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Richard Horowitz

07-05-2020 > WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks 1981-1970 # WmW:   Richard Horowitz, Amara Toure, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Silvio Rodríguez, Hailu Mergia and The Walias, Ornella Vanoni, Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes, Los Jaivas, Planxty, Fela Kuti, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Steeleye Span, Jorge Ben and Trio Mocotó

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1981-1970

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Horowitz specializes in music from the Middle East. From 1968 to 1979, Horowitz lived in Paris and Morocco, where he studied music, Arabic, French, and Oriental philosophy while performing throughout Europe and Morocco.
Richard Horowitz
Eros Never Stops Dreaming 5:17
Queen of Saba 3:30
from Eros in Arabia 1981
On his 1981 debut album, the composer and percussionist channels the Fourth World spirit of his collaborator Jon Hassell, to spellbinding effect.
...A Moroccan frame drum echoes and distorts on “Eros Never Stops Dreaming.” The processed ney recalls the odd sanza songs that Cameroon musician Francis Bebey was crafting around the same time, while the churning bass figure suggests the cavernous interiors of Arthur Russell’s World of Echo. ..
...From there, the album moves into coarser terrain, taking sandpaper to the magical spells of the opening tracks. The eddying voices and chants of “Queen of Saba” sound like something lifted from a Smithsonian Folkways field recording...
...Fittingly, for an album whose title suggests the Greek god of love crossing the Mediterranean Sea to ancient Arabia, Horowitz’s music seeks a space in between and finds something magical there.

Touré’s 30 year-long career began in the late 1950s in Dakar as part of the Senegalese collective known as Le Star Band de Dakar. Touré and the band enjoyed rapid success and became prominent figures in Senegal’s booming, Cuban-influenced son montuno and pachanga scenes in the 60s. The singer-percussionist later went on to form his own band Black and White based out of Cameroon, where he further refined his unique take on Cuban music by fusing spirited, West African mandingue sounds…
Amara Toure
Amara Touré Et L'Orchestre Black & White
N'Niyo 5:59
Lamento Cubano 5:45
from Amara Toure (1973 - 1980) (Analog Africa No. 18)
The enigmatic Amara Touré from Guinée Conakry finally getting a well deserved compilation showcasing all of the 10 songs ever released between 1973 and 1980. Cuban influenced music of a different kind featuring amazing spaced-out guitar works!!

"Latin music, is it really foreign to us Africans? I don't think so. Listen to the drums, to the rhythm. It all seems very close to us - it feels like it’s our own culture”, declared enigmatic singer Amara Touré... 

Born in Jamaica, based in England, he is a talented reggae singer, writer, and poet; originator of the "dub poetry" style.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Want Fi Goh Rave 4:21
Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) 3:53
Forces of Viktry 4:53
from Forces of Victory 1979
If Dread Beat An' Blood brought Johnson and initial flush of notoriety, then Forces of Victory was the record that cemented his growing reputation as a major talent. Bovell and the Dub Band swing hard on this set, especially on the album's opening track "Want Fi Goh Rave." This contains some of Johnson's most memorable songs/poems, such as the heartfelt prison saga "Sonny's Lettah" and the confrontational "Fite Dem Back," which he delivers in his trademark sing-song Jamaican patois. Dramatic and intense to the point of claustrophobia, Forces of Victory is not simply one of the most important reggae records of its time, it's one of the most important reggae records ever recorded.
Magnificent, top 10 all-time reggae album, and selected by David Bowie in his top 25 "confessions of a vinyl junkie". Jamaica-born LKJ was a poet, journalist and (political) activist before starting fronting a band in London...