Around the World – Week beginning 30 April 2023 - Preview
Music from Argentina, Bengal, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mali, Morocco, Oceania, Palestine, Poland, Senegal, Siberia, and Zimbabwe.
This week
Music by: Adama Sambou & Ejam Kasa, Adriana Calcanhotto, Ali Farka Touré, Babra & Megitza, Bantu Spaceship, Brigan, Damir Imamovic, Dipannita Acharya, Driss El Maloumi, Fatoumata Diawara & Damon Albarn, Hagai Bilitzky, Hoven Droven, Juan Jose Robles, Julio Montoro y Alma Latina, La Fanfarria del Capitán, Lankum, Newen Afrobeat, Pohjonen Alanko, Rasha Nahas & Dina El Wedidi, Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee, Small Island Big Song, Tamikrest, Trad.Attack!, Zor, and the featured album from Dimitris Mystakidis.
Music from: Argentina, Bengal, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mali, Morocco, Oceania, Palestine, Poland, Senegal, Siberia, and Zimbabwe.
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Sundays at 7:00 pm to 9:00pm
Bangor FM 107.9 (Radio Garden)
Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight:
Slice Audio,
Ferry FM,
Radio Larne, and
Armagh City Radio .
Monday at 6:00 to 8:00 (UK time)
U Radio Sri Lanka
Tuesdays at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Waveney Valley Radio
Tuesdays at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Lisburn’s 98FM (Radio Garden)
FM105 Down Community Radio (Radio Garden)
Wednesdays at 10:00 pm to midnight
Radio Skye (Radio Garden).
Saturdays at midnight to 02:00 am
Essential Radio
This week's featured album is Morso by Dimitris Mystakidis from Greece.
Origins | Dimitris Mystakidis | TEDxAthens
It is likely that when the World Music Chart Europe is published in a few days, Morso by Dimitris Mystakidis will be faring very well in it’s first month of release. We shall see. It deserves to and it is the featured album this week on Around the World. Every week four tracks are played from the featured album over the two hours.
Dimitris Mystakidis is a long-established Greek musician. While Portugal has Fado and Bosnia, Sevdah, Greece has Rembetiko. Like the Blues, music from the working people, often music from the cities rather than the country and from the poor. It is strongly related to other musical styles from the region stretching beyond Greece into Anatolia. There is a very good article in Culture Trip about the history of the music which emerged in the 1920s.
With revivals or Rembetico in the 1960s and 1980s, it is again gaining prominence. Dimitris Mystakidis is a virtuoso of Laikí Kithára, the Greek folk guitar. For the last 20 years he has pursued his personal quest investigating the roots and branches of rembetiko.
“Born and raised in Thessaloniki, his passion for music was fuelled by a school teacher who set his own curriculum by teaching music for half of the school day. Dimitris was literally self-taught while he started his music career as a professional at the age of 16, in 1986 . His mother’s love on rembetiko and the second rembetiko revival in the early ’80s defined his commitment to this music. At the age of 20 he started his studies at the conservatoire once he could self-fund them.” [1]
I can’t find any new videos supporting the album, so there’s one above from TEDx Athens from about 6 years ago.
Also on the show
The story of album "Mama Africa" by Julio Montoro - Album Release (English subtitle)
“Mama Africa the project which has taken over 3 years over 30 musicians and over 3 continents. It is a melting pot of all African, Cuban, European and American genres.” It’s an album likely to feature a lot on the sho in coming weeks. Here’s where we start.
There’s always room for a little throat music and weird stuff, too. I’ve just come across Pohjonen Alanko and their both charming and challenging album Voice of Northern Lowland.
Pohjoinen Alanko: Kainuu (Official Live Video)
Music Finland says:
“Pohjonen Alanko is not just a collaboration between Finnish musical masterminds Kimmo Pohjonen and Ismo Alanko, it is also a geographical place. The name of their project translates into “Northern Lowland”, and it's inhabited by quirky people with an absurd sense of humor.”
And there’s more.
Tune in to find out. The running order will be on my website from Sunday. And if you want to hear more … (but don’t tell anyone else).