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Wereldmineralen 4 Nov. 2010 : great tracks from new world music releases
For Concertzender‘s broadcast on thursday 4th of November 2010 at 19.00 PM I’ve produced (including all mixing and editing) another edition of world music programme Wereldmineralen. You can listen via cable in many areas of Holland or otherwise via internet worldwide and after broadcast you can listen on demand via this page.
Natacha Atlas at Roots Open Air 2009 in Amsterdam (photo by Pieter de Rooij)
Souad Massi at Roots Open Air 2009 in Amsterdam (photo by Pieter de Rooij)
The programme features recent album releases: If the rains come first by American singer/songwriter Somi, African Revolution by reggaesinger Tiken Jah Fakoly from Ivory Coast, Sinta Wullur‘s gamelan-raga project Indi Go with dutch ensemble Multifoon, Mounqaliba by Belgian-British Middle East-singer Natacha Atlas, Jamm by Cheikh Lo from Senegal and O Houria by Algerian singer Souad Massi. A not to be missed selection of these albums’ best tracks!
Playlist:
Titel: Enganjyani
Tijdsduur: 05’19
Uitvoerende: Somi
Componist: Somi, David Gilmore, Michele Locatelli
Album: If The Rains Come First
Label en Jaar: Obliq Sound 823889910921 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Maybe Then
Tijdsduur: 06’08
Uitvoerende: Somi
Componist: Somi, Herve Sambe
Album: If The Rains Come First
Label en Jaar: Obliq Sound 823889910921 ; P en C 2010
Titel: African Revolution
Tijdsduur: 04’11
Uitvoerende: Tiken Jah Fakoly
Componist: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Jonathan Quarmby,Thomas Naim
Album: African Revolution
Label en Jaar: Wrasse Records Wrass275 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Je Ne Veux Pas Ton Pouvoir
Tijdsduur: 03’23
Uitvoerende: Tiken Jah Fakoly
Componist: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Jeanne Cherhal
Album: African Revolution
Label en Jaar: Wrasse Records Wrass275 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Laisse Moi M’Exprimer
Tijdsduur: 02’46
Uitvoerende: Tiken Jah Fakoly
Componist: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Mr. Toma
Album: African Revolution
Label en Jaar: Wrasse Records Wrass275 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Transformaties #2
Tijdsduur: 06’26
Uitvoerende: Ensemble Multifoon
Componist: Sinta Wullur
Album: Indi Go
Label en Jaar: PAN Records PAN 9902 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Transformaties #3
Tijdsduur: 04’13
Uitvoerende: Ensemble Multifoon
Componist: Sinta Wullur
Album: Indi Go
Label en Jaar: PAN Records PAN 9902 ; P en C 2010
Titel: River Man
Tijdsduur: 05’38
Uitvoerende: Natacha Atlas
Componist: Nick Drake ; Arr.by S. Bishai
Album: Mounqaliba
Label en Jaar: World Village WVF479048 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Mounqaliba
Tijdsduur: 03’38
Uitvoerende: Natacha Atlas
Componist: Natacha Atlas, S. Bishai
Album: Mounqaliba
Label en Jaar: World Village WVF479048 ; P en C 2010
Titel: La Nuit Est Sur La Ville
Tijdsduur: 03’35
Uitvoerende: Natacha Atlas
Componist: Francoise Hardy ; Arr. By S. Bishai
Album: Mounqaliba
Label en Jaar: World Village WVF479048 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Bourama
Tijdsduur: 04’24
Uitvoerende: Cheikh Lo
Componist: Cheikh Lo
Album: Jamm
Label en Jaar: World Circuit WCD084 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Ne Parti Pas
Tijdsduur: 04’08
Uitvoerende: Cheikh Lo
Componist: Cheikh Lo
Album: Jamm
Label en Jaar: World Circuit WCD084 ; P en C 2010
Titel: All Remains To Be Done
Tijdsduur: 04’52
Uitvoerende: Souad Massi
Componist: Souad Massi
Album: O Houria
Label en Jaar: Universal Music 517 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Let Me Be In Peace (one take version)
Tijdsduur: 02’56
Uitvoerende: Souad Massi, feat. Paul Weller
Componist: Souad Massi
Album: O Houria
Label en Jaar: Universal Music 517 ; P en C 2010
Op Concertzender nieuw programma gregoriaanse muziek: ‘Bonum Est’
Op de Concertzender: ‘Bonum est’, een programma over het gregoriaans, samengesteld door Geert Maessen. Vanaf zondag 14 november 2010, elke zondag van 17:00 tot 18:00 uur
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Concertzender Wereldmineralen 2 Sept. 2010 / African and Asian music
My edition of Concertzender’s 60-minute radioprogramme Wereldmineralen on 2 September 2010 features recent releases of African and Asian world music. You can listen to the programme via www.concertzender.nl , broadcast time is 19.00-20.00hrs (dutch time). After broadcast you can listen ‘on demand’ via this link.
In the first half hour there’s African music, starting with the album ‘La Difference’ of Salif Keïta from Mali, followed by the album ‘Télévision’ of Baaba Maal from Senegal. Then there’s a selection of recently released seventies Afrobeat-music from the sampler album ‘Nigeria Afrobeat Special’. In the second half hour the programme features new releases with music from Asia, starting with the album ‘He who travels far’ (release in September 2010) of Chinese-Mongolian band Hanggai. This group blends rock with traditional Mongolian music and overtone singing. The final part of the programme features music from the album Stringstruck by sitar maestro Purbayan Chatterjee.
An article on Purbayan Chatterjee’s recent fusion projects / In: Hindustan Times, August 15th, 2010
With his band Stringstruck Purbayan Chatterjee created an album of fusion music that earned him in July 2010 the award of ‘world music album of the year’ in India. Pleasant and striking surprises on Stringstruck are Purbayan Chatterjee’s singing and his playing on the dwo, an electric sitar.
Playlist of Wereldmineralen:
Titel: La Différance
Tijdsduur: 04’04
Uitvoerende: Salif Keïta
Componist: Salif Keïta
Album: La Différance
Label en Jaar: Universal Music 000422 88240266 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Papa
Tijdsduur: 06’58
Uitvoerende: Salif Keïta
Componist: Salif Keïta
Album: La Différance
Label en Jaar: Universal Music 000422 88240266 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Télévision
Tijdsduur: 07’04
Uitvoerende: Baaba Maal
Componist: Baaba Maal, B. Reynolds
Album: Télévision
Label en Jaar: PALM BEC5772521 ; P en C 2009
Titel: International
Tijdsduur: 03’11
Uitvoerende: Baaba Maal
Componist: Baaba Maal, B. Reynolds
Album: Télévision
Label en Jaar: PALM BEC5772521 ; P en C 2009
Titel: Who’re You?
Tijdsduur: 08’42
Uitvoerende: Fela Ransome Kuti
Componist: Fela Ransome Kuti
Album: Nigeria Afrobeat Spexial
Label en Jaar: Soundway SNDWCD021 ; C 2010
Titel: Hankuri
Tijdsduur: 04’18
Uitvoerende: Madman Jaga
Componist: Madman Jaga
Album: Nigeria Afrobeat Spexial
Label en Jaar: Soundway SNDWCD021 ; C 2010
Titel: Cha
Tijdsduur: 03’53
Uitvoerende: Hanggai
Componist: Hanggai
Album: He Who Travels Far
Label en Jaar: World Connection WC 039 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Dorov Morlaril
Tijdsduur: 05’30
Uitvoerende: Hanggai
Componist: Hanggai
Album: He Who Travels Far
Label en Jaar: World Connection WC 039 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Golden bangle
Tijdsduur: 04’06
Uitvoerende: Hanggai
Componist: Hanggai
Album: He Who Travels Far
Label en Jaar: World Connection WC 039 ; P en C 2010
Titel: Dwo Bickram Ghosh Mix
Tijdsduur: 05’45
Uitvoerende: Purbayan Chatterjee
Componist: Purbayan Chatterjee
Album: Stringstruck
Label en Jaar: Times Music 885444227394 ; C 2010
Titel: Shadowlights
Tijdsduur: 08’22
Uitvoerende: Purbayan Chatterjee
Componist: Purbayan Chatterjee
Album: Stringstruck
Label en Jaar: Times Music 885444227394 ; C 2010
Samenstelling: Pieter de Rooij
Bulgarian band Artery: article radio-portrait in 2001 + clip from that period
In 2001 I made a radio-portrait of Artery, a Bulgarian band -led by bouzouki player and singer Yanko Brekov- that plays what one could call ethno-metal, a refreshing mix of hardcore metal (what made them famous in Bulgaria in the nineties), Greek rebetica and several styles from the Balkan region.
I wrote this short introduction to my documentary ‘Balkan Underground in Amsterdam’, it’s in dutch. Below this short article you’ll find a YouTube-clip of Artery from the period around 2000 when I made the radio-documentary on the band. I wonder how these guys are doing these days 🙂
A song from the Artery-album ‘Balkan Underground’, released in 2000.
Playing around India : A portrait of Dutch cellist Saskia Rao-De Haas (2002)
Playing around India – A portrait of Dutch cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas, a radio documentary by Pieter de Rooij, produced in 2002. [original Dutch title: Op streek in India – een portret van de Nederlandse celliste Saskia Rao-de Haas]
The documentary is mostly in dutch, but this video offers a transcript in english locked to the timetable, in order to make this production accessible for an international audience. To allow convenient reading of this transcript, you should play the video in HD (1080p).
Production date: May-June 2002. First broadcast by Concertzender on 8 November 2002, also broadcast by Radio Netherlands on 25 and 29 December 2002. Voice narrator: Wim Vriezen.
In the documentary ‘Playing around India’ (produced May-June 2002) programme maker Pieter de Rooij introduces the career of the brilliant 31-year-old (that is, in 2002) cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas. She is one of the very few people, and the only European, to play the classical ragas of North India on the cello. She is considered the only genuine cello soloist by the Indian concert going public. Her virtuosity and deep musicality have introduced a new resonance to Indian music and have been enthusiastically receieved by critics and audiences worldwide. To achieve a proper Indian sound Saskia Rao-de Haas plays on a specially modified cello: smaller (so as to be able to be played sitting on the floor), with five instead of the usual four strings, and with ten ‘sympathetic’ strings. These freely resonating strings give a beautiful Indian sound to the cello and the instrument has quickly become very popular.
For two years (speaking from 2002) Saskia Rao-de Haas has lived in New Delhi with her husband, the famous Indian sitar player Shubhendra Rao. As well as traditional raga improvisations, she and her husband play their own compositions in which they mix classical Indian music with elements from European folkmusic and Western classical music.
In May and June 2002 Saskia and Shubhendra toured outside India when, for the first time, Western audiences were able to hear the combination of sitar and cello in Indian classical music. Programme maker Pieter de Rooij caught up with the couple in Amsterdam where they gave a concert at the KIT Tropen Theatre on 25 May. Saskia talks about her music, her cello and her life in India. Her husband Shubhendra, the violin maker Eduard van Tongeren and her former teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory, Joep Bor, all have something to say about Saskia’s amazing cello adventure. Recordings from the Amsterdam concert are heard during the documentary.
I.M. radiomaker Bart Vonk (1964-2006)
Een In Memoriam voor bevlogen radiomaker Bart Vonk…
Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna in ‘Gharana’ 31-07-09 on Concertzender
On Friday 31 July 2009, from 21.00 to 22.30 PM (dutch time), Gharana – my Concertzender programme on raga musicians and their performing tradition – features singer T.M. Krishna (b.1976) from Chennai (formerly Madras), one of the young top performers in carnatic -or South Indian- raga music. He’s known for his glowing voice and Continue reading
Kaushiki Chakrabarty radio-special, 25 July 2009, with me as studio guest
Hey, that picture… looks like… is it…?… YES! …it’s Kaushiki-ji !!
On Saturday 25 July 2009, dutch national channel Radio 6 featured a special on Kaushiki Chakrabarty in VPRO’s world music programme De Wandelende Tak. The programme’s host Walter Slosse interviewed me on Kaushiki’s career and music.
I also selected the music that was played in the programme, great music of course! The programme is still available for listening on demand.
The programme was highligted as ‘radio programme of the day’ – with a photo (see above) of Kaushiki added and with additional info elsewhere on the same page (see below) – in the VPRO-guide (no.30, 25-31 July 2009), Holland’s best TV&Radio Guide.
The picture shown in the VPRO guide is a cutout from this picture, showing me and Kaushiki in Leicester, during the Darbar Festival 2008.
Two years ago I portrayed Kaushiki in my radioprogramme Gharana and this episode is still ‘on demand’ available on the Concertzender website and I’ve also published a Youtube-portrayal of Kaushiki and some clips of her great Amsterdam concert in April 2007. Check it out, it’s great to hear and see her in performance!
You can still listen online to the special on Kaushiki.
Don’t miss Kaushiki at her best in this radio-special!
Radio: Gharana, 29 May 2009 / Ravikiran: brilliant slider on the chitravina
On Friday 29 May -from 21.00 to 22.30 PM, dutch time- there’ll be a broadcast of a new episode of Gharana, my programme on Indian classical music for Holland’s finest musicstation, the Concertzender. This time the programme focuses on Chitravina N. Ravikiran (b.1967), a celebrated musician in South Indian carnatic music. He has been labeled ‘the Mozart of India’ by critics. He’s a virtuoso on a lute called the chitravina. It’s the world’s oldest fretless slide instrument still being played. Ravikiran was a prodigy and he became famous already at the age of two Continue reading