Carnaval! Carnival! Mardi Gras!

 Music from Rio, New Orleans, Trinidad, and wherever else people are celebrating Carnival / Carnaval / Mardi Gras this week. Plus a heap of concert previews and other music in hour 2.

Carnaval! Carnival! Mardi Gras!: Spin The Globe playlist for 12 February 2010
as heard on radio KAOS, 89.3 FM

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Hour 1
Dhol Foundation  -  Colours of Punjab (theme)  -  Big Drum Small World
The Wild Magnolias  -  On a Mardi Gras Day  -  Life is a Carnival
Samba Squad  -  Maracatu Funk  -  Batuque
3Canal  -  Blue  -  Best of Rituals 2001
Trio Mocoto  -  Os Orixas  -  The Now Sound of Brazil
Zachary Richard  -  Iko Iko  -  Rough Guide to Louisiana
Coolbone  -  The Saints  -  Brass-hop
Steve Riley & the Zydeco Hi-Rollers  -  La Danse de Mardi Gras  -  Rough Guide to the Music of Louisiana
Salome de Bahia  -  Cada Vez  -  Brasil
King Posse  -  Retounen  -  Carnival
Wild Tchoupitoulas  -  Hey Mama (Wild Tchoupitoulas)  -  The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Bat Makumba  -  Vai Explodir  -  Boteco
Bat Makumba  -  Sambalele  -  Boteco
B’Negao  -  A Verdadeiro Danca Do Patinho  -  Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil: Rio de Janeiro

Hour 2
Ladysmith Black Mambazo  -  Hello My Baby w/Zap Mama  -  Long Walk to Freedom
Siora  -  Papirossen  -  Vision of the Dry Bones
Angelique Kidjo  -  Mama Golo Papa  -  Djin Djin
Tinariwen  -  Matadjem Yinmixan / Why All This Hate Between You?  -  Amam Iman: Water Is Life
Bismalahi Gargar  -  Aids Wadila  -  Imagine Africa
Zakir Hussain & the Rhythm Experience  -  Rapanagatun  -  Zakir Hussain & the Rhythm Experience
Fishtank Ensemble  -  Arabu Andaluz  -  Super Raoul
Luminescent Orchestrii  -  Mur Stojmeno  -  Neptune’s Daughter
Pablo Escovedo   -  Pete Kelly’s Blues  -  Pablo Escovedo Live
Vusi Mahlasela  -  Ntate Mahlasela  -  The Voice
The Sahel Band  -  Sahel  -  The Sahel Band Feat. Kane Mathis
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate  -  Kala Djula  -  advance single from Ali & Toumani

Some Wild Magnolias for your Mardi Gras weekend:

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Monday's mp3: Leakey World Percussion

CD REVIEW
Jerry Leake: Cubist (Rhombus)

As a sometimes-percussionist myself, I have a soft spot for pure rhythm CDs when well executed. Jerry Leake's Cubist took a couple of listens to grab me, you know...wading through the distracting melodic stuff and chanting and all. But grab me it does. While it's as much a jazz-fusion album as one focused on global rhythms, the creative orchestration of a broad array of instruments and beats makes for fascinating listening.

Is "Plan 9" the sound of an alien invasion of Morocco? Maybe. "Caldera" runs through several Latin folk and jazz motifs, "Chrysalis" and other tracks feature tabla and other Indian flavors, and Africa comes through on "Smoke" and several other tracks. For reasons I can't clearly articulate, however, I find one of the most compelling tracks to be the counting song "Geo" -- which sounds like a mashup of the Futurama theme, Balinese kecak, and an instructive Sesame Street tune. Boston-based Leake and his collaborators push the concept of world percussion and they push the listener into challenging and rewarding new musical realms. 

Jerry Leake: Geo

from the album Cubist

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