🎧 Listening to tracks by #PaulSimon from the concert in #HydePark (2012).

Memorable performances and collaborators.

▶️ Duet with #ThandiswaMazwai — "Under African Skies"

#EddieFM #London #UK #SouthAfrica #USA #Worldbeat #Pop #Rock

https://youtu.be/KOXm6vLLbgo

These ladies from Louisiana bring it, a definite Eastern European vibe as they sing in Bulgarian and have heavy folk and earth-music influences. This is some powerful stuff, strong female voices and harmony evoking some serious intensity. Haunting fiddle, drums, bass and accordion make the perfect background. #music #worldbeat #worldmusic #ethnicmusic #FolkMusic #Bulgaria #BlatoZlato https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMIiR0u279I&feature=share

If you haven’t yet heard the Barcelona Gipsy Balkan Orchestra (or if you have and just love them) here ya go. With a name like that how can you resist? #music #worldbeat #Worldbeat #Roma #MusicVideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=uOtGayTFmF8&feature=share

Today's chore-doing #Music is #AfroCeltSoundSystem "Volume 5: Anatomic" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_5:_Anatomic)

As a band overall, they are responsible for a good chunk of my personal mental health, uplifting when I was feeling well and yet deeply comforting when I haven't been.

After the deeply engaging and driven first track, "When I Still Needed You", it settles into gentle and pastoral, most notably "Beautiful Rain" and "Sené"

#WorldBeat #CelticFusion #Electronica

Good morning Mastodon.
A bit of musical brilliance you may not have heard:

Peter King
Album Oma Lewa, released in 2016.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=R4hB76y4rls&feature=share
#music
#worldbeat

Generally speaking, I tend to not care much for live albums, yet something spectacular and ineffable happened the evening Dead Can Dance recorded 'Toward The Within' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toward_the_Within).

The vibe of the evening reaches through the recording and fills the listener as much as the music itself.

Even with a catalog of great music, I think this is easily their best recording and is beautifully suited to a moonlit winter's night.

#Music #WorldBeat #DeadCanDance #DreamPop

Afro Celt Sound System, Volume 1: Sound Magic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_1:_Sound_Magic). I feel it's all their fault. They led me out of my love of traditional Celtic into a much larger world and broke my brain doing so.

I'm forever grateful.

#Music #WorldBeat #AfricanCelticFusion

From the 'rediscovering past favorites', Portland, Oregon's impossible-to-categorize 'Human Ottoman' (https://www.humanottoman.com) released 'Farang' (https://www.discogs.com/master/2536507-Human-Ottoman-Farang) in 2015.

It managed experimentation without esoterics, self-importance or naval-gazing. Kindof world beat, kindof jazz-rock, kindof something else, I find the album transporting to some other place where I find myself as the wide-eyed farang.

#Music #WorldBeat #ExperimentalJazz

SHPONGLE STATIC - Live At Ozora, 2019

Another live album, but this time with a twist! Or a twisted take, Simon and Merv joining forces. It's a pairing that few could have predicted (never mind that Eat Static remix from way back), but makes perfect sense when played out.

Honestly, even though there's a mix of Shpongle and Eat Static tracks, this mostly sounds like a Shpongle album remixed by Eat Static, giving the former's #PsyDub and #WorldBeat tunes some extra #PsyTrance heft and punch.

Old review.

ORNAMENT - Bleu

https://emcritic.blogspot.com/2012/12/ornament-bleu.html

Highly obscure #Ambient #Dub with some #WorldBeat influences, distilled into a frosty Arctic vibe. Imagine Bill Laswell jamming with Inuit tribes under aurora borealis.

SHPONGLE - Museum Of Consciousness

I don't want to say this album sounds like Simon returning to form, because I'm sure the group's evolution into more of a fully-fleshed band was enjoyed by some. Back to basics, then? Yeah, that's a good journalist cliché.

Seriously tho', this does sound like a more typical #PsyDub / #PsyChill / #WorldBeat project, with Mr. Posford's electronics doing most of the heavy musical lifting. There's Real Musicians on hand, just not as prominent as before.

Old review.

DEEP FOREST - Deep Forest

https://emcritic.blogspot.com/2012/11/deep-forest-deep-forest.html

African pygmies chants and lullabies from the Solomons over dance beats? Pft, it'll never catch on and oh my! Did it EVER catch on! #WorldBeat was now/then a mainstream thing in the early '90s.

SHPONGLE - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost

I remember a hullabaloo over this being the last Shpongle album, Simon & Raja not really sure where to go with the project despite all the #Psy scene fame it created.

I also remember folks not being too keen on this, lacking the #PsyDub defining traits of the first, and the #WorldBeat hooks of the second. It's a cool concept tho', like an album-long jam session if you'd seen them live. But yeah, kind of musically rambly for large portions too.

SHPONGLE - Are You Shpongled?

I tempered my expectations going into this one - after all, there's been a quarter-CENTURY of evolution from what Simon and Raja started here. And yeah, there are some early, tropey elements at play, sounding not much removed from the Megadog era of psychedelic world beat and dub.

But man, once these tracks hit their third acts, they really jam it out. Easy to hear just how much it influenced so much to come.

#psydub #worldbeat

#World #Worldbeat #Music 🎶 Karl Jenkins – Adiemus
https://youtu.be/_6IfYPB6JUE

https://knupsilk.blogspot.com/2020/06/alceu-valenca.html

#estamparia #serigrafia #silkscreen #camisaspersonalizadas #estampaspersonalizadas #vetorização #artedigital #cantor #compositor #instrumentalista #forró #rock #MPB #worldbeat
#baião #frevo #maracatu

Listn/download my album Auris Cibum over on #Bandcamp if you need some ear candy. https://acid42.bandcamp.com/album/auris-cibum #music #IDM #ambient #electronic #worldbeat #aphextwinning