Tag: Folk
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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly’s MESTIZX for International Anthem & Nonesuch – avant-jazz and punk-ethos channel ancestral roots
A deep and experimental jazz album is the musical creation of multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly. The wife and husband team – Bolivian-born singer Ferragutti and Rosaly of Peurto Rican heritage, are co-composers, arrangers and musicians, on the MESTIZX LP for International Anthem & Nonesuch – channel their…
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Jaw dropping folk-jazz of Celtic heritage – sublime vocals remind of Joni Mitchell or Linda Perhacs – file Awen Ensemble’s great debut next to Pentangle
Having not left the stereo since it arrived, the lead single by seven-piece folk-jazz collective Awen Ensemble has been scorching the ears and igniting the soul at World Treasures HQ. The collective shared their first lead single Ionawr ahead of debut album, Cadair Idris, on New Soil and it has folk-jazz fans frothing in anticipation.…
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Amazing compilation celebrates Angolan guitarist Mário Rui Silva – Time Capsule revive this master of psychedelic folk and scholar of a country uprooted by colonialism
The roots of Angolan popular music are explored in the guitar studies of Mário Rui Silva on Stories From Another Time 1982-1988, featuring the best of his little-known 1980s albums – thanks to Time Capule, these treasures are now being critically acclaimed across the music community, this is a must-have from this scholarly label. Silva…
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Balkan Taksim conjure wonderous debut on Buda Musique – ‘Disko Telegraf’ sounds like timeless Massive Attack beats, meeting modern masterpieces of psychedelic Romanian folk joints
Balkan Taksim’s debut album Disko Telegraf is out this month on Buda Musique – the project is born from Bucharest-based multi-instrumentalist and artist, Sașa-Liviu Stoianovici. along with his electronica-producer companion, Alin Zăbrăuțeanu. Sașa’s exploration of traditional music of the Balkans, ancient Romanian music and Slavic cultures – also travelling the region to record local singers…
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Klaus Schønning’s 1979 debut was a pioneering cosmic voyage on electronic instruments – inspired by Ray Manzarek, Wendy Carlos and Denmark’s nature – the Frederiksberg Records reissue marks 40 years
Don’t miss this essential reissue of the privately pressed Lydglimt, by Klaus Schønning, it’s one of the most beautiful albums of the year and repressed to the highest standards by the ever-trusty Frederiksberg Records. It joins the dots between prog, folk, new-age, ambient and electronica, as an innovative young artist started a visionary career in…
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Habibi Funk drop title track from first ever record by Kamal Keila
There will be plenty more on WTM about the fantastic Kamal Keila in due course, being the next eagerly anticipated installment on Habibi Funk. Today the label drops the title track from this forthcoming gem. Kamal Keila sung about the unity of Sudan, peace between Muslims and Christians, and the fate of war orphans. Listen: Backed…
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