Haven't heard that one in a while!

[Globaltruth]

You should have been at the Arboretum at 10.45pm. Lopa barged through the crowd, elbowed off some Mauritian band on the stage, grabbed hold of the microphone and bellowed hysterically "you've all be lied to - Nusrat ain't dead". Just after the ambulance arrived to take her away, a curtain went up and the great man was there with 78 Qawwali singers.

I am sorry that you missed it.

.....

But anyhow, I'm glad you enjoyed what you saw.

Was it any good?

one of my favourite posts of the year so far...
possibly the best.

[Lat-Literal]

one of my favourite posts of the year so far...
possibly the best.

I'm just glad you can see the funny side of it what with you having missed it.

Whoops, sorry, GT.

But, hey, I've now looked at the line up in your tent......Esther Ofarim, The Rattles and Mouth & MacNeal with Arie Ribbens replacing Willem Duyn.

You must have had a blast (even if the original Mouth was best).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YeKTR7OFWs

(Did you get the free cuisine from Mozambique's award winning chef or was that just us?)

[Globaltruth]

I'm just glad you can see the funny side of it what with you having missed it.

Whoops, sorry, GT.

But, hey, I've now looked at the line up in your tent......Esther Ofarim, The Rattles and Mouth & MacNeal with Arie Ribbens replacing Willem Duyn.

You must have had a blast (even if the original Mouth was best).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YeKTR7OFWs

(Did you get the free cuisine from Mozambique's award winning chef or was that just us?)

No, that must have been another tent...here's what we got before starting the long journey home:
Dobet Gnahoré

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythVjqTJq0E

Maâlem Hamid El Kasri (veterans - I met them in '72)

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

Mari Kalkun (lovely zither)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezx7D_hvslc

Gaye Su Akyol (er, great outfit )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h1yidYAJGc

BCUC - this lot are a bit special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8kemVZxTs

no time to eat Lat, no time to eat.

[johncorrigan]

Fold - So It Goes (Featuring Kurt Vonnegut) turned up on the radio tonight...

https://soundcloud.com/fold/so-it-goes

[Globaltruth]

Fold - So It Goes (Featuring Kurt Vonnegut) turned up on the radio tonight...
https://soundcloud.com/fold/so-it-goes

Enjoyed that JC, and it reminded me of another KV appearance on this beautiful track which includes him (plus one or 3 others incl Baaba Maal, Edie Reader (I think?) in her kitchen, the Mahotella Queens).

A vastly under rated work by One Giant Leap, I'm sure you remember them, they wandered around the world collecting overdubs - contributions from great global musicians - two CDs then they stopped. Iconoclastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADzR2UyFgc0

[Globaltruth]

and this one turned up on the infinite shuffle from times gone by....cheery little number (honestly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whmq8Trspcs

[johncorrigan]

It's 1965 and this is what they're rockin' to in Nigeria - Jimmy Solanke & the Junkers - Eje Ka Jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWWYJyDpDY0

[johncorrigan]

On Radio 4 'Nouar' by Algerian Cheika Rimitti was played this evening in a programme with Mark Tully. I've listened to and loved this song for years and didn't realise it was a woman singing. Feel a bit ashamed to not have investigated further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPB6WD87Yw

[johncorrigan]

'Kadi Kadi' by Ali Farka Toure from 1987 BBC recording came on tonight's radio...so terrific...reminded me of being blown away first time I saw him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF-c4hftTaM

[Jazzrook]

Have been searching for years to hear this Bob Dylan track!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WfzlskjYc

JR

[johncorrigan]

I hadn't heard Alasdair Roberts for ages and then saw his CD 'No Earthly Man' in a charity shop. Great record, and his version of 'A Lyke Wake Dirge' is probably the best and creepiest version of this song that I have heard. Sends a shiver down the spine...well it sent one down mine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46Aue8R_Fc

[Globaltruth]

Hawa Diabate, Trio Da Kali and the Kronos Quarter performing a moving rendition of an old Mahalia Jackson number

https://youtu.be/w6P37rOIvYo

Just in case you want to hear MJs version..

https://youtu.be/g-8NJ-jCI7E

[johncorrigan]

Manu Dibango's 'Soul Makossa' from the early 70s turned up, and I turned it up, on the radio today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0CeFX6E2yI

Still sounds blinkin' amazing every time I hear it!

[Lat-Literal]

Recorded for "Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan", BBC1, 1976.

Noor Jehan - Dil Da Jani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABMwk01mYU

And Asian Dub Foundation name checking the iconic programme which was broadcast between 1968 and 1982.

The fabulous album is "Community Music" released in 2000.

New Way New Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkIFE5zlUPY

(I saw them live at least twice and was utterly convinced at the stage that they were the missing link between The Clash and the future. Strangely enough, their albums now sit about halfway, timewise, between Sandinista/Combat Rock and today. I am not sure that I was wholly wrong in my assessment, certainly in terms of unamericanised UK society and culture.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nai_Zindagi_Naya_Jeevan

[johncorrigan]

Deighton Family - 'Travellin' Light'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIHLwz2h50

...and in a similarish sort of vein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ypb6rYZtm8