27th August 2013
On Planet Waves this time:
3 electric performances from 1977 on 3 continents – 3 versions of the hymn Idumea – 2 songs about basil from Eastern Europe – 2 songs about friendship – from Scotland and Kazakhstan
Kana Soro – Los Issifu & His Moslems – Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983 – Analog Africa AACD 074 – Ghana
Two Sevens Clash – Culture – Two Sevens Clash – VP Records – Jamaica
Jacques’s Playtime – Reptile House – by arrangement – n/a – Scotland
Italiana – Le Pivenelsacco – Cento Rami – Radici Music RMR 134 – Italy
El Sereno de Mi Calle – El Indio Gitano – Duende: The Passion & Dazzling Virtuosity of Flamenco – Ellipsis Arts ELLICD 3350 – Spain
Banging Breakdown – Hobart Smith – In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes – Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40141 – Virginia
Idumea – Young Tradition – Galleries – Transatlantic TRA 172 (LP) – US/UK
Idumea – Tim Cummings – Book: An Appalachian Collection, Mountain Music for Scottish Pipes – Birchen Music Publishing – Appalachia
Leilinko, Kuzum Pilyanze (Leilinko, My Darling) – The Bulgarian Voices Angelite – Angelina – Jaro 4310 2 – Bulgaria
Mi-am pus busuioc în par – Oana Catalina Chitu – Divine: Romanian Songs from the repertoire of Maria Tanase (1913-1963) – Asphalt Tango CD ATR 3913 – Romania
Idumea – Molly & Maggie and The Ephemeral Stringband – Converting Grace – bandcamp download – Appalachia
In Freenships Name – Mick West and Muldoon’s Picnic – A Scots Chorus – CLCD 1301 – Scotland
Irquzan – O Sayzada & R Nurdqaan – Kazakh Songs And Epic Tradition Of The West – Ocora C 583051 – Mongolia
Flammende Herzen – Michael Rother – Chronicles 1 – Purple Pyramid CLP 0184 2 – Germany
Echo Blues (sig tune) – Frank Wakefield – That was now… this is then! – Rosewood RA 62096 – Tennessee