13 f Nest Collective events at
various London venues this month include The Rheingans Sisters & Tantz, Jeff Warner, Bruce Molsky and Cajun Country Revival.
www.nestcollective.co.uk
CDs
These recently in: 3hattrio Dark Desert Night (American Desert Music); 9Bach Anian (Real World); Fraser Anderson Under The Cover Of Lightness (Membran); Arlet Big Red Sun (own label); Arum Arum (own label); La Banda Morisca Algarabya (Fol Musica); Serious Sam Barrett Sometimes You’ve Got To Lose (YaDig? Records); Black Bank Folk Rising (FFS Records); Cardboard Fox Out Of Mind (own label); Céu Tropix (Six Degrees Records); M’Toro Charrou Ek Bann Kreol Punk Islands (Adami); Concerto Caledonia Nathaniel Gow’s Dance Band (own label); Curro De Uterro Grands Cantaores Du Flamenco (Le Chant Du Monde); Dagadana Meridian 68 (Karrot Kommando); Luther Dickinson Blues & Ballads: A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II (New West Records); Faith i Branko Gypsy Love (World Music Network); Fanfare Ciocarlia Onwards To Mars (Asphalt Tango Records); David Francey Empty Train (Laker Music); Robbie Fulks Upland Stories (Bloodshot Records); Claire Hastings Between River & Railway (Luckenbooth Records); Headsticks Feather & Flame (Punch Music); I Fratelli Tarzanelli Antipodes (Appel Rekords); Angelique Ianatos Reste La Lumiere (Ici D’Ailleurs); Kacy & Clayton Strange Country (New West Records); Guy King Truth (Delmark Records); Oumar Konaté Maya Maya (Clermont Music); Matthias Loibner Lichtungen (Traumton Records); Lone Pinon Trio Nuevomexicano (own label); Eden MacAdam- Somer & Larry Unger Through Many A Land (Black Socks Press); Kitty Macfarlane Tide & Time (TCR Music); Leyla McCalla A Day For The Hunter, A Day For
Robbie Fulks – new album
The Prey (Jazz Village); Joanne McIver & Christophe Sauniere Musiques d’Ecosse (Musique du Monde); John McCusker Hello, Goodbye (Under One Sky Records); Les Mercenaires De L’Ambiance Le Bal De L’Afrique Enchantee (own label); Rydvall Mjelva Vårdroppar (Heilo); Moken Chapters Of My Life (Bantu); Moulettes Preternatural (Craft Pop Records); Ana Moura Moura (Blue Wrasse); Dario Muci Barbiera E Canti Del Salento Vol. II (Anima Mundi); Nordic Fiddlers Bloc Deliverance (own label); Pastrocchio Ciumafina (Nu Trad); RANT Reverie (Make Believe Records); Real Vocal String Quartet Slacker Ridge (Flower Note Records); Rusty Shackle Dusk (Get Folked Records); Sandaraa Sandaraa (own label); Thomas Schleiken Echoes (Blind Lemon Records); Darrell Scott Couchville Sessions (own label); Sheelanagig Beard Town (own label); Sinderins Sinderins (Westwynd Records); So Long Seven So Long Seven (own label); Elza Soares Elza (Mais Um Discos); Steeleye Span Please To See The King (Talking Elephant); Steeleye Span Ten Man Mop or Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again (Talking Elephant); Paul Tasker Cold Weather Music (Yellowman Music); Teka Ritka Magyar (Fono); Tir Na Nog Live At The Half Moon (Mega Dodo); Katerina Tsiridou Aman Katerina: A Tribute To Panayiotis Toundas (Protasis); Chucho Valdes Tribute To Irakere: Live In Marcia (Jazz Village); Various Haiti Voudou: Ritual Music From The First Black Republic (Frémeaux & Associes); Various Music Of Morocco: Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959 (Dust-to- Digital); Various The Quietened Village (A Year In The Country) Various The Rough Guide To A World Of Psychedelia (World Music Network); Various Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music (Numero Group); Vessel Patterns Of Blue (DME); Votosi Nomadism (UZF Records); Jess Ward The Mermaid’s Lament (own label); Kaoru Watanabe Néo (own label); Eli West The Both (own label); Brooks Williams My Turn Now (Red Guitar Blue Music); Yelli Yelli Terre De Mon Poeme (Beating Drum Records).
DJ Derek MISC.
We were sad to hear of the deaths of old time fiddler Trevor Stuart on 2nd March, aged 47; Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos on 9th March, aged 71; of South By South West co- founder Louis Meyers on 10th March aged 60; of US songwriter Steve Young on 17th March aged 73; of Italian singer/songwriter Gianmaria Testa on 30th March aged 57; and the only recently confirmed passing some time last summer of the legendary DJ Derek, aged 73.
DJ Ritu’s A World In London
(6.30pm Wednesdays on Resonance 104.4 FM and online) features London Tango Orchestra (20th April), music from Calais Refugee Project (27th), 3 Argentinas (4th May); Oysland (11th) and Brickwork Lizards (18th).
Carlos Borges Ferreira hosts a weekly folk/world music programme Tradisom on Portuguese station Radio Diana as well as his own English language CBFwebRADIO broadcasting traditional, folk and world music, 24 hours per day.
cbfwebradio.com
Hands Up For Trad have announced that their Services To Broadcasting Award 2016 is to be given to Iain Anderson, a part of Scottish broadcasting life since the early 1970s. (NB: that’s not our differently-spelled Editor!)
Gianmaria Testa
Soundfly have launched a free online course, A Conversation With The Blues, led by Princeton Musical Director Vince di Mura and featuring a number of talented artists including Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. The course offers an in-depth look at some of the ways the blues as a musical form has been adapted and
transformed over the past century, including 12 videos examining the relationship between the blues, its origins, rock, and jazz, as well as some playalong tracks and downloadable resources so students can experiment and learn as they go.
soundfly.com/courses/ a-conversation-with-the-blues/
Classical label/streaming
service Naxos Music Library has launched a dedicated streaming service for world music, offering significant and rare recordings from Smithsonian Folkways, as well as gems from over 70 years of releases from labels such as ARC, Nonesuch, Chesky and more.
www.naxosmusiclibrary.com
Jon Boden has announced his first solo appearances for this summer, including Cambridge Folk Festival, Sidmouth Folk Festival and Snape Proms.
www.jonboden.com
We say a fond farewell to Bill
Trythall at world music record distributors Discovery Records who retires this month after 34 years with the company. You’ve been a gent to work with down all these years, Bill, and we’ll all miss you here at fRoots.
Photo: Andy Goodwin
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