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Last Week
You can hear all of last week’s show on Mixcloud.
You can listen to all of the music from last week’s show without the talking between the songs on both iTunes and Spotify on the blog. See the running order of all the songs played there, too.
This Week
Music by: Adi Oasis, Ana Lua Caiano, Asynchrone, Aynur, Balkalar, Chiyomi Yamada & baobab, Ëda Diaz, Fifidroki, Giuliano Gabriele, Jupiter & Okwess, La Mal, Coiffée, La Yegros, Lina, Maria Mazzotta, Ernesto Nobili & Cristiano Della Monica, Mohama Saz, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Msaki & Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, Orkestra Shkodra, Otava Yo, Peppino di Capri, Radical Son, Sam Lee, The Kinks, The Zawose Queens, and Touki Xabier Díaz & Adufeiras de Salitre
Musicians from: Albania, Argentina, China, Colombia, Croatia, DR Congo, England, France, Galicia, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Türkiye, and USA.
This Week’s Featured Album - Rabe by Aynur
Aynur Doğan | Rabe Edlayê (Official Video) 2024
Born in Turkish-Kurdistan, the multi award winning musician Aynur Doğan has released her seventh album.
“Aynur’s music is based on traditional Kurdish folk songs, with many of them being at least 300 years old. Her lyrics are about the life and sufferings of Kurdish people and in particular Kurdish women. Musically she tries to blend Kurdish with Western music, creating her own style and interpreting her traditional repertoire in a modern and fresh way.” [Website]
She has a unique interpretation of traditional Kurdish songs reaching back up to 300 years and a strength of performance that has brought plaudits from cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Spanish producer Javier Limón.
In 2021 she was given the Artist Award Recipient at the international festival of World Music WOMEX where she was described as “One of the richest voices of Kurdish Folk Music in our times!”
La Mal Coiffée - Prenetz lo bon temps filhòtas
There are more older songs on the show this week than usual. There’s no particular reason but at one point when pulling the music together I fell into a time warp and returned with tracks by The Kinks, Jupiter & Okwess, Peppino di Capri, and La Mal Coiffée. The (mainly) vocal group from the Languedoc, sing in the medieval language of the Occitan region. Occitania is the southern third of France as well as part of Spain, Monaco, and parts of Italy.
La Mal Coiffée’s Òu ! los òmes ! was released in 2011. Prenètz lo bon temps filhòtas is a great song and video.
The Zawose Queens - Maisha (Official Video)
The Zawose Queens are Leah and Pendo Zawose of the Tanzanian Wagogo people, whose joyous otherworldly vocals and polyphonic rhythms on drums, thumb pianos and chizeze fiddle mirror the sounds of nature. The grand-daughter and daughter of the late, great Hukwe Zawose, like all the women in the Zawose family, they were once forbidden from the spotlight. Aided by producers Oli Barton-Wood and Tom Excell, their stunning debut 'Maisha' comprises eleven original songs that deftly blend the acoustic, electronic, traditional and modern. 'Maisha' is a song whose lyrics tell of the daily fight for a better life, whose potent ancient-to-future sound finds the Queens on vocals, illimba and percussion, Wamwiduka Band on backing vocals and percussion and club-focused production including drums, synths and 808 bass.
Where and when to listen.
You can listen as the programme is broadcast or streamed on the radio stations below. You can catch up next week on Mixcloud and you can find out more at davysims.com
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 (3:00pm/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:
Reverse FM: 00:00 am GMT (01:00 CET)
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)