20/06/2009

Synopsis

Charlie starts with two songs which seem to have travelled in opposite directions: Malagasy vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Kilema went to Europe to make his album Mena, while Dan Harper left the UK to seek out musicians in Ethiopia and beyond to make his CD Punt: Made in Ethiopia. Hungarian singer Beata Palya underscores the polyglot nature of 21st century Europe with Adieu Les Complexes.

Brazilian 7-piece band Guardaloop was hatched by the drummer Hugo Carranca who says that he “was saving sonorous ideas in his sampler from his neighbourhood Guadalupe, in Olinda. The name of the band [refers to] the name of his neighbourhood Guadalupe and at the same time to the main function of a sampler: to keep loops.” Plus a classic track by Baaba Maal with Mansour Seck and new music from UK-Israeli double-bass player Daphna Sadeh.

Country: Madagascar
Title: Nanitsanitsa
Artist: Kilema
CD Title: Mena
Label: Snail
Cat. Number: SR 66010

Country: Ethiopia/UK
Title: Hode Baba
Artist: Invisible System
CD Title: Punt: Made in Ethiopia
Label: Harper Diabate
Cat. Number: HD001

Country: Hungary
Title: Szép Szemü Szeretöm
Artist: Beáta Palya
CD Title: Adieu Les Complexes
Label: Naïve
Cat. Number: WN145120

Country: Brazil
Title: Ilha do amor
Artist: Guardaloop
CD Title: Guardaloop
Label: SMD
Cat. Number: AA1000

Country: Senegal
Title: Laam Tooro
Artist: Baaba Maal/Mansour Seck
CD Title: Djam Leelii
Label: Palm Pictures
Cat. Number: YOFFCD0001

Country: Israel
Title: Avinu
Artist: Daphna Sadeh
CD Title: Reconciliation
Label: Tzadik
Cat. Number: TZ 8134

Broadcasts

1. Sat 20 Jun 2009
   23:32
   BBC World Service
2. Sun 21 Jun 2009
   12:32
   BBC World Service
3. Mon 22 Jun 2009
   03:32
   BBC World Service