FSN Diamond Playlist

Sidse Holte @monkeycupdress(Denmark) - Vocals & Guitar 
Chance McCoy @chancemccoy(USA) - Guitar & Fiddle

Grandfather Mountain

Alesh (DRC) - Vocals 
PPS @user5422159(Senegal) - Vocals 
Wael Jegham (Tunisia) - Guembri 
Johnbern Thomas @johnbernthomas (Haiti) - Percussion
Recorded at a Street Studio
Produced by Chris Marianetti @nopiano (USA)

Gumbri

Kato Change @kato-change (Kenya) - Guitar 
Kayode Kuti @kayodekuti (Nigeria) - Bass & Vocals 
Parfum Zola (DRC) - Percussion

My Hometown Spring

Wael Jegham @a5tuna-tunis (Tunisia) - Electronics and Production
Aquil Charlton (USA) -  Vocals & Production

Gone Gone

Produced by Devin Greenwood
Recorded at the Honey Jar, Brooklyn, New York
Kemba (USA) @kembaland - Vocals
Ahmed Rock (Egypt) @thebiggboy - Vocals
Malabika Brahma (India) @malabikabrahma - Vocals
Yang Fan (China)- Guitar
JIha Park (South Korea) @jihasound - Piri

Love

Written by Kyla-Rose Smith @kyla-rose-smith (South Africa) and Bongeziwe Mabandla @bongeziwemabandla-music (South Africa)
Featuring: 
Jeremy Thal @jeremythal (U.S.)
Elena Moon Park @emprojects (U.S.)
Produced & Engineered by Griffin Rodriguez

OneBeat Mixtape 2014 - The Bees

DAY - Travelers

Rosie Tucker @rosietucker (USA) - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Ama Diaka @poetra-asantewa (Ghana) - Spoken word, Vocals
Benjamin Jephta @benjaminjephta (South Africa) - Bass

Engineered and Mixed by Chris Botta

Bodies - OneBeat 2016

"Bells Burp" was recorded at Found Sound Nation's OneBeat 2015 program. For more information, please visit www.1beat.org.

Kate Shilonosova @kate-nv, Russia (Production, Percussion) 
Tsai Hui Ya, Taiwan (Liuqin)
Christie Burns @christie-burns, USA (Hammer Dulcimer)
Pat Swoboda @bearthoven, USA (Percussion)
Fabian Sanchez, Colombia (Percussion)
Daniel de Mendoza @daniel-de-mendoza-lozano, Colombia (Bass)
Vieux Cissokho @vieuxalioucissokho, Senegal (Kora)
Denis Peniugin, Russia (Balalaika)
Ng Chor Guan @ngchorguan, Malaysia (Percussion)

OneBeat 2015 Mixtape - Bells Burp

Aduogo Ka is composed by Kenyan musician Rapasa Otieno and features a traditional Luo instrument, Nyangile.  Nyangile is a box instrument in a square form with two rings and stick that is popularly played in primary schools in Western part of Kenya. The lyrics are inspired by what is known as Pakrouk (Praises), a popular tradition of the Luo community, which are mostly performed during community gatherings, weddings, birth celebrations and funerals.

Composed by  John Otieno Oduor
Rapasa Otieno - Vocals, Nyatiti + Nyangile
Paulo Sartori - Slide + Electric guitar
Hannah Fidler - Electric Bass
Yu Hsin Chang - Percussion
Mehdi Nassouli - Guembri + Riq
Natallia Kunitskaya- Synthesizer
Devin Greenwood - Synths, Bass , Marimba + Additional Percussion

Aduogo Ka

Deep desert roots meet dub-heavy dancehall style in this ecstatic mash-up of sounds from the African continent. Recorded in one of the many late-night sessions that are a feature of the annual global music fellowship OneBeat, and inspired by the meditative tradition of Gnawa music, this track features the talents of the Moroccan stalwart Mehdi Nassouli, award-winning South African jazz trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni, and infectious raga vocals by American-Ethiopian Haile Supreme (a member of Congo Sanchez – the side project of Thievery Corporation). Haile Supreme says of the making and performance of this track, “I believe this song is OneBeat personified because of its message, cosmopolitan ingredients and the extremely high energy participation it summoned from every crowd when we performed this piece on the One Beat tour.”

Composed by Mehdi Nassouli
Mehdi Nassouli - Vocals, Talotart, Guembri + Riq
Abbay Misganaw - Vocals, Percussion
Kyla- Rose Smith - Background Vocals
Mandla Mlangeni - Horns
Jeremy Thal - Horns
Munyaradzi Nyamarebvu - Mbira
Jan Kruzliak - Violin
Paulo Sartori - Electric Guitar
Devin Greenwood - Synths + Bass
Sergey Balashov - Drums

Yeah Yeah

While in residency in Central Oregon, Mustelide (Minsk, Belarus), OMMA (Moscow, Russia) and Rapasa (Nairobi, Kenya) shared meals, long walks and eventually late night jam sessions. In a cavernous great hall in the middle of a pine forest, next to a well stoked fire, producer Mustelide began experimenting with sampling Rapasa's traditional Kenyan Nyatiti while playing and singing on her newly acquired portable Octatrack recorder. Thum Nyatiti blends Mustelide's unwavering electro pop devotion with Rapasa's delicate and infectious African folk instrumentation. In just a few days the trio wrote and recorded the "Thum Nyatiti", a bright pop song which echoes the surreal beauty of the nearby burnt down woods where they chose to shoot a music video, directed by Souki Mehdaoui.

Composed by Natalia Kunitskaya + John Otieno Oduor
Natallia Kunitskaya - Vocals, Octatrack + Synthesizers 
Rapasa Otieno - Vocals + Nyatiti

Thum Nyatiti

Produced by Mustelide (@mustelide)using the Symphony For A Broken Orchestra Sample Bank. 
* All samples provided by Found Sound Nation and Symphony For A Broken Orchestra. 
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra was commissioned by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art. Major support is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation.

Not The Same - Mustelide

from Suites For A Broken Orchestra
Produced by Keith Sweaty (@keithsweaty)using the Symphony For A Broken Orchestra Sample Bank.
* All samples provided by Found Sound Nation and Symphony For A Broken Orchestra.
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra was commissioned by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art. Major support is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation.

Descent Into Broko - Keith Sweaty

from Suites For A Broken Orchestra
Produced by Daedelus (@Daedelus) using the Symphony For A Broken Orchestra Sample Bank.
* All samples provided by Found Sound Nation and Symphony For A Broken Orchestra.
Symphony for a Broken Orchestra was commissioned by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art. Major support is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation.

Lets Have A Concert - Daedelus

Music by Tsanta Randriamihajasoa
Words by Akinyemi
Tsanta Randriamihajasoa- Valiha/ Electric Guitar/ Percussion / Cajon/ Vocals
Akinyemi - MC
Samah Boulmona - Accordion

Manyakory

Composed by Tsanta Randriamihajasoa 
Tsanta Randriamihajasoa  - Piano/ Synth Moog
Younès Kati - Drums
Zsolt Bartek - Clarinet
Pavithra Chari - Vocals

Sorabe

Composed by Shahzad Ismaily
Tsanta Randriamihajasoa - Valiha + Flutes
Shahzad Ismaily - Bass, Cajon + Electric Guitar

Marovany

Fog and Trees is a piece of music developed by a group of five OneBeat fellows to accompany a short film by South African photographer and filmmaker Alexia Webster. Led by Chinese synth-builder and electronic sound artist Meng Qi, this track follows the contours of the video as it depicts natural phenomena, with a focus on the bumbling gases and swirling mists of Yellowstone National Park. As Meng Qi put it: “In Alexia's video, we have motions and textures of nature, filling eyes and minds at an accelerating pace. It starts sparse and still, and gets dense and ever-changing, as a watcher's sense is overwhelmed, the images in mind would become blurry, finally unified in a wash of white noise.” Meng Qi is accompanied in this piece by guitarist Ivy Alexander (Kenya), vocalist/producer Sao Yantó (Brazil), oudist/vocalist Sarra Douik (Tunisia), and cellist/violist/vocalist free feral (New Orleans).

Composed and Performed by
Meng Qi @mengqimusic - Modular Synthesizer
free feral @free-feral - Cello and vocals
Ivy Alexander @ivy-m-alexander - Electric Guitar
Sarra Douik @sarra-douik - Oud and vocals
São Yantò @saoyanto - Keys and vocals

Produced and Recorded by Christopher Botta
Mixed by Christopher Botta
Mastered by Christopher Botta

Fog and Trees

Found Sound Nation (FSN) is a collective of musicians and artists who leverage the unique power of creative sound-making to help build strong, just, healthy communities. We believe that the art of listening extends far beyond the practice of making music — it is one of the major ways we can become aware of the beauty, tragedy, and hidden potential present in our neighborhoods, institutions and families. Our work emphasizes a mobile, accessible, collaborative way of recording and producing professional quality music, a technique developed by combining the innovative art music traditions of musique concréte, hip hop, audio-journalism, and contemporary composition. This method is highly adaptable to different environments, based on finding the unique sounds and resonances of each space, drawing upon the talents of musicians in the local scene, and examining issues most relevant to each community.

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