#songhoy

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 04.30.23

Ligeti Quartet and Anna Meredith NUC (Mercury KX) Fever Ray Radical Romantics (Mute) Lana Del Ray Do You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (Polydor) Warm Human Hometown Hero (Bandcamp) Deerhoof Miracle-Level (Joyful Noise) Netherlands Severance (Svart) Mini Mansions Mini Mansions (Ipecac) Flying Lotus You're Dead (Warp) Tim Hecker No Highs (Kranky) Nathan Fake Crystal Vision (Cambria Instruments) Metallica 72 Seasons (Blackened) York Holler Spharen / Der Ewige Tag (Neos) Songhoy Blues Optimisme (Fat Possum)

[rastronomicals]

5:20 AM EST December 6, 2023:

Songhoy Blues - "Kashmir" From the album Physical Graffiti Redrawn (April 2015)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Full length cover of the album you'd think, given away with the April 2015 issue of Mojo.

And, OK, this is interesting. Songhoy Blues are from Mali, and are, according to The Guardian, "a band determined keep the country's music alive in the face of pressure from Islamists." So they selected a song named after a flash-spot in the current culture wars involving Islam, and sang it in their native Tamasheq language.

[piasgermany]

Songhoy Blues zurück mit neuem Album!

Songhoy Blues aus Mali kündigen ihr neues Album "Héritage" für den 17. Januar 2025 an und veröffentlichen mit "Issa" den ersten Track, sowie ein kurzes Teaser-Video.  Auf dem Album sind einige der bekanntesten Musiker und Sänger Malis zu hören, darunter Afel Bocoum, Rokia Koné, Neba Solo, Madou Diabaté und viele mehr.

Das 11-Track-Album ist eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, um etwas Traditionelles, Kontemplatives, Souliges und das bisher transzendenteste Album hervorzubringen. "Héritage" bewegt sich in eine eher akustische, kreative Neuinterpretation ihres außergewöhnlichen "Desert Blues". 

Die charismatische Band betrat 2013 die Szene mit ihrem Stil, der einst als „Timbuktu Punk“ beschrieben wurde. Ihre Songs handeln vom Leben und der Liebe in Mali, und basieren auf Fünf-Ton-Skalen, Rock-Rhythmen, rauem Gesang und glitzernder Gitarre. Diese Elemente sind auch auf ihrem neuen Album Héritage allgegenwärtig, allerdings mit einem intimeren Groove, der mit anderen Klängen aus verschiedenen ethnischen Traditionen des Landes gespickt ist. Migration und erzwungene Vertreibung bringen neue Perspektiven auf den Begriff des Erbes in ihrer Musik.

"Héritage" wurde im Remote Records Studio und im Studio Moffou in Bamako mit dem Produzenten Paul Chandler aufgenommen, und schöpft aus dem bemerkenswerten Reichtum an musikalischem Talent in der Stadt. Das Album enthält neue Kompositionen und Überarbeitungen von alten Klassikern. Es ist durchdrungen von den ätherischen Klängen verschiedener traditioneller Instrumente.

Tracklist "Héritage":

01. Toukambela 02. Gambary 03. Norou 04. Dagabi 05. Gara 06. Boutiki 07. Boroterey 08. Batto 09. Garibou 10. Woyhenna 11. Issa

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[nonenglishsongs]

Thursday's Covers Day | Songhoy Blues - Kashmir (Songhay)

[opineonionated]

On the decks

From the release notes: Coming from the city of Gao, on the edge of the Saharan desert, Malian producer Baba ‘’Babsy’’ Konate is one of the key figures in the development of “Gao Rap”, a regional genre of modern autotuned Songhoi music.

Out on the excellent Leaving Records label, Colloboh (a portmanteau of Collins Oboh) is a Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based experimental producer and composer who has spent the past several years cultivating genre-spanning modular wizardry. Highly addictive ear candy, this EP plays like the soundtrack to your sunniest days.

[astro-gnome]

@macbethot tagged me (ty buddy <3)

last song i listened to: Songhoy Blues - Soubour

favorite color(s): ✨ orange ✨ (green, gold, purple, hot pink all strong contenders!)

currently watching: rn its just whatever is background noise, but the current series im watching is Shogun. its SOOO good

sweet/savory/spicy: yes

relationship status: n/a

current obsession: oh you know.....that one hot brazilian f1 driver ;-)

last thing i googled: timeanddate.com for eclipse info lol

i tag: @lellalombardiapologist @depoteka @i-am-evil-homer

@aladiah @thinkingaboutfilm11 @bal0neymalon3y @thefrogsennaneverfound @sentineljedi @nymny @catboyestie @flatoutin-eaurouge @hell-is-betterplace @bbbrianjones @perfectlullabies @pinkaxolotl85 (and everyone else lol)

[edit: left out a few questions lol]

[praise-joko]

Music Game!

Tagged by @dotmander!

RULES: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

My music taste is all over the place. Let’s see what we get! Previews below the line.

燎 - 苏芮琪

The Quittin’ Kind - Eleisha Eagle

Catch 22 - Illy ft. Anne-Marie

Slow Eastbound Train - Daniel Herskedal

Worry - Songhoy Blues

Alarm Call - The Correspondents

じゃあ、また - 高田龍一 (MONACA)

동그라미의 꿈 - DALsooobin

寓言 - Angela Chang

Just Like Autumn -Jordy Searcy, Carly Bannister, The Tuesday Crew

For our next victims we’ll have:

@guildtree @wall-legion @ratasumportauthority @ohpollenpowder @gglitchshit @commanderthalys

And a free invitation to anyone I didn’t tag! Sorry if I tagged anyone who has already done it.

[mrbopst]

Good News: A brand new episode of the Bopst Show is now available to bring free joy to everything in this or any world on Podomatic or wherever you get your podcasts.

[dudewhoabides]

Songhoy Blues - Bamako

[andavs]

soubour by songhoy blues

Yep, these guys are getting added into the regular rotation. I love blues and this is great.

[shansuthamedjai]

“There ain’t no condos, there ain’t no pizza. It’s a genuine culture, no Kentucky Fried Chicken”

[rastronomicals]

1:19 AM EDT July 26, 2024:

Songhoy Blues - "Kashmir" From the album Physical Graffiti Redrawn (April 2015)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Full length cover of the album you'd think, given away with the April 2015 issue of Mojo.

And, OK, this is interesting. Songhoy Blues are from Mali, and are, according to The Guardian, "a band determined keep the country's music alive in the face of pressure from Islamists." So they selected a song named after a flash-spot in the current culture wars involving Islam, and sang it in their native Tamasheq language.

[renatofilomena]

Songhoy Blues - Worry

[1001albumsrated]

#26: Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba (1960)

Genre(s): Afropop, World

I don't want to sidebar on it too much, but let me start by saying that Miriam Makeba was a truly incredible person. Take some time and learn about her life, she did some impressive work and fearlessly stood up for black liberation both in South Africa and here in the states, often at great personal risk. It's tangential to the material on the album so I don't want to devote a lot of space to it, but it's significant enough that I'd be remiss to not mention it.

As for the album: the very, very abridged version of the story is that Miriam moved to the states from Johannesburg in the middle of apartheid and met Harry Belafonte, who mentored her and gave her an in to the music industry. In fact, his backing band plays throughout this album.

The tracklist is a mix of African folk songs and Western standards, and the sound is a similar combination. I'm not an expert on traditional African music by any means, but this is very sedate compared to the field recordings/etc I've heard of African music as performed in Africa by local musicians. This aesthetic was a very smart move on Miriam's part, as it surely was much more appealing to a Western audience than the "more authentic" versions of these songs would be, and as a result helped kickstart Western interest in "world music" (for the record, I've never liked the idea of bulk-batching all non-Western traditional music into one pseudo-genre; Japanese shakuhachi music has as little to do with Indian classical music or African folk songs as jazz does with heavy metal or European classical music. What a bullshit big business music industry concept it is to just throw it all under one card in the record store.)

That being said, I also find this "blended" sound much less appealing than the other African music I've heard from the era. Don't get me wrong, her singing is excellent. There's just something missing for me here. It's all a little too loungey. It's not a bad listen, but I find myself losing interest throughout and tuning it out a bit. I think this album possesses immense historical and cultural significance, but MUST you hear it before you die? I'm conflicted on this one, but I'm leaning towards No. I think if you have a personal interest in the history of African music it's essential, but I feel like there are better options out there that would be of more interest to the average listener. There's a wide assortment of comparatively-high-quality field recordings of traditional African music out there from the usual suspects (Smithsonian Folkways, JVC World Sounds, etc) if you want the real McCoy, and there are more interesting albums from later down the road that blend African music with Western sounds to greater effect in my opinion (Afreaka! by Demon Fuzz and Lazy Bones!! by Witch both come to mind, listed in order of exclamation, as well as the obvious picks like Fela Kuti or Songhoy Blues, both of whom I believe we'll hear later in the project).

Also, for the nerds, I listened to this one in hi-res on Qobuz. I've ran across the record before, but never could bring myself to drop the cash on it.

Next time, pull on up to the soda fountain and hit the drive-in with your gal with A Date With the Everly Brothers!