Rabih Abou Khalil-Arabian Waltz.With the Balanescu Quartet.

Rabih Abou Khalil-Arabian Waltz.With the Balanescu Quartet.

 

Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks for the heads up, added to my want list.

Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts- Selwa

Anouar Brahem - Conte de l'incroyable amour

 

That Brahem album's a ripper @.

Afro-Cuban All Stars-A Toda Cuba Le Gusta.

Authenticite:The Syliphone Years 65-80.

More acts announced for Womad in March.The gig guide is being shut down,so I've listed the overseas acts in Currently Spinning.More great artists including Toumani Diabate and his son,Sidiki.

Once upon a time in some film or documentary I remember hearing a Parisian folk/jazz music that really grabbed me. This compilation is nice and comes close at times, but is generally too jaunty and lyrical compared with the sound I have in my head. Perhaps the memory is purer than the event, but I'm thinking of a sparser, more haunting sound: just an accordion, a clarinet, a percussively strummed guitar.

I love that old French music,but I must admit my knowledge is very limited.Another one I'm going to have to devote some time.So many styles.So little tlme.**sigh**.

Arrived today cd version, sounds great as does all the real world stuff I have so far. Packing similar to Peter Gabriel So 30th anniversary album. Only bad things makes me what to hit the real world site and buy more :-)

Talip Ozkan - The Dark Fire

 

 

 

On the French (Algerian) tip, Lili Boniche is worth a listen.  Bill Laswell produced his album Alger Alger, which was released on  A.P.C in France.

 

 

Tolo - an album by Khalil Gudaz.

Amazing sitar playing from this melbourne based indian/afghan musician.

Edited November 10, 201411 yr by buddyev

Anouar Brahem - Conte de l'incroyable amour

 

 

Conte de l'Incroyable Amour (The Incredible Tale of Love) is an album by Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem recorded in 1991

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shNao1nA318

I listened to this prior to leaving Sydney. A nice combination of upright bass,acoustic guitar and kora.Another $5 bargain from Title in Surry Hills.

Tintinnabulation!

 

I'm pretty speechless about this concert I just downloaded from dimeadozen.org so I'll let the paste below fill out the story. The recording is a little flawed, but the music in incredible. A fascinating blend of Polish funeral songs to a minimal style quartet of two pianos and percussion. Very humble, earthy vocals and restrained ensemble sounds. I normally cannot tolerate much vibrato in voices, but Strug's is so smooth it almost isn't there. Hopefully there is or will be an official recording of this out there somewhere.

 

 

 

 

Kwadrofonik & Adam Strug
2014.11.09
Studio Koncertowe Polskiego Radia im. Witolda Lutos³awskiego, Warszawa, Polska

 

Requiem Ludowe - premiere

 

Kwadrofonik:
Emilia Sitarz and Bartek W¹sik - pianos, bells, percussion, effects
Magdalena Kordylasiñska and Mi³osz Pêkala - percussion, vibraphone, marimba, tibetan gongs, effects
and
Adam Strug - singing



This is unique project by Kwadrofonik and Adam Strug to create Requiem based on polish folk mournful songs.
According to interviews it was first instrumental project but after inviting Adam Strug it finalised with songs taken from famous XVIII century Pelplin songbook (Zbiór pieœni nabo¿nych do u¿ytku domowego i koœcielnego)
perfectly quiet audience, you can even hear some fly buzz at the begining

photogalery on Polish Radio site
http://www.polskieradio.pl/8/565/Galeria/1282849,Adam-Strug-i-Kwadrofonik-w-programie-Requiem-Ludowe



Adam Strug is a folk and funeral singer from north-eastern Mazovia region of Poland and main singer of Monodia vocal ensemble. He also perform his own songs inspired by worldwide and Warsaw folk as well as poetry

www.adamstrug.pl/index_en.html
http://monodia.pl/en.php?lang=EN
facebook.com/AdamStrug


Kwadrofonik (according to wikipedia) is a Polish band. The unusual combination of percussionists and pianists is the only such quartet in Poland and one of a few in the world. Founded in 2006, they perform compositions from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Their music is inspired by composers like Bartok, George Crumb and Luciano Berio. Through improvisation and musical dialogues they make maximum use of the possibilities offered by two pianos and percussion. The instruments exchange functions almost imperceptibly – the pianos become percussion instruments, while percussion instruments become the melodic ones.

Ludovico Einaudi and Ballake Sissoko - Diario Mali

 

 

Cheers, Leigh, hope you're doing okay.

severely jet-lagged and can't sleep. Picked this up in Turkey. Stereo sounds good

 

Good afternoon.

Paco de Lucia-Cositas Buenas.

severely jet-lagged and can't sleep. Picked this up in Turkey. Stereo sounds good

 

 

Looks groovy, welcome home :hugs:

Gary Lucas-The Edge of Heaven:Plays Mid-Century Chinese Pop

Con Kalamaros: Rebetiko, caught this guy live, just up the road in High St at Open Studio last Sat

 

1920's - 30's rembetiko (Greek blues)

 

http://openstudio.net.au/event/con-kalamaras-rebetiko-album-launch-with-special-guests

 

bought his cd, very good indeed

I've been looking for CDs by the master Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar (who sadly passed away last year), but they seem to be rather thin on the ground. I already have the soundtrack for Genghis Blues, and have just bought the DVD.

 

I also just received this CD.

 

 

I was really hoping to find an album of him performing in the traditional Tuvan style, unadulterated by attempts to make his music sound more 'acceptable' to western ears, but unfortunately, this album doesn't fit that description. It has been very much adulterated with synths and samples. There is even a narration, or translation, by Willie Nelson on the track "Where Has My Country Gone?".

 

There is also a sample of Native American chanting on the track "Two Lands, One Tribe" in a rather lame attempt to highlight the Central Asian origins of the first Americans. And, rather predictably, there are samples of Richard Feynman on a number of tracks. Now, I think Richard Feynman was a very interesting guy, and the documentary about his quest to visit the land of Tuva was quite fascinating, but is there really any need to trot him out on these recordings? They would really have shown him, and Kongar-ol Ondar, more respect by presenting the music of Tuva in its original unaffected form.

 

Nevertheless, its not all negative. There are some fine examples of the different throat singing styles by Ondar, and it does contain the track "My Tuva" (which I really like). This is probably one of the more traditional sounding songs on the album. At least here, the synths and samples are a bit more subdued, and don't drown out Ondar's singing.

 

I still reckon its worth getting this album though (for those interested in throat singing), as there is very little recorded material available from Kongar-ol Ondar.

Edited November 20, 201411 yr by emesbee

Good afternoon.

Paco de Lucia-Cositas Buenas.

 

I have a copy of that in the 26 CD boxed set 'Integral' that I picked up a while back. I've been gradually working through the albums, but haven't got to that one yet.

I've been looking for CDs by the master Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar (who sadly passed away last year), but they seem to be rather thin on the ground. I already have the soundtrack for Genghis Blues, and have just bought the DVD.

 

I also just received this CD.

 

I was really hoping to find an album of him performing in the traditional Tuvan style, unadulterated by attempts to make his music sound more 'acceptable' to western ears, but unfortunately, this album doesn't fit that description. It has been very much adulterated with synths and samples. There is even a narration, or translation, by Willie Nelson on the track "Where Has My Country Gone?".

 

There is also a sample of Native American chanting on the track "Two Lands, One Tribe" in a rather lame attempt to highlight the Central Asian origins of the first Americans. And, rather predictably, there are samples of Richard Feynman on a number of tracks. Now, I think Richard Feynman was a very interesting guy, and the documentary about his quest to visit the land of Tuva was quite fascinating, but is there really any need to trot him out on these recordings? They would really have shown him, and Kongar-ol Ondar, more respect by presenting the music of Tuva in its original unaffected form.

 

Nevertheless, its not all negative. There are some fine examples of the different throat singing styles by Ondar, and it does contain the track "My Tuva" (which I really like). This is probably one of the more traditional sounding songs on the album. At least here, the synths and samples are a bit more subdued, and don't drown out Ondar's singing.

 

I still reckon its worth getting this album though (for those interested in throat singing), as there is very little recorded material available from Kongar-ol Ondar.

 

Thanks for the info about this. I like throat singing from the little I have heard, and I sympathise with your desire for authenticity. I'll keep an eye out for that name, Kongar-ol Ondar, and shall post if anything turns up.

Thanks for the info about this. I like throat singing from the little I have heard, and I sympathise with your desire for authenticity. I'll keep an eye out for that name, Kongar-ol Ondar, and shall post if anything turns up.

 

Thanks. I've just found this, by the way.

 

http://kongar-olondar.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-tuva

 

and this

 

http://scs-intl.com/trader/

Edited November 20, 201411 yr by emesbee