Laraaji, 'Mbira Dance' & 'Kalimba' (doesn't get much more literal than that)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFGX-X5PoQ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1EdaHYbbM
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 29 July 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
(Austin I'm assuming you already have the Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby)
you are assuming correctly!
imo it's her best album. youtube playlist of the whole thing. discogs entry. highly recommended, even if it's not explicitly a kalimba album.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Friday, 29 July 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
it's my favorite album of hers, too. there was a time when i listened to it a lot, but it's been years. In my memory it was pretty evenly split between harp, koto and kalimba but there's less kalimba than i thought- it's just the intro to one song and solos on 2 others.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Friday, 29 July 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
Yeah, thanks for all the recommendations everyone, I am adding them to my evergrowing bandcamp wishlist to listen to at some point soon....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 29 July 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
Berliner is the Nonesuch Explorer record? If so, that is very good.β sknybrg, Friday, July 29, 2022 9:27 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
β sknybrg, Friday, July 29, 2022 9:27 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
for clarity, are you referring to this?
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Friday, 29 July 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
it's being recommended by me either way, ftr. the more traditional style (i've just learned, tyvm) is called shona. love the chants. they hit such unusual harmonies sometimes. really just a different shade of beaut. love love love.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Friday, 29 July 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
*beauty
sorry, just very enthusiastic rn.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Friday, 29 July 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
all of those nonesuch smithsonian reissues are worth a listen. i snapped up most of them on cd ~15 years ago when tower records were having their huge going out of business sales. the balinese gamelan and caribbean steel pan one worth a listen if youβre into mbira. thereβs another one from that set called βzimbabwe: the african mbira : music of the shona peopleβ which is just as good
― the late great, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/zimbabwe-african-mbira-music-shona-people
i guess thereβs also third one (with a mbira and someoneβs hands playing it on the cover) with a similar title that i havenβt ever heard. assume theyβre all from the same big set of field recordings β¦
https://www.discogs.com/release/3980389-Shona-Africa-Zimbabwe-Shona-Mbira-Music
― the late great, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
yeah, i know the soul of mbira wth the hands and mbira cover.i seem to remember that nonesuch issued the explorer series titles in the 90βs with similar black and white covers. that was the disc i had a one point.donβt think iβve heard the others. anyway, this is a great thread and i am also making a list from the recommendations
― sknybrg, Saturday, 30 July 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J538b-OLRU
This has kalimba, no?
― J. Sam, Saturday, 30 July 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
Jim Infantino's song "Gangway" has a kalimba solo in the middle.
And if I could find it on YouTube, I'd post the link, but I can't, so I won't.
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Saturday, 30 July 2022 01:46 (one year ago) link
Jazz drummer Chad Taylor incorporates mbira into a lot of his stuff, particularly with the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, etc.β but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, July 29, 2022 9:56 AM
β but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, July 29, 2022 9:56 AM
thank you for this mention. i am aware of him because of his past collaborations with people from the sea and cake. looked into and this is the most recent such thing. gave it a quick preview and sounds good. will definitely revisit. also wow, had no clue he was involved in so many different things.
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Saturday, 30 July 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
also back to pop songs that incorporate it-
mount kimbie, duh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjSKEyR2vDo
"marilyn" featuring micachu (2017)
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Saturday, 30 July 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
i am really enjoying this reissue of a private press cassette by two early 80s beardos from cleveland (by same rvng spin-off label that reissued ursula leguin and todd barton's "music and poetry of the kesh")
it's all in this sort of "spiritual jazz meets geinoh yamashirogumi" mode, though the rest is more synth-y. probably a good one for fans of roland p young and midori takada's mkwaju albums?
anyway hard for me to tell because there's not really any credits on the album but i think there is a metallophone of some sort on this track?
universal liberation orchestra - consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7BY8Z0ydW0
― the late great, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
^^ this album very good. would say itβs also slept-on but all 555 LP copies have been snatched up and no copies left on internet. in fact just saw one go for three times the retail price i paid two weeks ago, so maybe not. you can still enjoy it on bandcamp and apple music and i recommend you do so.
― the late great, Saturday, 24 December 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
Fantastic mix: https://www.nts.live/shows/open-hand-real-flames/episodes/open-hand-real-flames-22nd-november-2023
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 19:38 (four months ago) link
Liking it some , but a little too nts repetitive at times for me.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 21:56 (four months ago) link