World Music Albums of the Year - 2016
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Yes! Excellent Jayne - I hadn't realised there was such a thread.Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
Happy New Year to you.
Contributions from you to the WM forum will always be welcome.
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Doesn't make much sense to duplicate, so retitled this thread to make it World Music specificLast edited by Globaltruth; 30-12-16, 08:39.Comment
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Baaba Maal The Traveller
Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos; quite happy to have a genre discussion, but this has to count; (don't think it will be popping up anywhere else on this forum?) and if one person actually makes the effort to listen to the words, it'll be worth it:
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Not sure if Kandia Kouyate's Renascence came out this year or last but I only heard it this year. Loved the traditional, as I hear it, sound of the production and background. Great return for her after all the reported health issues. Here's a recording of her on stage in Mali...great audience shots in this one... the sound is a bit dodgy mind you (as is the dancer)!
Actually not a bad year for the veteran ladies. I loved the Calypso Rose appearances on radio (great appearance with Cerys earlier in the year) and enjoyed this record...and good to hear from Manu Chao again. She must be great to see live.
'They say I reign too long, forgetting me constitution is strong.'
And have to mention Elza Soares and her record 'The Woman at the End of the World'. Unique voice and unique taste in the dark arts of Cosmetic Surgery
which a Brazilian colleague told me she took to later in life...but what a voice!
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Kate was on Woman's Hour with L Laverne the other morning, Global, and most entertaining and intense she was. It's near the beginning.Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostBaaba Maal The Traveller
Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos; quite happy to have a genre discussion, but this has to count; (don't think it will be popping up anywhere else on this forum?) and if one person actually makes the effort to listen to the words, it'll be worth it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iK0iKu5KqQ
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Oh yes - that was exactly what I had in mind.Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
Thank you.
There will be some crossing over from the new music thread, of course, so this one need not be lengthy.
Rather a distillation.
Hope this is ok!
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Crackin', GT...and then there was Blick!Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostBaaba Maal The Traveller
Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos; quite happy to have a genre discussion, but this has to count; (don't think it will be popping up anywhere else on this forum?) and if one person actually makes the effort to listen to the words, it'll be worth it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iK0iKu5KqQ
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Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostBaaba Maal The Traveller
Kate Tempest, Let Them Eat Chaos; quite happy to have a genre discussion, but this has to count; (don't think it will be popping up anywhere else on this forum?) and if one person actually makes the effort to listen to the words, it'll be worth it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iK0iKu5KqQYes - very happy to take these as the first two nominations. The Baaba Maal CD had some criticism for fusion and autotune and goodness knows what but then we have been here before with "Television" which I also liked. I have to admit that I don't find Kate Tempest an easy listen but she is talented, it is an offbeat selection and it ensures that we are not criticised ourselves for never connecting with "today's youth"!!! Two further tracks here, one from each record, to set the ball fully rolling. Next up the suggestions so far from JC.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Nomination 1 - Baaba Maal - The Traveller
Kalaajo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuKPtT9RkOg
Nomination 2 - Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Europe Is Lost - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffxrCDvJ8LI
OK JC. I loved that magnificent clip of Kandia Kouyate which I hadn't seen before but your instinct was right. "Renascence" was released towards the end of 2015. It was my World Music Album of 2015. (I would also say Blick Bassy is 2015 unless I am missing something obvious?) But both the Calypso Rose disc and the one by Elza Soares very easily qualify.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostNot sure if Kandia Kouyate's Renascence came out this year or last but I only heard it this year. Loved the traditional, as I hear it, sound of the production and background. Great return for her after all the reported health issues. Here's a recording of her on stage in Mali...great audience shots in this one... the sound is a bit dodgy mind you (as is the dancer)!
Actually not a bad year for the veteran ladies. I loved the Calypso Rose appearances on radio (great appearance with Cerys earlier in the year) and enjoyed this record...and good to hear from Manu Chao again. She must be great to see live.
'They say I reign too long, forgetting me constitution is strong.'
And have to mention Elza Soares and her record 'The Woman at the End of the World'. Unique voice and unique taste in the dark arts of Cosmetic Surgery which a Brazilian colleague told me she took to later in life...but what a voice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQCs9HZWRk
Nomination 3 - Calypso Rose - Far From Home
Far From Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS6I7Sj8nqU
Nomination 4 - Elza Soares - A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo
Maria da Vila Matilde - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m393EagdSk
(The Traveller, Europe is Lost from Let Them Eat Chaos, Far From Home, The Woman at the End of the World.....we've made a truly global start!!!)Last edited by Lat-Literal; 06-01-17, 10:08.Comment
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I think you're right about Blick, Lat. I would like to suggest two home spun entries; 'Songs of Separation' that had Eliza Carthy, Hannah James, Hannah Read, Hazel Askew, Jenn Butterworth, Jenny Hill, Karine Polwart, Kate Young, Mary Macmaster and Rowan Rheingans heading to Eigg for a get together and coming up with some beautiful sounds together. Here's 'Echo Marks the Corncrake'...
Also, I've played The Gloaming so much over the last two or three years that I have difficulty believing that Gloaming 2 was only released this last year and while not being quite as wondrous as the eponymous debut, I still find that I've been playing it all year long....a grower (like the first one).
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Many thanks.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI think you're right about Blick, Lat. I would like to suggest two home spun entries; 'Songs of Separation' that had Eliza Carthy, Hannah James, Hannah Read, Hazel Askew, Jenn Butterworth, Jenny Hill, Karine Polwart, Kate Young, Mary Macmaster and Rowan Rheingans heading to Eigg for a get together and coming up with some beautiful sounds together. Here's 'Echo Marks the Corncrake'...
Also, I've played The Gloaming so much over the last two or three years that I have difficulty believing that Gloaming 2 was only released this last year and while not being quite as wondrous as the eponymous debut, I still find that I've been playing it all year long....a grower (like the first one).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbB7Mn2TDnA
Nomination 5 - Various Artists - Songs of Separation
S Trom an Direadh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l027P3WzlrI
Nomination 6 - The Gloaming - 2
The Pilgrim's Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJck7PQhkqo
While we are in a folk frame of mind, the seventh nomination is froots magazine's best album of the year:
Nomination 7 - Shirley Collins - Lodestar
Death and the Lady - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKTWxI_DJOE
Moving on, almost a year ago Mr Global Truth brought it to our attentions that this one had been released:
Nomination 8 - Djelimady Tounkara - Djely Blues
Djely Blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPqSHxMPm9U
(Please shout if I get any of the detail wrong as we bring together the 20 nominations - well, I hope it will be 20)Last edited by Lat-Literal; 06-01-17, 13:18.Comment
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Nomination 9 - Sainkho Namtchylak - Like a Bird, or a Spirit Not a Face
and the accompanying article by Robin Denselow
You'll find the whole album on Spotify. generally Tuvan singers with a 7 octave range duetting with Desert Blues boys deserve our support I think. Especially when they're great.
I'll just sneak this old track by her which illustrates her range of work, never mind her vocal range
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Nomination 10 Washington Phillips & His Manzarene Dreams
3 reasons for this nomination, Washington Phillips is a rare find, and, although these recordings were made nearly 80 years ago, the album was lovingly assembled and released by Dust-to-Digital in 2016. Dust-to-Digital are the second reason; themselves a rare creature in the modern age; true enthusiasts dedicated to the art of preservation and discovery; real labour of love; long may they continue. Finally, a plug for Red Lick Records who distribute Dust-to-Digital in the UK and are another outlet worthy of support. Pre-internet days I remember the thrill of their list appearing through the letter box, and the (admittedly anorak-ish) greater thrill of poring over it, taking a chance on an unknown artist based on a brief review or a half-remembered track from somewhere else. Great days. Great music.
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Nomination 11 Ólafur Arnalds - Island Songs
For a long time I imagined it was only the Late Junction posse who listened to Ólafur Arnalds, promoted ably by Fiona T, with occasional help from Verity Sharp and the upstart Max R (I know you're there OP).
Perhaps the producers of Broadchurch were LJ listeners too - we'll never know, anyway they picked up on him and....well, it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference to the quality of his output although hopefully he now has a wider audience.
This is Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir singing.
Island Songs was an ambitious project, 7 songs recorded in 7 weeks at 7 different locations. See what he did there?
Nominated as a tribute to (Fiona T of) LJ, to Ólafur Arnalds whose work I've generally enjoyed, not just in 2016 and because I still don't think he gets enough exposure.
Although there is another Broadchurch series on the way (Y A W N)Comment
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