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05-01-2022 • WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2018-2007 # WmW 2h 34m: Bombino, Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes, Bixiga 70, Amariszi, Black Bazar, Metá Metá, Terakaft, Los Destellos, Los Wemblers De Iquitos, Los Walkers, Le TPOK Jazz, Franco, Watcha Clan, Konono Nº1
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2018-2007
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...
Tehigren [The Trees］(Oumara Moctar) 4:31
Imajghane (Oumara Moctar) 4:13
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.
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...
Amariszi - 12-piece Dutch band - was founded in 2007 by accordionist/composer Kay Krijnen and drummer Dolf Huybers. Four years later their remarkable debut album ‘Balkan Chaotika’ was released, critically acclaimed and appreciated with coherent teamwork, originality and inspiring virtuosity. In 2014 Amariszi released ‘Nine Balkan Nights’ which topped the English World Music Audio Chart and #13 in the World Music Charts Europe...
Overkant 3:11
En Macedonie 3:30
Rakia 4:06
from Nine Balkan Nights 2014
Amariszi creates an exciting mix of Balkan influenced music delicately weaved together with pop, reggae and swing. The Amariszi line-up of virtuoso accordion lines, groovy horn section, guitar, bass & drums explores a world of music where anything can happen, and their appearance, animation and enthusiasm make every performance a party! Merel Simons’ captivating presence on stage, his clear timbre and expression offer an outstanding contribution that immediately appeals to listeners. Leaving limbs and body parts unmoved is downright impossible. Amariszi is Balkan virtuosity at its best...
Black Bazar is a musical concept introduced and produced by the writer Alain Mabanckou in 2012 with the support of the label Lusafrica, and managed by Caroline Blache. The first album featured a return to the musical roots of Congolese Rumba. Audiences were enthusiastic and the numerous artists involved in the project hailed as “the new masters of the African scene in Paris”. This “first round” introduced the musical combo BLACK BAZAR...
Black Bazar Round 2 / Featuring – Karashika 5:19
Beau Gosse / Featuring – Soleil 3:45
Black Mani 3:37
from Round 2 2013
The album Black Bazar – Round 2 – is based on compositions by the legendary guitarist Popolipo Beniko and the talented bass-player Michel Lumana. Each track is full of atmosphere and deeply rooted in musical tradition, while also opening onto new avenues described by the German press as “dancehall Rumba”, orchestrated by the producer Francky Moulet. The sounds of Kinshasa, Brazzaville, Praia and Lagos come together alongside the traditional rhythms and beats that have set on fire the nightclubs of the African diaspora. Several well-known musicians have joined forces and decided to participate in the initiative: Ferré Gola, Soleil Wanga, Flamme Kapaya, Olivier Tshimanga, Roi David from the Congo-DRC; Karachika from Congo-Brazzaville; Wole Sentimenta from Nigeria; Izé Teixeira from Cape Verde or even the Haitian Fanfan from the famous Caribbean group Tabou Combo, who claims to be a “Congolese born in Haiti”.
As soon as the bell announces the opening of the first round of Black Bazar – Round 2, you will find yourself transported into this exciting universe, carried along by such great musicians as Caien Madoka, Jimmy Kusekimina, Do Akongo Dikoel, Ballou Canta, Pims Lomena… This stellar line-up has managed to bring together diverse styles and show the world once again that music knows no borders.
From São Paulo in Brazil, Metá Metá is a jazz fusion band formed in 2007 around the core trio of Juçara Marçal (vocals), Kiko Dinucci (guitar & vocals) [both of whom collaborated on the 2008 album Padê] and Thiago França (saxophone & flute). Released in 2011, Metá Metá’s first self-titled album anchored the trio’s sound in the classic Afro-Samba style popularised by Baden Powell and Vinicius De Moraes in the late 1960s while also venturing into free jazz and rock music... With the band constantly delving into their Afro-Brazilian musical and spiritual roots (Metá Metá meaning “Three in One” in the Yoruba language)...
Metá Metá
oya 5:25
rainha das cabeças 3:52
Orunmilá 4:03
from MetaL MetaL 2012
...The band’s second album Metal Metal which originally came out in 2012 in Brazil was released internationally on the Mais Um Discos label in March 2014 last and sees the addition of bass, drums and percussions to expand the trio’s sound into new electric, punk and psychedelic territories. Always based on a solid voice/guitar/saxophone foundation, every song quickly expands into a fascinating sonic maelstrom of polyrhythms, saturated guitars and saxophone, electronic glitches and ecstatic chanting. At times, Metal Metal is very close in spirit to Moa Anbessa, the extraordinary 2006 collaboration between veteran Dutch punk band The Ex and Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya...
Terakaft (meaning “caravan” in Tamasheq) is a genuine desert rock band, sculpted by the pure searing air and the endless rolling sands of the Sahara. The stark, harsh conditions of the desert have permeated their wild riffs, and as a result they are the perfect embodiment of all that is wild and free in desert blues today. Terakaft was formed in 2001 with a line-up that included two former members of Tinariwen, and they have since made the electric guitar their own...
Alghalem (Abdallah Ag Ahmed) 3:41
Aman Wi Kawalnen (Liya Ag Ablil / Sanou Ag Ahmed) 3:45
Ahabib (Liya Ag Ablil) 5:01
from Aratan N Azawad 2011
The new album from Terakaft presents the Tamasheq band in live performance, with a lean tightness to the sound that leaves the group positioned between the desert blues genre and rock. A song like "Aman Wi Kawalnen" has the suppleness of the best Sahara bands, but the flow of lead guitar work that characterizes rock. Even where acoustic guitar dominates, as with "Aratan N Azawad," that same feel is there. In part that's because the band is only a three-piece (two guitars, bass, and vocals, supplemented for the recording with percussion and some additional guitar), offering a sparer, cleaner sound. There's a liquid beauty to the music with its easy, rolling rhythms, but the intensity always simmers, occasionally firing into flame, as with the biting, incisive guitar breaks in "Ahabib." It's no longer fair to call Terakaft an up-and-coming band. On this basis of this, they've arrived, with their sound fully developed.
Los Destellos - Constelación (Enrique Delgado) 3:19
Los Ribereños - Silbando (Juan Benigno) 3:06
Los Wemblers De Iquitos - (Lamento Del Yacuruna (Emerson Sanchez) 2:47
Los Walkers - Siboney (Ernesto Lecuona) 2:34
Chicha started in the '60s when the Indian population of the Peruvian Amazon discovered the Columbian pop music known as cumbia and American rock & roll. With cheap electric instruments, Peru's Amazon Indians started dance bands that blended the cumbia, with a beat that sounds a bit like ska, Andean folk tunes, and their own indigenous music. When the Indians moved to Lima, they brought chicha with them. Like Afro-Peruvian music, chicha was shunned by "polite" society and it didn't gain an international profile until Olivier Conan, owner of Barbés Records, discovered the music on a trip to Peru in 2006. He found bootleg chicha cassettes on the streets and finally tracked down the master tapes of several chicha labels that had gone bankrupt. He put out a compilation of tunes called Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru and started his own chicha band, Chicha Libre. Chicha isn't going to rule the world anytime soon, but the music caused a sensation in world music circles and Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru was praised by The New York Times, BBC, and other international publications. The Roots of Chicha, Vol. 2 continues to explore this hitherto unknown genre with 16 more mind-bending rave-ups cut between 1968 and 1981...
There's no doubt that Franco was, in every sense of the word, a big man in African music. Sometimes weighing in at 300 pounds, he also earned his nickname as "The Sorcerer of the Guitar," making it sing like no one before, with effortless, fluid lines. Also an accomplished composer and vocalist, Francois Luambo Makiadi remains a towering figure even in death, probably the greatest the Congo (later Zaire) has ever produced, and as the leader of the long-running O.K. Jazz group, he was one of the fathers of the modern Congolese sound. ..
Tokoma Ba Camarade Pamba (Franco Luambo) 11:25
Nostalgie (Josky Kiambukuta) 10:00
from Francophonic, Vol. 2 2009
Watcha Clan are a French quartet that fuses together influences as diverse as its members' heritages. Drawing on North African, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, French, and modern electronic musical styles for inspiration, the Clan claim a nomadic ethic, calling no single style "home." ...
Les Hommes Libres 4:43
Tchiribim (Traditional) 3:29
Les Courbes de Ton Corps 4:29
from Diaspora Hi-Fi A Mediterranean Caravan 2008
When they use the subtitle "A Mediterranean Caravan," they're not kidding. Drawing from everywhere around the Inner Sea -- often in the same piece -- it's a travelogue with a modern twist that's as happy on the dancefloor as while wandering a dusty desert... It's too dense, with no room to breathe, full-on from start to finish. They move around easily, with songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, which covers most of the Mediterranean possibilities, and they travel even farther... Make no mistake, it's good, and there's plenty of invention, with seamless integration of real instruments, beats, and programming, but it's so busy that eventually it can seem a little overwhelming...
Konono No. 1 have combined the spirit of traditional African music with the junk instrument concept and the progressive electronic aspect of modern times. The group's full name was L'Orchestre Folklorique T.P. Konono No. 1 de Mingiedi, "T.P." being translated as "all powerful." (It was also a tribute to the band of the legendary Congolese musician Franco, which was called T.P.O.K. Jazz.) The band was founded by Mingiedi Mawangu, a member of the Zombo or Bazombo ethnic group, whose homeland was located near the Congo border with Angola...
Nsimba & Nzuzi (Konono No. 1) 4:28
Kule Kule (Konono No. 1) 6:23
Mama Na Bana
Konono No. 1) 11:02
from Live at Couleur Café 2007
Crammed Discs in Belgium issued its third installment of its wildly successful and completely warranted Konono No. 1 recordings. The first was simply called Congotronics; the second, Congotronics 2, focused on a variety of different artists who all use the Congotronics likembe thumb pianos (three tuned at different registers) at the heart of their sounds but play in sometimes wildly divergent styles. This set focuses on a live performance recorded at the Couleur Café in Belgium recorded by Vincent Kenis by the original group of Bazombo musicians, dancers, and singers from the Democratic Republic of Congo... The music is hypnotic in the same way that a sunrise is, in the way the moon shines on the water, as the power and raw, forceful beauty of nature itself is. It should not matter if you have the context of the earlier projects or not -- the text in the first volume, or seeing the DVD in the second may ground you a bit more, but this is as good a place as any to start. Konono No. 1 Live at Couleur Café is recorded flawlessly and directly; its mix is hot and unfiltered and meant to be played very, very loud. This CD was nominated for a Grammy award in 2007 for Best Traditional World Music Album.
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