Produced by:
KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Sat, 01/10/2015 - 12:00am to 3:00am
The Outside World celebrates BERBER NEW YEAR
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT beginning at midnight, THE OUTSIDE WORLD celebrates the Amazigh (aka Berber) NEW YEAR!
ASSEGAS AMEGAZ (Kabylia, Algeria) \ ASUGAS AMAYNO (Tachlihit-Chleuh, Morocco) 2965
Join native North African Imazighen (Berbers) musicians in Portland as they celebrate
YENNAYER (Kabylia, Algeria) INAYER (Tachlihit-Chleuh, Morocco) either way it's
AMAZIGH (BERBER) NEW YEAR with January's New Moon.
Soaring through the OUTSIDE WORLD to improvise, jam and versify after midnight in Native North Africa's bee-buzzing native language of TAMAZIGHT in multiple regional dialects; TAQBAYLITH (Kabylia Djur Djur Mountains) TACHLIHIT (Sus and Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco) and the Tuareg's KEL TAMASHEQT (Sahel states of Mali, Niger, Libya)
in the studio tune in and call in as there will be surprise guests, some of whom are flying in to help us celebrate and will their arms and tongues ever be tired!
Join us this Friday at midnight on THE OUTSIDE WORLD (OW!) as we sail over the mountain villages of the Kabylia & Djur Djura & Aures Mountains of Mediterranean Algeria to The Rif & Atlas & Atlantic Coastal Sus of Morocco, across the Air Mountains of Niger, Adrar Nphusa of Libya and Idurar Ahaggar of Southern Algeria with a few busted rhymes observing the genesis of the current global dust-up, with Po'town-based Kabylie bard and bandleader Moh Alileche's Ensemble and playing Moh's first recorded foray into trip-hop, the prescient 2012 track "It Started In Tunisia..." from the album WHEN THE DUST SETTLES.
We extend our condolences to all of Moh Alileche's family as we approach air time the sad news came from the Kabylia mountain village of the passing of Moh's mother (may her presence remain with us and her memory be blessed and a blessing). Moh Alileche is enroute back to Kabylia for the mourning. However, YENNAYER celebration at the ALBERTA STREET PUB scheduled for Saturday night January 10, 2015 at 8 PM will proceed with his ensemble ready and rehearsed and special Kabylie guests arriving to help greet the New Year's first New Moon and to carry on in the valorous Amazigh (Berber) native North African traditions.
We extend our condolences to all of Moh Alileche's family as we approach air time the sad news came from the Kabylia mountain village of the passing of Moh's mother (may her presence remain with us and her memory be blessed and a blessing). Moh Alileche is enroute back to Kabylia for the mourning. However, YENNAYER celebration at the ALBERTA STREET PUB scheduled for Saturday night January 10, 2015 at 8 PM will proceed with his ensemble ready and rehearsed and special Kabylie guests arriving to help greet the New Year's first New Moon and to carry on in the valorous Amazigh (Berber) native North African traditions.
Feel the sounds and hear the timbres of warmed goat-skin hand drum and let's have a Bendir Party!
Threaded on the underside Berber-style, this frame drum (bendir) sends out a unique vibe once described as a
blown-speaker sound echoing across the Barbary Southern Mediterranean Coast since antiquity as music, poetry and the 3Z 3000 year old Tamazight language Orbits La Ba alongside recordings featuring other honorary denizens of Tamazgha (Land of Free Peoples).
Kabylian and Tamazghan Bards of Immigritude from the post-colonial independence years whose music will be spun include Slimane Azem, the songs of classic Kabylie freedom fighters as Si Mohand, contemporary Kabylie women songwriters and recording artists Taos Amrouche, Djoura Abouda (whose stage name Djur Djura is borrowed from the Kabylia mountain range as heard on David Byrne's series of African artists) and Iness Mezel along with the Aures Mountains' bard and acclaimed psychologist Markunda Aures who hails from the Algerian mountains of that name and sings her original songs in the long-suppressed Chaouia Tachiwit dialect of the mother tongue Tamazight language.
Other pioneers of World Beat Music from the region writing and singing in the Tamazight language who we hope to spin include Idir, Djamel Allam, and from Morocco the Diva of the Atlas Mountains and recently elected to Morocco's Parliament and for the first time addressing the legislature in the long-suppressed native language of Tamazight (Tachlihit regional dialect) Raissa Fatima Tabaamrant along with other Moroccan bards and World Beat recording artists such as Yuba, El Houssaine Kili doing a Moroccan Tarifiat dialect of Tamazight version of Neil Young's "Cowgirl In the Sand" that will sweep us all closer to the Orbit of La Ba.
Kabylian and Tamazghan Bards of Immigritude from the post-colonial independence years whose music will be spun include Slimane Azem, the songs of classic Kabylie freedom fighters as Si Mohand, contemporary Kabylie women songwriters and recording artists Taos Amrouche, Djoura Abouda (whose stage name Djur Djura is borrowed from the Kabylia mountain range as heard on David Byrne's series of African artists) and Iness Mezel along with the Aures Mountains' bard and acclaimed psychologist Markunda Aures who hails from the Algerian mountains of that name and sings her original songs in the long-suppressed Chaouia Tachiwit dialect of the mother tongue Tamazight language.
Other pioneers of World Beat Music from the region writing and singing in the Tamazight language who we hope to spin include Idir, Djamel Allam, and from Morocco the Diva of the Atlas Mountains and recently elected to Morocco's Parliament and for the first time addressing the legislature in the long-suppressed native language of Tamazight (Tachlihit regional dialect) Raissa Fatima Tabaamrant along with other Moroccan bards and World Beat recording artists such as Yuba, El Houssaine Kili doing a Moroccan Tarifiat dialect of Tamazight version of Neil Young's "Cowgirl In the Sand" that will sweep us all closer to the Orbit of La Ba.
From the mother ship OW will be graced by tracks from Dewey Redman, Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Nicole Mitchell's 2014 Ice Crystal flute & vibes Chicago combo, Dee Dee Bridgwater's 2007 Mali Odyssey with Bambara Hip-Hop prophet Lassy King Massassy foretelling the corrupt collapse of the Mali government years before it came to be...Wordjazzer Ken Nordine emerging from the vaults of hipster Word Jazz at Chicago's legendary Wicker Park Quiet Knight Club and calling to the stage Psych-folk bard Terry Callier (RIP) and his SufiChicago Soul Trio at a 1971 Second City benefit for undersung Chicago Psych-Folk pioneer Willie Wright and over to the South Side's vaunted Velvet Lounge and real peace prize-deserving curator-mentor Fred Anderson (RIP) out to South Central L.A.'s Underground Musicians' Association (UGMA) visionary Horace Tapscott's aiee the Phantom & Black Arthur Blythe with the PAN AFRIKAN PEOPLE's ARKESTRA ...
We hope to circle back to the Sahel to welcome the Amazigh (Berber) nomadic desert-dwelling Kel Tamasheqt (Tuareg) musical pioneers who've not had the chance to tour the U.S. as have recent cross-over Tuareg bands TINARIWEN, BOMBINO and TERAKAFT whose trail through the Sahara and Sahel was blazed by the Queen of Saharan Electro-Glide Guimbri Blues HASNA EL-BECHARIA whose electrifying bent-note string lines arc across oceans to mingle riffs and beats with a new EP from hot Baltimore trio MIDWAY FAIR contemplating the wintry starry solstice's "Most Distant Star" as it wobbles 'tween Lou Reed's "Fly Into the Sun", honoring OW free-form pioneer Daniel Flessas who has "Gone to California" and Midway Fair songwriter Jon Patton's binary conundrum as the Baltimore trio's "Ones & Zeroes" loop into loopy Seattle Mongrel Kings of Folk's Mark Graham whose earlier "Mr Zero" (aka Brahmagupta) evokes the spin-out less than Duane Eddy-style with J.J. Cale's cautionary embrace of the digital world on the obscure "Artificial Paradise."
Should your guest host and explorer-schnorrer Mitchito Ritter's Paradigm Shifters veer off-course, well.......Blame Sally
and..aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, The Phantom!!!!!!!!!!!!