Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2019 Thread Once Known as World Music

this track showed up in my new releases playlist this week: Tinariwen - Zawal ft Warren ellis, Noura Mint Seymali + Jeiche Ould Chighaly

Ooh that looks good

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

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/fatou-seidi-ghali-the-worlds-first-female-tuareg-guitarist

Les Filles de Illighadad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqrHX3_J6vY

Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga will be at the Folklife Fest in Salisbury, Md Sept 7 & 8th.

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)

A posthumous Rachid Taha album due out shortly

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

Saw Lila Downs with a big band the other night. Not bad. Missed Labaq though. Can't see em all

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

^I'm really into this! It sounds like Cuban tunes (a la Arsenio Rodriguez or something) with samba rhythms.

Growing on me. First song reminded me of Peruvian chicha music, but yes I hear some Cuban too

And I am hearing old-school Jamaican ska on cuts 18 and 19, although the Pitchfork article says it was all recorded in the 70s and 80s

Contractor employee was blasting Guatemalan folk music while working on my home. It was ok.

It took awhile but Tuareg band Les Filles de Illighadad got US visas so various dates coming in September around the country

Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou Leila coming too

Listened to 2018 Boukman Eksperyans album. Haitian band that combines poly- rhythmic carnival sounds with reggae and rock. Some good call and response vocals. They’re doing a free show in NY tonight and coming to DC September 6. Don’t know about other gigs. They’ve been together as a band since 91 or so.

Actually Boukman have been together since the late 70s I think

https://worldmusic.net/blogs/news/world-music-charts-europe-august-2019

The most interesting effort on this to me is the one led by Congolese guitarist Dizzy Mandjeku--

Uniting Colombian and Congolese musicians, De Palenque à Matongé, de project of Dizzy Mandjeku and Alé Kumá, revives and re-interprets the historical connection between two musical traditions that have travelled back and forth between the New World and the African Motherland.

Just saw a recent video clip of Mdou Moctar live at a club in NYC, on Instagram. He and his band are touring all the time it seems. He's gonna be back in DC shortly

Tuareg band Les Filles de Illighadad play minimalist folk music but with buzzing guitars and ululating or rough-edged vocals. They have 2 female guitarists (still an unusual thing in their part of the world. The leader's dad said she should be working with grazing cows not learning to play guitar (when he discovered she had been taking her brother's guitar and teaching herself to play it

Saw Les Filles live Saturday at a free Celebrate Africa fest. They were good not great but that may be because I like more rocking Tuareg stuff and they’re more folky with slower tempos but still with cool buzzing guitars and nice percussion. The night before I saw a great Boukman E show that had a carnival like spirit; and then a block away I caught end of Mdou Moctar set with his wonderful guitar shredding.

Saw Angelique Kidjo for free tonight at the Kennedy Center. First some duets with classical/opera singer Rene Fleming including "Summertime," and Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," then a short set by herself with a DC band where she did Bob Marley's Redemption Song, Miriam Makeba's Pata Pata, and a few others. None of her Talking Heads or Celia Cruz covers, but her voice and her dancing always make her worth seeing .

On Facebook seeing this Saturday pricey event getting attention-- *Sami Dan and Nhatty Man w/ the Ras Band @ Karma (Ethiopian)

Wed. September 25
Toko Telo is a Madagascar supergroup w/ D’Gary, national diva Monika Njava; and Joël Rabesolo, Malagasy guitarist for free from 6 to 7 pm @ Kennedy Center Millennium Stage

Will be video streaming on Kennedy Center Facebook and YouTube pages and archived

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/congolese-band-kokoko-prep-debut-album-touring-dates-song-streams/

Congolese band with one French band member on tour. I haven’t listened yet or seen the videos. Press release says they’re a more electronic version of Konono No. 1

DC & Ny and more gigs next week

Kokoko use homemade instruments as well as electronic ones apparently

i like the kokoko album

omfg i saw kokoko! over the weekend and strongly recommend catching them if they are in your town. what a fun show. the homemade instruments were MWAH and they were full of energy and personality and had the crowd in their hand. excellent live band!!!!

they were amazing. i loved every member of that band, even the belgian electronics guy in the pink hat.

oh i guess he's french? idk. he's white.

Yes, listening to Kokoko’s often uptempo , percussion-filled songs now

Now listening to Afro-folk of the Good Ones from Rwanda. And here’s video of Madagascar supergroup

https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/index/M70866

Toko Telo is the Madagascar supergroup

They're kind of afro-folk too. I like the singer's voice

i like the kokoko album

― Mordy, Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:42 PM (five days ago)

Less enthused about French synth player in Kokoko than I am about rest of the band

eh, he was ok -- in the live setup he kept the whole thing moving along, wore a pink hat in case anyone was confused about him being white
what's your beef w him?

His synth is too techno/edm while the homemade instruments are funky

That’s what I like about them! The collision of the two things. One of my students went to see them too and he went because he likes EDM and walked away w respect for their homemade instruments.

LL otm

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article236164663.html

Musicians leading Haitian protests

Rapper Izolan, who led the movement under the theme "Lage Pye Ou" (step on it) with the hashtag Rebat Kat La (reshuffle the deck of cards), was joined by fellow musicians, posting plans on social media and asking participants to wear white shirts, a sign of peace.

https://www.voanews.com/americas/thousands-join-haitian-musicians-peaceful-protest-demanding-president-step-down

lineup for next year's globalfest announced and includes vocal choir San Salvador from France who sound pretty great on first spin
https://soundcloud.com/lostintraditions/sets/san-salvador-live

The rai group looks interesting ( although I haven’t listened to them yet)

Saw and enjoyed Zambia Afro-psychedelic band Witch . Only surviving original member from their early 70s prime is singer Jagari Chanda.

Might make more sense to talk about Witch on a garage rock or psychedelic thread. But they do have some Zambia trad influences. I haven’t seen the movie doc about them. I don’t think they ever found live film footage of the band from the 70s. Just photos. Doc I think follows around Jagari Chanda in recent years and interviews people about the past and present

What is everyone listening to these days?

the new blick bassy a bunch

Listening to Blick Bassy now. Nice Sunday morning music so far (relaxing but not easy listening)