This modern rigodon not only sounds nice, but reminds me how much I'm fond of this music even if I must admit that I know few about it: basically, a folkloric musical genre from France who spread to canada, now synonym of happy & danceable folkloric stuff in Quebec.
Another example with this track I especially love, recorded in the 30's by one of Quebec's major musical character: "La bolduc". Being the most famous popular singer of her time, influenced by folkloric music, she deserves another especially dedicated post that will follow in the near future.
I love the vocal gimmick she uses in this song ("Turluté" we call it in french, nice word isn't it ?): a specific vocal technique she used in many different tunes.
If you're keep looking for interesting music from all over the world so you should check this blog. It is run by an american Ethnomusicologist who traveled a lot in this area. Of course everybody have already heard the sound of the tuareg's guitar. Beautiful stuff like Tinariwen. But on this blog you may find also modern stuff, and things he record by himself.
Here's a splendid love song in french by a African hobo:
You will also find there two very good releases : "Music from saharan cell phone". In this region people use cellphone as mp3player. Forget K7. This is now the first way for listening music in this zone. So he swap these track from cellphone to cellphone via Bluetooth with the people he met in Kidal (Mali).
So here come a few tracks from these major compilations.
Following my metal post i'd like to express my best wishes for the year 2011. Hope it will be a happy one. So, to go that way, let me propose you one of my personnel exhilarating Tropical anthem.
Elio boom is the king of Champeta a musical genre, which is born under the crossed influence of african music (soukouss, afrobeat, highlife) & Caribbean stuff (Soca,ragga): a funny mixture made for the sound system of the Cartagena's ghetto .
I love Trash Metal, but it's a such conservative music style ! So when I find several good examples of Latin metal stuff, I want to tell it to the whole world.
At the beginning of this year the blog Brazillian nuggets have post a very rare record by this brilliant percussionnist . It's, with no doubt, the record I play the most this year. So I began to look after whatever I can find about this mystérious Pedro santos. Sadly, I realise he only record only one solo album and 2 with the guitarist Sebastiao Tapajos.
He was mostly a session musician and he play on many brazillian recording during his carrer (Jacob do Bandolim, Baden Powell, Elis Regina, Elza Soares, Milton Nascimento, …) He was also an inventor of percussion. His most famous one was the sorong, wich became his nickname. Sometimes you can find some record credited with the name Pedro sorongo.
Les Parisiennes were a french girl band with a quite long activities, for a girls band. All music were written by Claude Bolling, french jazzman and great composer. He was influenced at that time by the sound of the new orleans. In fact this band had a very personnal swingy sexy sound. Remember in the mid sixties most of the french "yéyé" singers use to record american classic in French.
They were popular during all their careersand they release almost 30 singles. See there !
Gregory Isaacs die from a lung cancer a few days ago. He was one of the most beautiful voice of Jamaïca. To celebrate the man, here come 2 songs taken from this huge discography, keeping in mind that he recorded more than one hundred albums .
Born in 1947, Messaoud Bellemou started learning the trumpet following the encouragements of a french teacher from his village: the elder man was convinced that the young boy had serious music predispositions and could probably escape from a life of labour in the fields.
In the early 70’s, Bellemou injected a modern style in Raï, replacing the ghasba flute (a flute made of reed) by his unique sound of trumpet, with a spicy hispanic touch.
Sidi’h’bibi, one of his first reccordings, made an huge succes in Algeria. It’s a very personnal version of a beautiful melody from the Judeo Moroccan folklore that many people actually recorded, one of the most interesting version being the furious rock version recorded in 1989 by the french band Mano Negra.
In company of his friends Bouteiba Sghir & Benfissa Younés, Bellamou came to the big city of Oran in order to play music in the clubs and earn a living with their art. They made several recordings together, true classics from this era, creating a new sound which announced the next generation of Raï production, from which big star of the genre are issued.
Symbolically, for my first post on this blog, I wanted to let you ear one of my favorite outsider singer: Tiny Tim, a tall man with long black (or sometime red) hairs, white make up on his face, motley suit and a ukulele. Every of these details made him a very special characters, not to mention his high falsetto voice and his very polite manners.
This strange man had a huge succes in 1968, when he reached #17 in the us chart with a cover of “Tip toe through the tulip” (a hit from 1929). At that time, he was one of the musical sensation of the moment, used to go on every talk show, therefore became unfortunately the required idiot US television always needs for a brief period. He also appeared on a xmas recording from the Beatles, doin’ a cover of “Nowhere man”. For his very big concert in the Royal Albert hall in London, la creme de la creme of the english music scene was in the audience to see the man. After this brief period of glory, he continued to produce a few records, without success, though. And at the end of this contract with the label Reprise, he was broke and had to come back to his parents' house. His carreer went wrong until he died in 1996 : he recorded and played when he could and for a confidential audience only.
With his parents
His first period was the finest, according to the three albums he made for Reprise, but most of his records are interesting. This “one hit wonder” was known only for one song: a big injustice for a man who was a living memory of pop music, a human juke box who knew more than 1000 song: like a modern trobador, he could play at any moment a song wherever he was with the ukulele that he used to carry on a shopping bag. He only recorded cover songs, but always in his own peculiar style: here come four tunes an introduction to his childish and beautiful universe.
