David Dalle
Thursday June 16th, 2022 with David Dalle
Vox Sambou; Electric soul and brass from Sudan's Red Sea; continuing journey through Niger; Mahler
For the first summer in two years, we are heading into summer festival season with actual live concerts!! The Jazz Festival, the Blues Festival, Music & Beyond, the Chamber Festival. We will be looking at a couple of concerts before the festivals start. Tonight, Haitian-Canadian Vox Sambou will be performing at the Shenkmen Arts Centre. As well, Mahler with the NAC orchestra, two terrific musical choices for a Thursday evening!
Vox Sambou tonight!
https://shenkmanarts.ca/en/vox-sambou
Mahler and Wynton Marsalis tonight!
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30033
| But first, we will hear the final side in our vinyl journey through Niger with the double LP Folk music of the Sahel vol. 1: Niger with Hausa and Fulani music on this last side. Amazingly, TWO great Nigerien Tuareg groups are coming to Ottawa in the next two weeks, Less Filles de Illighadad at the Jazzfest on the 29th. Bombino will be at the Bluesfest on July 7th!
https://ottawajazzfestival.com/artists/les-filles-de-illighadad/ https://ottawabluesfest.ca/artists/#/artist/bombino |
| Gourmi Praise Song for the Sarki Moussa & Issa - Folk music of the Sahel vol. 1: Niger - Sublime Frequencies |
| Komsa Praise Songs Mohamed Tenna - Folk music of the Sahel vol. 1: Niger - Sublime Frequencies |
| Denke Denke Sambare - Folk music of the Sahel vol. 1: Niger - Sublime Frequencies |
| Yarra Tempte du Desert Group - Folk music of the Sahel vol. 1: Niger - Sublime Frequencies |
| Telillite Les Filles de Illighadad - Eghass Malan - Sahel Sounds |
| Jabana Noori & his Dorpa Band - Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast - Ostinato Records 
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| Voyage Vox Sambou - Eritaj - Independent 
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| Na Luta Vox Sambou - Eritaj - Independent
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| Epe Baba Dende Macedo - Ago - Ropeadope
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| Lanperè Vox Sambou - Eritaj - Independent
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| Daleb Noori & his Dorpa Band - Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan's Red Sea Coast - Ostinato Records
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| The great conductor and Mahlerian interpreter Bruno Walter first heard Mahler and his 1st symphony in June of 1894 in Weimer when Walter was only 17 years old. Water was already a professional musician and worked as a coach at the Cologne Opera. Walter got to meet Mahler later in 1894 when he was hired by the composer to work as his assistant at the Hamburg Opera. Mahler and Walter would play much orchestral music at the piano together including Mahler's 1st symphony. Bruno Walter was engaged to transcribe piano duet "reductions" of Mahler's first two symphonies. This was very common procedure throughout the 19th century as many musicians and amateurs would get to know orchestral works through their piano duet or two piano transcriptions. His piano duet transcription of Mahler's first symphony may not quite achieve the transformative heights of Liszt's solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies, but he was a brilliant musician with an extremely sensitive ear for Mahler's music, which we know from his incomparable recordings of Mahler many decades later. We hear the piano duet transcription of Mahler's first symphony, which is being performed tonight by the NAC Orchestra. I can never hear too much Mahler, in any form!
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/30033 |
| Symphony No. 1 in D for piano duet Gustav Mahler, transcribed by Bruno Walter/Prague Piano Duo - Symphony No. 1 - Praga |
| 30 years since this album came out, and probably 28 years since I first heard it, which began my lifelong love of Moroccan music and culture, and double-reeded instruments. |
| A Habibi Ouajee T'Allel Allaiya Master Musicians of Jajouka - Apocalypse Across the Sky - Axiom |
| Bujloudia "Bujloudia Dancing with Aisha Qandisha" Master Musicians of Jajouka - Apocalypse Across the Sky - Axiom |
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