Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2015 Thread Once Known as World Music

Per Mordy's note from 2014:u kno what belongs in here must we really quibble about genre catchalls? this is the thread for funky, bluesy, new + reissued music from lots of different places that may include ghana, congo, kenya, niger, mali, south africa, syria, lebanon, israel, iraq, iran, turkey, and other places that make cool music that doesn't always get enough press in the west. some labels that might be relevant here: sublime frequencies, honest jons, sahelsounds, light in the attic, voodoo funk, awesome tapes from africa, analog africa, kindred spirits, soundway.

Plus I like to hear about live music

Last year's thread: Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2014 Thread Formerly Known as World

International acts visiting nYc shortly

http://www.globalfest-ny.com/

http://babysallright.ticketfly.com/event/731023-okayafrica-multiflora-brooklyn/

Hailu Mergia live in Ny

The Nile Project are gonna be at Globalfest:

Designed to captivate local audiences but feel equally accessible to international listeners, the Nile Project uses music to inspire curiosity about and active engagement with the cultural, social, and environmental challenges of the world’s longest river. The Collective’s collaborative model is a blueprint for a new way to organize the Nile.

The project began in 2011 by two San Francisco-based East Africans in response to the deepening water conflict in the Nile Basin. In a few years, the vision of Egyptian ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis and Ethiopian-American singer Meklit Hadero rapidly expanded to bring together musicians of all 11 Nile countries through Nile Gatherings and African and international tours. Building on the success of its musical program, the Nile Project is launching education, leadership, and innovation initiatives to empower university students around the world with the tools they need to make the Nile more sustainable.

Emel Mathlouthi is interesting. Might look into her stuff.

Tunisian singer/songwriter ...

My niece was in Ethiopia with others from her university and she said she kept hearing this Mehari Degefaw song Raya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz95EmQEHHI&app=desktop

I did Emel's last NYC show; she's solid.
Doing Globalfest; hope to see y'all there.

for those in the UK interested in choral singing/chanting and photos of Syria from before the current fighting, Jason Hamacher of LostOrigins.com will be speaking in Cambridge January 5th

ARADIN Christmas Concert
Monday January 5 from 19:30 to 21:00
The Epiphany, ARADIN fundraising concert with a surprise, at at Great Saint Mary’s Church, Cambridge, 7:30-9p.m, Monday 5th January 2015

ARADIN supports education and cultural preservation of the minorities in the Middle East, in particular Christian communities.

Tickets: £12.00, (£10.00 concessions). Tickets can be purchased at the door or at the shop of Great Saint Mary’s).

* Special guest, Jason Hamacher, founder of Lost Origins Productions, a production house that explores ancient civilisations to discover unique stories from the past and present, will be joining us to give a testimony on his research into Syrian and Armenian chant.

There will be a prayer vigil before the concert between 6:45-7:15pm. in particular for the Christians in Iraq and Syria. All welcome.

Liking some of the new Dobet Gnahore album. She's from Cote D'ivoire but has been living in France for awhile. Some of the songs are a tad too polished in a bland way, but others work (and I like her vocals, charisma, and dancing live). She is doing a short US tour starting this week

yeah, loved that gnahore album. made my top 50 for last year.

x-post--- Forks, gotta admit that Globalfest lineup this year does not have me want to get on a Megabus up to NYC. Zap Mama are fun, but they've been coming to the US on and off for years (and are coming my way this month too). The Jones Family Gospel Singers are gonna be in DC, and they too have been appearing everywhere, already. If I lived up there maybe...

from Forced Exposure:

https://mail.aol.com/38865-418/aol-6/en-us/mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=30801021&folder=Inbox&partId=8

JOSE PRATES/MIECIO ASKANASY: Tam... Tam... Tam...! CD
TRUNK (UK) / JBH 055CD
release date: 1/20/2015

DESCRIPTION

Trunk Records presents the first reissue of Tam... Tam... Tam...!, an incredibly rare Brazilian LP by José Prates and Miecio Askanasy. In August of 2014, London-based DJ and record collector Gilles Peterson, who had been offered an original copy for $4,700, sent out a request for someone to reissue this extraordinary album. Originally issued in a one-time 1958 pressing as part of Askanasy's 1950s touring Braziliana show, Tam... Tam... Tam...! is a landmark in the development of the Brazilian sound that would explode around the world in the decade to follow. It's stunning both as a historical touchstone and as a standalone musical triumph. The solid blueprint of 1960s Brazilian music runs through it; for example, "Nānā Imborô" clearly prefigures Sérgio Mendes's 1966 hit "Mas Que Nada." The infectious rhythms, melodies, and exotic sounds that fill this album are deep, raw, and totally engaging. And the more one listens to Tam... Tam... Tam...! the more one hears its importance and future influence. This reissue comes at a time when, in a world saturated with information, few important things have escaped attention and reappraisal. Finding anything new and genuinely incredible is a rare feat. This is a prime example of amazing, influential music that until now has remained hidden. In producing this reissue, spurred on by Peterson's request, Trunk Records found that no master recordings could be located. The original 1950s label showed no interest in a reissue, but Ed Motta, the renowned artist, producer, and record collector, agreed to transcribe his original copy on his EMT deck and send the files from Brazil to the UK. The sound was not in the best condition, and the original 1950s vinyl pressing has several musical inconsistencies. Trunk Records painstakingly worked toward a suitable sonic balance, making sure to maintain the bright and driving original sound without cleaning it up so much that the life of the music was diminished. Accordingly, the vinyl edition of reissue was pressed with some very slight surface noise -- any more cleaning would interfere with the true wax sound. The CD edition, however, was pressed with more digital enhancement. Vinyl edition includes original full color LP sleeve. CD edition includes four-page booklet.

TRACKLISTING

01.Imbarabaô
02.Imbaê-Sofá
03.Nānā Imborô
04.Fá-êu-á
05.Oniká
06.Ogum Olojô
07.Maracatú da D Santo
08.De Luandaô
09.Maracatú Elegante
10.Nêga Zefinha
11.Tem Brabo no Samba

my first outernational listen of the year:

http://www.noformat.net/images/0.48316500%201414071657.jpg

super pleasant but not the kind of thing i imagine sticking w/ me for very long

https://soundcloud.com/forcedexposurepublicity/malimba-song-taken-from-the-forthcoming-music-of-tanzania-sublime-frequencies

VA: Music of Tanzania 2LP
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES (United States) / SF 096LP
release date: 2/3/2015

DESCRIPTION

Music of Tanzania is a spectacular collection of field recordings gathered by Laurent Jeanneau between December 1999 and March 2000. This debut volume of Sublime Frequencies' exploration of indigenous Tanzanian music compiles sacred and profane songs and dances of the Hadza, Datoga, and Makonde people. Highlights include stoned ecstatic dancing in a Hadza encampment; a drunken celebration of preteen sexual initiation from a Makonde fishing village; baboon imitations performed on the malimba; electrified Islamic trance percussion; and useful tips for amateur hyrax hunters. Many of these poignant, exhilarating performances come from dwindling minority groups whose way of life stretches back to the Stone Age, and who are capable of creating breathtaking music with anything from agricultural tools to tin cans and plastic tubes. Laurent Jeanneau is absolutely fearless in his pursuit of rare, exceptional and vibrant performances. He views his ongoing documentation of ethnic minority music as an act of resistance to globalization, state-sanctioned "peasant traditions," and cultural homogeneity, and accordingly spends months living under harsh and dangerous conditions in order to capture impromptu performances in their everyday cultural context. Using this method, Jeanneau has self-produced almost 100 albums preserving threatened musical traditions from some of the most remote regions on earth, in addition to compiling multiple volumes for Sublime Frequencies. This limited edition double LP tip-on gatefold package includes striking photographs by James Stephenson and detailed liner notes by Jeanneau.

TRACKLISTING

Disc 1

Side A: Hadza (Northern Tanzania)

01.Sitoti Plays Malimba I

02.Sitoti Plays Malimba II
03.Malimba and Song
04.Sitoti Plays Malimba and Sings

05.Zeze and Song

Side B: Hadza, Datoga (Northern Tanzania)

06.Hadza Epeme
07.Hadze Epeme II

08.Hadze Berimbau
09.Datoga Troubadour

10.Datoga Dance

Disc 2

Side C: Makonde (Southern Tanzania)
01.Makonde Ceremony

Side D: Mtwara (Southern Tanzania)

02.Muslim Ceremony I

03.Muslim Cermony II

oh that looks really interesting - i'll def check it out

BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND: Juguya LP
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES (United States) / SF 097LP
release date: 2/17/2015

DESCRIPTION

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the Burkinabé musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer, first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band. His current band -- when he's not playing with the now-famous Burkinabé musician Victor Démé -- is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny Adé are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia. Baba Commandant plays the ngoni, the instrument of the Donso (the traditional hunters in this region of Burkina Faso and Mali). His audience comprises multiple generations and strata of Burkinabé society; he accordingly adapts his repertoire to his surroundings, which range from cabaret Sundays in Bobo-Dioulasso to the sound systems of Ouagadougou. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a formidable force steeped in Ouagadougou's DIY underground musical culture. Juguya is their sound. Limited edition LP housed in a Stoughton tip-on sleeve.

TRACKLISTING
Side A
01.Tilé
02.Djanfa
03.Wasso
04.Folon
Side B
05.Ntijiguimorola
06.I Kanafo
07.Siguisso
08.Juguya

Gonna see Dobet Gnahore and her band live tonight

Great show. Better than the album (she did some older songs but the emphasis was on her most recent album). She really is quite ambitious, and mostly makes it work without turning it into watered down, whirled music cliches (I say mostly because some songs didn't work and the bassist/keyboardist sometimes threw in unnecessary jazz fusion licks). I've read interviews where she cites Miriam Makeba, Oumou Sangare, Buika, Bjork and more; she sings in multiple languages; and has worked with African diaspora dancers. In the show I saw, she opened some songs by trilling across the scales ala Buika but then brought her voice back into a more potent and strong melodic range. She danced African style athletically at times, kicking her legs up high and raising her arms, plus doing some African and hiphop shakes. Her guitarist husband added some nice Congolese rumba/soukous strumming as well as styles from elsewhere. The keyboardist also played bass. Her drummer was sometimes too aggressive, but Dobet turned towards him and made him get more subtle at times. She did her best to explain the songs, trying to do so in English but sometimes switching to French and other tongues.

saw her at joe's pub, yes? i'm sure that was a great place to see her.

No, that's tonight. I saw her last night 4 to 5 hours south, in the Barns of Wolf Trap.

She's just doing a short US tour it appears.

ah, cool. a friend of mine programs the Barn. How was the turnout?

Not packed (people in the small balcony and back of the floor seats moved up), but a decent sized crowd. There was a W. Post piece on Dobet last Sunday. They probably did not do any street-team pr--flyers at African restaurants; and/or contacted the embassy. The Virginia location is pretty far from D.C. and from Maryland, which makes it hard on a weeknight, especially when the artist is not well-known.

yeah, i had some conversations along those lines. glad to hear it was a good show though!

Did anyone see Dobet Gnahore at Joe's Pub?

She got 1 vote in the Pazz & jop critics poll. Not from me, I dropped her out of my top 10 at the last minute.

6 album votes for Noura Mint Seymali

I guy voted for Ricardo Lemvo, La Rumba Soyo on
Cumbancha

Grr, I meant to listen to that and never did. Not too late. I like previous efforts of his---Congolese rumba/soukous meets Afro-Cuban

my 3 'outernational' votes in that poll were
Mamman Sani - Taaritt
Khun Narin - Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
Zebrina - Hamidbar Medaber

i think i was the only vote for them

Probably. I just read critic Mike Rubin (whose writing I like) tweet from awhile back proclaiming the Kasai Allstars album and the Tony Allen one as the two best African releases of the year. I see the Wire magazine readers list also has the Kasai Allstars. I only listened to that once, and I liked a little of it but wasn't wowed. Never heard the Tony Allen, though I like stuff he's done in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vr5lxiTx4A

I voted for Noura's album, also for Nacao Zumbi and Jucara Marcal album tracks as Singles. Here's some of that there xpost tam...tam...tam...--several on this page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va63SOhcwco

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHEDELIC SALSA

Release Date: 23 February 2015
Cat No: RGNET1304CD
Barcode: 605633130423
Format: CD & Digital Download

This Rough Guide explores the heady influence of psychedelia on salsa, from the fuzzy tropical guitars of the sixties and seventies to today’s cutting edge bands experimenting with weird & wonderful psychedelic sounds.

Psychedelic rock and salsa came of age together in the mid to late 1960s under parallel socio-cultural circumstances of upheaval, unrest and experimentation within the respective youth cultures of their core audiences.

Historically there are direct connections between the world of the hippie counter-culture and Latin music (from Fania’s Jerry Masucci being friends with Woodstock’s Michael Lang to ‘mambonik’ Bill Graham urging Santana to cover Tito Puente. In places like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and especially Peru, non-Latin global youth culture – or at least some of the music, dress, art, and social attitude – was quite influential as well, producing tropical music with fuzzed out guitars, echo effects, and electric keyboards.

In the late 1970s through to the 1990s, discotheque remix dance culture spawned the psychedelic extended salsa mixes of studio wizards like Baron Lopez and the wild playing of Cuban violinist Alfredo de la Fé (featured here with Orchestra Rytmo Africa-Cubana), both of which factored in trippy dub effects borrowed from another Caribbean music with psychedelic leanings, namely reggae.

This collection explores not only those early connections and cross-pollinating influences but also the resurgence of interest in the subject of the psychedelic sound today, from a revival of the experimental vibe that made the early years of salsa so varied and interesting to the equally intriguing phenomenon of retro analogue aesthetics that seems to be on the rise.

Current Latin artists like Bio Ritmo, La Mecánica Popular, Bacalao Men, Quantic, Fantasma and San Lázaro have found themselves looking back to the days of progressive, open attitudes when the emphasis was on message and music, not on singer as star or producing bland pop for mass consumption. This is, perhaps, a reaction to the fallout of the over-commercialisation and dilution of salsa in the 1980s and the concurrent ascendance of merengue, bachata and (later) reggaeton. The influence of rare groove collecting, DJ-driven investigations into the golden era, and a spill-over from the success of retro funk and soul acts like Sharon Jones have shaped current ‘indie’ salsa production as well.

Track List

01 Grupo Fantasma Feat. Larry Harlow: Naci De La Rumba Y Guaguanco
02 La Mecanica Popular: La Paz Del Freak
03 Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno: Dub Y Guaguanco
04 Conjunto Siglo 21: Jud Ross
05 Ray Perez Y Su Orquesta: Recordando Los Soneros
06 San Lazaro: Muchacho Tranquilo
07 Bacalao Men: Japones
08 Nelson Y Sus Estrellas: Londres (London)
09 Los Sander's De Nana: Recuerdos
10 Los Pambele: Cannabis
11 Fruko Y Sus Tesos: El Son Del Carangano
12 Orchestra Rytmo Africa-Cubana: Vamos Pa' Dakar
13 Bio Ritmo: Chuleta 07:00

Total Playing Time: 61:32
music from this and other releases here: https://soundcloud.com/world-music-network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXmXG9qbF8

the wild playing of Cuban violinist Alfredo de la Fé (featured here with Orchestra Rytmo Africa-Cubana),

Saw and reviewed he and a band live sometime in the mid-2000s. His playing was still wild

the globalfest standouts for me were bixiga 70 and sam lee

So Bixiga 70 are like a Brazilian Antibalas?

they're pretty much straight afrobeat honestly

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/15/377527029/rapping-the-news-in-west-africa

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO AFRICAN RARE GROOVE (VOL. 1)

Release Date: 23 February 2015
Cat No: RGNET1323CD
Barcode: 605633132328
Format: CD & Digital Download

From bright Nigerian highlife horns to Ethiopian fuzz-tone guitar riffs, this Rough Guide presents a broad selection of rare African dance grooves. Hard to find but easy to dance to.

For more information contact pr✧✧✧@worldmu✧✧✧.n✧✧

The concept of ‘Rare Groove’ has come a long way since its origins in the 1980s London club scene, where DJs would try to out-do each other with soul and funk obscurities. These days the blogosphere is full of enthusiasts sharing their latest vintage vinyl finds, with African music providing rich pickings. But there is a largely untapped resource of independent labels in Africa, America and Europe releasing fabulous sounds that deserve a much wider audience. This collection pulls together a variety of African grooves music from Mozambican marrabenta to Nigerian highlife.

Gentleman Mike Ejeagha and his protégé Celestine Ukwu are both known for morally instructive songs in the Igbo language of south-eastern Nigeria. ‘Ikpechakwa A-Akem Kpee’ starts with a clarion call of horns and quickly settles into an old-school highlife groove. Osayomore Joseph is known as ‘Ambassador’ for popularising the Edo language through music. ‘Oyeye’, with its ringing guitar and rasping brass was one of his first hits in the early 1970s.

Orchestra Marrabenta Star De Mocambique takes its name from an urban music style from Maputo, speeding up the rural majika rhythm and adding pulsing horns. Ayalèw Mèsfin started singing with Ethiopian Police Orchestra before developing his own rock’n’roll-influenced sound full of moody fuzz-guitar riffs, keyboard stabs and horn punches. Analogue synths meet old school East African Rumba in ‘Kai Kai’ by Yam Yam, a previously unreleased track featuring the talents of Congolese émigrés Les Mangalepa, now based in Nairobi, and British producer Guy Morley.

West Nkosi’s sax jive style provides a stepping-stone between penny-whistle kwela and mbaqanga, the township music unforgettably dubbed ‘The Indestructible Beat’.

Super Cayor De Dakar described their brand of Afro-Latin music salsa-mbalax. The 1996 version of ‘Dégoo’ included here is more immediate than later recordings, with a sublime combination of keyboards and horns. Saleta Phiri was one of the first two musicians to receive ‘The Malawi Honours Of The Achievers Award’. His songs speak of the hardships of life in the volatile township of Ndirande.

Track List

01 Gentleman Mike Ejeagha & His Premiers Dance Band: Ikpechakwa A-Akem Kpee
02 Orchestra Marrabenta Star De Mocambique: Elisa Gomara Saia
03 Ayalèw Mèsfin: Hasabé
04 Yam Yam Feat. Les Mangelepa: Kai Kai
05 International Orchestra Safari Sound: Homa Imenizidia
06 Osayomore Joseph & The Creative 7: Oyeye
07 West Nkosi: Durban Road
08 Super Cayor De Dakar: Dégoo
09 Saleta Phiri & The AB Sounds: Kalulu Mwana
10 Malombo: Mbaqanga Blues
11 Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National: Onwunwa
12 Francis Bebey: Ndolo

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2015/01/13/376962350/discoveries-from-globalfest-2015

x-post to link Mordy posted--Love the flow of those Senegalese guys rapping the news

i found the jones family singers to be wholly unremarkable; do not get the critical love for that band

Haven't seen or heard them yet, but maybe because they recorded in a guy from Spoon's studio, they are getting more attention from folks who otherwise would not listen to gospel-related music.

http://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/torodi

Hama is a multi instrumentalist and electronic synthesizer composer from the Republic of Niger. His music has enjoyed wide acclaim throughout the country through his underground releases of unlabeled digital recordings on memory cards. Creating at the convergence of disparate influences, such as North African instrumental synth, Tuareg tishumaren, 90s Nigerien Hip Hop and second wave Detroit techno, Hama composes music that is futuristic and rooted in tradition, transmitting Tuareg guitar into the 21st Century.
credits

released 18 January 2015

http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3392759242_2.jpg

Will check that out. I've been checking out Youtube videos of Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara performing with Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, as well as re-listening to her album Fatou from a few years back. She is touring North America in April. She was once a backup singer for Oumou Sangare, learned how to play guitar, and has also collaborated with Blur's Damon Albarn (but don't hold that against her). There's also youtubes of her doing frenetic African dance

fatoumata is a favorite of mine and an absolutely lovely human being

otm fatou is the best

awesome tapes from africa releasing this soon:
http://www.amoeba.com/obaa-sima-lp-ata-kak/albums/3447818/

and this week:
http://www.awesometapes.com/mbilia-bel-phenomene/

http://i2.wp.com/www.awesometapes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MbiliaBel.jpg?zoom=2&fit=1024%2C1024

no one should sleep on this mbilia bel tape it's so sunny + joyous

Recall her from that time when I would hear and read alot about Congolese rumba/soukous musicians. Will check it out

Crossposting to link the first two tracks of available albums listed in the Transglobal World Music Chart Best of 2015 list: https://open.spotify.com/user/12168710240/playlist/1ZenLua47XVtUenbYXmh9X

Original list: http://www.transglobalwmc.com/charts/best-of-2015-chart/

No electro chaabi or Burkina Faso hip hop, plenty of traditional European, take from it what you will...

The Very Best opening for Mumford, eh? Sounds like the perfect fit. :P

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band - Gyae Su

Gave a quick listen to this finally, and the guitar playing is sublime

transcendent, blissful

After two years, the Guardian have called time on all their playlist features so this is my last Middle Eastern and North African column for them (bar my best-of round up next week). It was good of them to commission it in the first place. Can't think of any other UK newspaper or general music publication that would have given me the opportunity.

I'm thinking of carrying it on for the Quietus in case anyone's interested.

Damn. I've read every single one of those, and been introduced to so much good music. The Guardian has had the best world music coverage of any newspaper, largely thanks to your column. Please continue at the Quietus!

that 47soul album really is a lot of fun

Thanks Adam! Am leaning toward carrying on with it.

Yes, please do.

Mbongwana Star, From Kinshasa World Circuit

This is really growing on me. First, I thought it was just a good but one note melding of Staff Benda Bilili and Konono No. 1, but there's more to it than that and more variety.

Portland, Ore based exiled Zimbabwean Thomas Mapfumo's 2015 Dangerzone album is pleasant enough, if not dazzling.

http://dublab.com/chris-silver-jewish-morocco-special-guest-set-on-celsius-drop-12-10-15/

Interesting...

AllMusic's favourite Latin and World albums of 2015: http://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/2015/favorite-latin-and-world

I've only heard 2 or 3 of those, but the Natalia Lafourcade album is fantastic.

I like the Lafourcade too

https://shellachead.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-45s-of-sudan-shellachead-annual-2015

thx to NPR for spotlighting this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3bjZlmsb4A

Taking some time off from work next week, lots of music here to catch up on.

I'll make my year end list up sometime today

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Mbwongana Star and likely Tal National are 3 of my faves...But need to listen more to other new stuff plus reissues

Songhoy Blues covering the Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go" (language not in English)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEoxSE7DTAA

x-post-- Just finally watched Mordy fave video up a few posts-- The singing Israeli Haim sisters front A-WA (pronounced “Ay-wa,” meaning “yes” in Arabic), a band that mixes traditional Yemenite folk songs with modern electronic grooves.

The “A-WA album contains love and protest songs of women in the Yemeni-Arabic dialect, that were passed on as an oral tradition and were first recorded in the early 60’s by the Yemeni singer-songwriter Shlomo Moga’a,” the band’s site reads.

The sisters sing in Arabic.

http://www.israel21c.org/israels-haim-sisters-conquer-arab-music-world/

I like that one

yeah it's great I love the dancing in the music video too

The Balkan Beat Box production stands out for me. Its (surprisingly) as distinctive as Transglobal Underground was in the 90s. Chalk it to the bass line.

Good points.

New Aziza Brahim album next year; I believe some folks here like her.

First track is called "Calles de Dajla":

http://soundcloud.com/glitterbeat/aziza-brahim-calles-de-dajla

New Music 2015

Songhoy Blues - Music in Exile (Mali)
Blick Bassy - Akö (Cameroon)
Hama - Torodi (Niger)
Tal National - Zoy Zoy (Niger)
Dexter Story - Wondem (LA/Ethiopia)
Nozinja - Nozinja Lodge (South Africa)
Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band - Juguya (Burkina Faso)
Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud - Isswat (Azawad, Mali)
Bassekou Kouyate - Ba Power (Mali)
The Very Best - Makes a King (Malawi)
Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa (Congo)
SK Kakraba - Songs of Paapieye (Ghana)

Old (Reissues) 2015

Francis the Great - Ravissante Baby (France/Cameroon)
Ata Kak - Obaa Sima (Ghana)
E.T. Mensah & The Tempos - King of Highlife: Anthology (Ghana)
VA - Next Stop Soweto 4: Zulu Rock, Afro-Disco & Mbaqanga 1975-1985 (South Africa)
VA - Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Nigeria/Ghana)
VA - Near Eastern Music in NYC from the Metropolitan-Kaliphone-Balkan Labels, 1940s-50s Vol 3: Bulgarian, Greek, Jewish & Turkish Performers (NYC)
VA - Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll (Cambodia)
Mammane Sani et son Orgue - La Musique Electronique du Niger (Niger)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color (France)
VA - Disco Dildar (Pakistan)

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461392042/in-exile-burundian-musicians-create-out-of-crisis

Interesting, how they're making the best out of a bad situation.

Still working through a number of 2015 albums from this thread....

Listening to South Africa's Nozinja now...Vocals sounding good so far

i think a lot of ilxors like that one. wouldn't be surprised to see it place in the year end poll.

Has that Shangaan electro thing going

well he created the concept didn't he?

Oops, oh yeah, duh....

A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (spotify link, the 34th album by famed 78 year old samba singer Elza Soares, is great. The hoarse-voiced Soares is joined by guitarist Kiko Dinucci (of Metá Metá and Passo Torto), and "The End of the World Woman" is a similarly bracing affair to his other bands (mentioned upthread), spanning an abyss between 70s samba, the junkyard esthetic of Marc Ribot/later-Tom Waits, and psych noise, with a fringing of electronics. I don't speak Portuguese, but the lyrics apparently address transsexuality, domestic violence, heroin addiction, the São Paulo water crisis, and death.

I would have nominated it in our EOY poll (just discovered it today), but perhaps someone else into this will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38EcMJX8A8

For what its worth, a Google translate of the lyrics.

Same title as last year, but new year. You know the drill-

this is the thread for funky, bluesy, new + reissued music from lots of different places that may include ghana, congo, kenya, niger, mali, south africa, syria, lebanon, israel, iraq, iran, turkey, and other places that make cool music that doesn't always get enough press in the west. some labels that might be relevant here: sublime frequencies, honest jons, sahelsounds, light in the attic, voodoo funk, awesome tapes from africa, analog africa, kindred spirits, soundway.

Plus I like to hear about live music. Last year's thread: Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2015 Thread Once Known as World Music

Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2016 Thread Once Known as World Music

new thread link

(post scriptum) I used Eek - Trinity (which I found here) for an Argentinian football blooper reel... the audience retention is abysmal, so it will never take off... but hey it was worth it, best track of the year imho.

(I make these for fun and earn no $$$, so consider it a video editor's mixtape. Starts at 4:31 for those on mobile... but the first song is great, too; if you know any Argentinian rock songs you know this one.)

https://youtu.be/JK3Y7x5T7Ug?t=4m31s

I'm wrapping this thread up for the year. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Global / Outernational 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

something very odd is going on with that new 2016 thread link, anybody else having problems?

opening it directly takes me back to this thread, and opening it in a new tab changes my stylesheet.

Rolling Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2016 Thread Once Known as World Music

Try again. Although maybe I should have changed the name a bit

that worked, thanks!

that's an issue I've had on ilx in general quite a bit lately.

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/26/483231557/why-was-a-prominent-muslim-musician-gunned-down-in-pakistan

Damn. I preferred Sabri Bros. to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for being more trancey.

Late to the party on this one, I realize, but I love this right now. It reminds me of being up too late by myself playing Nintendo, long after the fun of the actual object of the game has worn off and you're just exploring the terrain on Contra or Mega Man or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl_sZwVwPE4

I missed out on Mamman Sani, Niger synth musician too. He’s got a Sahel Sounds effort I see, and other stuff on Bandcamp