Around the World – Week beginning 16 April 2023 - Preview
ගැම්මක් තමයි සිංහයෝ කොහෙත් එකයි
This week music from: Benin, Bolivia Brazil, Cambodia, Congo, Ecuador, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Scotland, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe.
And music by: Alto da Maravilha, Baaba Maal, Barzo & Sandra Nankoma, Bathiya & Santhush & Kaizer Kaiz, Beautiful Nubia and the Roots Renaissance Band, Daoirí Farrell, Desumanos, Ecuatoriana Banda Show, Eric Longsworth & Aziz Sahmaoui, Folks of Benga,l Gangbé Brass Band & Kala Jula, Laibach, Les Mamans du Congo & RRobin, Mokoomba, Moonlight Benjamin, Msaki & Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, Nisia, Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola, Timpana, Toumani Diabate & Ballaké Sissoko, Tsuumi Sound System, Vlado Kreslin and Teo Collori & Momento Cigano, Yol Aularong, and a featured album by Anna Setton.
Hear the show on the web and radio
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 .
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).
Thursdays at 6.30pm to 8.30 pm
U Radio Sri Lanka
Saturdays at midnight to 02:00 am
Essential Radio
Featured Album this week …
Anna Setton - O Futuro é Mais Bonito
Anna Setton - O Futuro é Mais Bonito
Brazilian singer Anna Setton will be playing Lisbon, Paris, Brussels, and Madrid in coming weeks. Her first album was in 2020, her second a year later and her 3rd, O Futuro é Mais Bonito, already doing well in the World Music Chart Europe is the featured album this week on the show O Futuro é Mais Bonito. Now living in Lisbon, Portugal the singer and songwriter has - so far - had a 17-year career and has worked with some of the best-known Brazilian music artists such as Toquinho.
Also on the show this week
I’m not a fan of live albums, although there are several exceptions: Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous, any Rory Gallagher live album, Kings of Sevdah by Mostar Sevdah Reunion - I expect there are others, too. I’ll be playing tracks from three live albums on the show, although to be frank I’d prefer to hear studio albums from each of the artists concerned. I like Tsuumi Sound System a lot and have been waiting patiently for something new from them. But I have to settle for live album “Concert in Stereo”.
I’ll also be playing a track from Gangbé Brass Band & Kala Jula’s Asro and Vlado Kreslin, Teo Collori & Momento Cigano’s Živo. Here’s Finland’s Tsuumi Sound System pre-pandmic.
TSUUMI SOUND SYSTEM - festival Eurofonik salle Maxi le 24 mars 2018
One of the radio stations that carries Around the World is in Sri Lanka, and one of the guys there has been introducing me to Sri Lankan music. It has been an interesting journey. I found this myself and it was explained to me this was the supporters song for the Sri Lanka Cricket teams for 2022 T20 Cricket World Cup. The lead musicians are Bathiya & Santhush also known as BNS, a Sri Lankan pop duo Bathiya Jayakody and Santhush Weeraman. They have been one of the most commercially successful music acts in Sri Lanka in the last two decades. Kaizer Kaiz from Kandy city, a popular rapper in Sri Lanka. He was received Best Hip hop Award in both in 2012/2013 and 2010/2011 at the Derana Music Video Awards.
ගැම්මක් තමයි | #GammakThamai | Cheer Song by Moose
I was agreeably surprised by “Il fera beau demain matin jusqu'à midi” by American Eric Longsworth and Moroccan Aziz Sahmaoui Messab. The album features percussionist Adhil Mirghan. A classic “don’t judge a CD by the cover”, and especially the first track (Cat Steven’s Morning has Broken, there’s nothing wrong with their version … it’s just … y’know.) I have enjoyed this so much more than I expected. Here’s a short documentary about the duo.
En DUO Aziz Sahmaoui et Eric Longsworth
Last week (I think it was), I started the show with Cambodia Space Project which sent me on a journey into the foothills of Cambodian rock of the 1960s and ‘70s. An impressive journey it was. It took me to Yol Aularong. He was a founding figure in Cambodian rock, soul, and funk scene of the 1960s and 70s. He is presumed to have been killed during the Cambodian genocide that took place between 1975 and 1979. I’ll be playing a track - you might recognise the song it was based on.
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten (2014) Clip (Yol Aularong, Sieng Vanthy, and Pen Ram)
I also came across this short documentary about Cambodian rock of the period.
Don't think i have forgotten | Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
I hope you can catch up with the show. Until the next time take care.
Davy