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October 2010 issue of Songlines (#71) is on sale in the UK from September 3
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 in Songlines News.
The October 2010 issue of Songlines is on sale in the UK from September 3 and includes our regular Top of the World CD with ten tracks from the finest new releases from around the planet. There’s also a selection of five tracks selected by Indian composer AR Rahman.
The Top of the World CD includes tracks from Songlines Music Award-winning Portuguese band Deolinda; Irish instrumentalists Lúnasa; Parisian North African ten-piece Orchestre National de Barbès; LA R’n’B and rock from Los Lobos; bassy Maori beats specialists Wai and Iranian classical vocalist Ali Reza Ghorbani, among others.
The main editorial features include:
• AfroCubism – The story about how this Mali-Cuba concept album accidentally led to the release of the Buena Vista Social Club.
• Kurdish Music – An alarming report about the continuing marginalisation of Kurdish music and musicians in Turkey.
• Syriana – Luscious Middle Eastern soundscapes get a thoroughly modern reworking on the latest East-meets-West project.
• Tools of the Trade: The Afghan Rubab – Unveiling the history behind Afghanistan’s national instrument.
• Alim Qasimov – The singer and reluctant musical ambassador of Azerbaijan talks about the poetry of his music, prior to his UK visit.
• Sounding Out Bristol – all the best places to see and hear music in the gateway to England’s West Country.
• Beginner’s Guide to Ethiopian legend Mahmoud Ahmed.
• Postcard from Carriacou, Grenada.
• Folklandia Festival, the Baltic sea.
• Backpage from Beirut, Lebanon.
• My World – Indian composer AR Rahman.
• Grooves – Penguin Café Orchestra’s Arthur Jeffes, Scottish folk singer Karine Polwart and Polish world music writer and festival programmer Marek Garztecki.
• News, including Dispatches USA from California.
• Reviews of the latest CD, DVD and World Cinema releases.
Indian composer AR Rahman playlist and the 10 best new releases in the October issue of Songlines (#71)
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 in Songlines News.
The October 2010 issue of Songlines – on sale September 3 – features a free covermount CD packed full of the best new sounds from around the world, plus 5 tracks selected by Indian composer AR Rahman.
The covermount CD includes tracks from Songlines Music Award-winning Portuguese band Deolinda; Irish instrumentalists Lúnasa; Parisian North African ten-piece Orchestre National de Barbès; LA R’n’B and rock from Los Lobos; bassy Maori beats specialists Wai and Iranian classical vocalist Ali Reza Ghorbani, among others.
Pick up your copy here on the website, at selected WHSmith’s and at all good record retailers. Feast your ears on these all-new tracks:
* Syriana ‘Road to Damascus’ on Real World
* Deolinda ‘Um Contra o Outro’ on World Connection
* Los Lobos ‘Mujer Ingrata’ on Proper Records
* Orchestra National de Barbès ‘Sidi Yahia-Bnet Paris’ on Le Chant du Monde
* The Old Dance School ‘The Enlli Light’ on Transition Records
* Wai ‘Hine-Te-Ihorangi’ on Jayrem Records
* Samy Izy ‘Bala’ on Network Medien
* Lúnasa ‘Unapproved Road’ on Lúnasa Records
* Tim O’Brien ‘All I Want’ on Howdy Skies Records
* Ali Reza Ghorbani ‘Dar Achegi’ on Accords Croisés
Plus AR Rahman’s playlist:
* Värttinä ‘Riena’ on Real World
* The Laya Project/Nagore Sufis ‘Ya Allah’ on EarthSync
* Susheela Raman ‘Mamavatu’ on Narada
* 1 Giant Leap feat Baaba Maal ‘Dunya Salam’ on Palm Pictures
* Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party ‘Maki Madni’ on Real World
Kershaw is back on BBC Radio 3 for new world music show
Posted on August 24th, 2010 in World Music.
Much loved DJ, Songlines contributor and world music explorer Andy Kershaw returns to BBC Radio 3 in the near future and with him come exciting new plans.
He is set to present Music Planet – a programme being created in conjunction with BBC One’s Human Planet. Alongside co-presenter Lucy Durán, he will visit more remote outposts of world music in the footsteps of his legendary North Korean and Iraqi sojourns.
Music Planet is being touted by the station as the “most significant and ambitious world music project ever” and will include throat singing in Greenland, shamanic music from Mongolia and the sounds of the remote Bat People of Papa New Guinea.
Of a trip to Thailand, Kershaw had this to say: “I cheerily risked incineration at a rocket festival in Thailand to take our Radio 3 audience into the fiery thick of the action.” Watch this space.