Around the World – 3 & 5 October 2021

SliceAudio and FerryFM, and Radio Larne plays-out Around the World on Sundays from 10.00 pm – midnight local time. The show is also available Tuesdays from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Lisburn’s 98 FM, Bangor FM and Down Community Radio.

You can hear the show anytime here on MixCloud.

Artist		Album
Part 1
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino	Balla Nina	Meridiana
Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray	Bade Zile	Leave the Bones
Djely Tapa	Fasso	Barokan (Deluxe Edition)
Munir Khauli	Heik ha Nishtghil	Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World (Part 2) (Habibi Funk 015)
Gisela João	Já Não Choro Por Ti	AuRora
Namgar	When I Walk on the Mountain	Nayan Navaa
Ben Aylon	Xalam (feat. Doudou Ndiaye Rose)	Xalam
Daft Punk	Da Funk	Future Funk
Saulius Petreikis	Tūto	Laisvė Šaukia
Grupo Estrellas Campesinas	Reclamación al Changüí	Changüí: The Sound Of Guantánamo
Gisela João	Longe Daqui	AuRora
Kamel El Harrachi	Ana Loughram	Nouara
Bodh’aktan	L’orage	De temps et de vents


Part 2
Delgres	Lese Mwen Ale	4:00 AM
La Perla	Guayabo	Club Coco
Gisela João	Budapeste	AuRora
Timba MM	El Son	Outstanding
Belcirque	La grande fête	La grande fête
Trad.Attack!	Kus mu süda on…	Great Tunes from the World Music Chart Europe
Rammstein	DEUTSCHLAND	RAMMSTEIN
Haris Alexiou	Qu’est-ce qui nous reste	Horizonte 2
Dani Larkin	Love Part Three	Notes For a Maiden Warrior
Spiers & Boden	Butter & Cheese & All	Fallow Ground
Gisela João	António Marinheiro	AuRora
Eliana Cuevas	Acidito (feat. Aquiles Báez)	El Curruchá (feat. Aquiles Báez)
Syssi Mananga	Tata Wana (feat. Chris Bakalanga)	Mopepe Mama
Ballaké Sissoko	Nan Sira Madi	A Touma

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Around the World is on Slice Audio, Ferry FM, and Radio Larne on Sundays at 10:00 pm to midnight. On Tuesdays at 7:00 pm the show is broadcast on Bangor FM, Lisburn’s 98FM and FM105 Down Community Radio.

Hello – production of the newsletter has been a bit sluggish over the last weeks of the summer, but think we’re in full swing again. Thanks to Damien for the feedback. If you’d like to send me some feedback on the show or the newsletter, you can use this section of the blog, or if you know one of my email addresses you can use it.

You can hear last week’s show here:

Around the World – Part 1 on Mixcloud

and here Around the World – Part 2 on Mixcloud

The running order is here on the blog.

Hello and welcome to this week’s preview.

Album of the Week: Yes, perhaps I do play too much fado, and perhaps my trip to Porto for WOMEX will curtail my enthusiasm, but this week’s album is modern fado at its best. I’ll play four tracks from Gisela João’s AuRora.

She was born in the north of Portugal in 1983 and even in her youngest years loved fado music.

“Fado music is a form of Portuguese singing that is often associated with pubs, cafés, and restaurants. This music genre officially originated in Portugal around the 1820s, though it is thought to have much earlier origins. Fado is known for how expressive and profoundly melancholic it is.” Portugal.com

Her interest became a passion when she moved to Porto to study. Porto along with Lisbon is a centre for the music. Gisela recorded her first album there in 2009 with Atlantihda before moving to Lisbon to make music her profession. She didn’t go into a studio until 2012, releasing her first album in 2013.

Three more followed and AuRora is the most recent. I saw her perform in 2015 or 2016 and it was a commanding performance- although I had heard her music before then, it wasn’t until I saw her livce that I really appreciated her talent.

You should also look out for two tracks re-mixed by Lisbon DJ Xinobi

The first is Fado Para Esta Noite

The second Tábuas do Palco I is a version of the album track on AuRora. The video is here

Some news about Around the World:

The 2021 Community Radio Awards shortlist was announced earlier in the week.
Around the World has been shortlisted in the Specialist Music Show of the Year category. The final results to be announced at the awards ceremony on the 23rd of October in Coventry. A shortlist of 5 programmes was whittled down from entries from stations from every part of the UK.

More here

Other music on the show: The Lakou Mizik & Joseph Ray album Leave the Bones is tremendous – turn up the volume and let it rip.

Joseph Ray is a Grammy-winning electronic music artist. Lakou Mizik has sought to re-define people’s conceptions of their home Haiti through its music. The nine piece band, formed in 2010, is emblematic of the melting pot that is Haiti’s musical culture.

Joseph Ray, had never heard of Lakou when he arrived in Haiti in 2015, having volunteered to teach a course at Haiti’s only music production and audio engineering school, the Artist’s Institute. Ray stumbled on Lakou at a tiny beach side club in Jakmel.

Leave the Bones paints a musical portrait, a fresh glimpse of an oft misrepresented country. Through Vodou chants, chest-pounding Rara dance tunes and contemporary protest songs, the record conveys the listener to Haiti’s spiritual heart, a place that remains a compelling mystery for foreigners and a source of pride for every Haitian.

There is more of the story here: Anjuna Music Store.

And this is the video for Leave the Bones.