Tonights offerings, Spanish vocals are the theme of the night.

Ojos de Brujo - Techari

Take some flamenco, blend it with hip hop, rap, jazz, a little sampling and scratch, along with some sub continental Indian chanting and you have just a small idea of what this band is all about. Very dynamic.

Next

The Sons of Cuba - Buena Vista Next Generation

Pio Leiva, one of the Buena Vista originals, teams up with the next generation of Cuban musicians. Everything from slow boleros to hip hop versions of old classics like Campay Segundos Chan Chan.

Ojos de Brujo played Womadelaide a few years back, it was exhausting just keeping pace with their tempo changes! Pretty damn impressive!

@@Ian McP Yes I was there, I believe it was 2010. Even the bass player was backing everything with virtuoso flamenco, impressive band.

Sure was fun watching the Womad "moshpit" trying to keep up with the rapid tempo changes!

...from Madagascar, ROSSY ' Island of Ghosts'. Based around multi-instrumentalist Paul-Bert Rahasimanana, and recorded on the island, mixed at RealWorld Studios.

A mix of vocal, instrumental, and ambient. The track 'Mitopa' is a beautiful fractured waltz- very melancholy.

One track features the sounds of the largest surviving lemurs.

Geoffrey Oryema is interesting. The album is called ' Exile', a reference to the fact that his father was a minister in the Idi Amin dictatorship who was assassinated in 1977.

Hence, his family became exiles.

Simple songs of his remembered village life in Uganda, given extra depth with the likes of Eno, David Bottrill, Peter Gabriel and David Rhodes. recorded in 1990.

Lastly, Remmy Ongala and The Orchestre Super Matimala , ' MAMBO'. Hailing from Tanzania, but recorded, again, at RealWorld Studios. This draws on the tradition of 'soukous' rhythms, which I know nothing about.

Released in 1992, the lyrics are quite pointedly political, but the music is essentially dance music. There is a quite distinctive rhythm that recurs through out the album, and the drummer has an endearing habit of cuing on a similar downbeat at the start of many tracks.

ZM.

Edited November 26, 201510 yr by Zen Mister

@@Zen Mister Madagascar, Uganda, Tanzania and Dibley. You do get around.

Nice selections by the way, I have them all and find them quite enjoyable. We really need to thank P.G. for the Real World lable.

yes, yes, yes.....er......yes......no, I don't!

ZM.

25% off on new releases for the festive season.

https://realworldrecords.com/store/products/

Edited November 28, 201510 yr by mrbuzzardstubble

St Germain tour

hmmm, relatively free before these dates, a Womad possibility? They'd be crazy not to try and grab him a gig, fingers crossed!

Monday 14 March Forum, Melbourne

Tuesday 15 March Enmore Theatre, Sydney

St Germain tour

hmmm, relatively free before these dates, a Womad possibility? They'd be crazy not to try and grab him a gig, fingers crossed!

Monday 14 March Forum, Melbourne

Tuesday 15 March Enmore Theatre, Sydney

That would be a pleasant surprise.He came out to Australia about 10 years ago when the Tourist album was popular.Played in Adelaide where I was living at the time. He brought out a full jazz band and I remember the reviews were very favourable.I wish I had've gone to that gig.

I was indeed lucky, caught him back then as the feature act of a dance music day (from memory) in the docklands, Melbourne! Yes, he had a full jazz band made up of some really excellent French African players. Wonder if he's bringing out the Mali singers and players on his latest release. Another album he was involved with is Memento by Soel, (released in 2003) a French trumpet player, well worth gettin your hands on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28Soel_album%29

On a slightly different tack The Dining Rooms have a new album out on the excellent Italian label Schema.

Cleverly entitled "Do Hipsters Love Sun Ra"

http://www.ishtar.it

http://ishtar.it/album.php?IDProdotto=392

 

< Schema Records is proud to present the new album by The Dining Rooms, featuring Jessica Lauren, Sacri Cuori and Bruno Dorella (Ronin) 

After a four years hiatus since the previous album Lonesome Traveller, The Dining Rooms are back with a work that reconnects to the early sounds of the Milanese duo: a soundtrack of cosmic funk, abstract jazz and cinematic avant-garde. >

 

Special guests on this album include Sacri Cuori, actually saw this band live in Melbourne last year! Hugo Race, ex Bad Seed, The Wreckery, now back in Melbourne

http://www.hugoracemusic.com

uses them as his backing band on occasion. Sorta surf/spy/spagetti western instrumentalists, highly recommended.

Singer featured is from Melbourne hence the song Bendigo

 

Orchestre National de Barbes.

caught these guys last Satdee night at Mi Corazon, Lygon St East Brunswick, the short form version of the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra,

always great live!

http://six.thepublicopinion.net/

 

Reacquainting myself with an old friend. Sounds as good as I remember. Beautiful stuff from the Garifuna people of Belize. Instantly memorable, timeless, emotional- it draws you in despite the language barrier. Check it, if you haven't already. RIP Andy Palacio

Tonights pre-slumber soiree is with

ALTERED RYTHMIC STATE.

Wasn't really sure which thread to post this one in due to it being a bit of a mish mash, but as they are a mix of predominantly Africans...

German cd pressing from the Sonar Kollektiv label, this is basically Afro jazz with some hip hop, electro, sampling and more. Guaranteed to go get you moving, it's a real toe tapper with great SQ.

St Germain announced for Womadelaide!

St Germain announced for Womadelaide!

With a full band as well.That will be a fully sick gig

St Germain announced for Womadelaide!

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

Joe Zawinul & Salif Keita-Bimoya

I'm in India. I saw a sign outside a store selling musical instruments advertising a performance of Indian classical music and went in. They had finished and everyone had gone except the tabla player. We had a chat about out our shared love of subramaniam, zakir Hussein, bhattacharya, vm bhatt, Nusrat etc and he phoned his sitar player to come back. They played a couple of ragas for me. they were very accomplished if not top class musos, but I've never been so up close to watch the technique and have it explained before. It was a buzz.

No, I didn't buy a sitar.

Hope to catch a lot more music in the next few weeks.

Good afternoon

Seprewa Kasa.

Good afternoon

Seprewa Kasa.

 

http://www.worldmusic.net

 

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Seprewa Kasa

TUG1051, 2008

The seprewa is not called 'soul of highlife' for nothing - it is likely to be the greatest African instrument you'll ever hear. This fresh and delicate, but seriously endangered, Ghanaian instrument is a cousin to the ever-popular kora from Mali, with a more earthy sound. Three virtuoso musicians have shared their ideas and passion to re-explore the traditional sounds of the seprewa and origins of highlife in an acoustic contemporary setting, with breathtaking results.

‘Sunbright sound which will yearn to hear this band live.’ The Independent On Sunday

Track List

1. Listen Adowa (Otanfo) (4:38)
2. Listen Dagomba (7:18)
3. Listen Nkabom (6:39)
4. Listen Seprewa Kasa (Seprewa Speaks Guitar Answers!) (6:29)
5. Listen Towoboase (5:04)
6. Listen Nkasoo (5:41)
7. Listen Agyese Wobre (8:42)
8. Listen Barima Ye Na (6:06)

 

 

 

 

Edited December 19, 201510 yr by Nada