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Music Before Shabbat. A story of family love with Ramzailech

1 May 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

And finally tomorrow we can go out and have a little walk in Spain! Dance with me and celebrate with Lidiya Freilech by the fresh klezmer rock band Ramzailech. This is a story of family love.

After 7 weeks of strict confinement in Spain, finally tomorrow we will be able to go out for a walk, in 1 km around our houses. I can made an appointment with my parents in the middle of the way and say hello without hugs and with masks. Our houses are 1,8 kms far, how lucky! I wish the situation of the whole world will improve little by little soon and we can recover our lifes.

In the meantime, join me in the joy. In 2012 my Facebook friend Hava Rabach-Mascarenhas sent me the link to the video of Lidiya Freilech by the Israeli band Ramzailech. Find it below. The piece has a superb evolution, it is a continuous surprise, enjoy its more than 5 minutes of much more than klezmer.

The band is active and I have just asked them what is this piece about. So, Lidiya is the mother of the clarinetist of the band, Gal Klein (in the picture, without glasses, the other man is the co-founder, Amit Peled). He made the piece for her 50th birthday.

Lidiya’s family is from what is today Ukraine and, what at that time, was the URSS. From 1945 to 1970 they were refused by the government to go to Israel. Finally they got to move and she is settled in Israel nowadays. Gal was born there. I am so thankful for all this background about the piece! In another MBS we will listen his other project, Di Gasn Trio.

Before ending, I want to announce the initiative of the restless team of Sephardic Stories: Sephardic Collection, in which they are producing new contents and interviews, that you can find in their Youtube channel. Don’t miss a thing: follow their FB page to be updated. Next Thursday they will have a live interview with the band Al’Fado.

 

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Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
To know more about our artists, click here.

May you always find the light in your path.

These is our artistic offer for live show:
Jako el Muzikante – Gulaza – Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory

Zabibi, by Gulaza

7 February 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with Yemenite Jewish music that has been kept and transmited from mother to daughter for generations. These are Gulaza in a recording made 3 years ago at Gil Rouvio’s radio show (thank you such a delighting document).

Credits: Recorded by: Idan Katz – Camera by: Nimrod Kipi Halberthal – Video, Mix and Mastering: Ben Aylon – Recorded live at 106fm Kol HaCampus Radio with Gil Rouvio, Israel

Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música
And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
To know more about our artists, click here.

Gulaza – Salam Yalbint

24 January 2020 – Shabbat is almost here


Enjoy with Yemenite music, Salam Yalbint, by Gulaza, that says:

Hello, dark maiden by the well, quench my thirst.

Walla, I swear to God If only I didn’t have seven
brothers, i would let you drink the tears from my eyes.

It is not water from the well that I desire…

In that case, please go upstairs and ask my mother for her permission.

Click to watch:
May you always find the light in your path.
And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
To know more about our artists, click here.

 

Hannukah Shabbat 5780

[NOTE: this message was sent before Shabbat of Hannuka of 5780/2019]

Shabbat Chanukah is almost here

and we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist. Click the picture to listen and, to know more about our artists, click here.

May you always find the light in your path.

Jako el Muzikante – Gulaza – Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory

Newsletter #4 October 2018

I am Araceli Tzigane. Welcome to our October newsletter. We are very busy, as probably you, because we travel to Canary islands for Womex very soon!

I am specially excited because in this Womex there are three special facts for me:
· All the delegates will receive our compilation promo CD, inside Womex bag, when registering. See it below!
· We have the showcase by Gulaza!!!!
· Our sister initiative, Transglobal World Music Chart, has colaborated again this year with World Music Charts Europe and Womex for the selection of the Label Award and we will be present there to congratulate the winner.

We include in this newsletter other two little interviews with festival directors. I hope you’ll find them intesting. And if you have any suggestion of contents for next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention.

Araceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com +34 676 30 28 82

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Summary: Womex Label Award, mini interviews with festivals directors: Jun-Lin Yeoh (Rainforest World Music Festival) and Luis Lles (Pirineos Sur).
 

WOMEX LABEL AWARD GOES TO… GLITTERBEAT!!
Yeah, it is not much surprising as they have to it for the 5th time!! Congratulations! Together with World Music Charts Europe, our sister project Transglobal World Music Chartmakes for Womex the selection of the Label Award, that is based on the broadcasting and the voting during the previous year. It will be given to the owners of Glitterbeat at the closure ceremony of Womex. Araceli will have the big pleasure of congratulating them at the stage.
** Don´t you know what is Transglobal World Music Chart? We are quite sure about that it is interesting for you. Click here **

 

MAPAMUNDI MÚSICA’S PROMO COMPILATION CD
It will be included in the Womex bag for delegates but if you are not coming to Womex and want it, just let us know.We have included some of our main proposals, with the agreement of the artists and of ARC Music, that releases the works of two of them:Vigüela and Rodopi Ensemble.
CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS.
The last month we started this series of mini interviews with the director of Folk Holidays, Michal Schmidt. If you missed it, you can read it here. We launch now other two. 

 

MINI INTERVIEW WITH JUN-LIN YEOH FROM RAINFOREST WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL

Rainforest World Music Festival takes place in July in Sarawak, a Malaysian region in the island of Borneo.

MM – What do you search in an artist when you program?
JY -Something that will suit the stages and venues of the festival.
Something that will complement or be nicely different from other acts to make a nice contrast.
Something with interesting ethnic instruments.
A band with presence and projection.

MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?
JY – To showcase music from different cultures.
To emphasize the importance of preserving traditions.
To present non-maistream music.

MM – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival? 
JY  – Logistics and travel.

MM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours? 
JY – Logistics, finance, travel.

MM – In one sentence, summarize the reason/s to go to your festival. 
MS – The unexpectedness of finding music from all over the world in Borneo.

Picture: Jun-Lin Yeoh´s Facebook profile picture
MINI INTERVIEW WITH LUIS LLES FROM PIRINEOS SUR
Pirineos Sur takes place in July in the villages of Sallent de Gállego and Lanuza, in the province of Huesca (Spain), at the top of the Pirinees.

Rainforest World Music Festival takes place in July in Sarawak, a Malaysian region in the island of Borneo.

MM – What do you search in an artist when you program?
LL – Due to the monographic character of some of the sections of the festival, we look for artists that fit in the thematic axes that the festival has each year. And then, above all, we prioritize the originality of the artist, that possesses a unique and non-transferable universe. We do not like artists who simply copy success formulas. Sometimes, we also search a certain heterodoxy or peripheral character in the artist. This always how the most interesting things happen.

MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?
LL – As it is a festival organized by an institution (the Diputación Provincial of Huesca), the objectives are very diverse: to boost the territory, promote cultural diversity, promote Aragonese talent, discover new trends in music, get a musical program balanced and of quality, giving relevance above all to the cultural character of the event, attracting foreign and young audiences, spreading the new tendencies of roots music…

MM – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival? 
LL  – Due to the entry into force of the new Contracting Law, the main difficulty we are facing is the increasing bureaucracy and the increasing deadlines that are required for the hiring of artists, production teams, etc. Another important difficulty is that since the festival is located in a small town in the Pyrenees, it is much more difficult for us to travel, hospitality and even convince certain veteran artists (and therefore less predisposed to certain adventures) to come to play to a so recondite and, nevertheless, so beautiful place.

MM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours? 
LL – The main challenge, without a doubt, is to survive two issues:
1) the increasing bureaucracy associated with holding a festival organized by a public entity (it is much more complicated than when the organizer of the festival is a private company) and
2) the “festivalitis”* that this Spain suffers and that makes the competition harder and harder. We must remember that when Pirineos Sur emerged, on the horizon there was almost no other festival in Spain, and I do not mean a world music festival, but of any kind of music. In 1992, Spain was a desert in terms of festivals.

MM – In one sentence, summarize the reason/s to go to your festival. 
LL – It is a friendly festival, fully enjoyable without stress, family oriented, with very attractive proposals that prioritize diversity above all. In short, it is THE festival of the quality of life.

* This term refers to a overabundance of festivals in Spain.

Picture: Luis Lles en el Periódico del Alto Aragón

 

** Do you have a world music festival want to be included in our mini interviews? Contact us.

WHO WE ARE AND SISTER PROJECTS 

Mapamundi Música is an agency of management and booking. Learn more here. Check our proposals at our website.

We also support our mission through our Mundofonías radio show, probably the leader about world music in Spanish language (on 46 stations in 17 countries), the Transglobal World Music Chart with our partner Ángel Romero from WorldMusicCentral.com, the #TremendAgenda and Asociación para la Difusión de los Estilos.

Feel free to request info if you wish. For further information about us, get in touch by email, telephone (+34 676 30 28 82), our website or at our Facebook. 

 

Newsletter #2 August 2018

Welcome to our August newsletter. During these days Sherezade is enjoying holidays and Araceli is having some office work between tour and tour. Wherever you are, we hope you’ll find it useful. And if you have any suggestion of contents for next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention.

Araceli Tzigane & Sherezade Álvarez – info@mundimapa.com +34 676 30 28 82

Summary: new radio show focused on Oriental music | grants for Spanish artists´ logistic expenses by AC/E | Bratislava World Music Festival | Womex Guide Rate deadline

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LA RUTA DE LAS ESPECIAS, NEW RADIO SHOW ON SPAIN’S NATIONAL RADIO
Juan Antonio Vázquez, from Mundofonías team, is producing this new radio show on RNE – Radio Clásica, during the Summer. 
If you are an artist, producer, disseminator or just interested in music from the many orients, like Arab and North African, the Turkish, the Persian, the Central Asian, the Indian subcontinent´s, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Southeast Asian… take a listen. You can get in touch with Juan Antonio at this email.
Picture: Juan Antonio Vázquez at Spain’s national radio archive

 

ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA (AC/E) PERIOD TO REQUEST GRANTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEPTEMBER
By the PICE grants, AC/E supports finantially the logistic expenses to the institutions and festivals that want to have a Spanish artist in their program. 

This period applies for the events that will take place in the first half of the following year. In March, AC/E opens a new period, for the events taking place on the 2nd half. Check the conditions at their website.

And remember that it can be requested for Mapamundi Música’s Spanish artists El Naán and Vigüela. Feel free to request more info. We have collaborated with some festivals to get the support with success.

Picture: Mari Nieto, from Vigüela. By Pedro Mari Martín

 

BRATISLAVA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL, FROM 13RD TO 16TH OF SEPTEMBER
The 3rd edition of the festival offers a showcase session of Slovak bands, a conference and a workshop of flamenco guitar. 
And, apart of the aforementioned, the festival includes concerts by artists from Slovakia, Chile, Ghana, Israel, Spain, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Great Britain. The festival will also host the annual meeting of the EFWMF so many of the directors of the associated festivals will attend as delegates. Check the list here and let Araceli know if you go, as she will be there.
Picture: cover of Bratislava World Music Festival at Facebook

 

GUIDE RATE AT WOMEX DEADLINE: 17TH OF AUGUST
Until next Friday you can still get discounts and, more important, be included in the printed guide. 
You can check the current prices and register at their website. After day 17th the price gets more expensive and it won´t include the presence of delegates and companies on the printed guide.
Picture: cover of Womex page at Facebook

 

MEET US AT… 
As mentioned above, at Bratislava World Music Festival (Slovakia). After that, we’ll be very busy preparing ourselves for Fira Mediterrània and Womex, where we have showcases of artists of ours: Janusz Prusinowski Trio with Manu Sabaté and Gulaza, respectively.

Mapamundi Música is an agency of management and booking. Check our proposals at our website. We also support our mission through our Mundofonías radio show, probably the leader about world music in Spanish language (on 46 stations in 17 countries), and theTransglobal World Music Chart with our partner Ángel Romero from WorldMusicCentral.com.

Feel free to request info if you wish. For further information about us, get in touch by email, telephone (+34 676 30 28 82), our website or at our Facebook.