Sunday at Bob's #32 - In the Swamps

Hello everyone! Welcome for the last playlist of this summer. I won't apologize for missing yet another rendez-vous two weeks ago because I am afraid it becomes a recurent intro to these articles. But you know... sorry. Today's article won't be very long, I mounted the playlist as to have a good time listening but I didn't include any statements or reflections in it this time. It is a light end of a strange (school) year. I just want to mention that soundcloud only allows me to post a certain amount of quantity and that this quantity has been reached, so my quest for a hosting website goes on (I could also get a soundcloud membership of course but I am still thinking). Without further ado, let us begin.

We commence with a very beautiful song by the German harpist Rüdiger Oppermann whose work I am still exploring and stunned by on regular basis.

Rudiger Oppermann might be best described as a free-style and experimental folk musician, who draws on both ancient and modern musics and musical traditions, to create a melting pot of musical cultures that cannot be ascribed to any one folk tradition. On the sleeve notes to his record 'Unchain my Harp' (1994), he described himself as seeking to create "fresh buds on old trees with strong roots." (source)

Comes after the mindblowing Isaac Sasson from Venezuela about who I have very little information but I thank destiny very often to have put his music on my path. His album Memorias del canto campesino is truly a gem.

Then we have a very cool time in the company of Argile and their Tagtraum Eines Elefanten (daydream if an elephant). I heard it in a very interesting compilation by Jan Schulte called Tropical Drums of Deutschland. I very much recommend it.

It is followed by a recent happy discovery, the group Collage from Estonia. I think it is most likely the only music I have on my library that is from Estonia, but their album 47'04 was a slap in the face. It is a bit as if jazz and hip hop were invented in the Baltics and Collage was A Tribe Called Quest or Guru. Of course in real life it isn't the case but that is what I thought while listening to that album for the first time.

We continue with a gem by the London based amazing singer Eska Mtungwazi taken from her eponym album from 2015.

We take a small turn and go meet the famous Omar Souleyman who is on fire since 1994 with his contemporary version of dabke. He is followed by the less famous, as much on fire, Moulay Ahmed El Hassani and his contemporary version of berber music.

Right after is a very chill electronic song from the Brazilian compilation Outro Tempo. Then a song I couldn't identify that I found last summer in the street market of Azrou which I mentioned in a much earlier post, and a song by the very interesting Palestinian singer Sanaa Moussa who appears to hold a PhD in neuroscience on top of being a great artist.

That's it for this week, I see you in september most likely for another year of music!

Until then, don't forget to check out at 10h30, or at least pretend.

The receptionist.

Playlist:

1. Rüdiger Oppermann's Harp Attack - Neues aus Harfistan
2. Isaac Sasson - Florentino y el diablo
3. Argile - Tagtraum Eines Elefanten
4. Collage - Petis Peiu
5. Eska - She’s In The Flowers
6. Omar Souleyman - Mawwal
7. Moulay Ahmed el Hassani - Elhassani 01
8. Nando Carneiro - G.R.E.S. Luxo Artesanal / O Camponês
9. Unknown - Unknown
10. Sanaa Moussa - Nijmet El-Subeh