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Gondwana Sound's Interests
General
ALBUMS OF THE WEEK
HOW DO YOU WANT TO LISTEN ?
PODCASTS
Click on the link below to go to the GondwanaSound podcast archive and listen to upto four past shows - yep, that's eight hours of global roots and grooves with plenty of mispronunciations, news, interviews and new releases.
Wednesdays 10 am - midday GMT on Sheffield Live! on 93.2FM to Sheffield & Rotherham and worldwide on http://www.sheffieldllive.org - two hours of global roots and grooves, news, reviews and interviews.
Click on the link below or copy and paste into your browser.
When you are there click the listen in live icon, on the left of the page.
SOME USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES
VIDEOS OF THE WEEK
Video from Democracy Now! about the Food Crisis - whats behind it who's effected and what we can do. According to Aavaz 90% of people in Sierra Leone will not be able to afford a bag a rice !!
Learn to dance to Senegalese style with our friends, teacher Malagn from Zinguinchor and student Christine.
The video to accompany Seize the Day's song With My Hammer about the courage of ordinary women who could no longer sit back and watch fighter planes being built to be sent to Indonesia. This is their story......very inspiring. We played the song as part of The International Women's Day celebration on 12th March broadcast.
FOLK DEVILS
http://www.folkdevils.co.uk
A global roots and electronic music shop and on line retailer par exellence,
bringing an eclectic and idiosyncratic mix of songs, sounds and rhythms. Specialising in Folk, World, and Electronic music they offer a unique mix of music off the mainstream plus an excellent mail order service. They stock most of the music that GondwanaSound plays.
FOLK DEVILS CHARTS FOR FEB 08
Based on January Sales
World/Roots
1 Seasick Steve - Dog House Music - Bronzerat
2 Manu Chao - La Radiolina - Because
3 Mostar Sevdah Reunion - Cafe Sevdah - Snail Records
4 Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta - Side One Dummy
5 Terrafolk - Live AT the Queen's Hall - Menart
6 Djivan Gasparyan - The Soul of Armenia - Network
7 Le Trio Joubran - Majaz - Randana (Highly Recommended)
8 Bassekou Kouyate - Segu Blue - Out Here
9 Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y gabriela - Rubyworks
10 Beirut - Flying Club Cup - 4AD
YORKSHIRE WORLD MUSIC NETWORK
http://www.ywmn.org.uk
A space for everyone in the Yorkshire county who enthuse about world music, promoters, labels, bands, djays, broadcasters, venues and festival directors. Join in and get networking.
WHITBY MUSICPORT
http://www.whitbymusicport.com
Yorkshire and the North's friendliest world music
festival under the directorship of Jim McLaughlin.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT GONDWANASOUND
"I like that Gondwana woman"
Overheard from someone with great taste in the Showroom bar in Sheffield ;) March 2008
"Do you play Seth Lakeman"
Babs Firth October 2007
"Yesterday for the first time I listened to your broadcast and I really enjoyed it. It's a shame that I'm not on broadband so I only listened for the first half hour. I thought you sounded very sexy but somehow still you. I liked the amount of background information you give and it had me hooked." Carmen Cauchi, London - April 2007
" First thing I thought was this woman really knows her stuff but hey how about some music like Joi, their new album is a work of genius"
Fiona, Small Massive Theatre - March 2007
"Show was good tonight, like the collapsing chair!!
keeps it real - enjoy the snow! - well done, peace."
Selecter Styx ..Feb 07
"Hi Jill, the children love dancing to your SOUNDS - they have been having great fun. Thanks for the link - best music show in town!!"
Gary, Angela, Gabriella and Lydia .... Jan 07
"I listened to your programme, including the mixdown, last night. I was moved and touched. But I enjoyed the whole thing as well. That's the whole point. To see that my music fits into the eclectic and socially conscious music your programme features. To tell you the truth, I feel that no other radio programme in the UK has done Sprinting Gazelle justice the way you did last night."
Reem Kelani..Dec 06
"Your show seems to go from strength to strength"
Pete Holden of Transfusion, ... Sept 06
Music
So much music, so little time......
Here's some of the artists that I have been lucky to interview for the GondwanaSound broadcasts.
Amadou and Mariam, K Naan, Emmanuel Jal, Orange Blossom, Rachid Taha, Nuru Kane, Katus, East Handed, Mahotella Queens, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Bake Gbine and Baka Beyond,
Sea Sick Steve, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, Lisa Knapp, Transglobal Underground, Temple of Sound, Wai, Doreen Thobekile, Konono No 1, Vusi Mahasela, Zoe Rahman, Ninon Foiret, Andreas Oggiani, Jah Wobble, Terafolk, Kal, Chartwell Dutiro, Bagdhaddies, Jali Fily Cissokho, Zion Train, Country Joe McDonald, Stella Chiweshe, Rise Kagona and Champion Doug Veitch, Reem Kelani,Nuala and Alchemy Quartet,Oki, Sambasunda, Jo Freya, Juldeh Camara, Vesna Panic, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, NuruKane, THe Imagined Villafe, Eddie Martin, Gav Redshaw, Etran Finitawa, I don't know who will be next......
One love to all the musicians who brighten up our lives, lift our souls, shake our tail feathers and bring people closer together.
Movies
- All the films directed by Jeff Perks :)
Television
People watch too much T.V, you should listen
to the radio more !
The revolution will not be televised - Gil Scot Heron
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding Ignorance and Feeding Radiation
Where Oxymoronic language like
Virtually spotless, fresh frozen,
Light yet filling, and military intelligence
have become standard
T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
like recession to necessary downturn
crude oil on a beach to mousse
civilian death to collateral damages
and being killed by our own army
is now called friendly fire
TV is the place where the pursuit of
happiness has become the pursuit of
trivia
where toothpaste and cars have become
sex objects
where imagination is sucked out of children
by a cathode ray nipple
TV is
the only wet nurse
that would create a cripple
Television, the drug of the nation
Breeding Ignorance and Feeding Radiation
"The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy"
Books
My notebook !!
Ones with lots of pictures - I'm terrible at reading. Usually I'm so busy listening to music for the show or editing up interviews that I don't have much time to read unfortunately. I listen to the radio a lot and hopefully gain as much information that way as I can.
Heroes
- No one big and famous, anyone working for change to make the world a better place.
- I do not like the way we live in this current climate of celebrity.
Also
- Sound engineers that can mike up acoustic instruments
they've never heard before.
Quote from Esma Redzepova
"I am a cosmopolitan person, I like to travel everywhere and to mix with all cultures. And I don't like borders or wars. Music is the only entertainment of poor people. You can turn on the radio and forget hunger. I have travelled the four corners of the world and it seems to me that people, regardless, forget we are only guests on this earth, that we come into it naked and depart with empty hands. So why wars, evil ? It is time to open up to each other, to mix cultures and to begin to respect each other." - ESMA REDZAPOVA Oct '03
Quote from Pete Wetherby / Axiom Music
"The business of music is more often than not a world of small minds and little soul, where success is dictated by the ability to locate trends and accordingly manufacture the most lucrative product available. In this context, the lowest forms of capitalism emerge in insidious ways: the isolation and ghettoization of easily controlled "genres" and the encouragement of planned obsolescence as ways to keep up the flow of "product" become the techniques for success. Vision, integrity, significance and expression, the driving forces behind the creative act, are sacrificed as mere obstructions to the workings of business."
Quote from - Peter Wetherby / Axiom.
- The inventor of the Sony mini disc
- The coggi indians.
GondwanaSound plays global roots and grooves, news, interviews, old favourites and new releases.
We took our name and inspiration from the name Gondwanaland, one of the ancient land masses, before the construction of economic boundaries, trade, wars and territorial boundaries which divide and keep us apart. Its a bit hard to explain in words, and its all very idealistic, but I'll try....with GondwanaSound we concentrate on our common humanity, the fact that we all make music for the same reasons and music brings us together, you can pick up on the feeling of the music, even if you can't immediately understand the lyrics.
In the beginning.....
GondwanaSound started as a cafe night and sound system formed out of a mutual love for global roots & grooves and the festival scene in the UK. We still like to play out and if you'd like t book GondwanaSound for your event please get in contact.
GondwanaSound appreciates the goodwill of artists, record labels and distributors in sending us material to play. We do not get paid by Sheffield Live or African Internet Radio, both are not for profit organisations. All donations are gratefully received and help to offset the cost of researching and scheduling the weekly broadcast.
IMAGES FROM WHITBY MUSICPORT 2007
Images below are from WOMAD 2008
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Who I'd like to meet:
- Listeners to GondwanaSound
- Musicians, agents, record companies, music enthusiasts, remixers all with an interest in global roots and grooves music
In case you weren't aware, I'm trying to find like minded people who like good music cause mainstream radio doth suck. I hate hyper happy radio hosts, insipid chat and playlists backed by record companies filled with krappy bands beginning with the letter K! So I've made the show I always wanted to hear on the radio! So I'd like to invite you to check it out if you haven't already.
Ola's Kool Kitchen
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