African Saturdays

[johncorrigan]

I was watching the rather excellent concert footage of David Byrne in Union Chapel on BBC4 last night. Towards the end he sang the song 'Ausencia' and I went looking for the Cesária Évora, and Goran Bregović version and found this nice bit of tango. It's sort of triangular between Africa, South America and Europe - perfect fit for a global African Saturday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDEbkme11Gg

[Globaltruth]

That's a lovely video JC as well as great to hear Cesária Évora again. Extreme tango I would say though...

Another excellent track by Abel Selaocoe
Voices of Bantu:

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

[johncorrigan]

Orchestra Baobab have been out on the road celebrating fifty years of Baobab, and they've got a song out called '50 Ans'. Happy African Saturday to a truly wonderful band.

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

[johncorrigan]

Sahra Halgan from Somalia with 'Sharaf', a version of Somalian desert blues from what I can hear - she's got a very fine groove going there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbuTyMqe4yU&t=22s

[johncorrigan]

Cameroon's Manu Dibango with his great disco hit 'Soul Makosa'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF92yOsv3Y8

[johncorrigan]

There's a wonderful clip of the great Malian bluesmen, Boubacar Traore and Ali Farka Toure, that has turned up on these pages a number of times over the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4-uq8cTF7o

Ever vigilant, I didn't notice till this week that it came from a film called 'I'll Sing for You', a documentary made in 2002 and following Boubacar's life since his days as a rocker in the early sixties, known then as KarKar. I found the doc mesmerising as Boubacar returns to his home after time spent in France and we get a glimpse of many parts of the Country...Mopti, Timbuktu, Doggon among others Some prices quoted to buy the film were rather prohibitive, and then I found it on Vimeo. It's just over an hour long - I loved it!

https://vimeo.com/210436599

[Globaltruth]

VIMEO is a right old treasure trove ....thanks JC. Will check it out.

[johncorrigan]

We went to a gig in Edinburgh on Friday night - the wonderful Pokey LaFarge. I had almost forgotten him. Mrs C and I saw him in St Andrews over ten years ago - anyway he was terrific. Between when the support act went off and Pokey and his band appeared there was music playing - I absolutely loved this and managed to shazam it before it went off - from South Africa, I believe. 'Tau Special' by The Movers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ykDDzF5pc