Sept. 22. After concert by Ali Doğan Gönültaş, new radio show, calls and plans #51

Sept. 22. After concert by Ali Doğan Gönültaş, new radio show, calls and plans #51

Summary 👇 

  • Babel (Music XP) strikes again 💪
  • “Mil Mundos” radio show, by Juan Antonio Vázquez, now in Radio Clásica-RNE 📻
  • TWMC announces the best of the season 👏
  • Brief news from the media, charts and sister projects
  • Open calls and more news from professional events. 💼
  • Meet me at ✈️

Hello, how are you? I’m very well, sending this letter from home after returning from Vienna, where I attended the last Friday the concert by Ali Doğan Gönültaş, that was really worthwhile to make that flash trip. He is with me in the portrait of this edition and I hope we’ll make many things together.

If you don’t know him yet, ➡️ here ⬅️ you have his album Kiğı, that is his personal look at the 150-year musical process of Kiğı, his birthplace, which consists of works in the regional languages of Krmancki, Kurmanci, Kirdaski, Armenian, and Turkish.

Let yourself be accompanied by his fascinating music as you read these lines. And take a look at my website to learn about the current offer for concerts.

I hope you find all this interesting. I would like to point out that Babel Med is finally coming back, as Babel Music XP, renovated, and I think this is great news.

As always, if you have any news of interest for our community, let me know. Thank you very much for your attention.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música | +34 676 30 28 82 
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BABEL STRIKES AGAIN

WELCOME, BABEL MUSIC XP, WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU

One year and one month ago, this newsletter contained an interview with Olivier Rey, from Dock des Suds, about the rebirth of Babel Med, under the renewed name of Babel Music XP. I invite you to read that interview, here. As a warm-up to the physical event that was going to take place, a series of online conversations were organiced, in which I had the great honour of participating. You can find here a brief summary of some of the ideas shared then. The physical gathering was finally not possible in 2022 but it was a matter of time!

And on this occasion I will just share their own words, that I took from their Facebook page:

“We are very happy to see you again, from March 23 to 25 in Marseille, for 3 days of exchanges and discussions during an international professional trade fair and 3 evenings of showcases to discover a unique overview of current musical talents! Artists and bands, you have until October 16 to register and try to be selected to join the Babel Music XP 2023! Artist registration > https://babelmusicxp.com/en/” 

I have to add that I am very happy too and I will be there.

 

MIL MUNDOS, ONE THOUSAND WORLDS

THE RADIO SHOW, BACK IN SPANISH NATIONAL RADIO, WITH JUAN ANTONIO VÁZQUEZ

While the historic Radio 3 of Radio Nacional de España (RNE), which has always been a leader of diversity, has increasingly abandoned the music I work with and that nourishes Mundofonías, Transglobal World Music Chart or World Music Charts Europe, Radio Clásica, known for many years as Radio 2, has taken over, opening up to sounds other than those of Western classical music, which has been the vast majority of its content for many years.

I am very happy to see that where some have abandoned this human heritage, others have picked it up and are making it great.

Thus we come to the conclusion that the radio programme Mil Mundos returns to Radio Clásica, under the direction of Juan Antonio Vázquez. Thus, La Ruta de las Especias, his summer programme, will rest for now, but Mil Mundos begins, with a weekly edition, which will be accessible both on the airwaves and on the podcasts of Radio Clásica, from October. In the meantime, you can listen to the 2016 editions here. And you can listen dozens of editions of La Ruta de las Especias, here.

Juan Antonio (in the picture) has kindly provided me with some insights about this work:

“”Mil Mundos” is an opportunity to explore and showcase the immense musical richness that is usually left out of the media: the folk-inspired music of the world’s cultures, from its most traditional facet to the reworkings and experiments of the most restless and daring artists.

The musical ecosystem of the mainstream media and platforms is, to a large extent, noise that contributes nothing. Just the eternal repetition of the same thing: the production and reproduction of what is known or supposed to generate returns. Nothing, with happy and rare exceptions, that generates discovery, knowledge and true musical pleasure.

It is false that the public has no interest in these musics: what happens is that they have been denied the possibility of knowing them. From my experience of more than three decades in radio, I know that there are always receptive people who enjoy discovering this stuff, if given the opportunity, and who feel fortunate when that happens. Generating that happiness and fostering that discovery is the most gratifying thing that can happen to a disseminator of these musics.

That is why it is important to open sound windows that allow the public to hear music that they had never imagined and that can change their lives and their perception of the world. But it must always be from an honest commitment of the disseminator to the uncompromising quality of what he is offering to his audience, with absolute respect for their intelligence.”

TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART

ANNOUNCES THE BEST OF THE SEASON 2021-2022

TWMC’s account for the best ones counts the votes from September to August. These are the results for 2021-2022:

BEST ALBUM
Susana Baca · Palabras Urgentes · Real World

BEST LABEL
ARC Music

BEST OF SOUTH AMERICA
Susana Baca · Palabras Urgentes · Real World

BEST OF EUROPE
Vigüela · A la Manera Artesana · ARC Music

BEST TRANSREGIONAL ALBUM
Omar Sosa & Seckou Keita · Suba · Bendigedig

BEST OF NORTH AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
Monsieur Doumani · Pissourin · Glitterbeat

BEST OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Oumou Sangaré · Timbuktu · World Circuit / BMG

BEST OF ASIA (CENTRAL & EAST) & PACIFIC
Khöömei Beat · Changys Baglaash · ARC Music

BEST OF NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA
V.A. · Changüí: The Sound of Guantánamo · Petaluma

BEST COMPILATION
V.A. · Changüí: The Sound of Guantánamo · Petaluma

I am very pleased that so many colleagues have voted for Vigüela’s album that it has reached this position. It didn’t happen with the previous album, so I think the band is on the right track.

BRIEF NEWS FROM THE MEDIA, CHARTS AND SISTER PROJECTS 

OPEN CALLS AND PROFESSIONAL EVENTS

If you have anything to share in this section in a future edition, let me know. 

  • Babel Music XP. NEW IN THIS NEWSLETTER. Aforementioned. It will take place in Marseille, France, from 23th to 25th of March 2022. The application for artists is open until October 16th. Application and terms and conditions, available here.
  • European Folk Network annual meeting / Fira Mediterrània de Manresa. The anual meeting of the EFN is hosted by Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, that will take place from 6th to 9th of October. The registration for the Fira is open here. The program is here. And the complete program of the EFN meeting, with most of its activities open to the delegates, included the non-members of the EFN, is available here.
  • English Folk Expo. NEW IN THIS NEWSLETTER. It will take place from 13th to 16th October in Manchester, England. If you are working in the music industry, in the UK or internationally, and interested in attending English Folk Expo Showcase, contact: Terry O’Brien by clicking here or at terry@englishfolkexpo.com.
  • Pro/Press accreditation for Visa for Music 2022, open. “Accreditation requests are now open ! If you are a music professional or a journalist/media, ask for your accreditation by filling the google form linked to the button.” It will take place in Rabat, November 16th-19th.  To request the accreditation (it seems to be still open) click here.
  • Tallinn Music Week 2023, open call. Artist submission will close at 23.59 (CET) on 12 December 2022. Dates: “Music festival: Thu, 11 May – Sat, 13 May. Around 150 artists from various genres and scenes from all over Europe and beyond in Tallinn’s best venues play to an audience of around 15,000 people and to 1,000 music industry professionals from international markets and Baltic-Nordic region.” Check their proposal and apply here.

  • Mundial Montréal, professional registration is open. Here. “Mundial Montréal is back for its 12th edition from November 15 to 18 in person and via its virtual networking platform from November 1 to 25!”
  • Afro Pépites, two calls:
    • Call for artistic project: opens till 30/09/22. Not just music, but almost any kind of art. Learn more, here.
    • Call for talent-hunters: the Afro Pepites Show is a tool dedicated to talent-Hunters. “The committee members will receive the instructions by e-mail. You will have to select 5 musical projects and 5 other projects (painting, dance, sculpture, short film…), in the quiet of your home, between 03/10/22 and 23/10/22.” Learn more, here.

MEET ME AT

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  • Fira Mediterrània de Manresa and the meeting of the European Folk Network. At the Fira, we will make the world premier of the show mujereson, with the dancer Patricia Álvarez and Vigüela. This picture below illustrates this new show:
  • The EFEx Showcase in Manchester, 13th Oct – 16th Oct.
  • And WOMEX in Lisbon, 19th Oct – 23th Oct.
  • IMSF – Israel Music Showcase Festival, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, November 22rd-27th, 2022.
  • And in March 2023, Babel Music XP, aforementioned.