Around the World – Week beginning 2 April 2023 - Preview
Music from elsewhere - every week.
Music from: Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Haiti, India, Ireland, Italy, Mali, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Scotland, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, USA, and Zimbabwe among others
Music by: Alice, As December Falls, Baaba Maal, Bantu Spaceship, Beautiful Nubia and the Roots Renaissance Band, Brigand, Brighde Chaimbeul, Cambodian Space Project, Daoirí Farrell, Didon Carmen Rizzo & Meriem Ben Amor, Eliza Carthy & The Restitution, Eric Longsworth & Aziz Sahmaoui, Faith i Branko, Fin del Mundo, Indaco, Joysankar Choudhury, Mar Grimalt, Moonlight Benjamin, Msaki & Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, Péké Viré, Russo Passapusso & Antonio Carlos e Jocafi, Solomane Doumbia, Tagua Tagua, VKB Band, and Willos'
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Sundays at 7:00 pm to 9:00pm
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Armagh City Radio .
Tuesdays at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Wednesdays at 10:00 pm to midnight
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Thursdays at 6.30pm to 8.30 pm
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Saturdays at midnight to 02:00 am
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And coming soon, KNCRadio.com in St Lucia
Featured Album this week
The featured album this week is from Altin Gün, it’s called Aşk and is almost certainly going to arrive in a very high position in the World Music Chart Europe when it’s published next week.
Altin Gün’s music is a reinvention what is now regarded as the golden age of Anatolian rock and Turkish psychedelic rock which began in the 1960s continuing for 20 years or more. Among the most influential musicians then were Barış Manço and Moğollar. Altin Gün, along with people like Gaye Su Akyol, are among modern interpreters of Anatolian rock.
This is from their Wikipedia page.
“Altın Gün (meaning Golden Day in Turkish[1]) is a Turkish psychedelic rock, also known as Anatolian rock, band from Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded by bassist Jasper Verhulst in 2016 when he posted an ad on Facebook looking for Turkish musicians.[1][2][3][4] Their style has been described as "psychedelic" with a "dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs".[5] Altın Gün also performs psychedelic rock covers of Turkish folk music.[1] Both the band's vocalists, Merve Daşdemir and Erdinç Ecevit Yıldız, are of Turkish origin, while the other four members are Dutch.[1]
“Their debut album was On, released in 2018.[6] In 2019, they released Gece which was nominated for the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards (2019) in the Best World Music Album category.[7][8] The band's first American tour commenced in mid 2019.[9]”
Altin Gün - Badi Sabah Olmadan (Live on KEXP)
But we start with …
I realise that at times I get caught up in more obscure music and miss what lots of other people are listening to. I have no idea how well known the Cambodian Space Project were. I’d only recently read about them. My loss. But they must have had a considerable reputation to play in the Kennedy Center in Washington.
They were led by Kak Channthy, “The diva of the Cambodian rice fields” as she was known until her timely death five years ago last month. Kak Channthy rose from poverty to perform in front of audiences worldwide. She was the voice and face of a revival of the legendary 1960s rock scene that swept the country pre-genocide.[BBC News]
Channthy was born into war and poverty as the only daughter of army tank driver Reach Lon and grew up poor in Prey Veng Province, a rural area in Cambodia, before moving to Phnom Penh. She formed the Cambodian psychedelic rock band "The Cambodian Space Project" with her Australian husband Julien Poulson and worked as the lead singer and songwriter releasing 5 albums and touring 24 countries around the world.[Wikipedia]
Released in 2017 … her final album was Spaced out in Wonderland. I’ll be starting the show with Down from the Mountain. Kak Channthy’s short life ended just 5 years ago last month. She died in March 2018 at the age of 38 when the auto rickshaw she was travelling in was hit by a car.[Sydney Morning Herald]
The Cambodian Space Project - Millennium Stage (September 12, 2017)
KEXP Seatle
Broadcasting 24 hours a day in Seatle and on the web, KEXP radio maintain a remarkable YouTube channel which I turn to almost every week. It is a superb resource to find obscure music from around the globe. In September last year they moved from their studio - part of the University of Washington - to Buenos Aires, Argentina for a feast of music from the country. This is one of the bands who performed.
Fin del Mundo - La Noche (Live on KEXP)
Msaki x Tubatsi is a project formed by two leading South African musicians. Msaki is a solo musician and a double award winner at the 2022 South African Music Awards. Tubatsi Mpho Moloi is from the excellent Johannesburg band Urban Village (also a member of the Keleketla! collective alongside Tony Allen and many other African and UK musicians). Synthetic Hearts is their album.
Msaki x Tubatsi - Subaleka (official video)
There are a couple of tunes that link Newfoundland and Ireland. Daoirí Farrell’s version of Sonny’s Dream is on the show. It was written by Newfoundlander Ron Hynes about one of his uncles. The Scottish singer Hamish Imlach picked it up and later covered by Christy Moore, Emmylou Harris, and Allison Crowe and many others. In the wrong hands it could sound sentimental and even mawkish, but Daoirí gets it on the right side of the sincerity Hymes intended. It is not typical of Daoirí Farrell’s The Wedding Above in Glencree, an album I’ll feature more of in coming weeks.
Sonny's Dream 2023 Daoirí Farrell
The other Newfoundland - Ireland link is a single from Willos', just released at Sony Music Orchard. To quote from the notes …
"The new single Ghost Ship is inspired by the numerous sightings of a phantom ship in flames sailing on the Northumberland Strait on the east coast of Canada [between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island].
“The doomed ship – they say - was carrying Irish immigrants to the maritime provinces when it caught fire and sank.
Willos' - Ghost Ship
Let me know what I should be listening to and perhaps playing on the show:
Speak soon.
Davy