Trance Percussion Masters Of South Sudan celebrates the joy of communal music making. The beating drums and hypnotic chants summon the ancient polyrhythms of Africa’s newest nation. Surrender to Wayo’s percussive musical potion with their pulsating debut album.

For further information, please visit www.worldmusic.net/wayo


WAYO: TRANCE PERCUSSION MASTERS OF SOUTH SUDAN

Wayo’s unique debut album celebrates the joy of communal music-making. Trance Percussion Masters of South Sudan wasn’t made by a soloist, by a band, or even by an orchestra – this album was made by a village. In this village music is king and everyone is a master of their shared sound. 

That very village where Wayo was recorded nestles in the ever expanding outskirts of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. During music-making, three villagers play the kpaningbo, a large wooden xylophone. As the only melodic instrument in the ensemble, the kpaningbo is considered the beating heart of both the music, and the village. 

During performance another man sits atop the gugu, a log drum, and alters its pitch by lifting his leg up and down in time. The abss drum is constructed from re-used material, and was once a plastic water container. Other villagers circle around the ensemble, switching in and out to play the drums. Bells and other hand-drums are also passed from person to person at will. This relay race approach to percussive participation adds a tangible fluidity to every riff and figure, the mood and timbre ever changing and ever unique. 

The sound itself is a woven tapestry of polyrhythm’s, each overlapping and edging in to the other. The driving beats recall the haunting repetitions of minimalism, and the trance-inducing club beats of contemporary electronica at once. Song topics tackle real concerns and provide commentary on social divisions. ‘Now You Are Like A European’ is a particularly revealing allusion to the return home of many Sudanese people who had previously been displaced by war. The members of Wayo contextualise their worries about westernisation via the medium of music. ‘Gaka Kpakpori (Topless Skirt)’ is named after a local dance which requires participants to don a skirt before taking part. ‘The Sky Will Fall (Remix)’ is a pulsing tornado of repeating cross rhythms that strikingly recalls the catatonia of Wayo’s continental colleagues, Konono N⁰1 and Kasai Allstars. 

Trance Percussion Masters of South Sudan is a quite simply killer compendium of thumping, exhilarating beats. Let Wayo loose on your eardrums, and lose your head in the hot percussive party.

Woe Woe Wee Odo Gbere Ni Fanani (The Beautiful Girls Are Wonderful)

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
On Air Osaka
Osaka, Japan
November 5, 2001

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- Joe Strummer - vocals, rythym guitar
- Martyn Slattery - guitar, keyboards, flute, sax
- Simon Stafford - bass guitar, trombone
- Scott Shields - lead guitar, bass guitar
- Luke Bullen - drums
- Tymon Dogg - violin, guitar

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disc 1 - [55:00]
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01. Minstrel Boy
02. Cool 'n' Out
03. Global-a-Go-Go
04. Rudy Can't Fail / band intro
05. Bhindi Bhagi
06. Armagideon Time
07. Shaktar Donetsk
08. Police & Thieves
09. Mega Bottle Ride
10. Tony Adams
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disc 2 - [60:58]
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11. Junco Partner
12. Johnny Appleseed
13. Bummed out City
14. Police on My Back
15. The Harder They Come
16. Pressure Drop
17. I Fought the Law
18. Bankrobber
19. Yalla Yalla 
20. A Message to You Rudy
21. London's Burning
22. Blitzkrieg Bop

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros On Air Osaka,Japan November 5, 2001 - Minstrel Boy

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Fast and furious, fingers flying with a fiery panache, Söndörgő are one of the most exciting bands in Europe. With their signature instrument, the tambura, the band brilliantly combines respect for tradition with a desire to innovate and a fizzing virtuosity. 

For further information, visit www.worldmusic.net/sondorgo

Listening to the band play, you soon hear it’s nothing like traditional violin-led Hungarian music. Söndörgő’s sound is light, springy and delicately plucked. Their signature instrument is the tambura, a mandolin-like instrument, probably of Turkish origin, used by the South Slav (Serbian and Croatian) communities in Hungary.  

The band is made up of three brothers, Áron, Benjamin and Salamon Eredics, plus cousin Dávid Eredics and Attila Buzás, the only non-family member, on bass tambura. Áron Eredics is also part of the band Vujicsics, winners of Hungary’s most prestigious state-sponsored cultural award, the Kossuth Prize, in 2014.
Tamburocket is Söndörgő’s second international release and features revived tunes drawn from the rich Hungarian archives and annals of the countries esteemed song-collectors and musicologists of yore. 

Tracks featured here that were first collected by national hero Béla Bartók include the dance tune ‘Drago Kolo’, played as a duet by Áron and Salamon; ‘Srpski Madjarik’, arranged for the basszprímtambura (alto tambura) and cello tambura and ‘Majka Kceru’, a rather sedate wedding song in its original version but reworked by Söndörgő in a more ferocious rhythm. 

The two melodies from ethnographer Tihamér Vujicsics were both collected by the Drava river, a tributary of the Danube, which marks much of the border between Hungary and Croatia. The opening ‘Jozo’ is a nonsensical love song, with the original Croatian bagpipe part transferred onto the samica, a small, home-made tambura. The closing ‘Kolovoda’ is a dance song for a kolo ring dance, the most popular folkdance of the South Slavs. 
‘Marice’ is a popular Croatian song named after a girl that all the guys lust after, but can’t get. ‘Evo Srcu’ features two slower Serbian melodies from Vojvodina, the northern region of Serbia. ‘Hulusination’ is based on a Macedonian čoček dance tune, but Söndörgő have brought in a sort of Chinese snake-charmer’s pipe called the hulusi (hence the punning title), plus other wind and percussion to create a powerful trance-like track.  

What Söndörgő combine brilliantly is a respect for the traditions, a desire to innovate and a fizzing unstoppable virtuosity. 


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Söndörgő: Jozo (taken from the album Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks)

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