tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31048576011341044302024-03-13T16:12:31.543+01:00BABE(B)LOGUESoundscapes (& More) From The Third PlanetDJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.comBlogger821125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-46944886469586163842011-06-22T15:20:00.001+01:002011-06-22T15:22:50.385+01:00No One Knows About Persian Cats (OST) - 2010«No One Knows About Persian Cats is a film from Iran that blurs the line between documentary and drama. Briefly put, the film follows Negar and Ashkan, indie pop musicians trying to put together a band to play danceable pop/rock in an '80s American new wave style. Since Western music is outlawed in Iran, the actors, musicians, and filmmakers put themselves at considerable risk while making the DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com245tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-18564937724908962092011-02-18T19:58:00.002+01:002011-02-18T20:01:53.012+01:00Eugenio Finardi - Anima Blues (2005)A masterpiece of Italian blues. «Anima Blues è il capolavoro di Eugenio Finardi, è un canto offerto alla sorgente del Mississippi, un’invocazione che sale ondeggiando come una lingua di fumo sui campi delle terre del sud, è un amore che esplode e travolge, la lunga strada verso casa del cantautore milanese. C’è una voce straordinaria in Anima Blues, una voce che avvolge come le onde DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-48138563652362214042011-02-02T12:54:00.004+01:002011-02-02T13:02:37.361+01:00Insingizi - Spirit of Africa (2007)«"Mbube" music, regarded as dating back in Zulu tradition to King Shaka, was originally royal music to be sung to honor the Zulu King by his male supporters. The style—a rich a cappella male choral approach usually sung in Zulu, appeared in the early 20th century as "Ingoni Ebusuku," meaning "night music." Popular with Zulu and Swazi laborers, in the early 1940s one of the Ingoni Ebusuku groups DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-37615613654271035292010-12-25T11:13:00.002+01:002010-12-25T11:15:34.891+01:00The Beginner's Guide to Bollywood (2003)«Bollywood music has been loved in the West for the way it Cuisinarts different styles together, mixing and matching like crazy in the same song. This extensive collection places a great emphasis on that side of the music, which makes for an easy introduction to the myriad styles that have made up Bollywood over the last 50 years. There’s plenty of music from the’70s (one whole disc is devoted toDJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-66604531479196661852010-12-19T17:55:00.002+01:002010-12-19T18:07:35.032+01:00The Festival in the Desert / Le Festival au Désert (2003)«It’s the unlikeliest place to imagine a festival, in the Sahara, not far from the Malian town of Timbuktu. But that’s the home of the Festival in the Desert, which celebrated its third anniversary in 2003. While it attracts international talent, the real focus is on artists who make their homes in the area, often of the nomadic Tuareg people. But there are others who live locally, like the DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-78572579978726018492010-12-13T17:14:00.002+01:002010-12-13T17:17:18.988+01:00Laila Orient by Saatchi (2004)«The concept lying behind this album is the same one that brought the “Buddha Bar” CD into existence - an album that was recorded by the musicians performing at the Parisian Buddha Bar. Owners of the popular Laila bar in Istanbul decided to do the same with live music their bar featured. Laila Orient is thus a collection of songs, mostly recorded only for this particular album. Among others, DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-17557677916546671702010-12-07T14:09:00.003+01:002010-12-07T14:11:28.487+01:00Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth (2009)«Dreamt up by Misha Bower and Matt Cully in the summer of 2006, Bruce Peninsula has slowly mutated, elaborating on the Alan Lomax archives that initially inspired them and taking a new turn every time a new member or instrument is added to the mix. Since their second show, Bruce Peninsula has ballooned out to include a large cast of hoot-and-hollerers. The band mutates often but the last couple DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-25616787736107539102010-10-30T19:21:00.002+01:002010-10-30T19:24:02.391+01:00Les Têtes Brulées - Hot Heads (1990)«Les Têtes Brulées (the name means the hot heads or the burnt heads, but implies, more pointedly, the mind-blown) are truly hard to miss in a crowd. The five-man lineup sport neatly torn t-shirts, elaborate dots-and-bars body paint over most of their skin, retro mirror shades, Afro mohawks, huge sneakers, and trademark day-glo book bags that they wear through their electrifying stage shows. TheDJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-12369055473015161172010-10-21T18:37:00.005+01:002010-11-05T15:38:43.332+01:00Musics & Musicians of the World: Mongolia (1990)«The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World included more than a hundred pioneering audio recordings of the world’s traditional music published from 1961 to 2003 on a number of different recording labels. The series was launched in 1961 in collaborariginal context. Each recording was accompanied by scholarly annotations and photographs. Together, these disks are a reflection of the DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-43588405599263874172010-10-07T16:18:00.002+01:002010-10-07T16:20:11.001+01:00Mandingo - Watto Sitta (1984)«Foday Musa Suso is an internationally recognised Kora playing Mandingo griot who was born in 1950 in the Gambian village of Sarre Hamadi, a village in the Wuli District, in the Upper River Region. He is a virtuoso master kora performer and composer from a hereditary lineage of other Jalis. […] In 1977, Suso flew to Chicago in the US where he began his recording career as well as forming a groupDJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-55856249467023504822010-09-30T13:19:00.001+01:002010-09-30T13:21:41.704+01:00Fawzy Al-Aiedy - Oud Aljazira (1999)«The ancient music of the Middle East has been given a modern twist by Iraq-born and Paris-based oud (lute) and oboe player and vocalist Fawzy Al-Aiedy. Affectionately known as the "Sultan of swing," Al-Aiedy continues to bridge the traditional music of the East and the improvised sensibility of the West. Hailing from the Iraqi harbor city of Bassorah, Al-Aiedy studied violin and singing at the DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-40185161818675128022010-09-17T17:22:00.001+01:002010-09-17T17:24:33.357+01:00Moussu T e Lei Jovents - Home Sweet Home (2008)«Co-founder of Massilia Sound System, Moussu T, returns with Home Sweet Home, the third studio album recorded with Lei Jovents [Blu on guitars, banjo and Ciotadin viola, Zerbino on drums, washboard and percussion, and Jam de Silva on percussion and berimbau]. As with previous recordings, this new album features several Moussu T tracks with more personal themes [La Cabussada, Le Divan, Il fait DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-80218650992982865992010-09-11T08:54:00.003+01:002010-09-11T08:57:41.713+01:00Spiteri - Spiteri (1973)«An amazing band that recorded in London in the 1970’s and had the British all excited about Latino Rock. But of course, it was one of those items nobody could get hold of, despite asked for it in every store you ever went to. Even in London where, by chance I came to live, nobody had heard of them. I never got the chance to hear the record either in Venezuela where most people get rid of their DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-45701368964204695982010-09-03T10:14:00.004+01:002010-09-03T10:16:53.009+01:00Nathalie Natiembé - Sankèr (2005)«The raw songs of Nathalie Natiembé are typical of the Reunion island. Adopted by Possession after a youth spent in the streets of the center of St-Denis, Nathalie Natiembé cannot remember not singing. In 1998 she throws herself body and soul into writing. Nathalie Natiembé works in depth with the creole language. She draws strong emotions from words, digging deep into their essence. This DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-11388893346417675682010-08-20T15:38:00.002+01:002010-08-20T15:41:31.824+01:00Kassav' - Nou La (2000)«The story of Kassav’ (the name comes from cassava, which is a mixture of manioc paste and coconut) began in 1979 when Pierre-Edouard Décimus, a member of a dance orchestra since the sixties, decided to revamp and modernize the music he had always played along with Freddy Marshall, another musician from the Antilles. They adored popular carnival music, and so Decimus tried to adapt it to modern DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-19613678018106503172010-08-04T17:26:00.003+01:002010-08-04T17:30:10.412+01:00Baba Zula - Roots (Kökler) (2007)«Turkey is a nation in the midst of a dramatic transition. It’s pushing forward with social and economic reforms as it pursues membership in the European Union. During the process, it’s casting an eye to the rear view mirror, pondering and situating the impact of centuries of history stretching back to its pre-Islamic, Shamanic roots on its current hybrid Islamic-secular nation state. It’s a DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-76937538165320235602010-07-17T16:37:00.002+01:002010-07-17T16:41:02.706+01:00Pela Simba - Pela Simba (2006)Hello everybody, Babe(b)logue goes on holiday, so this will be the last post for a while. See you soon, and stick around! Radu. P.S. As far as I know, this somewhat mysterious CD collects two beautiful Pela Simba’s albums originally published during the first half of the 80’s, Pela Simba and Sambara. If you discover more info, please leave a comment here. Cheers! «Pela Simba, DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-28837627305809919952010-07-16T15:37:00.002+01:002010-08-04T17:34:42.222+01:00Yengi Yol - De Seville à Boukhara (2003)«Yengi Yol means “new way”, in Turkish as well as in Uzbek. The “Yengi Yol” Ensemble was born a few years ago when European musician E.H. During went to meet young musicians his age in Uzbekistan. Back then, when his flamenca guitar met their traditional Uzbek music, the result was convincing straight away. The band was born and several concerts and recordings were rapidly done, so that a new DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-69769531333791338402010-07-08T15:45:00.004+01:002010-07-09T15:26:55.447+01:00Blo - Chapters and Phases: The Complete Albums 1973-1975 (2009)«Blo fused the Afrobeat rhythms of their native Nigeria with the mind-expanding psychedelia and funk of late-'60s Western rock to forge a wholly original sound embracing the full spectrum of black music. The roots of the group lay in the Clusters, already one of the most popular Nigerian highlife acts of the mid-'60s even prior to a stint as the support band for the Sierra Leonean pop superstar DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-35505994674478240172010-07-08T15:41:00.004+01:002010-07-08T15:43:34.547+01:00Ancient Future - Asian Fusion (1993)«Ancient Future was formed in 1978 by guitarist Matthew Montfort, who was interested in combining ancient musical traditions with modern technology. The band's inviting melodies, exotic instruments, and ethnic textures helped popularize of world-music fusion. In Asian Fusion, Jim Hurley and Matthew Montfort's shared violin-and-guitar-line leads catch hold of a strong melody and bite down hard. DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-78350037154172327502010-06-27T17:20:00.005+01:002010-06-27T17:24:25.386+01:00Pete Rodriguez - El Rey del Boogaloo (1966-69)«Massive Boogaloo album, with loads of catchy grooves all the way through! Pete & his band were one of the best of the Latin soul era, & this album's certainly one of their strongest. Includes 'Guagaloo', 'Pete's Boogaloo', & 'Do the Boogaloo'. Hard funky & very upbeat all the way through. If someone asked you what the definition of Latin Soul was, this would be the album to play DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-8377062871046017892010-06-18T22:11:00.005+01:002010-06-18T22:17:57.194+01:00Opa - Goldenwings / Magic Time (1976-77)«Hugo Fattoruso, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, began his musical career as a prodigious and somewhat reluctant piano student at the age of four. By the time he was nine his father Antonio formed El Trio Fattoruso by drafting Hugo’s younger brother Jorge on drums, with Hugo on accordion and Antonio on "inverted bucket bass" (using a broom as the neck, and a cord as the instrument’s single string). DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-88586812844387531782010-06-16T11:40:00.001+01:002010-06-16T11:45:26.230+01:00Mick Wills - Fern Hill (1988)«Guitarist and songwriter Mick Wills is a close pal of Bevis Frond frontman Nick Saloman. Wills and Saloman played and recorded together in a band called the Parthenogenetick Brotherhood of Woronzow. Woronzow is a pet label project of Saloman’s, hence this record’s issue in 1988, and its eventual very limited CD release on Acme in 1995. Much of the disc falls into the trad folk and blues categoryDJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-81381392947718627732010-06-14T17:02:00.002+01:002010-06-14T17:06:25.689+01:00Ismael Ledesma - Music Around the World: Paraguay (1998)«Ismael Ledesma was born in the town of Lambarré ( Paraguay) en 1962. He played his first notes on the harp with his father when aged five years old. His career as a musician started in his mother’s group, Los Madrigales, which appeared in different evening concerts in the town of Asunción, in various private and social events. At the end of his secondary school studies Ismael was invited to DJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3104857601134104430.post-90820215904510430142010-06-12T10:01:00.002+01:002010-06-12T10:07:29.451+01:00Bhundu Boys - The Shed Sessions 1982-1986 (2001)«The most commercially and creatively successful act ever to emerge from Zimbabwe, the Bhundu Boys embodied the world music zeitgeist of the mid-'80s. Creators of a frenetic, guitar-dominated style they dubbed "jit," they fused airy melodies, shimmering harmonies, and pulsating rhythms drawn from across the African continent to make music that was both alien and accessible. Taking their name fromDJ Raduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09072122232680149357noreply@blogger.com9