Wednesday, April 07, 2010

100310 GondwanaSound - Album of the Week - Skeltons


Album of the week: Smile from Skeletons on Impossible Ark Records.


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Welcome to another round the world music adventure with a number of album launches, local gigs a plenty, a listener request, sacred music and an album of the week that comes from Skeletons, a made up band, an invention from the creative genius of Benedic Lamdin. On the subject of the band he says, "I kid you not, it doesn't exist, these musicians never stood in the studio together, they just passed through my house or left some scraps of sound behind after sessions...like a guy, pieced together and ready for the bonfire." Hope you hear something you enjoy



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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Ali and Toumani - album of the week 100224




Welcome to your next round the world music adventure. First broadcast on Sheffield Live 93.2FM on 24th February 2010.

For those of you who like your African Music with a deep and heavy funk groove and a touch of fuzz guitar you'll jump with joy at Strut's re-release of Afro-Rock Volume One - out of print since 2002 and credited with started the "craze" for record digging and retro releases from the motherland. Hear a track on this week's broadcast along with a cut from Ofege's album Try and Love and some seriously heavy rocked out fuzz guitars from Zambia in the 70's courtesy of Amanaz, who's re-release on the Shadoks label is "a hallucinogenic £32" from Honest Jons. We play a track from Amanaz today - see what you reckon.

Our album of the week, in complete contrast is some of the most beautiful music I've heard so far this year, Ali and Toumani with three cuts from the album you'll hear an on the spot improvisation from Toumani, Ali with some deep Peul grooves and the extraordinary love and empathy these two musicians have for each other's music. A contender for album of the year.

Starting with some Brit folk and tracks from the Imagined Village with a little known Ewan McColl composition and the marvellous Chumbawamba mocking the BNP's attempts to infiltrate the British Folk scene. Slotting a track from the new Bollywood Funk album into the mix aswell, we have another eclectic round the world music adventure.

Enjoy.

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