Spinning The Globe, our monthly exploration of the global music scene, is back to introduce you to new music from sahelsounds, habibifunk and so much more.
Portland label Sahel Sounds continues to do the important work of documenting the singular musical community of Niger and West Africa. A good portion of their discography spotlights the Tuareg sound which centers on the fluttering melodies drawn out of an electric guitar. A fairly new practitioner of this genre is Moussa Tchingou, a young man in his 20s who trained his hands on a jerry-rigged instrument made from a water jug and wires from a clutch rope.
Researcher and archivist Michael Webb recently undertook a project digging into the history of salvesen, a music and dance style that grew out of the back breaking work that South Sea Islanders endured working the sugar cane fields. Much like the prison songs or those sung by slaves working cotton fields in the Southern U.S., these choruses are marked by steady rhythms, call-and-response vocals and spirit-leavening group harmonies.
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