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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Extra Golden
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Live Session: Extra Golden. A WFMU first - smoking electric East African music in the flesh!
Extra Golden is a collaboration between
musicians from the US and Kenya.
The original impetus was bandleader Ian Eagleson’s work with the late
Extra Golden co-founder Otieno Jagwasi researching benga, the popular Western
Kenyan guitar music. The band
has pressed on after Otieno’s passing, touring and recording in the US this
past autumn (with visa assistance from Barack Obama!).
The autumn ’06 touring lineup included Eagleson, Alex Minoff (like Eagleson, from the indie rock
band Golden); guitarist / vocalist Opiyo
Bilongo (of benga band Bilongo Golden Stars) and drummer Onyango Wuod Omari. Bassist
Noel Coopersmith was also on the tour but not at this taping.
Extra Golden’s debut cd
Ok-Oyot System is on Thrill
Jockey records; learn the background and purchase via: http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=100373.
For information or to buy Opiyo Bilongo and Bilongo Golden Stars’ new cd What
Do People Want,
produced by Ian Eagleson on his Kanyo Records label visit http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=100605.
The best way to contact the band is via its myspace page http://www.myspace.com/extragolden.
The Afropop Worldwide site has a benga primer here; see also Doug Patersons’s East African music site.
This Week's Playlist:
(* = new)Chirgilchin: Chirgilchin / The Wolf and the Kid / Shanachie
Ljova: Ori's Fearful Symmetry / Vjola / Kapustnik
Nikolas Michailidis:
I Mana Kai O Kiris An Ki Thelne Se / Tepeler Tepeler
/ Traditional Songs of Eastern Black Sea
/ Scimitar
With Leigh Cline
Virre: Loolugu / Teine / Eesti Raadio
Tamara Obrovac: Black Mill / Daleko is Far Away / Aquarius
Eletfa: Mahala / Gyokereink / Jumbie
Lajko Felix: Citeras / Srbija: Sounds Global / FreeB92
Burhan Ocal:
Where Do You Come From pt 2
/ Sultan Orhan
/ Doublemoon
With Pete Namlook / c/o Calabashmusic.com
Extra Golden:
Nyako Wasanda
Live at WFMU
Extra Golden:
Yuak Debe Sauti Moja
Live at WFMU
Extra Golden:
Ok-Oyot System
Live at WFMU
Extra Golden:
Osama Rach
Live at WFMU
Extra Golden:
Ilando Gima Onge
Live at WFMU
D. O. Misiani and Shirati Band: Okoth Atari / Benga Blast!! / Virgin Earthworks
Andy Palacio:
Not For Sale
/ Til Da Mawnin'
/ Stonetree
c/o Calabashmusic.com
Source: Manquez Pas / Tonight's African Jazz Band / Completelly Nuts (sic) / *
Celso Pina:
Besela Ya
/ 20 Grandes Exitos
/ Warner Music
Featuring Bacilos
Blanquito Man:
Cumbia Sobre el Rio
/ Various Artists: Babel
/ Concord
/
*
Soundtrack / With Control Machete & Celso Pina y Su Ronda Bogota
Dengue Fever: One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula / Escape From Dragon House / Birdman Group
Ros Serey Sothea:
Don't Worry Just Be Happy and Happy
/ Cambodian Psych Out
/ Defective
/
*
New anthology
Jintara Poonlap:
Rak Row Khow Min
Also anglicized as Chintara Phunlarb among other spellings...
Ching-Dong Tsushinisha: Medley / Osaka Style / Off Note
Dalia Faitelson: Zuzi Zuzi / Pilpel
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