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July 29, 2023: Still more summer concert previews and new releases
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Baskot Lel Baltageyya | Biscuit | Various Artists: The Wire Tapper #61 | Baskot Lel Baltageyya (meaning 'cookies for thugs') is a Cairo-based project headed by musician Adham Zidan and poet Anwar Dabbour. | * | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Sanam | Bell | Aykathani Malakon صنم - أيقظني ملاكٌ | Mais Um | Beirut-based freeform psych troupe SANAM make a convincing racket on their debut album, fusing Egyptian traditional songs with a heady tonic of free jazz, acid rock and DIY noise. | * | 0:05:01 (Pop-up) |
Xylouris White | Underworld | The Forest in Me | Drag City | GIG: Union Pool, Sunday afternoon Aug 6, outdoors, free. / Xylouris White is a musical collaboration established in 2013, involving Greek singer and laouto player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White, best known for his work with Dirty Three. | * | 0:11:16 (Pop-up) |
Ferkat Al Ard | Entazerni | Oghneya | Habibi Funk | Issam Hajali's group - from Lebanon - leftist | 0:13:21 (Pop-up) | |
Nagat | Fakra (Do You Remember) | Eyoun El Alb | WeWantSounds | When it comes to Arabic Divas, Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz and Warda usually take the lead in the poll list. But in her native Egypt, singer Nagat Al Saghira comes very close to this triumvirate. She rose to fame in the late forties and became an essential part of classic period of Arabic music. | 0:19:55 (Pop-up) | |
Chaba Malika Meddah | Sid Houari Ya Mlah | A Moi La Liberte - Early Electronic Raï - Algerie - 1983-1990 | Born Bad Records | About the comp: A wonderfully well-done collection – one that brings together some of the more hard-hitting tracks from the early days of Algerian rai music – cuts that stand in a really strong contrast to the more polished mode that showed up on record charts during the big years of world music | * | 0:30:15 (Pop-up) |
Doğan Çelik | Ma bi Xêr - Hello | Kilamê Vayî | Kalan Müzik | Doğan Çelik is an ethnic folk music artist. After a gap of 9 years since his first solo album 'Zewt' (curse), he has recently released his latest album 'Kılamê Vayî' (Songs of the Wind). | 0:36:19 (Pop-up) | |
Juana Molina Vs Kasai Allstars | Hoy Supe Que Viajas | Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers - Alternative Takes on Congotronics, Vol. 1 | Crammed Discs | GIG: globalFEST outdoors at Lincoln Center, free, Saturday August 5th | 0:44:48 (Pop-up) | |
Omodaka | Kokirikobushi 【Video Mix】 | Zentsuu: Collected Works 2001~2019 | WRWTFWW Records | Initiated in 2001 while trying to create a "boat racing song", the OMODAKA project features sublime music by veteran electronic/house/jungle/video game music producer/DJ Soichi Terada and the vocals of Japanese folk min'yō & enka singer Akiko Kanazawa | 0:49:15 (Pop-up) | |
Son Palenque | Es La Idea | Itan Pa loyo | Palenque Records | Electric version of famous Afro-Colombian band, also known as Kaine Sound Band | 0:52:48 (Pop-up) | |
Altın Gün | Doktor Civanım | Aşk | Glitterbeat | GIG: Monday, 31 July, Altin Gün + Rogê @ Brooklyn Steel | 0:56:08 (Pop-up) | |
Novalima | Hatajo | La Danza - Part 1 | Six Degrees | GIG: Drom, Sat Aug 19 / Novalima's style blends Afro-Peruvian music with Electronica, Latin American beats, and other contemporary genres. | 1:04:16 (Pop-up) | |
Nihiloxica | Kudistro | Source of Denial | Crammed Discs | Advance single. Nihiloxica is a live project that harnesses the full force of the ancient Bugandan drumming tradition of Uganda and focusses it on the contemporary dancefloor through a dark, brooding lens of techno sensibility. | * | 1:08:03 (Pop-up) |
Fatoumata Diawara | Yada | London Ko | Montuno / Wagram | Fatoumata Diawara is a Malian singer-songwriter currently living in France. Diawara's music combines traditional Wassoulou with international styles. | * | 1:11:43 (Pop-up) |
Karen y Los Remedios | Silencio | Silencio | ZZK | Advance single. Karen y Los Remedios is the project led by Ana Karen G Barajas, an artist and arts and social sciences researcher born in Mexico City and raised in Guanajuato, in the company of Mexico City native Jonathan Muriel (Jiony) and guitarist Guillermo Berbeyer (Z.A.M.P.A.), who after many years on Mexico’s alternative scene decided to get together and bring this existential cumbia project to life. | * | 1:14:40 (Pop-up) |
Eddie Palmieri | Oyelo Que Te Conviene | A Man And His Music - The Sun Of Latin Music | Fania | GIG: Wed Aug 2 with Lulada Club and JFuse (DJ) @ Crotona Park, Bronx (free) | 1:22:57 (Pop-up) | |
Grupo Rebolu | Que Ilusion | Mi Herencia (My Heritage) | Smithsonian Folkways | GIGs: Friday Aug 4 @ Pier 45 at Hudson River Park, Hudson River Greenway, 7 pm, free; also a family show @ Flushing Town Hall Sat Aug 5 at 3 pm. | 1:26:27 (Pop-up) | |
Jupiter and Okwess | Muba | Na Kozonga | Zamorla | GIG: globalFEST outdoors at Lincoln Center, free, Saturday August 5th | 1:29:57 (Pop-up) | |
RAM | St Clair | RAM 7 - August 1791 | Willibelle Publishing & Sales | GIG: globalFEST outdoors at Lincoln Center, free, Saturday August 5th | 1:34:27 (Pop-up) | |
Pedro Lima | Non conveta quâ | Antologia Vol. 1 | Les Disques Bongo Joe | Pedro Lima was certainly the most iconic singer from Sao Tomé island. Born in 1944, his career began at teenage, with his faithful band Os Leonenses, who were mostly members of his family and shared most of his musical life; and lasted until his death in 2019 | * | 1:41:34 (Pop-up) |
Duncan Senyatso and the Kgwanyape Band | Sheleng | Mephato Ya Maloba | Label Bleu | 1993 release from popular Botswanan artist. Originally released by South African indie Shifty Records. | 1:47:57 (Pop-up) | |
Yalla Miku | Hyper Tigre | Yall Miku | Les Disques Bongo Joe | Yalla Miku's frenetic and uplifting debut album is a genre twister, with musicians from North and East Africa coming together with various musical alchemists from Geneva's burgeoning and experimentally minded, global music scene. | * | 1:57:43 (Pop-up) |
Josef Van Wissem | A New Earth | Behold! I Make All Things New | Incunabulum | Jozef van Wissem is a Dutch minimalist composer and lute player based in Brooklyn. | * | 2:02:14 (Pop-up) |
Bastarda & Sutari | Tam Nad Puszczaj | Tamoj | Audio Cave | "Tamoj", an album by two Polish bands, Bastarda and Sutari, reaches back to the roots of Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian border culture. They drew from Belarusian folk songs, Lithuanian sutartinės, as well as Polish traditional music. | 2:05:46 (Pop-up) | |
Kapela Niwińskich | Dziki Walerii | Pogłosy | The new album of Kapela Niwińskich entitled "Reverberations" is a musical journey towards the sources of Polish traditional music, following the three-dimensional meter and rubato tempo permeating the rural landscapes of Central Poland - Mazovia and Kujawy. | * | 2:09:33 (Pop-up) | |
Dobrila & Dorian Duo | Elaj, Riste, elaj | Pile šareno | SJF Records | Dobrila and Dorian have been working together since 2008 as part of Chalgia Sound System, one of the best known and most dedicated traditional Chalgia music performing bands, as well as creating contemporary music inspired by and on the foundation of the traditional Chalgia of Macedonia. | 2:14:25 (Pop-up) | |
Neculai Florea, Nicolae Amarandei, Valentin Bălășoiu | Sârba popilor | Moldavia - Peasant tunes from the Old Land of Hârlău | Buda Musique | Near Hârlău, a town in Romanian Moldavia, live the three traditional musicians who took part in this project. The recordings are based around the cobza, a plucked string instrument, and the rural repertoire. | 2:19:19 (Pop-up) | |
Michalis Kouloumis, Tristan Driessens, Miriam Encinas | Patrunino | Music For Shepherds & Sultans | Homerecords | This album presents a mix of original compositions in the classical Ottoman style and anonymous rural dances from Cyprus, with the trio seeking to unite classical and popular music. | 2:22:09 (Pop-up) | |
Csókolom | Gankino Horo | May I Kiss Your Hand | Arhoolie | Hungarian band's take on a Bulgarian folk dance standard. Csókolom played Eastern European folk music with a gypsy flavor, emphasizing arrangements using two or three violins and a double bass. | 2:30:04 (Pop-up) | |
Mohamad Zatari Trio | Gankino Horo | Istehlal | Zehra | Musicians from Syria, Iran & India. The trio merges traditional Middle Eastern sounds with contemporary vibes incl. interpretations of Hossein Alizadeh & Riad Al-Sunbati classics. | * | 2:33:52 (Pop-up) |
Mehmet Polat | Embodied Poetry | Embodied Poetry | Music bed for concert listings | * | 2:40:32 (Pop-up) | |
Spruce Ritual with Lucian Kano Balmer | Begin Again | The Way The Evening Speaks | Ansonica Records | "Raga-infused chamber music," featuring violin, viola, cello, sitar, and tabla. Album officially releases in October. | * | 2:48:24 (Pop-up) |
Roopa Panesar, Ramdas Palsule | Rag Gujri Todi - Madhya Laya Gat in Tal Teental | Subha | UK-based Roopa Panesar performs sitar alongside master tabla player, Ramdas Palsule, in a celebration of morning ragas. | 2:52:08 (Pop-up) |
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slugluv1313:
happy to be here with you all!! kinda under-the-weather -- sounds and vibes feeling really wonderful -- thank you! 😺😺
(i *was* hoping to go to Central Park -- had seen Mdou Moctar at Monty Hall -- but the other artists too! i have heard them on FMU but never seen LIVE! and normally the heat, humidity, crowds, even thunderstorms never bother me -- but not when the goofy physical is not cooperating, haha!)
Robm:
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Handy Haversack:
We're off to Michigan tomorrow and are packing and cleaning, otherwise we'd have been very tempted by Central Park.
Robm:
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cbunny:
i had bought juana molina tix for a show in los angeles and then forgot the date.
another chance another time i hope
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swivs:
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Carmichael:
chresti:
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cbunny:
i would def go! but haven't lived in ny for 5 years now.
HyperDose:
slugluv1313:
have a fantastic trip! i am guessing that Michigan is way better than the oppressive humidity around here
headcleaner:
Robm:
Carmichael:
Handy Haversack:
slugluv1313:
there with you "in spirit" 😺😺
john_zilla:
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coelacanth∅:
the melting paradisios
HyperDose:
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
slugluv1313:
DEFINITELY feeling better!!!
(free gig at Crotona Par!? gotta see if that is possible)
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Dutch___________:
Rob W:
slugluv1313:
wow! it looked like it was going to pour here (Hoboken) awhile ago -- still kinda windy, but totally sunny now
Carmichael:
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fb.me...
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slugluv1313:
amazing! gotta check that out! 😺😺
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northguineahills:
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slugluv1313:
glad you were able to get in touch with the driver!
(has happened to me too -- not fun!)
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Robm:
@Slugluv has never happened to me and i hope it never will
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Rob W you are literally amazing ty!
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Father died of AIDS and mother died on 911