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Anthony “Big A” Sherrod is a young Mississippi bluesman, schooled by a noted blues teacher in the area, “Mr. Johnnie” Billington, who taught not only the music but the value of hard work and knowledge of the culture and history from which Mississippi blues emerged, a world where the musicians worked at very hard, low-paying agricultural jobs.
globalFEST 2017 offered its trademark panoply of eclectic and highly entertaining sound and spectacle: 12 acts on three stages in New York City’s Webster Hall over the course of five hours on Sun., Jan. 8. The time flies by. This year offered full-throttle Cuban son from Septeto Santiaguero; a historic reunion of the late Congolese legend Tabu Ley Rochereau’s band L’Orchestre Afrisa International; giddy Moroccan-roll from Hoba Hoba Spirit; stylized and visually bracing genre-bending sets from Ghana/Brooklyn (Jojo Abot) and Korea (SsingSsing). There was also roots music from the Georgia Sea Islands (Ranky Tanky) and, in a U.S. debut, Venezuela (Betsayda Machado y la Parranda el Clavo) as well as roots fusion from Sudan by way of New York from Alsarah and the Nubatones.
Septeto Santiaguero. Photos by Banning Eyre
L’Orchestre Afrisa International with Mis Blandine, replacing Mbilia Bel
Hoba Hoba Spirit
Jojo Abot
SsingSsing
Ranky Tanky
Betsayda y la Parranda el Clavo
Alsarah and the Nubatones
Rare Essence
Maarja Nuut of Estonia spun out hypnotic cycles on violin, backed by electronics, and saxophone maestro Redresh Mahanthapa put a South Asian spin on jazz with the Indo-Pak Coalition. From Washington, DC, Rare Essence kicked out a fabulous, rousing set of go go music near the end of the night, and one-of-a-kind Angolan DJ and performance artist Batida riffed over idiosyncratic remixes and historic video clips, interspersing highly danceable music with eccentric and provocative stage patter to end the festivities.
For more on what I and the NPR globalFEST crew made of the night, check out the “All Songs Considered” podcast on the event. Below find a gallery of shots from Afropop’s Sebastian Bouknight.
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CD 1:
1. Stray – All In Your Mind
2. The Open Mind – Cast A Spell
3. The Mooche – Hot Smoke And Sassafras
4. Crushed Butler – My Son’s Alive
5. Chicken Shack – Going Down
6. Cycle – Father Of Time
7. The Deviants – I’m Coming Home
8. The Pink Fairies – Do It
9. Factory – Time Machine
10. The Groundhogs – Cherry Red
11. The Wicked Lady – I’m A Freak
12. Charge – Rock My Soul
13. Hawkwind Zoo – Sweet Mistress Of Pain
14. Stone House – Nightmare
15. Iron Maiden – Falling
16. Barnabus – Apocalypse
CD 2:
1. Writing On The Wall – Bogeyman
2. Deep Purple – Fireball
3. Jerusalem – Primitive Man
4. The Edgar Broughton Band – Love In The Rain
5. Hellmet – Trust
6. Second Hand – Rhubarb!
7. Little Free Rock – Dream
8. Iron Claw – Skullcrusher
9. Dark – Zero Time
10. The Velvet Frogs – Jehovah
11. The Move – Brontosaurus
12. Stack Waddy – Bring It To Jerome
13. Samuel Prody – Mr. Make Believe
14. Bare Sole – Flash
15. The Phoenix – Street Walking Woman
16. Skid Row – Go, I’m Never Gonna Let You
CD 3:
1. The Gun – Race With The Devil
2. Blonde On Blonde – Heart Without A Home
3. Third World War – Ascension Day
4. Egor – Street
5. Sam Gopal – Escalator
6. Uriah Heep – Gypsy
7. The Mickey Finn – Garden Of My Mind
8. The Yardbirds – Think About It
9. Morning After – Trying To Find My Way Back Home
10. Velvett Fogg – Yellow Cave Woman
11. Andromeda – Too Old
12. Fleetwood Mac – The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown)
13. Sweet Slag – Twisted Trip Woman
14. The Kult – Occult
15. Taste – Born On The Wrong Side Of Time
16. Fusion Farm – Hollis Brown
Martin Archer
Story Tellers
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DJANGOIZING: a realization of a dream inspired by one of Jose’s childhood heroes, Django Reinhardt. Django’s gypsy swing moved Jose to explore and absorb his style, resulting in a brilliant collection of Latin-Gypsy Swing pieces he calls Djangoizing. Simply speaking, with the corroboration of Harri Stojka, the Viennese-Roman-Gypsy jazz-swing guitarist, and with his own stroke of genius, they simply sent the project over the Moon.
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