This is a French band, but this song feels like it might be at home here. I like it a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqLX3t9G6CAKolinga • Nguya na ngai
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 17 July 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
not sure why this gem is not included on Yene Mircha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNByVSLcR4U
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 24 July 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
It is only on the CD version of "Yene Mircha" - not the vinyl LP, nor the Bandcamp download. Similarly, the CD of "Lala Belu" has (unlisted) bonus tracks that aren't on the vinyl LP nor download.
― ernestp, Saturday, 25 July 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
That New Astatke one has A lot going on. Can’t decide if I like it yet , after 1 quick listen
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 July 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link
Just learning about Astatke’s collaborators on this : from a Guardian review—- Melbourne’s Black Jesus Experience, a collective of singers, rappers, and jazz improvisers of Moroccan, Zimbabwean, Maori, Ethiopian and Australian origins.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
Yeah, gotta admit the raps on that Astake record sound pretty corny to me, well intentioned and all but...
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Balla Sidibé, founder member, lead singer, percussionist and composer of Orchestra Baobab passed away
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 July 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Aw man RIP
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 July 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
That sucks. Covid related?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
So this guy, the producer, is English but his sound and his collaborators are African so I feel I can mention it on this thread (if only under the "some exceptions" caveat to thread title). Need to listen again but really liked it on 1st pass:
Skinshape - Umoja
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 July 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
The heavy metal scene in Botswana.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rc6xl
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 August 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
Orquestra Baobab member Balla Sidibe’s death has not been attributed to COVID in the articles I saw.
I haven’t listened to Botswana heavy metal. I have been listening to UK based Nigerian Obangjayar who raps and sometimes uses old-school rooted afrobeats rhythms.
2018 interviewhttps://pitchfork.com/features/rising/get-to-know-obongjayar-who-makes-otherworldly-spirituals-for-the-modern-soul/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
Obangjayar has his own thread! He’s great live too, saw him just before lockdown
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
here's that thread: up like sun, down like sun - a thread for obongjayar
(Obongjayar is the correct spelling)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 3 August 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Thanks
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
There’s Only like 2 comments on his thread!
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Oumou Sangare is on Beyonce’s visual Black is King album and Burna Boy and Beyonce holding a Robert Farris Thompson book on Yoruban art. Lots of other cool guests too. It’s a bit flawed but I like the ambition.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
Just noticed I have missed out on some new Mdou Moctar mixtapes plus new Saharan Whats App ones
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 8 August 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5807750
Some Hassan Hajjaj photos of Moroccan musicians and others
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/arts/hassan-hajjaj.html
The ongoing series “My Rock Stars” is Mr. Hajjaj’s homage to his cosmopolitan crowd. (A sampler: the American artist Hank Willis Thomas; the Moroccan filmmaker Meryem Benm’Barek; the French-Algerian musician Rachid Taha, who died last year.) Some are famous, but styled by HajjajIn the Shoreditch shop, the grime M.C. Afrikan Boy, the Gnawa drummer Simo Lagnawi & the soul singer Bumi drifted in to rehearse. Mr. Hajjaj was developing a multimedia stage show, “My Rock Stars Experimental,” w/ video projections & live performance by musicians styled by him
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
Buscabulla’s tropical Puerto Rican synth pop w/ some r’n’b is nice enough
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 August 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
Whatever the fuck is going on here is the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLF7JzUeVOY
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
They definitely have a vision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHOcJIIU_5I
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
okay, i am very into this
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
perhaps predictably.
They play all the hits! Mainly Brazilian ones, but some foreign ones as well, including a mean “Billie Jean”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHSEJpsquisThey are Fundo de Quintal OFC btw(please tag your musical links for searching and Posterity reasons, folx!)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
ha that's classic
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
their YT channel has dozens of videos! they’re basically called The Backyard Boys.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
https://tab.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2020/07/23/fundo-de-quintal-ofc-jovens-do-maranhao-conquistaram-brasil-na-quarentena.htm
GoogleTranslating this key quote:
“The name Fundo de Quintal was given in reference to the very scenario in which the quintet originated, and not in honor of the famous pagoda group of the 1990s. According to Simão, the inspirations for recording the first videos came from the boys' own will, and not from any prior influence of anything they have seen. The originality of Fundo de Quintal also caught the attention of producers and major YouTube players. On July 13, the video of the group interpreting the song "Na Raba Toma Tapão" by MC Niack, the most viewed of the channel - with almost 5 million hits -, was used on Kondzilla's Instagram to celebrate the 30 million hits views of the original version. The channel, by the way, is today the third largest in the world in the music segment on the platform.”
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
(icymi that Niack track is one of ILM's official Summer Jams of the year)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
Brilliant bit of historical context, again through GoogleTranslate:
“This structure, created by the boys from Centro dos Rodrigues, also finds parallels in other artistic movements of great importance, such as the so-called "happenings" - a term used for the first time in 1959 by the American artist Allan Kaprow, and defined by the composer John Cage as " spontaneous and plot-free theatrical events ". In this type of scenic work, some element of spontaneity or improvisation is incorporated, which never happens in the same way with each new presentation. Considered performances, happenings were very popular during pop art in the United States.”
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
good background
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Wow
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/12/admass-sons-of-ethiopia-how-a-great-lost-album-is-finding-new-fans/
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/admas-sons-of-ethiopia-interview
In 1984 some Ethiopians living in the DC area borrowed some $ and recorded an album as Admas and pressed a 1000 copies. Decades later they were selling for a lot on Ebay. A Danish collector living in NYC tracked them down after he bought a copy on Ebay, and he reissued the album. 3 of the band members are back in Ethiopia. 1 tours as Teddy Afro's keyboardist, one is a producer, the other is a music educator.
The album is mostly instrumental and starts with a loungey golden era Ethiopia type track, and has one track with a reggae feel, another with a Brazilian jazz samba portion, and funkier one and one has vocals.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 September 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
As described, Admas are influenced by golden era Ethiopiques, but incorporated 80s influences as well, that they heard both in DC & back home in Ethiopia
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 3 September 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
nice find
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 September 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
Acclaimed Malian artist Afel Bocoum's new record Lindé is out today on World Circuit Records. The album is executive produced by Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and Nick Gold (Buena Vista Social Club), and features appearances by Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen, Joan as Police Woman, Vin Gordon (The Skatalites) and many more.
Press release info for a new Afel Bocoum album I want to hear . Although worried Blur guy and other producer have tried to smother him with guests
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
that Fundo de Quintal stuff is brilliant
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 7 September 2020 23:00 (three years ago) link
So, this probably has a lot of places it could fit, but I think because of its unclassifiable nature, it belongs here.
Duma- Lionsbloodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd35MhHqjhc
They're from Nairobi, it's on Nyege Nyege, and is a bit metal, a bit gabber, a bit of Kenyan "slum drumming."
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 7 September 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
maximalist
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
I still have to get to Sharhabil Ahmed: the King of Sudanese Jazz ( Habibi Funk) and the 2 new Brazilian funky efforts from Carlinhos Brown (candyall)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
X-post - that Duma video is wild.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Right? I think my main complaint about the video is that the album track is about four minutes longer, though I guess maintaining that level of simultaneously carefree and menacing atmosphere for a long period of time is a hard ask.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
The online Sufi music fest at the Dc Smithsonian museum of Asian Art started nicely today with Sufi songs from Manganiyar and Langa Communities, Marwar, Rajasthan, India w/ Anwar Khan Manganiyar, vocals ; Barkat Khan Manganiyar, vocals; & percussion & string instrumentalists was great. The melancholy vocals reminded me a bit of some Jewish cantors I have heard ( or vice versa)
https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/performances/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D147377662
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 September 2020 04:11 (three years ago) link
https://petronio.cali.gov.co/
Afro-Colombian online concerts this week
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
X-post - Sufi poetry online Wednesday from Freer Sackler National Museum of Asian Art
n Wed., Sept. 23, 12 pm EDT, singer Walid Ben Selim & harpist Marie Marguerite Cano join us for "Spiritual Poems from the East," for Transcendence: A [Virtual] #Sufi #MusicFestival. s.si.edu/2FyICBu Ben Selim will speak about his music and answer audience questions. 🎶
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
Sufi thing should be good ( and different from great first one in that series that was from India)
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
At the Kol Nidre service I watched via zoom earlier tonight, the cantor played oud on one song while another musician played a Qanun (like a hammered dulcimer sort of) and a percussionist held and hit a sorta Persian/Iranian daf frame drum
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 September 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEf_lwDEGHM
Nice new single with great vocals from The Good Ones (from Rwanda )
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 October 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link