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Still looks like it's from the future.
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The most incredible and wonderful thing: to write a book and learn that it helped inspire a fabulous album of Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia. It is my album of the year - hands down. Fantastic tunes !
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Thank you Prof Frankopan! Your book also inspired this compilation and it’s quoted in the liner notes 🤙🏽
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"This album tells you a lot more about the centres of culture within the Soviet Union." A new album of rare grooves from Soviet Central Asia reveals an era when the region was a crucible for musical fusion ⤵️ aje.io/vvtpy4
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“Synthesized Sudan: Astro​-​Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground” by Jantra via @OSTLP is our Album of the Day. bit.ly/3p3cCvX
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The Ano Nobo Quartet is named after the legendary Cape Verdean composer and features his 3 sons. I'll play a song from their beautiful album, The Strings of São Domingos. And then we'll hear @kaiakater telling us how a conversation with her dad inspired her album, Grenades.
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Frequencies' Sudanese music special re-airs on @CBCMusic at 4 (ET). You’ll hear lots of great stories and music, including songs by Sudanese legends Mohammed Wardi and Al Balabil, who were known as the “Sudanese Supremes."
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@OSTLP says its forthcoming compilation, Synthesized Sudan, "is confirmation that the many electronic styles being exported from Africa have a new worthy sibling and rival ~ Jantra’s signature electronic Jaglara from the Fashaga underground." Check out this trippy track!
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@OSTLP says Fashaga "is home to one of the most raucous, addictive, and celestial dance musics being made anywhere in Africa." I'll play a track from a forthcoming compilation titled Synthesized Sudan: Astro​-​Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground.
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@okaythenfuture12 Apr 2023
African dance music is in vogue right now partly due to Ampiano. We often don't hear a lot about dance music from the Horn though. There's a genre based out of the Sudanese Ethiopian border region of Al Fashaga called Jaglara that I think is fire. youtube.com/watch?v=_zYd5YQ9…
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Watch: Sudan's Noori & His Dorpa Band live at #LGW22 as part of Hidden Musics (presented by @OSTLP) + read an interview with @panafricanmusic at the festival ⟶ leguesswho.com/news/lgw22-no… Noori & His Dorpa Band return to Utrecht on May 6th for a performance at @PoppodiumEKKO
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Right now on the all-Haitian edition of Frequencies: @OSTLP head @VikSoho will introduce a piece from this compilation that features 20 tracks that "encompass the vast diversity of styles during the seminal years of musical innovation and percussive potency in Haiti."
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#BEJA POWER! For me THE Best Album of the Year, by Noori & his Dorpa Band, hypnotic sounds from Eastern #Sudan, recorded in #Omdurman for @OSTLP by @VikSoho & @JantoRner. Like @JamesCopnall said, you keep listening back to it, here AL AMAL for #SudanUprising, #KeepEarsOnSudan:
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When Noori and his Dorpa band released their profound album, Beja Power, on @ostlp, @alsarah5000 played the album over and over, mesmerized by the hypnotic melodies, so clearly of eastern Sudanese origin, rooted in the traditional Beja scales. loom.ly/1rp9lGQ
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On Frequencies on @CBCMusic now. Check the thread.
Pre-Order Now! Out November 18. OSTLP013. Iftin Band: Mogadishu’s Finest / The Al-Uruba Sessions. ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com…
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A heartfelt show by Noori & His Dorpa Band tonight, one of the first artists from Sudan to perform in Europe since the 90s, presented by Ostinato Records (@OSTLP) for #LGW22
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O tym, jak @OSTLP i @VikSoho - goście specjalnie @LeGuessWho - opowiadają o wielobiegunowym świecie poprzez muzykę piszę w Czasie Kultury. czaskultury.pl/artykul/glos-…
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'Beja Power' is another gem from @OSTLP! Read the story behind the band, the Beja people of Sudan, and buy the music here: ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com…
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