08-17-2018 11:13 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW

Brzzvll ft. Anthony Joseph

08-17-2018 11:13 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW   Brzzvll, Anthony Joseph, Carrie Rodriguez, Aziza Brahim, Amadou & Mariam, Kalascima, Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band, Criolo, Kepa Junkera & Sorginak, Djessou Mory Kante, Ali Khattab

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BRZZVLL was founded by Vincent Brijs in 2006. This Antwerp collective plays improvised dance music with a jazz-fusion, funk and rare groove sound like those of the 70’s: bass and drums very tight and funky, horns, guitar and keyboards very imaginative and sexy. The bands’ unique cross polination of cosmic jazz, spoken word & afrobeat makes them stand out in today’s jazz scene.
Brzzvll
featuring Anthony Joseph
Mind Is A Jungle 3:51
Engines 7:27
Combustible And Frozen 5:28
from Engines 2014
"...I met the Brzzvll in Antwerp, 2012, at one of Mourad Bekkour’s Nuff Said events where they are the house band. They are an incredible band who have worked together for many years, developing an almost telephatic interaction which is as soulful as it is technically brilliant. Is that Jazz? It is. About 18 months ago, after a few more collaborations, we went into their studio in Antwerp and recorded this album, in a one day improvisational session. You can hear this sense of freedom, this searching quality in the music, none of which had been written prior to the session. The poems were chosen on the spot, some improvised, some pulled together from disparate sources. They even got me to sing! I’m really proud of this album, my second of 2014! There is an honesty to it, some raw emotions in there, and the band swing very hard..."

Reared in Austin, Texas, and schooled at Boston's Berklee College of Music, the fiddle-playing singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez made her recording debut in 2002 by contributing to Chip Taylor's Let's Leave This Town.
Carrie Rodriguez
Perfidia (Alberto Dominguez) 2:59
I Dreamed I Was Lola Beltrán (Susan Gibson / Carrie Rodriguez) 5:23
Z (Susan Gibson / Carrie Rodriguez) 4:28
from Lola 2016
No album in Carrie Rodriguez's ample catalog better represents her as an artist than Lola. It was recorded in Austin with producer Lee Townsend and the Sacred Hearts: bassist Viktor Krauss, guitarists Bill Frisell, David Pulkingham, and Luke Jacobs, drummer Brannen Temple, and Max Baca guesting on bajo sexto. Rodriguez delivers a set of originals and thoroughly reimagined standards by Mexican composers in English, Spanish, and Spanglish. She draws heavily on the inspiration of her great aunt, San Antonio singer Eva Garza who, during the 1940s, established herself internationally...

Aziza is a Saharawi from Western Sahara, born in a refugee camp in Algeria. At the age of 11 Aziza received a schoolarship to study in Cube where she spent seven years, before abandoning her studies in order to dedicate herself to music. She won the first prize in a national song competition in a cultural festival of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic - the self-proclaimed Saharawi state, exiled in the refugee camps and recognized by over 80 countries...
Aziza Brahim
Buscando la Paz (Aziza Brahim) 3:08
El Canto de la Arena (Aziza Brahim) 4:48
Abbar el Hamada (Aziza Brahim) 3:36
from Abbar el Hamada 2016
...languid and bluesy...
The Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria are a bleak reminder of the plight of those displaced from what they have called “occupied western Sahara” since the . Aziza Brahim was born in the camps before moving on to Cuba and Spain, and her 2013 album , a deserved bestseller in Europe, matched powerful songs of Sahrawi defiance with laments for the refugees. She returns to the same issues here, but sounds unexpectedly laid-back...

This Malian afro-pop duo combines spare Malian blues with Latin, Middle Eastern, and Western influences.  
Amadou & Mariam
Bofou Safou (Mariam Doumbia) 3:10
Filaou Bessame (Mariam Doumbia) 3:34
La Confusion (Amadou Bagayoko) 3:44
Massa Allah (Amadou Bagayoko) 6:12
from La Confusion 2017
On their first full-length studio album since 2012's excellent Folila, Malian power couple Amadou & Mariam deliver sleek retro-fusion with the disco-oriented La Confusion. Pairing desert blues and various Afro-pop traditions with Western production is nothing new for the duo, but the thickly layered '80s synths and the electro dance framework surrounding many of these 12 tracks initially come across as a bit jarring, though not entirely unwelcome. At its most dramatic, La Confusion is draped in vibrant swaths of funky synth bass, disco strings, vocoders, and tinny electronic drums, which are some of the hallmarks of Parisian producer and Bon Voyage Organisation mastermind Adrien Durand...

Kalàscima is one of Italy’s hottest bands, this international acclaimed group mesh the ancient traditional ritual dance music of Taranta (Salento, Southern Italy) with electronic music. Explosive, energetic, captivating, Kalàscima feature many fascinating instruments (bagpipe, traditional flutes, italian organetto), a spectacularly vast array of percussion from South Italy and from all over the world (rick, darbouka), thrilling vocal and modern instrument (bass guitar and loop machine). It’s the ancient that meets the modern music and the result is explosive, a sort of trance-folk music.
Kalascima
Psychedelic Trance Tarantella 4:52
Lu sule 4:56
Kore 3:59
from  Psychedelic Trance Tarantella 2015
...Their latest album, Psychedelic Trance Tarantella is streaming at soundcloud. And it’s like nothing else you’ll hear coming out of the US, that’s for sure. Italy has been a hotbed of hot musical cross-pollination for literally millennia, and this group is no exception, part dancefloor trance band, part lively folk-rock outfit, part wild circus rock unit. The flurrying twin-percussion team of Riccardo Lagana and Federico Lagana propel the group in tandem with low-key bassist Riccardo Basile. Massimiliano De Marco plays an arsenal of acoustic stringed instruments, with Luca Buccarella on accordion and Aldo Iezza playing all sorts of reeds, from sax to the zampogna (sort of the Italian counterpart to the Irish uilleann pipes)...

Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band is an exuberant, crispy and powerful Folk Rock line-up based in Helsinki Finland. The band is formed and led by Esko Järvelä, an innovative fiddler and composer from Kaustinen, which is often considered as the home of Finnish folk music. Esko grew up surrounded by several top-class folk musicians and has developed a powerful and unique fiddle style of his own breaking the boundaries of sometimes clumsy image of folk fiddling. Besides Epic Male Band he’s been touring around the world with numerous Scandinavian top folk bands such as Frigg, JPP, Baltic Crossing, and Tsuumi Sound System.
Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band
Intro 0:26
Bottom Fellows 6:22
What Is The Drink Of Kings? 6:10
Epic Theme 8:26
from Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band 2013
This Finnish fiddler with the fiddly name (I'll just call him Esko) is a widely respected tunesmith, traditional musician, and member of the massively entertaining band Frigg. Despite all this, Esko decided he wanted to play in a rock band! So this is Finnish fiddle with a rock band, and actually it works really well. Some tracks are close to the polskas and Nordgrass genre of Frigg, but most of this album is louder, brasher, faster, and more funked up than folk music ever was. It's still folk rock - Rush and Queen don't have to be worried about the competition yet - but there is an insistent beat and a throbbing bass line which mark this as something heavier than ceilidh music. The sleeve notes are helpfully in pucker English, but the translated track names are sometimes a little surprising. There's also some confusion over the CD title - it's perhaps the debut of Esko Järvelä and the Epic Male Band, and may someday be known simply as "The Red Album" when these guys are worldwide megastars...

Kleber Gomes Cavalcante (1975), better known by stage names like Criolo Doido or Criolo, is a Brazilian singer of rap and soul.
Criolo
Convoque Seu Buda 3:51
Cartão De Visita 3:27
Fermento Pra Massa 3:41
Pé de Breue 4:05
from Convoque Seu Buda 2014
...Brought up in the favelas outside São Paulo, he stacked shelves and worked with street children until he shook up the Brazilian rap scene by mixing hip-hop with an adventurous range of musical styles. The new album continues the experiment. Produced by David Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral, whose keyboards, programming and bass provide much of the backing, the album matches Criolo’s cool, thoughtful balladry and rap against settings that range from easygoing samba and stomping dub reggae to jazz and forro from north-east Brazil...

Kepa Junkera became a professional musician as a young man, when the band Oskorri took a liking to him and became interested in his advanced abilities on the trikitixa, the Basque style of diatonic accordion. The word can be roughly translated as "bellows from hell," which should get the point across. 
Kepa Junkera & Sorginak
Sorginak Infernuko Hauspotik Irtetzen 4:03
Auntxaren Ibilerak 4:42
Trinidade Plazan 4:11
from Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat 2015
Kepa Junkera documents the history of music played with the trikitixa, the Basqua diatonic accordion. In this case the documentation is literal, as the CD comes tucked in the back flap of an impressive and weighty 160 page hardback book. Junkera is accompanied by the 7-strong group Sorginak, who provide tambourine and accompaniment.

For many hundreds of years, the Maninka people of Guinea and Mali have promulgated one of the world's great stringed-instrument traditions. Indigenous harps and lutes have always predominated in this music, but around 50 years ago an influential innovator called Facelli Kanté introduced the guitar to Maninka music. One of his nephews, Kanté Manfila, further modernized the tradition, playing the lead electric guitar in Les Ambassadors in the 1970s and '1980s. Manfila's younger brother, Djessou Mory Kanté, is best-known as the guitarist that such world-renowned singers as Salif Keita and Sekouba Bambino engage when they want the best. River Strings is an album of beautifully-crafted instrumentals, impeccably recorded in Salif Keita's Studio Moffou in Bamako, Mali. Djessou Mory Kanté's acoustic and electric guitars -- understated but masterly, gentle but beguiling -- are accompanied by bass, percussion and, on two pieces, the supporting guitar of the Super Rail Band's Djelimady Tounkara.
Djessou Mory Kante
Coucou 5:20
Toubaka 4:33
Senekela 4:25
from River Strings - Maninka Guitar 2014
...River Strings brings this artist into a sonic space that is near perfect. A clean, clear recording technique buoys the performances, and a spare ensemble of guitars, ngoni, bass, keyboards and percussion carry it all simply and beautifully. It was all recorded in two studios in Bamako in 2012 and mixed in 2014 by Iain Scott and Ben Turner back in Weymouth, UK with openness and clarity...

Ali Khattab (born July 4, 1977) is an Egyptian composer and guitarist. In his works, he combines the elements of two musical worlds and traditions: The Arab-Oriental and the Gypsy-Andalusian, flamenco. From the age of seventeen, the time when he first starts performing on stage, everything he does is meant to lead him to two places: the cradle of flamenco, Jerez de la Frontera. From then on, Ali spends a lot of time in Andalucia, meeting and performing with influential flamenco musicians, singers, guitarists, and dancers who introduce him to the true universe of flamenco.
Ali Khattab
Derviche (Ali Khattab) 6:08
Sin País (Ali Khattab) 6:36
Al Osba (Ali Khattab) 4:53
from Sin Pais 2014
Egyptian composer, vocalist and guitarist, Ali Khattab, brings us a rousing mix of world fusion imbibed with an African, Arabic, and Andalusian presence. The flamenco-type melodies and instrumentation are mostly instrumental throughout, but Ali adds some vocals. There are Arabic forms, tangos, rumba, Sufi trance, and other indistinct musical qualities that add a blend of intense rhythms and contemplative tones. The music is created with the oud, violin, flute, double bass, duff, darbuca, palmas, req, and cajon. The most important aspect of the album is the origins of the music are multi-factoral and heavily influenced by various world music traditions. However, the music tends to flow very well without sounding disorderly or out-of-place. Ali succeeds with Sin Pais without any complaints here. ~ Matthew Forss