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The Navigator - Sunday November 16 19.00-21.00

Posted 14/11/2008 - 16:09 by Martini

 

Hoi friends
 
“Mama Africa”, Miriam Makeba, died last Monday after a concert in Switzerland.
 
The world was dealt a blow early this morning, in a small town outside Naples, Italy when Zenzile Miriam Makeba..Mama Afrika to the world, passed away…… and left this earth, 
She was born on 4th March 1932.
Whilst this great lady was alive she would say:
 “I will sing until the last day of my life”
Zenzile Miriam Makeba collapsed on stage, at the end of her set,
after singing Pata Pata from 1967
 
I will play the original Pata Pata tonight in the deepest respect for “Mama Africa”
 
In conjunction with that, if you enjoy country at its purest, Merle Haggard has a live version of “Mama Tried” on a new “37 Great Performances” double CD
 
Brand new albums this week come from Poland and across the Waitekere‘s from here.
 
The Mamaku Project just releasedtheir self produced “Mal de Terre”. As a taster of global grooves I can say this is top of the line! My choice of the week and 3 tracks. Tui writes: Music is available through Itunes, Digirama and our (also mine) favourite 'www.amplifier.co.nz.' and distributed by Rhythmethod.
 
On equal par is the “Warsaw Village Band” from Poland. Their own website doesn’t mention their new album “Infinity” yet, but I can report that it is a cracker of an album and ranks equal with our own Mamaku Project. Hence, three tracks tonight.
 
At the request of Brent I play one more from Taj Mahal latest “Maestro”. It will be “Scratch My Back”. I will precede that one with his daughter Deva Mahal. Live from Wellington she gives a great introduction to a great song “Never Gonna Stop” when speaking from the heart she talks about stopping this shit on our planet.
 
My big question from the elections is about “Nuclear Free New Zealand”.
Will it stay or will it go?
I say: NO CHANGE TO NUCLEAR
 
From “Nuclear Free Nation” three tracks in a message to John Key:
Herbs, Katchafire and Verse Two feat. Ladi6
 
Another new release on the show tonight is Bar Mexico on Demon’s Nascente label.
 
Have a great weekend and be nice to each other

1
Shadowland Ft Ojos de Brujo
LondonUndersound
2008
2
Never Gonna Stop
2006
3
Scratch My Back
Maestro
2008
4
Little Baby Blues
Infinity
2008
5
Wedding Song
Mal De Terre
2008
6
French Letter 95
Nuclear Free Nation
2007
7
Pata Pata Original
Pata Pata
1967
8
Mama Tried
37 Great Performances
2008
9
Super Bar Kinon Mousso
Senor Eclectico
2008
10
Skip Funk
Infinity
2008
11
Malle De Terre
Mal De Terre
2008
12
Danger
Nuclear Free Nation
2007
13
Aynali Koruk
Beyond The Horizon
2008
14
Yorodjan
Tchamantche
2008
15
Tijuana Bass
Bar Mexico
2008
16
Coqueta
Bar Mexico
2008
17
Para No Vivir
Bar Mexico
2008
18
Demo Crazy
Day By Day
2008
19
Im Nin Alu (Version 2008)
2008
20
Started Out With Nothing
Started Out With Nothing
2008
21
Wise Kid Song
Infinity
2008
22
Nomade
Mal De Terre
2008
23
Lose Your Power
Nuclear Free Nation
2007
24
Tounga
Afro-Mandinka Soul
2008
25
Dabbaax
2007

The Navigator - Playlist Sunday November 9

Posted 07/11/2008 - 13:36 by Martini

 

Hoi friends
 
 
In 1966 Otis Redding released “Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul” and it was one of the first albums I bought. The track “Change Gonna Come” finally rang true with the election of Barack Obama in the US. If he was still alive, bless his soul, he would have been side by side on the campaign.
 
We have plenty new releases on the show this week and kick off with Ladi6 from her fantastic debut album. Aotearoa at its best!
 
Many tracks on the show feature on Charlie Gillet’s “Beyond The Horizon”- Sound Of the World 2008. As to be expected from one of the most respected global sound experts, the album is exquisite and a must to buy, 34 tracks in all.
 
On the track list below I made links to the artist web pages, so you can look up their background, albums, gigs and other news.
 
The Navigator plays tracks of people, who have something real to say. This week it is the song Sunugaal by Awadi & Kirikou from Senegal. It points to the plight of thousands of Africans, who flee their countries in very small boats to Spain’s Canary Islands off West Africa. It is unknown how many die. The website has a 51 piece slideshow, which a must to watch
 
“You had promised me that I would have of the job
You had promised me that I would never be hungry
You had promised me of true activities and a future
Really up to here I still see nothing
That's why I decided to flee, that's why I break myself in dugout
I swear it ! I can't stay here one more second.
It is better to die that to live in such conditions, in this hell”
 
Finally, a tribute to Lucky Dube, who died last year in South Africa as a result of a carjacking. He was a pioneer in speaking out to millions on this planet
 
Have a great weekend and be nice to each other!
 
 

1
Walk Right Up
Time Is Not Much
2008
2
Radost
Sara La Kali
2008
3
Sunugaal
Sunugaal
2008
4
Pull The Catch
The Camel
2008
5
Blackness Of Darkness
Calypsoul 70
2008
6
Cala Cala
I Real
2008
7
You Better Ask Yourself
Day By Day
2008
8
Dondre Estaras Hemanitta
2008
9
Beaufort-Wes
2008
10
Slave
Slave
1989
11
Hawera
Rhombus
2008
12
Besides Myself To You I Came
Voice Letter
2007
13
Corrido Por Buddy
Living and Dead
2008
14
Laytana
Majaz
2008
15
Jalousie
2007
16
Sleepwalking through the Mekong
Venus On Earth
2008
17
Sambo
Woman
2008
18
Change Gonna Come
Otis Blue
1966
19
Tounka
Tchamantche
2008
20
Ngamen
Soul Science
2007
21
Dibi Dibi Rek
Jammu Africa
1996
22
Willie And Laura May Jones
Just a Little Lovin’
2008
23
Beyond The Horizon
Elusive
2004
24
Djula Djekere
Afro-Mandinka Soul
2006
25
El Pueblo Unido
Radio Retaliation
2008
26
Shadowland (ft Ojos de Brujo)
London Undersound
2008

Navigator - Sunday November 2 19.00-21.00

Posted 30/10/2008 - 22:32 by Martini

 

Hoi friends
 
If you think that I have absolute knowledge on world music I have to disappoint you.
 
My memory level is seriously low and I rely on trusted people, who point me in the right direction. One of these persons is Graham Reid and since I am on his e-mail list I would like to share his site: http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/music/
 
He has a coup with the line up for Taranaki Womad 2009. The list is finger licking.
My ego is slightly tickled as I see many artists, who have regularly featured on my show. I will play them again over the next few months with special sections.
 
For this week I play a few new releases
 
Following Nigeria 70, Strut records turn to the Caribbean for Calypsoul 70, a compilation of calypso, reggae, latin, afro and soul styles from the 1970s. This is a tremendously exciting compilation that makes so many new connections and uncovers so many rarities that it amounts to a total re-education in 1970s Caribbean music. The Rolling Tones' It's a Feeling set the mood, combining calypso with jazz funk to startlingly original conclusions. Not all of the influences here are musical, however, and the importance of black power on many of the track is another revelation. Neither are African links forgotten, thanks to the Afrobeat-inspired Freedom In Africa.
 
In 1990, long before world music had acquired radical chic and bankability, Nick Page reinvented himself as Count Dubulah and formed Transglobal Underground, the first pan-cultural groove merchants to discover the heady potential of combining ethnic elements within the hypnotic rhythms and spacey ambiences of house music. Following a period working with local musicians and singers in Addis Ababa in 2006, Page initiated the collaborations featured on A Town Called Addis, which draw on the Azmari and other traditional forms, along with indigenous pop and jazz styles from the Sixties and Seventies, blending them with Dubulah's natural dub-reggae inclinations and trippy house textures. As the spiritual homeland of Rastafarianism, you'd expect a degree of musical correspondence between Ethiopia and Jamaica, and nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the opener "Azmari Dub", where proud JA-style brass riffs from the Horns Of Negus strut alongside the serpentine vocal tendrils of Sintayehu Zenebe, whom Page characterises as "the Edith Piaf of Ethiopia".
 
Other new albums include Jolie Holland “The Living and The Dead”, the Bombay Dub Orchestra “Monsoon Malabar Remixes” , Femi Kuti, who plays at Womad in Taranaki, with his latest offering “Day By Day” and Da Cruz “Nova Estacao”
 
For the remainder I delved into my own collection and choose some gems from the late 80’s, early 90’s.
 

1
Dub Colossus
Azmari Dub
A Town Called Addis
2008
2
Femi Kuti
Do You Know
Day By Day
2008
3
Horse Flies
Human Fly
Human Fly
1988
4
Jaojoby
Tsaiki Joby
Salegy!
1992
5
Bombay Dub Orchestra
Monsoon Malabar
3 Cities
2008
6
Mahotella Queens
Thoko
Women Of the World
1993
7
Flaco Jimenez
Don’t Worry Baby
Partners
1992
8
Jerry Douglas
Emphysenia Two Step
Changing Channels
1987
9
Rossy
Mangina Zaza
One Eye on the Future
1993
10
Da Cruz
Sarah
Nova Estacao
2008
11
Los Lobos
Ay Te Dejo San Antonio
..and a Time To Dance
1987
12
Pahinui Brothers
Kowali
The Pahinui Bros.
1992
13
Los Van Van
A Ver Que Sale
Calypsoul 70
2008
14
Duke
Freedom In Africa
Calypsoul 70
2008
15
The Rolling Tones
It’s A Feeling
Calypsoul 70
2008
16
Sanougue Kouyate
Bintou
Balendala Djibe
1990
17
Horse Flies
Hush Little Baby
Human Fly
1988
18
Manu Chao
Mr Bobby
Radio Bemba Soundsystem
2008
19
Femi Kuti
Oyimbo
Day By Day
2008
20
Dub Colossus
Ambassel
A Town Called Addis
2008
21
Flaco Jimenez
The Girls from Texas
Partners
1992
22
Mahotella Queens
Malaika
Women Of the World
1993
23
Rossy
Misy Goika
One Eye on the Future
1993
24
Taj Mahal
Slow Drag
Maestro
2008
25
The Lions
CumbiaDelLeon
White Label
2008
26
Pahinui Brothers
Do You Love Me
The Pahinui Bros.
1992
27
Jolie Holland
Enjoy Yourself
The Living and the Dead
2008

Jolie Holland hit the right note with this last song and I fully endorse that.
Be Nice To Each Other!

Taa-Daa!

Posted 27/10/2008 - 22:36 by Chris

Councillor Denise Roche opens Waiheke Radio

Waiheke got its first taste of community radio the Saturday of Labour Weekend when Waiheke Radio was officially launched. Following on from the fantastic Saturday Breakfast with Simon and El the launch took place on an extended Island Life show featuring interviews with locals, Waiheke musicians, live reports from island events and a focus on all things Waiheke. Dozens of locals also added their voice to the station recording promos and IDs. They are already in the programme, so tune in to check them out.

The opening ceremony was conducted by Hauraki Gulf Islands Councillor, and good friend of the station, Denise Roche, who cut the ribbon and declared Waiheke Radio open.

The launch gave Waiheke a pretty indication of what community radio is all about. Our focus is giving locals the opportunity not only to hear about local perspectives and events but to be involved with creating radio programmes and that just what we delivered. You just don't get that on a big commercial Auckland station.

The Navigator - Playlist Sunday 26th October

Posted 23/10/2008 - 22:05 by Martini

 

Hoi friends
 
I’m going to play till about 8 pm as I will do the final act as DJ Martini at the Big Intent on the Blackpool Reserve at 8.30. It will be my usual style and I guarantee the feet will shuffle. Do not expect slick tricks as only the music will speak.
A Dance Towards Sustainability!
 

The Navigator will play tracks from the past two weeks which didn’t make the show and a selection from Taj Mahal new studio release Maestro

 
Taj Mahal - Maestro
Released:  9/30/2008
Label: Heads Up Records
 
http://reviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2008/10/02/taj-mahal--maestro.aspx
After 40 Years, Taj Mahal is still keeping the creative juices flowin' from his guitar & banjo with his Heads up debut "Maestro". This project surfaces a great deal of blues written material along with some reggae tracks & modern roots music. With backup from guest singers & groups, Ben Harper, Ziggy Marley, The Phantom Blues Band, Ziggy Marley's Band, Los Lobos, Jack Johnson & Angelique Kidjo, Taj comes with one of his most complete collections of music. 40 Years and to still sound as good as ever is an endearing testament to Mr. Mahal's endless legacy to great blues & roots music! The Caribbean touch of "Never Let You Go" written by daughter Deva Mahal, who is active on the Wellington scene & backed by legendary group Los Lobos highlights another perspective of Taj's golden voice as it soothes the reggae productive track & allows the rhythm to make your body sway...and sway!; In "Black Man, Brown Man", Ziggy Marley & his band joins Taj Mahal for a track with an inside theme to the cultural aspect of skin color as its played against each other by nationality. Right alongside a catchy, harmonious Caribbean/african beat. Check out the lyrics!; Contributing vocals by Ben Johnson in "Further Down The Road" & Angelique Kidjo for "Zanzibar" expands the disc into various places of wonderfully arranged compositions. This project is recommended for the true down home blues man or woman, the Caribbean groovemeister, the reggae sidestepper & the authentic African-roots appreciating listener.
 
01 Aurelio Martinez            Nuwerun                                 03:15
02 Thievery Corporation     Mandala                                  03:57
03 Rupa & the April Fishes Un Americaine a Paris              03.56
04 Taj Mahal                       Black man, Brown Man          03:49
05 Taj Mahal                       Further Down The Road         04:42
06 Taj mahal                        Zanzibar                                 05:47
07 Quantic                           Juanita Bonita                         06:00
08 Andy Fairweather Low   Sweet Soulful Music                02:38
09 Kasai Allstars                  Mpombo Yetu                        07:59
10 !Dela Dap                       Lisa Lisa                                 05.25
11 Balkan Beat Box             Ramallah-Tel Aviv                   04:00
12 Auktyon                          New Year Song                      05:31
13 Soha                               C'est Bien Mieux Comme Ca   04:09
14 Taj Mahal                       Never Let You Go                   04:39
15 Jolie Holland                   Palmyra                                   04:31

Enjoy the show and C U @ The Big Intent 8.30pm

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