RSS feedPosts Tagged ‘deolinda’
YouTube Playlist Issue #79
Posted on September 10th, 2011 in Songlines Blog by Alexandra Petropoulos.
Now that you’ve had a chance to read about all the exciting music featured in the current issue of Songlines, don’t forget that you can watch it and listen to it too. Each issue, we create a YouTube playlist of featured videos to help give the full interactive experience. You can view the playlist here.
Some of the highlights of this issue’s videos include:
Deolinda ‘Que Parva Que Eu Sou’
Tinariwen featuring TV on the Radio ‘Tenere Taqhim Tossam’
Sezen Aksu ‘Unuttun Mu Beni’
JuJu ‘Miriama Trance’
October 2010 issue of Songlines (#71) is on sale in the UK from September 3
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 in Songlines Blog by Songlines.
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 Blog by Songlines.
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
Songlines Music Awards 2010 winners announced
Posted on April 27th, 2010 in Songlines Blog by Songlines.
Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural awards, Songlines is delighted to announce this year’s winners. The Songlines Music Awards recognise outstanding talent in world music and are voted by Songlines readers and the general public.
There are four categories: Best Artist, Best Group, Cross-Cultural Collaboration
and Newcomer – the results from the public vote generate the final nominees, the top four in each category.
The winners, selected by the Songlines editorial team, listed below, will be published in the June issue of Songlines, (#68) on sale from April 30 2010. The winners will also be announced on BBC Radio 3’s ‘World on 3’ programme, on April 30, by last year’s Best Artist winner, Rokia Traoré.
A 16-track compilation album (SPLCD003) featuring the four winners and 12 final nominees is out now on CD and download. A Songlines Music Awards 2010 app, for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, featuring excerpts and profiles on the winners and nominees, is also available to download for free from the iTunes App store.
“The audience for world music is greater now than it’s ever been,” says Simon Broughton, editor-in-chief of Songlines, “and it’s reaching out in ever more diverse directions. It’s still essential to have awards in which the leading names can be celebrated and the new and innovative names highlighted.”
And the winners are…
Best Artist
Goran Bregović
(for the album Alkohol on Wrasse Records)
Goran Bregović will be presented with his Songlines Music Award by Simon Broughton after his performance at the Festival de Jazz de Nice on July 18
Best Group
Staff Benda Bilili
(for the album Très Très Fort on Crammed Discs)
Staff Benda Bilili will be presented with their Songlines Music Award after their performance at WOMAD Charlton Park on July 23
Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara
(for the album Tell No Lies on Real World)
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara will be presented with their Songlines Music Award after their performance at WOMAD Charlton Park on July 24
Newcomer
Deolinda
(for the album Canção ao Lado on World Connection)
Deolinda will be presented with their Songlines Music Award by Jo Frost, Songlines editor, after their performance at CCB in Lisbon on June 8
Songlines Music Awards 2010 CD is on sale now
www.songlines.co.uk/music-awards
