Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2021 Thread (Often African bands)

Nice. May want to xpost to Modern Brazil - s/d

Nice vocals

I need to check out Khaira Arby New York live 2010

Arby was a powerful voiced Malian singer who died young at 58 in 2018. Now this live recording has come out

Angélique Kidjo has a new album coming out next month; Burna Boy is on one track. She dedicated her 2020 Grammy win to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpwUq-tZfmE

Also seeing reviews of new Mdou Moctar album

The Moctar w/ his touring band album "Afrique Victime" is his first on Matador

it's a really good album this, some absolutely sick guitar playing and the songs are growing on me.

Listening for first time this morning. Sounds good. The one white guy in the group Mikey Coltun is from DC. Coltun’s dad is a guitarist who runs an international music club/ restaurant in DC. Dad has played with a DC based Malian musician for some time

A fantastic South African record — Philip Tabane's The Indigenous Afro-Jazz Sounds Of..., from 1969 — is being reissued on LP only (boo, hiss) next month. Bandcamp link

It's a duo disc, just guitar and percussion for most of it, but Tabane occasionally plays flute and the percussionist, Gabriel "Sonnyboy" Thobejane, plays thumb piano. Tabane's guitar style is somewhere between Grant Green and John Lee Hooker, really raw-sounding but technically quite skilled. If you can find a digital version, or own a turntable, snap this one up.

That'll be this? https://open.spotify.com/album/4BPFOWZvn6eKmZOGk3oJKZ?si=6em_cftNSMGut_ajvMwm8Q
sounds good indeed

India Covid relief benefit stream

Live Performances By:
Terry Riley
Kala Ramnath & Abhijit Banerjee
George Brooks & Utsav Lal
Chuck Johnson
Saturday, June 5
4pm PST / 7pm EST

https://grayarea.org/event/music-for-india/

This is fantastic Afro/Cuban/Funk/Jazz based out of Cologne

Mutio Kaballa Power Ensemble - Mamari

https://muitokaballa.bandcamp.com/album/mamari

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973428817/new-compilation-of-old-tunes-is-an-alternate-history-of-the-worlds-music

More on Excavated Shellac collection

x-post- Mutio Kaballa Power Ensemble have a little afrobeat as well as the jazz

Finally saw a bit of Innov Gnawa last night. Good stuff, love that sintir.

Yes. Saw them once and agree.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/angelique-kidjo-mother-nature/?utm_medium=social&utm_brand=p4k&mbid=social_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&fbclid=IwAR2zF6R8K3U9fkhTfBUEo6oXszowPeSa9D128cSDMhlkb-k9TEplGYNk9p0

New Angelique Kidjo album . She wrote 11 of 13 songs. Guests include Burna Boy, Yemi Alade, Mr Eazi

Pitchfork review is favorable although grade of 7.6 won’t make it a “best album “

Haven’t listened to the Kidjo album yet

Cameroonian singer Wes Madiko:

https://then24.com/2021/06/26/singer-wes-madiko-author-of-the-hit-alane-died-at-the-age-of-57/

RIP

Was listening to Witch Camp— percussion and chants and harmonies from Ghanaian women in a camp who have been wrongfully condemned as witches

Sample tracks from this are good: https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/cameroon-garage-funk

Pop Makossa was amazing so I'm looking forward to hearing that

Sounds funky and liners say most songs were recorded in a church with just one mic

This is pretty sweet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZobgLF5Vc

Bandcamp daily had a story about this Moroccan banjo player, really nice: https://hassanwargui.bandcamp.com/album/tiddukla

I am behind on listening to various things related to this thread. But intend to find time

https://daily.bandcamp.com/hidden-gems/u-tin-burmese-guitar-review?utm_source=notification

The late Burmese / Myanmar guitarist U-tin sounds good on my first quick listen

yes, sounds very interesting

Yep

Belatedly caught up with the new Ballaké Sissoko, who never disappoints. The chamber pop collabs (with Camille and Arthur Teboul of Feu ! Chatterton, among others) are more convincing than I expected and don't sound off in this context where most features involve African musicians (or musicians of African descent). The duo with Oxmo Puccino is the sole misstep as far as I'm concerned. By far one of the best French rappers of the late 90s/early 00s, he just sounds exhausted here, and his attempt at doing a spoken word bit falls flat.

New Sissoko album is called Djourou

Salif Keita’s voice is still so gorgeous on Sissoko cut Guelen

Saw a little video clip on an Ethiopian DC FB group of Tsedi , an Ethiopian singer performing before a big Sunday night crowd at the Hashtag Lounge in Alexandria, Virginia, pretty close to Washington DC. I don’t know her music but may investigate further at some point

was Habibi Funk 015 mentioned? it's very good on first listen
https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-015-an-eclectic-selection-of-music-from-the-arab-world-part-2

wow there are 15 volumes of that? not sure I've heard a one—any particular volume to recommend?

this is a personal favorite https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-010-mouasalat-ila-jacad-el-ard

cheers, I'll check that out!

https://pan-african-music.com/en/nobesuthu-mbadu-dies-at-76/

Too many deaths of older musicians lately

Nobesuthu Mbadu of South Africa’s Mahotella Queens mbaqanga and vocal harmonies group

Sir Victor Uwaifo guitarist
Barthalemy Attiso, guitarist for Orchestra Baobab

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jonathanbogart/issues/exist-yesterday-2021-tropical-pop-2-may-aug-743619?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=view_in_browser&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Exist+Yesterday

Jonathan Bogart on his fave May to August 2021 pop/dance/ rap/reggae /soca songs

Really into this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0GKOazMFho

Falle Nioke & sir Was - Wonama yo ema

That sounds super nice

ooh that's lovely

this newer, bangier track is good too - i think it's on the BBC Radio 6 playlist

Falle Nioke & Ghost Culture - Leywole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndqyUDPVBt0

Thanks for the Falle Nioke posts. Good stuff.

Unrelated-

Ethiopian New Year is Saturday. A couple of good live shows coming up this weekend in DC. One with guitarist Selamino who is on a Ethiopiques album or 2.

I checked Altın Gün's album because it was mentionned first on Popmatters mid-year list. It's a pleasant discovery: tasty mix of synths, grooves and Anatolian rock. It's light in a good way, without the superficial exotic I expect on such releases. For example the track of right now, Kesik Çayır, sounds kinda like the B-side of Remain in Light. I wouldn't mind a bit more edge and a world-class singer, but I think I'll check their previous album as well.

Following the author, I just found this. Fitting since I'm going to Kin soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0jF5QxNtI8
Rey Sapienz & The Congo Techno Ensemble - Eza Makambo

https://www.businessinsider.com/afghanistan-taliban-kills-popular-folk-singer-days-after-music-ban-2021-8

Oh no.

Mecca-based MSYLMA, who made what I believe to be the best record of 2019, is coming out with a new one next Monday, a collaboration with producer ISMAEL. Some gorgeous preview tracks here: https://editionsappaerent.bandcamp.com/album/the-tenets-of-forgetting

Doesn't fit with a lot of the more "traditional" music that this thread catalogs, but is obviously influenced by Muslim devotional music and prayer practices. Really cool stuff.

I missed the 2019 album as well, so will check out both