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01-07-2020 > WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks 1966-1959 # WmW: Baden Powell, Violeta Parra, Ravi Shankar, Eduardo Rovira, Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble, The Mary Kaye Trio, Alfredo Marceneiro, Pedro Laza y Sus Pelayeros, Pete Seeger, Frank Hamilton, Shirley Collins

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1966-1959

A legend of Brazilian guitar, emerging on the cusp of the bossa nova boom of the 1960s. Baden Powell is a Brazilian musician with a solid international reputation. A gifted instrumentalist and composer, he bridges the gap between classical artistry and popular warmth and was a key figure in the bossa nova movement.
Baden Powell
Labareda (Vinícius de Moraes / Baden Powell)
Canto de Xangô (Vinícius de Moraes / Baden Powell)
Tempo de Amor (Samba Do Veloso)(Vinícius de Moraes / Baden Powell)
from Os Afro Sambas 1966
This album was released originally in 1966 in Brasil. A collaboration with Vinicius de Moraes. And it was an absolute landmark in the bossa nova movement.

Daughter of a music teacher and a singer/guitarist, Violeta Parra was influenced by her parents since being a child. 
Violeta Parra
Gracias a la Vida feat. Javiera Parra (Violeta Parra)
Run Run Se Fue P'al Norte feat. Javiera Parra  (Violeta Parra)
Volver a los 17 feat. Javiera Parra  (Violeta Parra)
from Las últimas composiciones de Violeta Parra 1965
At the age of nine, the young girl started singing and playing guitar, soon composing traditional Chilean music. After getting married to Luis Cereceda in 1952, the singer/songwriter began touring the country, assimilating the natural charm of her native land, which mostly inspired her work. In 1954, Violeta Parra moved to Europe, deciding to settle down in France, where the artist started recording her poetic songs. When returning to Chile in 1958, Violeta Parra got involved in painting and sculpture, extending her artistic skills even more. In 1961, the singer returned to Europe, this time singing along with her daughter Isabel Parra and her son Angel Parra being responsible for keeping their mother's legacy alive.

The foremost exponent of Indian classical music, largely responsible for introducing the sitar to both pop and classical Western audiences.

Rabindra Shankar Chowdery, aka Ravi Shankar, was born on April 7, 1920, in Varanasi, India, into a well-off orthodox Brahmin family. His father, ShyÆm Shankar, was employed as a diwan (minister) by the Maharajah of Jhalawar...

Ravi Shankar 

Tala Rasa Ranga feat. Paul Horn

Tabla-Dhwani feat. Paul Horn

Song from the Hills feat. Paul Horn

from Portrait of Genius 1964

Ravi Shankar has been described as one of the greatest musicians on the planet. This record, one of his classic World Pacific albums, clearly lends credence to that statement. But the thing that makes this record interesting is the fact that it contains a unique fusion of Shankar and his group performing with respected jazz flutist Paul Horn. It's an extremely gratifying combination, and Horn plays with a true jazzman's restraint on the five short selections that open the record... Shankar's awesome ability and stamina is matched only by that of his ensemble, especially Alla Rakha on tabla. Essential for any fan of Shankar or Indian music. Awesome.

Eduardo Rovira was an Argentinian composer, bandaneón player, and musical arranger best known for expanding El Nuevo Tango to unpredictable lengths. If it weren't for the Lanusian composer, tango would have probably never met with such intriguing composition techniques like twelve tone and counterpoint.

Eduardo Rovira 

Simple

Elegía Para el Amigo Negro

Contrapunteando

from Tango vanguardia 1963 

1963's "Tango Vanguardia" (Tango Avant-garde) reflects this positively anti-customary thinking.

One of the album's first tracks is the string dominated "Elegía Para el Amigo Negro", this track is a nostalgic reflection of disaster that showcases Rovira's poetic expertness. It is followed by "Contrapunteando" which, like the name implies, is an example of Rovira's strange relationship with counterpoint whose academic realization is by all means amplified by Nuevo Tango's seductive verses... Of course tango music wouldn't be tango music if it went by all the dodecaphonic norms, and that is exactly where Rovira's genius comes in, 12-tone music doesn't lose its whim and nor does Rovira's cerebrally engaging tango ideals.

Replete with intelligently adjoined harmonies, poetic bandoneón lines, and marvellous execution, "Tango Vanguardia" proves itself one of Nuevo Tango's most transcendental achievements.

Solomon Gbadegesin Ilori (born c. 1934) is a Nigerian drummer and percussionist who moved to New York City in 1958 and collaborated with jazz artists such as Art Blakey and Harry Belafonte before recording his debut album for Blue Note Records in 1963.
Solomon Ilori and His Afro-Drum Ensemble
Tolani (Solomon Ilori)
Follow Me to Africa (Solomon Ilori)
Jojolo (Look At This Beautiful Girl) (Solomon Ilori)
from African High Life 1963
It seems strange that Blue Note, a label generally associated with bop, hard bop, and the early avant-garde, would have released an album like African High Life. It didn't really fit in with Blue Note's back catalog and -- perhaps as a result -- the label didn't tread these waters again for a number of years. Regardless, this is a very enjoyable if not essential album of traditional African highlife music set to dance tempos. Fans of Count Ossie (or other Pan-African musics that predate an outright American R&B influence) should know what to expect here. In other words, it doesn't sound as modern as Fela Kuti, so it won't supply the kinds of grooves expected on most dancefloors. This is a more traditional music and, despite its Blue Note affiliation, it should be appreciated on its own terms.

Mary Kaye was a guitarist and performer who was active from the 1940s through 1960s. 
The Mary Kaye Trio
Lei Aloha Maka Mai (Forever More)
Sea Breeze (Puamana)
Kaulana Na Pua
from Our Hawaii 1962
In a 2003 interview for Vintage Guitar magazine, Mary Kaye (born Malia Ka'aihue) claimed to be descended from Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani, through her father Johnny Kaʻaihue (Johnny Ukulele) whom she claimed was "pure Hawaiian" and stated, "he was the son of Prince Kuhio, Queen Liliuokalani's cousin." However, according to the genealogy Liliuokalani put in her biography, her brothers were King David Kalākaua and Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II. Neither Liliuokalani nor her brothers had any biological children. The Mary Kaye Trio is credited with founding the Las Vegas "lounge" phenomenon at the Last Frontier in 1953 : an all-night party atmosphere where stars and common folk rubbed elbows in a freewheeling environment.

Alfredo Rodrigues Duarte (February 25, 1891 - June 26, 1982) better known as Alfredo Marceneiro due to his profession (Portuguese; marceneiro - English; woodworker) was a Portuguese fado singer, owner of a singular voice, became a milestone in this kind of music in Portugal.
Alfredo Marceneiro
Senhora Do Monte
O Amor É Água Que Corre
A Casa Da Mariquinhas
from O Fabuloso Marceneiro 1961

Pedro Laza Gutiérrez was born in 1904 in the northern Caribbean coastal port city of Cartagena de Las Indias, Colombia, and died there in 1980. After learning several instruments at a young age, Laza went on to study typography and graphic design, but at age 17 he knew that music was his calling, so he learned the bandurria (a type of small guitar), later learning to play the contrabass. At age 21 he founded his first musical group, 
Pedro Laza y Sus Pelayeros 
Se Te Cayeron los Dientes feat. Nono Narváez
El Corralejo (Instrumental)
Ritmo del 60 / Ritmo Del Sesenta feat. Lucho Argaín
from Fandango 1960

Perhaps no single person in the 20th century did more to preserve, broadcast, and redistribute folk music than Pete Seeger, whose passion for politics, the environment, and humanity earned him both ardent fans and vocal enemies ever since he first began performing in the late '30s.
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and folk song collector Frank Hamilton has played a seminal role in the evolution of American folk music. A co-founder of the Old Town School of Music in Chicago in 1957, Hamilton taught the future leader of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, to play guitar and banjo. 
Pete Seeger, Frank Hamilton
Ragtime Annie
Rye Straw
Blues
Pygmy Tune (Africa)
from Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes 1959
The full title of this Pete Seeger/Frank Hamilton duo album is Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes for Harmonica, Flute, Recorder, Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo, 12-String Guitar, and Voices, an important point since the album credits never indicate who's playing what. It appears that Seeger and Hamilton each picked up one or the other of the indicated instruments for the tunes selected for this picking session and went to town. That the word "Voices" appears last is significant in that this is largely an instrumental album... This is not a major album for the catalogs of either performer, but it is a light, enjoyable effort.

Pete Seeger and Frank Hamilton at a recording session.

A leading English folk singer who has at times challenged the boundaries of British folk. A pivotal figure in Britain's early-'60s folk revival and subsequent folk-rock heyday, Shirley Collins' influence on these movements, and folk music at large, cannot be understated. With her pure, unaffected vocal tone and Sussex accent, she first launched her recording career in the late '50s...
Shirley Collins
I Drew My Ship (Traditional)
My Bonny Miner Lad (Traditional)
The False True Love (Traditional)
Scarborough Fair (Traditional)
from False True Lovers 1959
As a key figure in the British folk revival, this recording originally produced for Folkways in 1959 presents Shirley Collins at a tender age of 23 recording under the eye of legendary Folkways producer and then partner Alan Lomax assisted by pragmatic engineer Peter Kennedy. Recorded in London in a two-day marathon, the most distinctive voice in British folk song interpretation recorded this album of a cappella renditions of British and Irish tunes. Inflecting the collection with Appalachian gems she and Lomax had discovered in one of their legendary research jaunts the same year, False True Lovers is as vital a collection of this astonishing singer that exhibits the full spectrum of her interest and research into folk music tradition...