10/03/2015 | |||
Label | Artist | Album | Selection |
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Global Rap | |||
Rap Music has come a long way since its inception within hip hop culture in New York City and has gained cultural and political significance as it has spread thorughout the world. Tangents takes us on a glopal rap excursion featuring African rappers such as Daara J from Senegal, former child-soldier Emanuel Jal from Sudan and Algerian Rai singer Cheb Mami. Rap music pioneers Melle Mel and Grand Master Flash along with the "Godfather of Rap" Gil Scot-Heron are also included. | |||
Virgin (Canada) | Speedy J | GSpot (I) | The Fun Equations |
TVT | Gil Scot-Heron | Winter In America | H2Ogate Blues |
World Music Network | Kalamashaka | Rough Guide to African Rap (I) | Ni Wakati |
City of Tribes | Ali Khan Band (now known as Shabaz) | Zindagi | Piyar Piyar |
Richard Blair Excerpt | |||
Palm Pictures | Sidestepper | 3AM (In Beats We Trust) | Mas Papaya |
Sugar Hill | Melle Mel | Best of Sugar Hill Records (var) | White Lines (Don't Do It) |
World Music Network | Emmanuel Jal (co-billed with Abdel Gadir Salim but he's not on this song) | Ceasefire (I) (N) | Gua |
Cohiba/Polydor | MC Solaar | Prose Combat | Nouveau Western |
World Village | Tinariwen | Amassakoul | Arawan |
Axiom | Bahia Black featuring Carlinhos Brown | Ritual Beating System | Capitao Do Asfalto |
Mondo Melodia/Ark 21 | Cheb Mami | Melil Meli | Parisien Du Nord |
Wrasse | Daara J | Boomerang (L) | Boomerang |
Asphodel | The X-ecutioners | Asphodelic Sampler (var) | Raidas' Theme Remix |
Blue Note | US3 | Hand On The Torch | Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) |
Cross-Cultural Kora | |||
Tangents spotlights the kora, the 21 stringed harp/lute indigenous to West Africa. Best known as a solo instrument, the kora has emerged as a vehicle for cross-cultural explorations. Host Dore Stein shows that the kora is at home anywhere, with songs steeped in flamenco, Afro-Cuban, North Indian classical, Swedish polska, jazz and qawwali (featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Kauwding Cissokho). | |||
Asphodel | Tipsy | "Trip Tease" The Seductive Sounds of Tipsy | Tuatara (intro music) |
Hannibal | Songhai (Ketama, Toumani Diabate, Danny Thompson) | Songhai | Mani Mani Kuru (Kora: Toumani Diabate) |
Celluloid | Kora Jazz Trio [english bio] |
Kora Jazz Trio - Part Two (I)(N) | Sunugal (Kora: Djeli Moussa Diawara) |
Palm Pictures | Ernest Ranglin | In Search of the Lost Riddim | Up On The Downstroke (Kora: Kauwding Cissokho) |
Six Degrees | Carlos Patato Valdes | Patato: The Legend of Cuban Percussion [album review] |
Kora-Son (Kora: Abdou M'Boup) |
Saraswati [Alexandros Karsiotis, Tel: +30 2295 052 560] |
ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ & Ο ΚΟΣΜΟΣ Master Musicians Meeting Club (Ballake Sissoko, Petrolukas Halkias, Rakesh Chaurasia, Subhankar Banerjee, Devashish Dey, Rabindra Goswami) | ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ & Ο ΚΟΣΜΟΣ Master Musicians Meeting Club (I) | Sunrise (Kora: Ballake Sissoko) |
Mélodie | Djeli Moussa Diawara & Bob Brozman | Ocean Blues (I) | Almany |
Forest Hill | Cantodiscanto | Malmediterraneo (I) | Bandera (Flag) (Kora: Lao Kouyate, Vocals: Gabin Dabire) |
Soundscape | Roswell Rudd & Toumani Diabate | MALIcool | MALIcool (Kora: Toumani Diabate) |
Xource | Ellika & Solo | Tretakt Takissaba (I) | Takissaba Polska (Kora: Solo Cissokho) |
Real World | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook | Night Song | My Heart, My Life (Kora: Kauwding Cissokho) |
Ellipsis Arts | Foday Musa Suso with Philip Glass | Jali Kunda: Griots of West Africa & Beyond (var)(single CD box set) | Spring Waterfall |
Six Degrees | Kirsten Bråten Berg | From Senegal to Setesdal | Bånsullar / Ding Ding Ide (Kora: Solo Cissokho) |
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Music of Stateless Peoples | |||
Capitol | Robbie Robertson(Native American) | Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy | Sacrifice feat. Leonard Peltier |
Real World | Mari Boine (Sami) | Gula Gula | Balu Badajel Go Vuoittán (When I Win Against Fear) |
KKV | Rim Banna | The Mirrors of My Soul (I) | Ya Jammal dedicated to the soul of Tawfiq Ziad |
Ses | Sivan Perwer (Kurdish) | Hay Dil (I) | Lemî Lanim Ke (Sorani) |
Elkarlanean | Benito Lertxundi (Basque) | Voices of Euskadi (var) (I) | Joan Zinen (You Left) |
World Music Network | Mariem Hassan voice of the Sahrawi People |
The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara (var) (I) (N) | Id Chab (originally released on "Mariem Hassan Con Leyoad") |
(OVP) | Iyaye feat. Charles Jefferson (Native American) | A Gathering of Spirits | 500 Drums (this track is available on the Narada compilation "Between Father Sky & Mother Earth ") |
Enja / Justin-Time | Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble feat. Reem Kelani (Palestinian) | Exile | Dal'ouna On The Return |
CNI | The Third Planet (Kurdish) | Kurdistani (I) | Baaran |
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KEY D = debut comp = compilation FC = forthcoming I = import L = latest OVP = Out of Print N = new NR = newly reissued sdtrk = soundtrack TT = title track var = various N/A = not available NCR = not commercially released NOTE: A space between the rows (usually with a time) indicates a set break |
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