Loving this track by Hanna Mekonnen and playing it on the show AfroBase

KILAND doing his thing...... deep dance heavy baselines and wicked soukous guitar licks all the way on this 1978 original recording.. mixed and mastered....

SALIFOU OYOBAKA - (PSYCHADELIC AFRO FUNK) - REIMAGINED

This week we reverse directions on the old saying “Westward Ho!” and spotlight music from Eastern Europe. It’s a region that has ancient cultures that go back thousands of years and has a fascinating modern music scene. 

Featuring:
1. Mango Molas - Kosti (from the album "Peña" on G.A. Records)
2. Aci Bocina - Oltremare (from the album "Aco Bocina and Fanfare Ciocarlia" on Ponderosa Music)
3. Romanyi Rota - Diri, Diri, So Kerdjan? (from the albums "Phiravelman Kalyi Phur / Gypsy Caravan" on Demo / Putumayo)
4. Kalman Balogh & the Gypsy Cimbalom Band - A Csitari Hegyek Alatt (from the album "Gypsy Jazz" on Rounder)
5. Idan Raichel - Boo-ee (Come)(from the album "Idan Raichel’s Project" on Helicon Records)
6. Miriam Makeba - Xica da Silva (from the album "Reflections" on Heads Up International)
7. Wild Biscuit - Sugar Coated 1x1 (from the album "Seriously Scottish 04" on Scottish Music Centre)
8. Ganga Giri - Ancestors (from the album "Beats Around the Bush" on Ganga Giri)
9. Kalyi Jag - Dance Song From Nagyecsed (from the album "Black Fire-Gypsy Songs From Hungary" on Hungaraoton)
10. Haustor - Demo (from the album "Demo")
11. Marta Sebestyen & Muzsikas - Repulj, Madar, Repulj (from the album "Unwired: Europe" on World Music Network)
12. Vera Bila & Kale - Pas O Panori (from the album "Kale Kalore/ Travel the World with Putumayo DVD" on Tinder/ BMG/ Putumayo)
13. Inna Zhellanaya - Dalshe (from the album "One World" on Putumayo)

Eastward Ho!

From the press release: 'On Side B, Rabih Beaini feeds the LP opener 'Sao Sakit Mae' through an avant-garde electronic looking glass, capitalising on the original hypnotic melody, and then peppering it with the sputters and pops of whirring machinery before it all heads off into space. The next step in the '21st Century Molam' project....'

Sao Sakit Mae (Rabih Beaini's Molam Variation) - The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band

New Paradise Bangkok imprint 'Eastern Connection' takes it's lead from the two mix CDs of the same name - the label will explore the connections between the East African Coast, the Arab Peninsula, South East Asia and all the sounds and cultures traversing the Indian Ocean. First up, in collaboration with Addis Ababa based label Sheba Sound, comes this brand new recording of Ethiopian music that has its roots in tradition but is also about the current sounds being made by local groups the length and breadth of the country. For more information check: www.shebasound.com. 

Recorded in country and then mixed in London, this first single features vocalist Hanna Mekonnen and her band, who hail from the Mersa tribe in the Amhara region in the northern part of Ethiopia.

With a tough bassline, punctuated by hand claps and kebero drums,  Hanna's vocal leads a hypnotic call and response underpinned by washint flute and the emblematic krar. Side B strips the track down to its basics, as collaborator Nick Manasseh works his dub magic to mesmerising effect. Anyone who caught Christ Menist and Mai Sai spinning on the Paradise Bangkok 2015 spring tour would have heard this being played out, as well as on NTS and Boiler Room. Limited to 500 copies, don't sleep, and watch this space for the forthcoming album 'Out of Addis' due out in the Autumn 2015.

'Ali New Biye' Hanna Mekonnen (Version)

[All vinyl, 2 turntable live mix]
GETATCHEW MEKURYA- Shellela Besaxophone intro
KARL HECTOR & THE MALCOUNS- Kingdom of D'mt
POLYVERSAL SOULS- Sad Nile
HAILU MERGIA- Yegle Nesha- Philophon 7"
VAUDAU GAME- Ata Calling
IDRIS ACKAMOOR &THE PYRAMIDS- Rhapsody in Berlin Pt. 1 Philophon 7"
MULATU ASTATQE- Yegelle Tezeta
DEXTOR STORY- Lalibela
VAUDU GAME- Dangerous Bees
POLYVERSAL SOULS- Invisible Joy
DEXTOR STORY-Saba
JIMI TENOR- Order Of Nothingness- Philophon 7"
COLLOCUTOR- Instead
TESHOME METEKU- Hasabe'- Mr. Bongo 7"
DEBO BAND- Habesha
THE HELIOCENTRICS/13 Days of Reality
GETATCHEW MEKURYA 
THE HELIOCENTRICS/Quartermass



L O S T inETHIOPIA

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Taken from 'Day To Day' released 8th July 2016 on Ninja Tune.

The extraordinary debut album from percussionist and producer Sarathy Korwar – “Day To Day” – fuses traditional folk music of the Sidi community in India with jazz and electronics. It’s a collaborative release by Ninja Tune with The Steve Reid Foundation – a charitable trust established by Brownswood / Gilles Peterson with the dual objective of helping musicians in crisis and also supporting emerging talent. Sarathy is an alumnus of the Foundation’s development program, mentored by Four Tet, Emanative, Floating Points, Koreless and Gilles Peterson – all trustees of the foundation.

“Sarathy instantly caught my attention when he said he wanted to make an album that embraced both Indian folk music and jazz - two worlds that have had a big influence on me. His album succeeds in bringing these things together in an elegant way, but it’s his own style and ideas that come through the most in the music. Refreshingly different, this is a deep and powerful listening experience.”
Four Tet

The musical roots and routes of the Black Atlantic have been discussed and documented extensively, but Sarathy is highlighting a different dispersal of people in the other direction, from East Africa to India. The Sidis travelled to India from Africa as merchants, sailors, indentured servants and mercenaries from as far back as 628 AD and have settled in India ever since. Conceived on an extended trip to rural Gujarat, followed by sessions in Pune, Sarathy made field recordings of The Sidi Troupe of Ratanpur whose vocals and percussion form the backbone of “Day To Day”. 

Born in the US, Sarathy Korwar grew up in Ahmedabad and Chennai in India. Finishing his studies, Sarathy began to think about pursuing a career in music and moved to London, where he trained as a classical tabla player under the guidance of Sanju Sahai and graduated with a MMus in Performance from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) focusing on the adaptation of Indian classical rhythmic material to non-Indian percussion instruments. 

Working the angles in London’s jazz scene, Sarathy connected with Shabaka Hutchings , Cara Stacey and played with clarinettist Arun Ghosh. He was, however, itching to create under his own name and he started formulating the concept for “Day To Day” and planning a trip to India to record the Sidis. It was late in 2014 when Sarathy heard about the Steve Reid Foundation. He applied and was accepted onto the project.

“’Day To Day’ is an exceptional debut by this multi-percussive artist fusing jazz, electronic and Indian harmonics.”
Gilles Peterson 

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Facebook: http://found.ee/sarathy-fb
Twitter: http://found.ee/sarathy-tw
Spotify: http://found.ee/sarathy-sp

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Machaka - El Antidoto

Shanren hail from Yunnan in South-Western China. ‘Thirty Years’ is an original composition owing equal creative debt to western rock as it does to the sounds of the Yi people who are native to their home region.

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Shanren - Thirty Years

Written and Produced by Ramón Amezcua " Bostich " December 1999.
from the Album " Bostich + Fussible Nortec Remixes " Opcion Sónica, México, 2000.



UNICORNIO by Ramón Amezcua " Bostich " Nortec December 1999.

La idea de este nuevo disco fue la curiosidad de Bellido por sentir lo que emerge desde la reinterpretación de otros artistas respecto de sus canciones originales y poder experimentar, según indica el músico, “cómo estos sonidos se amalgaman con otros artistas de distintas latitudes de la tierra”.

Es por ello que Chakana Remixes trasciende a la idea de “nuevas versiones”; integra la necesidad del joven músico peruano de volver a experimentar con nuevos sonidos y sensorialidades propuestos por otros artistas. Así, la búsqueda nace a partir de querer vivenciar, tal como propone Bellido “cómo estos sonidos vernaculares los entienden otros productores, que están muy abiertos a muchos estilos”, integrando, por ejemplo, el disco, el global bass, el downtempo y el house. 
 
En la reinterpretación de las canciones originales participaron músicos de diversas partes del mundo, tales como Nina Simmons (Italia), A-Tweed (Italia), Juan Correa (COL), Tribilin sound (PER), El Extravagante y Sistema Beat Andino (Chile), quienes hicieron un trabajo detallado y desafiante, ya que los temas originales del disco Chakana ya representaban una gran complejidad y virtuosismo impuesto por Bellido en un disco original profundo, con un imaginario potente de significados y conexiones ancestrales e investigación sobre sonoridades propias de diversas zonas de Perú.

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Hankel Bellido - Latido Del Cajoneador (Tribilin Sound Remix)

Under The is an ode to sisterhood, the wild and unbreakable spirit within each of us, and the healing power of music, from debut artists COLECTIVA and Maria Grapsa. 

Exploring the boundaries between Afro-Latin music and Jazz, COLECTIVA are a unique voice on the UK scene, representing the meeting of two musical worlds they believe belong together. 
 
Their first single, Under The came to life when jazz pianist Maria Grapsa brought an early arrangement of the tune to the collective. Working together over a series of collaborative sessions typical of their creative process, they crafted the song you hear today.
 
Founded as a creative experiment by trombonist Viva Msimang, COLECTIVA makes space for female and non-binary identifying musicians to come together and collaborate in a new dynamic, an alternative to traditional hierarchical structures, free from the Male Gaze. 
 
Exploring notions of sisterhood through their shared creative practice, the collective empower themselves and their audiences alike.

Under The

COLECTIVA, Maria Grapsa - Under The

The concept of Paradise Bangkok was born out of looking for records. Back in 2009 DJs Maft Sai and Chris Menist pooled together their collection of obscure Reggae, African, Jazz and Thai vinyl to put on the very first Paradise Bangkok party, a place to drink, dance and enjoy the natural musical links between sounds from across the globe. Thai luk thung and molam, both popular, rural music styles were spun alongside Mulatu, Augustus Pablo, R.Burnam and Fela Kuti, and the duo ended up playing in Japan, Vietnam, Germany, London, Switzerland, Austria and France. They also co-compiled the two volumes of 'Sound of Siam' for Soundway, as well as 'Thai? Dai!' for Finders Keepers. Chris is now back in London, working as a musician and writer, whilst Maft runs the Zud RangMa HQ record store and label in Bangkok, as well as the Studio Lam bar just next door.

The Paradise Bangkok label they both run initially focussed on reissuing lost Thai classics, many of which were only ever produced in small numbers. Issued in runs of 500 only, with screen printed, hand stitched and stamped sleeves, the sought after 7s were then collated on one LP in 2013, complete with a comic illustrated by Lewis Heriz. The newly set up Studio Lam label focusses on new music coming out of Thailand.

The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band made their live debut in the Thai capital in 2012. Drawn from different music scenes in Bangkok, the band, (initially formed to back vintage luk thung and molam vocalists who sang live at the events) consists of Kammao Perdtanon on phin (Thai lute), Sawai Kaewsombat on khaen, a type of bamboo harmonica, Piyanart Jotikasthira on bass, Phusana Treeburut on drums and Chris Menist on percussion. Before releasing any recordings the band undertook two successful tours in 2013 and 2014 which included a support slot for Damon Albarn in Berlin, stepping in at short notice for Solange Knowles at Off Festival in Poland, as well as gigs in Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and the Czech Republic, all to great acclaim.


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