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02-01-2022 • • WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2011-2000 # WmW 2h 48m: Terakaft, Los Destellos, Los Wemblers De Iquitos, Los Walkers, Le TPOK Jazz, Franco, Watcha Clan, Vinicio Capossela, Omar Bashir, Axel Krygier, Boris Kovac, Ladaaba Orchest, Besh o Drom, Oliver Mtukudzi, Cristina Branco

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2011-2000

Terakaft (meaning “caravan” in Tamasheq) is a genuine desert rock band, sculpted by the pure searing air and the endless rolling sands of the Sahara. The stark, harsh conditions of the desert have permeated their wild riffs, and as a result they are the perfect embodiment of all that is wild and free in desert blues today. Terakaft was formed in 2001 with a line-up that included two former members of Tinariwen, and they have since made the electric guitar their own...

Terakaft 

Alghalem (Abdallah Ag Ahmed) 3:41

Aman Wi Kawalnen (Liya Ag Ablil / Sanou Ag Ahmed) 3:45

Ahabib (Liya Ag Ablil) 5:01

from Aratan N Azawad 2011

The new album from Terakaft presents the Tamasheq band in live performance, with a lean tightness to the sound that leaves the group positioned between the desert blues genre and rock. A song like "Aman Wi Kawalnen" has the suppleness of the best Sahara bands, but the flow of lead guitar work that characterizes rock. Even where acoustic guitar dominates, as with "Aratan N Azawad," that same feel is there. In part that's because the band is only a three-piece (two guitars, bass, and vocals, supplemented for the recording with percussion and some additional guitar), offering a sparer, cleaner sound. There's a liquid beauty to the music with its easy, rolling rhythms, but the intensity always simmers, occasionally firing into flame, as with the biting, incisive guitar breaks in "Ahabib." It's no longer fair to call Terakaft an up-and-coming band. On this basis of this, they've arrived, with their sound fully developed.

Los Destellos - Constelación (Enrique Delgado) 3:19

Los Ribereños - Silbando (Juan Benigno) 3:06

Los Wemblers De Iquitos -  (Lamento Del Yacuruna (Emerson Sanchez) 2:47

Los Walkers - Siboney (Ernesto Lecuona) 2:34

from The Roots of Chicha 2 2010

Chicha started in the '60s when the Indian population of the Peruvian Amazon discovered the Columbian pop music known as cumbia and American rock & roll. With cheap electric instruments, Peru's Amazon Indians started dance bands that blended the cumbia, with a beat that sounds a bit like ska, Andean folk tunes, and their own indigenous music. When the Indians moved to Lima, they brought chicha with them. Like Afro-Peruvian music, chicha was shunned by "polite" society and it didn't gain an international profile until Olivier Conan, owner of Barbés Records, discovered the music on a trip to Peru in 2006. He found bootleg chicha cassettes on the streets and finally tracked down the master tapes of several chicha labels that had gone bankrupt. He put out a compilation of tunes called Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru and started his own chicha band, Chicha Libre. Chicha isn't going to rule the world anytime soon, but the music caused a sensation in world music circles and Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru was praised by The New York Times, BBC, and other international publications. The Roots of Chicha, Vol. 2 continues to explore this hitherto unknown genre with 16 more mind-bending rave-ups cut between 1968 and 1981... 

There's no doubt that Franco was, in every sense of the word, a big man in African music. Sometimes weighing in at 300 pounds, he also earned his nickname as "The Sorcerer of the Guitar," making it sing like no one before, with effortless, fluid lines. Also an accomplished composer and vocalist, Francois Luambo Makiadi remains a towering figure even in death, probably the greatest the Congo (later Zaire) has ever produced, and as the leader of the long-running O.K. Jazz group, he was one of the fathers of the modern Congolese sound. ..

Franco, Le TPOK Jazz 

Tokoma Ba Camarade Pamba (Franco Luambo) 11:25

Nostalgie (Josky Kiambukuta) 10:00

from Francophonic, Vol. 2 2009

05-01-2022 • WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2018-2007 # WmW 2h 34m

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05-01-2022 • WORLD:MUSiC:MiX # 33 selected GLOBAL MUSiC tracks 2018-2007 # WmW 2h 34m: Bombino, Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes, Bixiga 70, Amariszi, Black Bazar, Metá Metá, Terakaft, Los Destellos, Los Wemblers De Iquitos, Los Walkers, Le TPOK Jazz, Franco, Watcha Clan, Konono Nº1

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Meditative and earthy, Niger-based musician Bombino conjures the expansiveness of the Sahara landscape with his dazzling guitar work and entrancing vocals. Championed by the Rolling Stones before he'd even released an album, he embraced the nomadic nature of his Tuareg roots and throughout the 2010s recorded a series of critically lauded albums in various locations around the world including Nashville, Niger, New York, and Morocco...

Bombino 

Tehigren [The Trees］(Oumara Moctar) 4:31

Imajghane (Oumara Moctar) 4:13

Takamba (Oumara Moctar) 3:30

from Deran 2018

After a period spent enchanting Western audiences and employing Western producers and studios, Tuareg guitar master Bombino (given name, Omara Moctar) touches back down in Africa for his energetic sixth LP Deran. Championed by fans and fellow musicians across the globe for his glowing amalgam of desert blues and Hendrix- and Knopfler-inspired classic rock, the Niger native has enjoyed an impressive run since breaking through with his 2011 album Agadez. Extensive North American tours, U.S. festival appearances, collaborations with members of the Rolling Stones, and two acclaimed albums produced by Americans Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys) and Dave Longstreth (the Dirty Projectors) cemented his reputation as an artistic ambassador of the Tamasheq language and the geopolitical conflicts of his native land. With Deran, Bombino largely leaves the West to its own concerns, heading instead to a Moroccan studio in Casablanca to record under the lighter touch of his manager, Eric Herman... As an addition to Bombino's already sterling catalog, Deran is another excellent release and a natural continuation of his distinctive style.

Piers Damian G. Faccini (born 1970) is an English singer, painter and songwriter. Piers Faccini was born in London, England to an Italian father and an English mother. His family moved to France when he was five years old. His brother is the writer Ben Faccini... 

Dawn Landes is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is originally from around Louisville, Kentucky but spent many years living and performing in Brooklyn, New York. As a recording artist she has released five full-length albums... In support of her releases, Landes has toured extensively in the US, Europe and around the world, often sharing the stage with artists such as Ray Lamontagne, Feist, Andrew Bird, José González, The Weakerthans, Midlake, Suzanne Vega, and Sufjan Stevens...

Piers Faccini, Dawn Landes 

Heaven's Gate 3:09

Book Of Dreams 2:26

I Hear a Calling 3:17

from Desert Songs 2016

Even though UK-born and France-based folk singer Piers Faccini often describes himself as a solitary songwriter, the musician nevertheless seems to thrive on collaborations. Having partnered with Dom La Nena, Jenny Lysander, the BKO Quintet or with French cellist Vincent Segal on the wonderful Songs of Time Lost amongst others, Piers Faccini recently collaborated with American singer songwriter Dawn Landes. The end result is the beautiful Desert Songs EP released on January 15th 2016 last on his own Beating Drum records and distributed in North and South America by 6 Degrees Records... The music on the EP was recorded in Faccini’s home studio based in the Cévennes, the remote foothills in south-central France which naturally lend themselves to contemplation and reflection...

Central São Paulo’s neighborhood called Bixiga is a melting pot of culture. Its Italian, African and North-Eastern population make it one of the best areas to eat out and listen to music... That’s the birthplace of São Paulo’s finest new instrumental combo: Bixiga 70.

Coming from diverse musical backgrounds, a meeting of musicians involved in the city’s avantgarde pop, jazz, dub and Brazilian scenes, results in the 10-piece set, trying to blur boundaries in space and time. With their genre-spanning mix of afrobeat, Guinean malinké, Brazilian candomblé, samba and cumbia, Bixiga 70 are a welcome addition to any party. Taking Fela Kuti’s Afrika 70 band as a launchpad both in name and spirit, this ten piece band and their fusion of African and South American rhythms cause havoc in any dance...

Bixiga 70 

Ventania (Traditional) 5:36

Machado (Bixiga 70) 5:23

100% 13 (Bixiga 70) 4:20

from III 2015

More than 18 years after his death, Fela Kuti is acquiring more tribute acts than he had wives. From Brooklyn’s Antibalas to Montreal’s Souljazz Orchestra; from London’s Kalakuta to Tokyo’s Kingdom Afrocks, dozens of bands are exploring Afrobeat’s jittery rhythms and martial horns. Sao Paulo’s Bixiga 70 are more imaginative that most, using Afrobeat as the stock in a stew that’s spiked with ingredients from Brazil, the Caribbean and other parts of Africa...

Amariszi - 12-piece Dutch band - was founded in 2007 by accordionist/composer Kay Krijnen and drummer Dolf Huybers. Four years later their remarkable debut album ‘Balkan Chaotika’ was released, critically acclaimed and appreciated with coherent teamwork, originality and inspiring virtuosity. In 2014 Amariszi released ‘Nine Balkan Nights’ which topped the English World Music Audio Chart and #13 in the World Music Charts Europe...

Amariszi 

Overkant 3:11

En Macedonie 3:30

Rakia 4:06

from Nine Balkan Nights 2014

Amariszi creates an exciting mix of Balkan influenced music delicately weaved together with pop, reggae and swing. The Amariszi line-up of virtuoso accordion lines, groovy horn section, guitar, bass & drums explores a world of music where anything can happen, and their appearance, animation and enthusiasm make every performance a party! Merel Simons’ captivating presence on stage, his clear timbre and expression offer an outstanding contribution that immediately appeals to listeners. Leaving limbs and body parts unmoved is downright impossible. Amariszi is Balkan virtuosity at its best...

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Terakaft

19-06-2018 11:41 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW   Terakaft, Meridian Brothers, The Klezmatics, Duo Milla Viljamaa & Johanna Juhola, Piirpauke, Damon Albarn, Justin Adams, Kolinda, Lila Downs, Lo'Jo

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Terakaft is a gang of guitarists, in the same vein as Tinariwen. Nothing astonishing about that if you consider that Terakaft was founded by Kedou and Diara, two formative and historical guitarists from Tinariwen.
Terakaft
Bismilla 2:24
Rastaman Aridal 3:58
Ter Simawan 4:53
from Bismilla (The Bko Sessions) 2007
Guitar, Vocals – Diara, Kedou Ag Ossad, Liya Ag Ablil, Rhissa Ag Ogham, Sanou Ag Ahmed
Recorded at Studio Bogolan, Bamako, Mali, in January 2007.
Edited at La Fontaine du Mont, Mûrs-Erigné, France.

Bogota's the Meridian Brothers are the creation of Eblis Álvarez, who writes, arranges, produces, plays, and sings everything on their recordings, though when the band plays live he is aided by other musicians. Their music is almost unclassifiable, a bracing meld of electronic and organic instruments, influenced by Latin rock, psychedelia, Frank Zappa, the Residents, modern vanguard electronic music, and South American and Caribbean folk traditions and rhythms.
Meridian Brothers
La Industria del Deporte 4:09
El Cantinero Experimental 5:41
Jornada Nacional Contra La UtilizacióN de AntíDotos 4:14
El Enamorado 4:33
from El Advenimiento del Castillo Mujer 2006
Traditional instruments, electronics and distorted vocals are dragged through an array of influences to create a world that is as original as it is unclassifiable.
Originally released back in 2006 by Colombian label La Distritofonica, the limited CD-only album showcased a rare style of "Abstract folk music" inspired on the experiments of some Bogota collectives from the time (2005-2006).

Inimitable N.Y.C. band blends klezmer music and socially conscious lyrics with contemporary rock, funk, and avant-garde jazz. / The Klezmatics take one of the wildest approaches to klezmer, the traditional dance music of the Eastern European Jews. Although their music is heavily influenced by the recordings of Abe Ellstein and Dave Tarras in the 1940s and 1950s, their lyrics comment on a wide variety of political and social issues and have led the group to be labeled "the planet's radical Jewish roots band." The original members of the Klezmatics -- Dave Lindsay (bass), Rob Chavez (clarinet), Alicia Svigals (fiddle) -- were recruited through an ad in the Village Voice in 1985. Trumpet player Frank London of the Klezmer Conservatory Band joined the group soon afterward. Within a few weeks, the band was expanded with the addition of Lorin Sklamberg (vocals, accordion), Margot Leverett (clarinet), and David Licht (drums). Initially calling themselves "Hortzeplotz," they soon renamed themselves the Klezmatics, a play on words inspired by the rock band the Plasmatics.
The Klezmatics

Joshua Nelson

with Joshua Nelson and Kathryn Farmer
Eyliyohu Hanovi 2:38
Elijah Rock with Joshua Nelson 9:17
Ki Loy Nue with Kathryn Farmer 6:40
Didn't It Rain with Joshua Nelson and Kathryn Farmer 5:01
from Brother Moses Smote The Water 2005

Kathryn Farmer

The Klezmatics are arguably the most genre-bending performers on the klezmer scene today (and perhaps of any day). Here, they combine with an up-and-coming singer from the South. That singer just happens to be of an ancient order of Judaism and is African-American, and he attempts to fuse gospel soul with traditional Jewish works. Of course, they got along marvelously. The album focuses on the similarities and ties between Jews and blacks, particularly in the aspects of slavery, the shared songs from Passover and gospel services, and the vibrant cultures. There are notes of pure klezmer and of pure gospel, but the concert from which the album was recorded is really a masterpiece of fusion. The styles are crunched together nearly seamlessly, the languages used (alternately Hebrew, Yiddish, and English) being the only differential in some parts. Joshua Nelson (the gospel singer) tends toward a Mahalia Jackson sound, and the Klezmatics themselves do what they always do. Slapped together, it's a joyous, powerful affair. For fans of musical cross-pollination, this album is a godsend. It's cross-cultural fusion done right. For an added bonus, the CD includes a short bit of video footage from the Berlin concert.