A Music Evening With Michael Kiwanuka

Welcome to the first ever UK NF organised by Dino Mil Global Sounds Network!

 

VENUE

The Marlowe Theater, Canterbury

The Artist

Michael Kiwanuka!

Michael was born in 1987 in Muswell Hill, London to Ugandan parents. He released his first album ”Home Again” in March 2012 (won a BBC award for this one) and his second ”Love & Hate” in July 2016. Since 2016 he enjoys fame and critical acclaim in UK the US and in Europe which led to his first ever major concert in UK last May at Royal Albert Hall, London (which I attended). He managed to sold out in a matter of few days. He was also nominated in the category of the british male solo artist for the 2017 Brits Awards (the biggest music awards body in the UK) but he did not win. His style is a blend of soul, folk and more recently folk rock. He acknowledges influences from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Eric Bibb among others. 

Homepage

The Presenters

TV presenter Emma Willis and actor Duane Henry 

Now ladies and gents give a round of applause to Michael Kiwanuka!

The Songs

Song No1: ”Love and Hate”

Song No2: ”Home Again”

Song No3: ”Cold Little Heart”

Voting

To vote to the UK NF you should rank the songs from 1st to 3rd by sending an email to:

cosdino83@gmail.com

The voting closes on Saturday 16 September 23:59 CET.

The city of Canterbury

Thank you 🙂 

Malian Sounds and Voices for the World

Welcome to the first NF of Mali

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VENUE

Musée National du Mali, Bamako

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OPENING ACT

Mamadou Diabaté performing Tunga 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqQORtGfPIQ

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THE PRESENTER

Fashion model, Tene Gaye

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THE PARTICIPANTS

Fatoumata Diawara

Habib Koite

Tamikrest

Rokia Traoré

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THE SONGS

Song No1: ”Timbuktu Fasso”  by Fatoumata Diawara (singing in Wassoulou language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOfimHhARw

Meaning: The song serves as a soundratch for the 2014 film ”Timbuktu” which sums up the current political and social life in north Mali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_(2014_film).

Song No2: ”Baro” by Habib Koite (singing in Bambara language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE609SHzms0

Meaning: Baro (the chat); the ‘Sanankuya’ is a relationship kept between ‘Sanankus’,joking relations. They provoke each other, argue, poke fun and sometimes even insult each other. But always as a laugh. This relationship is handed down from a sacred act of tolerance, gratitude and solidarity, established between the ancestors of several ethnic groups in Mali. Through humor, the joking relations re-live this relationship which is now an inestimable element of harmony and social peace.

Song No3: ”Tisnant an Chatma” by the band Tamikrest (singing in Tamashek language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mbeo7pwxY

Meaning: “Chatma” means “Sisters” and the band has dedicated the album in their own words to: “the courage of the Tuareg women, who have ensured both their children’s survival and the morals of their fathers and brothers.”  The opening track “Tisnant an Chatma (The suffering of my sisters)” is a heartbreaking homage: «Who can estimate the suffering felt by the soul / of one who sees her sisters exhausted from waiting/ of one who sees her sisters exhausted from waiting between countries, in deep distress /and daily oppression?

Song No4: ”Kounandi” by Rokia Traore (singing in Bambara language).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7sqlQfev9I

Meaning: I am afraid I have not found any info about ”Kounandi”. It is there though; something sad and emotional. Gloomy, but not Nordic/Anglo-Saxon ! 🙂 

To vote to the Malian NF you should rank the songs from your favourite (1st) to your least favourite (4th). Myself I will not vote this time. So it is all up to you!

The email is the following: cosdino83@gmail.com

The deadline is 8th November 23:00 CET.

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MALI in a NUTSHELL 

Grande Mosque of Djenne

Mountain Hombori

A village of the Dogon people

Timbuktu

Woodcarving 

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HISTORY of MALI (important empires of West Africa)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhai_Empire

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INTERVAL ACTS 

Tani Diakite & the Afrofunkstars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGRaMOeb1PU

Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAIwGw1paIc

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RESULTS

1. ”Kounandi” 44

2. ”Tisnant an Chatma 45

3. ”Timbuktu Fasso” 49

4. ”Baro” 62

Chinawoman Goes Global!

Hello!

Welcome to the Canadian NF for FdlC14 live from the MTS Centre, Winnipeg.

The event will be hosted by our fine fashion model, Malik Lindo!

Before we introduce you to our songs lets pay once again homage to great Lhasa De Sela (my former Canadian entrant).

 

And now, ladies and gentlemen give a round of applause to  Chinawoman (Michele Gurevich)!

http://www.chinawoman.ca

 

Song 1: ”Party Girl”

 

Song 2: ”It’s No Compliment”

 

Song 3: ”Drawn To You”

 

Song 4: ”What Was Said”

 

Song 5: ”Good Times  Don’t Carry Over”

 

Song 6: ”Vacation From Love”

 

 

To vote to the Canadian NF you should award 2 (last) , 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 (winner) points only.

Your votes should be send to the following email: cosdino83@gmail.com

The deadline is on the 4th of September 22:00.

Thank you for listening and voting.

 

Ranking:

1.”Good Times Don’t Carry Over” 202pts

2. ”Party Girl” 174pts

3. ”Drawn To You” 162pts

4. ”It’s No Compliment” 142pts

5. ”What Was Said” 124pts

6. ”Vacation From Love” 120pts

 

Full results:

US NF for FdlC12

Welcome

This is the American NF for the FdlC12 live from the Blaisdell Concert Hall, Honolulu!

 

Eddie Murphy is the host of the event.

 

Down below you can listen to the eight competing songs:

 

1. Distance, Light and Sky – ”Son”:

 

2. Feufollet – ”Femme l’a Dit”:

 

3. Cigarettes After Sex – ”Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”:

 

4. Meklit Hadero – ”Soleil Soleil”:

 

5. Marissa Nadler – ”The Wrecking Ball Company”: 

 

6. Deep Dish – ”Say Hello”: 

 

7. Beth Hart – ”Caught Out in the Rain”:

 

8. San Fermin – ”Methuselah”:

 

Thank you for listening!

 

Blaisdell Concert Hall, Honolulu

Honolulu

Kailua Bay, Oahu, Hawaii

 

Now you may rank the songs by giving them 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and finally 12 points!

You can send your votes to the following email:cosdino83@gmail.com

The deadline to vote is Saturday 26th 19:00 CET!

The full results will be made available shortly afterwards in this site.

Once again thank you!

 

Our special guest and interval act Steve Shenan!

 

Results:

1  ”Caught Out in the Rain” 225

2. ”Son” 184

3. ”The Wrecking Ball Company” 178

4. ”Methuselah” 178

5. ”Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” 158

6. ”Say Hello” 138

7. ”Femme l’a Dit” 130

8. ”Soleil Soleil” 129

 

So Beth Hart with ”Caught Out in the Rain” is a comfortable winner and she will be representing the US in the upcoming FdlC!

 

THANK YOU ALL!

 

 

Canadian NF for FdlC7: Homage to Lhasa de Sela, 01/01/2011 RIP.

 

Welcome to the official page for the Canadian national final for the seventh edition of Fête de la Chanson 🙂

 

 

Venue: Opera de Montreal, Montreal

 

Bio:

Lhasa was born in Big Indian, New York, of a Mexican father, language instructor Alejandro “Alex” Sela, and an American mother, photographer and actress Alexandra Karam. According to Lhasa, her hippie parents did not give her a name until the age of five months; her mother was reading a book about Tibet and the word Lhasa “just grabbed her” as the right name for the baby girl. Lhasa’s maternal grandmother was Elena Karam (1909–2001), an actress best known for her leading role in Elia Kazan’s film America America. Her paternal grandmother was Carmen de Obarrio (1906–1982), a Panamanian pianist who studied in Los Angeles with Egon Petri, and with Edgar Varèse in San Francisco.Lhasa had a Lebanese great-grandfather named Basel who sang in six languages. Her mother played harp and her father played flute.Her first decade was spent criss-crossing the United States and Mexico, living and traveling in a converted school bus with her parents and siblings, home-schooled by her mother. Both her parents spoke fluent Spanish, but she was raised speaking primarily English, with Spanish added during a total of eight years’ residence in Mexico. Along with her family she listened to a wide variety of recordings including songs by Chilean musician Victor Jara; as a young child she dreamed of marrying him some day, not knowing he had been killed.

At age 13 when her parents separated, Lhasa, her mother and her sisters settled in San Francisco where Lhasa started singing in a Greek cafe. She included Spanish language lessons in her high school studies. After viewing a documentary about Billie Holiday, Lhasa determined that she, too, would make a career in singing.

In 1991, she traveled to Montreal to visit her sisters who were students at l’École nationale de cirque, the National Circus School of Canada, and she decided to make Montreal her home. Steeped in a Francophone culture for the first time, she sang for five years in bars, collaborating with rock guitarist Yves Desrosiers. In 1992, Denis Wolff, general manager of the independent Canadian record company, Audiogram, saw Lhasa performing, her head shaved, in front of a tiny nightclub audience. He was struck with “her personality, her charisma and her voice” – he soon signed her to the label. With Desrosiers she developed the material that eventually became her first album. Following a 21-month-long battle with breast cancer, Lhasa died, age 37, on the evening of January 1, 2010, at her home in Montreal.

http://lhasadesela.com/

 

 

The Songs:

 

1. ”El Desierto”

 

2. ”Rising”

 

3. ”La Marée Haute”

 

4. ”Anywhere on this Road”

 

5. ”De Cara a la Pared”

 

Thank you for listening!

 

 

Voting: To vote in the Canadian national final, give the points to cosdino83@gmail.com as follows: 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 in descending order. 12 points will go to your favorite song. 4 to your least favorite.

 

National Final Ends: 23:59 CET 6 June 2015

 

Voters:

• Dino
• Robert
• arpatilaos
• Avat
• Dimitris
• Ren Robles
• Alex (Greece)
• Stommie
• Max
• Donnie
• Oxi
• Patrick
• Italy
• Alex (USA)

 

Results:

1. ”Anywhere on this Road 120
2. ”El Desierto” 114
3. ”De Cara a la Pared 114
4. ”La Marée Haute” 106
5. ”Rising” 106

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