#asnakech worku

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for August 30, 2021; #282.

Ata Kak: “Obaa Sima” + “Daa Nyina”

Penny Penny: “Shichangani” + ““Ingani”

Professor Rhythm: “Bafana Bafana”

Teno Afrika: “Smooth Criminal” + “Trip To Vlakas”

DJ Black Low: “Javia Low” + “Alone In A Dark”

DJ Katapila: “Cocoawra” + “Sakawa”

(Om) Alec Khaoli: “Say You Love Me” + “Enjoy It”

Antoinette Konan: “M’acko” + “Yale”

Umoja: “707″

Asnakech Worku: “Mech Alkugn Lela Sew”

Dur-Dur Band: “Dholey” + “Dooyo”

Aby Ngana Diop: “Liital” + “Ndadje”

Bola: “Yine Ntaripaga”

Na Hawa Doumbia: “Abayetidu Ma”

Sourakata Koite: “Moussa” + “Dioula”

Awalom Gebremariam: “Desdes”

Awa Paulo: “”Djara Wilam” + “Mido Yirima”

Jess San Bi & Peter One: “Minmanle?”

Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People: “Mudande”

SK Kakraba (Lobi): “Darifu”

Final Summer 2021 broadcast; label tribute.

[rockgarden]

i was tagged by the wonderful @frogeye-pierce to share 9 of my favorite album covers! one of these is a single cover but i am pretending like i do not see 🙈

ooh-wakka-doo-wakka-day - gilbert o’sullivan // tape from california - phil ochs // tadpoles - bonzo dog band //cheating in the daylight - swamp dogg // et moi, et moi, et moi - jacque dutronc // we are nots - nots //strangers from the universe - thinking-fellers union local 282 // philosophy of the world - the shaggs // asnakech - asnakech worku

tagging…. @westerberg @bingokill @magentagalaxies @fast3ddie @magentagalaxies

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Dr. Pete Larson

Dr. Pete Larson runs Dagoretti Records now, he’s gotten there by an unusually long and winding road. Earlier in his career, Larson fronted 25 Suaves and Couch and ran BULB records. He also trained as an epidemiologist and spent time in Kenya studying the transmission of malaria. While in Kenya, he developed an interest in a lute-like eight-stringed instrument called a nyatiti and studied it with the master player Oduor Nyagweno. All these interests collide in a striking first album from Dr. Pete Larson and His Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band, where the nyatiti “cuts through a haze of electric rock distortion, pinging rhythmically and restlessly against floating euphorias of ululating vocals,” per Jennifer Kelly’s review. Here he lists some favorites from several continents.

I have been asked to create one of these lists for Dusted and here’s what I came up with. Making these lists is kind of difficult. I have a hard time remembering what I’ve been listening to at any moment, but here is a collection of old and new that get frequent airplay in my home. I play a Kenyan lyre, so this heavily leans toward lyre and harps and East African music in general, with some other choice cuts thrown in.

Musicians Of The National Dance Company Of Cambodia — Homrong (Real World Records)

I think I got this record (CD) back in the early 90s when I was selling music to Caroline Records. A friend sent me a box of CD promos, most of which wasn’t very interesting, but fortunately, this one was included. I don’t really know anything about Cambodian music, but for some reason, this collection of mid-tempo Cambodian court jamz plays every couple of months. Lots of weird sort of lurching rhythms and chorus singing with an erhu like instrument over it. A great listen.

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania w/ Pharoah Sanders — Trance of the Seven Colors

The Trance Of Seven Colors by Maleem Mahmoud Ghania w/ Pharoah Sanders

Trance inducing this is. Maleem Mahmoud Ghania is (was) one of the 20th century masters of Moroccan Gnawa music, a sort of spiritual, bass-heavy, rolling kind of music of Morocco. Any recording by Maleem Mahmoud is going to impress, but this mash of up of Gnawa with the great Pharoah Sanders is another level. If you are familiar with Gnawa music, it is a little disorienting to hear Sanders howl over the slow burn trance jamz but you are quickly drawn into what a perfect matchup this ended up being. Released on CD in the 90s, it fortunately has finally gotten a proper vinyl release.

Momoyama Harue — “Lullaby for the mother demon’s baby” (桃山晴衣* ‎– 鬼の女の子守唄)

I was playing the shamisen for a while (a three stringed lute from Japan) and found Momoyama Harue as part of my research. Shamisen is kind of a folky instrument for drinking parlors and entertainment of old Japan. The instrument and the music was nearly dead but saw a revival in the 1960s, similar to folk revivals in the US that brought the banjo back. Momoyama, however, was kind of an outlier, more arty than folky, and more poetry than song. Rather than box the music in an imagined past or try to hopelessly smash it into amplified rock music, she pushed it forward, blending it with ambient synth along with Indian and Middle Eastern musics. One of her best collaborations was with the great Egyptian oud player Hamza el Din that was nearly dead until the 1960s. All of the songs on this record are haunting (as the title suggests), but these tracks with el Din are truly singular. I have been searching for a vinyl copy of this record for years; one day I’ll get lucky.

Lucas Odote — “J. Oreng”

Nyatiti Singles Volume 1 by Lucas Odote

I spent several years in Kenya learning to play the nyatiti, an eight stringed lyre historically played by a group of people in an area around Lake Victoria. I also spent time collecting records, searching for hours in dusty boxes for Kenyan traditional music records. One of my best finds was at Jimmy’s Records in Kenyatta Markets, this record by the great Nairobi based nyatiti player Lucas Odote. Most nyatiti records are just a guy playing solo and more ethno than funky. But this one seems to be Lucas teaming up with what I think to be Nairobi funksters, the Loki Toki Tok band. At least that’s what I can guess. My copy is beat to hell. It took some doing to get some sound out of it, but this is one of my faves in my collection.

Siti Muharam — Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar)

Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar) by Siti Muharam

I swear I saw Siti Muharam sing on the deck of a hotel bar while vacation in Zanzibar several years ago. I can’t be certain, but I am pretty sure it was her singing for the band I saw. The traditional form of Taarab music is something to be experienced. Taarab music comes from the Arab coast of East Africa, and is this fantastic mix of local feel and Arab sounds, overlapped with heart wrenching songs of lost love and longing. I think there are some foreigners involved in this production, but this is an excellent document of Taarab music at its best.

Grandmaster Masese — “Orogena rwa Baba”

Grandmaster Masese: New African Soundz Singles No.1 by Grandmaster Masese

It might be gauche to put records from your own label on a list like this, but I am first a music fan and second a musician and third a music seller… so this one stays. G-master is a friend of mine from Kenya and one of the best humans I know. One of just a handful of people who play the Obokano, a giant 8 stringed lyre that emits an unforgettable sub-bass buzzing sound and this was his first release in the US and one of my favorite records ever. We recorded this in his kitchen in Nairobi with just a couple of mics over dinner. G is a cool guy. You should listen to his music.

Yagi Michiyo — Seventeen

Yagi is another Japanese musician who specializes in what one would think is a “traditional” instrument, but who brings much more to the table than one would expect. Yagi is a koto player by training. You have probably heard koto in the background music for scenes of Japan in American movies. The version you hear there is mostly lifeless and flat, kind of like a plastic chair in the corner. Yagi, however, plays the 17 string bass koto, invented in the 1920s or so, to try and give new life to the instrument. Yagi creates weird percussive, dissonant music that I can’t really get enough of.

Asnakech Worku (featuring Hailu Mergia) — Asnakech

Asnakech by Asnakech Worku

Asnakech Worku was a lot of things; pioneer, actress, but most notably a female Krar player. Certainly there might have been other female Krar players in Ethiopia at the time, but Krar players are mostly men. The Krar is a lyre from Ethiopia, mostly played with one hand, though there are several playing styles out there. Worku plays haunting sounds on her Krar on this record, backed up by famous Ethiopian keyboardist Hailu Mergia, who really needs no intro.

Ogola Opot — “Domtila Ogola”

This will probably be the only 78 on this list. Ogola Opot is considered the grandfather of the Kenyan nyatiti, coming to prominence in the 1960s and 70s, and creating the genre we know as Siaya style “traditional nyatiti.” If someone asks me what nyatiti music sounds like, this is probably where I would have people start. I include this first because it is a great record and second because it was my holy grail for a while (though I always have new holy grails) and managed to find a pristine copy for sale from a place in France recently. I am not going to say how much I paid for it.

Sosena Gebre Eyesus — S/T (Little Axe Records)

Sosena Gebre Eyesus by Sosena Gebre Eyesus

I bought this record off the net because I am a huge fan of Begena music, this haunting, trance inducing music from Ethiopia that appears to be the go-to for Ethiopian Christians… but this record explained nothing of that. Just a picture of a lady with a begena and no other info…. It took me a while to put together what the record was and where it came from, but the sounds contained within are impeccable. Just 40 minutes of weird undersea tones on a giant bass lyre.

[radiophd]

asnakech worku -- sak bleh askegn

[omegaplus]

# 3,809

Omega Radio for August 30, 2021; #282.

Ata Kak: “Obaa Sima” + “Daa Nyina”

Penny Penny: “Shichangani” + ““Ingani”

Professor Rhythm: “Bafana Bafana”

Teno Afrika: “Smooth Criminal” + “Trip To Vlakas”

DJ Black Low: “Javia Low” + “Alone In A Dark”

DJ Katapila: “Cocoawra” + “Sakawa”

(Om) Alec Khaoli: “Say You Love Me” + “Enjoy It”

Antoinette Konan: “M’acko” + “Yale”

Umoja: “707″

Asnakech Worku: “Mech Alkugn Lela Sew”

Dur-Dur Band: “Dholey” + “Dooyo”

Aby Ngana Diop: “Liital” + “Ndadje”

Bola: “Yine Ntaripaga”

Na Hawa Doumbia: “Abayetidu Ma”

Sourakata Koite: “Moussa” + “Dioula”

Awalom Gebremariam: “Desdes”

Awa Paulo: “”Djara Wilam” + “Mido Yirima”

Jess San Bi & Peter One: “Minmanle?”

Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People: “Mudande”

SK Kakraba (Lobi): “Darifu”

Final Summer 2021 broadcast; label tribute.

[omegaradiowusb]

AUGUST 30, 2021 (#282)

Ata Kak: “Obaa Sima” + “Daa Nyina” Penny Penny: “Shichangani” + ““Ingani” Professor Rhythm: “Bafana Bafana” Teno Afrika: “Smooth Criminal” + “Trip To Vlakas” DJ Black Low: “Javia Low” + “Alone In A Dark” DJ Katapila: “Cocoawra” + “Sakawa” (Om) Alec Khaoli: “Say You Love Me” + “Enjoy It” Antoinette Konan: “M’acko” + “Yale” Umoja: “707″ Asnakech Worku: “Mech Alkugn Lela Sew” Dur-Dur Band: “Dholey” + “Dooyo” Aby Ngana Diop: “Liital” + “Ndadje” Bola: “Yine Ntaripaga” Na Hawa Doumbia: “Abayetidu Ma” Sourakata Koite: “Moussa” + “Dioula” Awalom Gebremariam: “Desdes” Awa Paulo: “”Djara Wilam” + “Mido Yirima” Jess San Bi & Peter One: “Minmanle?” Ephat Mujuru & The Spirit Of The People: “Mudande” SK Kakraba (Lobi): “Darifu”

All interstitials: Hailu Mergia with The Dahlak and Walias Bands.

Sundown finally arrives for Omega Radio‘s as its most ambitious (summer) broadcasting season comes to a close. We fill-in for Purple Starlight and send ourselves off to Autumn for our second and final label tribute in New York City’s Awesome Tapes From Africa label. For ten years, label-head Brian Shimkovitz discovers once-extremely rare, obscure, and authentic finds from all parts of Africa and re-issues them for wider audiences and distribution. Tonight, Hailu Mergia, Ata Kak, Penny Penny, Aby Ngana Diop and many more showcase the label’s entire back-catalogue.

We hope everyone enjoyed what we offered here on our busiest 13 weeks ever on WUSB. For everyone who’s followed, visited, and listened to us, we can’t thank you enough.

September 8, 2021 (midnight New York City): bonus Omega

September 11, 2021 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

September 25, 2021 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

October 9, 2021 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

October 23, 2021 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

November 6, 2021 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

November 20, 2021 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

[memeween]

album recs u didnt ask for:

odyshape by the raincoats

b2 unit by ryuichi sakamoto

asnakech by asnakech worku

movement by new order

have a good day!

[thetransatlanticphenomenon]

Our last show's playlist! "Between 1961 and 1966, the Congolese band Ry-Co Jazz produced 25 EP's..." We heard two songs from this time period in our playlist. 📻🎵🎶🎵🎶 "*Orchestre International Akweza ""Mademoiselle X"" [GABON] *Amade Cyrille & Les Volcans de la Capitale ""Ma Kpon Ne Soum"" [BENIN] *Rail Band ""Nantan"" [MALI] *Asnakech Worku ""Mengedegnaw Lebe"" [ETHIOPIA] *Zoulikha ""Ana habba nrouah"" [ALGERIA] *João Donato ""Me deixa"" [BRAZIL] *Cátia de França ""O bonde"" [BRAZIL] *Vicky ""Llorando estoy"" [COLOMBIA] *Los Robbins de La Ceiba ""La ceiba Honduras (Ceibita en verano)"" [HONDURAS] *Phyllis Dillon ""Perfidia"" [JAMAICA] *Alberto Beltran con Orchestra René Hernández ""Nuevas Ansias"" [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC] *Alberto Beltran con La Sonora Matancera y Otros ""Todo Me Gusta De Ti"" [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC] *Ry-co Jazz ""Maria De Mi Amor"" [CONGO] *Ry-co Jazz ""Mawa"" [CONGO] *Toots & The Maytals ""Monkey Man"" [JAMAICA] *Bembeya Jazz National ""Fatoumata"" [GUINEA] *Bembeya Jazz National ""Boiro"" [GUINEA] *Toots & The Maytals ""Reggae Got Soul"" [JAMAICA] *Marcia Griffiths ""Mark My Word"" [JAMAICA] *Marcia Griffiths ""Feel Like Jumping"" [JAMAICA] *Willie Colon & Ruben Blades ""Plástico"" [PUERTO RICO/PANAMA]" #communityradio #kcsbfm #rycojazz https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDoDqwg7N-/?igshid=1axnd5le5zgpn

[yaramekawei]

Ethiopian singer and krar-player Asnakech Worku's recording with Hailu Mergia during the height of her powers, on a double LP with unpublished family photos and extensive liner notes by Hailu Mergia. #listen to #ethiopia #ethiopianwomen #ethiopian #music #soundclould #radio #Radio_submarine #follow #linkinbio https://www.instagram.com/p/CC_TyYYHq_V/?igshid=1or5x6t3fzd0x

[nanan]

＜TRACKLIST＞ KOKU NISHIMURA Choshi (Myoan Shinpo Ryu) MELANIA ABOVIAN Dle Yaman LUSINE ZAKARYAN Sourb-Sourb TSEGUÉ-MARYAM GUÈBROU The Homeless Wanderer LOUISANA RED Sweetblood Call ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS It's A Long Old Road RUSS GARCIA & HIS ORCHESTRA Venus TERANCE CASEY Song Hits Medley 1 CONNIE STEVENS Blame It On My Youth ANDREA CAROLL It Hurts To Be Sixteen URAL THOMAS Smile NEW YORK ART QUARTET Sweet - Black Dada Nihilismus ASNAKECH WORKU Tche Belew SEQUENTIA Germany_ Anon. 9th C. - Thes Abet Er Ubar Woroltring A. FORQUERAY* / CH. DOLLE* WIELAND KUIJKEN • SIGISWALD KUIJKEN • ROBERT KOHNEN Pieces De Viole, Op. 2: Suite No. 2 In C Minor: V. Sarabande LOLA KIEPJA Laments (No. 43 And 44) QUINTETO VIOLADO Vaquejada FREED Girlfriend ALAN WILSON On The Road Again HUMBLE PIE Charlene

灰野敬二がネットラジオ局NTS Radioでお気に入りの楽曲を90分にわたって紹介 - amass

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My Top 10 2018

(8 New 2 Reissue)

Asnakech Worku - Asnakech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlsUUxKyI5k

Kilchhofer - Skimo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymS3bvUmVdQ

El Búho - Сamino De Flores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02gIZOcAsV0

The Myrrors - Borderlands https://themyrrorsbbib.bandcamp.com/track/call-for-unity

Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of

Sudays & Cybele - On the Grass

幾何学模様 -  Masana Temples

Skee Mask - Compro

Kate NV - Для

Salvia Palth - Melanchole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi6JU55eCFA

[dustedmagazine]

Asnakech Worku — Asnakech (Awesome Tapes from Africa)

Asnakech by Asnakech Worku

In addition to being Ethiopia’s first (!) actress, Asnakech Worku was one of its most beloved and controversial singers and harp players. Unless you’re Ethiopian, or obsessed with Ethiopian music, that description in no way prepares you for the disorienting sounds you’ll hear on her reissued 1975 tape, Asnakech. If you’re coming to Asnakech expecting the sort of party starting funk you’ll find on a Hailu Mergia record (who, along with drummer Temare Haregu, accompanies Worku throughout), be warned: Asnakech’s funk/folk hybrid is many things, but danceable isn’t one. Worku’s instrument, a traditional harp called a krar, is brittle, nasal, and buzzy, and played in furious rhythmic flurries that are more reminiscent of North Carolina banjo player Dink Roberts than the Ethio-jazz that has been trendy among record nerds for a decade or so now. Casual Mulatu Astatke fans take heed: this is the hard stuff.  

There’s some tension between Mergia and Haregu’s approachable, jazzy backing and Worku’s unruly playing. On tracks like “Tche Belew” or “Baynelay Yidal,” Worku almost sounds like she’s at odds with, or ignoring, her accompanists. This friction is partially due to the frantic way the krar is played—Worku doesn’t play the melody so much as swarm it—but credit must also go to the baffling and wonderful decision to add amplification and reverb to the krar.  

Oh, that reverb-heavy krar. It’s unfair and lazy for Westerners to exoticize the sound of a traditional instrument played by an important cultural figure, but damned if the amplification and reverb on the krar, combined with Mergia’s gooey organ and the hazy recording quality, doesn’t have hypnotic, even psychedelic, properties. The reverb shatters the krar’s already scattered melodies and sends them flying off in sparks, lending these moody, introspective performances a dreamy, even surreal, atmosphere. It’s no disparagement to say that Asnakech is a curiosity, and it’s worth listening to Worku play some unadulterated krar to get a sense of how unusual a recording it is.  

Except for the final track, a solo performance by Worku, there’s not much variation in tempo, mood, or approach on Asnakech, and entrancing though each track is, at an hour, it's a lot to take in. Still, if you can attune yourself to the peculiar, hypnagogic mood it creates, Asnakech is an engaging, non-traditional look at traditional Ethiopian music, and an appropriately unorthodox introduction to an Ethiopian trailblazer.  

Isaac Olson

[radiophd]

asnakech worku -- jinyew

[lunchboxrecords]

Out today 11/16/18: CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD LP box, MARK KNOPFLER CD/LP, THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY CD/LP ( green vinyl), ANDREW MCMAHON LP, SMASHING PUMPKINS CD/LP (mystery vinyl with glow in the dark vinyl), CHRIS CORNELL 3xLP, AMANDA PALMER LP, PRIMUS LP reissues (pork soda & brown album) SWOLLEN MEMBERS live LP, TRAVIS SCOTT LP, GUCCI MANE LP reissue, ICP LP reissue (colored vinyl), Christmas records from OLD 97’s (colored vinyl ), CHEAP TRICK, JOSEPH WASHINGTON JR, AUGUST BURNS RED, TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (white vinyl) B12 CD/LP, BRAINFEEDER compilation CD/LP box, RETO A ICHI LP (new project from Prefuse 73 guy), CERRONE 12” & 10”, MMPH LP, PERTURBATOR remix LPs, SPONTANEOUS OVERTHROW LP reissue ROBERT EARL KEEN LP reissue (colored vinyl ), LUKE COMBS deluxe LP (bonus LP with 7 more songs), CODY JINKS LP reissue, AMIRI BARAKA LP reissue, ASNAKECH WORKU LP reissue, MAKAYA MCCRAVEN LP, JAMES BOOKER LP reissue, ICE AGE picture disc soundtrack LP, KEVIN SMITH CD/LP SAVAK LP (members of Obits), TILIAN CD/LP (white vinyl, Dance Gavin Dance singer), SINGLE MOTHERS LP (colored vinyl), HI-STANDARD LP, MINDFORCE LP, MEMPHIS MAY FIRE LP, THOSE DAMN CROWS CD/LP, MERCYFUL FATE pic disc LP , TERRORIZER CD/LP EROSION LP, FUNERAL CHIC CD/LP, AMON AMARTH CD/LP, INSOMNIUM LP reissues x4, WITHERFALL LP, ISIS Red Sea LP reissue BRIAN ENO LP reissues x3, RAINER MARIA LP reissues x4 (colored vinyl), EURYTHMICS LP reissues x2 FUTURE ISLANDS LP reissue of 1st album, THE RUNAWAYS beat of LP, LITTLE DRAGON new EP, ROLLING STONES live LP and Beggars Banquet deluxe LP reissue, JOSEPH SHABASON LP, RYLEY WALKER CD/LP, PARKER GISBERT CD/LP, SURFBORT LP RUSH hemispheres LP box set, FLEETWOOD MAC - 50th anniversary best of CD/deluxe CD/LP box, KATE BUSH CD/LP box set, ADRIENNE LENKER LP reissues, UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA LP reissue (blue vinyl), KHRUANGBIN Christmas 7”, HABIBI LP reissue (red vinyl), CIGARETTES AFTER SEX 7”, DAVID BOWIE pic disc 7” ANDERSON PAAK CD (no vinyl date yet), MARIAH CAREY CD #lunchboxrecords #AIMSrocks #plazamidwood (at Lunchbox Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqQh7SHhqIN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=195el4rsa1onx

[resistance765]

“Awkew Beneber” - Asnakech Worku

[bustakay]

Asnakech Worku - Tizita.