Around the World - Preview
14 February 2025
This Week
You can listen to the show on Mixcloud.
Musicians from: Algeria, Austria, Bosnia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Ghana, Greece, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Mali, Pakistan, Poland, Scotland, South Korea, Tunisia, Türkiye, and Wales.
Music by: Aboubakar Traoré & Balima, Alicia Edelweiss, Al-Qasar, Anne Wood, Arooj Aftab, Clotilde Rullaud, Kanazoe & Debademba, Cynefin, Elsa Mouratidou, Gaye Su Akyol, João Donato & Donatinho, K.O.G & Pat Thomas, Kasiva Mutua, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Luana Flores, Manu Chao & Willie Nelson, Māsas Dimantas Sisters, Melike Şahin, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Nesrine, Park Jiha, Samba Touré, Tamar Ilana & Ventanas, The 2:19, The Baltic Sisters, Tintura, Warsaw Village Band, and WoWaKin
This week’s Featured Album is Blåt lys by Sylfide.
Blåt lys - interactive folk dance performance
This week’s featured album is from Denmark. Blåt lys is a collection of songs inspired by Nordic folk dance melodies. “10 years ago I first entered a room with a bunch of young people dancing folk dances and was completely enchanted.” Explained Sylfide on Facebook. “Since then I have written songs inspired by old Scandinavian folk dance melodies and staged the dances in the music videos for ‘Det vender’, ‘Mikrokosmos’ and ‘Mit brudestykke’.”
These are three of the songs on the album Blåt lys released at the end of January. “Songs about finding one’s place in an overwhelming world and how inner struggles and abstract fear of the state of the world can coexist. Songs about using tradition and history as an anchor and connecting to something bigger.”[*]
The electroacoustic universe combines the scandinavian folk music with modern songwriting and Danish lyrics, that centers around relevant topics like climate change, femininity and mental health. [*]
Sylfide is the performance name of Helene Dorthea Tungelund, singer, composer and harpist who works between traditional music and experimental songwriting.
In 2020, she received the award for 'Roots Release of the Year' at the Danish Music Awards Roots for the album 'Mother Tongues' together with the vocal trio 'Nevesta's Voice. She also interprets the Danish song treasure in the ensemble ÆT with saz player Orhan Özgur Turan (Ipek Yolu) and Yossi Karutchi (Hudna) and plays in the Rumpistol Ensemble.
Sylfide performs both solo and with an ensemble. The Sylfide ensemble consists of Jonathan Fjord Bredholt (Hvalfugl), Jonas Clausen (Mynsterland) and Emil Nielsen (Tailcoat), all known from prominent bands on the Danish folk and jazz scene.
Melike Şahin - Sağ Salim | Akkor Albüm Lansman Açılış | Volkswagen Arena | 11.12.2024
Although she has released somewhere in the region of 20 singles, Akkor is only Melike Şahin’s second album – a follow up to Merhem released in 2021. After graduating from Boğaziçi University with a degree in sociology in 2012, she worked as a vocalist until 2017 with legendary Istanbul band Baba Zula . Shortly before she quit working with them, she started a project called Melikşah ve Saz Arkadaşları and gave concerts with an arabesque-themed repertoire at the Kanto Tavern in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul for a short time. The video above is unofficial but it gives you an idea of the grand stage she and her extended band have.
Alicia Edelweiss - BEHIND THE GATES
One of the most entertaining performers I’ve seen in recent times is Alicia Edelweiss the Anglo-Austrian musician. She is based in Vienna but started her musical career as a street musician and travelled all over Europe for two years, setting off at the age of 19. [*]
She has toured her work all over the Balkans, Austria, Germany, Poland, UK, France, Spain and Portugal, collaborating with many different musicians, performers and circus artists.
She is a story teller, “a yarn-spinner, whose imaginative forays into dark folk tales, humour-laden autobiographical sketches and sideways observations on life are suffused with both a sense of child-like wonder and an arch contemporary savvy, couched in subtly insistent melodic ear-worms.” [*]
Her new album is on the way, and I’m looking forward to hearing it.
Where and when to hear Around the World
Thursday:
LIVE DRN1 Perth Western Australia - 9:00 p.m. local time (2:00 pm CET)
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:
Flirt FM (Galway's Community of Interest & Student Station) 101.3 10:45 am - 12 45 pm
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).
Circl8 Chester: 12:00 noon
Best City Radio (Belfast) 3:00 pm
Websound Radio (Larne) 8:00 pm
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)
Circl8 Chester: 12:00 noon
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:
Shire Extra: 8:00 pm GMT (21:00 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
Stirling Community Radio 8:00 pm GMT (9:00 pm CET)
Best City Radio (Belfast) 10:00 pm
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm GMT (11:00 pm CET)