26-01-2019 # WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW 2000-1990

26-01-2019 # WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW 2000-1990   16 Horsepower, Natalie MacMaster, The Daktaris, Cheikh Lo, Capercaillie, Makám, Geoffrey Oryema, Agustin Lara, Jean Freber, Manuel Alvarez y Sus Dangers, Abelardo Carbono y su Conjunto, Cumbia Sigo XX, Cumbia Moderna De Soledad, Sheila Chandra

2000-1990
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Denver alt-country band known for brooding songs reminiscent of Nick Cave and the Gun Club. 16 Horsepower were a Denver-based alternative country band that revolved around the unique songwriting and singing of David Eugene Edwards. The band made its name with music that combined rural backwoods kitsch with edgy, off-kilter country-rock.
16 Horsepower
Poor Mouth (David Eugene Edwards / 16 Horsepower) 4:39
Clogger (David Eugene Edwards / 16 Horsepower) 3:28
Cinder Alley (David Eugene Edwards / 16 Horsepower) 4:42
from Secret South 2000
Sin, salvation, deliverance, redemption, the Holy Spirit, divine intervention, and prayer; it's all in a day's work for 16 Horsepower singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Eugene Edwards. On their third album and first for indie Razor & Tie, the band works within the unique sound it has already defined. With a voice as windswept, barren, and generally spooky as the Bates Motel, Edwards unravels 11 mini-sermons with a frightening intensity and emotional edge. When he sings, the ghostly moan that emanates sounds like he's overcome by forces beyond his control. It's that creepy voice, similar to Michael Been of the Call, along with sparse but powerful instrumentation and a fire-and brimstone-lyrical slant, that separates 16 Horsepower from the rest of the alt-Americana pack. Seldom have banjos, violins, organ, and bandoneon (an old accordion that helps define the band's unique sound), let alone guitar, piano and, standup bass, seemed quite as intimidating and brooding as in the hands of this band...

The niece of influential Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, Natalie MacMaster has turned the music of Cape Breton, an island off the east coast of Canada near Nova Scotia, into an international phenomenon. Whether performing with her band, featuring guitar, piano, bass, drums and percussion, or with a classical orchestra such as the Edinburgh Symphony, MacMaster has thrilled audiences with her exciting fiddling and dynamic stage persona.
Natalie MacMaster
In My Hands: The Drunken Lady feat: Gordie Sampson / Amy Sky (Stewart MacNeil / Traditional) 4:23
Gramma: Maudabawn Chapel/Frank's Reel (John McCusker / Ed Reavy) 2:34
Mom's Jig: The Northside Kitchen/Mom's Jig/A Deanadh Im (Jerry Holland / Paul McNeil / Traditional) 5:17
from In My Hands 1999
The basic approach taken by Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster and her producer, arranger, and guitarist Gordie Sampson is to take a group of traditional tunes,  and come up with a folk-rock arrangement that emphasizes MacMaster's lyrical playing as well as a sturdy backbeat... The result is a hybrid album intended to appeal to a broader audience than the purist Celtic crowd, or perhaps to introduce them to some new sounds without putting them off.

This influential New York ensemble painstakingly recreated the sounds of Nigerian Afro-beat on their landmark debut SOUL EXPLOSION. The Daktaris were an Afro-beat group on the New York-based funk revival label Desco, recording compact, Fela Kuti-style grooves that sounded as though they'd come straight out of 1970s Nigeria...
The Daktaris
Musicawi Silt (Wallias Band) 3:04
Super Afro-Beat 3:45
Voodoo Soul Stew (Olu Owudemi) 4:27
from Soul Explosion 1998
The Daktaris' 1998 debut, Soul Explosion, is dedicated to the memory of Fela Kuti, who pretty much single-handedly invented Afro-beat. The Daktaris are clearly influenced by Fela's signature style, mixing jazz and funk riffs with the hypnotic rhythms of his native Nigeria, but their groove-oriented music is much more accessible to the novice listener than Fela's occasionally fearsome soul stew. Where Fela was heavily influenced by both psychedelia and free jazz, the Daktaris are more like the Kool & the Gang (circa "Jungle Boogie") of Afro-beat: their music is deeply, undeniably funky, but the concise song lengths and well-structured solos keep the players in check...