#4211: New Releases, February 2019
It’s the most wonderful time of the month – the new releases show! Hear music from Morocco, Slovakia, Norway, New Zealand, London, and Brooklyn.
Listen to Gnawan trance music by Houssam Gania, the Moroccan guembri player and singer, who also happens to be the youngest son to the late Maalem Mahmoud Gania. This particular track features guest musicians on guitar, keyboards, and drums from the Atlantic fishing port city, Essaouira. Then, hear music from Norwegian saxophone player Bendik Giske. Recorded in a mausoleum in Oslo, there is no looping on this creation, rather, he and his producer used contact microphones over the saxophonist’s instrument and body to capture some truly unusual sounds.
Also, listen to music made of plastic by Matmos, including the sound of Lego bricks snapping together, a recycling bin, an exercise ball, a police riot shield, DNA testing kit, and the sounds of plastic horns and plastic drums played by human beings – namely the horn and drumline sections of the Whitefish Highschool Bulldogs from Whitefish, Montana. There’s also music by Alpha Ousmane “Hama” Sankaré, a Malian master who defined the playing style of contemporary calabash percussion, from a new record, Niafunke, also the name of the village in Mali where Ali Farka Toure made a record.
There’s some circle-pit folk music from Slovakia featuring bouzouki, by a group called Banda as well as new music from tuba player, Theon Cross (Sons of Kemet), which combines Afrobeat, grime, and perhaps jazz from his stellar debut, FYAH. Plus, listen to music by Princeton-based composer Gemma Peacocke, who is from New Zealand, from her multimedia song cycle, Waves & Lines, which has set the text of poems from contemporary Afghanistan. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4211: New Releases, February 2019 (First aired 2/28/2019)
ARTIST: Houssam Gania
WORK: Moulay Lhacham [1:00]
RECORDING: Mosawi Swiri
SOURCE: Hive Mind Records
INFO: houssamgania.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Matmos
WORK: Collapse Of The Fourth Kingdom [5:03]
RECORDING: Plastic Anniversary
SOURCE: Thrill Jockey Records | Due out March 19
INFO: matmos.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Banda
WORK: Ftaček [3:41]
RECORDING: Telegrafy
SOURCE/INFO: bontonland.cz/banda-telegrafy
ARTIST: Hama Sankare
WORK: Dewel Wegé [3:34]
RECORDING: Niafunke
SOURCE: Clermont Music
INFO: clermontmusic.com
ARTIST: Houssam Gania
WORK: Moulay Lhacham [5:20]
RECORDING: Mosawi Swiri
SOURCE: Hive Mind Records
INFO: houssamgania.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Alim Qasimov & Michel Godard
WORK: Doyme Karami [3:57]
RECORDING: Awakening
SOURCE: Buda Musique
INFO: budamusique.com
ARTIST: Theon Cross
WORK: Candace Of Meroe [5:48]
RECORDING: FYAH
SOURCE/INFO: theoncross.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Bendik Giske
WORK: Up [4:43]
RECORDING: Surrender
SOURCE/INFO: bendikgiske.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom
WORK: Valley of the Giants [3:48]
RECORDING: Glitter Wolf
SOURCE: Royal Potato Family
INFO: royalpotatofamily.com
ARTIST: Gemma Peacocke
WORK: London [6:05]
RECORDING: Waves & Lines
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records
INFO: gemmapeacocke.bandcamp.com
