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NYE CD'ER FRA: HARIS TSEKOURA - INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY GRESK SANGDIVA OF AFRICAN MUSIC side 10 side 10 NIAMH DUNNE Gresk Jazz! Irsk traveller side 12 Side 18 Katalog nr 99 September 2013 FORMIDDABELT ENSEMBLESPILL SIDE 8 2-2075 PADIK 1 REDAKSJONELT REDAKSJONELT MEDLEMSREGLER [email protected] VELKOMMEN til spennende Du må være kunde for å kun- dager etter at du har fått medlemsrabatt på 10% i lø- ne kjøpe gjennom musikklub- medlemskatalogen i posten. pet av hele medlemsskapet, oppdagelsesreiser ben. Kjøp av to velkomstal- Vi ber om at det vises (dvs. 2rabatterte velkomst- bum til 40% rabatt- pr stk., er forståelse og respekt for album+5 CD’er). Ved et i all verdens «inngangsbilletten» for med- avbestillingsfrister. eventuell ønske om utmelding folkemusikk lemskapet. (Disse reglene gjel- uten å oppfylle minstekravet der ikke salg til butikker eller Porto/eksp.geb. påløper på til- til kjøp, må du betale full pris på CD. vanlige postordrekunder). sendte varer. 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Folkemusikkfestival N-3616 Kongsberg, Norge/Norway Kongsberg Jazzfestival hos oss Tel./Faks +47 32 73 56 60/61 Landslaget for Spelemenn ONSDAG Telefontid mellom kl. 1000-1600 Landslaget for Folkemusikk i [email protected] barnehage og skole 18 [email protected] Senteret for Internasjonal SEPTEMBER Bankkontonr.: 7139.05.27440 Folkedans Grafisk utforming: Telemarkfestivalen Arne Fredriksen Vossa Jazz Send bestilling og avbestilling til [email protected] 2 SALG 50% SALG 50% Rester igjen av CD'er med artister fra årets Førdefestival! Merk bestillingen: Salg 2-2067 Niger - AFEL 2-2064 Tabital 2-2070 TascaBeat, o 2-2065 Abacabok - BOCOUM Pulaaku - AFEL shonho purtuges - TARTIT In the dancing melodies of OQUESTRADA the river and the palpitating BOCOUM & The band was born from the Nothing is more evocative of rhythm of the hard desert ALKIBAR desire of Marta Miranda and the fascinating expanses of wind, there is no doubt that Jean Marc Pablo – both the Sahara desert than the the heritage of Ali Farka One lingers among the songs coming from the world of music of Tartit, a Tuareg Toure is in good hands. of Afel Bocoum like one entertainment, she as a theatre band consisting of five would among the sculptures actress with experience in the women and four men of Ousmane Sow. Because hidden Fado houses and residing in the Timbuktu one enters a body of work, Cape Verdean taverns, – to region (Mali). Unlike that not a juxtaposition of songs create a portable musical other renowned Tuareg but an entity. Indeed, Afel project with the shape of a band, Tinariwen, Tartita Bocoum does not propose small neighborhood orchestra play quiet, hypnotic, trance- a collection of songs that ready to travel, where the inducing music: the women emanate out of his personality and uniqueness of sit down, sing, and play cyclic inspiration by chance. He each individual is the main idea. rhythms on their tinde invites his listeners to follow drums, while the men him along a precise itinerary. accompany them on string 2-2072 Fimmana, mare With a certain logic that instruments, acoustic and e focul - ANNA marks the passage of one electric. The men are veiled, CINZIA VILLANI E song into another, of one the women aren’t.Tuareg MACURAN language into another, of society is one of the few ORCHESTRA one subject into another, throughout Africa in which from one perspective to the women are allowed to «Anna Cinzia Villani is able next; but also with a manifest choose (and divorce) their to understand the human unity as much in the subject husbands. Tartit have toured Europe (a.o. as part value of all those men and as in the musical approach. 5-028 Macsó hímzés - women who make a living of the Desert Blues shows Each song is sculpted out of BESH O DROM working the land, honoring the same material, like a alongside Afel Bocoum & both the beauty and the spirit heavy soil, carrying an Et heftig og hardtsvingende Habib Koite). The album in every artistic gesture. The environment. Out of these album der romani og was recorded in the desert feeling of the ordinary red and yellow soils of balkanmusikk er blandet by Congotronics producer women , who still live in the Africa that give us the image sammen med tradisjonelle Vincent Kenis on his mobile quiet streets of Salento, is the and depth, come the daily instrumenter som kaval, studio. leitmotif of ‘Woman, sea life and spirit of the artists ney, derbouka, tapan, and fire!’ old traditional who knead them just as melkespann, oud, gitar, songs and new compositions much as those who tread akkordion, fele og in constant balance to them day after day. All of his cimbalom. I tillegg er det et continue a journey, started work is directed towards the solid innslag med blåsere og with Ninnamorella, and same objective, how to best iessinginstrumenter, som which will take us further use this raw material to sopran-, alt- og tenor- deeper in this mysterious sketch these communicative saksofoner og trompeter! land». Flavia Gervasi thoughts. Fengende og svingende! 3 MÅNEDENS ALBUM: NORDISK PROFIL 1-1255 Møya som Drøymde - 1-1256 Blått Gådn LAJLA RENATE BUER STORLI 1-1257 MÅNEDENS ALBUM i Nordisk profil i #99 består av disse to CD'ene til rabattert pris kr 300,- Olav Sandes urørte balladar fra Hardanger og Voss vekt til Ingvild Lie, Lars Skattebu og Harald Høyvik live i ei ny og fri drakt av Lajla Renate Buer Storli. utgjer trioen Blått Gådn. På repertoaret står Riddargarden og Lagmannstova på Aga i Hardanger viser at mellomalderen var ei tid for vekst i fjorden. Bygningar og ein god blanding av tradisjonelle melodiar gjenstandar etter dette finnest fortsatt, og er noko av den frå Valdres og eige materiale. Trioen står eldste dokumentasjonen me har frå denne tida i Noreg. Det sjølve for alle arrangement, i tillegg til at er ganske sikkert at balladane vart bruka i Hardanger, men kvar vart dei av?Då Lajla Renate Buer Storli byrja å jobbe ein del av repertoaret er nyskrivne tekstar med dette historiske materialet, såg ho at det ikkje var skrive og musikk. ned meir enn nokre frå vers. Difor måtte ho leite seg fram etter den manglande teksten ved å hente ut vers frå liknande balladar som låg i balladearkivet. Folkemusikkinnsamlarane Med røter planta i folkemusikken frå Ludvig Mathias Lindemann og Jørgen Moe var berre nokre Valdres, har Blått Gådn funne sitt eige få innsamlingsturar til Hardanger, og ein finn lite vokal- musikalske uttrykk. Lyden av fleirstemmig materiale frå fjorden i samlingane deira.Olav Sande var lærar i Hardanger nokre år, og fekk med seg eit større knippe song, langeleik, gitar, mandolin og indisk songar frå både Hardanger og Voss. Olav skreiv ned omlag harmonium gjev gruppa eit særpreg som er 2000 songar frå Vestlandet og Sør-Noreg, og mesteparten av lett å kjenne att i dei tradisjonelle så vel dei er lite kjende. Etter mykje arbeid og råd frå Kirsten Bråten Berg, sit ho att med eit repertoar på mellomalderballadar som dei nyskrivne melodiane. frå Hardanger og Voss som ingen brukar! Dette har vorte til cd-en «Møya som drøymde!» 4 Nordisk profil Nordisk profil 125ÅR 1-1258 JØRGEN NYRØNNING Jørgen Nyrønning er ein ung , ny stjernespelemann frå Holtålen ved Røros. Driv og rytme, kombinert med gamal tonalitet og spelestil gjer dette 1-1250 til nok ei fantastisk innspeling Gudbrandsdølen frå Rørosdistriktet! Som - TORE Jørgen sjølv seier det: På plata har jeg plukket ut mine JØRGEN favorittleker, som stort sett RØDØLEN inneholder 1800tallets rock ’n roll-musikk fra Ålen og distriktet rundt.
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    The Talking Drum .Newsletter Issue No. 16 September 2001 Network for promoting Intercultural Education through Music (NETIEM) Pan-African Society of MusicalArts Education (PASMAE) Prof. E Oehrle, School of Music, University of Natal, Durban, 404 1 South Africa Fax: +27 (3 I) 260- 1048 E-mail: [email protected] % Editor: Prof. Elizabeth Oehrle 16 Illustration for The Talking Drum: Dina Corrnick Design and production: Graphicor Editorial The Talking Drum continues Southern African n celebration of The Talking to aim to promote educatorslmusicians form IDrum's tenth year an intercultural education most of our readership (South upgrading of this publication is through musiclda.nce. It began Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, in order. Further the time is as a database and resource on Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana right to call upon publications and people in the and 'Malawi). We also reach ethnomusicologists, and know. Gradually it evolved into Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Gabon, others working in the field, a collection of resource the Gambia, Sierra Leone, who regard applied materials and ideas which are Nigeria, Zambia, Madagascar, ethnomusicology as important used extensively in primary, Democratic Republic of in Southern Africa to secondary and tertiary Congo, Tanzania, Scandinavia, contribute to this and future institutions throughout South the UK and USA. issues. Thus, invitations were Africa and beyond. Our thanks to Dargie, sent to key people requesting Feedback indicates that The Dlamini and Goddard. We them to share their wealth of Talking Drum's impact is took forward to submissions relevant musical knowledge positive. From South Africa: from others who regard and materials. Submissions "...may Icompliment you on applied ethnomusicology as for TheTalking Drum were The Talking Drum.