Around the World – Week beginning 18 June 2023 - Preview
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Music by: Alessandro Gaudio & Salvatore Pace, Baklava, Biensüre, Blick Bassy, Dina El Wedidi, Dobrila & Dorian, Driss El Maloumi, Faizal Mostrixx, Fimber Bravo, Gruppa, Julio Montoro y Alma Latina, Karkum Project, Karim Baggili, Lakiko, Lee Fry Music, Los Rolling Ruanas & Los Mirlos, Malasañers, Okan, Riccardo Tesi, Roge, Rumbaristas, Shono, Trad.Attack!, and Working Week
Featured Album: Scuru Cauru by Crimi
CRIMI - 'A Sira
Scuru Cauru is the second album by French band Crimi.
Crimi formed in 2018 by Julien Lesuisse. His aim was to rediscover his Sicilian heritage, as the son of an immigrant family who once felt forced to conceal their identity. Lesuisse’s aim now is to reclaim their culture and language, he told la Curieuse website. “When they went back to Sicily every year, they would take the train, and my mother was not allowed to speak Sicilian [on the train], because Sicily was seen as the worst by the rest of Italy. My grandmother was a great singer, but she sang Italian songs, because she learned that Sicilian language and culture was not a ‘real’ culture,” says Lesuisse.
Julien Lesuisse has been active in the French music scene as a vocalist and sax player for over two decades, performing dance music, new wave and Algerian Raï It’s these unlikely sources, together with the ethio-jazz, funk, and soul backgrounds of guitarist Cyril Moulas, bassist Brice Berrerd, and drummer Bruno Duval, that come together creating Crimi’s diasporic sound.
“On their debut album Luci E Guai, French four-piece Crimi dissolve the borders between genres, cultures and nations, with an eight-song serving of diasporic groove. The brainchild of Julien Lesuisse, a saxophonist with some two decades’ grounding in the French music scene, Crimi stitch up a wealth of regional styles: from Algerian raï to hard New Orleans funk, Afrobeat to Sicilian folk balladry, in their hands it all sounds so natural you won’t be able to find the join.” [Airfono Records]
Drawing on their musical backgrounds and lived experiences, the band craft a visionary continuum that draws on traditions from different times and places, re-elaborating them for the blended, cross cultural world of the present. Through their syncretic groove, “Crimi reimagine the Mediterranean as a place of meeting and exchange, as opposed to the theater of conflict and division it has become.”
Here are a couple of others on this week’s show.
Lakiko - Nije buducnost za svakoga
From Bosnia, Lakiko is a cellist and experimental artist “while still being unapologetically local and authentic.” [MOST]
Lakiko - aka Lana Kostic- was born in Sarajevo. She studied classical cello in Germany (Bremen and Munich) and Cello, Classical singing and Composition in Switzerland (Bern).
In cooperation with the Neurology Biel (CH) she performed "The Musical EEG", where she was connected to an EEG device and played and sang her brainwaves live.
This is where Lakiko was born.
She performed at Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Jazzfest Sarajevo (BiH), Musikfest Kyburgiade (CH), Musikfest Goslar - Harz (DE), Spike Cello Festival Dublin (IRL), Sea Festival Bruxelles (BE), Jazzfest Ljubljana (SLO), Cully Jazz Fest (CH) and others. [Lakiko/biog]
Los Rolling Ruanas, Los Mirlos - Con Otros Ojos (Video Oficial)
Los Rolling Ruanas are among the best-known bands in Colombia. They blend elements of the peasant music from the Colombian Andes with different genres from Latin America and the world. Their debut album last year “La Balada del Carranguero” (Ballad of the Carranguero), fused traditional folk music of the Andean highlands with an ecclectic blend of rock and ska.
Los Mirlos is a Peruvian cumbia band with origins in Moyobamba, Peru who formed in 1972. They began to record and release music in 1973 and have an extensive back catalogue.
Which may help explain the story in the video …
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