#Wau Wau Collectif “Mariage”

[dustedmagazine]

Wau Wau Collectif — Mariage (Sahel Sounds)

Mariage by Wau Wau Collectif

There’s a tendency, when we listen to the music of other places, to value authenticity over all else. Who cares if it’s a scratchy rip of an ancient LP if it comes to you unadulterated from late-1960s Lagos? Who needs fidelity if your musicians are playing instruments unchanged since the stone age? And while, going to the source is always admirable, there is another tradition that is equally valid—that of collaboration between cultures. Whether we are talking about Cheveu and Group Doueh’s stunning, somewhat confrontational meld of punk and Sahel sounds, or Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers splice of Haitian tradition and Euro-electronics, or even Tinariwen’s tendency to bring in guests like the late, great Mark Lanegan or Cass McCombs, there is something to be said for just making music together, regardless of where we come from or what our history has been.

To that end, it may help to know that Wau Wau Collectif is a cross-continental collaboration between the Swedish musician Karl Jonas Winqvist, the Senegal producer Aurora Kane and a cast of dozens of Sengalese musicians. It sounds authentic because it is: many of these musicians have spent their entire lives achieving mastery on traditional instruments, and one, Ousmane Ba, passed away after contributing torrid flute parts to two of these tracks. And yet, the disc takes an unmistakable pleasure in playing with, even subverting, folk tradition.

Consider, for instance, the ebullient “Xale,” built around the trebly, fresh sounds of very young voices, the children of Toubab Dialaw. Their chant stutters and doubles back on itself, syncopated in the way that children’s handslapping or skip roping games are syncopated, without any artifice, with a sense of joy. To that sound, the Collectif adds funk guitar, a rolling drumbeat, stabs of tremulous synthesizer. The song is both innocent and a bit, how shall we say, slinky. Later, my favorite cut, “Yay Balma,” incorporates both traditional xalam and fuzz guitars, the rush of hand-drums, the squall of saxophone. It moves like a krautrock freight train, a desert blue trance set to motorik motion.

Wau Wau Collectif doesn’t shy away from politics. The moving “Thiaroye 1944” recounts the story of African prisoners of war from World War II, captured by the Germans, liberated by the Allies and subsequently relocated from Europe to Dakar. When their internment dragged on, the prisoners rebelled and troops quelled the uprising, killing anywhere from 30 to 300 of them in a brief, bloody slaughter. The song is dusky and minimal, just a bit of moody guitar and Mouhamodou Lo’s morose narrative, enlivened, at intervals by women singing counterpart. The song has a simmering power to it that comes from its simplicity and directness.

Winqvist and his partner Aurora Kane apply the lightest possible touch, capturing what’s special about their Sengalese collaborators with minimal artifice. The songs come across very clearly, captured in mid-creation, on the fly, and free of the constraints of heavy tradition.  

Jennifer Kelly

[snackpointcharlie]

In a world that's rapidly splintering, Snackpoint Charlie is your audio Krazy Glue. Music from elsewhere and beyond that really ties the room together, every first and third Wednesday from 10pm to midnight on WGXC 90.7 FM and served up as a podcast with a danged smile NOW at https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/bksvv4

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 099 - 2022.09.21 PLAYLIST https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/bksvv4

1) Hugo Randulv - “1” from RADIO ARKTIS (SAMLADE LJUD FRÅN DEN NORRA POLCIRKELN) [COLLECTED SOUNDS FROM THE ARCTIC CIRCLE] https://discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/album/hugo-randulv-radio-arktis-samlade-ljud-fr-n-den-norra-polcirkeln https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/gothenburg-underground-scene-report

2) Stone Tapes - “Owera Camila” from BRASILIA CASACÁJÁ SESSIONS https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/2022-artist-in-residence

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “farkchicadas” Pat Methane - “Yugo To Be Kidding” from NEBULOUS GAS ERUPTION

3) Wau Wau Collectif - “Xale (Toubab Dialaw Kids Rhyme)” from MARIAGE https://wauwaucollectif.bandcamp.com/album/mariage

4) Yao Bobby & Simon Grab - “Every Day” from WUM https://lavalavarecords.bandcamp.com/

5) Peter Jefferies and Victoria Singh - “The Space Between” from CECI N'EST PAS UNE FRITE https://almosthalloweentimerecords.bandcamp.com

6) Catherine Graindorge featuring Iggy Pop - “Mud I” from THE DICTATOR https://catherinegraindorge.bandcamp.com/album/the-dictator

7) Fairuz - “Something is Happening” from KIFAK INTA https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/fairuz-kifak-inta-lp-deluxe-edition-black-vinyl

8) Karen & Peter - “En Hiver” from AGGRO DOLCE https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

9) Al-Qasar - “Ya Malak (feat. Jello Biafra)” from WHO ARE WE? https://alqasar.bandcamp.com/album/who-are-we

10) Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin - “Savanne” from ALI https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/ali

11) Ali Farka Toure - “Tulumba” from NIAFUNKÉ https://www.discogs.com/release/13724217-Ali-Farka-Toure-Niafunk%C3%A9

12) Kaja - “Hanja Miis” from KULDSEST LÄANEST https://www.discogs.com/release/2094671-Kaja-Kuldsest-L%C3%A4%C3%A4nest

13) Bogdan Jankowski - “Radio II” from HIMALAYA AND KARAKORAM • VOICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS • 1971–2003 https://saamleng.bandcamp.com/album/himalaya-and-karakoram-voices-from-the-mountains-1971-2003

14) Primary Mini-Band - “最后の時 (地獄のワルツ) [Last Time (Hell Waltz)]” from KIMAMANAHIBI https://www.discogs.com/master/1600043-Primary-Mini-Band-Kimamanahibi-%E3%81%8D%E3%81%BE%E3%81%BE%E3%81%AA%E3%81%B2%E3%81%B3 https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/09/12/first-last-japanese-private-press-vol-6/

15) Allen Ravenstine - “The Longing of Boat Key” from CROSSING DAYLIGHT https://allenravenstine22.bandcamp.com/album/crossing-daylight

16) Z’ev - “(Untitled excerpt from LIGHTNING MUSIC)” from N.A.M.E. GALLERY, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 03.01.86 https://www.discogs.com/release/672129-ZEV-NAME-Gallery-Chicago-Illinois-030186

17) Mirt - “Distant Music from Kathmandu” from SONGS AND PRAYERS FROM THE KATHMANDU VALLEY https://saamleng.bandcamp.com/album/songs-and-prayers-from-the-kathmandu-valley

18) Karen Constance - “?” from ?????? https://bloodstereo.bandcamp.com/album/- https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/03/24/constance-nyoukis/

19) Yara Asmar - “We Put Her in a Box and Never Spoke of it Again” from HOME RECORDINGS 2018 - 2021 https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/home-recordings-2018-2021 https://yaraasmar.com/

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: April 17, 2023

New episode: A collection of art exhibition soundtracks, Senegalese kids rhymes, audio collages, peyote song affirmations, spiritual jazz seeking, shoegaze reassurances, and other similarly soothing sounds to start your week on solid footing.

Listen on Soundcloud

Stream from CJSW

Spotify playlist

Other links

Hour One:

Painterly Steve Gunn, David Moore • Let the Moon Be a Planet

Elsewhere Hayden Pedigo • The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored

Nymphe N NAO • L'eau et les rêves

Horizon Nashville Ambient Ensemble • Light and Space

Fractured Light AVAWAVES • Piano Day Single

With Her First Ever Steps She Walked To Me And She Was So Happy Dylan Henner • You Always Will Be

Glissalia Tim Hecker • No Highs

MARS Sketch Show • Loophole

Voyage Ashi Shonen • Divergence

Alive Easy Idiot • Monkey Fancy

Transcend I T. Gowdy • Miracles

A Memory of Hope Magic Sword • Badlands

Hour Two:

100 Years Ryan Bourne • Plant City

Morning Wonder The Earlies • These Were the Earlies

Xale (Toubab Dialaw Kids Rhyme) Wau Wau Collectif • Mariage

Pigeon Lake Rooster37 • Upside Down Inside Out EP

Tombo in M3 A Certain Ratio • 1982

Pepe Pepaymemimo Position Normal • Stop Your Nonsense

Bedside Manner Position Normal • Stop Your Nonsense

Falun Gong Dancer Telefís • a hAon

Somewhere Beyond Uh Huh • Uh Huh

A Time to Blossom Modern Cosmology • What Will You Grow Now?

Bright Room LT Leif • Come Back to Me, But Lightly

Hour Three:

Witchi Tai To Everything Is Everything • Everything is Everything

Bed & Breakfast Isolde Lasoen • Oh Dear

Kohan The Circling Sun • Spirits

Mystic You Colloboh • Saana Sahel EP

Mirage mohs. • Mirage

Sympathy & Vegetations Charles Spearin • My City Of Starlings

What a Waste of an Echo Spencer Cullum, featuring Dana Gavanski • Coin Collection 2

Surely Everything's Alright Sunnsetter • The best that I can be.

I am the magnet king of the east High Five • Salad Balloon

[audio-bomb]

Wau Wau Collectif “Mariage” From Senegal, a rock band drawing on local influences, jazz, blues, and rock music to create a light, guitar driven, sound. Very good vibes here. (November 2022, Sahel Sounds) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoBXx7nLZ5q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lezarde]

TOP ALBUMS 2022 (4/7) [Dub, U.K Jazz] JOE ARMON-JONES & MALA - A Way Back (Aquarii Records) [U.K] https://joearmon-jones.bandcamp.com/track/a-way-back [U.K Jazz] NEUE GRAFIK ENSEMBLE - Foulden Road Part II (Total Refreshment Centre) [U.K] (https://neuegrafik.bandcamp.com/album/foulden-road-part-ii [Senegalese Folk] WAU WAU COLLECTIF - Mariage (Sahel Sounds) [Sénégal/Sweden] https://wauwaucollectif.bandcamp.com/album/mariage [Western African Music] VARIOUS ARTISTS - A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa (Shika Shika) https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/a-guide-to-the-birdsong-of-western-africa [Post-Punk] VIAGRA BOYS - Cave World (Year0001) [Sweden] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0s1tNzhkOM&list=PLwhlCh3flCJiSxMpb0SvxmbXydh1WAKm1 [Afro-Cuban Jazz, Hip-Hop] GUTS - Estrellas (Heavenly Sweetness) [France/Cuba/Sénégal] https://guts-puravida.bandcamp.com/album/estrellas

[abelkia]

La playlist de l'émission de ce jeudi matin sur Radio Campus Bruxelles entre 6h30 et 9h : Full Moon Ensemble "Tribute to Bob Kaufman" (Crowded with Loneliness/Comet Records/1970-2022) Thelonious Monk "Straight, No Chaser" (Straight, No Chaser/Columbia Records/1967) Alexis Degrenier "Fatiguer" (La Mort Aura Tes Yeux/Murailles Music/2022) Daniel Schmidt with Gamelan Encinal & Mills Student Ensemble "Cloud Shadows" (Cloud Shadows/Recital/2022) Eric Chenaux "5 Intros and Spring" (Hello Eyes/ULYSSA/2022) Mim & Charlène Darling "La poudre" (L'amour aux mille parfums/L'amour aux mille parfums/2022) Bachir Attar & Elliott Sharp "Boujeloudia" (In New York/Dikraphone/1990-2022) Wau Wau Collectif "Xale (Toubab Dialaw Kids Rhyme)" (Mariage/Sahel Sounds-Sing a song fighter/2022) La Jungle "Helizona" (II/Black Basset Records/2016) Michel Cloup "Brûle brûle brûle" (Backflip au-dessus du chaos/Ici d'ailleurs/2022) Astéréotypie "Fantôme de Broglie, Fantôme de Strasbourg" (Aucun mec ne ressemble à Brad Pitt dans la Drôme/La Belle Brute/2022) Virgin Prunes "Baby Turns Blue" (...If I Die, I Die/Rough Trade Records/1982-2022) Tortoise "Not Quite East of the Ryan" (Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters/Thrill Jockey Records/1995-2022) Samedi Dimanche (Nina Hennart + Joey Wright) "Catherine" (Samedi Dimanche/Wild Goose Chase/2022) Ivor Cutler "The Market Place" (An Elpee and Two Epees/Decca Records/1959-2005) Lee Scratch Perry "Supersonic Man" (The Compiler Vol. 1/Re Rectangle/2001) Rob "Make It Fast, Make It Slow" (Ghana Soundz (Afro-beat, Funk & Fusion In 70’s Ghana)/Soundway Records/1978-2002) The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest (with Ba Mbuti) "Spear Song" (The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest/Folkways Records/1958) Slowdive "Catch the Breeze" (7"/Creation Records/1991) Fleetwood Mac Christine McVie (1943-2022) "Oh Daddy" (Rumours/Warner Bros. Records/1977) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cln_FyMtLqc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[musicletter]

«Mariage», il secondo album degli Wau Wau Collectif

Dopo Yaral Sa Doom del 2021, il collettivo senegalese-svedese Wau Wau Collectif torna con un nuovo lavoro discografico dal titolo Mariage. Pubblicato l’11 novembre 2022, Mariage è un disco che amplia gli orizzonti musicali di questo progetto a distanza realizzato dallo svedese Karl Jonas Winqvist e diversi musicisti senegalesi guidati da Aurora Kane. Mariage è infatti un album che mette insieme…

[nwdsc]

(▶︎ Mariage | Wau Wau Collectifから)

Mariage by Wau Wau Collectif

Wau Wau Collectif’s second album, Mariage, is instilled with a newfound sense of purpose. Expanding upon the inspirational themes of their acclaimed 2021 debut, Yaral Sa Doom (Educate The Young), this long-distance collaboration from musicians in Senegal, led by Aurora Kane, and Sweden’s Karl Jonas Winqvist is an even more stylistically expansive affair. Joyful children’s songs collide with fuzzy guitar solos and thumping hip-hop beats. Shimmering synths lift off from the plunky percussion of the balafon and versatile sounds of the 22-string kora. Familiar voices from the first album return with more explicitly political lyrics, while the music feels both rhythmically dense and sonically weightless, flowing from one spellbinding moment to the next. Some of the rhythms that laid the foundation for Wau Wau Collectif’s second album were recorded during Winqvist's 2018 Senegal trip that ignited the project, with a core group of musicians who may now be familiar to fans of their debut. These include flute master Ousmane Ba, whose softly rippling tone punctuates the bounce of “Necessaire” and frantically dances throughout “Mariage Force.” On “Baye Kate”, rapper Babacar “Babadi” Diol growls and rolls his Rs over swirling synths in a heartfelt tribute to farmers. Arouna Kane’s echo-drenched vocals return on “Le repair spirituel,” before he removes all effects on intimate closer “Liguey Len,” strumming so quietly that you can hear cars honking and crickets chirping in the background. For Mariage, band members from each country were inspired to include a wider array of instrumental flourishes unique to their cross-continental collaboration. “Yay Balma” revolves around the cycling riffs of Jango Diabaté’s xalam guitar, as this song’s fuzzy tones and soaring sax solos open side two with a bang. “Pitchi Goubidi” provides a stark contrast, with the kora played like a harp and Gilbert Badji’s gravelly lyrics about “the bird of the night” disappearing into dubbed-out chamber pop. Winqvist’s omnichord hovers back into focus on “Yonou Natangue,” a free-floating jam that maintains the messages of Wau Wau Collectif’s debut, promoting youth education to address the social issues facing contemporary Senegal: “Peace is the better wealth / The way to wander.” Sadly, flute player Ousmane Bah passed away after the completion of the album. Wau Wau Collectif wishes to dedicate Mariage to his memory. -Jesse Locke クレジット2022年11月11日リリース

[culturedarm]

Ancestors loom large over the playlist this week, as Björk bands with James Merry, Andrew Thomas Huang, her son Sindri, and the Siggi String Quartet for a ritual trek across an Icelandic valley by way of tribute to the idiosyncrasies and transmutations of her mother. Wiki and Subjxct 5 pay homage to hip hop's mixtape era, while Wau Wau Collectif highlight the voices of children as they dedicate Mariage to the memory of Ousmane Ba, their deftly rippling flautist. Keeping the fires burning in the name of spiritual jazz, Wojtek Mazolewski attends to spiritual needs while surveying the breadth of his surrounds, Makaya McCraven imbues organic beats with lush orchestration, and Photay and Carlos Niño flow with the current. Tracks by Charles Lloyd, Aleksandra Słyż, Vanessa Amara, Lori Goldston, and Rainy Miller also feature in the latest roundup of new music.

https://culturedarm.com/tracks-of-the-week-24-09-22/

[snackpointcharlie]

Snackpoint Charlie, for that “what the…?” feeling every time you turn on the radio. It’s like they say, time flies when you’re having toast. Music from elsewhere and beyond, broadcast 10pm-midnight EST on the first & third Wednesday nights of every month on WGXC, 90.7-FM. The barge has docked and unloaded a fresh-baked batch of ear candy, which you can play in the podcast aggregator of your choice at wgxc.org or the Wave Farm phone app

art by David Greenberger

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 103 - 2022.12.07 PLAYLIST https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/d8s97z

1) Cloudcraft - “Well Into It Evening Raga” from CLOUDCRAFT https://www.discogs.com/release/2598881-Cloudcraft-Cloudcraft

2) The Clean - “Outside the Cage” from MODERN ROCK https://theclean.bandcamp.com/album/modern-rock

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Arglyfurt,” “Blackbodyradiation”

3) The Clean - “Tally Ho!” from TALLY HO! / PLATYPUS https://theclean.bandcamp.com/album/tally-ho-platypus

4) Roger 'King' Mozian - “Oriental Cha Cha” from MAMBO GITANO! https://radiomartiko45s.bandcamp.com/album/mambo-gitano

5) Farid el Atrache - “Hebbina Hebbina ("Love Us, Love Us")” from NAGHAM FI HAYATI https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/farid-el-atrache-nagham-fi-hayati-deluxe-lp-edition-black-vinyl

6) Gaye Su Akyol - “Martılar Öpüşür, Kediler Sevişir (Seagulls Kiss, Cats Make Love)” from ANADOLU EJDERI https://gayesuakyol.bandcamp.com/album/anadolu-ejderi

7) Wau Wau Collectif - “Thiaroye 1944” from MARIAGE https://wauwaucollectif.bandcamp.com/album/mariage

8) The Souvenirs - “Bush Lark Ritual” from BUSH LARK RITUAL / LAUGHING DOVE DANCE 7'' https://fortuna-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-souvenirs-bush-lark-ritual

9) Pan Ron - “Chnam Oun 31 (I'm 31)” from GROOVE CLUB VOL. 3: CAMBODIA ROCK INTENSIFIED! https://www.discogs.com/release/8671027-Various-Groove-Club-Vol-3-Cambodia-Rock-Intensified

10) Rita Pavone - “Sapore Di Sale” from AMORE SCUSAMI/SAPORE DI SALE https://www.discogs.com/release/3698046-Rita-Pavone-Amore-Scusami

11) Moussa Tchingou - “Det” https://www.facebook.com/moussatchingou

12) Wosenylhe Meberku - “አሥመራይ አሥመራ (Asmarai Asmara)” from ወሰንየለህ መብረቁ https://www.martinradio.com/2020/11/wosenylhe-meberku.html

13) Alla Bayanova - “Cocaine Song / Kokainochka” from BONE MUSIC https://www.x-rayaudio.com/bonemusicbook

14) Jesse Paul Miller - “Pengamin, Bus, Solo” from JALAN JALAN - STREET ATMOSPHERES AND MUSIC IN THE HEART OF JAVA https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/jalan-jalan-street-atmospheres-and-music-in-the-heart-of-java

15) Damon Smith/Louis Wall/NNN Cook - “Drawning Down” from FIRE POINT https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/fire-point

16) Cloudcraft - “cloudcraft bonus 02 Track 02” from UNRELEASED 12" BONUS YAY https://www.discogs.com/release/2598881-Cloudcraft-Cloudcraft

17) Seljuk Rustum - “The Happiest Country Has No History” from CARDBOARD CASTLES https://seljukrustum.bandcamp.com/album/cardboard-castles