Around the World – 27 & 29 November & 2022 - Preview
Musicians from Australia Canada Congo Cuba England Estonia Finland France Haiti Mali Morocco Nigeria Poland São Tomé & Principe Senegal Ukraine Uruguay and USA
This week’s featured Album is Estrellas from Guts. You can also hear Adedeji, Africa Negra, Ana Prada, Balaklava Blues, Bonfire Radicals, Celia Cruz, DJ Click & Masha Natanson, Duo Ruut, Eva Väljaots, Fatoumata Diawara & Damon Albarn, Guts with David Walters, Kumar Sublevao-Beat,Iss 814, Samba Peuzzi, Iss 814, & Samba Peuzzi, Heilung, Hudaki Village Band, Jake Blount ,Kolinga, Majid Bekkas, Manuel Hermia, Karim Ziad & Michael Hornek. Nora Brown. Okra Playground. Pheno & Nick Wales. Piers Faccini & Abdelkebir Merchane. The Unthanks. Tinariwen. Wesli. Windborne, and Yarima Blanco.
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Hear last week’s programme here on davysims.com
Part 1 is here on Mixcloud
Part 2 is here on Mixcloud
Featured Album
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The whole album is available on YouTube.
And on BandCamp
The featured album this week is as much a massive project as it is a record. Ninety minutes of music, twenty-five guest musicians, many flown to the studios in Dakar, Senegal from Cuba for the sound recordings and the video documentary about the project. The man behind the project is French DJ and Producer Fabrice Henri - who works under the name Guts.
Also on Around the World
One of the songs I’ll be playing is thought to be the oldest known complete song from more than 3,000 years ago. By complete I mean lyrics, musical notation and tuning instructions for a Babylonian lyre Hymn to Nikkal. A version of it appears on Heilung’s Drif.
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Nikkal - Heilung
There more about the song and the performance here, on the Guardian’s website.
A couple of years ago Bongo Joe records released Léve Léve: São Tomé & Principe sounds 70s-80s which I played quite a lot. In April Antologia Pt.1 was released featuring one of the bands on that compilation, Africa Negra. The recordings were made in the early 70s. The band got together after 40 years in 2018. See them play live below
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Africa Negra - Paulina
I first came across Ana Prada about two years ago while doing a country feature on Uruguay and I’ve been playing her music ever since. Ana’s first album ‘Soy Sola’ was released in 2006. She’s only released three albums since then and there’s been a gap of about 10 years since the last one.
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Ana Prada estrenó Soy Corteza
Her new release called No came out in September. Find out more about Ana here.
She plays the album live here on the Uruguayan radio station Del Sol.
Have a good weekend, and join me when you can.