Around the World – Week beginning 12 March 2023 - Preview
Music from: Albania, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, England, Finland, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guinea-Bisseau, Ireland, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Slovakia, Spain
This week you can hear
Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra, Altin Gün, Ann Vriend, Asake, Celeste Alías, Cory Seznec, Elida Almeida, Eliza Carthy & The Restitution, Gaïsha, João Selva, Kimi Djabaté, King Ayisoba, Lisa O'Neill, Malika Zarra, Meral Polat Trio, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Niño de Elche & Raül Refree, Okra Playground, Orkestra Shkodra, Payadora Tango Ensemble, Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters, Vanessa Bissiri, Ybirá, and the featured album from Tokyo MinYo Club.
Hear the show on the web on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight:
Slice Audio,
Ferry FM,
Radio Larne, and
Armagh City Radio .
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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 - Tokyo MinYo Club - MinYo Songbook, Vol. 1
A folk music as called "MinYo" is a song of the people in Japan.
In both Japan and Korea the word MinYo translates as Folk Song. In Japan 民謡 and in Korea 民謠.
“The most renowned genre of Korean folk music, minyo reflects the heart of the common people through their words of heartbreak, struggle and despair.” [1]
“Japanese folk songs, or minyo, have long been handed down by common people all over Japan through rituals such as prayers and festivals, and at places of work related to agriculture, forestry and fishing.” [2]
Tokyo MinYo Clun is led by Yutaka Oyama is a third generation Tsugaru shamisen player of the Oyama School, and started studying the shamisen at a very early age from his grandfather, the head master of Oyama shamisen school. He won at the National Folkloric Music Association’ s Tsugaru Shamisen Contest two years in a row in 2001 and 2002. [3]
The overall idea is to mis the traditional folk music with street culture or as Tokyo MinYo Club put it “Folk Music x Street Culture = Tokyo MinYo Club”.
【ティザー映像公開】東京民謡倶楽部民謡集 初巻｜Tokyo MinYo Club "MinYo" song book ver.1
Also on the show this week:
Gaïsha - Gand la nuit
Mysterious French ballad about nocturnal escapades in Ghent. Second single of the upcoming album of Gaïsha - Ana Aïcha on Zephyrus records. Gaïsha is the funky collaboration between the Belgian-Moroccan singer Aïcha Haskal and (ex) members of Absynthe Minded, Sylvie Kreusch, De Beren Gieren and Va Fan Fahre. Together they bring you oriental & psychedelic grooves with a Brussels twist. The band switches seamlessly between Arabic chants, parlando and even rap, which results in a brilliant melting pot of styles.
Lisa O'Neill - Silver Seed
“Raw and unvarnished folk for austere times. Uncomprimising, stunning, soul-shaking stuff” - The Guardian
Until next week - see you.
Davy