SOUNDS IMPORTED 1/24/10: Madagascar et mais

Hey there world music fans. Here's the playlist from today's Sounds Imported show:

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba | Falani (feat. Toumani Diabate)

Tarika|Samy Mandeha Samy Mitady

Tarika|Malagasy Anie Ianao

Tarika|Tatan’i Bina

Rajery|Tonga

Rajery, Ballake Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi| – Awal

Rajery|Hanatra

Miguel Merino|Goodbye Bab Zuela

Rokia Traoré|Sara

Princes Of Dahomey|Warrior

Syran Mbenza & Ensemble Rumba Kingo|Tour A Tour (canta Wuta Mayi y Elba ‘Top A’ Kuluma)

Hariláos Piperákis (Kritikás) & Ep. Asimakópoulos|The Toust

Aly Keita|Ziglibithy

Oliver de Coque and his Expo ‘76|I salute Africa

Hukwe Zawose|Lukunzi

Pacho Galán|Ay cosita linda

Los Corraleros de Majagual|El tamarindo

Max Nijman – Iene miene mutte

Twinkel Stars – Oema koto
Check 'em out.

Here's a video of the string masters' group 3MA consisting of  Rajrery: valiha player from Madagascar, Driss El-Maloumi: oud player from Morocco, and Ballake Sissoko: kora player from Mali, which I featured on the show.

Hope you dig!
-T

Ghulam Ali

My awesome roommate found this tape by Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali at a local thrift shop here in Miami. Ghulam Ali is an amazing singer of classical Hindustani music and he is usually performing on vocals and harmonium, along with violin, sitar, and tablas players to accompany him. Here's the tape:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zfwmzojrdwi 


Here's a video of him performing in a rather formal concert that's no less impassioned than any of the recordings:

Hope you all enjoy it!
-TS

Morockindianworldbeats

Just found this awesome live video of the amazing Moroccan traditional music group Nass El Ghiwane performing a song called "Essiniya"
check it out:



Also if you don't already have one, sign up for livejournal.com for one reason only:
their fm worldbeat community. If you're a livejournal member (no money involved here it's free to sign up) you can join the group and check out the hundreds of amazing world music albums they post to that group. I've come across so much good/strange/beautiful music from that group that I've eventually used on my radio show, so I highly recommend it! Right now they've got 16 albums of Native American music, A Buddha Bar compilation, a Swedish band called Diablo Swing Orchestra that puts their genre as "Avant-garde/symphonic/operatic metal" and that's just the first 3!
Check it!:
http://community.livejournal.com/fmworldbeat/?skip=20

On that community blog I found that amazon.com has a bunch of free world music MP3's up. Just go to amazon.com and type in "free world music mp3" in the search bar and you'll find them. Pretty awesome stuff. A bunch from Putumayo and some other world compilations.

I stumbled across this Indian music site dishant.com that has all different styles of Indian music categorized by region and style which can give you a pretty good overview of the vast range of music that enormous country has to offer. The mp3 streams are not the highest quality, but what they lack in quality, they at least compensate for in the huge quantity of music available. If you sign up for the site (also free) you can save playlists (called PCDs) and go back and listen to your favorite tracks whenever you want.

That's all I've got for now, time to go play some avant-garde jazz!

-TIS

SOUNDS IMPORTED NOV 8

Hey kids, Today I played a bunch of music from Haiti and various other French speaking and otherwise awesome music filled nations. I did have some sweet vinyls that I was going to play, but the WVUM studio is pretty lax on fixing their turntable. I will be transferring some of those vinyl tracks to my computer so you guys can check em out. That's all for now!

6:34 PM Antoine Dougbè Et Black Santiago | Dou Dagbe Wé
6:38 Ti Band L’avenir | Mizisyen
6:47 Magnum Band | Libete
6:54 Ralph Thamar | Mi Se La
7:00 Ti Band L’avenir | Ti Band L’avenir / Panamam Tombe
7:03 Ensemble L’avenir | Ensemble L’avenir / Ti Zwazo
7:08 SÈ Kool | Pa Dèkourajè
7:13 Carimi | Ayiti (Bang Bang)
7:18 Sakad | Rebati Kay-La (Rebuild The House)
7:22 Ti Band L’avenir | Haiti Chèrie
7:31 Haiti Twoubadou | Ki Demon Sa-A
7:37 DP Express | E E E E
7:44 Kassav’ | RÈtÈ (Live Version)
7:48 Egschiglen – Elstiin Ganga
7:51 Alan Raghallaigh | The rocks of bawn
7:53 Staff Benda Billi | Sala Keba
7:56 Los Destellos | Valicha
7:59 Ghulam Ali | Aek to Chehra aesa ho

Check it all out here:http://www.sendspace.com/file/ahutss

Let me know what you think!

SOUNDS IMPORTED: WORLD MUSIC

Hey there world music lovers! My name is Taylor and I'm a DJ at WVUM 90.5 the University of Miami's radio station. I do a world music show there every sunday from 6:30-8PM and I usually pick a different country to explore every week. If you're not in the Miami area you can check out the show streaming live from our website WVUM.ORG and also I'll be posting all the music that I play each week here on this blog. Plus any sweet music I find out there in internet world or acquire myself I'll be happy to share with all you kids. So for today I'll give you what I've got now:

Music from Gabon:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b6ydz1

Music of Iraq:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tj8z5k

World Music Mix:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4bcmdv

Mongolian Music:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/i8xn4n

Let me know what you think email me: skunker77@hotmail.com

Enjoy!