Tuesday 25 April 2017

VA-Everyone's World from Andy Kershaw

As a follow-up to previous posts about John Peel, it seems a nice idea to remember his death exactly 12.5 years ago with a similar post put together from recordings from Andy Kershaw's show on BBC Radio 1. They were real pals, shared the office and for some time their radiohsows were directly behind each other (first Kershaw followed by Peel, including sometimes humorous handing overs in between the shows).
Andy Kershaw and John Peel having a picnic - source: ipswichstar
(together they shared a cramped, chaotic office for 12 years)

VA-KERSHAW's Everyone's World

Tracklist:
  • Cheb Khaled - Hada Raykoum (ALGERIA)
  • Four Brothers - Mukadzi Wepiri (ZIMBABWE)
  • Freddy de Majunga et Master Mwana Congo - Vien Dance (CONGO)
  • Youssou N'dour - Live TV (SENEGAL)
  • Sadio Kouyate - Madiou Bana (MALI) - more at wrldsrv
  • Alan Namoko and Chimvu Jazz - Chibali (MALAWI)
  • Kade Diawara - Bele Bele (GUINEE)
  • Modibo Kone - Njanjaran Fole (IVORY COAST MALI)
  • Blama Guita Brahima Guitar* - Djembena Jarabela Jon Bena Djarabíla (GUINEE IVORY COAST)
  • Modibo Kone - Sigi Kadjo (IVORY COAST MALI)
  • Sexteto Munamar - Vengan Vengan (CUBA)
  • Franco et OK Jazz - Cha Cha Cha (CONGO)
  • Ambassadeur International - Saly (MALI)
  • Gueatan System - Zolo (IVORY COAST) incl.talk about natari
  • Madinda Solo (UGANDA)
  • Dembo Konte & Kausu Kuyateh - Kairaba Jabi (GAMBIA/SENEGAL)
Tracks in order of broadcasting, most from local K7s and incl.interesting talk by Andy Kershaw
Note:* who knows more (anything at all) about the mysterious Blama Guita, please leave info in the comments

UPDATE - Corrections and additional info from NGONI comments:
Blama Guita = Brahima Guitar (from Ivory Coast), found two album by him (both without the posted song):


Enjoy the Show, and don't forget:
'Everybody is from this World,
and the World is Everyone's'

Oumou Sangaré - 2009.Apr.22 - BBC Session

As promised some more Music from Mali recorded by the BBC.
Oumou Sangare 2009.Apr.24 at Later... with Jools (BBC TV)
Sessions by Oumou Sangare in early 2009 for the promotion of her album 'Seya'.

Listen to Sounsoumba (session)


SANGARE-20090422 - Session 6music BBC

BBC 6music Session, 2009.Apr.22: 1.Donso / 2.Mogakele / 3.Sounsoumba
source: repeat 2017.Apr.22 BBC 6music - Live Hour
really like these stripped down versions.......

BBC TV - Later... with Jools, 2009.Apr.24: 1.Sounsoumba / 2.Seya
source: video of the show (ZDF rebroadcast)

And when searching the BBC for more details about the 6music session, which btw I couldn't find, I came across a 1991 radio program with an interview with 'Malian Singer Oumous Sangari'(sic). In that same show was also an interview with 'Griot singer Fanta Damba', included both in the download.

For the discography check this previous post about Oumou Sangare.

Watch some recent performances:


Looking forward for the new album, to be released in May............

Sunday 23 April 2017

Tinariwen - 2017.Mar.07 Live in Liverpool

Quick post.

Tinariwen 2017.Mar.07 (source: kin2kin.co.uk)
Just found that the concert by Tinariwen 2017.Mar.07 at the Invisible Wind Factory in Liverpool can be listened to for about a month at the BBC Radio 3 Website (till 2017.May.21).

Here it's available: World on 3 (2017.Apr.21)

The page includes full setlist and some background info, before the show itself there is a good introduction by Andy Morgan (former manager of Tinariwen).

ENJOY!! Recommended while eating a fresh one!!

PS1: when the show can not be listened to anymore on the BBC site, I'll post the full concert, incl.interesting talk, here at Mangue Music (similar like Orchestra Baobab earlier)
PS2: soon to follow more/other Malian Music from the BBC

Saturday 15 April 2017

Namgyal Lhamo - 2010/13 Live & Session NL

Now let's fly over to a place not covered before on Mangue Music, and where probably no mangos are growing, but with inspiring music: Tibet.
Namgyal Lhamo - live bringing music from Tibet

Namgyal Lhamo - The Nightingale of Tibet

summary from www.musicwords.nl/papyros~artist~Lhamo, Namgyal_en.html
Namgyal Lhamo was born in 1956, the year of the Chinese invasion of Tibet, just across the Tibetan border in Nepal at the foot of the Kanchen Junga mountain range. She grew up in a pure Tibetan environment where all religious, social and cultural traditions still prevailed. Her father was highly respected by all ethnic groups and had a long term vision to develop the community while preserving the traditions. Education was key for him, so Namgyal was sent to school at an early age.
In the early 1970s Namgyal’s father ran into trouble with the Nepalese authorities and army, as his house had been a natural stop for any Tibetan fleeing from Tibet over the passes west of the Kanchen Junga. For safety reasons his daughters were sent to India in the care of the Tibetan government in exile.
There in Dharamsala they were selected to join the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts (TIPA, set up by H. H. the Dalai Lama). Starting at a very young age, Namgyal Lhamo trained for over fourteen years under the great masters of Tibetan Opera and Classical Music. She went on to become the star performer of the TIPA and travelled over India and the world. Her interpretations of the Nangma and the Toeshe, Tibetan opera and classical songs from the 17th century, have been universally acclaimed and she is popularly known as 'The Nightingale of Tibet'. Through this passage she stepped into the tradition of the various kinds of classical and folk music of her country.
Namgyal Lhamo performs solo and is accompanied on stage by her voice, the Tibetan lute (Dranyen), sometimes the flute or dulcimer and her independent spirit.
Since the 1980’s Namgyal Lhamo lives in the Netherlands, still pursuing the mission to preserve Tibetan culture and traditions through her music. She acted as extra in the Hollywood production ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, and was the leading figure in the Dutch documentary ‘Seven Dreams of Tibet’.
Next to her music and acting she is running the Tibetan restaurant 'de Werfkring' in Utrecht, recommended if you're in the neighbourhood and looking for a nice place to eat.

Listen to her live in 2010:


LHAMO-NAMGYAL-2010/13 - Live and Session NL

2010.Dec.03 - Dutch Jazz & World Meeting, Melkweg Amsterdam
stelist: 1.Jhola Tashi - Auspicious Song (5:00) / 2.Amaleho - White Crane (3:05) / 3.Shyel Kyishokpa - Crystal Wing (2:45) / 4.Shigatse - Folk Song from Shigatse (2:05)
broadcast: PRX, Hear the World 2011, Program p14 (by rnw, Hilversum, North Holland)

2013.Sep.20 - ConcertZender - Acoustic Roots Session
setlist: 1.Om Mani Padme Hum (mantra) / 2.Acho Soetop (listen mr.Soutop) / 3.Amaleho (white crane) / 4.Shyel Kyishokpa (crystal wings) / 5.Gya Nagpo Ta (black chinese horse) / 6.Nima Lhasa (a day in Lhasa) / 7.Relpa Thungso (celebrating Milarepa) / 8.Chang Gana / 9.Pangye Metok (meadow flowers)
broadcast: ConcertZender 2013.Sep.20 - Acoustic Roots


Discography

2000: Voices from Tibet - with Gang Chenpa (CD, Papyros)
2003: Songs from Tibet (CD, Papyros) rereleased by World Music Network
2007: Pure (CD, Silk Road)
2007: The Enchanted Land (CD, Silk Road)
2009: Highland Supernova [Silk Road, cancelled album?] "Paradise Lost" posted 2008.Aug
2012: Musical Offering 1 - Anthology of Tibetan Songs (CD, Papyros)
2015: Musical Offering 2 - Anthology of Tibetan Classical Songs (CD, Papyros)

Things to read, listen and watch

  • 2007.Sep: interview - worldmusiccentral
  • 2008.Mar: opening gala Woman's Film Maker's Festival, Cretéil, France - youtube
  • 2008.Aug: Paradise Lost videoclip - vimeo [for cancelled album?]
  • 2008.Dec: interview in The Statesman - republished tibet.ca
  • 2012.Dec: Tongni - Emptiness - prayer for His Holiness - Vrije Geluiden - youtube
  • 2012.Dec: Nima Lhasa - a day in Lhasa - Vrije Geluiden - youtube
  • 2012.Dec: Relpa Thungso - birth of Milarepa - Vrije Geluiden - youtube
  • 2013: interview on VoA Tibetan - youtube [sorry no subtitles...]

Monday 3 April 2017

Various Senegal from K7s (2006-1)


mangos from Senegal
source: organic-market
As promised at the end of the previous post about Orchestra Baobab, more music from Senegal.

This is a follow up of the, about half a year ago posted, K7s radio shows (Guinee and Mali), which I catched again from the ConcertZender in 2006.

info from the radioshow:
For the African market cassettes are important - they are easy to duplicate and play. Musically it's interesting because often less concessions to Western tastes and pop influences are made. We go on a journey through a stack of cassettes from Senegal.

Listen to Assane Gaye with Mame Falou


VARIOUS SENEGAL K7s (2006-1)

Full Tracklist

1.Abdou Guite Seck - Yamale (2004, K7, Coono Aduna)
    Abdou Guite Seck played in the band Wock, in 2002 he started his solo carreer
    biographies: guiteseck / musiques-afrique / youtube 
    discography: guiteseck  (note: Coone Aduna K7 not mentioned)
    recent video channel of Abdou Guite Seck at youtube

2.Assane Gaye - Mame Falou (K7, Mandou)
    no info found
3.Assane Mboup - Walle Bagne (1997, K7, Nate-Yi)
4.Assane Mboup - Nate-Yi (1997, K7, Nate-Yi)
    great vocalist, has played with Orchestra Baobab (since 2001)
    biography incl.discography at afrisson 

    Nate-Yi K7 has been posted at awesometapes
5.Baaba Maal & Daande Lenol - Delli Delli (2004, K7, Farba)
6.Baaba Maal & Daande Lenol - Jamanu (2004, K7, Farba)
    website / biography / discography 
    many Baaba Maal K7s at ndiakhass
7.Coumba Gawlo & Souleymane Faye - Sey Dou Choix (2003, K7, Gawlo & Diego)
    born 1972 near Thies in a musical family,
    used to sing along at very young age with her mother Fatou Kiné Mbaye (see 11),
    recording is duo K7 with Souleymane Faye aka Diego
    biography
/ discography 
    Gawlo & Diego K7 at ndiakhass
8.El Hadj N'Diaye - Tokoroni - text in Japanese (K7, Siggi)
    biography / discography 
    Geej CD (incl.Tokoroni) available at albumtrad
9.Fallou Dieng - Jikoom (2004, K7, Licii Jamano)
10.Fallou Dieng - Sida (2004, K7, Licii Jamano)
    started singing with Lemzo Diamono around 1990,
    later went solo with his own band called 'le DLC' (= le Dakar Loisirs Club)
    biography
/ discography (last updated 2003)
11.Fatou Kine Mbaye - Dabakh (1991, K7, Touba Belel)
    mother of Coumba Gawlo (see 7), no further info found

Sunday 2 April 2017

Orchestra Baobab - 2017.Jan.31 Live in London (DL)

As promised a month ago, when the Orchestra Baobab show can not be listened to anymore on the BBC player, I'll upload it here!!!
Mamadou Mountaga Koite of Orchestra Baobab at the Roundhouse, London.
Photograph: John Williams - Source: The Guardian

Orchestra Baobab - 2017 January 31 - London

Main Space - In The Round (+ Estée Blu as support act)
2017 sees the return of In The Round, a series of intimate performances staged in a rarely seen fully seated concert set-up at the Roundhouse. One of Africa’s great iconic bands, Orchestra Baobab create some of the world’s most sublime and truly distinctive music.
Formed in 1970, taking their name from the Dakar nightclub where they were resident, they fused Afro-Cuban rhythm and Portuguese Creole melody with Congolese rumba, high life and a whole gamut of local styles, kick starting a musical renaissance in their native Senegal, which turned the capital, Dakar, into one of the world’s most vibrant musical cities.
The band released dozens of recordings before disbanding in the mid-80s but it was their neglected 1982 album, Ken Dou Werente - which included many of their most famous songs, ‘Coumba’, ‘Ledi Njemme Mbodj’ and ‘Utru Horas’ - that became a cult-classic, re-released to huge acclaim by World Circuit Records in 1989 under the title Pirate’s Choice.
The band reformed in 2001 with encouragement from Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour and the following year released Specialist in All Styles, their first album in nearly 20 years.
In 2007 they released Made in Dakar, and now, nine years on, Orchestra Baobab are back in the studio recording their fourth album for World Circuit, which is set for release in Spring 2017.
With support from Roundhouse Resident Artist Estée Blu, a singer-songwriter who embraces genres such as Jazz and Gospel and champions authenticity and imagination through Neo- Soul and R&B. Often likened to Solange, Lianne la Havas and Corinne Bailey Rae, Blu equally brings her own style to Contemporary R&B.

1.BBC World on 3 introduction

Introduction to Orchestra Baobab as broadcasted on BBC before concert itself.

BAOBAB-20170131 - Roundhouse London BBC intro

tracklist: 1.Coumba (from Pirates Choice, rec.1982) / 2.On Verra Ca* (BBC World Routes rec.2001) / 3.Mouhamadou Bamba (from Bamba, rec.1980)

In between the music is interesting talk by the DJ and Lucy Duran (!) about Orchestra Baobab and background of the played songs.

*from World Routes (2001.Sep.01, BBC Radio 3)
Lucy Duran travels to Dakarto meet the Senegalese Orchestra Baobab, performing again for the first time since the 80s.
Earlier this year (2001) the legendary and seminal Senegalese salsa band Orchestra Baobab reformed, performing together for the first time since the 80s. The group, whose mellow sound rocked West Africa, is now recording a new album at the studios of African superstar Youssou N'Dour. Lucy Duran travels to Dakar to meet the band  and witness this historic event.
From 2001 playlist: On Verra Ca (traditional Mandinka Version) by Balla Sidibe (BBC recording)

2.BBC World on 3 The Concert


BAOBAB-20170131 - Roundhouse London BBC live

setlist: 1.Dee Mo Woor / 2.Amikitabay / 3.Fayincounko / 4.Foulo Kano / 5.Woulignewa / 6.Kharit Kharito / talk about 'Utros Horas' / 7.Utros Horas / 8.Magno Couto / 9.Ndiaga Niaw / talk about 'On Verra Ca' and 'Bulma Mine' / 10.Bulma Mine / 11.On Verra Ca / 12.Werente Serigne

again sometimes with some (interesting!) talk in between some tracks

More about Orchestra Baobab 2017


PS1: audio is the highest quality BBC stream I could directly catch (m4a-320-48Hz), so no converting and just splitted-up in individual track, ENJOY!!!!
PS2: for the usual discography, check this previous post about Orchestra Baobab
PS3: more Senegalese music to expected soon........