Around the World
14 June 2024
This week on Around the World
Music from: Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Turkiye, and beyond.
Music by: Afro Celt Sound System, Albaluna, Ali Doğan Gönültaş, Ana Lua Caiano, Arrkula Yinbayarra, Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou, Aynur, Besh o droM, Boomdigi, Buzz' Ayaz, Catia de Franca, Céu, Chiyomi Yamada & baobab, Dystoh, Eskorzo, IMLÉ with James Shannon & Róisín Seoighe, Kiran Ahluwalia, Lakvar, Lina, Radical Son, Suonno D'Ajere, and Sväng
This week’s featured album: Synthetic Hearts Part II by Msaki & Tubatsi Mpho Moloi
Izinto Zobomi - Msaki & Tubatsi Mpho Moloi
Maski x Tubatsi - a new project formed by fast-rising South African solo star Msaki (a double winner at the 2022 South African Music Awards) and Tubatsi Mpho Moloi of Johannesburg band Urban Village (also a member of the Keleketla! collective alongside Tony Allen, Shabaka Hutchings and Joe Armon-Jones). [Bandcamp]
Born in East London, South Africa, Msaki describes herself as a collector of sounds. She navigates with ease between electro, folk, pop and amapiano - with lyrics that mix the intimate and the political. Her second album, Platinumb Heart, won her the Best Female Performer of the Year Award and the Best Contemporary Album Award at the 2022 South African Music Awards, and she is known for her multiple and successful collaborations (Black Coffee , Diplo, Sun-el Musician, Prince Kaybee). In the same way, the music of multi-instrumentalist singer Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, member of the Urban Village quartet, is anchored in post-apartheid reality. She draws on the experiences of her daily life in Soweto and navigates between folk, rock, mbaqanga, maskandi, and beyond.
The folk sensibility of Tubatsi and Msaki is very present in Synthetic Hearts, even if the album defies any sweeping categorization, mixing acoustic and electronic elements, notably thanks to Clément Petit's cello, which changes sounds and textures at will. Raised in a multicultural Parisian suburb, Petit was exposed to African-American, Caribbean and electronic music at an early age. His approach reflects this early immersion, his vast experience of contemporary and improvised music, and his perpetual quest to reinvent the instrument, rewrite its rules, and create new musical languages. “He doesn't play his instrument like a classical cellist,” notes Msaki, describing the diversity and complexity of playing that Petit offers in the album. [No Format Records - full biog in French here]
Also on the show
Ana Lua Caiano - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
KEXP presents Ana Lua Caiano performing live at the Conservatoire de Rennes Auditorium in Rennes, France, during Trans Musicales 2023. Recorded December 9, 2023.
Her musical journey is an interesting one. From classical piano lessons as a child to four years of jazz school, neither field seemed to offer her the musical freedom she desired; that breakthrough came during the pandemic when she began experimenting at home in isolation, fusing electronic music with traditional Portuguese music. When talking of the latter, she makes the point: “when I talk about traditional Portuguese music, I’m not talking about Fado, I’m talking about a type of sonority sung in the countryside using canons, harmonies, and chorus. It was mostly transmitted orally.” Klofmag
Ali Doğan Gönültaş / Warway [Keyeyî Album © 2024]
Ali Doğan Gönültaş was born in Kiğı, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Graduated from Kocaeli University Archeology and Radio TV and Cinema departments, the musician started his professional music career with the band Ze Tijê, of which he is one of the founders and author of many of the compositions and arrangements, as well as performer of several instruments and the lead singer. They made hundreds of concerts in Turkey and released two studio albums “Yanlışımız Var!” (2015) and “Ur” (2019), in a postrock, collage and experimental genres.
Since 2018, he has been continuing his music production with his solo concert series “Xo Bi Xo”. This project, in which the musician includes songs in Kurmanci and Turkish as well as Zazaki, his mother tongue, has an experimental feel to it as well as traditional styles and themes.
In addition, his oral history and field research studies, which he began in 2007, continue with the album Kiğı, which he self-produced and released in 2022. Kiğı, which is also the birthplace of the musician, describes the specific musical language and style of an Anatolian/Mesopotamian settlement. [More from Ali’s website here.]
Where and when to listen.
Friday:
Akaroa World Radio 2:00 pm local New Zealand Time (3:00 am GMT 4:00 am CET)
NAR-GROUP Germany – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
Mosel Radio – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
NAR-Alf – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m (CET)
Saturday:
RCFM (Radio City FM) Duisburg, Germany 3:00 – 5:00 pm CET
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
Essential Radio Midnight to 2:00 am GMT (1:00 am CET)
Sunday:
West Coast FM Namibia 10:00 pm to 12:00 noon Central Africa Time (2:00 to 4:00 GMT)
NFRS Osaka Japan: 12:00 noon local time (3:00 am UK time 4:00 am CET)
973FM in Singapore and 11:00 pm local time (3:00 pm/15:00 hours UTC – Universal Time).
Bangor FM 107.9 7:00 pm local time (8:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Ferry FM 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Radio Larne 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Armagh City Radio 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)
Monday:
SparkFlame Radio: 00:00 am GMT (01:00 CET)
Waterwaves Radio: 8:00 pm GMT (21:00 CET)
KNC Radio St Lucia 6:00 am local time (10:00 am GMT 11:00 am CET)
BR2 Pure Gold Radio – Costa Blanca, Spain 10:00 pm local time (CET)
Akaroa World Radio 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am GMT, 12:00 noon CET)
Tuesday:
Lisburn’s 98FM – 7:00 pm local time GMT (8:00 pm CET)
FM105 Down Community Radio – 7:00 pm local time GMT (8:00 pm CET)
Wednesday:
World FM 4:00 am local New Zealand Time (5:00 pm Tuesday GMT, 6:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 4:00 am local time GMT (5:00 am CET)
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)
Stirling Community Radio 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)
Thursday:
Radio Larne 10:00 pm local time (11:00 pm CET)