5 Tracks You Should Hear This Week
5 essential tracks with a great background story out of Bounty Radio’s S03E012.
Twice a month the Bounty Radio podcast highlights new, innovative World Music 2.0. From each episode I select 5 tracks and provide you with their background story. Discover them all alongside more great tropical music in this week’s episode (on Mixcloud)
1. Khruangbin — August 10
A laid-back track, with bits of triphop and reggae (A bit of Ernest Ranglin, right?) taken from Khruangbin latest album Con Todo El Mundo. While driving to rehearsals the band used to listen to cassettes with 60’s and 70’s Thai music on, a sound that would shape the band. Khruangbin means airplane in Thai, and Con Todo El Mundo does take you with its sunny psychedelic groove on a flight to different times and places. Bits of retro surf riffs are blended with Indian, Thai and Iranian influences, creating intimate, almost cinematic instrumental music.
2. Lindigo — Sézon
The band Lindigo hails from the island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The island is still a part of the French Outre-Mer department, where French folk music blended with local and Indian elements into a genre called Maloya. The French considered the powerful music, sung in Réunion Creole, dangerous and even prohibited it in the 70's!
The young band Lindigo revitalizes the jumpy rhythm of Maloya on their latest album Komsa Gayar, switching between uptempo tracks like Sézon and slower tracks like Zamé Konton and Souvnans. An album that beautifully respect and reinvents the curious Maloya music.
3. Coco Raízes de Arcoverde — A Sereia
Based in the North East of Brazil, Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde is one of the most respected samba de coco groups. On this album, the American producer Maga Bo pushes them outside their comfort zone by bringing in electronic beats and bass. The result respects and preserves the original Afro-Brazilian rhythmic structure while introducing a new electronic palette to their work. Recorded on a non-existent budget with a backpack worth of gear in an improvised studio, this is an independent, guerilla project fueled by the shear desire to see this project to fruition.
4. Muzi — People
Beating Heart Music is a collective of artists and enthusiasts who inspires today’s hottest producers to build new compositions using the original field recordings. The proceeds of the albums support gender equality in South Africa, music production education to kids and a food garden project in Malawi. In their latest release, producers are remixing field recordings made by Hugh Tracey in the ‘50s in South Africa. We check a Kwaito-like track by the young South African producer Muzi, who’s known for this heavy rhythms inspired by Zulu culture.
5. Dirtmusic — Go The Distance
This track is taken from the album Bu Bir Ruya by Dirtmusic. The project is a collaboration between the Blues trio of Dirtmusic and Murat Ertel from Baba Zula (Baba Zula is a leading Anatolian Psychedelic band from Turkey, playing for over 20 years). Dirtmusic originally started as an acoustic Blues trio, but experimented with the Malian Blues variant, Desert Blues, in 2010 together with Tamikrest. The trio now changes the project into a darker, deeper experience with the help of Murat Ertel.
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Bounty Radio brings you twice a month on future and electronic ‘World Music 2.0’. The show broadcasts since 2015 out of Kortrijk (Belgium) and airs on 3 stations and various podcast platforms. The playlist includes brand new electronica, global bass and organic grooves that will take you deep into the tropics.
