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monday music tip #2
Take One by Hallelujah Chicken Run Band from Zimbabwe, a splendid new release on Analog Africa. Once you’re hooked to chimurenga, you’re lost. A bit more on Zimbabwe and mbira (related) music: read on here, a piece I wrote for Groene Amsterdammer (2006), when the Rotterdam world music department of Codarts (Grounds) opened up and…
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Spring (mondaymusictip #1)
Weekly Tchongcast monday music tip: Spring, the monumental 1968 debut album by South-African pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab, formerly Chris Schilder. Though Shihab was only twenty-two when Spring was recorded, he was already a lynchpin of the Cape Town scene, and the album was to be his first major statement as leader and composer. It is…
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heavy rotation
21 november 2020 music in heavy rotation at Tchong’s Antoine Pierre Urbex Electric Suspended, Live at Flagey (Outhere music)Antoine Pierre, Urbex (Igloo Records, 2016)Backback, idem (elnegocitorecords.com) Bambi Pang Pang (feat. Andrew Cyrille), Drop your plans (elnegocitorecords.com/Jazz Middelheim)Bloom, idem (elnegocitorecords.com)Dans les Arbres, Volatil (Sofa Music, 2019)Desir & Fiorini, Yo Anpil (elnegocitorecords.com)DOKO, Ikebana (elnegocitorecords.com)Donder & Apeland, Het…
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yung wu + speed the plough
Rediscoveries at home: The Feelies used to have all kinds of side projects and kindred spirits, like Yung Wu, The Trypes and Speed the Plough. Somehow I didn’t realize back in the day that Yung Wu basically is The Feelies a bit reshuffled, with their percussionist Dave Weckerman now taking center stage as singer. I…
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tgwmc august on line
Transglobal World Music Chart august edition is now on line. Cherrypicked and compiled by close to 60 members, all listening worldwide to new sounds.
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trans global world music chart june
The june edition of Trans Global World Music Chart is on line. With two Dutch entries: Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Söndörgő (16) and Zuco 103 (29). You can find it here.
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signalement
At Tchong’s klinkt op deze heerlijke dag o.a. dit, doe er uw voordeel mee (of niet). Gegarandeerde satisfactie! Amsterdam Beat Club, The Best Place To Go! Go! volume II (releaseparty paradiso 5 mei) Atamina, Sycophantic Friends (Makkum Records) Ayuune Sule, We have one destiny (Makkum Records) Dimitri Verhulst, Corrie van Binsbergen en anderen, Godverdomse dagen…
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resonanties
Sinds 1 januari ervaar ik weer iets van symmetrie. Terugkijkend op het afgelopen jaar vond ik de twee gastcolleges die ik aan HKU en UvA mocht geven erg motiverend. Geschreven cultuurjournalistiek in tijden van Blendle, Facebook en Google lijkt – als je geen vet mediamerk achter je hebt staan, zoals Volkskrant of…
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soon to be seen live
Currently in high rotation @ Tchong’s, and soon to be seen live: Jan Wouter Oostenrijk, We Are Connected (Mountain Records, 2017) zondag 28 mei cd launch @ Mezrab Girma Beyene & Akale Wube, Mistakes On Purpose, Ethiopiques 30 (Buda Musique, 2017) Derek Gripper, Libraries On Fire (www.derekgripper.com) BCUC, Our Truth (Nyami Nyami Records, 2017) Deze…
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tgwmc april on line
Meticulously handpicked from quality labels, first royal flush: the april edition of @transglobalwmc is online. No spotifylinks, support local music. Go and ye shall find.
