(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
https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/performances/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D147377725
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 12 – 1pmDescription Transcendence: A Sufi Music FestivalZainab Afailal, Morocco Listen to Sufi-inspired Andalusian songs from southern Spain and Morocco at our concluding festival performance. Zainab Afailal will perform in the refined styles of Sufi devotional music that are based on two forms of Arabic poetry—the muwashah and the Zajal—which developed in eleventh- and twelfth-century Spain. Born and raised in Tetouan, Afaillal is one of the most celebrated female singers to perform in this mode, which for generations was believed to be an exclusively male domain. Her performance will be followed by a talk with Dr. Scott Kugle, professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies at Emory University.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 1 October 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
DC Ethiopian band Kino Musica has a new ep out on bandcamp plus a new video for one of the songs. I like the video but haven’t heard the ep yet. Looking forward to it
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 3 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
X-post - the Sufi events I have mentioned are gonna be made available post-zoom on the National Museum of Asian Art ( formerly Freer/ Sackler) YouTube page
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 October 2020 18:13 (three years ago) link
relief fund for African musicians
https://www.soulidarity.org/index.html
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
Mdou Moctar and band sign to Matador and release new video. Album coming soon
https://pitchfork.com/news/mdou-moctar-signs-to-matador-shares-video-for-new-song-chismiten-watch/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 9 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
New Ustad Saami is sounding incredible, even better than the first one
https://ustadsaami.bandcamp.com/album/pakistan-is-for-the-peaceful
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Saturday, 10 October 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
Will check it out
Pitchfork story on Discotan- performance space, site, label for music from South Asia and North Africa
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/welcome-to-discostan/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
X-post - Pakistani Ustad Saami does have quite a vocal range
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
There’s a new Songhoy Blues album out. It’s called Optimisme
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
It's pretty great.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 1 November 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
I still haven't heard more than 1 song from it. I need to dig in.
I am listening to Kino Musica, a DC based group led by 2 Ethiopian immigrants who have their new Ifaan ep out on multiple formats plus a video for their take on the song "Arke Yehuma"
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 November 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
Can attest to the Ustad Saami, it's incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn8e60wXbNw
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 2 November 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
Here's DC band Kino Musica melding Ethiopian and a tinge of North African desert guitar grooves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjsWgw68F2s
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 November 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
The Music Time in Africa radio show on the VOA that airs in parts of Africa is pushing Kenyan band Sautisol song “Brighter Days” as the “ feel good song of the year” on their Facebook page.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 November 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
Sauti Sol, 2 words and ILXors have mentioned them in the past, sometimes here and sometimes on Afrobeats thread. The song mentioned above has Sauti Sol backed by the Soweto Gospel choir. I like the choir’s backing vocals more than Sauti Sol.
https://youtu.be/OQEByF4dtY0
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
I am not liking new Songhoy Blues , well some of it. First song is kinda Malian metal/hard rock and that’s not my thing. “Bob Bon “ has some prog aspects I don’t like either . Still listening
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/501345/city-lights-jam-to-kino-musicas-ep-ifaan/
But I like Kino Musica’s Ethiopian with a tinge of North African sound. Their guitarist is Ethiopian but grew up in Texas where he also listened to blues and rap, and played blues. Although you don’t hear too much of that on the ep. They also do a Black Sabbath cover live ( the guitarist told me likes the anti war lyrics) but make it sound less rock
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 November 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
I still haven’t listened to recent Mdou Moctar mixtapes, or those Sahel Whats App ones that come out monthly.
The guitarist of Kino Musica also emailed me a bunch of 80s to the present Ethiopian musicians he likes ( that I have never heard).
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Would be interested in seeing that list - def know kino's name - feel like i maybe have the music but not listened but the texas background sounds interesting - shld check if i know who that is - but would be interested in seeing the list he he suggested
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
Kumera Zekarias of Kino Musica faves:
Artists MentionedAli Birra-- Oromo singer, oud and guitar player. He's my biggest influence on current song writingTilahun Gessesse--the most famous Ethiopian singer among Ethiopians. He was my father's favorite singerYared Negu-my favorite contemporary Ethiopop artist Galaanaa Gaaromsaa-my favorite contemporary Oromo artistAbinet Agonafir-my favorite contemporary/2000's Ethoipian artist
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 November 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link
I've got to listen to the above plus been reading about some new Awesome tapes from Africa releases and Sahel Sounds ones too
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 November 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
Saw someone mention Ustad Saami in albums of the year thread, but I think it was because he got a good Quietus review during the year but didn’t make their list.
The Hailu Mergia ep is a top 10 for me. Still thinking about and listening to others when I can.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 December 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
That was me. The new one from Ustad Saami is breathtakingly good.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
i'll agree on that mergia, would like to see it in more places
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
Siti MuharamSiti of Unguja (Romance Revolution on Zanzibar
This taraab music album made the NPR album top 50 list . I forget whether someone had mentioned it earlier this year
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Is it good? There was a taraab album on another list I saw (iirc either Gioa's or Songlines)
― rob, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Must admit I haven’t heard it yet
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
Heh no problem, I kept the Songlines list tab open for a day until I gave up on the hope of listening to it all. This year is beyond overstuffed.
I'm listening to Afel Bocoum's Lindé album right now, which is quite nice. I've been getting into Malian music in general this year, so the horn parts are a genuinely surprising flourish
― rob, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
oh cool I didn't realize that it's Vin Gordon playing the trombone on this
― rob, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link