Every two weeks the
Folk
And
International
Roots Album Club will vote for an album that they will listen to and discuss in the coming weeks.
Anyone can vote in this poll, but if you vote, please follow through and be ready to discuss whichever album wins the poll.
These are the candidates to choose from :-
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Originally Posted by fazstp
Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder (1994)
This one's new to me but sounds promising.
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Originally Posted by fazstp
Colour Green by Sibylle Baier (Recorded 1970-73, released 2006)
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^ “ Haunting, intimate, fragile“ are the words that turn up elsewhere on the internet to describe an album which is far removed from the usual commercially-inspired exercises. In fact it was apparently recorded at Sibylle`s home, just for private circulation, and was only released 30 years later, at her son`s insistence. Can`t get much better Folk credentials than that.
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Originally Posted by Argento
I nominate this compilation of african singers:
Compilator (it's a seal, not a person): Putumayo
Album's name: African Odyssey
Year: 2001
Samples can be listened on Amazon:
Amazon.com : Music Sampler
I nominate it for those songs:
Sinama Denw - Habib Koite
Mar - Augusto Cego
Kecu Minino Na Tchora - Bidinte
Raki - Oliver Mtukudzi
The Well - Seydu
Fundo Di Matu - Manecas Costa |
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Originally Posted by fazstp
Greg Brown - The Evening Call (2006)
Rather mellow album from a prolific musician.
WIKI |
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Originally Posted by Jack Pat
Here's a nomination:
Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar (1958) by Elizabeth Cotten
It's a blues/folk album by a woman whose talent wasn't discovered until she was 63 years old. It helped inspire the contemporary folk boom that would happen in the coming decade, and it is an essential listen for any avid fan of the genre. A very unique album...
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Congotronics (2005) by Konono No.1
Congotronics consists of African chants accompanied by traditional thumb pianos fed through some rudamentary electronics which have been cranked up to distortion levels. The result sounds like something which may be a one-artist genre; Industrial Afro-trance Folk. Most of us will never witness a local Kinshasa band playing together in a courtyard with some home-built equipment, but this album gives us an unadorned indication of what they sound like.
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Six options with some very different styles, I imagine, even though this week the nominations have polarized out between two continents; North America and Africa.
Well, let`s get voting and see where our loyalties, or interests, lie !