This Friday May 1st, Bandcamp are waiving their fees to artists for any music sold on the site for 24 hours. So we’re giving everyone a chance to buy the new album, ‘Walls Have Ears’ for that day only…after that it’ll be out on May 15th so if you want Read more…
Time for another TGU playlist: this one features many of the Arabic and Turkish artists we’ve worked with over the years…which means firstly there’s plenty of Natacha’s voice here, and secondly several tracks aren’t available to stream, notably Sawt El Atlas’ classic ‘Ne Me Jugez Pas’ and Kadem Al Sahar’s Read more…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qlcwh World on 3, BBC Radio 3, presented by Lopa Kothari
The Crick Crack Club presents The King & the Corpse Performance Storytelling by TUUP & Sheema Mukherjee A king is obliged to carry the corpse of a hanged man on his back – but the corpse is not dead, it is possessed by a storytelling vampire, whose enigmatic puzzles threaten to Read more…
This time they are rehearsing that old TGU favourite ‘Take the A Tram’ We’re gonna be down there soon, in Tirana, joining them in rehearsals and some serious Raki imbibing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS591wQhZdQ
Fanfara Tirana rehearsing ‘Aferdita’ from ‘Kabatronics,’ their collaboration with Transglobal Underground due out on the 25th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz981_14iCI&feature=youtu.be
http://www.worldmusic.net/charts/audio/2013-01-23/feb-audio-chart-mory-kante-cheb-khaled-devendra-banhart-more/
‘Kabatronics’ is a collaboration between Transglobal Underground and Albanian brass masters Fanfara Tirana. Beginning 2 years back as a remix operation, the project expanded into an exchange of ideas between Tirana and London that went beyond the Balkan brass roots of the music and bringing in a whole new cargo Read more…
