"Yaa Amponsah" is a song from Africa's earliest guitar tradition, palmwine music.  Dating to the late 19th or early 20th century this style developed in port cities across the continent's western coast as Africans traveled to trade goods and music. Yaa Amponsah is also what Ghanaian musicians call a "rhythm"—a blueprint of harmonies, rhythms, and melodies that has informed thousands of songs from its first recording in 1928 through to contemporary music.  In this Afropop Closeup, guitarist Nathaniel Braddock takes you inside his journey to dig into the rhythm's roots and influences through conversations with Koo Nimo, Akablay, Kofi Elektrik, and John Collins. 

Afropop Closeup Season Six

Closeup: Echoes of Yaa Amponsah

Keynote, The pandemic and threats to the World Economy, Global Leadership Series Conference, 17 January 2022. Discussants: Stephanie Flanders (Bloomberg), Sir Vince Cable (Former Business Minister, UK), Lord Karan Bilimoria (CBI), Mark Tucker (HSBC)

The State of the Global Economy under the heavy burden of twelve lost years

Helsinki quartet OK:KO releases their third album "Liesu" with We Jazz Records on 15 April. The band, led by drummer/composer Okko Saastamoinen and including saxophonist Jarno Tikka, pianist Toomas Keski-Säntti and bassist Mikael Saastamoinen (of Superpostion & Linda Fredriksson "Juniper") is a scene favourite in Finland and has recently garnered some international attention with their melodic, dynamic and original approach. The OK:KO sound is adventurous yet accessible, and contemporary yet rooted in the lineage of acoustic small group jazz.

When listening to OK:KO, you can feel that their influences also come from out of the musical realm. After all, isn't this just how it should be? Making music from your own life. Here, you can tell that the landscape of rural Finland, its poetic, at times even melancholy beauty, is ever present. It's folk song country. But don't be fooled, these guys form a real flesh and blood jazz band. That means that the music just starts when the first note hits, and onwards from there, we're in for a wild ride.

Whether punchy like on "Anima", solemn like on "Arvo", or just trekking out there on a skiing lane of their own like on "Vanhatie", what you'll get is pure OK:KO. Melodic, interactive, honest and forward-reaching contemporary jazz music. That is something we appreciate – a lot!

Anima

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: 50ftf.kronosquartet.org

Composed by inti figgis-vizueta
© 2021 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2021 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded December 2021 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington, May 2022

inti figgis-vizueta - branching patterns

Bataan 1.mp3

Tonight’s new episode of Archivalesque compiles three mixes I made in the Octobers of ’13 and ’15. In it are a few dozen songs that finally made it clear to me that a little over 98% of the music I would enjoy for the rest of my life had already been created and was simply waiting for me. There is a tremendous amount of comfort in that realization!
Links to Mixcloud and Soundcloud in my bio & story.
FULL downloads on my patreon.
Curated by @pauldufrene

Graham Nash – Hey You (Looking At The Moon)
Roger McGuinn – I’m So Restless
Ian Matthews – Close The Door Lightly When You Go
Lee Hazlewood – Won’t You Tell Your Dreams
Donovan – Ramblin’ Boy
Nick Drake – Rider On The Wheel
Michael Hurley – The Vt.-Ore. Floor
Melanie – Steppin’
Joe Cocker – Just Like A Woman
Moby Grape – 8:05
Cat Stevens – Trouble
Bob Lind – The Times They A Changin’
Tom Rush – Joshua Gone Barbados
Ralph McTell – First Song
David Blue – Grand Hotel
Loudon Wainwright III – Come A Long Way
Ted Lucas – It Is So Nice To Get Stoned
Nina Simone – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Dave Van Ronk – I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
Terry Jacks - Christina
Hickory Wind – I Don’t Believe
Maggie and Terre Roche – Down to Dream
Mike Cooper - Places I Know
Bob Lind - What Color Are You
Fairport Convention - Book Song
Faces – Glad & Sorry
Them - Could You Would You
Meic Stevens - Can Mamgu
Elyse Weinberg - What You Call It
Dave Van Ronk - He Was A Friend of Mine
Jerry Jeff Walker - Old Road
Sir Douglas Quintet - At the Crossroads

Archivalesque #10 :: October 5, 2022

Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith - Peradam (Brian Eno Remix)

https://kelpe.bandcamp.com/album/arrival-in-magic-hour

Kelpe - Arrival In Magic Hour

Roger Miller- What Are Those Things
Everly Brothers – Lord of the Manor
Neil Young – Mellow My Mind (live)
Del Shannon – Under My Thumb
The Rolling Stones – Aladdin Story
Roky Erikson – I Walked With A Zombie
Joe & Ann – Gee Baby
Eskew Reeder – Never Will I
Danny White – Loan Me Handkerchief
Charles Dixon – Come To Me

Clip from Stand By Me(1986)
Originally released December 8, 2014.

Recent Songs #6 :: Mellow My Mind

The End

Sonor Music Editions proudly announces the first ever reissue of this quintessential, oustanding Italian Library grail, originally released on Sermi label in 1972. Highly-regarded album and considered a masterpiece of the genre, "Nel Mondo Del Lavoro" (also released at the time with the title "World At Work" on Conroy) is one of the most precious and beatiful works conceived by the Italian maestro Rino De Filippi, and originally used for the soundtrack of the Rai-TV documentary series "SAPERE: IL PETROLIO".

Music is written and composed by the maestro backed by the great I MARC 4 studio ensemble and accompained by I Cantori Moderni di A.Alessandroni with breathless scats, insane arrangements and unbelievable, unique and complex mood music from Jazz to Lounge, Bossa Nova and more. A real monster of record that best catches the library music job in adding music to movies and documentaries.

Out around March 2022, on edition of 800 copies. Remastered sound and rebuilted graphic design.

Mix courtesy of TommyBoy

NEL MONDO DEL LAVORO

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Rino de Filippi - NEL MONDO DEL LAVORO

Kronos Quartet is David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello).

http://kronosquartet.org/

Here you will find our recordings of new work commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Released over five years beginning in 2016, this collection of 50 compositions by 25 men and 25 women from around the world will be devoted to the contemporary approaches to the string quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Scores and parts, audio recordings, composer interviews, and many more resources are available for free on our website.

Founded over forty years ago, we are a San Francisco-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more recordings, please visit http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/kronos-quartet or http://kronosquartet.org/recordings Thank you!