Good albums of the Moment

[Lateralthinking1]

.......GT, that "Knuckles to the Marrow" by Iarla O'Lionaird is awesome. Very unusual combination of the traditional and the modern and, more strikingly, the rural and the urban. There is something very organic about the piece at its most mechanical. That is rare.

I don't know much about Ra-Ra but his vocal along with with everything else taking place there....well, it makes Cathal Coughlan seem quite tame by comparison. And what a world away from the Afro Celt Sound System!

This is an interesting article about the album, ‘I Could Read the Sky’- http://www.celticcafe.com/archive/Mu...celt/iarla.htm.

I also see from notes elsewhere that his grand aunt was recorded in the distant ether by Alan Lomax. I am assuming that this was her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StRjC...ature=related. - Lat.

[Paul Sherratt]

Heavy* rotation albums on wfmu this week :


World List
BOMBINO - Agadez (Modibe/Zero Gravity)
DENGUE FEVER - Cannibal Courtship (Concord)
ATROPOLIS - Atropolis (Dutty Artz)
GROUP DOUEH - Zayna Jumma (Sublime Frequencies)
KANGA ORCHESTRA OF MOPTI/REGIONAL ORCHESTRA OF MOPTI - Sorry Bamba: Vol. 1
(Thrill Jockey)
VASSILIS TSITSANIS - Rembetika 4 (JSP)
VARIOUS - Achilifunk: Gypsy Soul 1969-1979 (Love Monk)
MARKOLINO DIMOND CON FRANKIE DANTE - Beethoven's V (Fania)
VARIOUS - Afrolatin Via Kinsasha (Discograph)
WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Songs of Happiness, Poison & Ululation (Stern's)


* i.e. got out of the sleeve more than just the once

>>>**a world away from the Afro Celt Sound System!

GT, you got me banged to rights there, ** I am !

[Globaltruth]

Ululate

WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Songs of Happiness, Poison & Ululation (Stern's)

also on the froots list & on Spotlfy.
We'd better listen to it... Great title, great music publisher.
Shame about the word 'jazz' in the title though.
What was 'jazz' again?

[Paul Sherratt]

Jazz is cutting edge music like this

http://www.newfrontierrecords.co.nz/assets/images/dj__large_.jpg

Calum will confirm.

But you're right, the Western Jazz Band, we'd better listen to it !

[Paul Sherratt]

There, that didn't take long ( 3 minutes )
Not a duff track on the whole cd. I think I'll make it my 'Soundtrack Of Summer '11 '
It's rather wonderful !

http://ring.cdandlp.com/princethorens/photo_grande/113685768.jpg

Of course Hot Max did play a selection last week.

[Lateralthinking1]

It is on YT -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x218Hf1HJnI&feature=related

[Lateralthinking1]

.....is this the Atropolis? Not sure about the track but apparently he is eclectic! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhjaB_dJcyQ

........GT, here is your Imperial Tiger Orchestra -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvWb9vCvi34&feature=related

[Globaltruth]

ok, I've found this album, Polska Rootz, on Spotify.
By a variety of different musicians, it is very modern, but a combination of that modern stuff, played by musicians who are also clearly steeped in Polish folk music. It includes, for example, the Warsaw Village Band, already known quite well to r3 WM listeners.
I have to admit to being won over by that Twinkle Brothers/Trebunie-Tutki track - the most unlikely thing I've heard all year. It works well.

Here it is on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmXsXs1VQw

and, not on the album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWLlgjDFjc&feature=related

now - does this have a cheering effect?

[Globaltruth]

Ahh, that old Polksa Roots album - so 09:15.

Now, why now, the young prodigy Pokey LaFarge

http://www.pokeylafarge.net/multimedia/video/

JC - I predict you will become a fan...why he even looks like a young Ahh Crum.

Feels good.

[johncorrigan]

now - does this have a cheering effect?

Cheered me a treat Global - in the face of a midsummer gloomy downpour, it has helped lift that solstician melancholy (along with the Brazilian 'freebie' from those folk at Songlines)

[johncorrigan]

Ahh, that old Polksa Roots album - so 09:15.

Now, why now, the young prodigy Pokey LaFarge

http://www.pokeylafarge.net/multimedia/video/

JC - I predict you will become a fan...why he even looks like a young Ahh Crum.

Feels good.

I could certainly imagine R Crumb fitting in very nicely with Pokey and the boys, G - loved the Tiny Desk Concert - a very fine bunch - I shall listen some more. I'm sure Paul must love that.

[johncorrigan]

Opening track from Top of the World 77 is the extremely fine Ethiopian 'Guragigna' by Dub Colossus - a real toe tapper - that wonderful saxophone sound and that amazing language for singing makes for a completely unique sound - here they are doing it at NZ Womad last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HeWEpyu4Ug

[Globaltruth]

Opening track from Top of the World 77 is the extremely fine Ethiopian 'Guragigna' by Dub Colossus - a real toe tapper - that wonderful saxophone sound and that amazing language for singing makes for a completely unique sound - here they are doing it at NZ Womad last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HeWEpyu4Ug

I saw a sub section of them live in Edinburgh a while back - now that's a fusion combination that's sweet on the ear. They were on after a (or maybe even The) Cuban Choir, tough to follow but they blew them away.

Lovely - do you think this thread will tempt PS out???

[johncorrigan]

Lovely - do you think this thread will tempt PS out???

Pokey, Polska, Guragigna - Hope so, G! It might even tempt me out!

[Globaltruth]

I wonder ...

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/showbiz-5360-Marimba+virtuoso+releases+album/showbiz.aspx

Oh no - disappointing, not enough marimba, too much Western influence.