Which is the best of the Sublime Frequencies albums?

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I want to get one of these but I'm not sure where to start. I've heard tracks from the Phnom Penh, Pyongyang and Sumatra volumes. Any recommendations?

― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

I've heard about 10 of them.

Radio Pyongyang is my hands down fave, since all the stuff Christiaan Virant dug up sounds like a cartoon showtune/opera about smashing american fatcats.

Though Radio Java and Bush Taxi Mali are other winners, don't sleep on Broken Hearted Dragonflies. Just 40 minutes of Dragonflies sizzling! As legend has it, they get broken hearts after mating and burst. it sounds like Oval!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

"I Remember Syria" is really cool too, very well edited.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

I'm a big fan of Radio India, or whatever the double disc Indian one is called. Two very well contrasting collage pieces... all very excellently put together.

― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

Agreed on Pyongyang and Syria -- the Niger DVD is v. v. good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

YOUR MOM IS TEH BEST>

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Do we have a general Sublime Frequencies thread?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Yup.

Let Us Avoid P & J Maddnesss Here by Discussing the Sublime Frequencies Record Label

a sublime frequencies call out: how often do you listen to radio palestine, i remember syria, bush taxi mali, etc.

More Sublime Frequencies

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

i was totally on sublime frequencies' jock last year but by this year there was just too much of it. i have everything but some of it i still haven't gotten around to listening to.

― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

FUCK BEING ON ANYONE'S JOCK, JBR.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

Choubi Choubi: Folk and Pop from Iraq is one of my favorites.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

That first song on Guitars of the Golden Triangle is AWESOME.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know they had one for Iraq. Not that I don't find a lot of Iraqi music really weird and impossible, but there are some songs here and there I really like.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Ned, you reviewd this for AMG, but you didn't talk about it here?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

My favorites are Radio Pyongyang, Bush Taxi Mali, Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds from Nepal, Streets of Llasa, and I Remember Syria. If I were going to start with one it'd probably be Bush Taxi Mali or Harmika Yab-Yum. Concurring w/ Drew there the best of these are edited brilliantly.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Ned, you reviewd this for AMG, but you didn't talk about it here?

Well, now I'm reminded. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

x-post:

Those very martial sounding drum-rolls (e.g. on track five): those are totally Iraqi, as far as I know. They aren't in Arabic music generally. It's the rhythms I like best in Iraqi music. Some other aspects of the music are harder for me to approach.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh, there's even a Saleh Abdel Gafor. I have a couple very good cassettes by him. Can't find this stuff in digital form though.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I think this is the song I've been looking for by Saleh Abdel Gafor! What they are calling "Walla (By God)" is better known as "Ishlonik" (with variant spellings) I think. Unless this is yet a different recording he did of this song. I can't tell. It doesn't sound exactly the same as my favorite version.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

It all kind of sounds like reggaeton too.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

(If you liked Choubi Choubi you might also like:

The Finest Mawawel from Iraq Vol. 1"

Although, frankly, mawawel is sort of the flipside of all this: unmetered vocal improvisations, not dance music. Also, be forewarned: it's a CDR. And most likely you won't be able to find it anyway.

http://www.oghnia.com/CoverAlbum/VA-TMP4031.jpg

Sorry to derail the thread, but we already have Sublime Frequencies threads anyway.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't think this Saleh Abdel Gafor song on Choubi Choubi is what I thought it was. It's just extremely similar. Very good. I wish I could find "Ishlonak" though (other than the multi-lingual version I have by him).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

Sublime Frequencies At the Siskel film Center in Chicago

for those of you in the Chicago area

Sunday, December 18, 5:30 pm
Thursday, December 22, 8:30 pm

the Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street
Chicago
Tel: 312.846.2600

Chicago Premiere!

NIGER: MAGIC AND ECSTASY IN THE SAHEL
2005, Hisham Mayet, USA, 70 min.

Filmed on location in Niger, Hisham Mayet’s film is more poetic than narrative-a spontaneous, raw, and inspiring collection of images and music from the Sahel region of Africa. Niger is a nation mired in poverty and post-colonial disappointment, but its music is its soul. Encompassing Tuareg electric guitar trance rock, Bori cult dance ceremonies, Fulani folk, and roadhouse gospel rave-ups, NIGER captures the pulse of a people for whom music doesn’t mean commodity-it means survival. Beta SP video. (Jim Dempsey)siskelfilmcenter.com

― bashosings (basho), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Niger is a nation mired in poverty

I read that as "mired in poetry."

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

eighteen years pass...

Spent some time with the catalog and the following were my POX:

Radio Java
Bush Taxi Mali
Group Doueh: Guitar Music From the Western Sahara
Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan vol. 1
I Remember Syria
Phương Tâm: Magical Nights – Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966)
Omar Souleyman: Highway to Hassake
Singapore A-Go-Go Vol. 1
Baba Commandant: Juguya
Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 24 June 2024 17:17 (one year ago)

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