Around the World Preview - 23 & 25 May
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Each week there are two updates. One like this previewing the show, the other the following week with the update, running order and links to the audio.
Around the World is on Ferry FM and Slice Audio on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight and on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm on Bangor FM, Lisburn’s 98FM and FM105 Down Community Radio. Links below. You can hear last week’s show (16 & 19 May) here.
This week is a “more for less” show. There is more music for less of me. Fewer interuptions and hardly any breaks in the music. It’s all pretty relaxed, including the featured album.
Featured Album this week: I described this album in the show recently as “perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon”. Particularly if that lazy Sunday is in the sun.
Priscila Tossan is probably among the most famous people many in the European Anglosphere haven’t heard of. With 400,000 Facebook friends, 121,000 subscribers to her YouTube channel, and, 563,000 followers on Instagram, she is certainly well known in South America. She first made her name on Brazil’s The Voice where according to one TV reviewer, her appearance in the semi-final saved the show from boredom.
The first video for Cine Odeon racked up 1.5 million views. Here’s a new video for Cine Odeon (Ao Vivo No Rio De Janeiro / 2020) which links to the version on the featured album.
The album is live, but without an audience (perhaps there is, but there’s no cheering or whooping) which makes it a much more intimate listen. As it’s recorded live, there are no complex arrangements or production tricks. Just the voice, and the rhythms. And those rhythms – jazz, pop, very light funk coalesce into a very accessible MPB (Brazilian popular music).
28 year old Priscila Tossan started singing inspired by the musical family. She played in an AfroReggae group for two years and before her TV success, performed in bars and on the subway in Rio de Janeiro.
On the album she is joined by long established Brazilian singers and rappers Criolo and Luccas Carlos.
New music: Dina El Wedidi is one of my favourite artises. The Egyptian singer recorded what appears to be (I can’t find any notes online about the album) a series of session tracks for radio station Nogoum FM - FM 100.6 – Cairo. The album is called A3det Mazika.
“Starting in 2012, Dina joined The Nile Project. Her experience collaborating with musicians from 11 East African countries blasted open her musical universe, and since then she has incorporated elements of these cultures, specifically Ethiopian, into her music. She is featured on the first two Nile Project albums, Aswan (2013) and Jinja (2014).” From Dina El Wedidi’s website.
Here’s a video from a live performance a few years ago.
Fi Belad El Agayeb - Dina El Wedidi (D-Caf Concert) | دينا الوديدي - في بلاد العجايب (حفلة)
Frente Cumbiero is one of Colombia’s interesting and experimental bands. They fuse typical Colombian music, such as cumbia and porro, and add electronica. Their latest album Cera Perdida celebrates both tradition and modernity. And in this video hi-fi and lo-fi.
And there are tracks from Delgres’s new album 4:00 AM, Ballaké Sissoko's Djourou, cutting edge steel pan player Fimber Bravo, Jon Boden’s Last Mile Home and Electric Jalaba.
Always room for local music: TRÚ from Co. Down are about to release their album No Fixed Abode (next week, I think), but they have been making tracks available on Bandcamp for a few weeks.
Are the Olllam local? Not really, but legendary Belfast piper John McSherry (Lunasa, At First Light, Ulaid), is. They have been releasing very long singles. Seven minutes isn’t all that long for an album track, but for a single it is. There’ll be one in the show.
Other and Older: There'll be musicians from Congo, Cuba, Sweden, Mali, Isreal, South Africa, Germany, Angola, Greece and Italy during the weekly golbal jukebox.
Get Involved: I’m always glad to get your suggestions – contact me through my blog where you can also find the show’s archive, sound files and running orders.
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What music should I be listening to? Send me a message about your music suggestions via my blog.
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FM105 Down Community Radio:http://radio.garden/listen/fm-105-down-community-radio/K8lBDGFf