In today’s Global Hit we meet two musicians from very different backgrounds.
Justin Adams is a rock guitarist from Britain.
Juldeh Camara a singer and spiked fiddle player from Gambia. In Africa, Juldeh Camara is known as a griot — a musical storyteller.
Together Adams and Camara have released a new album called “Tell No Lies.”
And you can’t help but hear a bit of American blues on some of the tracks. Here’s one called — Kele Kele.
“And point out the people that are really doing good in the country and those who aren’t doing so good.”
Listen here http://www.theworld.org/2009/07/23/justin-adams/
Johannes Theurer compiles the monthly Top 20 World Music CD Chart. The new list is in:
1. Baaba Maal - "Television "
2. Staff Benda Bilili - "Tres Tres Fort "
3. DuOud - "Ping Kong "
4. Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara - "Tell no lies "
5. Rotfront - "Emigrantski Raggamuffin "
Read the entire list at http://www.wmce.de/
Real World records has posted the new Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara "Kele Kele" video on their blog today.
Juldeh Camara is an African Master Musician, taught to play by his blind father, who himself was taught directly by the djinn. Playing the ritti, a one-stringed fiddle and West African ancestor of the violin, he participated as a griot (a West African poet, praise singer and repository of oral tradition) in traditional Fula society.
Johannes Theurer compiles the monthly Top 20 World Music CD Chart. The new list is in:
Read the rest of the Top 20 at www.wmce.de
