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Music, Music Feature Sep 6, 2017
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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, World Music Festival, World Music Festival 2017, World Music Festival Chicago, Salif Keita, Mdou Moctar, Bharath Symphony, Betsayda Machado, Betsayda Machado y la Parranda El Clavo, Eva Salina, Seun Kuti, Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Afrobeat, Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako*Chicago Sound System, Nicole Mitchell, Ballaké Sissoko, Bitori, Trio Da Kali, L. Subramaniam, Saban Bajramovic, Ragamala, ragas, Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park, Tanmoy Bose, Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ambi Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam, Bindu Subramaniam, India, Mali, Venezuela, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Talé, Philippe Cohen Solal, Roots Manuva, Esperanza Spalding, Bobby McFerrin, Mamane Diabaté, Aboussi Cissoko, Lema Lema: Eva Salina Sings Saban Bajramovic, Romani, Jalopy Chorus, Sousume Tamachek, Tuareg, Anar, Music From Saharan Cellphones, Sahel Sounds, Christopher Kirkley, Niger, Rain the Color Blue With a Little Red in It, El Clavo, Barlovento, cumbes, cumbe, La Parranda El Clavo, Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree, Odelia, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Mamadou Kouyaté, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyaté, Tiken Jah Fakoly, AfroCubism, Lucy Duran, World Circuit, Kronos Quartet, Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet, Victor Tavares, funaná, Analog Africa, accordion, Bitori Nha Bibinha, Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands, Chando Graciosa, At Peace, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Taj Mahal, Liu Fang, Vincent Segal, Ludovico Einaudi, Driss El Maloumi, Fassery Diabaté, Fatima Kouyaté, Black Earth Ensemble, Jeff Parker, Joshua Abrams, Mankwe Ndosi, Jovia Armstrong, Struggle Songs, Robert Glasper, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 22, 2017
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A new compilation uncovers soulful treasures from 70s and 80s Somalia

Sweet as Broken Dates reveals a dazzling world of Somali pop, much of which was stashed away nearly three decades ago to help it survive the country's oncoming civil war.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, African Music, Somalia, Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From the Horn of Africa, Ostinato Records, Analog Africa, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Sahel Sounds, ur Hooyo (Mother's Womb), 12 O'Clock Track, Danan Hargeysa with Mohamed "Huro" Abdihashi, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 8, 2016
Video
The best of the 2016 World Music Festival

The brightest gems in this year’s treasure trove include Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, electro-rumba innovators Ìfé, and forward-looking Indian classicists Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan—and every show is free.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, World Music Festival, guide, highlights, Ife, Ìfé, Mulatu Astatke, SK Kakraba, Kithara, Dona Onete, Feitiço Caboclo, Feitico Caboclo, Banzeiro, Brazil, Ethiopia, Africa, Puerto Rico, Ghana, Zanzibar, Yonye, Songs of Paapieye, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Lobi, gyil, Culture Musical Club, Rajab Suleiman, taarab, kanun, Ethiopiques, Mark Underwood, Otura Mun, Anjna Swaminathan, Rajna Swaminathan, mridangam, India, Ragamala, Rajas, Sudan, Alsarah & the Nubatones, Manara, Nubian, Sketches of Ethiopia, Ethiopiques, Step Ahead Band, Heliocentrics, Analog Africa Soundsystem, Analog Africa, Samy Ben Redjeb, Tunisia, Habib Galbi, A-Wa, Isreal, Arabic, Yemenite, Tair Haim, Liron Haim, Tagel Haim, Tomer Yosef, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2014
Listen to irresistible funk from the Congo

"Cheka Sana," a ripper from Congolese saxophonist and bandleader Verckys, is today's 12 O'Clock Track.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Analog Africa, Samy Ben Redjeb, Verckys et L'Orchestre Vévé, Congolese Funk Afrobeat and Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978, African music, Congolese rumba, Franco, OK Jazz, "Cheka Sana, "

Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2014
12 O'Clock Track: 'Cadé o Anel,' driving regional dance music from Brazil

Irresistible electric folklore from Amazonian Brazilian Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, Post No Bills, Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo, Siriá, Analog Africa, Brazilian music, Amazon, Pará, "Cadé o Anel, " 12 O'Clock Track

Music, Record Roundup Dec 16, 2013
Black Flag's not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers want you to hear Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla's house-party jams, Last False Hope's steel-toed bluegrass, and Spray Paint's paranoid noise-punk, just for starters.
- By Peter Margasak, Leor Galil, Kevin Warwick, Bill Meyer, David Whiteis, Monica Kendrick, Kim Kelly, and Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Record Roundup, records, albums, compilations, Argentinum Astrum, Anti-Corp, Forcefield, Inherent, Black Flag, SST, Dam-Funk, Snoopzilla, Stones Throw, Tim Kinsella, Joan of Arc, Joyful Noise, Marvin Tate, Angel Olsen, poetry, Kirk Knuffke, Steeplechase, poets, Last False Hope, Black Country Rock, Solitary, Magik Markers, Drag City, Milosh, eOne, Deadly, Mivos Quartet, Carrier, Ms. Jody, Ecko, Mutoid Man, Magic Bullet, MIE, Pelt Part Wild Gate, Robin Robertson, Alasdair Roberts, Stone Tape, S.S., Spray Paint, Burkhard Stangl, Touch, Angola, Analog Africa

Music, Music Feature Dec 5, 2012
Gifts for hungry ears

The cream of the year-end crop of box sets and reissues: Coleman Hawkins, Bessie Smith, Tunji Oyelana, Bill Withers, and more
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, Arizona Dranes, He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Drane, Tompkins Square, Church of God in Christ, Michael Corcoran, Jan Garbarek I Dansere, ECM, Bobo Stenson, Sart, Terje Rypdal, Afric Pepperbird, Jon Christensen, Arild Andersen, Witchi-Tai-To, Palle Danielsson, Coleman Hawkins, Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947, Mosaic music label, Mamie Smith, Fletcher Henderson, Tunji Oyelana, A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79, Soundway, Wole Soyinka, Andrés Schiff, Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, ECM, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Paul Griffiths, Bessie Smith, The Complete Columbia Recordings, Columbia/Legacy, Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Diablos del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985, Analog Africa, Samy Ben Redjeb, Felito, Machuca, Discos Tropical, Wganda Kenya, Sonora Dinamita, Alejandro Duran, Sound Art @ Het Apollohuis, Wergo, Paul Panhuysen, Helene Panhuysen, Het Apollohuis, Jackson MacLow, Z'ev, Mark Trayle, Hugh Davies, Phill Niblock, Arnold Dreyblatt, Alvin Lucier, Music for Solo Performer, Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time, and End Time Music 1923-1936, Nathan Salsburg, Don Wahle, Gid Tanner, The Allen Brothers, Dixon Brothers, Susan Archie, Bill Withers, The Complete Sussex and Columbia Albums, Michael Eric Dyson

Music, Music Review Dec 1, 2011
Filling out the fringes of African music and black gospel

Multidisc sets Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Review, This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM, Opika Pende: Africa at 78, record collections, music canon, Excavated Shellac, Mike McGonigal, Hugh Tracey, Joseph Kabasele Tshamala, Le Grand Kalle, Cheikh El-Afrit, Analog Africa, Fantastic Angels, Brother Will Hairston, Reverend Lonnie FarrisReview: Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing

Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2010
More Musical Riches From West Africa's Seemingly Inexhaustible Supply

Analog Africa digs up another chest of West African treasure: "Afro-Beat Airways" demonstrates how far the genre could range from Fela Kuti's template.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, Afro-Beat Airways, Analog Africa, Samy Ben Redjeb, Togo, Ghana, African music, reissues, Soundway, Miles Cleret

Music, Music Review Jan 7, 2010
Never Mind the Critics

Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.
- By Peter Margasak, Miles Raymer, and Jessica Hopper
- Tags: Music Review, Robbie Fulks, Bruce Lamont, Latham Zearfoss, Ken Vandermark, Alex White, Gant-Man, Curt Cameruci, Josh Young, Chuck Inglish, Josh Berman, Howard Greynolds, Yakuza, Chances Dances, Sonore, Frame Quartet, White Mystery, Flosstradamus, Cool Kids, Old Idea, Overcoat Management, Bad Plus, For All I Care, Nellie McKay, Normal as Blueberry Pie, Doris Day, Levon Helm, Electric Dirt, Danny Barnes, Pizza Box, Geraint Watkins, In a Bad Mood, Helen Money, In Tune, Mastodon, Crack the Skye, Keelhaul, Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity, Yoko Ono, Between My Head and the Sky, Shakira, She Wolf, Whitney Houston, Million Dollar Bill, Le Loup, Le Loup Family, Johannes Bauer, Clayton Thomas, Tony Buck, Aus: Live in Nickelsdorf, Peter Brotzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love, Hairy Bones, Legends of Benin, Analog Africa, Andy Moor and Anne-James Chaton, Le Journaliste, Ililta! New Ethiopian Dance Music, Terrie Hessels, Terp, The Ex, Nobunny, Love Visions, Mickey, HoZac, She's So Crazy, I Am Your Trash, Mic Terror and Million Dollar Mano, Juke Them Hoes, Miike Snow, JJ No. 2, Mannequin Men, Lose Your Illusion, Too, Discovery, Mayer Hawthorne, A Strange Arrangement, The XX, Henry Threadgill Zooid, This Brings Us To, Vol. 1, Chad Taylor, Circle Down, Han Bennink Trio, Parken, Disappears, Lux, Katie Stelmanis, Believe Me, Crying, Doug Paisley

Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2009
The long-promised African-reissue post

A look at the mother lode of great African music reissued in 2008.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Post No Bills, African Music, Best of 2008, Franco & Le TP OK Jazz, Balla et ses Balladins, rai music, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Sterns, Analog Africa, Sublime Frequencies

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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.

Video
A new compilation uncovers soulful treasures from 70s and 80s Somalia

Sweet as Broken Dates reveals a dazzling world of Somali pop, much of which was stashed away nearly three decades ago to help it survive the country's oncoming civil war.

Video
The best of the 2016 World Music Festival

The brightest gems in this year’s treasure trove include Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, electro-rumba innovators Ìfé, and forward-looking Indian classicists Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan—and every show is free.

Listen to irresistible funk from the Congo

"Cheka Sana," a ripper from Congolese saxophonist and bandleader Verckys, is today's 12 O'Clock Track.

12 O'Clock Track: 'Cadé o Anel,' driving regional dance music from Brazil

Irresistible electric folklore from Amazonian Brazilian Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo

Black Flag's not totally terrible What The . . . and 15 more record reviews

Eight Reader writers want you to hear Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla's house-party jams, Last False Hope's steel-toed bluegrass, and Spray Paint's paranoid noise-punk, just for starters.

Gifts for hungry ears

The cream of the year-end crop of box sets and reissues: Coleman Hawkins, Bessie Smith, Tunji Oyelana, Bill Withers, and more

Filling out the fringes of African music and black gospel

Multidisc sets Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing

More Musical Riches From West Africa's Seemingly Inexhaustible Supply

Analog Africa digs up another chest of West African treasure: "Afro-Beat Airways" demonstrates how far the genre could range from Fela Kuti's template.

Never Mind the Critics

Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.

The long-promised African-reissue post

A look at the mother lode of great African music reissued in 2008.

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This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.

Sweet as Broken Dates reveals a dazzling world of Somali pop, much of which was stashed away nearly three decades ago to help it survive the country's oncoming civil war.

The brightest gems in this year’s treasure trove include Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, electro-rumba innovators Ìfé, and forward-looking Indian classicists Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan—and every show is free.

"Cheka Sana," a ripper from Congolese saxophonist and bandleader Verckys, is today's 12 O'Clock Track.

Irresistible electric folklore from Amazonian Brazilian Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo

Eight Reader writers want you to hear Dam-Funk & Snoopzilla's house-party jams, Last False Hope's steel-toed bluegrass, and Spray Paint's paranoid noise-punk, just for starters.

The cream of the year-end crop of box sets and reissues: Coleman Hawkins, Bessie Smith, Tunji Oyelana, Bill Withers, and more

Multidisc sets Opika Pende and This May Be My Last Time Singing

Analog Africa digs up another chest of West African treasure: "Afro-Beat Airways" demonstrates how far the genre could range from Fela Kuti's template.

Here’s what local musicians (and other tastemakers) were listening to in 2009.

A look at the mother lode of great African music reissued in 2008.

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