Around the World - Preview
22 November 2024
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This week
Music from: Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Guinea, Hungary, India, Italy, Jamaica, Mali, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tajikistan, Ukraine, USA, and Viet Nam.
Music by: Abdul & The Gang, Anne Wood, Arlo Guthrie, BabelNova Orchestra, Carmela, Chiyomi Yamada & baobab, Deltones, Dumai Dunai, Elaha Soroor Al MacSween & Sonita Alizadeh, Lakvar, Mari Boine, Mizrob, Momi Maiga, Natalia Przybysz & Dagadana, Natu Camara, Qü, Raghu Dixit, Rafael Rocha & Da Ra Bendre Russudan Meipariani, Saigon Soul Revival, Seckou Keita, Thandiswa, Tinariwen, Tondini, and Vimma.
This week’s Featured Album: Viva Tu by Manu Chao.
"Viva Tu" - Le nouvel album de Manu Chao en live
Every week on Around the World there is a featured album, usually a pick from this month’s releases or the current World Music charts - World Music Chart Europe and Transglobal World Music Chart.
This week, a musician who has been performing in bands and as a solo artist for 40 years. He formed his first band, a Spanish/French group, in 1984.At first heavily influenced by UK rock - particularly The Clash, The Jam and Dr. Feelgood.
Manu Chao sings in Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Galician, Arabic and even the West African language Wolof, often mixing several languages in the same song.
Viva Tu is only his 5th solo studio album. He has had a couple of live albums and a handful of singles.
He travels and tours widely. I saw him in Hungary last year playing to an enormous and enthusiastic audience at the Balkan Most festival in Veszprém
If you are in Rio or São Paulo in December you might catch him play there.
Saigon Soul Revival - Đám Cưới Nhà Em
Their mission to bring back the raw, live sound of 1960s and 70s Vietnamese rock and soul music. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, once called Saigon, Saigon Soul Revival are a 5 piece band: Nguyễn Anh Minh (vocals), Indy Jeremy Vinh Laville (guitar & Đàn Nguyệt ), Nguyễn Hương Bảo Hiếu (drums), Gabriel Kaouros (bass/perc.) and Đăng Nguyễn Khoa (keys).
The single Đám Cưới Nhà Em was lifted from the May 2024 album Mối Lương Duyên. This month an e.p. of 8 different edits and remixes of the song was released on the band’s label Saigon Supersound.
Saigon Soul Revival has been bringing alternative pre 1975 music from Saigon back to the stage since 2016 with their live performances. Honouring the original composers, singers and the golden era from which this music (Nhạc Vàng) came while applying new arrangements and interpretations of old Vietnamese songs.
All members of the band are of Vietnamese background or have a strong connection to its culture and heritage through loved ones and their time spent in the country. Their music focuses on compositions that fuse Vietnamese lyrics and sounds with influences of western rock, soul, bolero, tango and other popular genres of this time period, most of which was banned after the war. This project strives to revive this beautiful musical heritage of Vietnam which represents an important cultural bridge between east and west.
[Saigon Supersound]
Qü - Behind The Song: Self Sabotage
From East London, Eastern Cape in South Africa, Sakumzi Qumana is a young rap and R&B artist who is now known as Qü. In 2017, having formed a band called Johnny Cradle with Lazola Ndamase and later Tebogo J Mosane , released their self-titled debut album. By late 2018, the grind had taken its toll. “I was just exhausted from life in general, everything,” Sakumzi told the website Let’s Get Local. “So, I just put a break on everything and decided to just relax and not try to not do this music thing anymore.”
He began writing and recording again in 2018. “You still hear music in your head. Even if you try and hide it, you’re just going to keep hearing it,” He told LGL
“I realised that I actually sort of had a lot of internalised emotions… around ups and downs of life. So I started writing songs about those kind of things,” he explained.
Becoming a solo artist allowed himself to express himself more easily faithfully. “Because, you know, in a band, you sort of look at things more from a general perspective, you know. “When it’s just you, you’re thinking purely, how am I feeling? And what do I want to say?”
I’ll be playing Self Sabotage, a song featuring South African songwriter and vocalist Amarafleur & Lazola Ndamase from Reprise on 2nd Avenue.
There’s more of the Let’s Get Local interview here.
Where and When to hear Around the World
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).
Slice Audio 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)
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)
Life Right Radio (London) 7:00 pm
Best City Radio (Belfast) 10:00 pm
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)
Stirling Community Radio 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)