08-09-2018 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW

Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band

08-09-2018 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW   Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band, Criolo, Kepa Junkera & Sorginak, Djessou Mory Kante, Ali Khattab, Hanoi Masters, German Diaz, Electro Bamako, Bamba Wassoulou Groove, Skip&Die, Khaira Arby

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Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band is an exuberant, crispy and powerful Folk Rock line-up based in Helsinki Finland. The band is formed and led by Esko Järvelä, an innovative fiddler and composer from Kaustinen, which is often considered as the home of Finnish folk music. Esko grew up surrounded by several top-class folk musicians and has developed a powerful and unique fiddle style of his own breaking the boundaries of sometimes clumsy image of folk fiddling. Besides Epic Male Band he’s been touring around the world with numerous Scandinavian top folk bands such as Frigg, JPP, Baltic Crossing, and Tsuumi Sound System.
Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band
Epic Theme 8:26
Bottom Fellows 6:22
What Is The Drink Of Kings? 6:1
from Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band 2013
This Finnish fiddler with the fiddly name (I'll just call him Esko) is a widely respected tunesmith, traditional musician, and member of the massively entertaining band Frigg. Despite all this, Esko decided he wanted to play in a rock band! So this is Finnish fiddle with a rock band, and actually it works really well. Some tracks are close to the polskas and Nordgrass genre of Frigg, but most of this album is louder, brasher, faster, and more funked up than folk music ever was. It's still folk rock - Rush and Queen don't have to be worried about the competition yet - but there is an insistent beat and a throbbing bass line which mark this as something heavier than ceilidh music. The sleeve notes are helpfully in pucker English, but the translated track names are sometimes a little surprising. There's also some confusion over the CD title - it's perhaps the debut of Esko Järvelä and the Epic Male Band, and may someday be known simply as "The Red Album" when these guys are worldwide megastars...

Kleber Gomes Cavalcante (1975), better known by stage names like Criolo Doido or Criolo, is a Brazilian singer of rap and soul.
Criolo
Convoque Seu Buda 3:51
Cartão De Visita 3:27
Fermento Pra Massa 3:41
from Convoque Seu Buda 2014
...Brought up in the favelas outside São Paulo, he stacked shelves and worked with street children until he shook up the Brazilian rap scene by mixing hip-hop with an adventurous range of musical styles. The new album continues the experiment. Produced by David Ganjaman and Marcelo Cabral, whose keyboards, programming and bass provide much of the backing, the album matches Criolo’s cool, thoughtful balladry and rap against settings that range from easygoing samba and stomping dub reggae to jazz and forro from north-east Brazil...

Kepa Junkera became a professional musician as a young man, when the band Oskorri took a liking to him and became interested in his advanced abilities on the trikitixa, the Basque style of diatonic accordion. The word can be roughly translated as "bellows from hell," which should get the point across. 
Kepa Junkera & Sorginak
Sorginak Infernuko Hauspotik Irtetzen 4:03
Auntxaren Ibilerak 4:42
from Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat 2015
Kepa Junkera documents the history of music played with the trikitixa, the Basqua diatonic accordion. In this case the documentation is literal, as the CD comes tucked in the back flap of an impressive and weighty 160 page hardback book. Junkera is accompanied by the 7-strong group Sorginak, who provide tambourine and accompaniment.

For many hundreds of years, the Maninka people of Guinea and Mali have promulgated one of the world's great stringed-instrument traditions. Indigenous harps and lutes have always predominated in this music, but around 50 years ago an influential innovator called Facelli Kanté introduced the guitar to Maninka music. One of his nephews, Kanté Manfila, further modernized the tradition, playing the lead electric guitar in Les Ambassadors in the 1970s and '1980s. Manfila's younger brother, Djessou Mory Kanté, is best-known as the guitarist that such world-renowned singers as Salif Keita and Sekouba Bambino engage when they want the best. River Strings is an album of beautifully-crafted instrumentals, impeccably recorded in Salif Keita's Studio Moffou in Bamako, Mali. Djessou Mory Kanté's acoustic and electric guitars -- understated but masterly, gentle but beguiling -- are accompanied by bass, percussion and, on two pieces, the supporting guitar of the Super Rail Band's Djelimady Tounkara.
Djessou Mory Kante
Coucou 5:20
Toubaka 4:33
Senekela 4:25
from River Strings - Maninka Guitar 2014
...River Strings brings this artist into a sonic space that is near perfect. A clean, clear recording technique buoys the performances, and a spare ensemble of guitars, ngoni, bass, keyboards and percussion carry it all simply and beautifully. It was all recorded in two studios in Bamako in 2012 and mixed in 2014 by Iain Scott and Ben Turner back in Weymouth, UK with openness and clarity...