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Where in the World?
Posted on September 25th, 2011 in Songlines Blog by Alexandra Petropoulos.
A while back, we asked “Have you heard a world music track used somewhere unusual (in a commercial/movie/TV)?” on Facebook and Twitter. We got a great response and included a few of the suggestions in our Where in the World feature in the current issue. Here are some of the other responses.
‘Gua’ by Abdel Gadir Salim & Emmanuel Jal – ER (TV show) ‘There are No Angels Here’
Suggested by @papertrailimage via Twitter
‘Tumpa’ by Yma Sumac – Magnum Ice Cream commercial
Suggested by @dokmobil via Twitter
Kerekes Band – Hungarian Beer commercial
Suggested by Nagy Dániel and Daniel Pro Náázs via Facebook
‘Pa’ Bailar’ by Bajofondo – Acura commercial
Suggested by Carl Nolan via Facebook
‘El Fuego y El Combusitble’ by Jorge Drexler – El Nido Vacio (The Empty Nest)
Suggested by Luciano Gerber via Facebook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya4c_pYdxCw
Modern African music guide hits BBC Radio 1 in time for World Cup
Posted on June 2nd, 2010 in World Music by Songlines.
In the latest tie-in to the South Africa World Cup, the weekly BBC Radio 1 Stories documentary on June 7 at 9pm will be a guide to modern African music.
Presented by DJ Edu from sister station Radio 1Xtra, it will explore the African rock, hip-hop, Afro-beat and various other sounds that are reverberating across the continent and further afield across the globe.
Contributiors include Mos Def, Tony Allen, K’naan, Nigerian popstar D’banj and Sudanese Rapper Emmanuel Jal.
BBC Radio 1 Stories: Africa Makes Some Noise
Top world music stars play the Brighton Festival 2009
Posted on April 24th, 2009 in World Music by Songlines.
From May 2-24, Brighton on the UK’s south coast welcomes the summer with a month of music, arts, theatre and dance, including some of the top names in world and folk music.
One of the biggest world music names on the bill – Sudanese hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal – is actually appearing in his capacity as an author, having produced a book and film to accompany his latest album War Child. He will also be taking his extraordinary life story of growing up as a child soldier in the Sudanese civil war to local schools where he will deliver a special talk for secondary school students.
Amongst the music on offer over the month is legendary English folk singer June Tabor, Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo Papasov and US Greek singer Diamanda Galas. Two of the most intriguing events are double bills. First the deep musical links between Cuba and the Congo are brought to the fore as 70-year-old Cuban big band Orquesta Aragón play alongside Congolese rumba legend Mose Fan Fan and Bayeke Rumba OK. The second double bill presents two from record label Sublime Frequencies, who are known for their releasing music from the edges of the world map. They present Sahrawi Group Doueh from Western Sahara and Syrian folk-pop artist Omar Souleyman.
Also check out World Sacred Music at the Fringe on May 14, when a bass sitar player, a kora player and a violinist combine with a storyteller to create a new work by composer Baluji Shrivastav inspired by the Bhagavad Gita.
