22-06-2019 ~ WORLD_MUSiC_MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks in WmW

Combo Chimbita

22-06-2019 * WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW:    Combo Chimbita, Femi Kuti, Warsaw Village Band, Lajkó Félix, Hugh Masekela, Femina, Olcay Bayir, Zun Zun Egui, Sidestepper, Ani Cordero

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Brooklyn-based quartet bring more psychedelic impulses to traditional Colombian forms. Combo Chimbita honed their sound by playing together for years, experimenting with different styles until they landed somewhere between lively guacaracha rhythms and cosmic psychedelia.

Combo Chimbita
El Camino 3:47
Sola 1:30
Ahomale 3:40
Testigo 4:56
from Ahomale 2019
While creating music firmly rooted in Columbian traditions, Brooklyn-based outfit Combo Chimbita often sound like they're broadcasting live from another planet entirely. Ahomale is the band's second full-length album and expands on their cosmic approach to Afro-Latin styles, incorporating a wealth of celestial synth sounds into performances that are both fiery and controlled. The first of many striking things about Combo Chimbita's sound is the power of singer Carolina Oliveros' voice...

The son of legendary Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, he has added young Lagos and American dance music to his father's sound. 
Femi Kuti
Africa Will Be Great Again (Femi Anikulapo-Kuti) 4:48
One People One World (Femi Anikulapo-Kuti) 3:35
Corruption Na Stealing (Femi Anikulapo-Kuti) 6:27
from One People One World 2018
...One People One World is Kuti's tenth album with his longstanding band Positive Force and its musical director and guitarist Opeyemi Awomolo. Unlike the righteous anger that inspired almost all of his previous recordings, One People One World is by contrast more affirmative; it's celebratory without sacrificing its activism. While Afrobeat is at the core of these 12 songs, Kuti picks up on the mosaic he began weaving on No Place for My Dream by incorporating the harmonies and rhythms of reggae, highlife, soul, R&B, hip-hop, and other global sounds into its mix, adding depth and complexity without sacrificing immediacy and accessibility....

Global experimentation, Polish-style. Warsaw Village Band are one of the most inventive folk groups in Europe, with an edgy, driving style in which the harsh-edged female-harmony vocals of Magdalena Sobczak-Kotnarowska and Sylwia Świątkowska are matched against violins, percussion, dulcimer and brass.
Warsaw Village Band
Fly My Voice 4:50
She Celebrated Kupala 5:12
from Sun Celebration 2017
...Their compositions are usually based on traditional themes, but the old Polish influences are transformed by a remarkable cast of special guests. From Galicia, Spain, there’s the experimental multi-instrumentalist Mercedes Peón, who adds vocals, electronics or bagpipes on eight of the tracks. Then there’s the Iranian master musician Kayhan Kalhor adding the kamancheh fiddle on the rousing Towards the Sun, and an Indian contingent, including the Dhoad Gypsies from Rajasthan and the singer and sarangi player Ustad Liaqat Ali Khan, bringing unexpected textures to the throbbing and atmospheric Perkun’s Fire. An inventive and often thrilling exercise in breaking down musical borders.

15-05-2019 * WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW

Buda Folk Band

15-05-2019 * WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW    Buda Folk Band, Estusha, Kandia Kouyate, Las Hermanas Caronni, Maria Arnal i Marcel Bagés, Dead Can Dance, Kronos Quartet, Marjan Vahdat, Mahsa Vahdat, Combo Chimbita, Femi Kuti, Warsaw Village Band, Lajkó Félix

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This music, to wich you can dance to, is played on instruments mainly used in the Carpathian Basin and is drawn from authentic sources. Taking the original melody as a template, their music retains the phraseology so characteristic of the Hungarian folklore tradition.
Buda Folk Band
Repülés / Flying 3:09
Várj meg / Wait For Me 2:50
Erdö / Forest 3:59
Elindultam / I Left My Homeland 2:29
from Saját gyűjtés / Own Collection Work 2015
We, Hungarians, with the appearance of the first audio recording devices have always been at the forefront in folk music collection; collecting our folk music traditions. In order to find our way in this music, it is essential that we get acquainted with it in contemporary peasant communities.  Folk music played in the village arrives in a city environment on recordings from collection work; it creates its own survival and awakens new musical thoughts. This is the kind of music on this recording. We share memories of rural cultures, from our own collecting work - expressed in our own style.

Estusha, Mexican artist fuses her peculiar form of singing with ethnic instruments of the world and electronic music to create an ethno-electro project.
"Nature created sounds. Men imitating nature, created instruments and chants. Thousands of years later we continue to celebrate the origin of music." 
Estusha
Tihowayo 3:11
Aportua 3:44
Yahe 3:33
from Wotan 2016
Estusha's latest album “Wotan a Contemporary Ethnic Celebration” gives recognition to all her musical and life experiences, creating a fusion of sounds, instruments and ethnic chants from different cultures from the world over, electronic music, and her own unique style resulting in an exquisite contemporary ethnic celebration.

Kandia Kouyaté (also known as Kandja Kouyaté, born in 1959 in Kita, Mali) is a Malian jelimuso (a female griot) and kora player; she has earned the prestigious title of ngara, and is sometimes called La dangereuse and La grande vedette malienne. Kouyaté's dense, emotional, hypnotic manner of singing and her lyrical talents have earned huge acclaim in Mali, though she remained relatively little known outside Africa, due to extremely limited availability of her recordings. Her home town of Kita is known for love songs, which form a large part of Kouyaté's repertoire. She also sings praise songs.
Kandia Kouyate
Koala Boumba 5:45
Kassi Doundo (the Crying Rooster) 5:06
Mandjala (take Off The Headscarf!) 4:50
from Renascence 2015
...Renascence certainly rewards the long wait; it is a terrific record on all counts. The first thing longtime fans will notice is that Kouyaté's contralto has become deeper and even more powerful than when she became famous in Africa three decades ago. Kouyaté was born in 1959 in southwestern Mali. She grew up immersed in the music of her Mandé people. Her father, a well-known balafon player, saw his daughter's potential when she was a child; her mother was a singer. When she was still a schoolgirl she sang with her uncle Mady Sylla Kouyaté's band, the Apollos, in Bamako. Captivated by the Malian capital's music scene, she moved there after completing school. In Bamako, she married a prominent singer of jeliya, a traditional Mandé genre. Kouyaté studied jeliya vocal techniques and its repertoire of praise songs and historical narratives...