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11-01-2020 WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks 2005-1991 # WmW: Caetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik, Gipsy Kings, Värttinä, Liz Carroll, Radio Tarifa, Vinicio Capossela, Djivan Gasparyan, Boris Kovac, Thierry Titi Robin, Africando, The Klezmatics, Danyel Waro, Mahotella Queens, Strunz & Farah, Oliver Mtukudzi
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2011-2001
Caetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik
Madre Deus 3:37
Onqotô 5:26
from Onqotô 2005
Onqotô is a rhythmic score for "Grupo Corpo", a Brazilian modern dance company, by Caetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik. This may be a reason why Onqotô has been overlooked. A pity, for the music here is among the best Caetano has released in recent years. It reveals yet another musical facet of Caetano Veloso.
Onqotô reminds me of Caetano's experimental music of the early seventies. There are long percussive grooves. Madre Deus and especially Pesar do mundo are beautiful lyrical islands.
Family act from southern France whose Afro-Spanish take on flamenco launched them to worldwide fame in the 1980s. The Gipsy Kings are largely responsible for bringing the joyful sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco to the world. The band started out in Arles, a village in southern France, during the '70s when brothers Nicolas and Andre Reyes, the sons of renowned flamenco artist Jose Reyes, teamed up with their cousins Jacques, Maurice, and Tonino Baliardo, whose father is Manitas de Plata.
Aven, Aven (Gipsy Kings) 4:37
Legende (Gipsy Kings) 4:12
from Roots 2004
Fans of flamenco icons the Gipsy Kings have been waiting a long time for a record like Roots. The group spent much of the last ten years churning out a sleek and heady mix of often disposable worldbeat that, while perfectly executed, never lived up to the promise of their hugely successful 1988 American/English debut. The aptly named Roots finds the brothers Andre and Nicolás Reyes leading the veteran octet through 16 blistering tracks, bereft of the percussion and electronic trickery that has plagued so many of their previous outings. The family collective rented a farmhouse in the south of France for the recording, and the results are nothing short of a revelation...
A compelling Kaarelian roots-inspired Finish folk group that has featured as many as 21 members. One of the most internationally successful acts to emerge from the contemporary Finland music scene, Värttinä revitalized the nation's folk traditions with an aggressive and ultra-modern style that eschewed not only the costumes of their ancestors but also the long-accepted cultural notion that women should sing unaccompanied.
Sepän Poika/The Blacksmith's Son (Antto Varilo) 3:20
Maahinen Neito (Earth-Maiden) 4:23
Vihi (Wind) (Antto Varilo) 3:33
from iki 2003
Twenty years after Värttinä began, there's still plenty of energy in the band, although they've come a long, long way. More mature, they've learned to use finesse over speed, and the themes they tackle here are certainly more adult... The keening voices, once a band trademark, have all but vanished, replaced by more delicate harmonies that suit the material, and the six instrumentalists give them plenty of room -- although they're quite capable of making a storm of noise, too... After their live disc, they seem to be embarking on a new musical chapter, in search of new pastures, and the journey here proves very satisfying indeed. The frantic edge that characterized them for so long has vanished, although their joy in music-making very obviously remains.
