Around the World Preview
Week beginning 5 November 2023
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Every week, two hours of music from all over the world is broadcast and streamed by radio stations all over the world. Times and links to stations are listed at the end of this newsletter.
This week
For the last five weeks I’ve been away, and shows have been compilations of programmes broadcast earlier in the year. From this week we are back to normal.
The featured album this week is Mon Resi by Christine Salem and DJ Click
Music by: Anna Mieke, Anthonie Tonnon, Bantu, Bombino, Daimh, Deodato Siquir, Dis Is Markéta, Humazapas, Jon Batiste, Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers, Leenalchi, MirAnda!, Mizrob, Montoya, Moonlight Benjamin, Parchman Prison Prayer, Rei, Rum Baristas, Tio, Xis, Yungchen Lhamo, and Ziggy Marley with Angélique Kidjo.
Music and musicians from: Aotearoa (New Zealand), Brazil, Catalonia, Ecuador, Fance, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Portugal, Reunion, Scotland, Slovakia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Tibet, Tunisia, and USA.
Mon Resi by Christine Salem and DJ Click
Released October 11, 2023
The most recent album from Réunion musician Christine Salem was released almost three years ago. Her mix of Mayola music, blues, chants, percussion and even Sega, Réunion’s other popular style, has featured often on Around the World. DJ Click [Linktree], the producer and musician is no stranger either. His most recent work with Masha Natanson, Eugenia Georgieva, and Ittai Binnun have all appeared on the show.
Christine Salem & DjClick - Malouwé (Urban Mix)
The album is at the confluence of the traditional music of Réunion and dance/dj/electronica offering alternative mixes of some of the songs.
About DJ Click.
His worldtronica has paved the way for a truly international league of cultural diversification.
Equipped with his mobile studio, he keeps meeting incredible people over the globe, always digging in tempos for new collaborations or for RFI Instrumental – France Média Monde (a professional music library for the audiovisual sector), where he produced themed albums: Poland, Morocco, Columbia, Chile, Japan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Jerusalem, Lithuania, Spain, [and] Romania.
He has also remixed and collaborated with artists like Manu Chao, Watcha Clan, Nawal, René Lacaille, Warsaw Village Band, Nicolette, Mahala Raï Banda, Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, Va Fan fahre, Burhan Öçal, La Caravane Passe, High Tone, Issa Bagayogo, Smadj, Estelle Goldfarb, Dj Dolorès, Rachid Taha, and others. [*]
Also on the show this week
Dàimh — Dhannsamaid Le Ailean (Live at Sound Archive, Orkney - The Visit 2022)
Dàimh’s album Sula is doing well in the World Music Charts Europe (of which I am In October they were at 7 right beside another Scottish musician from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde Chaimbeul.
Dàimh is a five-piece Scottish “supergroup” who are based around The Isle of Skye and West Lochaber.
Vocalist Ellen MacDonald also sings with Niteworks and SIAN.
Piper Angus MacKenzie is from Mabou, Cape Breton Island, Canada and grew up surrounded by Highland culture. Gaelic was the language spoken at home.
Gabe McVarish plays fiddle. He is from California but now lives in Arisaig in the West Highlands of Scotland. He was twice winner of the Junior US National Scottish Fiddle Championship by the age of seventeen.
Murdo Cameron plays Mandola, Mandolin, and Accordion. He comes from a long line of traditional Gaelic singers and was immersed in music growing up Glenelg, a short ferry trip across from the Isle of Skye.
Ross Martin is from slightly further south from Skye, the West Highland village Arisaig. “After a six-year hiatus in Edinburgh during the early 2000s … Ross has built a world-wide reputation in the field of accompanying Gaelic song and Bagpipes and as an innovator in DADGAD tuning. He has chalked up recording and touring credits with artists such as Julie Fowlis, Bonnie Prince Billy, Muireann Nic Aomhlaoibh, Karan Casey, Finlay MacDonald and the Vallely brothers from Armagh. He is married to Scottish fiddler and singer Eilidh Shaw.
WOMAD New Zealand
25 years ago Peter Gabriel founded WOMAD in the south of England - an international festival celebrating what is now called World Music – the sort of music you hear on Around the World.
Since then several countries have run their own WOMAD including Australia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and New Zealand. A couple of weeks ago the organisers in New Zealand began announcing the line-up who will be playing next year from 15 to 17 March.
In the second part of the show, and over the next weeks and months I expect, I’ll be playing some of the musicians who have already been announced, especially those I’m hearing for the first time. Here are three examples of New Zealand musicians you will hear this week.
Tio - Black Butterfly
I have played Tio (Tio Massing) before, but only once and he deserves more. Tio is from Ambrym island in Vanuatu and is in the first tranche of musicians announced for WOMAD New Zealand.
Rei - Hoki Mai / Come Back
Rei is new to me. His website says “Rei is the next generation of Aotearoa/NZ bilingual artists fusing international sounds and setting his sights firmly on taking NZ's unique culture to the world and making some bangers on the way!
Rei (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Pākeha) is a musician from Wellington, Aotearoa (NZ). Currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, his music seamlessly bridges multiple genres, in particular, Urban and Electronic.”
Anthonie Tonnon - 'Entertainment'
Another New Zealand musician - new to me and to the show - is Anthonie Tonnon Anthonie is a songwriter and performer based in Whanganui, New Zealand.
There will - of course be a lot more. You can read the full running order at davysims.com from Sunday 5 November.
Until next time, be fabulous.
Davy
Here’s how to hear Around the World
Sunday:
NFRS Osaka Japan: 12:00 noon local time (3:00 am UK time 4:00am CET)
Bangor FM 107.9 (Radio Garden) 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 local time (01:00 CET)
SparkFlame Radio: 00:00 am local time (01:00 CET)
Waterwaves Radio: 8:00 pm UK time (21:00 CET)
KNC Radio St Lucia 6:00 am local time (11:00 am BST 12:00 noon CET)
Akaroa World Radio 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am BST, 12:00 noon CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am BST, 12:00 noon CET)
Tuesday:
Lisburn’s 98FM (Radio Garden) 7:00 pm local time BST (8:00 pm CET)
FM105 Down Community Radio (Radio Garden) 7:00 pm local time BST (8:00 pm CET)
Wednesday:
World FM 4:00 am local New Zealand Time (5:00 pm Tuesday BST, 6:00 pm CET)
Slice Audio 4:00 am local time BST (5:00 am CET)
Radio Skye (Radio Garden) 10:00 pm local time BST (11:00 pm CET)
Friday:
Akaroa World Radio 2:00 pm local New Zealand Time (3:00 am BST 4:00 am CET)
Saturday:
Essential Radio Midnight to 2:00 am local time BST (01:00 am CET)
World FM 10:00 pm local New Zealand Time (11:00 am BST, 12:00 noon CET)