Rhythm Passport holders, welcome aboard!
A few weeks ago we went to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for WOMEX 26, and all we got back was a slight tan, a bag full of new music and this radio show. Everything you’ll hear was recorded live in the Radio WOMEX studio, so a big thanks to the team there for letting us in.
First up are Lara Magrinyà and Anna Sala of L’Arannà, who play live in the studio and stop for a chat. They came to WOMEX with Turmarí, a show built on cant redoblat, the ancient singing of Ibiza and Formentera, which they pair with synthesizers, castanets and the flaüta.
Next we have Evoéh’s Ariana Barrabés, on voice and percussion, and Jesús Olivares, on guitar, oud and an African lyre he built himself, who also play live and talk us through their music. They write songs rooted in Iberian and Mediterranean folk, with a touch of jazz and flamenco. Their latest album, Músicas semilla, starts from the idea that every seed was once a traveller, and its songs wander through more than seven languages.
Then it’s the turn of Memo Pimiento, the Mexico City-born, Brussels-based producer who plays slowed-down rebajada cumbia live on analogue synths. We talk with him in the studio, and Jesús comes back to join him for a one-off acoustic version of “Sol y Piel”.
We close with some of our musical highlights from this year’s WOMEX.
Enjoy the flight!
Track list
- L’Arannà – Sa Safa (Live At Radio WOMEX)
- L’Arannà – Una Cançó Em Demanau
- L’Arannà – Del Món Ningú Ha Pres Sa Mida
- Evoéh – Na Ni Ye Tilé (Live At Radio WOMEX)
- Evoéh – No Camino Por Llegar (Live At Radio WOMEX)
- Evoéh – Oiseaux De Passage (Aves Migratorias)
- Memo Pimiento ft. Jesús Olivares – Sol Y Piel (Live Acoustic Version At Radio WOMEX)
- Memo Pimiento – Triste Canción (Electro Cumbia Rebajada Version)
- Memo Pimiento – Mexican (R)evolution (Unreleased)
- Aziz Konkrite – Love & Hayt
- Indus – El Mangle
- Nana Benz du Togo– FOVI
- Davide Ambrogio– VI Ballu Di Diavuli
- Saodaj’ – Adye Veli
- Saad Tiouly – Ya Lil
- Lula Mora – Primavera
- Jabulile Majola – Mandla
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