Radio M: August 7, 2015

Radio M: August 7, 2015
The legendary Cuban band Los Van Van couresty timba.com
Radio M: August 7, 2015
The legendary Cuban band Los Van Van couresty timba.com

Radio M: August 7, 2015

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Cuban music is rich in styles - from the slow 2/4 meter of the habanera and improvised poetic sounds of the punto guajiro to the African influenced rhumba and the dance oriented son.

There’s also a tradition of mixing genres from outside Cuba like rock and roll, r&b and jazz with some of the popular Cuban music. This particular style is known as timba and of the legendary practitioners of this approach is Los Van Van; a post Cuba revolution group that was started in 1969 by Juan Formell; a bass player who came from a a musical family. 

Founder Juan Formell passed away 2014 but the band lives on and after a 15 year absence from Chicago, Los Van Van is back for a show that will no doubt have people their feet to the music. We’ll play a few choice cuts by the band.

We’re also going to hear reggae influenced music from Nigerian born London based artist Nneka, psychedelic pop music from Estonia, the latest from Israeli singer-songwriter Asaf Avidan and much more from around the globe.

Playlist

9PM

Los Van Van- Sollo Hay un Van Van- The Best of Los Van Van

Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab- The Distorted Sioux Indian- Wind & Skins: The Swedish Radio Recordings 1978

Ravi Shankar- Fire Night- Improvisations

Isabella Ianetti- Un Amore Inutile- Ciao Bella: Italian Girl Groups of the 60’s

Mashrou Leila- Habibi- El Hal Romancy

King Ayisoba ft. Batman Samini- Champion No Easy- Africa Club: Hip Hop, Dancehall & Kwaito

9:30PM

Shen Dong ( A Moving Sound)- Harvest- A Moving Sound

Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson- Ain’t No Such Thing As Superman- Midnight Band: The First Minute of a New Day

Orchestre Super Rail Band- Djiguiya- Djelimady Tounkara & l’Orchestre Super Rail Band

The track above features the great organ player Cheick Tidiane Seck. Here he is playing live with Malian vocalist Fatoumata Diawara lending her talents

Orchestre Super Rail Band- Marigoundo- Djelimady Tounkara & l’Orchestre Super Rail Band

10PM

Los Van Van- Eso Que Anda- Juan Formell & Los Van Van: Coleccion Vol. XI

Alfonso Lovo- Firebird Feathers- La Gigantuna

Omar Souleyman- Bahdeni Nami- Bahdeni Nami

Fauve- Tallulah- Vieux Freres : Partie 2

Emiliani Torrini- Heard It All Before- Me & Armini

10:30 PM

Tartu Popi Ja Roki Instituut- Live on WBEZ’s Morning Shift

Atlantihda- Na Calma du Teu Olhos- Beginners Guide to Fado

Asaf Avidan- Over My Head- Gold Shadow

Joey Pastrano- Sincerely- We Got Latin Soul Vol. 3: Young, Gifted & Brown

Los Van Van- Llegue Llegue- Juan Formell & Los Van Van: Coleccion Vol. III

Grace Jones- Sunset Sunrise- Hurricane

Bola Sete- Working on a Groovy Thing- Working on a Groovy Thing

I failed to get to a cut from London based Nigerian artist Nneka, so here’s a video of Book of Job from her latest release, “My Fairy Tales”.