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Bamakosmos III - Drissa Konaté

Urban art in Bamako with Drissa Konaté who shows us his own depiction of everyday life in the Malian capital. His series of paintings gives us an overview of the day to day reality in this big city using the “somatra” as a main instrument. “Sotramas” are these small green vans used as public transport in Bamako. Travelling in one of them is a must-have experience to truly get to know the city; very much like travelling Venice aboard a gondola even though traffic and the heat can make the experience slightly different.

Mosaico 056: Elkano Browning Cream, Documento Sonoro, Márcio Local, Lila Downs

The vast, rich and generous musical world is explored from Barcelona by Valeria De Caprio. Every week she suggests a theme, an idea or a place through music. Notorious artists, new talents and expert commentaries. Close your eyes and have a nice trip! (programme in Spanish).

Track list:

World State – Elkano Browning Cream

Far East Sweet – Elkano Browning Cream

Euphoria – Elkano Browning Cream

Novo Mundo – Documento Sonoro

Amor Pirata – Documento Sonoro feat Gabriel Versiani

Deuses Freaks – Documento Sonoro

Samba sem nenhum problema – Márcio Local

Soul do samba – Márcio Local

Nothing but the truth – Lila Downs

Shake away – Lila Downs

Microguagua – Microguagua

>Contact: Valeria De Caprio: www.mosaico-elprograma.blogspot.com

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Kiko de Gallo live show vol.10 - Roots 45's

Live show from last Saturday afternoon, Kiko de Gallo spinning a selection of heavy roots and Jamaican music. Stricktly 45’s vinyl. Also, I’m taking this opportunity to let you know that I’ll be on the air every Saturday afternoon at 1pm ET (7pm in Madrid, 6 pm in Dublin, 12pm in Kansas City, 10 am in San Francisco)

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Ti-Coca & Wanga-Nègès

More than 30 years have gone by since 1976 when singer David Mettelus (aka Ti-Coca) assembled a group of musicians from the konpa (Haitian par excellence genre that mixes African and European traditions) and offered them to leave their electric instruments and rediscover troubadour's music. They formed a group using banjos, accordions, drums, the graj (metallic streaked cylinder, to be scratched with a small stick), maracas and manoumbas (large boxlike “thumb piano” on which a player sits and plucks metal tongues that vibrates and sounds like a double bass). For many years Haiti did preserve the European tradition of itinerant and semi-rural troubadours who added the Cuban influence of son and bolero (many people emigrated to Cuba as temporary workers), voodoo, merengue, and Haitian kompa to the rhythms and instruments of the old continent. Small acoustic bands would tell through their compositions the sweet and sour stories of everyday life on the island as they played in local parties, on the beach, in the restaurants, etc... Sensing this tradition was in danger of disappearing, Ti-Coca and his band set to preserve the essence of these chronicles by writing a new chapter in their discography with the release of “Haiti Colibri” in 2009. One of the tracks “Simbo Dlo” is in our charts this month as a modest tribute to this Island which has been devastated by a troubled history and the recent earthquake. We wish Haiti a prompt return of hope and happiness hopefully through international solidarity and good music.

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Imidiwan 06

A one hour monthly show in French, about the music of the different peoples of the Sahara: Tuaregs, Moors, Songhay, Berbers etc..., by Sedryk of tamasheq.net

Album of the month :Atri N'Assouf 'Akal'

Tracklist:

1. Atri N'Assouf - Tidit
2. Houria Aïchi - Vent de la montagne / Six sous
3. Koudede - Timagiren
4. Arudeiny Ismaguil - Amidinin
5. Tiris - Ma zein wadna
6. Atri N'Assouf - Medan
7. Inerane - Kuni Majagani
8. Choghly - Tara
9. Saha (rubrique 'Ethno')
10. Ajial M'Hamid - Dalali
11. Ali Farka Toure - Laisse les phases
12. Atri N'Assouf - Aitma

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Podcast Mundo Mali - Cheick Tidiane Seck

For the first programme of « Mundo Mali » we are in the presence of Cheick Tidiane Seck, father of Malian modern music, mythical member of 70s Super Rail Band and of the Ambassadeurs and producer of many artists such as Salif Keita, Dee Dee Bridgewater or Oumou Sangaré. With him we will talk about Mali, African immigration, the so-called “World Music” and corruption in his country, a problem tackled in Sabaly, an album mixing Mandinga tradition with funk, jazz or rap.