06-04-2019 WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW

06-04-2019 WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW   Black Uhuru, Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd, Ali Farka Touré, Kimmo Pohjonen, Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras De Salitre, Buda Folk Band, Estusha, Divanhana, Kandia Kouyate, Las Hermanas Caronni 

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Long-running Jamaican roots reggae group who were popular from the late '70s through to the '90s. The most successful of the second-generation reggae bands, Jamaica's Black Uhuru maintained their high quality despite numerous personnel changes throughout their many decades together. The first reggae band to win a Grammy award, for their 1983 album Anthem, Black Uhuru offered a dynamic and progressive sound during their 1970s and early-'80s heyday.
Black Uhuru 
Ion Storm (Michael Rose) 3:49
Big Spliff (Michael Rose) 4:06
Cool Off 3:15
from The Dub Factor 1983
Released the same year as their Grammy-winning Anthem album, Black Uhuru's The Dub Factor figures as one of the most impressive of reggae's electronic age dub releases. Bristling from the fine mixing work of Soljie and Maxie, the album is basically a reworking of the band's breakthrough Chill Out release from the year before, albeit in often unrecognizable form. But if you like your dub with a healthy dose of apocalyptic effects from syndrums, synthesizers, and mixing board alike, then The Dub Factor will do the trick. More than just a empty exercise in knob twiddling, this Black Uhuru dub excursion by Sly & Robbie will no doubt please both fans of the group and habituates of quality dub titles.

During a long and uncommonly productive career, Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida achieved a ubiquity in popular music that has yet to be fully recognized. Largely responsible for the Brazilian/North American "samba jazz" that would eventually catch on in the form of a musical trend known as bossa nova, he played behind dozens of well-known pop vocalists and improved the overall texture of many a studio production ensemble.
Tasteful, low-key, and ingratiatingly melodic, Charlie Byrd had two notable accomplishments to his credit -- applying acoustic classical guitar techniques to jazz and popular music and helping to introduce Brazilian music to mass North American audiences.
Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd
Orchids in the Moonlight (Edward Eliscu / Gus Kahn / Vincent Youmans) 3:11
Jalousie (Vera Bloom / Jacob Gade) 3:20
La Rosita (Gus Haenschen) 2:27
from Tango 1985
This unusual CD finds guitarists Laurindo Almeida and Charlie Byrd (who have both mastered bop and Brazilian music) performing 11 tangoes with the assistance of bassist Joe Byrd and drummer Chuck Redd. Although the two acoustic guitarists have their short solos, the emphasis in this delightful set is on their ensemblework, respectful interpretations of the melodies and those infectious tango rhythms.

This talented African guitarist's technique has often been compared to Delta blues legend Robert Johnson. 
Ali Farka Touré ‎
La Drogue 5:36
Cheri 4:35
Laisse Les Phases 4:38
from Ali Farka Touré (Red) 1984
One of the most internationally successful West African musicians of the '90s, Ali Farka Touré was described as "the African John Lee Hooker" so many times that it probably began to grate on both Touré's and Hooker's nerves. There is a lot of truth to the comparison, however, and it isn't exactly an insult. The guitarist, who also played other instruments such as calabash and bongos, shared with Hooker (and similar American bluesmen like Lightnin' Hopkins) a predilection for low-pitched vocals and midtempo, foot-stomping rhythms, often playing with minimal accompaniment.

The recipient of Folk Musician of the Year awards in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999, Kimmo Pohjonen has brought a modern sensibility to the traditional accordion music of Finland.
Kimmo Pohjonen
Cyclon (Kimmo Pohjonen) 4:14
Emissio (Kimmo Pohjonen) 6:16
Sensitive Skin ((Kimmo Pohjonen) 5:18
from Sensitive Skin 2015
Sensitive Skin features nine new Pohjonen compositions that explore dynamic new sonic territory with special guests Tuomas Norvio (electronics), Kronos Quartet (string quartet), Samuli Kosminen (drums, percussion), Timo Kämäräinen (guitar, bouzouki), Sami Kuoppamäki (drums), Inka and Saana Pohjonen (vocals), Arto Järvelä (nyckelharpa), Ismo Alanko (vocals), Lauri Porra (bass) and more. Kronos string arrangements by Timo Alakotila. Sensitive Skin was produced and mixed by James Spectrum, known for productions with Finnish bands Von Hertzen Brothers and Pepe Deluxe.

Musician, composer, folklore researcher, singer and expert exponent of the Pandeireta Galega (Galician tambourine), Xabier Diaz is a well-known figure on the Galician music scene. He was lead singer with award-winning folk revivalists Berrogüetto and has collaborated with many other leading artists.
Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras De Salitre ‎
Xota Delira 5:11
Capra Aegagrus Hircus (Muiñeira Do Cañizo) 3:33
Muiñeira Da Picota 3:54
from The Tambourine Man 2015
Over two years of work went into the 2016 album, Mr Tambourine Man, which won ‘Best Album in Galician’ in Spain’s Independent Music Awards.
Popular songs from hillside villages are given a joyous reinterpretation through Díaz’s gently understated singing and the powerfully engaging ensemble performance of the Adufeiras.
In Galicia, with its influences from Portuguese and Celtic as well as Spanish cultures, there is a renewed interest from young and old in traditional music and dance.

This music, to wich you can dance to, is played on instruments mainly used in the Carpathian Basin and is drawn from authentic sources. Taking the original melody as a template, their music retains the phraseology so characteristic of the Hungarian folklore tradition.
Buda Folk Band
Várj meg / Wait For Me 2:50
Erdö / Forest 3:59
Elindultam / I Left My Homeland 2:29
Repülés / Flying 3:09
from Saját gyűjtés / Own Collection Work 2015
We, Hungarians, with the appearance of the first audio recording devices have always been at the forefront in folk music collection; collecting our folk music traditions. In order to find our way in this music, it is essential that we get acquainted with it in contemporary peasant communities.  Folk music played in the village arrives in a city environment on recordings from collection work; it creates its own survival and awakens new musical thoughts. This is the kind of music on this recording. We share memories of rural cultures, from our own collecting work - expressed in our own style.

Estusha, Mexican artist fuses her peculiar form of singing with ethnic instruments of the world and electronic music to create an ethno-electro project.
"Nature created sounds. Men imitating nature, created instruments and chants. Thousands of years later we continue to celebrate the origin of music." 
Estusha
Tihowayo 3:11
Aportua 3:44
Yahe 3:33
from Wotan 2016
Estusha's latest album “Wotan a Contemporary Ethnic Celebration” gives recognition to all her musical and life experiences, creating a fusion of sounds, instruments and ethnic chants from different cultures from the world over, electronic music, and her own unique style resulting in an exquisite contemporary ethnic celebration.

The band was formed in 2009 by a group of young students from the Sarajevo Music Academy who, with their contemporary instrumentation of brass wind, piano, bass and drums complimenting the traditional accordion and vocals, open up the Sephardic and Oriental elements of Sevdalinka to a new jazz sensibility, while the clear tones of singer Leila deftly span the emotions between heartache and playfulness
Divanhana
Oj Safete, Sajo, Sarajlijo 3:01
Ciganka Sam Mala 4:46
Pijanica, Bekrija 3:06
from Zukva: Sevdah From Bosnia's Finest 2015
Hailing from Sarajevo, a city historically described as a crossroads between the East and the West, Divanhana present sparkling new arrangements of urban traditional music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a particular emphasis on the soulful sounds of Sevdalinka, the musical vehicle for the expression of amorous longing and melancholy, passion and joy, with its roots in the days of the Ottoman Empire.

Kandia Kouyaté (also known as Kandja Kouyaté, born in 1959 in Kita, Mali) is a Malian jelimuso (a female griot) and kora player; she has earned the prestigious title of ngara, and is sometimes called La dangereuse and La grande vedette malienne. Kouyaté's dense, emotional, hypnotic manner of singing and her lyrical talents have earned huge acclaim in Mali, though she remained relatively little known outside Africa, due to extremely limited availability of her recordings. Her home town of Kita is known for love songs, which form a large part of Kouyaté's repertoire. She also sings praise songs.
Kandia Kouyate
Koala Boumba 5:45
Kassi Doundo (the Crying Rooster) 5:06
Mandjala (take Off The Headscarf!) 4:50
from Renascence 2015
...Renascence certainly rewards the long wait; it is a terrific record on all counts. The first thing longtime fans will notice is that Kouyaté's contralto has become deeper and even more powerful than when she became famous in Africa three decades ago. Kouyaté was born in 1959 in southwestern Mali. She grew up immersed in the music of her Mandé people. Her father, a well-known balafon player, saw his daughter's potential when she was a child; her mother was a singer. When she was still a schoolgirl she sang with her uncle Mady Sylla Kouyaté's band, the Apollos, in Bamako. Captivated by the Malian capital's music scene, she moved there after completing school. In Bamako, she married a prominent singer of jeliya, a traditional Mandé genre. Kouyaté studied jeliya vocal techniques and its repertoire of praise songs and historical narratives...

Argentinian twin sisters Laura and Gianna Caronni were born in a family of Swiss, Italian, Russian and Spanish origins, where the music of Opera and Tango intertwined. They studied classical music, moved to France in 1998 where they played with Argentinian musicians (Juan Cedron, Juan Carlos Caceres), then started to write their own songs and instrumental compositions and perform as a duo. The sisters' music reflects all these musical influences and something more, intimate and personal, that only belongs to them. 
Las Hermanas Caronni
Agua De Rio 2:22
Maria / Percussion – Ceïba 4:03
Spanish Caravan
Songwriter – The Doors 4:07
from Navega Mundos 2016
"The third album from the Argentinian sisters, now living in a France, is a wonderfully unexpected, spare joy. Two voices that enjoy the perfect synchronicity only siblings can manage, and some unlikely instrumentation (Gianna on clarinet and bass
clarinet, while Laura contributes cello and violin; their only guest adds accordeon to two tracks)...  to the wildness of their take on the Doors’ Spanish Caravan. Most of the work is their own, and they take great care over the way they fill space... The beauty here is far from fragile; there’s an exactitude that’s worked out so perfectly it sounds casual, giving everything core of steel. Plenty of subtle layers to discover with repeated playing. And superb on every level."  Chris Nickson - FRoots magazine