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.