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.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 August 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 September 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 September 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 September 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
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 .
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 September 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
On Facebook seeing this Saturday pricey event getting attention-- *Sami Dan and Nhatty Man w/ the Ras Band @ Karma (Ethiopian)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 September 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Wed. September 25Toko 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
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Kokoko use homemade instruments as well as electronic ones apparently
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
i like the kokoko album
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
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!!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 26 September 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Yes, listening to Kokoko’s often uptempo , percussion-filled songs now
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 September 2019 12:25 (four years ago) link
Toko Telo is the Madagascar supergroup
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 September 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
They're kind of afro-folk too. I like the singer's voice
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 28 September 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
― Mordy, Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:42 PM (five days ago)
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
Less enthused about French synth player in Kokoko than I am about rest of the band
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
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?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
His synth is too techno/edm while the homemade instruments are funky
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 October 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
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.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 4 October 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
LL otm
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article236164663.html
Musicians leading Haitian protests
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 October 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.voanews.com/americas/thousands-join-haitian-musicians-peaceful-protest-demanding-president-step-down
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 October 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
lineup for next year's globalfest announced and includes vocal choir San Salvador from France who sound pretty great on first spinhttps://soundcloud.com/lostintraditions/sets/san-salvador-live
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 21 October 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
The rai group looks interesting ( although I haven’t listened to them yet)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Saw and enjoyed Zambia Afro-psychedelic band Witch . Only surviving original member from their early 70s prime is singer Jagari Chanda.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
What is everyone listening to these days?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 November 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
the new blick bassy a bunch
― Mordy, Saturday, 2 November 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
Listening to Blick Bassy now. Nice Sunday morning music so far (relaxing but not easy listening)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 3 November 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
the album is about Ruben Um Nyobé, an anti-colonialist Cameroonian leader who was killed in 1958 and basically any discussion of him and his movement was repressed brutally by the government for the next few decades. it's a politically significant act that blick bassy made this album as well as being quite beautiful imo. the afropop worldwide sorta "primer" episode on it is worth listening to as a compendium for the context i liked the album the first few times i heard it but after listening to the ep i kept going back to it.
― Mordy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
blick is good times
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
i mean, obviously that topic isn't so much but as a performer and artist, blick is a badass
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
The new album by Iranian percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi has some deep, almost Aphex-y vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu282N-6WXM
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
saw pejman hadadi on drums live recently and his hands were unmappably fast and the beats painfully intricate, didn't really seem possible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-HBA0JqNjg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
Just saw the Manginyar Seduction in DC. 36 Northern India musicians and vocalists set up in a Hollywood Squares like set w/ 9 across and 4 rows high.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOuYAJ1-zI
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
xp - wow, that guy's got major dancing hands! thanks for posting
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
Heh, curmudgeon, we are the same person: seeing manganiyar thursday.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Manganiyar were great. I think you will definitely enjoy
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
i have been making the "Hollywood Squares" comparison when discussing them too; also "advent calendar"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Am liking that Nigerian afrobeats/ afropop Lady Donli album that’s been mentioned on that other thread.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
It has now been mentioned on three threads no less, it’s that good. It has a retro vibe, but still sounds real fresh and punchy.
Let me post that Fader feature again:https://www.thefader.com/2019/10/31/lady-donli-enjoy-your-life-interview
― the guy from That Other Thread (breastcrawl), Thursday, 14 November 2019 06:41 (four years ago) link
Mauritania singer Noura Mint Seymali and her band have been to the US a bunch of times, but this time her husband guitarist Jeich Ould Chighaly and the bassist were denied entry. At Kennedy Center Seymali and her drummer were joined by her US-based brother and another guy. Not as much Afro-psych guitar but the keyboardist adds good sounds and Seymali’s vocal range still sounds impressive https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nllls4f7Png
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 November 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Chighaly is a great guitarist who also gave some lessons to The 75 Dollar Bill guitarist. So lame that he got barred this time
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 November 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
getting them into the country has always been a deal as i understand it; unsurprising but yes, very shitty.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
new staff benda bilili out today!
― Mordy, Friday, 22 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
it's been 8 years since the last one