Around the World – 31 July & 2 August 2022 - Preview
This week's preview with videos and information about music on the show.
This week, I’ll be playing music from Algeria, Australia, Basque Country, Benin, Colombia, Finland, France, Italy, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mali, Mexico, New Zealand, Niger, Ireland, Palestine, Scotland, Spain, Sudan, Texas, and Turkey.
Here’s last week's show here - for part 1 follow this link, and for part 2 follow this link.
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Featured Album
This week music from Australia mixed with north Africa. Julian Bel-Bachir’s Babdoukkala is the featured album. The music mixes north-west African music with first nation Australian music and jazz with a touch of rock rhythms. Julian says “My music pulls from a few different styles of traditional music like Gnawa, Mandinka, Wassalon, Dounsou, Takamba and the Desert Blues. It’s also influenced by Dub, Reggae, Funk, Jazz, Drum n Bass. It’s like “future desert blues dub.”
From his website biography: “Julian’s journey began with a pursuit to master the craft of African percussion playing and instrument making for which he extensively travelled West Africa in Guinea, Senegal and Morocco, studying with some of Africa’s most respected masters. As a child he was taken under the wing of master drummers and griots . He further honed his craft by training and studying with members of Percussion de Guinea as well as the internationally acclaimed Ballet Africans and the infamous djembe group ‘Bocka Juniors.’ Julian has extensively studied the instrument making traditional instruments such a Kamel N'goni Djembe, Dundunba, Kora, Balafon, Guembri .
“Julian then began uniting the worlds of traditional African instruments with modern-day production techniques drawing inspiration from genres such as Reggae, Dub, Electronica, Jazz, Drum & Bass, Dub and Gnaoua. Julian has spent countless hours in many of Australian ,Canadas best recording studios producing albums and tracks for the notable collaborations”
Julian Belbachir - Home Lands Ft Malin Sylla
A few weeks ago the featured album was Adrian Quesada’s Boleros Psicodélicos. I just came across this article in Variety magazine where Questada talks about each track in the album. A most interesting read.
Adrian Quesada - El Paraguas
I am very taken by a new(ish) Italian band FolkAtomik who have jest released their first album Polaris. Formed in 2019, they are led by the Italian producer, DJ, musician Daniele Li Bassi who has worked with Steve Winwood and Whitney Houston. The band uses electronic dance music with traditional instruments from Southern Italy and the Mediterranean and a vocal style from the region, too. I’m looking forward to playing more from the album.
FolkAtomik Live Teaser S.Martino
The big annual world music event of the year is galloping over the horizon. This year WOMEX will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. One of the most important aspects of the event for musicians - and people like me - is the jury-selected Showcase artists. There are several in the most recent Showcase announcement that I want to see, but more than that I was very happy to read the Dani Larkin is on the list.
Dani Larkin 'Samson and Goliath'
While throughout the show music that brings north Africa and Australia together will be demonstrated by Julian Bel-Bachir, there are two points on the globe even further apart that will meet in music. New Zealand’s Moana and the Tribe’s new single features the vocals of Scotland’s Megan Henderson, multi-instrumentalist and member of Scottish folk group Breabach.
Moana & The Tribe Maiea (feat. Megan Henderson)
There’s also music from Amak, Bergå Folk Project, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Dendê & Band, Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, Haya Zaatry, Ibrahim Maalouf & Angelique Kidjo, Inni-K, Niteworks, Noori & His Dorpa Band, Oumou Sangaré, Perrate, Raymores, Rebolu, Sidi Abdallah Oumbadougou, Souad Massi, Tasha Smith Godinez, and The Bongo Hop.