Comments on: Vaovy

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:07:28 +0000

The harmonised vocals remind me of a lot of Polynesian and Melanesian music I heard back home in New Zealand and in the Pacific Islands. I know that malagasy is linked to the malayo-polynesian language family, but maybe there are long undiscovered musical links too…?

By: mister anchovy

mister anchovy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:08:31 +0000

nice cuts, thank you.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:37:33 +0000

I love accordion… did you know I actually drove to St. Catharines, ON to interview Walter Ostanek, “Canada’s Polka King” and randomly ask people there if they’d even heard of him (most didn’t; one girl said, “I think he’s the guy who owns this building”… it was a hair salon). I think he even tops Celine Dion in Grammy nominations. You can read about him here: http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/01_walter_ostanek.xml.htm

Clearly, though, this Gizavo dude is way cooler.

By: Plodder

Plodder — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:23:21 +0000

re. Alan Namoko and Kasambwe Brothers Band

Alan Namoko CD and many other Malawian CDs books etc. can be bought from http://www.pamtondo.com/index.php?sectionid=1

By: Matt Yanchyshyn

Matt Yanchyshyn — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:22:08 +0000

Bruce,

There’s lots of African music featuring according, particularly on the islands off southern Africa like Mayotte, Rodrigues, Reunion, etc.

Check-out these posts:
http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/04/21/island-accordimania/
and this
http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/04/19/cane-harvest-expressions/
and this
http://bennloxo.com/archives/2005/01/24/franco-deux/
and this
http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/05/25/gnawa-a-little-further-south/

Cheers,
Matt

By: Bruce Triggs

Bruce Triggs — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:57:18 +0000

He put out a fantastic record “Stories,” in 2006 with Louis Mhlanga and David Mirandon. Accordion, Guitar, Drums –Madagascar, Zimbabwe, France. Amazingly beautiful.

(If you have other African accordion music, we’d like to play it on our Accordion Noir radio show in Vancouver, Canada. I only have a bit and I like it a lot.)

I just heard that there’s more accordion students in Japan than any other country. We play some weird rock and roll coming from there.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:21:07 +0000

I don’t have any idea what Mafé means. I can only think it means gorgeous!

By: Squeezyboy

Squeezyboy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:21 +0000

Brilliant !
Thank you so much, I’m loving it.

By the way, have you found the free African Dance album on Emusic ?
http://www.emusic.com/album/11021/11021810.html
There’s some good stuff on there.

By: d

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:52:02 +0000

this is the kind of African music I can’t really get into… it sounds like a Disney soundtrack for the Lion King or something like that.

Too melodic, too clean, too flat… and then again, I am biased and I can only tolerate accordions in the hands of Tango musicians or Eastern European gypsies.

I once went to Malawi and bought a bunch of tapes of Alan Namoko and Kasambwe brothers band. I lost them. Do you have any of that.

Cheers, d