9^th April 2013

Tapan Bie (Beating the Drum) – The Bulgarian Voices Angelite – Angelina – Jaro 4310 2 – Bulgaria

Vi E Lo – Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou – The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk – Analog Africa AA 073 – Benin

Heartland Sea – Cahalen Morrison & Eli West – Our Lady of the Tall Trees – self-released – USA

Nasseem – Niyaz – Six Degrees Records – Sumud “acoustic EP” – Iran

Karotseres – unidentified Cypriots – Folk Dances of Greece – Ethnic Folkways FE 4467 (LP) – Cyprus

Silver Chanter – John Mulhearn – The Counter Blast Vol 1 – http://johnmulhearn.bandcamp.com – Glasgow

The Thresher – Phil Ochs – All the News That’s Fit to Sing – Elektra Records – USA

A-whaling on the Wii – Robert Lokat (Derek Richardson, concertina) – Oh My – RLCD 001 – Glasgow

Fahatsiarovana – Etienne Ramboatiana – The Moon and the Banana Tree: New Guitar Music from Madagascar – Shanachie – Madagascar

Cheche – Houria Aïchi – Renayate – Accords Croisés AC 148 – Algeria

Improvizatsye – Cathy, Martin & Simon – Old Klezmer Tunes – self released – Jewish

Barkagan’s Sher – Cathy, Martin & Simon – Old Klezmer Tunes – self released – Jewish

As Rosas Não Falam (The roses do not speak) – Luciana Souza feat Romero Lubambo – Duos III – Sunnyside Communications SSC 1315 – Brazil

Fado Desconcertado – António Zambujo – Quinto (5th) – World Village WVF 479069 – Portugal

Echo Blues

(sig tune) – Frank Wakefield – That was now… this is then! – Rosewood RA 62096 – Tennessee

2^nd April 2013

Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran – C’mon Everybody – Liberty ECR 1 (LP) – Minnesota

Quitapesares – José Franco – Joropo: Venezuelan dance music on harp – Pan Records 2081 – Venezuela

I Dream in Blue – The Stray Birds – The Stray Birds – self-released – Pennsylvania

In a Silent Way – Radio String Quartet Vienna – Posting Joe: Celebrating Weather Report live – Act Music ACT 9553 2 – USA/Austria

Akue we gni gan (Money is the Boss) – Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou – The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk – Analog Africa AA 073 – Benin

Aralume – Quinteto da Paraíba – Musica Armorial String Quintets from Northeastern Brazil – Nimbus NI 5483 – Brazil

Uma Casa Portuguesa – Quinteto Amália – O Fado Em Concerto – Vidisco – Portugal

Primavera – Claudia Aurora – Silêncio – World Village 450020 – Portugal/England

O que é feito dela – António Zambujo – Quinto (5th) – World Village WVF 479069 – Portugal

Model – Balanescu Quartet – Possessed – Mute CD STUMM 111 – Germany

My Dear Companion – Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt – Trio – Warner Bros 7599 25491 2 – USA

Nouar – Houria Aïchi – Renayate – Accords Croisés AC 148 – Algeria

Alleche tu ne m’aimes pas – Lili Boniche – Anthologie – World Village WVF 479071 – Algeria

The Winter It Is Past – Archie Fisher – Windward Away – Greentrax CDTRAX 329

– Scotland

Kalanso – Ballaké Sissoko – At Peace – Nø Førmat NØF 21 – Mali

Echo Blues (sig tune) – Frank Wakefield – That was now… this is then! – Rosewood RA 62096 – Tennessee

Mar 19, 2013

19^th March 2013 – David Livingstone

The explorer and missionary David Livingstone was born in Blantyre 200 years ago, on March 19^th 1813. This week Planet Waves marks the occasion with music from the heart of Africa and a trip down the Nile, as well as tracks celebrating other great rivers and more music suggested by this bicentenary.

Zambezi – Brute Force Steel Band – Beauty and the Brute Force – Cook Records 1049 (LP) – Antigua

Chinama – Magwere Blind School Band – African Acoustic Vol 1: Guitar Songs from Tanzania, Zambia and Zaire – Original Music OMA 108 (LP) – Zambia

Zungunde (The Village Drinker) – Stella Chiweshe – Double Check: Two Sides of Zimbabwe’s Mbira Queen – Piranha DCD-PIR 1900 – Zimbabwe

Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On – Boswell Sisters – The Boswell Sisters Vol 1 – Collectables Col CD 6461 (Sony) – New Orleans

River Wu’s Song Of Joy – Circle for Popular Art cond. Zhan Yongming – Asie de l’est – Ocora C 560063 – China

Arara Song – Hobiaba Surui – Authentic South America 5: The Amazon – Sonoton SAS 046 – Amazon

Timbila and Shivelan – Macauze and Afredo Malangane – Music From Mozambique, Vol. 3 – Ethnic Folkways Records  4319 (LP) – Mozambique

The Clatterin o’ the Clyde’s Waters – Stanley Robertson – Scots Songs and Music live from the Kinross Festival – Springthyme SPR 1001 (LP) – Scotland

Kalanda Katuzana – Hukwe Zawosi, Joyce Mioto et al – Tanzania Yetu – Triple Earth TERRA 101 (LP) – Tanzania (Tanganyika)

Warriors of the Drum – Hutu (?) drummers from Burundi – Burundi Music from the Heart of Africa – Nonesuch Explorer – Burundi

Hooray for Captain Spaulding – Groucho Marx etc – Hooray For Captain Spaulding: The Best Of The Marx Brothers – Prism Leisure – USA

Killer of Termites – Sheikh Burukan Kiwuwa and team – The King’s Musicians: Royalist Music of Buganda – Uganda – Topic TSCD 925 – Uganda

Fikir Ayarejim – Addis Acoustic Project – Tewesta – World Village 468091 – Ethiopia/Sudan

Iba Dance (edit) – Rafael Pérez Arroyo &

the Hathor Ensemble – Music in the Age of the Pyramids – Natural Acoustic Recordings NAR 0010 01 – Egypt/Spain

Addis-A-Baba – Augustus Pablo – East of the River Nile – Shanchie CD 45051 – Jamaica

12^th March 2013

A real mixed bag on this evening’s Planet Waves including 3 tracks inspired by the name Lula, a couple featuring tuba and one from Cuba.

La Sacantina (Saint-Gilles-Croix-De-Vie) – Bise Dur – Souvenir de Vendée Vol 1 – Rendez-Vous Digital – France

Lula Lula Don’t You Go To Bingo – Boozoo Chavis – Lousiana Spice: 25 Years of Louisiana Music on Rounder Records – Rounder CD AM 18/19 – Louisiana Zydeco

I go twice a week to the pictures – Tessie O’Shea – Variety Showcase – Orange Leisure – UK

Vi Bistu Geveyzn Far Prohibishn? (Where were You Before Prohibition?) – Cathy, Martin & Simon – Old Klezmer Tunes – self released – Jewish

Maple Leaf Rag – Tuba Quartet – Yorkshire Building Society Band conducted by Manfred Obrecht – That’s a Plenty – Obrasso Records – US/UK

Long Gone Out West Blues – Pharis & Jason Romero – Long Gone Out West Blues – Lula Records LULA 1303 – British Columbia

Lula Wall – Carter Family – The Carter Family: The Collection – EMI Plus 724357632423 – Virginia

Remain Alert – Cristina Pato – Migrations – Sunnyside Communications SSC 1334 – Galicia

Waikova (Crow) – Muzale Kyemiere and others – Music of Africa

24: Uganda 1 – Gallotone GALP 1319 (LP) – Uganda

Twa Corbies – Alastair Macdonald – Mirk & Melody – Corban Recordings CBNCD 046 – Scotland

Mabrouk el farh – Houria Aïchi – Renayate – Accords Croisés AC 148 – Algeria

Tubes_Joe’s – New Rope String Band – UK

Menina Do Mar – Claudia Aurora – Silêncio – World Village 450020 – Portugal/England

Todo Eso – Seguidores Del Son – Latin Noir – Everything Happens On The Beach – Piranha Musik OCD-PIR 2648 – Cuba

Echo Blues (sig tune) – Frank Wakefield – That was now… this is then! – Rosewood RA 62096 – Tennessee

5^th March 2013

Beating Harps – Sileas – Beating Harps – Green Linnet SIF 1089 (LP) – Scotland

Madame Sosthène – Les Amies Louisianaises – La Musique Unique des Acadiens – JMJ Musique Acadienne MACD 0008 – Lousiana Cajun

Tesfar el Achia – Lili Boniche – Anthologie – World Village WVF 479071 – Algeria

Nifty’s Eygene – Cathy, Martin & Simon – Old Klezmer Tunes

– self released – Jewish

Eileen Aroon – Kathleen McPeake – The McPeake Family: Wild Mountain Thyme – Topic TSCD 583 – Belfast

Boullando – Creole Choir of Cuba – Santiman – Real World Records – Cuba

Dua uga kwal (tune of possession) – B Turesami et al – South India: Music of the Nilgiri Hills – Ocora C 560250/51 – India

Cannonball Blues – Furry

Lewis – In His Prime – Yazoo Records – Tennessee

Trains part 1 – Reginald Gardiner – single – Decca Records F 5278 – England

Trains part 2 (edit) – Reginald Gardiner – single – Decca Records F 5278 – England

Las Tres Rosas – Jesús Tenepe – Joropo: Venezuelan dance music on harp – Pan Records 2081 – Venezuela

Poquito a Poco – Raquel with el Mariachi Mexico de Pepe Villa – Raquel en Mexico – TH Records TH-MEX 2092 (LP) – Mexico

Sweet Dreams – Patsy Cline – Acuff-Rose Disc 3 – ARML 03 – Virginia

Traveling Pilgrim – Henagar-Union Sacred Harp Convention – I Belong To This Band – Dust-to-Digital DTD-06 – USA

Kabou – Ballaké Sissoko – At Peace – Nø Førmat NØF 21 – Mali

Echo Blues (sig tune) – Frank Wakefield – That was now… this is then! – Rosewood RA 62096 – Tennessee

26th February 2013 – funsize

This week

Planet Waves is in three parts. There’re 2nd chances to hear my top 5 Cajun accordeonists and my look at some recent Ocora issues – and then there are new releases from Scotland and Cuba.

Perrodin Two Step – Aldus Roger – A Cajun Legend – La Louisianne LLCD 1007 – Louisiana Cajun

La Valse de Bayou Chene – Iry LeJeune – Cajun’s Greatest – AceCDCHD 428 – Louisiana Cajun

Two Step de Eunice – Amade Ardoin & Dennis McGee – Cajun Dance Party: Fais Do-Do – Columbia Legacy 475703 2 – Louisiana Cajun

Mom & Dad’s Waltz – Belton Richard & the Musical Aces – Lousiana Cajun Music – Swallow LP 6032 (LP) – Louisiana Cajun

Domino Two Step – Nathan Abshire – J’ai été au bal:the Cajun and Zydeco Music of Louisiana Vol 1 – Arhoolie CD 331 – Louisiana Cajun

Kudala Kwakunganje – Insingizi – Ndebele Songs – Ocora C 560239 – Zimbabwe

Terzetti Rusinchi – Anghjula Potentini, Elizabeth Bottalico & Jean-Marc Fabrizy – Corsica: Anthology of Profane Songs and Music (disc 1) – Ocora C 560234 – Corsica

Batyushka (Father) – Boris Efremov & Folk Ensemble Ulitsa – Russia: The Tradition of Wind Instruments – Ocora C 600025 – Russia

Shen Khar Venakhi – Ensemble Basiani – Georgia: Sacred & Secular Vocal Polyphony – Ocora C 560240 – Georgia

Jedú Turci (The Turks are Coming) – Vlasta Grycová & Josef Múcka – Czech Republic: Music from Walachia etc – Ocora C 600024 – Czech Republic

The Roaring Broadside – Duncan Wood & Guests – Swarbtricks – SWB 121117 – England/Scotland

Bushes and Briars – Isla Cameron – Classic Celtic Music from Smithsonian Folkways – Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD 40560 – Scotland/England

Where I Belong – State Broadcasters – Ghosts We Must Carry – Olive Grove Records OGR 10 – Scotland

Fey Oh Di Nou – Creole Choir of Cuba – Santiman – Real World Records – Cuba

Oh! Ma belle – Maurice El Médioni meets Roberto Rodriguez – Latin Noir: Everything Happens On The Beach – Piranha Musik OCD-PIR 2648 – Cuba