Around the World 30 August 2019 – Playlist

This is the playlist for Around the World as played tonight on Slice Audio at 8:00pm (7:00 UTC). This is the 4:00 am (3:00 UTC) Saturday morning extended version.

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Here are show notes on the music

Notes 30 August

Taína Asili is a New York based Puerto Rican musician and activist. The Huffington Post named her as #2 in a list of in a list of “12 Freedom Fighting Bands To Get You Through the Trump Years,” Resiliencia is her 5^th album with La Banda Rebelde. http://tainaasili.com/

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From Puerto Rica and New York to Sweden

The 4^th album from the Swedish Folk apella bringing traditional Swedish music out of the past and into the present. They have just finished a tour of Sweden and France today enging at St Malo  in Brittany https://kongero.se/ | https://www.facebook.com/kongerofolk/

Tonight music from – Italy Ireland Hungary Chile Lebanon There’s Balkan music from France, Electronic music from Russia, and Zydeco from New Orleans.

Album: The Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration

Released: 2002

Benedict Morris – Fiddle Cormac Crummey – Guitar/Banjo – Benedict Morris (20) from Glasgow and Cormac Crummey (21) from Belfast met 4 years ago at Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann in Sligo and have been playing together since. Crowd sourced the funding for the album.

Ciara Ni Chonghaile – Bodhran 
Liam Doherty – Banjo 
Conor Broderick – Keyboards 
Cathal Murphy – Percussion / Kit / Electric Guitar 
Trevor Hutchinson – Upright Bass 

 Salvador, Brazil

Find the video for that on their Facebook page – New album Amadjar and a major tour throughout the US and Canada 12 September to 13 October, then Europe: France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden Netherlands Italy, Dublin then ending with four in the UK and a final gig in France on 16 November. That’s African desert music and in part , some American Desert Music from Southern Utah https://tinariwen.com/tour

Valparaíso, Chile (2001) band of maybe 20 members who mix cumbia and gypsy music with genres such as ska and cha-cha-cha – that album released last month – their fourth

https://www.facebook.com/bandaconmocion/ | https://www.bandaconmocion.com/festejos/

Interview on my blog with links to all her music and videos. Also on the blog tonight;s running order and mire links and notes about the music on the show

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Folk Fusion, Roots, Rock , Electronica and Experimental Music from around the world – this band from Beirut

Arabic for Bright Night, With their latest release, The Beirut School, Mashrou’ Leila rolled out a curated compilation of their previous work, from their early punk days and alternative rock influences of their 2009 eponymous debut LP, to the ’70s influenced Raasük (2013), to their more electronically inclined sound of Ibn El Leil (2015).

Aimee Williamson Cheylene Murphy Ryan McGroarty From Belfast – together as a band for about 3 years. Be kind is the debut album.

Their breakthrough 2017 Latin Grammy for Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album was a first-time win by women Their album Las Caras Lindas. (The Pretty Faces). Which I think I prefer to this new album Indestructible. There with R&B singer Miguel. That track “Te Lo Dije”

Söndörgő (pronounced: Shern-der-goe) Album Their signature instrument the Hungaro-Serbian tambura looks like a very long neck mandolin

Italian frame drums and accordions – 

In this hour LONG WITH SOME TUNES YOU know well, there are tracks from Bosnia, Belfast, Nigeria, and American Desert Music from Southern Utah

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Francis is one of the legendary McPeake family from Belfast, Theodore Street in Belfast is long gone. Francis is one of the highest calibre uilleann pipers in Ireland. He’s part of renowned Irish trad outfit At First Light with John Mc Sherry and Dónal O’Connor, and a regular at sessions in Belfast’s Sunflower Bar.

Balkan Brass – Branko Galoic from Croatia and now living in Paris

Chile

Šaban Bajramović died in June 2008), He was a Serbian singer. He was one of the best known Romani musicians. the “King of Romani music”. That album recorded a few years before in death by Dragi Šestić with Mostar Sevdah Reunion.

The Ukrainian band from Kyiv who played the interval performance a Eurovision Song Contest. New single.

Doing a major European tour with Midge Ure – including Belfast, Dublin Manchester, Munich, Arhus https://www.facebook.com/tinymagneticpets/photos/a.10152254396630798/10157902933600798/?type=3&theater

They are from Nairobi Kenya.