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Saturday, February 16, 2013
Martin Koenig's Vintage Balkan Village Vinyl
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Band in Halovo, Eastern Serbia, 1967. Photo: Martin Koenig. More images at
Martin's Balkan Echoes website - and in the cover art and inserts that accompany
the new Balkan Arts reissues.
Martin Koenig founded New York's Balkan Arts Center (now
CTMD) in 1968, a vital cultural organization building cross-cultural bridges through music, dance and folklore. Koenig first fell in love with East European folk dancing in college in the 1950s. He adventurously traveled behind the iron curtain in Eastern Europe to learn the dances directly from the source. Seeing the old traditions rapidly disappearing he started documenting, with tape recorder and camera. One result was three classic 1970s Nonesuch Explorer LPs. But less well known were over a dozen 7" vinyl EPs of his field recordings (often made with his CTMD co-director Ethel Raim), the Balkan Arts Series, that circulated only in folk-dance circles.
Now over four decades later the Balkan Arts series is getting a broader release for the first time, both digitally and on the original 7" vinyl (with beautiful new cover art from
Martin's photo archive, expansive liner notes and even an audio commentary from Koenig). Martin Koenig joins us to talk about his musical travels and share a sampling of this treasure trove of music.
This Week's Playlist:
(* = new)Cannanes: Bumper / Small Batch / * (0:00:00 Pop-up)
Cafe Tacuba: 53100 / SiNo (0:04:02 Pop-up)
The Mops: Useless Opinion / Various Artists: Stray Cat Rock (0:08:38 Pop-up)
Rung Fah Puping: PuYai Lee Santana / Various Artists: Thai? Dai! (0:09:44 Pop-up)
Plearn Promdan: Ruk Kum Samong / Various Artists: Thai? Dai! (0:13:09 Pop-up)
Sway Machinery and Khaira Arby: Gawad Teriamou / The House Of Friendly Ghosts, Vol. I (Featuring Khaira Arby) (0:21:16 Pop-up)
Imperial Tiger Orchestra:
Etu Gela
/ Addis Abeba
(0:26:53 Pop-up)
Imperial Tiger Orchestra has a full live album downloadable gratis from WFMU's Free Music Archive, here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Imperial_Tiger_Orchestra/
Either Orchestra: Feqer Aydèlèm Wey / Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis / Buda Musique (0:31:54 Pop-up)
Cristina Pato: Pandeirada Bestia / Migrations (0:40:21 Pop-up)
Liliana Araujo: Cabeca Feita / Liliana Araujo (0:49:23 Pop-up)
Interview: Martin Koenig (0:54:01 Pop-up)
Petar Ivanov Penkov, Atanas Atasnasov Ivanov, Georgi Stoyanov Georgieve:
Zborinka
/ Various Artists: Balkan Arts 701 - Bulgarian Folk Dances
/ Evergreene Music
/
*
(1:05:03 Pop-up)
New reissue
Petar Ivanov Penkov, Atanas Atasnasov Ivanov, Georgi Stoyanov Georgieve: Ruka / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 701 - Bulgarian Folk Dances / Evergreene Music / * (1:07:13 Pop-up)
Strandjanskata Grupa: Chukanoto / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 701 - Bulgarian Folk Dances / Evergreene Music / * (1:10:11 Pop-up)
Prvomajskata Grupa: Dobrolushko Horo / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 701 - Bulgarian Folk Dance / Balkan Arts / * (1:13:37 Pop-up)
Interview: Martin Koenig (1:16:56 Pop-up)
Vlach Band from East Serbia: Patrusha / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 703 / Evergreene Music / * (1:29:06 Pop-up)
Musicians from Florina, Greek Macedonia: Amoliti Gaida / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 705 / Evergreene Music / * (1:34:34 Pop-up)
Musicians from Romania: Brul Pe Opte / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 707 / Evergreene Music / * (1:35:01 Pop-up)
Singers from Bulgaria:
Lazaritsa
/ Various Artists: Balkan Arts 708
/ Evergreene Music
/
*
(1:37:30 Pop-up)
Spring ritual song calling out good wishes from house to house
Zurla and daouli ensemble from Alexandria, Greek Macedonia recorded in NY: Ti Klez Kalmeni Maria / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 709 / Evergreene Music / * (1:38:23 Pop-up)
Musicians from Greek Thrace: Zonaradikos / Various Artists: Balkan Arts 710 / Evergreene Music / * (1:43:25 Pop-up)
Ballaké Sissoko: Kalata Diata / At Peace / Six Degrees / * (1:50:22 Pop-up)
Diabel Cissokho: Patte D'oie Blues / Kanabory Siyama / World Village / * (1:55:29 Pop-up)
Habib Koite & Eric Bibb: Foro Bana / Brothers in Bamako / * (2:01:20 Pop-up)
Mahzuni Serif: Ibom Oluyor / Mahzuni Serif / DMM (2:06:04 Pop-up)
Little Cow: Viragok a Reten / I'm in Love With Every Lady (2:09:40 Pop-up)
Mano Negra:
Sidi H'bibi
/ In the Hell of Patchinko
(2:14:05 Pop-up)
Salim Halili hit
Markscheider Kunst: Zambie / Markscheider Kunst (2:16:45 Pop-up)
Elikeh:
Olesafrica
/ Between 2 Worlds
/ Azalea City
(2:21:11 Pop-up)
Massama Dogo leads this DC-based band
Shibusashirazu Orchestra:
Sorimachi Kiro
/ Shibusai
(2:32:07 Pop-up)
Music bed for concert listings
BBK: Bena Ngoma / Various Artists: The Karindula Sessions / * (2:43:43 Pop-up)
Tarika Sammy: Voromby / Various Artists: Madigasikara 1 / GlobeStyle (2:48:25 Pop-up)
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