Random Global Music Sundays

**johncorrigan** · 02-07-17, 18:51

Can't get much more random for a Sunday than an orchestral take on congotronics by Jherek Bischoff (vs Konono No1).

Jherek Bischoff vs Konono No. 1: Kule Kule (Orchestral Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbfDoyTy5Ng

Jherek Bischoff vs Konono No. 1: Kule Kule (Orchestral Version) from V/A: Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers: Alternative Takes On Congotronics, Crammed Discs, 2010

**Lat-Literal** · 09-07-17, 17:49

Dona Onete - Banzeiro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij-BE0MSdsA

**johncorrigan** · 09-07-17, 19:17

Astrïd & Rachel Grimes — M5 - I heard it on Verity or Max' LJ the other week...kind of dystopian...and sort of random, but with a bit of hope by the end! I could have imagined it being on the soundtrack of 'True Detectives'.

Astrïd & Rachel Grimes — M5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQEFyVmUxv8

**Lat-Literal** · 10-07-17, 00:05

Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post

Astrïd & Rachel Grimes — M5 - I heard it on Verity or Max' LJ the other week...kind of dystopian...and sort of random, but with a bit of hope by the end! I could have imagined it being on the soundtrack of 'True Detectives'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQEFyVmUxv8

Yes, very atmospheric, JC, like a Badalamenti or a Pheloung, both of whom may lean to Glass but I'd continue to claim Harris and Piston had their moments of influence too.

**Globaltruth** · 10-07-17, 15:04

I find I can scarcely bear to listen to John Doran - been on LJ a couple of times. And when paired with The Luscombe. <sigh> I was in the car, I couldn't switch it off. Then they played a few things and I almost forgave them.
Almost, but his language is so slack and woolly, rapidly becomes irritating.
Who would have thought it from a hipster music journalist too.... ?
Very much the slack Trump school of speaking. Like, you know, so...

so...he did play an excellent Sufi track from The Quietus Top 100 though. And this was it:

Mahi Yaar Di Ghadholi (HD) - Abida Parveen - Top Sufi Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruXU2mNn8eg

Song Name: Mahi Yaar Di Ghadholi Singer: Abida Parveen. Let go of your inhibitions and test your vocal chords by singing to the karaoke tunes of one of All t...

An interesting read about the album here:

Ishq Ke Maare: Sufi Songs from Sindh and Punjab, Pakistan

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/583684-ishq-ke-maare-sufi-songs-from-sindh-and-punjab-pakistan

A searing assemblage of Islamic Sufi spiritual music from the hinterlands of Sindh and Punjab, this compilation marks Sublime Frequencies’ debut release of field recordings from Pakistan. Recorded and compiled by Arshia Fatima Haq, this is a rare, unfiltered collection of devotional music ranging from hypnotic solo instrumentals and vocal lamentations to euphoric ensemble qawwalis. Presenting voices that are imperiled in the country’s contemporary political landscape — where renowned singers are assassinated in broad daylight and performance spaces are regularly bombed — this record continues Haq’s ongoing project of engaging complex and controversial Islamic practices and rituals that operate in resistance to religious orthodoxy. “During my travels, I recorded both well-known musicians who made regular appearances on Pakistani televisions, and unknown, untrained singers who traveled from shrine to shrine with no possessions, intoxicated in the pursuit of the divine. I recorded in intimate living rooms, in crumbling concert halls, and in remote interior areas where I had to travel with a police escort.From the vertiginous falsetto harmonies of men singing in the female gender to give voice to those who carry the wounds of society, to the sparse and piercing a capella deliverances of itinerants, singing in the spaces of shrines where the doves coo in liturgies to the saints buried therein, this is music of ‘unbridled bridledness’, collapsing the divide between the divine and the profane. In masterful, often improvised performances on the harmonium, alghoza, been, and bulbul tarang, these songs unfold into an organic recursion of longing and despair, redeemed by an almost erotic promise of reunion with the divine entity. The singers themselves are ‘ishq ke maare’ — in the throes of love. Their visionary, intuitive form of devotion is in sharp contrast to the rising tide of mathematical and legalistic approach to faith called Wahhabism seen across the Islamic landscape today. These songs are iconoclastic and anarchic, transcending systems of law and social order, to approach what is truly divine in the rawest possible form.”– Arshia Fatima Haq

and that like, er, Quietus Top 100, here, if you know what I mean?http://thequietus.com/articles/22692...ms-of-the-year

So, yeah, well, Thank you John and Nick.
Yours cholerically,
A Listener!

**Lat-Literal** · 10-07-17, 17:57

Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post

I find I can scarcely bear to listen to John Doran - been on LJ a couple of times. And when paired with The Luscombe. <sigh> I was in the car, I couldn't switch it off. Then they played a few things and I almost forgave them.
Almost, but his language is so slack and woolly, rapidly becomes irritating.
Who would have thought it from a hipster music journalist too.... ?
Very much the slack Trump school of speaking. Like, you know, so...

so...he did play an excellent Sufi track from The Quietus Top 100 though. And this was it:

Mahi Yaar Di Ghadholi (HD) - Abida Parveen - Top Sufi Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruXU2mNn8eg

Song Name: Mahi Yaar Di Ghadholi Singer: Abida Parveen. Let go of your inhibitions and test your vocal chords by singing to the karaoke tunes of one of All t...

An interesting read about the album here:

Ishq Ke Maare: Sufi Songs from Sindh and Punjab, Pakistan

http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/583684-ishq-ke-maare-sufi-songs-from-sindh-and-punjab-pakistan

A searing assemblage of Islamic Sufi spiritual music from the hinterlands of Sindh and Punjab, this compilation marks Sublime Frequencies’ debut release of field recordings from Pakistan. Recorded and compiled by Arshia Fatima Haq, this is a rare, unfiltered collection of devotional music ranging from hypnotic solo instrumentals and vocal lamentations to euphoric ensemble qawwalis. Presenting voices that are imperiled in the country’s contemporary political landscape — where renowned singers are assassinated in broad daylight and performance spaces are regularly bombed — this record continues Haq’s ongoing project of engaging complex and controversial Islamic practices and rituals that operate in resistance to religious orthodoxy. “During my travels, I recorded both well-known musicians who made regular appearances on Pakistani televisions, and unknown, untrained singers who traveled from shrine to shrine with no possessions, intoxicated in the pursuit of the divine. I recorded in intimate living rooms, in crumbling concert halls, and in remote interior areas where I had to travel with a police escort.From the vertiginous falsetto harmonies of men singing in the female gender to give voice to those who carry the wounds of society, to the sparse and piercing a capella deliverances of itinerants, singing in the spaces of shrines where the doves coo in liturgies to the saints buried therein, this is music of ‘unbridled bridledness’, collapsing the divide between the divine and the profane. In masterful, often improvised performances on the harmonium, alghoza, been, and bulbul tarang, these songs unfold into an organic recursion of longing and despair, redeemed by an almost erotic promise of reunion with the divine entity. The singers themselves are ‘ishq ke maare’ — in the throes of love. Their visionary, intuitive form of devotion is in sharp contrast to the rising tide of mathematical and legalistic approach to faith called Wahhabism seen across the Islamic landscape today. These songs are iconoclastic and anarchic, transcending systems of law and social order, to approach what is truly divine in the rawest possible form.”– Arshia Fatima Haq

and that like, er, Quietus Top 100, here, if you know what I mean?http://thequietus.com/articles/22692...ms-of-the-year

So, yeah, well, Thank you John and Nick.
Yours cholerically,
A Listener!

Quite.

She has a very striking voice.

I will have a look at the 100 later tonight.

**Globaltruth** · 16-07-17, 08:28

No YouTube tracks from me, but an actual radio station that plays non-stop random WM:

FIP – Écouter la radio en direct et les radios thématiques

http://www.fipradio.fr/liste/world-music

Tout l'univers musical de FIP, sélection de titres Jazz, Electro, Rock, Pop, Groove et bien plus. Écoutez la radio en direct et les radios thématiques.

Ecoutez!

**johncorrigan** · 06-08-17, 09:14

It's Sunday... Zombie-time, but not Fela but CW Stoneking's, which always makes me think of Ali talking about George Foreman for some reason. (except Foreman was portrayed as a Mummy, I seem to recall)...anyway, here's CW and his gang!

The Zombie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZeH0BioLk

Live recording at Record Paradise record store of the song, The Zombie, from C.W. Stoneking's album, Gon' Boogaloo: https://cwstoneking.bandcamp.com/album/go...

**johncorrigan** · 10-09-17, 11:05

Hip-hop's getting absolutely everywhere these days so why not the sub-continent? It's definitely got that reggae feel to it for me.
Low Rhyderz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oedXBStoJyQ

Then there's Mumbai's Finest doing 'Mumbai till I die' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTWmvYTnLk - bit more straight New York.

**johncorrigan** · 17-09-17, 08:37

On a slightly more traditional sub-continent musical front, a bit of Bollywood yodelling and motor bike riding.

Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana Yaha Kal Kya Ho Kisne Jana very het 70s song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3YaUx2VhFA

Hit_song

**Lat-Literal** · 01-10-17, 16:31

I'm having to trust the internet a bit that the following two links link.

Koutoku Tsuha - Danju Kariyushi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oARVwy7dxrM

Island Voices: Koutoku Tsuha

https://powerofokinawa.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/island-voices-koutoku-tsuha/

At 83 years of age, Koutoku Tsuha is the oldest performing singer and sanshin player from the first generation of Okinawan recording artists. Born in 1927 in Yomitan on the main island of Okinawa, …

**Lat-Literal** · 01-10-17, 19:37

Rafael Manríquez - Tonada de Gris Silencio:

Rafael Manríquez - "Tonada de gris silencio" [Behind the Scenes Documentary]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRg8i0UbdgU

Chilean immigrant Rafael Manríquez plays all three guitar parts during the recording of his song "Tonada de gris silencio (The Tonada of Silent Gray)," which...

"Tribute to Rafael Manríquez (1947-2013) by Daniel Sheehy" | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

https://folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/tribute-to-rafael-manriquez-1947-2013-by-daniel-sheehy

Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post

On a slightly more traditional sub-continent musical front, a bit of Bollywood yodelling and motor bike riding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3YaUx2VhFA

Ah yes, that's the one, isn't it.

The other one.

If only I had the equipment, I'd spend the next 17 weeks with my leg up mixing that video with the one for "The Best Jewel Thief in the World" - the terrain, the colour, the vehicles.

Maybe even a slice of Chan Chan in there too - the world would be my oyster.

Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post

Hip-hop's getting absolutely everywhere these days so why not the sub-continent? It's definitely got that reggae feel to it for me.
Low Rhyderz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oedXBStoJyQ

Then there's Mumbai's Finest doing 'Mumbai till I die' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTWmvYTnLk - bit more straight New York.

Cooler than most - thanks - I'm very much looking forward to hip-hop's 40th birthday celebrations in 15 months time.

**johncorrigan** · 01-10-17, 23:09

Thought I'd Czech out a free CD from a recent magazine of Czech music. Here's Jitka Šuranská Tri with Pofukuj větříčku, Maliny.

Jitka Šuranská Trio: Pofukuj větříčku, Maliny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_teQT4MY8bY

Jitka hraje v novém triu s výbornými muzikanty Martinem Krajíčkem a Marianem Friedlem, ze společné tvorby nabízíme malou „ochutnávku“.

Have to say I've seen better vids but I liked the song.

**johncorrigan** · 08-10-17, 08:37

Slovenia's been very much in focus up here following their last minute defeat by England on Thursday which gave Scotland a bit more possibility of progress in the World Cup. Scotland play in Ljubljana today in the final group game for a place in the play-offs. I was also attracted, during the week, by a track from Slovenia's young trio, Širom, which jumped out of the latest Songlines CD. The record got a 5-star review in the mag. Here's a rather fine video, which makes the Country look very attractive. The music sounds a bit further East to me, but it sounds very fine indeed.

Here's Širom's 'Maestro Kneading Screams Of Joy', which I hope Gordon Strachan will be doing this evening -

Širom “Maestro Kneading Screams Of Joy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6yhYXi_yA

“Maestro Kneading Screams Of Joy” is taken from Širom’s album ‘I Can Be a Clay Snapper’Out 8 September 2017 on tak:til/ GlitterbeatFull article: http://thewi...

Happy Random World Music Sunday to all our readers!

**johncorrigan** · 05-11-17, 00:40

On Jazz Record requests today, Angelique Kidjo singing Lonlon (Ravel's Bolero) featuring Branford Marsalis - pretty random and pretty damn good too.

Angelique Kidjo featuring Branford Marsalis - "Lonlon (Ravel's Bolero)"

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

From WGBH PBS special "Spirit Rising"Discover the music of Angelique Kidjo:Website: http://www.kidjo.com/Facebook: http://facebook.com/angeliquekidjoTwitter:...

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