Radio Is A Foreign Country #18 – LOST CARAVAN RADIO – PSYCHEDELIC SILK ROAD (146)
Radio Is A Foreign Country #18 – LOST CARAVAN RADIO – PSYCHEDELIC SILK ROAD (146)
LOST CARAVAN RADIO – PSYCHEDELIC SILK ROAD (RIAFC146) Psychedelic sounds, shrieking guitars and gurgling synthesizers reverberating through the deserts and steppes of Central Asia to the foothills of Mongolia and beyond. Curated by Anvar (Maqom Soul).
Make sure to check out Anvar’s new release “Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia” on Ostinato records here: ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/synt…ntral-asia
TRACKLIST 1. Ismail Jalilov & Synthesis – Guzal (Beautiful) 2. Koma Wetan – Hasan 3. Yashlik – Lyubimaya Govorit, Chto Ya Ploxoy (My sweetheart says I’m bad) 4. Dos-Mukasan – Betpak Dala (A Hungry Steppe) 5. Gulshan – Ey, Sanam! (Oh, beautiful) 6. Synthesis – Kishlogimizga Keling (Welcome to our kishlak) 7. Azia – Navo Desam Kam 8. Cholbon – Skaji Mne (Tell Me) 9. Niyaməddin Musayev & Roya – Moi Dni S Toboy (My Days with You) 10. The Bayan Mongol Variety Group – Аavdaa (To My Own Father) 11. Soyol Erdene – Xilchiniy Xөshөө (A Monument To A Fronter Guard)
Radio Is A Foreign Country #17 – Afghan Records (067)
Radio Is A Foreign Country #17 – Afghan Records (067)
A killer mix of 60’s & 70’s Afghan records selected by Naujawanan Baidar (N.R. Safi), the artist behind the phenomenal label Radio Khiyaban, which features 1970s Afghan cassette culture filtered through a labyrinth of buzzing drones, tape manipulation, and fuzz-drenched percussion. In this mix, Naujawanan Baidar presents a treasure trove of Afghan records influential to his own music.
Check out Radio Khiyaban’s bandcamp page here: radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com
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Radio Is A Foreign Country #16 – AIR TAPES FROM ETHIOPIA & INDIA
Radio Is A Foreign Country #16 – AIR TAPES FROM ETHIOPIA & INDIA
Phenomenal regional radio from Ethiopia & India. Many thanks to Bobby Kassa and Gerrit Kalsbeek for sharing the many hours of radio tapes used to assemble this mixtape. The title is paraphrased from Mark Gergis.
Radio Is A Foreign Country #15 – FROM DEEP IN THE WELL VINTAGE SOUNDS FROM SUB – SAHARAN AFRICA
Radio Is A Foreign Country #15 – FROM DEEP IN THE WELL VINTAGE SOUNDS FROM SUB – SAHARAN AFRICA
A selection from the World Library of Folk and Primitive Music by Jim Haas.
TRACKLIST
01 Malinke dance in praise of hunters, Guinea
02 Bena Luluwa relaxation song, Angola-Zaire
03 Hausa street music, itinerant musicians, Niger
04 Hakurotwi Mude and companions, mbira (finger piano), Shona, Zimbabwe
Radio Is A Foreign Country #12 – South Indian Mandolin (076)
Radio Is A Foreign Country 076 – South Indian Mandolin
The soulful sounds of South Indian mandolin, featuring Uppalapu Srinivas, the child prodigy who at the age of nine introduced the mandolin into the carnatic tradition (something that normally takes generations), and Sreeusha and Sireesha, self-taught sisters popularly known as the Mandolin Sisters, all to a backdrop of field recordings made on location in India by World Listener. As always, you can expect a few brief detours along the way, including a group of children practicing a carnatic song at school, some loud bus music, and a wonderful Tamil radio collage from the LP Bats in the Temple by Robert Millis.
Radio Is A Foreign Country #11 – Amazonian Cumbia (074)
Radio Is A Foreign Country 074 – Amazonian Cumbia
A selection of our favorite Amazonian cumbias.
“Amazonian Cumbia (RIAFC074) By RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Radio Is A Foreign Country #10 – Abbassi Style Rai Music (034)
Radio Is A Foreign Country 034 – Abbassi Style Rai Music
Abbassi-style rai electro from Algeria.
Radio Is A Foreign Country #9 – Amphibian Love Songs And Soundscapes MIXTAPE (090)
Radio Is A Foreign Country 090 – Amphibian Love Songs And Soundscapes MIXTAPE
Night Sounds/Frogs from Myanmar (Burma) Ambient – Jesse Paul Miller https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/myanmar-burma-ambient
Frogs Calling for Rain (Mae Hong Son, Thailand) – Fred Gales (Sound Reporters) https://soundreporters.bandcamp.com/ https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/de_klankbron_656300/
Frog Tannoy – Roi Et, Thailand – April 2008 – Jesse Paul Miller https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/music
Kodok Solok – Frogs and bugs in Solok, West Sumatra, Indonesia (Aural Archipelago) https://www.auralarchipelago.com/
Dusk by the Frog Pond – Sarawak (Borneo). Rec’d by Marc Anderson (Wild Ambiance, 2013) https://wildambience.com/albums/dusk-by-the-frog-pond/
Kiromboi from Sawaku: Music Of Sarawak (PAN Records – PAN 2067CD) and Night Lotus Pool from Night Recordings From Bali (Sublime Frequencies) http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576931-night-recordings-from-bali
Night Paddy Orchestra – Kutuh, Bali from Bali – Night Nature – Jesse Paul Miller https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/bali-night-nature
Nyamwezy drummers (Intoxicating rhythms for the Monster of the Lake) and looped excerpt from Samia Bugwe. Musical Gems From Lake Victoria. Rec’d by David Fanshawe (Sapra Ltd. – CMIL 102). https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/07/kenya-tanzania-uganda-musical-gems-from.html
Palenque – Frogs 4 – Recd by Felix Hess (Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico) https://basicfunction-releases.bandcamp.com/
Túngara frog synthesizer at night (Gamboa, Panama) – Phillip Hermans https://www.dinacon.org/2019/09/11/laser-tungara-frog-synth/
Le Chaco (Paraguay) – Indiens et Animaux Sauvages d’Amérique du Sud. Rec’d by Richard Chapelle (Unidisc – UD 30 1293, 1977) https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2017/12/brazil-paraguay-indiens-et-animaux.html
Night frogs from Villa Giardino Córdoba – Pablo Picco https://bardotodolmonofonia.bandcamp.com/album/ambiente-w-rks-2012-2021
Kaw Mountain, Post-explosive Breeding (French Guiana) – Marc Namblard https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=16085
Night frogs, La Sabana, Venezuela – David Toop (1978) https://room40.bandcamp.com/track/night-frogs-la-sabana-venezuela-1978
Morning Chorus Above and Below a Creek in the Kroombit Mountains – Jeremy Hegge (Queensland, Australia, 2016) https://soundcloud.com/jeremyhegge
5.10 AM Banjo Frog (Pobble Bonk), BG Frogs (Crinnia Sp.), Raven (Australia) – Dawn Chorus: Early Morning Music of the Bush – John N. Hutchinson https://www.discogs.com/release/6288767-John-N-Hutchinson-Dawn-Chorus
Unknown didgeridoo performance recorded off the radio and an excerpt from the Cane Toads: An Unnatural History.
蛙蛙哇！Songs Of The Frogs Of Taiwan. Rec’d by Yannick Dauby (2009) https://kalerne.bandcamp.com/
Haro-Haro – Musique Batak Lagu Karo – Simalungun Rayat Patam Sarune – Unknown artist Simalungun Rayat – Alm. Djasa Trg
Gendang Pemasu Masun Karo, Kulcapi Karo Gendang pertang (Sarune featuring keyboard) – Tang Ose
Radio Is A Foreign Country #7 – AMAZONIA 025
Radio Is A Foreign Country 025 – AMAZONIA
Night Music of the Amazonian Lowlands – RIAFC 025
Catfish trumpets, chainsaws, bullroarers, haunting flute ensembles and voice distorters from the Río Negro, Orinoco, and Upper Xingu; Yanomami shamans snorting hallucinogenic snuff, shrieking and growling, sneezing and spitting, hocking up phlegm (lots of phlegm), and mumbling secret spirit languages into the night; a lush 1980s Italian experimental collage of Amazonian field recordings & electronic sounds, and more.
PLAYLIST
Kulirrina Trumpets, Wakuenai. Recorded by Jonathan Hill at Gavilán, Río Guainía, Venezuela [The Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin, 1981].
Double Duet of Yapurutú and Tsikota Flutes. Recorded by Jonathan Hill at Gavilán, Río Guainía, Venezuela [The Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America, University of Texas at Austin, 1981].
Ritual & Seasonal Initiation Night Music, #4, #1, and #3. L’Expedition Orenoque Amazone, 1948-1950. Recorded by Pierre Gaisseau [Musée de l’Homme, 1953].
The Bark Horns of the Piaroa (Caña Fruta, Upper Orinoco). World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol.9: Venezuelan Folk and Aboriginal Music. Recorded by Pierre Gaisseau [Columbia, 1954].
Deforestation, Amazonian Loggers. Amazonie: Contes Sonores [Archives Internationals de Musique Populaire, Musée d’Ethnographie de Geneve, and Disques VDE-GALLO, 2016]. Agua (Outro Xingu) & Flautas (Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil), Povo Mehinako [Collection Petites Planètes, 2017].
Aije: The Sound of the Bull Roarers. Brazil: Bororo World of Sound. Recorded by Ricardo Canzio [Folkways, 1989].
Urua, Kamayura (Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil). Indiens et Animaux Sauvages d’Amérique du Sud. Recorded by Richard Chapelle, 1963-1975 [Unidisc, 1977].
Yakwa: The Banquet of Spirits (excerpt). Directed by Virgínia Valadão. [Centro de Trabalho Indigenista, 1995].
Ambience du Yaunkwá, Ronde, Ronde Instrumentale & Dialogue of the Voice Distorters, the Enauené-Naué. Brésil: Enauené-Naué et Nhambiquara du Ma [Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d’Ethnographie de Geneve, and Disques VDE-GALLO 1994].
Ritual Flutes of the Kitaunhlú I, the Nhambiquara. Brésil: Enauené-Naué et Nhambiquara du Ma [Archives Internationales de Musique Populaire, Musée d’Ethnographie de Geneve, and Disques VDE-GALLO 1994].
Social Dance Song, Female Jivaro Singer. Music of the Jivaro of Ecuador. Recorded by Michael J. Harner [Folkways Records, 1972].
Distant Snail-Shell Flute. Music of the Tukano and Cuna Peoples of Colombia. Recorded by Brian Moser & Donald Tayler (Rogue Records, 1987).
Children’s Songs & Musical Bow. Indianmusik Från Colombia. Recorded by Lars Persson (MNW, 1973).
Caberima Nights & Tayari-Teri – Shamans Healing (#1 & #2), the Yanomami. Lost Shadows: In Defence Of The Soul (Yanomami Shamanism, Songs, Ritual). Recorded on location in southern Venezuela by David Toop. Sub Rosa.
Amazonia 6891 (excerpts), Pit Piccinelli, Fred Gales & Walter Maioli (Sound Reporters, 1986).
Pêche, mort et séduction (excerpt). Recorded by M. P. Baumann. Mixed by Nicolas Field. Amazonie: Contes Sonores [Archives Internationals de Musique Populaire, Musée d’Ethnographie de Geneve, and Disques VDE-GALLO, 2016].
La chasse et la Guerre (excerpt). Recorded by M. Lewy. Mixed by Nicolas Field. Amazonie: Contes Sonores [Archives Internationals de Musique Populaire, Musée d’Ethnographie de Geneve, and Disques VDE-GALLO, 2016].
