Name: Afro Celt Sound System Icons of Echoes by Real World Records in flow
Duration: 8 min 53 s
Description: Over the last decade, Echoes have been interviewing the Afro Celts about their past and future. Listen to Simon Emmerson, Iarla O'Lionaird, James McNally, Martin Russell & N'Faly Kouyate talk about thier journey in the Afro Celts.

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The song is titled “N’yanyan,” based on an old song passed down over time. Rokia Koné recorded it in one take on a night when the world around her was in upheaval — August 2020, when there was a coup d'etat in Mali. You can hear how she found solace in the words: “Things may be bad now, but it's only a moment in time.”

A musical message of hope in a new single from Mali’s Rokia Koné

09.The Vapourer

Loney dear - Lilies

Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen makes records and plays shows under the enigmatic name of Loney Dear. In the early 2000s, in his Stockholm apartment studio, Svanängen made a name for himself by creating homemade CDrs with a minidisk microphone and a home computer, self-releasing albums. By 2007 his music was embraced by US label Sub Pop, who released three albums: Loney Noir, Dear John and Hall Music.

Loney Dear has built a significant reputation over the years, with some glowing reviews in The Guardian, BBC, Drowned in Sound, Pitchfork and earlier this year the Line of Best Fit went as far as calling him a “brilliant genius”.

Consistently creating elegant, deeply stirring music, Loney Dear has been described by The Quietus as ”…the obsessive work of one man, albeit one that can sing with the vulnerable delicacy of an angel and makes bedroom recordings that sound like God's own orchestra”. Multi-layered with instrumentation and Svanängen’s fragile yet irrepressible vocals, Loney Dear’s songs bloom with a sense of both intimacy and openness, at once uplifting and heartbreaking, tenacious yet tender.

Loney Dear signed to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records in June 2017. The eponymous album will be released on September 29th to tie in with a European Tour and a preview at WOMAD Charlton Park in July.

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Over the last decade, Echoes have been interviewing the Afro Celts about their past and future. Listen to Simon Emmerson, Iarla O'Lionaird, James McNally, Martin Russell & N'Faly Kouyate talk about thier journey in the Afro Celts.

Afro Celt Sound System Icons of Echoes

Afro Celt Sound System - Persistence Of Memory

Track taken form the album "Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 1: Sound Magic".  This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series - http://realworldrecords.com/gold

From the moment they first informally congregated at the third and final Real World Recording Week in 1995, it was clear that the group of European and West African musicians who would later answer to the name Afro Celt Sound System would become one of Real World’s totemic acts who embodied the label’s border-less, restriction-free ways. When originally released in 1996, Sound Magic was a revelation, one that spliced together music from different continents, different traditions, different times, without losing a thing in translation. 
“An eye-opening, uplifting, musically innovative creation, a real all-rounder full of perpetual surprise” – Hot Press


Afro Celt Sound System - Whirl-Y (Real World Gold)

Track taken from their album "Volume 2: Release ".  This album is now available as part of the Real World Gold series - http://realworldrecords.com/gold

After the first record’s six-figure sales, this was the moment that the open-armed collaboration truly became a band, a statement of unity and purpose to prove that Sound Magic was no one-off. At turns driving and pensive, joyful and melancholic, Release offered further confirmation that Celtic stringed instruments and African percussion were the most natural of bedfellows, soaring and swooping as one. And that, for that matter, there was nothing wrong with old-as-the-hills musical traditions being turbo-charged by the latest sounds from the clubs. Sinead O’Connor and Youth are among the special guests.
“It’s like a hurricane let loose ... the spontaneity, the mix of ancient and modern, the black and white, the fluidity and breathless glee” – Q



Afro Celt Sound System - Release (Real World Gold)

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BRAND NEW WHIP

On the opening night of Le Guess Who? 2018, and on the eve of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s 50th Anniversary, we celebrated their legacy and welcomed the collective back in style, after a 25-year absence in The Netherlands. 

You can now relive their glorious performance (curated by Moor Mother) and experience why the group have been celebrated as one of the most remarkable free jazz movements to arise from Chicago’s already rich jazz heritage. 

Line-up:
Roscoe Mitchell - alto sax, soprano sax, sopranino sax, flute and percussion
Famoudou Don Moye - drums, congas, bongos and percussion
Hugh Ragin - trumpet, flugelhorn and piccolo trumpet
Jaribu Shahid - double bass
Silvia Bolognesi - bass
Tomeka Reid - cello
Dudu Kouate – african percussion

While listening, read our in-depth feature ‘Tracing the Roots: Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Great Black Music, Ancient To The Future’, where we trace the roots of the group and its individual performers, their voyages across the world, and their establishment of some truly inspiring cooperative ethics: https://www.leguesswho.nl/news/tracing-the-roots-art-ensemble-of-chicagos-great-black-music-ancient-to-the-future

Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer on Thursday, 8 November, at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal. 
Photography by Jelmer de Haas.

www.leguesswho.com

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Live at Le Guess Who? 2018

Discover more about 'Seed' (Out 11th Nov) - http://realworldrecords.com/gold/3/?id=25

2003's Seed marked out some clearly defined territory for one of Real World's totemic outfits. Now less reliant on beats and samples, the team put more stock in real instruments, a move born out of their experiences of playing live together.

Afro Celt Sound System - Deep Channel (Real World Gold)

Real World Records was founded by WOMAD and Peter Gabriel to provide talented artists from around the world with access to state-of-the-art recording facilities and audiences beyond their geographic region.

Launched in 1989, Real World Records has grown into a label of wide-ranging, world-class music from all corners of the globe.

Afro Celt Sound System Icons of Echoes

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