World Music Recommendations

[beesonthewhatnow]

Ojos De Brujo, quite simply the best live band in the world.

 

[Tort]

Personal Favourites

African
Baaba Maal
Salif Keita
Amadou & Mariam
Alpha Blondy
Kanda Bongo Man
Souad Massi
Tinawiren
Youssou N'Dour
Mory Kante

Latin
Ojos de Brujos
Los de Abajo
Manu Chau
Bajofondo Tango Club

Asian
Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn
Ravi Shankar

Crossover/Fusion
Baka Beyond
Afro Celt Soundsystem
1 Giant Leap
Oi Va Voi
Oojami
Temple Of Sound
Banco da Gaia
Kamel Nitrate
The Baghdaddies

 

[Schmetterling]

Rachid Taha - it's Rai really but of course it will, inevtably, be found in the World Music section. Sigh!
I recently bought a CD by Mako in Germany. I think they may be French/Haitian? No idea and I haven't been lucky with Googling yet. Bit of mixture but veers into Drum 'n Bass. Anyone heard of them?

 

[William of Walworth]

The Ukranians

The Ukrainians are fab, but I mainly saw them in the early to mid 90s, and I was under the impression until recently that they'd split up. But it would seem they're still active!! Really hoping they'll play some festival or other this summer.

They did a cover of 'The Queen Is Dead' in Ukranian ...

They are Leeds people of Ukranian descent ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Curses! It would seem from The Ukranians website that they're taking a break until 9 July ...

<hopes festival dates will be added for after this ... >

 

[oryx]

Amadou & Mariam (fun)

'Dimanche a Bamako' is excellent - would recommend it highly.

 

[Biddlybee]

Ojos De Brujo, quite simply the best live band in the world.

They're playing soon in London , but a venue with seating only

Everyone else has mentioned the bands/people I thought of.

 

[boing!]

I really want to get one of those congotronics albums. Would anyone recomend one over the other or are they both as good as each other?

 

[William of Walworth]

I really want to get one of those congotronics albums. Would anyone recomend one over the other or are they both as good as each other?

Indirect recommendation from my brother, who's well into this kinda stuff :

He likes them both, but prefers the first

 

[boing!]

cool, I downloaded bits of that one and it sounded good, I'll have to see if I can order it somewhere.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

They're playing soon in London

Where/when? Are they playing anywhere else in the UK?

 

[boing!]

They're playing the Barbican on the 10th of April. I think im going to get myself some tickets.

 

[fela fan]

there's a good Afrobeat comp i got compiled by The Shrine club - all Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, that sort of thing.

Can you let me know more? My last visit to britain was three years ago and i thought i'd exhausted all afro beat cds, but i don't have anything with both fela and king sunny on it. Which cd is this? I want to get it!

 

[fela fan]

And incidentally i've been waiting ages for femi kuti to come out with another album, and finally he's done it, a live one: Africa Shrine, and right now i cannot get enough of it. If he carries on like this he'll outdo his old man...

the first track after the intro is, memory decay accounted for, the finest track of music ever released that hit my ears.