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NEW RELEASES NR. 8 – 2016

OUT NOW! Eliades Ochoa & Alma Latina: Guajira Mas Guajira TUMI 241 / € 10,80 / 5022627024127 / label: Tumi / format: CD / Cuba – Son/Latin

Guajira Mas Guajira is a name chosen for Maria Ochoa by her brother Eliades Ochoa who joins her and Alma Latino to record this melting pot of Latin and Cuban genres. In Eliades words, “Guajira Mas Guajira together with Buena Vista Social Club are the most important and interesting recordings of my life. Alma Latina is an inspiration and an expression of art, music, painting and dance. It is a call to bring harmony and love through music to all human beings and latin brothers.” Listen to ‘Brisa Mananera’.

Release 29 April:

Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht: Dvojka GBCD 33 / € 10,95 / 4030433603321 / label: Glitterbeat / format: CD / Bosnia-Herzegovina – Sevdah

Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht: Dvojka GBLP 33 / € 13,95 / 4030433603314 / label: Glitterbeat / format: LP / Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sevdah

The Huffington Post recently called Damir Imamovič : “The King of Sevdah.” Sevdah is Bosnia’s gorgeous and centuries old popular song form. While Damir and his pan-Balkan band Sevdah Takht are certainly the most important young proponents of sevdah, their approach is fueled by a fearless commitment to push this passionate music into contemporary, unknown territory. They are more revolutionaries than kings. Watch this impressive (in both sound and image) video clip of the song ‘Sarajevo’.

Release 29 April:

Marcel Khalife: Andalusia of Love NR 1021 / € 11,45 / 0190394200671 / label: Nagam / format: CD / Lebanon – Classical

For four decades Lebanese composer Marcel Khalife and Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish were a notable duo. Their songs, overflowing with love, poetry and melodies are still remembered by many. The late Darwish, who passed away in 2008, has never ceased to exist in Marcel Khalife's memory. In his latest album, "Andalusia of Love" Khalife evokes memories of the late Darwish; presenting a work that combines poetic creativity and beautiful music. Khalife describes his new album as "stemming from a life lived in fear, death, killing, destruction and ugliness, and from among all this Andalusia emerges. Here, love is not merely words like most songs, but rather involves real suffering. And hence I was compelled to delve deeply into love as a human experience and break away from the traditional formats of oriental music and song and come up with a more personal musical work." The booklet contains translations of the poems in English, French and Spanish. Listen to a track here.

Yom: Songs for the Old Man BUDA 860289 / € 10,95 / 3341348602899 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / France – Klezmer

After 7 albums devoted to his maternal cultural heritage (Jewish from Transylvania) klezmer-clarinettist Yom returns with a reinterpretation of the American exile of his father in the 50s in the US. It's his review of this family legend, a crossing of romantic America, nostalgic, dreamy but also arid and violent. An album of folk songs “clarinettistiques” that he “sings” for his father, and for all those who spend their lives on the road, nomads, hobos, displaced, refugees. Listen to a track.

Baeshi Bang: Vintage K-Pop Revisited BUDA 860286 / € 10,95 / 3341348602868 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / France – K-Pop

Baeshi Bang is a French quintet presenting an original and modern instrumental interpretation of songs by Bae Ho, famous Korean singer from the sixties. It is a new project created by saxophone player Etienne de la Sayette, who has been at the leading helm of several other bands (Akalé Wubé, Frix, Gulab Ja Moun, Human Beings...). He has now directed his attention to a singer who is completely unknown in France but whose music is the perfect mix between the slick sound of the large European pop ensembles of the sixties, and the Korean soul which comes through its unmistakable melodies. Listen to ‘Taeyangei’.

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Movie: Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa BUDA 860260 / € 10,95 / 3341348602608 / label: Buda Musique / format: DVD / Zanzibar – Taarab

‘Poetry in Motion’ explores the music, poetry, history and personalities of the esteemed East African orchestra Ikhwan Safaa. Performers of taraab (poetry sung in Swahili), Nadi Ikhwan Safaa (“The True Brotherhood Club”) celebrated its 100

th anniversary in 2005, making it one of the oldest orchestras in the world today.

African orchestral music is largely unknown, falling, as it does, outside the popular perceptions of African music. The film offers a music and poetry-driven narrative of a musical club that survived colonialism and violent revolution, and yet always managed to celebrate the joys and challenges of life. Watch this clip.

Sampo Lassila Narinkka: In Strange Lands – Vierailla Mailla NARI 2 / € 10,75 / 6420114002549 / label: Narinkaattori Records / format: CD / Finland – Klezmer

The second album of the Finnish suomiklezmer-trio has a strong current theme: the touching destinies of Finns moving abroad from Finland - and on the other hand, the moving immigrant destinies in Finland. The trio’s style between neoklezmer and Nordic blues is going onwards and deeper. The trio with double bass, viola pomposa and accordion is also reinforced with surprising Finnish concrete sounds. An egg-slicer, old milkchurn, rosty rake, Nokia rubber boots, preparated sitra and old liquorice box among other creative sounds can be heard on the album not to mention the diverse technical styles of playing the trio’s main instruments. Their first album of subtle Finnish klezmer Suomiklezmer (NARI 1) was well received in the Benelux in 2013. Listen to a live track.

Cabruera: Colors of Brazil TUMI 239 / € 10,80 / 5022627023922/ label: Tumi / format: 2-CD / Brazil – Urban

"Cabruêra" refers to a bunch of goats or "Lampiano" in Portuguese, who often chew whatever they can find in the struggle to survive in the desert of north east Brazil. Cabruêra is a unique Brazilian group with a rich music scene beyond bossa and samba. Cabruêra spices up the rural rhythms with all the urban styles you love to groove to and see themselves as the wild goats who chew all different cultures and rhythms such as coco, ciranda, embolado, forro, maracatu and samba and urban styles from rock to funk, rap and electro, and by mixing them all up they produce a wonderful sound. Listen here.

Un Traguito Mas: Adondequiera S 66434 / € 8,50 / 3700089664342 / label: Playa Sound / format: CD / Latin - Folk

Love, anger, nostalgia, alcohol: Un Traguito Mas explores the dramatic qualities of popular songs of Latin America and Southern Europe: from the Portuguese fado to the Mexican drinking song, passing by pieces from Argentina, Italy and Greece. Adrienne Winling’s warm, deep voice interacts thrillingly with the bold, sensitive playing of Antoine Girard’s accordion. With the album Adondequiera the duo brings to life moving tales of ordinary men and women faced with joy, love, grief or jealousy. Listen to the album teaser. Nizar Rohana Trio: Furat LLR 43 / € 9,55 / 9789077672266 / label: Lop Lop / format: CD / Middle East – trad. / modern class.

Nizar Rohana is a Palestinian oud player currently based in the Netherlands distinguished for combining virtuosity within fresh contemporary compositions, while maintaining the oud’s idiomatic language. The trio (completed with Matyas Szandai on double bass and Wassim Halal on percussion) took the river Euphrates – Furat in Arabic – as a starting point. The album’s seven pieces continue along Nizar’s journey in exploring new possibilities for the oud, where its idiomatic character is advanced through new compositions, fresh structures, melodies and expressions. The civilizations and peoples that have lived along the river's course provide the themes for the song titles, from the Syrian city of Mayādīn to the ancient ruins of Al-Dālya, between the willow trees along its banks and through the Jūrjīnā rhythm cherished in Iraq. Listen to this track.

YANTRA: A Journey Through Timelessness IFR 518 / € 9,95 / 0888174812427 / label: Indigo Fusion Rec. / format: CD / Various – a capella

YANTRA is the unusual project of three singers from very different backgrounds, united by their passion of unaccompanied human voice. Born from an experimental session for BBC 3’s Late Junction in 2009, YANTRA’s focal point is the intersection of incomparable singing traditions. Combining the purity of a cappella with modern mutli-tracking recording techniques, their rich vocal fusion explores the spiritual and folkloric music from the traditional and ancient music heritage of Bulgaria, India and England. Singers Eugenia Georgieva from Bulgaria (Perunika Trio), Tamil vocalist Manickam Yogeswaran (sang in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Spike Lee’s 25

th Hour) and basso profundo Jeremy Birchall from England (The Shout, performed in

many Hollywood films) evoke a world of sound unknown to our ears. Listen to the opening track.

EXPECTED Expected 6 May:

Imam Baildi: Live EMGR 4784213 / € 11,95 / 0602547842138 / label: Minos EMI / format: 2-CD / Greece - Popular

For all the fans who were waiting to re-experience the energy of the band’s concerts: here’s the live album! A double album to present songs that are played live, but were not included in previous albums, and the hottest moment from their concerts. The band will be touring in the Benelux from 11-15 May, check concerts below. This is the audio teaser.

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Expected 6 May:

Carla Pires: Aqui OCA 38 / € 10,95 / 0643070995144 / label: Ocarina / format: CD / Portugal – Fado

The Portuguese fado singer Carla Pires releases her third solo album album "Aqui" (after "Ilha do Meu Fado" (2005) and "Rota das Paixões" (2011)). "Aqui" is here and now. It is Portugal and the world seen through the eyes - and the senses – of a singer who not only sings about matters of today but also about matters of yesterday and tomorrow, what is local and universal, what unites us and separates us, what was left to celebrate that it is increasingly necessary to celebrate, to remember and to think. Pires sings about the city of Lisbon - feminine, free, diverse - where so many sounds meet fado, like tango or samba. Her voice has enchanted audiences around the world and on this album continues to do so, incorporating this broader view on the world in her songs. Listen to Carla Pires live.

Expected 13 May:

Refugees for Refugees: Amerli MP 7 / € 11,60 / 5425015559070 / label: Muziekpublique / format: CD / Various

Muziekpublique brings together around twenty virtuosos who are refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tibet, who finally ended up in Belgium. The objective is to reveal talents and cultural treasures that have become virtually invisible in Belgium. These are experienced musicians who have been trained at some of the most prestigious music academies in the Middle East (Damascus, Baghdad, Aleppo) and who have passed through a string of musical centers dotted along the former Silk road. Their CD builds bridge between the musicians and the different traditions they represent, in order to produce an album that is rich, innovative and a mark of diversity and cultural exchange. This album aims at highlighting the virtuosos who took part in it, but also at supporting artistic activities with other refugees in Belgium. A part of the benefits from the CD sale will go to the NPO's Globe Aroma and Synergie 14 to support their activities. Listen to one of the tracks. Release concert at Muziekpublique Brussels on Friday May 13 (www.muziekpublique.be)

Expected 27 May:

M.A.K.U. Soundsystem: Mezcla GBCD 34 / € 10,95 / 4030433603420 / format: CD / label: Glitterbeat / Colombia – Popular

M.A.K.U. Soundsystem: Mezcla GBLP 34 / € 13,95 / 4030433603413 / format: CD / label: Glitterbeat / Colombia – Popular

M.A.K.U Soundsystem is a visceral, politically charged 8-piece band based in New York City, with most of its members hailing from Colombia. M.A.K.U draws on both traditional Afro-Colombian rhythms such as cumbia, as well as a mosaic of other genres: afrobeat, punk, hip-hop, and jazz. "We not only take our cultures with us," says M.A.K.U singer Liliana Conde, who immigrated to the US in 2001 and went to high school in New York, "but we also pick up on everything that surrounds us.” Mezcla is a relentlessly honest record. The music hits the feet and the hips, powerful and overwhelming, while the lyrics reflect the lives the band members live. There’s the giddy flirtation of a summer Saturday night on ‘Haitiana’ and the thought that comes from looking around somewhere so different and asking ‘What Do You Wish For.’ But it also embraces darker political questions that don’t have easy answers. The opening track, ‘Agua,’ for instance, wonders why some people own the seeds that should be for everyone – who are those who have and who are the dispossessed? And ‘De Barrio,’ the warm, inviting waltz that closes the disc, examines the journey so many coming from Latin America to the US undertake. Listen and watch to the album teaser here.

REVIEWS Songlines #117 May 2016 Oumar Konate: Maya Maya CLECD 14 Mbaraka Mwinshehe : Zanzibara 9 BUDA 860279 Various: Every Song Has Its End GBCD 29/GBLP 29 Eliades Ochoa & Alma Latina:

Guajira Mas Guajira TUMI 241 Malawi Mouse Boys: Forever is 4 You on IRL out soon Songlines Music Awards 2016 nominees Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna:

Busco Paraiso, Best Artist BROWNIE 9/BROWNIE 10 Monsieur Doumani: Sikoses, Best Group in general

and Best European Group MD 2 Mahsa Vahdat: Traces of an Old Vineyard, Best Fusion artist FXCD 409 fRoots #395 May 2016 Katerina Tsiridou: Aman Katerina PR11732 Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht: Dvojka GBCD 33 / GBLP 33 Te Vaka: Amataga WMCD 1010 Parool Apr 2016 Joaquín de Sola: Principio FDLI 2 Ferhat Tunc: Kobani FXCD 417

Trouw April 2016 Mamadou Kelly: Djamila CLECD 12 / CLELP 12 Orchestre International du Vetex: Fifavela VLR 12 Ferhat Tunc: Kobani FXCD 417 Trouw April 2016 Ferhat Tunc: Kobani FXCD 417 Transglobal World Music Chart April 2016 Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 Katerina Tsiridou: Aman Katerina PR11732 Élage Diouf: Meloukaane Out soon on Pump Up The World World Music Charts Europe April 2016 Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 Dimitris Mystakidis: Esperanto Out soon on Fishbowl Oor March 2016 Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 Jazzism #2 March/April 2016 Mamadou Kelly: Djamila CLECD 12/CLELP 12 Melissa Fortes: Sonho De Um Beija-Flor MFM 1501 Alma Afrobeat Ensemble: It’s Time SLW 105

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LIVE

Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin 23 April Chapelle de Verre - Ronquières (BE) 21 May Handelsbeurs – Gent (BE) 12 June Eupen (BE) Joana Amendoeira 3 May 30 CC – Leuven (BE) 5 May De Warande – Turnhout (BE) 6 May Bozar - Brussels (BE) 7 May Handelsbeurs – Gent (BE) Damir Imamovic 6 May RASA – Utrecht (NL) Imam Baildi 11 May Paradiso Noord /Tolhuistuin – Amsterdam (NL) 12 May Melusina – Luxemburg (LUX) 13 May Vooruit – Gent (BE) 14 May Grounds – Rotterdam (NL) Refugees for Refugees 13 May Muziekpublique – Brussels (BE) Zakouska 21 May Kokopelli Festival – Gullegem (BE) Electrorumbaiao 21 May Kokopelli Festival – Gullegem (BE) La Sra. Tomasa 21 May Kokopelli Festival – Gullegem (BE)

Orchestre International du Vetex 22 May Kokopelli Festival – Gullegem (BE) Melissa Fortes 16 May Wereldfair Museum Volkenkunde 4 June De Doelen - Rotterdam Laaraji 21 May Full Moon Healing @ Vooruit – Gent (BE) 22 May Korzo – The Hague (NL) Nizar Rohana Trio 3 June Meervaart – Amsterdam (NL) Bixiga 70 26 June Festival Mundial – Tilburg (NL) 9 July North Sea Jazz – Rotterdam (NL) Karyna Gomes 2/3 July Afrikafestival Hertme (NL) Baba Commandant & Mandingo Band 3 July Amsterdam Roots Open Air – Amsterdam (NL) Sonido Gallo Negro 25 June Down the Rabbit Hole – Ewijk (NL) 26 June Festival Mundial – Tilburg (NL) 18 July Gentse Feesten St Jacobs – Gent (BE) M.A.K.U. Soundsystem 3 July Amsterdam Roots Open Air – Amsterdam (NL) 20-24 July Zomer van Antwerpen (BE)

TOP 5 BEST SELLERS

1. Aziza Brahim: Abbar el Hamada GBCD 31/GBLP 31 2. Bixiga 70 & Victor Rice: The Copan Connection GBLP 32 3. Various: Cambodian Cassette Archives SUBFLP 11 4. Various: Every Song Has Its End GBCD 29 / GBLP 29 5. Sahra Halgan Trio: Faransiskiyo Somaliland BUDA 4758652

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