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14-12-2021 WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2015-2021 # WmW 2h 11m: David Eugene Edwards, Alexander Hacke, Meybahar, Meridian Brothers, Rodrigo Amarante, Juçara Marçal, Joachim Cooder, Dexter Story, Bombino, Monika Lakatos, Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes, Bixiga 70
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David Eugene Edwards is the lead singer of Wovenhand, and also the main songwriter and the principal musician on the recordings of the band. He is the former lead singer of 16 Horsepower. Their music contains elements of old-time, folk, punk, medieval, gypsy, Native American music, and most recently late 1980s and early 1990s Gothic Rock.
Alexander Hacke) is a guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, musician, record producer, writer and film maker from Germany. He is primarily known as a longtime member of the influential German industrial music group Einstürzende Neubauten.
Triptych 4:37
The Tell 5:00
Teach Us to Pray 3:34
from Risha 2018
...'Risha' cannot be described in traditional terms. This sound is a sweeping tapestry of Americana, Neo-Folk, Industrial, Ambient, Electronic and Arabic Music. 'Risha' - which means 'Feather' in Arabic - contains 10 parts: Beginning with the mystic 'Tryptich' which is followed by the furious beat of 'All in the Palm'. Hacke and Edwards keep the pace with 'The Tell' and its driving industrial rhythm and break it down completely with track #4, “standing stone, Helios”. 'Kiowa 5' is shaped by fascinating drum patterns and the shamanic vocals of David Eugene Edwards. 'Lily' is the song that is inspired most by early Wovenhand, followed by the dark and hypnotic 'Parish Chief' with its almost Suicide-like vintage drumbeat, the drone excursion 'Akhal', before the memorable 'Teach Us To Pray' and the final and epic 'Breathtaker'. Each one a piece of the puzzle; made to be listened in its entirety...
Meybahar was born of a duo with Marilia Pilti (GR) on santouri (a cousin of the Hungarian cymbalom) and violinist Márton Kopcsik (HU) who plays his own custom-made instrument: a 5 string viola with sympathetic strings. When her santouri and his violin meet on stage it forms a magic atmosphere that drives you to undiscovered lands. The pulsation of the music is supported by David Krolikowski (HU) on percussion, Merse Varga (HU) on doholla and frame drums; and Péter Takács (HU) on tabla.
Abyss 4:06
Eridanus 4:53
The Bridge of Drama 6:48
from Abyss 2019
The music of Meybahar explores and resonates in hidden places of our soul, through a music fusion that delves deep into the music cultures of the Aegean Sea and Middle East.
On their first single album, Meybahar (Abyss, Fonó 2019) delivers a multicolored puzzle of melodies from different traditions, brought into a parallel music field through the band’s sound. Tunes directly inspired by Greek and Turkish music and original compositions presented by Meybahar, melt into a common path created by a dynamic rhythmical background of percussion with clear reference to Indian mysticism....
Bogota's Meridian Brothers are a futurist, nearly non-classifiable electro-rock act at the forefront of experimental Latin rhythms and styles. The "band" was founded by multi-instrumentalist Eblis Álvarez, who writes, plays, arranges, and records Meridian Brothers' albums solo (he uses a band when playing live). Their chaotic, irreverent musical approach melds electronic and organic instrumentation, South American, Caribbean, and Mexican rhythms and folk traditions, as influenced by vintage Latin rock and psychedelia, Frank Zappa, the Residents, and post-millennial electronic music.
Los Golpeadores de la Cumbia (Eblis Álvarez) 4:09
Cumbia de la Fuente (Eblis Álvarez) 4:34
Cumbia de la Soledad (Eblis Álvarez) 4:13
from Cumbia Siglo XXI 2020
Bogota's Meridian Brothers are a futurist, electro-rock act at the forefront of experimental Latin rhythms and styles. Founder and multi-instrumentalist Eblis Álvarez writes, plays, arranges, and records the band's albums solo. These explore Latin folk and popular styles including vallenato and currulao, woven through electronica, neo-psych, prog, and cartoon soundtrack music. Cumbia Siglo XXI is titled after a defunct Colombian group who played a sci-fi version of discofied cumbia during the 1980s. The songs here readily reference that as a lift-off point to explore cumbia as a genre. Álvarez melds folkloric and pop Colombian, Argentinian, and Mexican cumbias to vintage rock, neo-electro, spidery funk, and tropical styles...
Journeyman singer, songwriter, poet, and multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Amarante first became known as a member of popular Brazilian rock group Los Hermanos before launching a solo career in 2013. Though not a founding member of the band, he became the dominant influencer of their sound throughout the 2000s, while also serving in the Brazilian big band Orquestra Imperial. Restlessly eclectic, Amarante has collaborated with a number of unusual artists from Moreno Veloso to Devendra Banhart while spearheading interesting projects like the indie rock group Little Joy. When he began his solo career with Cavalo, he continued to pursue his instincts blending together bits of rock, electronic music, and Brazilian tradition. After contributing the theme song to the Netflix series Narcos, he resumed his solo work with 2021's Drama.
Drama 1:15
Tango 3:42
Tao 4:32
from Drama 2021
Since releasing the sublime Cavalo in 2014, Brazilian singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante has earned some well-deserved North American hype thanks to the evocative "Tuyo," which he wrote as the theme song for Netflix's drug cartel drama Narcos... Weaving and winding through an array of beguiling rhythms, languages, and tones, Amarante's second album, Drama, moves between flair and subtlety with a casual grace that feels timeless... More than anything, Amarante feels like a Tropicália artist for the 21st century, artfully fusing Brazilian and Latin American traditions to progressive songwriting and arrangements that touch on pop, psychedelia, folk, and rock...
Juçara Marçal is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and educator whose music bridges traditional Afro-Brazilian folk sounds, electronic music, rock, and hip-hop. Though a solo artist, she is equally well known for her work in vocal groups such as Grupo Vésper during the 1990s and A Barca in the early 2000s where her bold, reedy contralto was easily arranged as a dominant voice. She also co-leads vanguard rock outfit Metá Metá with guitarist Kiko Dinucci and saxophonist/flutist Thiago França. Their iconoclastic sound weds punk, jazz, samba, Afrobeat, and candomblé...
Vi de Relance a Coroa 3:33
Delta Estácio Blues 2:26
La Femme à Barbe 4:02
from Delta Estácio Blues 2021
Singer and songwriter Juçara Marçal emerged during the 1990s with Grupo Vesper before joining the more experimental choir A Barca at the dawn of the new century. She is currently the frontwoman with Metá Metá. Marçal's deep Vanguarda Paulista and post-punk influences have rendered her an avid experimentalist, albeit one with a style all her own. Despite a healthy catalog, Delta Estácio Blues, her Mais Um Discos debut, is only her second solo album.
Joachim Cooder is a musician who leads a double life; he's a celebrated percussionist who has worked with a number of respected roots and world music artists, while he also records as a headliner, where his primary instrument is the electric mbira, a variation on the traditional African thumb piano. As a sideman, his adaptable style has found him working with the legendary Cuban ensemble Buena Vista Social Club and inventive Indian instrumentalist Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. As a bandleader, his music is an atmospheric blend of folk, blues, and African music that encompasses familiar themes with an otherworldly instrumental texture...
Over That Road I'm Bound to Go (Joachim Cooder / Uncle Dave Macon / Traditional) 3:44
Come Along Buddy (Joachim Cooder / Uncle Dave Macon) 4:38
Heartaching Blues (Uncle Dave Macon) 4:04
from Over That Road I'm Bound 2020
On his Nonesuch Records debut, Over That Road I’m Bound, out today, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joachim Cooder uses the plain-spoken songs of country-music progenitor and banjo player Uncle Dave Macon as a jumping off point, playing with the lyrics and reworking melodies for his chosen instrument: an electric mbira (a variation on an African thumb piano). Cooder culled songs from Macon’s vast catalog and recorded them with his band and special guests: Ry Cooder (banjo, guitar, bass, backing vocals), Rayna Gellert (fiddle), Juliette Commagere (backing vocals), Sam Gendel (bass), Glenn Patscha (piano and pump organ), Amir Yaghmai (yali tambur), Dan Gellert (banjo and fiddle), and Vieux Farka Touré (guitar). "Warm, uplifting, and quietly spectacular," says Uncut. "A buoyant and joyful long-player," says Mojo.
Lifetime Los Angeleno Dexter Story (aka Wondem) is a musical polymath -- a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, arranger, songwriter, producer, and ethnomusicologist. He has been known in the international musical community for decades as a first-rate sideman, as proficient in soul and jazz as he is funk, rock, pop, and global folk styles...
Gold feat. Sudan Archives 3:19
Mamdooh 4:44
Electric Gurage 3:03
from Bahir 2019
Dexter Story is a musical polymath. He is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger. He works in genres from global spiritual soul and jazz to funk, folk, and hip-hop. He has spent the 2010s studying and traveling the Horn of Africa, immersing himself in its musical traditions -- beautifully articulated on 2015's Wondem. The Carlos Nino-produced Bahir, filled with guests, picks up from and expands the terrain explored on his previous outing. Rooted in Eastern Africa's musical traditions, he engages influences with the soul, funk, and jazz from his Western world albeit one transformed by his travels. His intention is not simply to bring those influences to the West, but to contribute music that expands the traditions he employs here.
Meditative and earthy, Niger-based musician Bombino conjures the expansiveness of the Sahara landscape with his dazzling guitar work and entrancing vocals. Championed by the Rolling Stones before he'd even released an album, he embraced the nomadic nature of his Tuareg roots and throughout the 2010s recorded a series of critically lauded albums in various locations around the world including Nashville, Niger, New York, and Morocco...
Imajghane (Oumara Moctar) 4:13
Tehigren [The Trees］(Oumara Moctar) 4:31
Takamba (Oumara Moctar) 3:30
from Deran 2018
After a period spent enchanting Western audiences and employing Western producers and studios, Tuareg guitar master Bombino (given name, Omara Moctar) touches back down in Africa for his energetic sixth LP Deran. Championed by fans and fellow musicians across the globe for his glowing amalgam of desert blues and Hendrix- and Knopfler-inspired classic rock, the Niger native has enjoyed an impressive run since breaking through with his 2011 album Agadez. Extensive North American tours, U.S. festival appearances, collaborations with members of the Rolling Stones, and two acclaimed albums produced by Americans Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys) and Dave Longstreth (the Dirty Projectors) cemented his reputation as an artistic ambassador of the Tamasheq language and the geopolitical conflicts of his native land. With Deran, Bombino largely leaves the West to its own concerns, heading instead to a Moroccan studio in Casablanca to record under the lighter touch of his manager, Eric Herman... As an addition to Bombino's already sterling catalog, Deran is another excellent release and a natural continuation of his distinctive style.
Mónika Lakatos was born in Budapest to an Olah Gypsy family. She was taught to sing by her father and aunties in her community. In 1996 she was the first ever Romani singer to win the most popular national Hungarian talent show – to which she was enrolled in without her knowledge...
Matyilem-Matyilem 3:20
Búbánat-Búbánat 2:44
Ando Nyamco 3:41
from Romanimo 2017
The traditional Oláh Gypsy hallgato songs featured on Romanimo are quite ancient, many of them are known to have been around for at least 150 years. The world they immortalize is as old as Romani culture itself. Mónika learned the majority of these songs from her father, Géza József Lakatos, whom you may hear on two original archive recordings of the album. Archive recordings of Mónika’s auntie, Klára „Lulugy” Lakatos are also featured on Romanimo. As for the rest of the songs, they come either from family gatherings or are well known, widely performed songs of Romani heritage. Romanimo performances were striving to be as authentic to the original hallgato songs in singing voice and style as possible, only a few songs were orchestrated slightly differently to keep up with the times. Most tracks resemble the world of our parents and grandparents...
Piers Damian G. Faccini (born 1970) is an English singer, painter and songwriter. Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother. His family moved to France when he was five years old. His brother is the writer Ben Faccini...
Dawn Landes is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is originally from around Louisville, Kentucky but spent many years living and performing in Brooklyn, New York. As a recording artist she has released five full-length albums... In support of her releases, Landes has toured extensively in the US, Europe and around the world, often sharing the stage with artists such as Ray Lamontagne, Feist, Andrew Bird, José González, The Weakerthans, Midlake, Suzanne Vega, and Sufjan Stevens...
Heaven's Gate 3:09
Book Of Dreams 2:26
I Hear a Calling 3:17
from Desert Songs 2016
Even though UK-born and France-based folk singer Piers Faccini often describes himself as a solitary songwriter, the musician nevertheless seems to thrive on collaborations. Having partnered with Dom La Nena, Jenny Lysander, the BKO Quintet or with French cellist Vincent Segal on the wonderful Songs of Time Lost amongst others, Piers Faccini recently collaborated with American singer songwriter Dawn Landes. The end result is the beautiful Desert Songs EP released on January 15th 2016 last on his own Beating Drum records and distributed in North and South America by 6 Degrees Records... The music on the EP was recorded in Faccini’s home studio based in the Cévennes, the remote foothills in south-central France which naturally lend themselves to contemplation and reflection...
Central São Paulo’s neighborhood called Bixiga is a melting pot of culture. Its Italian, African and North-Eastern population make it one of the best areas to eat out and listen to music... That’s the birthplace of São Paulo’s finest new instrumental combo: Bixiga 70.
Coming from diverse musical backgrounds, a meeting of musicians involved in the city’s avantgarde pop, jazz, dub and Brazilian scenes, results in the 10-piece set, trying to blur boundaries in space and time. With their genre-spanning mix of afrobeat, Guinean malinké, Brazilian candomblé, samba and cumbia, Bixiga 70 are a welcome addition to any party. Taking Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70 band as a launchpad both in name and spirit, this ten piece band and their fusion of African and South American rhythms cause havoc in any dance...
Ventania (Traditional) 5:36
Machado (Bixiga 70) 5:23
100% 13 (Bixiga 70) 4:20
from III 2015
More than 18 years after his death, Fela Kuti is acquiring more tribute acts than he had wives. From Brooklyn’s Antibalas to Montreal’s Souljazz Orchestra; from London’s Kalakuta to Tokyo’s Kingdom Afrocks, dozens of bands are exploring Afrobeat’s jittery rhythms and martial horns. Sao Paulo’s Bixiga 70 are more imaginative that most, using Afrobeat as the stock in a stew that’s spiked with ingredients from Brazil, the Caribbean and other parts of Africa...
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