What World Music Are You Listening To?

[joel_hifi]

Wonderful

Originally Posted by PierreB

Stephan Micus : Nomad Songs
ECM 2409

[Antonmb]

Atta Isaacs - Atta: Slack Key Guitar
Tradewind Records (1971)

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

Here performing with her sister Mahsa and the Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet / Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat - Placeless

Recorded in 2018, via Qobuz

Mahsa Vahdat - Vocals
Marjan Vahdat - Vocals
David Harrington - Violin
John Sherba - Violin
Hank Dutt - Viola
Sunny Yang - Cello

Absolutely brilliant!

The Kronos Quartet is almost always interesting in their choice of repertoire. Combine this with a couple of wonderful voices and you have an album that leaves an impression...

[joel_hifi]

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Between Dusk And Dawn

An album by the Lebanese Oud master, recorded in 1986, listening on vinyl (MMP-170886)

Rabih Abou-Khalil - Oud, Flute (Tracks 3 & 6)
Charlie Mariano - Soprano & Alto Saxophone
Glen Moore - Bass
Glen Velez - Frame Drum, Bodhran, Darabukka, Percussion
Ramesh Shotham - Percussion
Christian Burchard - Marimba (Track 6)
Michael Armann - Piano (Track 6)

[joel_hifi]

Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

Pakistani vocalist blending traditional, new age, electronica and even some reggae, I like it

Released in 2021, via Qobuz 24/96

Pakistani singer, composer, and producer Arooj Aftab creates a captivating blend of neo-Sufi, classical minimalism, jazz, electronic music, and other disparate styles. As a teenager in the early 2000s, she played a significant role in helping to develop her country's independent music movement, then moved to New York City, where she became active as a film composer at the end of the decade. Throughout the 2010s, Aftab's broad stylistic mix was reflected in her performances, which ranged from major venues like New York's Lincoln Center and Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt to smaller jazz and indie rock clubs. Her choice of collaborators is similarly diverse and includes names like Esperanza Spalding, DJ /rupture, and Vijay Iyer. Her first two albums, 2014's Bird Under Water and 2018's Siren Islands, earned critical acclaim and in 2022, Aftab became the first ever Pakistani artist to win a Grammy Award when the song "Mohabbat" from her third album, Vulture Prince, took home the prize for Best Global Music Performance.
© Timothy Monger /TiVo

[joel_hifi]

Paco de Lucía - La Fabulosa Guitarra de Paco de Lucía

His first solo studio album released in 1967, he was 20 and already so talented

AllMusic gave it a 3-star, I'll give it a 4.5

[joel_hifi]

Dawda Jobarteh - Transitional Times

Listening to this pleasant second album by the Gambian kora master (released in 2016), via the the onboard entertainment system with Meridian headphones

[bart]

Onboard...
On a yacht Joel?

[joel_hifi]

Originally Posted by bart

Onboard...
On a yacht Joel?

36'000 feet

[bart]

Originally Posted by joel_hifi

36'000 feet

That's a very big one!

Happy holidays!