22-06-2019 ~ WORLD_MUSiC_MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks in WmW

Combo Chimbita

22-06-2019 * WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW:    Combo Chimbita, Femi Kuti, Warsaw Village Band, Lajkó Félix, Hugh Masekela, Femina, Olcay Bayir, Zun Zun Egui, Sidestepper, Ani Cordero

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Brooklyn-based quartet bring more psychedelic impulses to traditional Colombian forms. Combo Chimbita honed their sound by playing together for years, experimenting with different styles until they landed somewhere between lively guacaracha rhythms and cosmic psychedelia.

Combo Chimbita
El Camino 3:47
Sola 1:30
Ahomale 3:40
Testigo 4:56
from Ahomale 2019
While creating music firmly rooted in Columbian traditions, Brooklyn-based outfit Combo Chimbita often sound like they're broadcasting live from another planet entirely. Ahomale is the band's second full-length album and expands on their cosmic approach to Afro-Latin styles, incorporating a wealth of celestial synth sounds into performances that are both fiery and controlled. The first of many striking things about Combo Chimbita's sound is the power of singer Carolina Oliveros' voice...

The son of legendary Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, he has added young Lagos and American dance music to his father's sound. 
Femi Kuti
Africa Will Be Great Again (Femi Anikulapo-Kuti) 4:48
One People One World (Femi Anikulapo-Kuti) 3:35
Corruption Na Stealing (Femi Anikulapo-Kuti) 6:27
from One People One World 2018
...One People One World is Kuti's tenth album with his longstanding band Positive Force and its musical director and guitarist Opeyemi Awomolo. Unlike the righteous anger that inspired almost all of his previous recordings, One People One World is by contrast more affirmative; it's celebratory without sacrificing its activism. While Afrobeat is at the core of these 12 songs, Kuti picks up on the mosaic he began weaving on No Place for My Dream by incorporating the harmonies and rhythms of reggae, highlife, soul, R&B, hip-hop, and other global sounds into its mix, adding depth and complexity without sacrificing immediacy and accessibility....

Global experimentation, Polish-style. Warsaw Village Band are one of the most inventive folk groups in Europe, with an edgy, driving style in which the harsh-edged female-harmony vocals of Magdalena Sobczak-Kotnarowska and Sylwia Świątkowska are matched against violins, percussion, dulcimer and brass.
Warsaw Village Band
Fly My Voice 4:50
She Celebrated Kupala 5:12
from Sun Celebration 2017
...Their compositions are usually based on traditional themes, but the old Polish influences are transformed by a remarkable cast of special guests. From Galicia, Spain, there’s the experimental multi-instrumentalist Mercedes Peón, who adds vocals, electronics or bagpipes on eight of the tracks. Then there’s the Iranian master musician Kayhan Kalhor adding the kamancheh fiddle on the rousing Towards the Sun, and an Indian contingent, including the Dhoad Gypsies from Rajasthan and the singer and sarangi player Ustad Liaqat Ali Khan, bringing unexpected textures to the throbbing and atmospheric Perkun’s Fire. An inventive and often thrilling exercise in breaking down musical borders.

Felix Lajko is a hungarian violinist, zither player and composer. He plays a blend of musical styles in an own unique way: traditional pannonian string music, Romani music, folk music, classical music, rock, blues, jazz and improvised melodies.
Lajkó Félix
Még azt mondják / They even say 2:55
Harangszó / Bell Rings 4:01
Most jöttem /  I just arrived 4:23
from Most jöttem /  I just arrived 2016
Virtuoso variations of Félix Lajkó on folk themes for violin and zither with extraordinary singers.
Félix Lajkó’s music draws richly from the music traditions that influenced his everyday life from childhood. This means the folk music of his native Voivodina region which includes also Hungarian, Gypsy, and even Romanian folk music. On this record entitled “Most jöttem/ I just arrived” we hear virtuoso variations on folk themes for violin and zither with extraordinary singers such as Bea Palya, Gabriella Tintér and Anna Csizmadia, and musicians such as László Porteleki, Antal Brasnyó and Gergő Szabó Csobán...

With a background in South Africa's township music and myriad other genres, he became a leading jazz/world fusion trumpeter and important anti-apartheid activist.
Hugh Masekela
Sugar Daddy feat. Ikhehla Lo M'Fana 6:36
Mandela (Bring Him Back Home!) (Live) 5:12
Witch Doctor feat. Baranta & Miatta Fahinbulleh 6:29
from Grand Masters 2015
Hugh Masekela had an extensive jazz background and credentials, but enjoyed major success as one of the earliest leaders in the world fusion mode. Masekela's vibrant trumpet and flügelhorn solos were featured in pop, R&B, disco, Afro-pop, and jazz contexts.

Fémina is an Argentine folk and fusion trio from San Martín de los Andes, Argentina.
Femina
Buen viaje 3:33
Mira que mira 5:39
Pero es locura 4:31
Hondo 3:20
from Traspasa 2014
Their music often comprises harmonies and poetic rap in Spanish. Themes of their songs typically incorporate folklore, feminism, and Patagonia with an urban twist. In addition, messages of gender inequality, love, and unity can be found throughout their tracks. They were influenced by many artists including Clarice Lispector, Fernando Pessoa, The Roots, Pete Rock, Cypress Hill, and Lauryn Hill.

Her contemporary sound blends elements of folk, jazz and neo-classical and 21st Century urban sounds with evocative vocal deliveries through her original eclectic compositions and arrangements of traditional songs of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Mediterranean.
Olcay Bayir
Jarnana 3:21
Mer Dan 6:05
Melamet Hirkasi 10:10
from Neva / Harmony 2014
elegant Turkish-flavoured world music
...Here, she reworks traditional music from the western borders of Asia and the Mediterranean coast, starting with an Albanian love song before moving to Armenian, Balkan, and Kurdish songs. While Durme, a charming Sephardic lullaby, shows her classical training, elsewhere she switches to dance songs, driven on by clarinet, violin and saz, a Turkish lute. This is an elegant and often gently exquisite set.

Bristol-based band blending an eclectic mix of genres... mixing the styles of Tropicalia, punk, funk, Afrobeat, and Ethiopian jazz.
Zun Zun Egui
Rigid Man 5:21
Soul Scratch 5:04
The Sweetest Part of Life 4:06
from Shackles' Gift 2015
It was very hard to pigeonhole Zun Zun Egui on their fantastically delightful 2011 debut album, Katang, and the same is true on their second album, Shackles' Gift. This time they have not only trod on the toes of many of their peers, they have left them in their wake. The multinational band's habit of effortlessly jumping through genres on a kaleidoscopic journey is still apparent. That said, all that genre defying isn't overly chaotic and sloppy -- it's tight and groovy, with their sound honed and almost distinctly Zun Zun Egui. As always, frontman Kushal Gaya expertly plucks and strangles his guitar with timely scatty guitar parts, and his vocals get stronger with each release...

The project of British producer Richard Blair, Sidestepper fuses a Latin aesthetic with the late '90s electronic dance music aesthetic, resulting in a dancefloor-friendly hybrid that presents a refreshing alternative to the often formulaic sound of electronic dance music
Sidestepper
Fuego Que Te Llama 4:44
Supernatural Love 3:38
Magangué 5:12
Lover 5:37
from Supernatural Love 2016
La Candelaria is the prettiest, most historic barrio in Bogotá, Colombia’s high-altitude capital city... It was here that Sidestepper crafted their stunning new album, Supernatural Love —a work that marks a radical change in direction for the acclaimed collective. Long acknowledged as the original progenitors of electro-cumbia, the cutting-edge blend of electronica and Afro-Colombian rhythms that has torn up dancefloors from Medellin to London and New York... The new album befits the band’s reputation as innovators: organic, potent, rhythmic, and irresistibly danceable. “As soon as we got started I felt this great sense of freedom. An opening up of space and possibility.” RICHARD BLAIR, PRODUCER

New York-based Puerto Rican-American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for her work with the bands Cordero and Pistolera. 
Ani Cordero
Corrupción (Ani Cordero) 3:37
Me Tumba (Ani Cordero) 3:19
Voy Caminando (Ani Cordero) 3:13
Vida Atrevida (Ani Cordero) 2:51
from Querido Mundo 2017
Querido Mundo, Ani Cordero's second release as a solo artist, falls musically somewhere between the vintage Latin stylings of 2014's Recordar and the more rock-oriented output of her longtime bands Cordero and Pistolera...  Pulling no punches, Cordero leads off with "Corrupción," a pointed track aimed at not only the corruption of Puerto Rican politics, but of governments worldwide. Likewise, on the near-chanted "Me Tumba" she sings of police brutality, using an hard-edged delivery and twangy, fuzzed-out guitar solos over an insistent rhythm. The brighter, more hopeful "Voy Caminando" and the sweetly defiant "Vida Atrevida" are also highlights on this excellent collection that mixes anger, love, confidence, and poignancy in equal measures.