Random Global Music Sundays

[johncorrigan]

Cerys had Cornish singer Gwenno playing live on her Sunday show and she chose this track by Brenda Wooton, 'Kemener Ow Ro'. I think Cornish is permitted on Random World Music Sundays ...I'll check with Petroc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Dz7I-u4pg

[Globaltruth]

Cerys had Cornish singer Gwenno playing live on her Sunday show and she chose this track by Brenda Wooton, 'Kemener Ow Ro'. I think Cornish is permitted on Random World Music Sundays ...I'll check with Petroc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Dz7I-u4pg

My buddy, Petro T. is on hol. I think.

In his place Ms Molleson reminded us all never to forget Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. So here she is playing a song called Maryam from 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K48eY5Zs3o

It seems this documentary remains unfinished, which is a great shame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2chj1uJN-w

[johncorrigan]

My buddy, Petro T. is on hol. I think.

In his place Ms Molleson reminded us all never to forget Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. So here she is playing a song called Maryam from 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K48eY5Zs3o

It seems this documentary remains unfinished, which is a great shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2chj1uJN-w

I heard Emahoy on Morning this morning, Global, and immediately was thinking that you would be enjoying that delightful wee tune too. Did I hear Kate say that she's 99 now?

[johncorrigan]

Continuing Global's Sufi train, and my exploration of the most recent edition of Songlines, here's some Sufi trance from Morocco's Master Musicians of Jajouka, led by Bachir Attar with 'Khamsa Khamsin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VveF7_qGSQg

[Globaltruth]

And here's a classic Ethiopiques track...from No. 30!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzQk7u_cHXg

[johncorrigan]

'Hark! The Village Wait' was the first folk LP that I ever bought. I played it a lot and persuaded a lot of pals that it was well worth a listen. I loved the sound created by the two female voices in songs like 'Twa Corbies' and 'Blackleg Miner' and 'Lowlands of Holland' - the record still sounds fantastic. I only just found out what the title refers to...I had remembered it as 'Wake' not 'Wait'.
According to wiki:
The album's title refers not to the act of waiting, but to a wait, a small body of wind instrumentalists employed by a town at public charge from Tudor times until the early 19th century. A village, however, would likely be too small to employ such a troupe, so the wait referred to here was most probably the later Christmas Waits, as mentioned in the novels of Thomas Hardy.

I only mention this because I noticed in the paper yesterday that Maddy Prior had reached the grand old age of 75 today. Happy Birthday, Maddy. Here's the opening track from 'Hark! The Village Wait', 'A Calling-On Song', for a random world music Sunday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDQYz4CVMI0

[Padraig]

[I] I noticed in the paper yesterday that Maddy Prior had reached the grand old age of 75 today. Happy Birthday, Maddy.

Gaudeamus!

[Serial_Apologist]

Is this the right place to raise attention for the 3-part Radio 4 series Black Roots, the final episode of which we heard today? Having missed the previous, as one with scant knowledge of Country Music I found this to be most informative regarding the influence of black American music on the genre, most especially the characteristic uses of portamento on banjo, guitar and harmonica deriving from rural blues, and motoric rhythms on the latter to portray train locomotion - which ties in with the shuffle beat in Boogie Woogie a way. It would seem that Jack Bruce, Graham Bond, John Mayall and other exponents of the latter understood this well back in the early 1960s.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017khr/episodes/player

[johncorrigan]

Is this the right place to raise attention for the 3-part Radio 4 series Black Roots, the final episode of which we heard today? Having missed the previous, as one with scant knowledge of Country Music I found this to be most informative regarding the influence of black American music on the genre, most especially the characteristic uses of portamento on banjo, guitar and harmonica deriving from rural blues, and motoric rhythms on the latter to portray train locomotion - which ties in with the shuffle beat in Boogie Woogie a way. It would seem that Jack Bruce, Graham Bond, John Mayall and other exponents of the latter understood this well back in the early 1960s.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001...pisodes/player

I agree wholeheartedly, S_A - I posted about it earlier this afternoon (and last week too) - fantastic series.

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?2317-A-quick-glance-around-the-schedules&p=889934#post889934

[johncorrigan]

During a trek round some Dundee charity shops last week I picked up a copy of 'The Rough Guide to Bhangra Dance' for a quid. Fantastic motor music, I have found, drumming away at the steering wheel when sitting at traffic lights/ roadworks/jams. Among the delights pulled together by DJ Ritu was 'Madhorama Pencha' by Madan Bata Sindhu. This mehndi is one of the ceremonies that forms part a traditional Punjabi wedding where women gather and adorn the bride-to-be with henna on her hands and feet. Apparently henna was originally devised as a cooling concoction. Here is a clip of said track that appeared in the film 'Monsoon Wedding', with very useful subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8nYL4NsAYk

[johncorrigan]

It's New Year, Enkutatash, to Ethiopians everywhere today. They're just getting to 2015, September 11 being the New Year, though I believe they will actually celebrate tomorrow it being a Sunday today. It's an excuse to play the Negus of the Ethiopian sax, Gétatchèw Mèkurya here playing 'Tezeta'. Nothing sounds quite like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxoFqNk7w9g

[johncorrigan]

Olivia Chaney presented 'Inside Music' yesterday afternoon on BBC Radio 3, and a fine job she did of it. She played a track by Sam Amidon with the Kronos Quartet, 'I See the Sign' from the CD 'Folk Songs' which Olivia is on, as are Rhiannon Giddens and Natalie Merchant. It's got Randon World Music Sunday written all over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0n2NX_6WUE

[johncorrigan]

I was listening to the 'In Tune Mixtape' on BBC Radio 3 on Thursday and was attracted by the voice of one of the singers. Ended up that it was Denez Prigent - I was trying to place where the music was coming from - I didn't guess that it was Breton. Hadn't heard of him before. Couldn't find the track that was on the mixtape so went for this live performance from Caen complete with a Celtic harp - 'The one I love'..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS42bBYgdok

[johncorrigan]

For a Sunday thought I would post this which Cerys played today in celebration of the women of Iran bravely protesting against the murder of Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini by the Morality Police. It's by Iranian actor and singer, Googoosh from back in the 60s - 'Mano Tou'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Cty_10w20

[Globaltruth]

Nearly Sunday...

The post of the sisters singing over on the Irish thread led me to rediscover this. May have been posted before?

https://vimeo.com/wapikoni

KATATJATUUK KANGIRSUMI (Throat Singing in Kangirsuk) is the actual video - I think the link takes you to the central page.


I've been following Wapikoni mobile ever since (about 3 years it turns out) - they've never posted anyting else. Shame.

"Let's try not to laugh"

I think that sense of suppressed fun is great. Obviously they *do* collapse in giggles.

Such a hostile environment, such joy radiating from them.