Around the World Preview – 20 & 22 March 2022
Sunday nights at 10:00 and Tuesdays at 7:00.pm. Info on how to listen, programme notes and videos here.
Hear the show on the web on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight:
Slice Audio, Ferry FM, Radio Larne and Armagh City Radio .
And on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm on the radio and web
Bangor FM 107.9: http://radio.garden/listen/bangor-fm-107-9/IycUhUbT
Lisburn’s 98FM: http://radio.garden/listen/facebook/ASeqAEl8
FM105 Down Community Radio: http://radio.garden/listen/fm-105-down-community-radio/K8lBDGFf
Listen to last week’s show and see the running order on DavySims.com and find out more about the show. You can also listen to Part 1 and Part 2 on Mixcloud.
Music this week from Basque country, Finland, France, Galicia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mali, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Poland, Scotland, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, and both sides of the Haiti-Dominican border.
The week before last I was asking about the multi-stinged (multi-strung? I’m not sure) violin like instrument played by Kateřina Göttlichová – she’s usually photographed with it but I couldn’t find a reference to the name of the instrument.
It took a while, but I got an answer from Estonia. From Ingrid Khotla - tere õhtust Ingrid. “You were asking about the instrument that Kateřina Göttlichová plays – it’s a Nyckelharpa or a Key Fiddle – a traditional Scandanavian instrument. You’ll also find one in the line up of the Finnish band Ritva Nero.”
And indeed Ritva Nero’s lead instruments are Soprano Saxophone, Finnish Bagpipes and Nyckelharpa”
Here are Ritva Nero playing Rutvan polkka live at Touko-Taiga in 2017. Metal melded with folk and the nychkelharpy player on the left of the screen.
Beautiful Nubia and the Roots Renaissance Band are on the running order. There are not a lot of videos available, but here’s one from 2013 that captures the essence.
Always worth bookmarking Mon Laferte on YouTube to see what she’s doing. In the last 12 months she has been prolific, with a new album a few months ago, an excellent video for Tiny Desk Concert and a 5 track EP (a compilation of earlier recordings?) Amor Completo.
This is the Tiny Desk Concert
Oumou Sangaré’s Timbuktu is on the way, but she released one track and this video for International Women’s Day. Wassulu Don.
COMING SOON - AROUND THE WORLD - EXTENDED PLAY
As I was putting the show together the postman left in another couple of packages of CDs. In a month I get several packages – maybe 20 to 30 CDs in all, plus links to downloads, plus my own research. That is a lot of potential music for a weekly 2 hour show. And there is always some music that is great, but in this show – it just doesn’t fit. And other music which is very difficult to programme.
And I hate not being able to play it.
Starting on 1 April, I’m starting an online only show – only available on Mixcloud and through mu blog, of more difficult – often more challenging music. Music that deserves a bigger audience, but I just can’t fit it into the radio show.
Keep an ear out here and an eye on the blog and the news letter. Around the World Extended Play is on the way and the first show will be ready from Friday 1 April.