A to Z

[johncorrigan]

Well, I strongly believe that W should be for Watersons, not only is English folk music very unrepresented in this A-Z but we went to see Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band last night, opening night of their tour, life-affirming, and fun (think thats allowed) - breaking down the barriers of folk music, as they have been doing for years. So - vote often, vote Watersons.[/URL]

May I draws the jury's attention to the previous evidence M'Lud.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?13977-A-to-Z&p=508876#post508876

But I suppose we can put Woody in here too...not the one from the Bay City Rollers, by the way.

[Lat-Literal]

May I draws the jury's attention to the previous evidence M'Lud.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?13977-A-to-Z&p=508876#post508876

But I suppose we can put Woody in here too...not the one from the Bay City Rollers, by the way.

A very good point. Your first two. Chris Wood - a true great not just now but he will be in historical terms. On the third, I believe they have reformed. Memories of Noel "Positively Happy" Edmonds being his own hero at a race track if rarely anyone else's. Roller mania girls in an adjoining lake. Whatever his subsequent disdain, John Peel may have been there. The Kid, latterly of Crystal Palace and a mason, was so and it was so early no one then was called Janice. Shang-a-Lang. X might be for the wonderful X Seamen's Institute:

X Seamen's Institute -

Roll Alabama Roll -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VteZ1IVLM_E

Shenandoah -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgsDoxw85-4

[Lat-Literal]

Ahem, could Y be for Cat Stevens?

Yusuf Islam - Peace Train -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQri3a4Gg

[johncorrigan]

Ahem, could Y be for ...

Big Youth's 'Cool Breeze'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCyuU1Fo3s

Vieux Farka Toure...nice wee film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjlNNKZK0w

...or is T for Toure

[Lat-Literal]

Big Youth's 'Cool Breeze'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCyuU1Fo3s

Vieux Farka Toure...nice wee film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjlNNKZK0w

...or is T for Toure

Yes, I like your selections more than my previous one.

The answer on the card, incidentally, was Mallory Park:

http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio1/fun_days.htm

http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Mallory_Park

It proves, if nothing else, that everything I say is true.

[Lat-Literal]

Z might well be for Zimbabwe.

I've had the Bhundu Boys and the Four Brothers in my record collection since the late 1980s.

It would be of interest to me to hear which World Music albums other contributors bought first.

Bhundu Boys - Simbimbino:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTNcv3gIcgw

The Four Brothers - Rugare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqKW8TnsSgo

This is the last call for W-Z. I will then post a list for addressing omissions and "sculpting down".

[CallMePaul]

Some more Z entries: -
Tom Zé, Brazilian singer-songwriter much promoted by David Byrne
Zein Musical Party, taarab group based in Mombasa and led by Zein l'Abdin al Ahmed Alamoody from Lamu in northern Kenya (does anyone know what has happened to him?
Zuhara Swaleh, taarab singer from Nairobi but now also based in Mombasa

I'm sure there must be others!

[Pianorak]

I'm sure there must be others!

There are indeed!

Z for Zarah Leander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zDL4j9haQ0

[Lat-Literal]

Some more Z entries: -
Tom Zé, Brazilian singer-songwriter much promoted by David Byrne
Zein Musical Party, taarab group based in Mombasa and led by Zein l'Abdin al Ahmed Alamoody from Lamu in northern Kenya (does anyone know what has happened to him?
Zuhara Swaleh, taarab singer from Nairobi but now also based in Mombasa

I'm sure there must be others!

These are really excellent suggestions.

Very many thanks.

Not sure which is club and which is party but this seems to be about right? -

Zein Al-Abdin and Zein Music Club - Huba - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCULStmUekY

Research suggests he was born in 1939 so he would be 76 now.

Possibly played Womad c.1990?

There are indeed!

Z for Zarah Leander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zDL4j9haQ0

Ah yes, dear Zarah.

Kenny Everett used to play her "Wunderbar" a lot in the 1970s.

He claimed she was Adolf's favourite singer.

Thanks!

[Lat-Literal]

OK......this is the post on which there will be an updated A-Z list.

That is as soon as I have done an updated list!

A to K

A - Albanian Clarniets, Axe, Ave Maria
B - Bongos, Bulgarians, Baku, Begena, Brasileira, Bossa Nova, Balafon, Bashavav, Blick Bassy, Bartok
C - Cajun, China, Cesaria Evora/Cape Verde, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Canada, (Mark) Coles
D - Djembe, Doudou, Drums, Desert Blues, Dust to Digital, (Lucy) Duran, Doug Schulkind, (Robin) Denselow
E - English Folk, Ethnomusicologists, Etran Finatawa, Ellington/Ella
F - (K) Frimpong and his Cubano Fiestas, Franco, Flamenco, Froots, Ferraris/Fait, (Ibrahim) Ferrer, Folkways
G - (Charlie) Gillett, Gamalan, Garifuna, Ghanaian Drumming, Geofflikesmusic, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, (Peter) Gabriel, Gospel, Gogol Bordello
H - (Daniel) Humair, Harp, Horse Worship, Human Planet, Haiti, Hardanger Fiddle, Hoss Hair, Holland, Hungarian Folk and Gypsy Music
I - Irish, Ibrahims, Iceland, Igbo, Indians, Indo-Caribbeans, Iris Dement, Inuits
J - Jit, Jean Jenkins, Japan, Jajouka, (Joji) Hirota
K - Kwela, Kwassa Kwassa, Klezmer, Kora, (Mary Ann) Kennedy, (Lopa) Kothari, Konono No 1, (Andy) Kershaw, Kodaly

L to Z

L - Lee Scratch Perry, La Bamba/Los Lobos, Lo - Ismael and Cheikh
M - Margaret Menezes, Mediterranean Polyphony, Mbaqanga, Mississippi, Mulatu, Missa Luba, Mali, Miriam Makeba, Mahotella Queens, Mbube, Mabel Mafuya, (Cheb) Mami,
M - Middle East, Morocco, Mbalax
N - New Orleans, Neville Brothers, Nueva Cancion, Natacha Atlas
O - Okinawa, Overtone Singing, Orchestras/Orkestars/Orkestrars, (Geoffrey) Oryema, Ojos de Brujo, Oi Va Voi, Omar Pene, (Eliades) Ochoa, OK Jazz, Omar Souleyman,
O - Otis - Redding/Taylor/Shuggie
P - (Violeta) Parra, (Karine) Polwart, Pygmies, Princes - Buster and Far I, (Augustus) Pablo, (Jocelyn) Pook, Pipa/Liu Fang
Q - Qatari Music, Quechua, Quilapayun, Queen of Salsa - Celia Cruz, Quizaz, Quizaz, Quizaz, (Gospel) Quartets, Quebecois
R - Rai, Reggae, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rinken Band, (Frederic) Rzewski, Rajasthani Reggae/Gypsies, Real World Records
S - Soundways, Harry Smith, Sacred Harp, South African Gospel, String Bands, Salif Keita, Smadj, (Joseph) Spence, (Black) Stalin, Sufi/Nusrat, Sa Ding Ding, Satomi Saeki
T - Throat Singing, Township Jive, Tom Brosseau, Tizita, (June) Tabor, Taraf de Haidouks, Tinariwen, Tony Allen, Tunng, (Hugh) Tracey, Transglobal Underground, Toure(s)
U - Upsetters, Ukraine, UAE, UK, US, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Uganda, U Roy, Unthanks, Ute Lemper, U Srinivas, Ustad Nishat Khan, Umm Kulthum, Urdu
V - Vinicio Capossela, Venezeula Youth Orchestra, Vieux Farka Toure
W - Watersons, Wayward Band, Wolof, Woody Guthrie, WOMAD, (Grover) Washington (Jr), (Amy) Winehouse
X - Xenakis, Xhosa, Xenia Belmas, Ximena Sariñana, Xue-Wei, Xuefei Yang, X Seamen's Institute
Y - (La Monte) Young, (Guo) Yue, Youssou N'Dour, Yusuf Islam, (Big) Youth
Z - (Frank) Zappa, Zimbabwe, (Tom) Ze, Zein l'Abdin al Ahmed Alamoody/Zein Musical Party, Zuhara Swaleh, Zarah Leander

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

P for Pygmy, perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLxFmnYO_I

... too much talking over the Music being described here - shut up and let us listen, you idiot! - but the Music speaks for itself elsewhere on the youniverse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXKHWOOdpJA

[Lat-Literal]

There is now a completed list in post 130, that is, to the best of my ability. In fact, let's now put it here for ease of reference:

A to Z

A - Albanian Clarniets, Axe, Ave Maria
B - Bongos, Bulgarians, Baku, Begena, Brasileira, Bossa Nova, Balafon, Bashavav, Blick Bassy, Bartok
C - Cajun, China, Cesaria Evora/Cape Verde, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Canada, (Mark) Coles
D - Djembe, Doudou, Drums, Desert Blues, Dust to Digital, (Lucy) Duran, Doug Schulkind, (Robin) Denselow
E - English Folk, Ethnomusicologists, Etran Finatawa, Ellington/Ella
F - (K) Frimpong and his Cubano Fiestas, Franco, Flamenco, Froots, Ferraris/Fait, (Ibrahim) Ferrer, Folkways
G - (Charlie) Gillett, Gamalan, Garifuna, Ghanaian Drumming, Geofflikesmusic, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, (Peter) Gabriel, Gospel, Gogol Bordello
H - (Daniel) Humair, Harp, Horse Worship, Human Planet, Haiti, Hardanger Fiddle, Hoss Hair, Holland, Hungarian Folk and Gypsy Music
I - Irish, Ibrahims, Iceland, Igbo, Indians, Indo-Caribbeans, Iris Dement, Inuits
J - Jit, Jean Jenkins, Japan, Jajouka, (Joji) Hirota
K - Kwela, Kwassa Kwassa, Klezmer, Kora, (Mary Ann) Kennedy, (Lopa) Kothari, Konono No 1, (Andy) Kershaw, Kodaly
L - Lee Scratch Perry, La Bamba/Los Lobos, Lo - Ismael and Cheikh
M - Margaret Menezes, Mediterranean Polyphony, Mbaqanga, Mississippi, Mulatu, Missa Luba, Mali, Miriam Makeba, Mahotella Queens, Mbube, Mabel Mafuya, (Cheb) Mami,
M - Middle East, Morocco, Mbalax
N - New Orleans, Neville Brothers, Nueva Cancion, Natacha Atlas
O - Okinawa, Overtone Singing, Orchestras/Orkestars/Orkestrars, (Geoffrey) Oryema, Ojos de Brujo, Oi Va Voi, Omar Pene, (Eliades) Ochoa, OK Jazz, Omar Souleyman,
O - Otis - Redding/Taylor/Shuggie
P - (Violeta) Parra, (Karine) Polwart, Pygmies, Princes - Buster and Far I, (Augustus) Pablo, (Jocelyn) Pook, Pipa/Liu Fang
Q - Qatari Music, Quechua, Quilapayun, Queen of Salsa - Celia Cruz, Quizaz, Quizaz, Quizaz, (Gospel) Quartets, Quebecois
R - Rai, Reggae, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rinken Band, (Frederic) Rzewski, Rajasthani Reggae/Gypsies, Real World Records
S - Soundways, Harry Smith, Sacred Harp, South African Gospel, String Bands, Salif Keita, Smadj, (Joseph) Spence, (Black) Stalin, Sufi/Nusrat, Sa Ding Ding, Satomi Saeki
T - Throat Singing, Township Jive, Tom Brosseau, Tizita, (June) Tabor, Taraf de Haidouks, Tinariwen, Tony Allen, Tunng, (Hugh) Tracey, Transglobal Underground, Toure(s)
U - Upsetters, Ukraine, UAE, UK, US, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Uganda, U Roy, Unthanks, Ute Lemper, U Srinivas, Ustad Nishat Khan, Umm Kulthum, Urdu
V - Vinicio Capossela, Venezeula Youth Orchestra, Vieux Farka Toure
W - Watersons, Wayward Band, Wolof, Woody Guthrie, WOMAD, (Grover) Washington (Jr), (Amy) Winehouse
X - Xenakis, Xhosa, Xenia Belmas, Ximena Sariñana, Xue-Wei, Xuefei Yang, X Seamen's Institute
Y - (La Monte) Young, (Guo) Yue, Youssou N'Dour, Yusuf Islam, (Big) Youth
Z - (Frank) Zappa, Zimbabwe, (Tom) Ze, Zein l'Abdin al Ahmed Alamoody/Zein Musical Party, Zuhara Swaleh, Zarah Leander

My approach has been to be all-inclusive rather than declaring "this is world music and this isn't world music". I am grateful for all contributions. That they have been so wide-ranging has meant that the thread has been educational as well as enjoyable. If I have inadvertently missed out any suggestions to date, please let me know. I will adjust the list.

I think the next call is for any further suggestions for A through to Z - well, B through to Z given the Albanians have priority seats - and this exercise need not have any rules as such. Except that I would especially invite thoughts on the letters which have the fewest names beside them or no names that you consider to be worthy of making it to the final shorter list. Oh, and the other "rule" is that I doubt we need to spend too many days on this bit of the process but I will be gauging it according to what is coming through or not!!

Thank you to Ferney for the pygmies who I have added. I have also decided to include Mark Coles in "C", Robin Denselow in "D", Real World Records in "R" and WOMAD in "W".

[johncorrigan]

There is now a completed list in post 130, that is, to the best of my ability. In fact, let's now put it here for ease of reference:

A to Z

A - Albanian Clarniets, Axe, Ave Maria
B - Bongos, Bulgarians, Baku, Begena, Brasileira, Bossa Nova, Balafon, Bashavav, Blick Bassy, Bartok
C - Cajun, China, Cesaria Evora/Cape Verde, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Canada, (Mark) Coles
D - Djembe, Doudou, Drums, Desert Blues, Dust to Digital, (Lucy) Duran, Doug Schulkind, (Robin) Denselow
E - English Folk, Ethnomusicologists, Etran Finatawa, Ellington/Ella
F - (K) Frimpong and his Cubano Fiestas, Franco, Flamenco, Froots, Ferraris/Fait, (Ibrahim) Ferrer, Folkways
G - (Charlie) Gillett, Gamalan, Garifuna, Ghanaian Drumming, Geofflikesmusic, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, (Peter) Gabriel, Gospel, Gogol Bordello
H - (Daniel) Humair, Harp, Horse Worship, Human Planet, Haiti, Hardanger Fiddle, Hoss Hair, Holland, Hungarian Folk and Gypsy Music
I - Irish, Ibrahims, Iceland, Igbo, Indians, Indo-Caribbeans, Iris Dement, Inuits
J - Jit, Jean Jenkins, Japan, Jajouka, (Joji) Hirota
K - Kwela, Kwassa Kwassa, Klezmer, Kora, (Mary Ann) Kennedy, (Lopa) Kothari, Konono No 1, (Andy) Kershaw, Kodaly
L - Lee Scratch Perry, La Bamba/Los Lobos, Lo - Ismael and Cheikh
M - Margaret Menezes, Mediterranean Polyphony, Mbaqanga, Mississippi, Mulatu, Missa Luba, Mali, Miriam Makeba, Mahotella Queens, Mbube, Mabel Mafuya, (Cheb) Mami,
M - Middle East, Morocco, Mbalax
N - New Orleans, Neville Brothers, Nueva Cancion, Natacha Atlas
O - Okinawa, Overtone Singing, Orchestras/Orkestars/Orkestrars, (Geoffrey) Oryema, Ojos de Brujo, Oi Va Voi, Omar Pene, (Eliades) Ochoa, OK Jazz, Omar Souleyman,
O - Otis - Redding/Taylor/Shuggie
P - (Violeta) Parra, (Karine) Polwart, Pygmies, Princes - Buster and Far I, (Augustus) Pablo, (Jocelyn) Pook, Pipa/Liu Fang
Q - Qatari Music, Quechua, Quilapayun, Queen of Salsa - Celia Cruz, Quizaz, Quizaz, Quizaz, (Gospel) Quartets, Quebecois
R - Rai, Reggae, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Rinken Band, (Frederic) Rzewski, Rajasthani Reggae/Gypsies, Real World Records
S - Soundways, Harry Smith, Sacred Harp, South African Gospel, String Bands, Salif Keita, Smadj, (Joseph) Spence, (Black) Stalin, Sufi/Nusrat, Sa Ding Ding, Satomi Saeki
T - Throat Singing, Township Jive, Tom Brosseau, Tizita, (June) Tabor, Taraf de Haidouks, Tinariwen, Tony Allen, Tunng, (Hugh) Tracey, Transglobal Underground, Toure(s)
U - Upsetters, Ukraine, UAE, UK, US, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Uganda, U Roy, Unthanks, Ute Lemper, U Srinivas, Ustad Nishat Khan, Umm Kulthum, Urdu
V - Vinicio Capossela, Venezeula Youth Orchestra, Vieux Farka Toure
W - Watersons, Wayward Band, Wolof, Woody Guthrie, WOMAD, (Grover) Washington (Jr), (Amy) Winehouse
X - Xenakis, Xhosa, Xenia Belmas, Ximena Sariñana, Xue-Wei, Xuefei Yang, X Seamen's Institute
Y - (La Monte) Young, (Guo) Yue, Youssou N'Dour, Yusuf Islam, (Big) Youth
Z - (Frank) Zappa, Zimbabwe, (Tom) Ze, Zein l'Abdin al Ahmed Alamoody/Zein Musical Party, Zuhara Swaleh, Zarah Leander

My approach has been to be all-inclusive rather than declaring "this is world music and this isn't world music". I am grateful for all contributions. That they have been so wide-ranging has meant that the thread has been educational as well as enjoyable. If I have inadvertently missed out any suggestions to date, please let me know. I will adjust the list.

I think the next call is for any further suggestions for A through to Z - well, B through to Z given the Albanians have priority seats - and this exercise need not have any rules as such. Except that I would especially invite thoughts on the letters which have the fewest names beside them or no names that you consider to be worthy of making it to the final shorter list. Oh, and the other "rule" is that I doubt we need to spend too many days on this bit of the process but I will be gauging it according to what is coming through or not!!

Thank you to Ferney for the pygmies who I have added. I have also decided to include Mark Coles in "C", Robin Denselow in "D", Real World Records in "R" and WOMAD in "W".

Thanks a lot Lat - great work. Just a couple of small points on first viewing from your wonderful gathering. Under P - Palm Wine Music (Have to have ole S.E. in there somewhere) - also when I said 'Woody' under W I was actually meaning Chris Wood but I think Woody G was a great pick-up by you.

Wondered if World Circuit should be there. Under A, I know you've got it as priority for 'Albanian', but I was listening to something rather excellent from the 'Analogue Africa' label the other day and thought it deserved a mention.

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks a lot Lat - great work. Just a couple of small points on first viewing from your wonderful gathering. Under P - Palm Wine Music (Have to have ole S.E. in there somewhere) - also when I said 'Woody' under W I was actually meaning Chris Wood but I think Woody G was a great pick-up by you.

Wondered if World Circuit should be there. Under A, I know you've got it as priority for 'Albanian', but I was listening to something rather excellent from the 'Analogue Africa' label the other day and thought it deserved a mention.

Thanks JC - and I realize now that you meant the great Chris Wood. I will include him plus Analogue Africa, Palm Wine Music and World Circuit. My feeling is that there is still some scope for additions to H, J, L, N, V and X. We have plenty enough to make for an excellent final 26 - but those letters may be among the less strong and possibly the less obvious.

This will not be a strong contender for H but it's one of my favourite hurdy-gurdies:

Patrick Bouffard/Gilles Chabenat - Vouvray - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjDUeDCAic

Oh, and then there is this too from the Smithsonian Folkways record label in 1976:

Henri Vasson - De Qu'tsa Vegnia Tsartsa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFZxUmVEKHE

[Globaltruth]

Numbers:

1 Giant Leap
2 - Death Letter No. 2 : Johnny Farmer and Organised Noise (and no 1)
3 Little Birds
4 Walls and me - Lonnie Johnson
and so on...


What about different alphabets? Lat, your work is never done...