{"id":7687,"date":"2016-08-02T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/02\/latitudes-hear-great-global-music-right-now\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T12:00:29","slug":"latitudes-hear-great-global-music-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/latitudes-hear-great-global-music-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Latitudes: Hear Great Global Music Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anastasia Tsioulcas<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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A still from the Brazilian band Cabru\u00eara’s video for their song “Beira Mar” (Seashore). Courtesy of the artists<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With the Olympics beginning soon, we’re all probably about to hear a lot of bossa nova and samba. But let’s head instead to Paraiba, in Brazil’s Northeast, for the band Cabru\u00eara<\/a> and their wistful song “Beira Mar” (Seashore), in which they layer rock with percussion and accordion that bear a local accent. This animated video, with its trippy concept and supersaturated color scheme, is just dazzling.<\/p>\n

And if you’re in New York this coming weekend, you can catch Cabru\u00eara during the Brasil Summerfest<\/a> \u2014 just in time to get you in the mood for Rio 2016.<\/p>\n

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Tumi Music YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sometimes, all you need in the summer is a song that transports you somewhere else \u2014 and “Palermo Hollywood” by French singer\/songwriter (and actor and record producer) Benjamin Biolay<\/a> provides just that thing. Hardly a newcomer<\/a>, Biolay likes to immerse himself in a particular theme or soundscape for each project. For his latest, he takes listeners to Buenos Aires, whose Palermo Hollywood neighborhood provided the name for both his latest album and its title track.<\/p>\n

Some of the other songs on “Palermo Hollywood” bend more toward Latin inspiration, including several tunes co-written with Uruguayan\/Argentine musician and actress Sofia Wilhelmi<\/a>. The title song, however, is a melange of ideas and influences, between Biolay’s darkly Serge Gainsbourg<\/a>ian vocals, a gritty bass guitar riff and lush strings.<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Biolay VEVO YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The next Sia<\/a> or Rihanna<\/a>? That’s how singer Era Istrefi<\/a> is being pitched<\/a> to an international audience. With more than 119 million page views as of now on YouTube, her smash “Bonbon” \u2014 sung mostly in Albanian \u2014 came to the attention of Ultra Music, and the label has been busy having her remake the song in English<\/a> and German<\/a> as well. But Istrefi, a Kosovar Albanian, isn’t the only pop star right now who speaks (at least some) Shqip; Rita Ora<\/a>‘s family left Kosovo when she was a baby.<\/p>\n

As with some of Istrefi’s earlier regional hits, like the reggae-soaked “Mani p\u00ebr Money”<\/a> (Crazy for Money) \u2014 which features patois-style lyrics that some may well find startling<\/a> and even objectionable, especially coming out of Istrefi’s mouth \u2014 the dancehall-based “Bonbon” owes a significant debt to Caribbean music.<\/p>\n

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Ultra Music YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’ve had my eyes and ears<\/a> on the Korean group Jambinai<\/a> for a few years now. Their mix of traditional Korean instruments and an aesthetic steeped in noise, metal and hardcore is incredibly intense and bracingly new. And their driving, pummeling energy is in plain view on their new album, A Hermitage<\/em>, and on this song, “They Keep Silence.” It’s post-rock by way of Eunyong Sim’s geomungo<\/em> (a long zither), Bomi Kim’s haegum<\/em> (a bowed fiddle) and vocals and guitar by Ilwoo Lee (who also plays a traditional Korean bamboo flute called a piri<\/em> on the album), rounded out by bass and drums, played respectively by Jihoon Ok and Jae Hyuk Choi.<\/p>\n

As Lee recently told Vice<\/a>, the inspiration for “They Keep Silence” is an expressly angry response to the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014, in which 304 people died. “The people in the government did wrong,” Lee said, “and those who know are keeping silent about it.”<\/p>\n

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Jambinai YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Finally, one more pick that features a very sweet moment in a summer when tempers are at a boil. When the Haitian band Lakou Mizik<\/a>, now touring the U.S., got stuck on a flight out of Chicago that was delayed for nearly six hours, they decided to serenade the other passengers. Not only did their fellow travelers respond to their impromptu gig with cheers, but the Facebook version of their video has been picked up by outlets from Mashable<\/a> to ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lakou Mizik has a strong sense of community in any setting. This nine-member group, ranging in age from their 20s to late 60s, came together<\/a> in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.<\/p>\n

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Lakou Mizik YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A still from the Brazilian band Cabru\u00eara’s video for their song “Beira Mar” (Seashore). Courtesy of the artists<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

toggle caption<\/strong> Courtesy of the artists<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

With the Olympics beginning soon, we’re all probably about to hear a lot of bossa nova and samba. But let’s head instead to Paraiba, in Brazil’s Northeast, for the band Cabru\u00eara<\/a> and their wistful song “Beira Mar” (Seashore), in which they layer rock with percussion and accordion that bear a local accent. This animated video, with its trippy concept and supersaturated color scheme, is just dazzling.<\/p>\n

And if you’re in New York this coming weekend, you can catch Cabru\u00eara during the Brasil Summerfest<\/a> \u2014 just in time to get you in the mood for Rio 2016.<\/p>\n

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[embedded content]<\/div>\n
Tumi Music YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sometimes, all you need in the summer is a song that transports you somewhere else \u2014 and “Palermo Hollywood” by French singer\/songwriter (and actor and record producer) Benjamin Biolay<\/a> provides just that thing. Hardly a newcomer<\/a>, Biolay likes to immerse himself in a particular theme or soundscape for each project. For his latest, he takes listeners to Buenos Aires, whose Palermo Hollywood neighborhood provided the name for both his latest album and its title track.<\/p>\n

Some of the other songs on “Palermo Hollywood” bend more toward Latin inspiration, including several tunes co-written with Uruguayan\/Argentine musician and actress Sofia Wilhelmi<\/a>. The title song, however, is a melange of ideas and influences, between Biolay’s darkly Serge Gainsbourg<\/a>ian vocals, a gritty bass guitar riff and lush strings.<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Biolay VEVO YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The next Sia<\/a> or Rihanna<\/a>? That’s how singer Era Istrefi<\/a> is being pitched<\/a> to an international audience. With more than 119 million page views as of now on YouTube, her smash “Bonbon” \u2014 sung mostly in Albanian \u2014 came to the attention of Ultra Music, and the label has been busy having her remake the song in English<\/a> and German<\/a> as well. But Istrefi, a Kosovar Albanian, isn’t the only pop star right now who speaks (at least some) Shqip; Rita Ora<\/a>‘s family left Kosovo when she was a baby.<\/p>\n

As with some of Istrefi’s earlier regional hits, like the reggae-soaked “Mani p\u00ebr Money”<\/a> (Crazy for Money) \u2014 which features patois-style lyrics that some may well find startling<\/a> and even objectionable, especially coming out of Istrefi’s mouth \u2014 the dancehall-based “Bonbon” owes a significant debt to Caribbean music.<\/p>\n

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[embedded content]<\/div>\n
Ultra Music YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’ve had my eyes and ears<\/a> on the Korean group Jambinai<\/a> for a few years now. Their mix of traditional Korean instruments and an aesthetic steeped in noise, metal and hardcore is incredibly intense and bracingly new. And their driving, pummeling energy is in plain view on their new album, A Hermitage<\/em>, and on this song, “They Keep Silence.” It’s post-rock by way of Eunyong Sim’s geomungo<\/em> (a long zither), Bomi Kim’s haegum<\/em> (a bowed fiddle) and vocals and guitar by Ilwoo Lee (who also plays a traditional Korean bamboo flute called a piri<\/em> on the album), rounded out by bass and drums, played respectively by Jihoon Ok and Jae Hyuk Choi.<\/p>\n

As Lee recently told Vice<\/a>, the inspiration for “They Keep Silence” is an expressly angry response to the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014, in which 304 people died. “The people in the government did wrong,” Lee said, “and those who know are keeping silent about it.”<\/p>\n

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[embedded content]<\/div>\n
Jambinai YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Finally, one more pick that features a very sweet moment in a summer when tempers are at a boil. When the Haitian band Lakou Mizik<\/a>, now touring the U.S., got stuck on a flight out of Chicago that was delayed for nearly six hours, they decided to serenade the other passengers. Not only did their fellow travelers respond to their impromptu gig with cheers, but the Facebook version of their video has been picked up by outlets from Mashable<\/a> to ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lakou Mizik has a strong sense of community in any setting. This nine-member group, ranging in age from their 20s to late 60s, came together<\/a> in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.<\/p>\n

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[embedded content]<\/div>\n
Lakou Mizik YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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