After a hiatus, theartsdesk Radio Show is back with a new partner, Music Box Radio, hosted in their studio at the Market House in Brixton. Peter Culshaw’s global round-up of new and newly re-released discs jumps from Brazilian psychedelia to synth funk from Capo Verde and assorted exotica. There’s new jazz from Michael Wollny and Vincent Perani and new tango-tinged systems music from Steve Reich, and West African grooves.
One track was donated on a USB from a taxi driver in Fes in Morocco. Fifty years after the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows", we bring you the Indonesian gamelan version from Susheela Raman. Incidentally, one song by Chivo Funge was mistakenly said to be Brazilian but is actually a new CD Blind Energy by a Spanish guitarist. Record of the month is Vamos a Guarachar by Orkesta Mendoza, a wildly diverse project by Calexico musician Sergio Mendoza, which jumps from mambo to merengue, rumba, ranchero and a dash of indie-rock and jazz. Post Brexit and Trump, theartsdesk is not just tolerating other cultures but positively celebrating them.
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PLAYLIST
Pedro Santos - Aque Viva
Orkesta Mendoza - Misterio
Chivo Funge - I am
Susheela Raman - Tomorrow Never Knows
José Mauro - Obnoxious
Warren Barker - Moonflower
Antonio Carlos and Jocati - Voce Abusou
Elza Soares - Luz Vermelha
Metá Metá - Corpo Vão
Chivo Funge - Greasy Pole
Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Madjafalao
Ayú - Kereré
Pedro Santos - Flor de Lotus
Orkesta Mendoza - Mambo a la Rosano
Steve Reich - Double Sextet 3 Fast
Temple of Light - The Rose and Fire are One
Michael Wollny and Vincent Peirani - Hunter
Cesaria Evora - Miss Perfumado
Quirino de Canto - Mino Di Mama
Aliya Gola - Gole
Nora Mint Seymali - Ya Demb
Amira Medunjanin - Pjevat ćemo šta nam srce zna
Serge Gainsbourg - Initials B.B.
Ayú - Skamenco
Bana - Pontin Pontin
Orkesta Mendoza - Igual Que Ayer
