World Music Foundation Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Many articles, films, and interviews have been made about Illmind’s extraordinary career producing many albums for several of the top names in Hip-Hop today. This isn’t one of those interviews. In this week’s episode, John digs deep into the early experiences and upbringing that shaped Ramon Ibanga Jr - AKA !llmind - as a musician and planted the seeds of what has become a life’s quest towards community building. After years of social innovation within the Producer Community, we catch up with this 2x GRAMMY Award winning artist just days before he speaks at Gary Vaynerchuck’s VeeCon and just a couple months after the launch of his landmark NFT project: Squad of Knights. 

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Juno award-winning, Eritrian krar player, Daniel Nebiat joins John to talk about his journey playing the krar. From growing up in the midst of a war for independence to working with African legends, Daniel Nebiat shares the ways he had to persevere, adapt, and innovate to continue pursuing his passion for music. Currently based in Toronto, he is a founding member of the Okavango African Orchestra, where he and African musicians from six other countries create original music for traditional instruments that have historically had little or no interaction. Whether he’s talking about krar, family, or food, “Toronto’s Krar Star” does not disappoint!


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00:04 The World Music Foundation
00:08 John Gardner
00:15 Krar
00:17 JUNO Award
00:18 Okavango African Orchestra
00:20 Daniel Nebiat
2:24 China
2:25 India
2:26 Femi Kuti
2:27 Nigeria
2:28 Côte D’Ivoire
2:29 United States
3:16 Eritrea
3:17 East Africa
4:32 ACDC
4:33 Guns n’ Roses
4:35 Jimi Hendrix
4:52 Country
4:53 Donald Williams
4:54 Kenneth Rogers
4:55 Dolly Parton
5:07 Blues
5:09 Muddy Waters
5:10 B.B. King
6:14 Poland
6:15 Italy
6:19 Jamaica
6:40 Guitar
7:39 Highway to Hell
9:30 Ethiopian New Year
9:33 Hoyena hoye
12:54 Piano
16:50 Halloween
17:36 Asmara
20:17 Addis Ababa
21:15 Kenya
21:28 Habtom
21:46 Eritrea Independence Day
24:48 Canada
25:02 Pearson International Airport
25:18 Texas
25:19 Chicago
25:21 Cafe
27:32 Tewelde Reda
29:02 Tewelde Reda-Memona
29:30 Tigrinya
29:36 Amsterdam
29:48 The Ex
29:53 Tsehaytu Beraki
30:52 Guayla
31:03 Senegal
31:22 Morocco
32:46 Harp
34:46 Pentatonic Scale
35:52 Seven-string bass
49:40 Mussie Zekarias
49:50 Isaak Okbay
41:12 Kora
44:20 Madagascar
45:21 Afrofest
46:12 Musica
52:46 Mèla Testègn
59:38 Italy
1:00:02 Seun Kuti
1:00:06 Seun Kuti & Egypt 80-Rise
1:03:38 Bruce Springsteen 
1:03:40 Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run
1:04:49 Daniel Nebiat-Harvata

Last week, we spoke with Brian & Leila Pertl, and members of the Music Education Team, who have helped design the Mile of Music Festival, especially the cultural education components. This week, we’re speaking with the teaching-musicians themselves to learn about Afro-Cuban Drumming, Mariachi, Ghanaian Drumming, and Native American Flute. We attended a few sessions ourselves during the festival and spoke with these artists afterwards.

Here's a link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

4:07 Afro Cuban Music
4:30 Clave
5:30 Syncopation
5:34 Rhythmic Melody
6:07 Bembe Rhythm
6:26 Acoustic Music
7:44 Classical Music
10:26 Upright Bass
11:11 Mariachi
11:38 Mexican Hat Dance
12:34 Instrumental
12:49 Genre
12:56 World Music
13:00 Son Jalisciense
13:30 Anthem
14:01 Bolero
14:06 Guitar
16:12 Pop Mariachi
16:21 Little Village
19:28 Americana
19:40 Acoustic
21:28 Lawrence University in Appleton
21:40 Minneapolis
21:43 Percussionist
21:49 Porky’s Groove Machine
21:50 Black Market Brass
21:56 Groove music
22:16 Mile of Music
22:51 Ghanaian Drumming
22:23 Ewe
22:24 Gahu
23:04 Boba Drum
23:35 Ewe Drums
23:52 Drumhead
23:05 Tune
23:07 Pitch
26:32 Polyrhythms
27:33 Ethnomusicology
27:35 Percussion music
29:50 Repetition
29:59 Composite rhythm
36:15 Wade Fernandez
36:17 Menominee
36:33 Vocals
36:34 Guitar
36:35 Native American Flute
36:43 Recordings
36:58 Flutes
37:31 Indian Summer Festival

We were delighted to discover the Mile Of Music Festival, which curates international music workshops alongside concerts of Americana and Folk music. Several of the Americana acts were imported nationwide and even internationally, but all of the international music is taught by people from within their small Appleton community. So which music is ‘local’?? We attended this 3 day festival, attended the workshops and spoke with the organizers to fully understand the blurring of this dichotomy.

Here's a link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:01 Mile of Music Festival
0:58 Appleton, WI, USA
1:08 The World Music Foundation
1:30 Brazilian Samba Drumming
1:33 Australian Aboriginal Didgeridoo
1:35 Balinese Gamelan
1:37 Native American Flute
1:39 Mariachi
1:49 Birds of Chicago
1:54 JT Nero
1:55 Allison Russell
2:08 Americana
3:28 Leila Ramagopal Pertl
3:35 Brian Pertl
3:38 Lawrence Conservatory of Music
5:36 Balinese Gamelan
5:42 Samba
5:43 Afro-Cuban
6:34 Lawrence University
6:59 Ghanaian Dancing
7:08 Australian Aboriginal Didgeridoo
8:30 Gong
8:52 Jaclyn Kottman
8:20 Samba Drumming
9:00 Yo-Yo-Ma
11:03 U.S Folk
12:27 Mariachi
13:45 Classical Violin
23:46 Ghanaian Dance
24:09 Bali
24:48 Americana
24:49 Bluegrass
24:50 Gospel
28:22 Appleton Public Montessori
28:31 Gumboot Dancing
28:33 Irish Dancing
28:34 Israeli Dancing
39:23 Kaleidoscope Concert
39:36 Wind Ensemble
39:38 Clarinet
39:57 Percussion Music
41:09 Soloist
45:51 Cory Chisel
45:52 Dave Willems

Jess Sah Bi & Peter One, musicians from Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa, recall hearing the harmonies and guitars of Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens for the first time and how that impacted their music from that point onward. In our conversation they take us through the creation of their landmark African-Country-Folk inspired album Our Garden Needs Its Flowers from their initial search for a producer to now the recent reissue, 30 years later, by Awesome Tapes From Africa.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

7:01 Simon & Garfunkel
7:08 Cat Stevens
8:19 Jimi Hendrix
8:29 The Beatles (Hey Jude, Let It Be)
9:49 Paul Simon
11:29 James Bond Theme
14:53: Amédée Pierre
15:00 Bob Marley (No Woman No Cry)
18:19 Don Williams
20:51 Don Williams
20:42 Alpha Blondy
25:14 Premiere Chance
30:47 Rosemary Gurg ??
33:11 Badmos
33:19 Ernesto Djedje
31:51 Georges Tai Benson
36:27 Monique Séka
36:39 Anet Roger
40:08 Gouro
40:27 Our Garden Needs Its Flowers (album)
41:03 Burkina Faso
41:04 Togo
48:50 Brian Shimkovitz

Pamyua’s musical footprint, spanning two decades and several countries, is a testament to the ongoing vibrancy of Inuit music, the group members, and their unique heritage. Brothers Phillip and Stephen Blanchett speak from the heart on issues of identity, culture and music expressed through Pamyua (pronounced bum-yo-ah) with collaborators Ossie Kairaiuak and Karina Moeller. They are preservers of an amazing musical tradition that is still alive but has historically been marked for extinction and continues to face the threat of becoming lost to this day.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:20 Pamyua
2:15 Yupik/Inuit Music
5:07 Karina Moeller
5:20 Inuit
6:15 World Music
7:02 Reggae
7:03 R&B
10:14 Russian Orthodox Church
10:55 Slavic songs
11:11 Yukon Kuskokwim Delta
11:15 Nunapitchuk
13:24 Lady Smith Black Mambazo
15:05 Soul
15:06 Rap
15:07 Hip Hop
16:12 Folk
16:13 Country
16:20 Indigenous
19:45 Wild Tchoupitoulas
19:52 Aaron Neville
22:57 Yupik Mask Dancing
28:48 Cauyaq (drum)
33:01 Side A, Side B
36:40 Yupik Langauge
36:41 Inupik Language

Chicago’s own Zeshan B’s fearlessness as an individual translates into music that knows no boundaries and takes from a wider range of influences than we may be used to hearing in one musician’s discography. In 2017 he released Vetted, his debut album, to critical acclaim. He made his national TV debut that same year on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Since then he’s been touring and preparing for his next release. We talk about his experience in music education, his current project, and how we all share an inherent hunger for groovy music.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:20 Zeshan Bagewadi
1:48 Bill Withers – Lean on Me
1:50 M.C. Hammer – Can’t Touch This
3:50 Lithuanian Opera
5:35 Raj Kapoor
6:45 Luciano Pavarotti
10:35 Gospel Choir
10:53 Gregorian chants
11:17 Chicago Lyric Opera
13:33 Don Giovanni: a Mozart Opera
13:45 Giuseppe Verdi
13:45 Beethoven
18:20 Soul music
18:48 Sam Cooke
18:50 Ray Charles
18:54 Chicago Blues
18:54 Muddy Waters
19:00 Curtis Mayfield
19:01 Mahalia Jackson
19:34 Bill Withers
19:34 Marvin Gaye
20:54 Medhi Hassan
20:55 Kishore Kumar
20:56 Mohammed Rafi
20:58 Shafqat Amanat Ali
21:05 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
21:07 Qawwali
21:15 Bollywood Music
21:45 Qawwali
21:48 Ghazal
22:05 Jagjit Singh
22:27 Medhi Hassan
22:32 Ghulam Ali
24:35 Ghazal
24:35 Indian Classical Music
24:55 Lady Gaga
24:55 Bruno Mars
25:30 Folk geet (Indian folk music)
25:38 Qawwali
25:38 Ghazal
27:15 Drum kit
27:19 Farfisa Organ
27:35 Harlem Renaissance
27:36 Langston Hughes
27:38 Zora Neale Hurston
27:44 Amiri Baraka
27:47 Assata Shakur
28:45 Elvis Presley
28:50 Tom and Jerry Theme song
37:00 Harmonium
40:23 Sitar
40:40 Indian Classical Music
43:22 Meri Jaan
43:27 Little Walter – My Babe
43:41 Muddy Waters
43:42 J.B. Hutto
43:43 Bo Diddley
44:33 Howlin Wolf
44:38 Donny Hathaway
44:40 Curtis Mayfield
44:41 Mahalia Jackson
45:05 Get Higher
45:06 Brown Power
49:37 Kurt Weill – Street Scene
49:58 Gian Carlo Menotti – The Consul
50:18 Dmitri Shostakovich
50:20 Leningrad Symphony
50:40 Richard Strauss – The Alpine Symphony
51:00 Beethoven Symphony No.9
51:07 John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
53:05 Lestor Snell
53:12 Isaac Hayes
53:12 Al Green
53:15 Shaft
54:45 Bhangra music

Originally from Costa Rica and Iran respectively, Jorge Strunz and Ardeshir Farah have brought the musical influences of their native lands into their highly virtuosic, rhythmic, and improvisation-rich original instrumental compositions, inspiring fans and many guitarists worldwide. Their meeting in 1979 in Los Angeles, where they are still based, marked the first time that Latin American and Middle Eastern music, along with other important elements, came together on the guitar. Our conversation touches on all of these points and more. Enjoy!

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:16 Strunz & Farah
1:32 Caldera
2:21 Vittorio Monti – Csárdás
2:25 Hungarian Gypsy music
2:28 Paco De Lucia
2:33 Sabicas
2:54 Plectrum
5:12 Flamenco
5:16 The Beatles
7:39 Jazz Fusion
10:49 Surf Music
11:04 The Animals
11:34 The Ventures
11:36 The Shadows
11:40 Cliff Richard
12:21 Persian Music
14:18 Carlos Montoya
14:39 Mario Escudero
14:57 Electra Records
15:10 Calypso
16:05 Pete Seeger
16:08 The Kingston Trio
16:10 Peter, Paul and Mary
16:48 America Folk
17:35 RCA Victor Records
17:37 ABC Paramount
17:39 Bob Theile
17:44 John Coltrane
18:27 John McLaughlin
18:29 Mahavishnu Orchestra
18:30 Chick Corea
18:33 Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
19:09 Capitol Records
20:14 Indian Music
20:15 Harihar Rao
20:20 Ravi Shankar
20:24 L. Subramaniam
20:37 Richard Bock
20:47 Jean-Luc Ponty
20:48 Wes Montgomery
20:54 Fantasy/Milestone Records
21:58 Luis Conte
22:07 Mosaico (album)
22:30 Ganesh Records
22:47 Persian Musicians
22:54 Frontera (album)
22:55 Manoochehr Sadeghi
22:58 Santur
23:04 Guitarras (album)
23:09 Hayedeh
23:33 Mirage (song)
24:11 Jazz Fusion
24:12 Jazz
24:13 Blues
24:14 Rock
24:20 Persian rhythms
24:21 Persian melodies
24:26 Tar
24:27 Santur
24:27 Oud
24:34 Reng (song)
24:37 Manoochehr Sadeghi
24:38 Majid Ghorbani
24:40 Randy Tico
24:40 Bass guitar
24:50 Mirage (song)
24:53 Iranian Percussion
25:04 Persian āvāz
26:27 Tale of Two Guitars (Album)
26:42 Folk (Persian)
26:43 Pop (Persian)
26:44 Keyavash Nourai
26:50 Violin
26:57 Chaharmezrab
27:22 Ethnic Persian modal
27:59 Chaharmezrab
28:02 Plectrums
28:48 Kayhan Kalhor
28:51 Kamancheh
28:54 Yo-Yo Ma
28:55 Silk Road Ensemble
29:01 Hossein Alizadeh
29:03 Setar
29:40 Tar
29:44 Sahba Motallebi
31:00 Flamenco
31:01 El Regalito (song)
31:10 Palmas
32:11 Spanish
32:46 Latin America
32:51 Cumbia
32:55 Mexico
32:55 Columbia
33:09 Diego Alvarez
33:12 Venezuela
33:14 Afro-Latin
33:15 Afro-Andean
33:19 Cajon
34:07 Juanito “Long John” Oliva
34:08 Cuban
34:13 Rhythms
34:34 Africa
35:44 Hubert Laws
35:45 Stanley Clarke
35:46 Katisse Buckingham
40:34 ABA Structure
43:31 Wild Muse (album)
43:36 Camino Real
43:54 Nengue Hernandez
44:10 Flamenco
45:01 Carlitos Del Puerto
45:18 Chick Corea
45:19 Barbra Streisand
45:47 Thomas Brooman
45:48 World Music
47:29 Mosaico (album)
48:54 Primal Magic (album)
48:57 Américas (album)
51:28 Iranian Music
52:21 Viguen
53:45 Accordion
56:22 Tales of Two Guitars (album)

Aashish Khan is the eldest exponent of an Indian Classical music lineage that reaches all the way back to the court of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. He takes us back to the creation of his pioneering Indo-Jazz fusion band, Shakti, in the early 1970s, he shares about his new project Shringar, and reveals that he has a literal treasure trove of unreleased recordings, including a track that he recorded with George Harrison, Eric Clapton and others.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:30 Aashish Khan
2:35 Sandip Burman
3:13 Sarod
4:51 Tonic
5:08 Chikari
5:18 Taraps
5:35 Reverb
5:58 Plectrum
7:04 Raag (or Ragas)
7:11 Ragas (or Raag)
9:23 Mian Tansen
9:35 Swami Haridas
9:38 Emperor Akbar (1542–c. 1605)
9:48 Allauddin Khan
9:55 Wazir Khan
10:00 Rampur
10:03 Uttar Pradesh
10:05 Lucknow
10:14 Ali Akbar Khan
10:19 Annapurna Devi
10:20 Sitar
10:24 Subahar
10:30 Timir Baran Bhattacharya
10:32 Sarod
10:35 Ravi Shankar
10:40 Pannalal Ghosh
10:41 Bansuri flute
10:52 Folk Instrument (Indian)
10:54 Classical Instrument (Indian)
11:12 Piccolo flute
11:18 Assam
11:24 Indian
11:34 Bahadur Khan
11:51 Dhyanesh Khan
12:57 Ameena Khan
12:03 Pranesh Khan
12:04 Tabla
12:09 Violin
12:19 Alam Khan
12:23 Manik Khan
13:02 Cello
13:15 Oboe
13:23 Guitar
15:16 Indian Fusion Music
15:21 Shanti (band)
15:41 Richard Bock
15:53 Ravi Shankar
15:57 World Pacific Record Company
16:13 Zakir Hussain
16:27 Swapan Chaudhuri
16:40 England
16:41 America
16:55 Neil Seidel
16:59 Steve Leach
17:04 Steve Haehl
17:08 Frank Lupica
17:13 Pranesh Khan
17:18 Dholak
17:21 Shanti (band)
17:36 Atlantic Records
17:42 CD
17:44 Vinyl
18:05 Shringar
18:12 Thinking of You (song)
18:14 Tim Green
21:20 Charles Lloyd
21:25 John Handy
21:26 George Harrison
21:34 John Barham
21:35 The Beatles
21:45 Western Notation
21:54 North Indian Music
22:06 Piano
22:37 George Harrison
22:45 Pop Music
22:52 Ringo Starr
22:55 Eric Clapton
22:57 Billy Preston
24:29 Mian Tansen
27:28 Saraswati
28:01 Bengal
28:13 Bansat Pancham
29:37 Pakhawaj
29:47 Uday Shankar
30:16 Ludwig van Beethoven
30:47 Maihar Band
33:19 Cassette
33:21 Reel to reel
35:30 Taleem (Explain in the episode)
38:03 Gharana
38:05 Senia Maihar Gharana
38:51 HMV (His Master’s Voice)
40:15 Nikhil Banerjee
40:14 Jotin Bhattacharya
43:31 Jazz
43:32 Classical Music (Western)
43:50 The Beatles
43:54 Elton John
43:58 Bob Dylan
44:09 Lay, Lady, Lay
44:22 Stevie Wonder
44:26 Lionel Richie
44:46 Michael Jackson
45:11 Shiraz Khan

Thomas Brooman has always had a vision of a smaller musical world -- from his early years spent among fellow awe-struck concertgoers during the European Rock-&-Roll boom, to his later work cultivating a collective of artists as co-founder of the globally inspired World of Music Arts and Dance festival (WOMAD). We talk about the relationship between musicians and international markets and get a behind-the-scenes look into his involvement in the creation of the term ‘World Music’- in all of its complexities.

Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode:

0:13 WOMAD World of Music, Art, and Dance Festival
1:51 Cheb Khaled
4:26 Punk Rock
5:41 Bossa nova
5:44 Samba
9:38 Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
10:28 Topic Records
10:28 GlobeStyle Record
10:30 Ben Mandelson
10:33 Roger Armstrong
10:36 African music
13:17 Giuseppe Verdi
13:17 Ludwig van Beethoven
13:17 Maurice Ravel
15:01 Ian Anderson
15:03 fRoots Magazine
16:05 Blues
16:06 Bluegrass
16:28 Saxophone
16:29 Guitar
16:58 Qawwali
17:07 Harmonium
19:18 Ravi Shankar
19:23 Hugh Masekela
19:29 Grazing in the Grass
19:53 WOMAD First Festival 1982
19:55 Echo and the Bunnymen
20:17 The Beat
20:25 The Drummers of Burundi
20:36 Pete de Freitas
20:54 All My Colours (Zimbo)
22:20 WOMAD Blues and Rhythm Fest 1989
22:30 Ali Farka Toure
22:30 Taj Mahal
23:54 Youssou N’Dour
25:06 Billy Cobham
25:22 Real World Studios
25:41 Asere
27:35 Remmy Ongala
29:08 S.E. Rogie
31:09 Gaucho drum
31:31 Ringo Starr
31:36 The Beatles
32:09 Drum Set
35:09 4/4 time signature
36:00 Rock and Roll
36:04 Blues
39:33 Bristol Colston Hall
39:36 The Jimi Hendrix Experience
39:40 Pink Floyd
39:42 The Nice
39:45 Keith Emerson (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
39:46 The Move
39:52 Amen Corner
40:10 Rolling Stones
40:23 Festival for progressive Blues
40:41 Fleetwood Mac
40:45 Led Zeppelin
41:02 Blues
41:57 Pop Music
42:03 Rolling Stones
42:04 Grand Funk Railroad
42:30 Rock Fest (either 1999 or 2000)
43:11 Pandit Sandip Burman
43:20 Blues Harmonica
43:30 Indian Classical
43:46 Raag Bilawal
45:26 time signature
45:28 phrasing
45:29 cadence
45:29 melody