other night. Interesting alt Latin bolero meets alt Brazilian bossa meets wispy Pitchfork indie set ( new album plus older cuts). He’s backed by a woman who plays sax, violin, and keyboards plus a man who plays sax and keyboards while he plays electric guitar or doesn’t use an instrument. They also had pre-programmed sounds up there. He was friendly and talkative between songs. Some of crowd got too chatty at times. I read a Latinx grad student on twitter complaining that Anglos were talking loud during songs in Spanish.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 July 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
His newest is one of my fave albums of the year - so chill
― Mordy, Monday, 1 July 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
Chill but more than that I say defensively ( or at least more than my interpretation of “chill” in 2019). Live the saxes brought a jazzy feel at times ( not a smooth jazz one), the violin was kinda avante-chamber music, and his vocal melodies were tuneful and more than background soothing.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
I wrote about Ifriqiyya Electrique back in May; I like them a lot. Maleem Mahmoud Ghania meets Treponem Pal. I bet they're a blast live.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 1 July 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
His reminiscing about his 2014 DC gig that was promoted by a female alt-Latino collective also was friendly and down to earth.
Yes, I like the new album too. My ILM search alas does not turn up too much for him. Oh well.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
Oops. I am referring to Helado.
Unperson , yeah I can see you liking Ifriqiyya Electrique more than me. More your style
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
you're right that it's not just chill moods but those are the ones that open up all the other stuff (about longing + belonging + wistfulness) it's just an extremely pleasant listening experience that reveals itself upon repeated listens but without being too demanding is all i really mean by chill. my fave track is "pais nublado" which is bilingual.
― Mordy, Monday, 1 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
RIP Folk Roots magazine/website aka fRoots that covered international music
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
The great Fally Ipupa and band from the Congo will be in DC @ the Howard Theatre Friday the 12th (alas I will be at the beach)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
Saw some video clips on Instagram of Ipupa and band and dancers at their Friday gig @ the Howard, and Saturday at the Apollo in NYC. Looked and sounded great. Congolese afropop
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 July 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
They're gonna be in Raleigh next
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 July 2019 15:25 (four years ago) link
I used to go on an Afropop music forum chatboard dominated by Congolese ex-pats. I wonder what they’re saying now that Nigerian afrobeats ( & similar sounds from other locales) controls the interests of most; and their poor country still struggles with post-genocide issues, Ebola and more. It’s all very sad. Fally Ipupa is trying to bridge the old Congolese era with the newer sounds.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
No other Fally Ipupa fans on this thread I guess. Maybe I should try the afropop/afrobeats one.
Listened to Youssou Ndour’s latest again. Uneven but his voice is still gorgeous
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
BKO Quintet from Mali are gonna be back in North America. In DC August 1 at Millennium Stage. Their electrified-ngoni player makes them rock and groove in a more than traditional way
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
Great old-school meets new school Congo band Jupiter & Okwess are @ Newport Folk Fest today Saturday, and in Brooklyn early next week then head out west. Not seeeing any DC gigs on this tour, but if there's one near you, see them. They were just in Europe & UK I think and will be returning there also
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
ooh i saw them last year (i think?) and they were greatalmost world music fest time in chicago!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 27 July 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
Speaking of J&O, next weekend's Pickathon fest near Portland includes these in its lineup:
Khruangbin Mdou MoctarIbibio Sound MachineLido PimientaAltin GünJupiter & Okwess
I know they livestream some sets ... I will try to remember to post a link here.
― alpine static, Saturday, 27 July 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Not clear what J & Okwess are doing this Sunday through Tuesday, but they’re in Brooklyn Wednesday then fly west, and then fly back for a Chicago Millennium Park gig, and a Massachusetts gig. Weird scheduling but I guess that was only way it could work
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
this track showed up in my new releases playlist this week: Tinariwen - Zawal ft Warren ellis, Noura Mint Seymali + Jeiche Ould Chighaly
― Mordy, Monday, 29 July 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
Ooh that looks good
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 July 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/index/M70251
Mali's BKO Quintet hour long gig at Kennedy Center started traditional but halfway through the set their electrified small stringed ngoni player offers sounds that should please fans of punk and Hendrix, while the kora/ngoni , the djembe & the drumset add funky polyrhythms
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 August 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/fatou-seidi-ghali-the-worlds-first-female-tuareg-guitarist
Les Filles de Illighadad
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqrHX3_J6vY
Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga will be at the Folklife Fest in Salisbury, Md Sept 7 & 8th.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 8 August 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/opinion/mahrou-leilal-concert-canceled-lebanon-blasphemy-wars.html
Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou Leila barred from doing a concert in Lebanon. Had previously played there, but are banned in Egypt and Jordan ( singer is gay)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
A posthumous Rachid Taha album due out shortly
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Posted on Modern Brazil thread that I kinda like Labaq, Sao Paulo Brazil indie electro pop singer/guitarist. She’s penned and sings some nice melodies
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
Saw Lila Downs with a big band the other night. Not bad. Missed Labaq though. Can't see em all
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 August 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
That northern Brazil music album Jambu is getting attention due to an enthusiastic review by P. Sherburne for Pitchfork. It didn’t wow me on first listen, but will give it another shot
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
^I'm really into this! It sounds like Cuban tunes (a la Arsenio Rodriguez or something) with samba rhythms.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 19 August 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Growing on me. First song reminded me of Peruvian chicha music, but yes I hear some Cuban too
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link