GondwanaSound's Podcast

Jill Turner

Life's too short for bad music, get on board for your around the world music adventure. Fasten your seat belts and be prepared for turbulence as we follow our usual weekly path of global roots and grooves. Departing from the UK, we take passengers on a weekly hour long trip around the world exploring as much music as we can.Touching down for new releases, old favourites, interviews and reviews.No visa or passports required. Music without borders. GondwanaSound is a magazine style radio broadcast. You can follow the journey, read the playlist, contribute reviews and listen again from the website. http://www.gondwanasound.co.ukYou can also join us live on Wednesdays from 11am - midday. Enjoy....Some people call it world music, some people call it folk. We call it around the world music adventures.

Episodes

  1. 03/17/2010

    GondwanaSound 24th February 2010

    Album of the week: Ali and Toumani from Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate on World Circuit.Welcome to your next round the world music adventure. For those of you who like your African Music with a deep and heavy funk groove and a touch of fuzz guitar you'll jump with joy at Strut's re-release of Afro-Rock Volume One - out of print since 2002 and credited with started the "craze" for record digging and retro releases from the motherland. Hear a track on this week's broadcast along with a cut from Ofege's album Try and Love and some seriously heavy rocked out fuzz guitars from Zambia in the 70's courtesy of Amanaz, who's re-release on the Shadoks label is "a hallucinogenic £32" from Honest Jons. We play a track from Amanaz today - see what you reckon.Our album of the week, in complete contrast is some of the most beautiful music I've heard so far this year, Ali and Toumani with three cuts from the album you'll hear anon the spot improvisation from Toumani, Ali with some deep Peul grooves and the extraordinary love and empathy these two musicians have for each other's music.A contender for album of the year.Starting with some Brit folk and tracks from the Imagined Village with a little known Ewan McColl composition and the marvellous Chumbawamba mocking the BNP's attempts to infiltrate the British Folk scene. Slotting a track from the new Bollywood Funk album into the mix aswell, we have another eclectic round the world music adventure. Come visit our website for playlists, news, reviews from the world of global roots and grooves.http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk

    GondwanaSound 24th February 2010
  2. 02/18/2010

    100217GondwanaSound-Rebels,Time Travel and a new Touareg band on the block

    As the African Soul Rebels 2010 tour kicks off in the UK we join the rebellious spirit starting the broadcast with Gil Scot-Heron's The Revolution will not be televised from 1974 followed by the people's poet and veteran of the Soweto Uprising, Mzwakhe Mbule's Change is Pain from 1986. Two artists linked by their social commentary rooted in black freedom. Gil Scot Heron with the civil rights movement in the US and Mzwakhe Mbule with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, two artists who would surely have influenced the first African Soul Rebels - Lesego Rampolokeng with the Kalahari Surfers Celebrating another rebel, Grammy Award winning Oumou Sangare calls for women to rise up and challenge the "big shot" men, her new approach to music and powerful lyrics Oumou joins TP Orchestre Polyrythmo to complete the line up for the African Soul Rebels tour.To fit in with mood of rebellion, our album of the week comes form Tamikrest a young Touareg band, hailed by Andy Morgan, ex manager of Tinariwen, "as the future of Touareg music".Finally we are pleased to broadcast the special feature package courtesy of Philip Jackson and Music Beyond Mainstream giving you background detail and more of a taster of this years African Soul Rebels Tour. Hope you hear something you enjoy and please accept my apologies for the ropey start and technical problems at the beginning of the broadcast. More details about the music http://www.gondwanasound.co.uk.

    100217GondwanaSound-Rebels,Time Travel and a new Touareg band on the block
  3. 01/21/2010

    100120 GondwanaSound - The Hut People, Haiti, Toureg artists and dug up funk.

    Welcome to your latest round the world music adventure. Please donate to the Disasters Emergency Committee there's a link on the front page of the website and to concentrate our thoughts we open the broadcast with two Haitian tracks. One from Les Shleu Shleu a sixties dance band from Haiti, the precursor to all the retro tropical funk that's being dug up and reissued right now. We follow that with a stunning track from one of the best albums from last year Ti Coco and Wanga Neges' Haiti Colibri.Our album of the week comes from The Hut People and extraordinary combo of Percussion and Piano Accordian. Ever since we saw them at Musicport two years ago we've been waiting in anticipation for their debut album and we haven't been disappointed. Hope you enjoy the three tracks that we've picked out for you.With two new releases from Toureg artists,Nabil Othmani and newcomers and young pretenders for the Tinirawen crown, Tamikrest both with their own approach to Tamasheq music and beyond. Plus two tracks from two more exceptional dug up funk compilations two more exceptional albums for your collection.We hope you enjoy another eclectic round the world music adventure. You can buy what we're playing here and please spread the word we want more people to listen to all the wonderful global roots and grooves.View the playlist http://www.gondwanasound.co.ukJoin us live every Wednesday 11am - midday on Sheffield Live 93.2FM

    100120 GondwanaSound - The Hut People, Haiti, Toureg artists and dug up funk.

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Life's too short for bad music, get on board for your around the world music adventure. Fasten your seat belts and be prepared for turbulence as we follow our usual weekly path of global roots and grooves. Departing from the UK, we take passengers on a weekly hour long trip around the world exploring as much music as we can.Touching down for new releases, old favourites, interviews and reviews.No visa or passports required. Music without borders. GondwanaSound is a magazine style radio broadcast. You can follow the journey, read the playlist, contribute reviews and listen again from the website. http://www.gondwanasound.co.ukYou can also join us live on Wednesdays from 11am - midday. Enjoy....Some people call it world music, some people call it folk. We call it around the world music adventures.