From the historical nationalistic hatred, we only have the alienated language and this dying beauty of music left, which burst many of us in tears. Glad this is getting attention.

Greek Epirus Sounds, Balkan Vocals. Epic!

Xango Music Release #19

In the summer of 2011, eclectic groove adventurers, 
Soundspecies met UK based, Moroccan Gnawa master 
musician Simo Lagnawi at a festival. After a handful 
of jam sessions and without ever having performed 
together live, they booked two days in a studio to 
document their space age gnawa experimentations. 
These are the takes from that session, which have since 
formed the backbone of their now increasingly popular live 
shows. Introducing Electric Jalaba is available on CD and 
download via http://electricjalaba.bandcamp.com/

Lagnawia

Who's that cheba of the 90s ! à set of tracks of some of my favorite Algerian Women Raï Artists ! Strong and talended but unfortunatly forgoten/ unknown for the majority of folks ! 
Do not hesitate to guess who's that cheba 😊

Who's That Cheba of the 90s #1.0

"Raina Rai Hmama"حمامة   By  Cheikh Electro (extrait demo)

"Aqlalas" ("Hassen Taxi" Soundtrack)- Assam Mouloud (1982)

Takamba :"FATMA-TOOMUST" 2017

album "Arrac n Jerjer"
1979
Le Label de ce 33T est malheureusement inconnu ...

Djurdjura - "Ayen tsarugh" (Vinyle 33T, album "Arrac n Jerjer", label ?,1979)

Saz'iso - At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me
The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song
Order: https://goo.gl/xU1M4z
Download / stream: https://glitterbeat.lnk.to/AtLeastWaveYourHandkerchiefAtMe
Artist page: http://glitterbeat.com/artists/saziso/
Release date: October 13th, 2017

Brazilian Samba, Bosnian Sevdah, New Orleans Jazz, Cuban son – and Albanian Saze! The turn of the last century saw mass migrations to the world’s cities with rural people bringing their music with them, adapting their traditions to new circumstances and modern instruments. Of all these great musical forms, the mesmerizing arabesques, joyful dances and heart-breaking laments of Saze are among the least recorded, and they remain largely unknown outside Albania.

Glitterbeat is proud to announce the release of “At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song” by Saz’iso, a group of virtuoso musicians and legendary singers assembled by veteran producer Joe Boyd (Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Cubanismo, Songhai) and his co-producers, Edit Pula and Andrea Goertler, and recorded by Grammy-winning engineer Jerry Boys (Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré, Orchestra Baobab).

The songs on this album tell of joy and sorrow, love and loss, heroism and tragedy. “Tana” is an ancient song about a shepherd whose flock is stolen by bandits that grant his wish to play his flute for the last time before they kill him. The plaintive melody conveys his terrible fate to his beloved in the valley below. A line from the beautiful “Penxherenë e zotrisë sate” gives the album its title; a boy yearns for the girl next door, pleading, “You keep going in and out of your gate. O poor me outside! At least wave your handkerchief at me.” Other songs are about partisans struggling against foreign invaders and men forced to depart in search of work, leaving behind grieving wives and families, a recurring theme in Albanian music to the present day.

The instrumental dances have deep roots in the region’s history. “Valle e Osman Takës” originated with a captured rebel leader dancing his way to freedom and is now a spectacular male dance that constitutes a test that only the most skilled attempt. Of all the region’s instrumental forms none has the resonance and emotive power of ‘kaba’. According to legend, the form originated when a dying wife told her husband not to cry, but to let his clarinet weep over her coffin instead. The album includes both, a clarinet and a violin kaba as well as a rare, freely improvised ‘avaz’. The melancholic improvisational lines of the clarinet or violin give it a mood often referred to as the ‘Albanian blues’. Kaba’s “melodies, ornamented with swoops, glides and growls of an almost vocal quality, sound both fresh and ancient at the same time”, observes author and musician Kim Burton, “and exemplify the combination of passion with restraint that is the hallmark of Albanian culture.” 

“This recording is a landmark in the history of Saze music. These performers are following in the footsteps of the great masters that have preceded them, while the careful and thorough production and wonderful sound quality allow us to experience recorded Saze as never before.”	
- Vasil S. Tole

“We set out to record these virtuoso singers and musicians like a Blue Note jazz session or a Deutsche Grammophon string quartet. Saze is, after all, a classical form, its essential elements unaltered over the decades. With its ancient roots, the intensity of this world-class music has the power to entrance any listener.”	
- Joe Boyd

Saz’iso are
Donika Pecallari, vocal
Adrianna Thanou, vocal
Robert Tralo, vocal
Aurel Qirjo, violin & vocal
Telando Feto, clarinet
Agron Murat, llautë/lute
Agron Nasi, dajre/frame drum
Pëllumb Meta, fyell/flute & vocal

At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me

Saz'iso - Tana

Bongo Dub Massif

Bongo Massif

Tibo Gadeina (Tamasheq)                                           
	On vous souhaite le meilleur pour l’hivernage :  pluies et récoltes abondantes !
 	All the best for winter in the desert : soft rains and abundant harvests !

CREDITS:
Leila Walet Gobi			Vocals
Khalil M. Touré				Guitars 
Amadou Dembélé			Bass
Abdourhamane Salaha			Calabash, conga, percussion

Produced by Christopher Nolan III
Recorded March 2017 by Sekou Bah, Hampathe Bah Studio, Bamako Mali
Additional production & mixed by David Harrow, workhousedigital, Los Angeles CA
Mastered by Dave Cook, Area 52 Studios, Saugerties NY 
Graphic design: Andrew Nelson Designs, Kingston NY |Photos: Chris Nolan
Published by Nolan & Associates Productions LLC, Germantown NY
Rights registered with BMI, SoundExchange, BUMDA
℗ + © Copyright 2017 All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited.
www.clermontmusic.com

2017

Leila Gobi - Tibo Gadeina

Dans ce nouveau projet, dynamisé par les percussions de son fils Naghib, Saeid Shanbehzadeh engage un dialogue fécond avec la guitare de Manu Codjia, l’un de ses plus fidèles compagnons sur la route du jazz contemporain. Leurs improvisations insufflent un esprit neuf à l’héritage culturel iranien toujours mis en valeur. Rendant un double hommage aux traditions afro-iraniennes venues de sa mère et baloutches venues de son père, Shanbehzadeh associe cornemuse et saxophone à la voix magnifique de Rostam Mirlashari, un “prince de la musique du Baloutchistan” exilée en Suède en 1991. La cohésion de leur musique esquisse la profondeur de l’héritage mutuel qui les unit dans cette collaboration.

Pour - Afrigha

Kalfat

Asif - Tafsut (Vinyl SP, '80 ?)

Order here and check out other new 7"releases to place a combined order:
radiomartiko.bandcamp.com/music

Obscure formation Les Jaguar’s de Casablanca beat the Shadows with a boss version of the surf classic “Gonzales”. The band consists of a French/Spanish guitar section and a Moroccan rhythm section, featuring the eccentric drummer/percussionist Jauk Armal, the “Okay Temiz from Casablanca”. “Gonzales” is originally recorded in 1962 and released by “La Voix Du Maghreb” in Morocco on an ultra collectible EP, which is now impossible to find.

Masters

RM005 - Les Jaguar's de Casablanca - Gonzales (Casablanca Surf)

We're very glad to invite Cheb Gero for an all-stars maghreb mix on our virtual airwaves.

Cheb Gero’s DJ sets focus on MENA areas and offer a wide vision of popular cultures and sub-cultures from the 1960s to nowadays. From Algerian chaabi to Syrian electronic dabke his selections based on vinyl, tapes, cd or digital suggest to dance and reflect well the rich musical heritages of these regions. 

Follow us for more:
@chebgero
@akuphone
@radioflouka

TRACKLIST:
DJELOUL - Donon Donon
CHEB MOUMEN - Jitenfaji Hmoumi
CHEB NASRO - Maandi Hadra Maak
CHEB NOURDINE - Sepouna Elhanah
CHEB EL MOKHTAR EL BERKANI - Unknown Title
MOHAMED EZZINE – Unknown Title
CHEB MIDOU - Mnine Nebda
CHABA ZOHRA - Ki Bghitouni
KOUIDER BENSAID feat KENTUCKY KID - A 100% A Love
YAMINA - Sadjet Leriah
CHEB MIMOUN EL OUJDI - Smahli Ya Galbi (DuckFood Edit)
CHEB RUNNER - Yabalini ft. Maälem Hicham Bilali
CHEB BILAL - Limabeghana Yetlah
HAOURI DAUPHIN - Mam Mia
MARA &amp; JALAL - Ca Y Est C'est Fini

STREAM RADIO FLOUKA

Radio Flouka Invites CHEB GERO - Belleville Fi Galbi MXTP #1 - 18th March 2020

"Ala Ala" - Brahim Izri (1986)

Glitterbeat is committed to global sounds and artists that don’t necessarily rubber-stamp our pre-conceptions of what regional music sounds like.  We live in a world of ever increasing intersections and the global musical conversation does not operate according to straight, predictable, and easily delineated rules. It is a conversation that is being reinvented and revolutionized each day.

Xango Music
local music from all over the world

Founder and owner of the first hour, Arnulf den Boesterd, started Xango Music as a hobby that got out of hand. His love of music made him decide to regulate his hobby into Xango Music. Besides enjoying culture, travelling, good food and drinks, Arnulf is fulltime busy in the music business, trying to make the unavailable available! Xango Music is now distributing Vinyl, CD's and DVD's in the Benelux countries and runs an internet shop worldwide, to give all those great artists a platform. There is so much beautiful music out there, that needs to be heard!

Our office is located in Utrecht (NL), and our distribution warehouse is in Alkmaar (NL) where a team of people is providing stores in the Benelux countries with amazing and beautiful local music from all over the world.

Distribution: World, Jazz & Classic Music CD's, DVD's, Vinyl, check www.xmd.nl
Mail order: World & Jazz Music CD's, DVD's, Vinyl, check www.xangomusic.com
Magazine: News and information about music in general and about articles distributed by Xango Music, check www.xangoma.eu

Stay in touch for all new and exciting developments at Xango Music:
www.xangomusic.com
twitter.com/XangoMusic
linkedin.com/in/arnulf-den-boesterd-13730231/
www.facebook.com/XangoMusic
soundcloud.com/xango-music-distribution

Who is Xangó?
Xango is  a god,  an Orisha: he originates from the religion of the Westafrican Yoruba people. When the Yoruba were taken across the ocean to the Caribbean and Brazil, Xango accompanied them.  You'll meet him in cuban santeria and brazilian candomble. He symbolises thunder and lightning. Xangó is very flamboyant and a great warrior, lover, drummer and dancer. He represents music in many ways... We decided to celebrate the richness of the world's music by using Xangó's name (pronounced: "shan-gó"). 

XANGO MUSIC
DISTRIBUTION - Mail Order
Office: Singelstraat 1, 3513 BL Utrecht, NL
+ 31626026360 (Arnulf)
info@xangomusic.com
Warehouse: Berenkoog 53 C, 1822 BN Alkmaar, NL

Saz'iso - Tana

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