Around the World – 15 & 17 January 2023 - Preview
Featuring: Algeria Bosnia & Herzigovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, France, Ghana, Greece, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, USA
Coming up this week on Around the World
Adedeji, Ann Vriend, Arnau Obiols, Berikely & Zama, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, Christos Barbas & Efrén López, Criolo Chico César & DJ Mam, Eneida Marta, Fabrizio Piepoli, Francisco Sales, Gabi Novak, Guts, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Julivert, Los Amparito, Luis Abanto Morales & Orquestra de Armando Boza & Tarateño Rojas, Marala, Meral Polat Trio, Montparnasse Musique, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Niteworks, Souad Massi, Sounds & Stories from Ruhnu Island, The Unthanks, Tulipa Ruiz, & Windborne.
Hello to Radio Skye
A particularly warm welcome this week to Radio Skye and their listeners who join the Around the World family.
AtW will be broadcast on Wednesdays at 10:00 pm to midnight. To celebrate, here’s some music from Skye that will be on this week’s show.
Radio Skye broadcasting from Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland on 106.2 & 102.7 and on Radio Garden.
Niteworks — John Riley (feat. Beth Malcolm)
Hear last week’s programme on davysims.com
Part 1 is here on Mixcloud
Part 2 is here on Mixcloud
Hear the show on the web on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight:
Slice Audio,
Ferry FM,
Radio Larne, and
Armagh City Radio .
On Tuesdays at 7:00 pm on the radio and web
Bangor FM 107.9 (Radio Garden)
Lisburn’s 98FM (Radio Garden)
FM105 Down Community Radio (Radio Garden)
Wednesdays Radio Skye at 10:00 pm to midnight.
Featured Album
Tulipa Ruiz - Habilidades Extraordinárias
From Brazil, singer-songwriter Tulipa Ruiz was born in Santos, a coastal city in southern Brazil's São Paulo state and raised in São Lourenço in the State of Minas Gerais. In an interview at the time she released her first album in 2010, she described her music as “forest rock”, a name that has rather stuck, and may well be meaningless 12 years and several albums later.
Usually going by the name Tulipa, she has songs included in films, soap operas and games and performs in theatres and festivals around the world, such as Rock in Rio and Montreux Jazz Festival .One of her first songs, “Efêmera”, was the soundtrack of the game FIFA and another, “Banho”, was recorded by Elza Soares.
There is not professional video (yet?) supporting this album - here’s a video from the audience point of view.
Kamicase Total - Tulipa Ruiz em Habilidades Extraordinarias ao Vivo Sesc Pinheiros 14.10.22
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley Yekor Ye a Yeaba
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is from Ghana. In the 50 years since he released his first album he has been a saxophonist, bass guitarist, guitarist, composer, percussionist, singer, band leader, arranger and record producer. He has 29 music albums to his credit.
Eneida Marta is from Guinea-Bissau. She singings in Portuguese and Guinea-Bissau Creole – and been making music for more than 20 years. Fidalgo is from her album Eneida Marta - Fidalgo (Official Music Video)Family sitting at No. 2 in the World Music Chart Europe this month.
Eneida Marta - Fidalgo (Official Music Video)
If you want to contact me and let me know what I should be listening to or playing - or for any other reason - go to davysims.com.
Rhunu is an island off the Estonian coast. It has a population of fewer than 100 people.
Kairi Leivo is a former diplomat of the Culture Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, and head of public relations and literary editor of the Ugala Theatre in southern Estonia.
From 2013–2018, she worked as the head of the August Pulst study of the Estonian Traditional Music Centre and now leads as storyteller along with three violinists a project of Sounds & Stories from Ruhnu Island. It was one of the outstanding and surprising performances at Tallinn Music Week last year, and I caught up with them again in Lisbon at WOMEX. I’ll be playing track from Ruhnu Saarel Mitu Otsa.
Ruhnu saarel mitu otsa 1
Have a great week - join me when you can for a pick of some of the best music from around the world every week.