Recommend me some World Music

Rolling World Music 2006 Thread

Linha Rolando para a Música Brasileiro 2006

For joy: Seek The Best of Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens (South Africa) if you don't already have it. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

David Byrne's timeless Brazil Classics comp. Perfect. Really.

Also Franco & Rochereau - Omona Wapi (Zaire/Congo). Similarly transcendent, but propulsive in a swaying way. Not drums and horns.

(That Carlinhos album is very good, although, although in practice I only listen to a couple of tracks anymore. I am resisting forcing Marisa Monte - Rose & Charcoal on you, although it is also one of my favorite albums EVER.

how about some tlahoun gessesse?? ethiopian soul/funk from the sixties/seventies.

I was assuming he actually has/has heard a lot more than what his question might suggest at face value.

I guess we should've said Happy Birthday, too, shouldn't we?"

# 1 of: Boulevard De L'independance: +DVD
# 1 of: Who Is This America
# 1 of: It's Never Been Like That
# 1 of: The Radio Tisdas Sessions
# 1 of: Amassakoul

Yes I know Phoenix are not "World Music".

I thought you wanted horns! (Not that you owe us an explanation or anything.)

For that horn fix, I would recommend something that's a little old, but out of the way (although fairly well discussed on ILM): ReBirth Brass Band, Hot Venom (NOLA is in, too.) (Hot Venom is far superior to any other RBB record I've heard, or indeed any other brass band record I've heard.)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007XT83K/qid=1147797327/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2070267-2360964?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

http://search.reviews.ebay.com/Disco-Bhangra-Wedding-Bands-From-Rajasthan_UPC_634164003128_W0QQfvcsZ1226QQsoprZ3168507

ghana sounds
ghana sounds 2
afro baby (nigerian comp)

i haven't heard ghana sounds 1, but the other two records are aces. big horns. awesome drumming. joy everywhere.

i really like king sunny ade when it comes to highlife. and i think i heard someone say that tony allen has some new stuff out.

dan

Anyone care to add to this list? I'm feeling a bit of world music hunger.
Also is there such a thing as CDs of world atmospherics (which aren't just effects library CDs)?

William Onyeabor

garifuna women's project: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/07/090615.php

Rolling Sublime Whirled Music 2008 (a catch-all thread when you can't find another one that works)

Debord, are you asking about hybrid stuff with programmed beats, or traditional Malian music on acoustic instruments, or Eastern European Roma sounds, or reissued salsa or african hiphop, or South African kwaito dance stuff or what?

big drums, big horns =

http://louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=1903
http://louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=783
http://www.myspace.com/hot8brassband
http://www.myspace.com/freeagentsbrassband
http://louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=721

http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Etran-Finatawa/dp/B000F3A9W6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222098080&sr=8-2
and
http://www.amazon.com/Desert-Crossroads-Etran-Finatawa/dp/B0012GJGX8/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b
are both great, maybe start w/ Introducing...

curmudgeon - the real deal - not programmed. So more this "or traditional Malian music on acoustic instruments, or Eastern European Roma sounds, or reissued salsa or african hiphop, or South African kwaito dance stuff" and even more esoteric field recordings.

p.s.
I'm going to check the Garifuna, and yours nerve_pylon cheers for that...

re: field recordings, there's a whole bunch of volumes of these: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Museum-Mankind-Vol-1925-1948/dp/B000000G9D

haven't listened to all of this, but love track 8 (note: no drums or horns, period): http://www.amazon.com/Music-Indonesia-Vol-20-Indonesian/dp/B00001ZWCR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222100640&sr=1-1

"Night Song" by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook was an excellent album. Same about "N'ssi N'ssi" by Khaled.

Debord: You really want to look into the CDs issued on Sublime Frequencies. Generally their press notes will discuss the recording conditions (taped from radio, hand-held recorders "in the field," etc.)

^^ seconded.

and while you're at it, check out http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/item.asp?Item_id=37&CD=Group-Inerane:-Guitars-From-Agadez-(Music-of-Niger) (i guess it's only available as a download...)

and the crazy Thai Orchestra lp on Mississippi: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=31868

And there are ILX threads on the Sublime Frequence label and one on the Missississippi Records label and another one on Nigerian reissues.

Also "programmed beats" are as much the real deal in many parts of the non-Anglo world as they are in the Anglo-world. Or maybe you were just criticizing albums that try too hard to mix various cultures with disco or electronica style American or European beats and fail.

>Also is there such a thing as CDs of world atmospherics (which aren't just effects library CDs)?

not sure if this is what you're asking about:
http://www.wildsanctuary.com/

the whole series is good but the Douglas Quin is the standout:
http://www.amazon.com/Antarctica-Douglas-Quin/dp/B000006HDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1222114904&sr=1-1

otherwise I recommend this:
http://www.amazon.com/Tuva-Among-Spirits-Sound-Nature/dp/B00000G4OG
Tuva, Among the Spirits is a sonic journey to the steppes of southern Siberia, the wellspring of Tuvan and Sakhan music, where the spiritual power of nature is manifested through its sounds. In these unprecedented on-site recordings, master musicians imitate and interact with the natural acoustic environment. Recorded in 1995-1998 on horseback, in creek beds, caves, canyons, and grasslands.

Thanks for all these awesome suggestions. I like the look of the penguins.

curmudgeon - "Also "programmed beats" are as much the real deal in many parts of the non-Anglo world as they are in the Anglo-world. Or maybe you were just criticizing albums that try too hard to mix various cultures with disco or electronica style American or European beats and fail."

That was exactly what I was doing!