#5161, Modern Music, Traditional Drumming
Hear Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead with a group of Rajasthani drummers from India; the group ÌFÉ who blend Afro Cuban Santeria drumming with hip hop production, and the group, Bizhiki - traditional pow wow drumming meets electronic rock.
Junun (which means “the madness of love”) is a musical collaboration between a group of Indian musicians called The Rajasthan Express, composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, and India-based Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur. The music is in the ecstatic Sufi music style known as qawwali (made famous by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), and it's devotional music—sometimes in Urdu, Hebrew, and Hindi, and is built on a percussion-dense and brass enriched groove with everything to love.
Then, hear music by ÌFÉ, a band led by Otura Mun, a singer, drummer and producer who is also a Santeria initiate. He blends the ancient rhythms and chants of Afro-Cuban music with the production techniques of hip hop and electronic music. Also listen to Afro-Uruguyan traditional drumming fused with jazz and electronic music, from another tripartite collaboration between American alt-jazz saxophonist David Binney, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Henry Solomon, and drummer Mateo Ottonello. Together, the trio recorded with a group of candombe drummers, tapping into the deeply rooted Afro-Uruguayan tradition for some surprising fourth world music, (Bandcamp.)
There's Native powwow drumming augmented by electronic rock in the group Bizhiki - a collaboration between two Wisconsin-based Native singers, Joe Rainey and Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, along with S. Carey of the band Bon Iver. Bizhiki's 2024 record, Unbound merges powwow music with synthesized voice modulation, contemporary electronic samples and beats, together with traditional drumming. That, plus K. Leimer’s soundtrack Land of Look Behind, from a film about Jamaica and Bob Marley, and more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #5161, Modern Music, Traditional Drumming (First aired 7/13/26)
ARTIST: K. Leimer
WORK: The Cockpit [2:20]
RECORDING: Land of Look Behind
SOURCE: Palace of Lights
INFO: palaceoflights.com
ARTIST: Henry Solomon, David Binney, Mateo Ottonello, candombe drummers
WORK: Rambla y Carnelli (Primavera Montevideana) [4:44]
RECORDING: Buscando el Sol
SOURCE: Little Butterfly Records
INFO: https://littlebutterflyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/buscando-el-sol
ARTIST: K. Leimer
WORK: Confusion in Belief [7:37]
RECORDING: Land of Look Behind
SOURCE: Palace of Lights
INFO: palaceoflights.com
ARTIST: Peter Gabriel ft Ekome drummers
WORK: This Heat [4:41]
RECORDING: Birdy original soundtrack
SOURCE: Real World Music
INFO: https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/album/birdy-music-from-the-film
ARTIST: K. Leimer
WORK: The Cockpit [6:33]
RECORDING: Land of Look Behind
SOURCE: Palace of Lights
INFO: palaceoflights.com
ARTIST: Junun: Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, & Rajasthan Express
WORK: Modeh [5:37]
RECORDING: Junun
SOURCE: Nonesuch 552641
INFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: ÌFÉ
WORK: Music for Egun, Movement 2 [3:57]
RECORDING: The Living Dead | Ashé Bogbo Egun
SOURCE: Otura Mun
INFO: https://grupoife.bandcamp.com/album/the-living-dead-ash-bogbo-egun-ep
ARTIST: Bizhiki
WORK: Rez News [4:00]
RECORDING: Unbound
SOURCE: Jagjaguwar
INFO: https://www.bizhiki.org
ARTIST: Henry Solomon, David Binney, Mateo Ottonello, candombe drummers
WORK: Constelaciones del Sur[8:40]
RECORDING: Buscando el Sol
SOURCE: Little Butterfly Records
INFO: https://littlebutterflyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/buscando-el-sol
