11 f CDs These recently in: Abacá
Abacá (own label); Adriano Adewale Raizes (Caboclo); Ross Ainslie Wide Open (Great White Records); Ana Alcaide Como La Luna Y El Sol (Arc Music); Kyle Alden Down In The West Volume 1 (own label); Imed Alibi Safar (Independent Records Ltd); Alejandro Almenares Casa De Trova (Tumi Music); Darol Anger, Joe Walsh, Courtney Hartman, Sharon Gilchrist & Lukas Pool e-and’a (Adventure Music); The Barmer Boys At Home (Amarrass); Belshazzar’s Feast Live! The Whiting’s On The Wall (Unearthed); Beoga Live At 10 (Compass Records); Lamia Bedioui/Solis Barki Fin’amor (Libra Music); Robert Sarazin Blake Robert Sarazin Blake (Same Room Records); Bloco Explosao Plus Friends & Band Bloco Explosao (Twonineteen Records); Brasy Live (
Soliton.PL) Bruce & Walker Born To Rottenrow (Greentrax); Karan Casey Two More Hours (Crow Valley Music); Ceol An Aire It’ll Be Fine (own label); Sousou & Maher Cissoko Africa Moo Baalu (Arc Music); Johnny Coppin Borderland (Red Sky Records); Cecilia Costello Old Fashioned Songs (Musical Traditions); Isabelle Courroy Confluence No. 1 (Buda Musique); Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo Siría (Analog Africa); Dirtmusic Lion City (Glitterbeat Records); The Dollymopps Wight Cockade (Wild Goose); Curtis Eller’s American Music How To Make It In Hollywood (own label); Emily & The Woods Then We Collide (own label); Dylan Fowler A Passionate Land (Acoustic Music Records); Jackson C. Frank Fixin’ To Die (Secret Records); Gathering Poor Angus (Borealis); Dobet Gnahoré Na Drê (Contre Jour); Góbé Góbé (Playground Records); Adam Gussow Kick & Stomp (Right Recordings); L’Hijaz Car L’Hijaz Car (Buda Musique); Anne Hytta Draumsyn (Carpe Diem Records); Its Acoustica Its Acoustica (Organic Soup Records); Raoul Journo Jewish-Arab Song Treasures (Buda Musique); Ruth Keggin Sheear (Purt Sheearan Records); Lakha Khan At Home
Duffy Power
(Amarrass); Sakar Khan At Home (Amarrass); Amira Kheir Alsahraa (Sterns Music); Kodo The Heartbeat Of The Drum DVD (BelAir); Habib Koite Soô (Contre Jour); Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance Ooh La La: An Island Harvest (UMC/Island); Beverley Martyn The Phoenix & The Turtle (Les Cousins); Jimi McRae Last King Of Pictland (own label); Pete Morton The Frappin’ And Ramblin’ (Fellside); Malawi Mouse Boys Dirt Is Good (Independent Records Ltd); Simon Mayor The Arts Of Mandolin (Acoustics Records); Yinon Muallam Rast Ensemble Funky Dervish (Ahenk Müzik); Penguin Cafe The Red Book (own label); Rafiki Jazz At Kriol Junction (Konimusic); Colleen Raney Here This Is Home (Little Sea Records); Fiona Rutherford Sleep Sound (Sleep); She’Koyokh Wild Goats & Unmarried Women (Riverboat); The Souljazz Orchestra Inner Fire (Strut); Suo Suuri Härkä (Texicalli); Ron Taylor & Jeff Gillett Buy It, Try It, And Never Repent You (Wild Goose); Stein Urheim Stein Urheim (Hubro); Various Afrosoul No. 2 (Buda Musique); Various Folk Awards 2014 (Proper); Various Nhó Viêt Nam Xua – Nostalgique Vietnam (Buda Musique); Various Radio Niger (Sublime Frequencies); Various The Rough Guide To Latin Rare Groove (World Music Network); Various The Rough Guide To The Music Of Mali (World Music Network); Various The Scottish Disapora (Greentrax); Suzanne Vega Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles (Cooking Vinyl); The Young ‘Uns Never Forget (Hereteu Records); Wilson & Swarbrick Lion Rampart (Shirty Records); Michael Woods East Coast Fret (Peckers Records).
MISC.
We were sad to hear of the passing of the Albanian folklorist and folk singer Vaçe Zela on 6th February, aged 74; of Barely Works, Happy End and Kinetika Bloc musician Mat Fox on 7th February aged 57; of Slovenian singer/songwriter Tomaz Pengov, on 10th February aged 64; of Paul Colby, the manager
and later owner of Greenwich Village's Bitter End, on 13th February, aged 96; of Martin ‘Protag’ Neish of Blyth Power and other bands including Alternative TV, on 18th Feb aged 54; of British blues legend Duffy Power (born Ray Howard), on 19th Feb aged 72; and of flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucia on 26th Feb, aged 66.
The BBC Radio Two Folk
Awards, as featured on pages 32- 33, gave Lifetime Achievement Awards to Clannad and Martin Carthy; Good Tradition Award – Cambridge Folk Festival; Folk Singer Of The Year – Bella Hardy; Best Group – The Full English; Best Duo – Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin; Musician Of The Year – Aidan O’Rourke; Best Traditional Track: Willie of Winsbury – Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer; Best Original Song: Two Ravens – Lisa Knapp; Horizon Award – Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar; BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award: The Mischa Macpherson Trio; Best Album – The Full English – The Full English (the latter voted for by the public).
BBC Radio 3’s World On 3 (Fridays at 11pm) features Mary Anne Kennedy presenting Sidi Touré (14th March), Claudia Aurora (21st); The Gloaming (11th April) and Aziza Brahim (25th), while Lopa Kothari presents The Full English (28th March), Myra Andrade (4th April) and Nuba Nour (18th).
Forthcoming guests on DJ
Ritu’s A World In London on SOAS Radio, (Wednesdays at 3pm) include Rebet Asker (19th March), 3 Argentinas (26th) and Djanan Turan (2nd April).
soasradio.org/worldinlondon
Celtic Connections Danny
Kyle’s Open Stage winners include Inverness-based trad/folk trio, Hò Rò; young finger-style and percussive guitarist from Orkney, Griogair Morrison; the much- acclaimed Mischa Macpherson Trio; The Chaplins, with their take on a bluegrass sound; guitarist and singer-songwriters Arthur Nicholson from Shetland and Edinburgh-based Austen George.
Just published from Faber &
Faber is JP Bean’s Singing From The Floor: A History Of British Folk Clubs. In oral history form, it’s all
The Gloaming: World On 3
first-person accounts from artists and activists who were there, from the beginnings in the ‘50s, the boom years of the ’60s and ’70s, the slow death in the ’80s and the rebirth of the music, if not the clubs themselves, through a new generation in more recent times. Review to follow…
Creative Scotland’s funding deadline for organisations wishing to be considered for regular funding from April 2015 will be in July 2014. Guidelines will be available from April 2014 at
www.creativescotland.com/fundin g/funding-overview
Kindred spirits Hearth Music in the US have released the first issue of a great new quarterly digital roots music magazine, KITHFOLK featuring interviews, articles, reviews, audio and video.
http://kithfolk.com/story/7749
No Strings In Africa, a project to get guitar strings out to musicians in Malawi, has been set up by Peter Arnold of Diss Music School. He has found a company, Eastern Produce, who are willing to ship the strings out to Malawi for free but is now looking for a reliable way of distributing the strings to the right people once in the country. Any ideas?
info@dissmusicschool.co.uk
Folkstock festival and agency have teamed up with Dave Swarbrick on a project called Passing The Baton, in which a selection of new artists get the chance to record and perform with Swarbrick and an eventual record will be released. More at
www.folkstockartsfoundation.com
Depedro will begin filming
this month for Casamance, Soundtrack Of A Journey, a music documentary film aiming to capture a series of his musical encounters. A crowdfunding campaign has been started at:
http://igg.me/at/casamancedocu/x/ 6253454
Nonesuch Records are busy over the coming months, with Explorations, a May celebration event at the Barbican and two big releases: Emmylou Harris’s groundbreaking album Wrecking Ball which will be reissued with extra material on 7th April and Natalie Merchant's new self- titled album on 5th May. And Olivia Chaney’s debut is in the works…
www.nonesuch.com
Photo: Ian Anderson
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