08-09-2018 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW

Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band

08-09-2018 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW   Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band, Criolo, Kepa Junkera & Sorginak, Djessou Mory Kante, Ali Khattab, Hanoi Masters, German Diaz, Electro Bamako, Bamba Wassoulou Groove, Skip&Die, Khaira Arby

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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
Epic Theme 8:26
Bottom Fellows 6:22
What Is The Drink Of Kings? 6:1
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
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
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

The spotlight has shone recently on the music made in 1960s/70s Cambodia and Thailand, when American influences, in part due to the war in neighbouring Vietnam, permeated local music traditions. Even as far away as Okinawa, home to many US military bases, the music scene was changed forever. In Saigon, US rock and pop influenced local music too, albeit usually in a lighter pop/folk style compared to the raw psychedelic/funky sounds being made across the borders.The main protagonists of the day, such as Khanh Ly, emigrated to America in 1975 along with thousands of other Vietnamese refugees.
Hanoi Masters
Nguyen Thi Lân - Road to Home 5:53
Võ Tuan Minh - I Long to Return to My Hometown 1:17
Xuân Hoach - Doomed Love
from War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar 2015
This album too is all about the legacy of the Vietnam war, but in a very different way. War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar focuses on the Communist north in Hanoi, with musicians who lived through, survived the war and now sing songs they feel tell their tale. It is a beautiful document, at times moving and surprising. Over the course of the album we are introduced to five musicians who feature on different tracks... there’s even more of a story to tell, hidden between the lines sung by these performers. Overall though, an exquisite release.

Germán Díaz is a Spanish composer and musician. Germán Díaz studied, according to music theory studies at the Conservatory and after a private guitar training, Classical Philology at the University of Valladolid.
German Diaz
Pour l'enfant perdu 5:27
Cirro 3:05
Et la roue de la vie 4:45
from Metodo Cardiofonico 2014
Music from the heart. In this case, lierally, as the recordings use, as a rhthmic base, heartbeat recorded in the 1930s by a heart specialist. German Diaz adds instrumentation - trumpet, tuba, oboe, hurdy-gurdy, tuba and clarinet - to create a uniquely organic product.

Born from the collaboration between a purist musicologist, a local singer and a French director breaking borders, the new Electro Bamako celebrates Malian music in all its aspects. More powerful, kind of psychedelic trance on computer-assisted rock mixed with traditional instruments.
Electro Bamako (Paul Sidibé, Damien Traini, Marc Minelli)
Paul Sidibé, Damien Traini, Marc Minelli.
Ambianci 4:29
Yoro Jankibarun 4:13
Fentiki Ni Fentan 4:38
from Now 2015
Techno trad, with laptops throbbing and samples working overtime, beneath the vocals of Paul Sidibe and added guitars and percussion.

Psychedelic and bluesy electric guitars, hallucinated and hypnotic solos, inhabited voices, hot rhythms ... Between rock and funk... Bamako by night !
Bamba Wassoulou Groove
Gonifo Bourama 4:50
Lolo 6:27
Fadegnacoumba 6:38
from Farima 2015
triple-guitar fusions from Mali
Zani Diabaté, who died in 2011, was one of the great Malian guitar heroes who never quite made it in the west, despite his adventurous fusion of traditional styles and rock energy; he was compared to Hendrix when the exuberant album Zani Diabaté & The Super Djata Band was released here in 1988. But now his music and style are being resurrected, thanks to percussionist Bamba Dembélé, who played with him in Super Djata before joining the legendary Super Rail Band De Bamako, alongside drummer Maguett Diop and guitarist Moussa Diabaté – who now reappear alongside Dembélé in Bamba Wassoulou Groove. This is a band dominated by three guitarists, with Moussa taking the lead on new songs and old Super Djata favourites. On Farima he switches from a cool, drifting introduction to a driving solo, while Bina is a mellow workout featuring inter-twining guitars...

Skip & Die is a collaboration between the South African vocalist / visual artist Catarina Aimee Dahms (aka Cata.Pirata) and Dutch producer Jori Collignon (C-mon & Kypski, Nobody Beats The Drum). What started as a two-man project, has now been transformed into a full-fledged 4-piece live band.
Skip&Die
Cosmic Serpents 3:33
SKIP&DIE with Lindigo - Maloya Magic 4:27
SKIP&DIE with Chancha Via Circuito - Mañana 4:05
Sunshine Rebellion Gang 4:45
from Cosmic Serpents 2015
After setting stages on fire around the planet during their successful two-year Riots In The Jungle tour, pan-tropical future bass band SKIP&DIE are back with an exhilarating new album, entitled "Cosmic Serpents" - luring their audiences into a landscape somewhere between paradise, the apocalypse and beyond.
With its re-imagining of global music, irresistible rhythms and beats, acoustic instruments, field recordings and spacey synths, SKIP&DIE’s upcoming album, "Cosmic Serpents", reveals a poetic sonic collage that toys with ideas of transient life, looming death, and the notion that our collective DNA coils throughout eternity like a cosmic serpent...

Khaïra Arby (Timbuktu, Mali, September 21, 1959 - August 19, 2018) was a Malian singer. Khaïra Arby, "The Nightingale of the North", from the desert from Agouni, north of Timbuktu, Mali, and cousin to Ali Farka Touré sings in Songhai, Arabic, Tamashek and Bambara.
Khaira Arby
Al Jama's Bisimillah 6:46
Alouha Homoli 4:55
Hala 6:36
from Gossip 2015
Gossip is the fifth album from Khaira Arby, known as 'The Nightingale of the North.' It follows the critically acclaimed 2010 release, Timbuktu Tarab, which introduced many listeners to her music for the first time. Since bursting onto the music scene in the late 1970's, Arby has established herself as one of Mali's greatest treasures. Her resounding voice and infectious band have spread the musical traditions of Arby's hometown, Timbuktu, to audiences worldwide.
The group recorded the foundation for this album during tours in North America and Europe between 2010 and 2012. Unfortunately, Arby and many of her fellow Malians had to relocate to Bamako to escape Islamic fundamentalists enforcing Sharia law during the Northern Mali conflict of 2012. In response, Gossip offers a plea for peace and acceptance for all...

"queen of the desert blues"