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December 2, 2023: Yemen Blues Giveaway
TICKET GIVEAWAY: We have two pairs of tickets to see Yemen Blues and DJ Busquelo at House of Yes at 2 Wyckoff Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Thursday night at 8:30 in a concert presented by the World Music Institute. To enter the drawing for the tickets, send an email here with TIX in the subject line, and I'll let you know this afternoon if you're a winner.
Yemen Blues is a contemporary quartet led by vocalist Ravid Kahalani. The band blends their Yemenite and West African musical influences with funk grooves and mambo rhythms, conjuring up a rich and diverse aural palette. The instrumentation is composed of percussion, oud, horns, and strings.
Yemen Blues’ myriad influences carry over on stage, where the ensemble navigates from the boisterous to the romantic, from joyous celebration to anguished balladry. Horns fire off bombastically, percussion adds deep rhythmic textures, while oud strums out subtle melodies. - World Music Institute
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Bembeya Jazz National | N'Gamokorô | The Syliphone Years | Sterns | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
Willie Bobo | Bobo! Do That Thing | Various Artists: Hit the Bongo! The Latin Soul of Tico Records | Craft Recordings | * | 0:08:59 (Pop-up) | |
Leon Keita | Domanin | Leon Keita (Analog Africa Dance Edition No.16) | Analog Africa | New anthology.Leon Keita is a compilation highlighting songs by the mysterious Guinean guitarist Leon Keita, a familiar face on the Malian music scene. His remarkable compositions are defined by Manding traits blended in with funk, jazz, Afrobeat and Afro-Cuban flavors. - World Music Central | * | 0:12:45 (Pop-up) |
Faratuben | Nana | Changement | Faratuben is a great meeting between first rate musicians from Mali and Denmark. The name, is a mix of the words Farafin (black) and Toubabou (white). Instead of playing the traditional kora music, they are representing the bobo-culture. The bobo-music is made for dancing and drinking, and is traditionally played on only balafon (trad. Westafrican marimba) and talking drums. -Sounds of Subterrania | * | 0:19:53 (Pop-up) | |
Santrofi | Cocoase | Deep into Highlife (live) | Outhere Records | Santrofi is a new, dynamic collective of celebrated young musicians from Accra’s music scene, gathered together by bassist and producer, Emmanuel Ofori, known for his work with Highlife legend, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas’s Kwashibu Area Band. The aim is to celebrate classic highlife music, in all its diverse variants. - WOMEX | * | 0:23:48 (Pop-up) |
Haruna Ishola and His Apala Group | Asa Ko Gbodo Wole Gbeiyele | Various Artists: Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-1970 | Soul Jazz | * | 0:29:39 (Pop-up) | |
Almir Mešković & Daniel Lazar | Eudoxa feat Balla & Toumani Diabaté | Family beyond blood | Alda Records | Almir Meskovic and Daniel Lazar duo are highly skilled musicians known for their virtuosic performances that capture the emotions of their listeners. - homepage | * | 0:37:01 (Pop-up) |
Rasgueo | Gute Laune | Eleven | Comparing with Rasgueo´s previous albums, „11 has a cool and slightly different sound, yet the combination of flamenco guitar and jazz trumpet remains the quintessence of Rasgueo´s sound. - Amazon | * | 0:40:30 (Pop-up) | |
Bombay Rickey | Lekar Ham Diwana Dil | Bombay Rickey | GIG:Saturday, January 13, 2024 6:30pm Secret Planet 2024 at Drom. Praised as “a true treat for the adventurous ear” . (TimeOut NY), Bombay Rickey is a five-piece band with a unique sound evocative of 1960s movie soundscapes. The group plays both covers and original music that borrow equally from the worlds of surf rock, cumbia, spaghetti-Western, and Bollywood, balanced out with soaring operatic vocals. - home page | * | 0:44:17 (Pop-up) | |
Asha Bhosle | Aaja o mere raja jannat ki sair karaungi | Various Artists: Apna Desh (Bollywood OST) | Composed by R.D. Burman. Apna Desh ( transl. Our country) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language action drama film,. Asha Bhosle is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. - Wikipedia | 0:49:35 (Pop-up) | ||
Himesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia, Palak Muchhal | Photocopy | Various Artists: Jai Ho (Bollywood OST) | Jai Ho (transl. Let there be Victory) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language socio-political action drama film directed by Sohail Khan. - Wikipedia | 0:55:17 (Pop-up) | ||
Ritesh Das | 5.5 | To Begin With | Ritesh Das (born 9 June 1957 in Kolkata, India) is a tabla player who has been teaching and composing music since the early 1970s. He is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Toronto Tabla Ensemble. - Wikipedia | * | 1:05:38 (Pop-up) | |
Fine Blue Thread | Forever | What Makes Me Human | Australia's Fine Blue Thread is an exciting collaboration of three creative musicians from very different worlds. - bandcamp | * | 1:08:38 (Pop-up) | |
Abby V, Ricky Kej | Balama More (ft. Antara Nandy) | Aarambh | A peculiar friendship was forged between two desis in the city of Toronto, Canada. Youtube star Abby V found a kindred spirit in multiple Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej. Over the last three years, this unlikely duo has birthed a musical creation they've aptly named Aarambh. - Free Press Journal | * | 1:13:39 (Pop-up) | |
Dengue Fever | Touch Me Not | Ting Mong | Dengue Fever is an American band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian rock and pop music of the 1960s and 70s with psychedelic rock and other world music styles. - Wikipedia | * | 1:21:09 (Pop-up) | |
Ros Seresyothea | Penh Chet Tae Bong Mouy (I Love Only You) | Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cambodia | រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា was a Cambodian singer (b. 1948 Battambang), dubbed "The golden Voice of the Royal Capital" by monarch King Norodom Sihanouk (1941–1955 and 1993–2005). Sothea managed to gain a great popularity in her entire native country in a short time. - Discogs | 1:25:25 (Pop-up) | ||
Meas Samoun | The Engagement | Various Artists: Cambodian Rocks Vol 1 | Meas Samoun (មាស់ សាមន) is Cambodia's first comic singer. His songs would often feature a character in comical situations. His regular female duet partners were Pan Ron and So Savouen. - Last FM | 1:29:06 (Pop-up) | ||
Yemen Blues | Um Min Al Yaman | Live in Tel Aviv | Chant Records | GIG / GIVEAWAY: Thurs. night @ House of Yes, presented by World Music Institute. | 1:33:59 (Pop-up) | |
Soma - Frana Karimi Montanari | Breeze | Soma | Felmay | SOMA is the debut album of the SOMA Trio Peppe Frana (oud, Afghan Robab), Masih Karimi (tanbur, daf) and Ciro Montanari (tabla, percussion). Frana and Montanari, Italians who have been engaged in research into extra-European musical traditions for years and Iranian Masih Karimi who is a virtuoso of the Kurdish tanbur and daf. - bandcamp | * | 1:39:46 (Pop-up) |
Abdo Buda Marconi | Trantela | Oltremura | Felmay | Born as a causal meeting of the Milanese guitarists FABIO MARCONI and MANUEL BUDA who were soon joined by the Kurdish musician, ASHTI ABDO, the trio ABDO-BUDA-MARCONI went well beyond the first casual encounter. - banddcamp | * | 1:43:21 (Pop-up) |
Fränder | Kung Björns polska | II | Fränder is a world touring Estonian-Swedish band, that plays ravishing music that is based on both folk music of Estonia and of Sweden and their own complex arrangements. - Reval Folk | * | 1:47:26 (Pop-up) | |
Gangar | Masurka fra Herefoss (ft. Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen) | Stubb | Gangar combines folk music with jazz, metal, and rock in the most natural way. They find old traditional tunes in folk music archives and arrange them with inspiration from bands such as Hoven Droven, AC/DC and Meshuggah. - Bandcamp | * | 1:52:50 (Pop-up) | |
Naaljos Ljom | Halling etter Jørn Hilme | Naaljos Ljom 2 | Motvind Records | Diving into the seams of Norwegian folk music, Anders Hana and Morten Joh as Naaljos Ljom unlock the microtonal potential hidden in their source material. - Rewire Festival | * | 1:57:23 (Pop-up) |
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