Around the World – Week beginning 12 February 2023 - Preview
Music from: Bosnia & Herzegovina Brazil Colombia Denmakr Egypt Fance Georgia Guinea-Bissau Haiti Hungary Italy Japan Portugal Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe Scotland Slovakia Spain Turkey Ukraine Vanuatu
This week you can hear Ali Doğan Gönültaş, Amr Diab, Cserepes Károly, DakhaBrakha, Desumanos, Ensemble Sangineto, Gaye Su Akyol, Henriette Flach, Joe Rainey, Kinnaris Quintet, Lucas Santtana, Mar Grimalt, Marek Szarvaš, Martin Bruhn, Moonlight Benjamin, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Mze Shina, Ol Sing Blong Plantesen, Päivi Hirvonen, Raül Refree, The Waterboys, Tokyo MinYo Club, and Vila Navio.
The featured album is Dindin by Kimi Djabaté.
Joining the Around the World Family
This week Essential Radio in Ayr, Scotland joins the network of radio stations carrying Around the World. The show will be broadcast Saturdays morning midnight to 02:00 GMT.
Hear the show on the web on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight:
Slice Audio,
Ferry FM,
Radio Larne, and
Armagh City Radio .
On Tuesdays at 7:00 pm on the radio and web
Bangor FM 107.9 (Radio Garden)
Lisburn’s 98FM (Radio Garden)
FM105 Down Community Radio (Radio Garden)
Wednesdays Radio Skye at 10:00 pm to midnight (Radio Garden).
Thursdays on U Radio at 6.30pm to 8.30 pm
Saturdays on Essential Radio midnight to 02:00 am
See the running orders for Around the World at DavySims.com
Featured Album - Dindin by Kimi Djabaté
Kimi Djabaté was born in Tabato in Guinea-Bissau in 1975. He grew up there and learned to play the balafon, a sort of African xylophone, then went on to study the kora.
After touring Europe with the national music and dance ensemble of Guinea-Bissau, he settled in Lisbon, Portugal. He has lived in Europe since. In 2005 he independently released his first solo album, Teriké. Then Karam in 2009 on Cumbancha Records, the label he is still with. They have just released Dindin – our featured album for this week.
There’s more about Kimi Djabaté here.
Kimi Djabaté "Dindin"
I saw Kimi play at an off WOMEX party in Lisbon last year. It was one of the highlights of the week and all the more interesting not being part of the official programme.
And a few days after seeing Kimi Djabaté I was having coffee with an Italian harpist called Adriano. He was telling me about the project he was working on which this week come to fruition - or at least part 1 comes to fruition.
Adriano plays with Ensemble Sangineto. It’s main purpose is to bring together Italian folk tunes “with an international modern flavor, drawing on other European countries’ traditions (especially, the Irish, French, Breton and Scottish)”. Which suits me down to the ground.
Their debut album “The Grand Tour, Vol.1” (2023), is a 2-part project conceived as a tribute album to Italian traditional music with fresh interpretations of a folk tune from each of the 20 Italian regions.
This is one of my favourite Italian folk tunes, Rinello.
"Rinello" // Ensemble Sangineto
I was searching - as I often do - for something “older” but not a predictable UK/US hit single and stumbled on this Egyptian classic from 1996 - although the video is significantly newer.
Amr Diab - Nour El Ein | Official Music Video - HD Version
From 1996 title track from Noor Al Ain - Amr Diab. Named at the World Music Awards for the best-selling album in the Middle East for 1996 – you’ve heard of rock and reggae and soul and R&B – unique to Egypt that’s Al Jeel music – and from Japan this is MinYo music -
東京民謡倶楽部 - 東獅子 / Tokyo MinYo Club - Higashi Zishi
“A folk music as called "MinYo" is a song of the people in Japan. Music based on time, region, work, nature, and festivals. It can be said to be the most closely related popular music in our lives. Folk Music x Street Culture = Tokyo MinYo Club. Folk music as called “MinYo”, change its style along with time and generation. Re-democratization of folk music and bringing Japanese sounds to our life. With its thoughts, Yutaka Oyama, the third generation of the Tsugaru-Shamisen Oyama style, formed a project convening various musicians. A music that created and used the potential of the root foundation of Japanese music, they resonate it to the across Japan and to the world. Playing the folk music “Minyo” of this generation. That is Tokyo MinYo Club.” YouTube
And in Part 2?
They are just a few tunes from Part 1 of Around the World. Listen to it all when it’s being broadcast - ir if you want to join the exclusive listening group of just a few friends, contact me at davy.sims@gmail.com.
Have a great weekend.