10 Feb 2018

Worlds of Music: WOMAD 2018 preview

From Worlds of Music, 2:00 pm on 10 February 2018

Music from some of the artists who'll be appearing at WOMAD 2018 including Iraqi Oud composer Rahim Alhaj, Lebanese vocalist Ghada Shbeir, the sunshine hi-life sound from Ghana courtesy of Pat Thomas & the Kwashibu Area band, and from Cameroon, the very soulful Blick Bassy.

BlickBassy ©Denis-Rouvre

BlickBassy ©Denis-Rouvre Photo: BlickBassy ©Denis-Rouvre

 
Music Details

3MA (Ballake Sissoko, Driss el Maloumi, Rajery
Anfaz
Ballake Sissoko, Driss el Maloumi, Rajery
Anarouz
Six Degrees

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area band
Gyae Su
Thomas
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area band
Strut Records

Piers Faccini & Blick Bassy
Mother Time
Piers Faccini & Blick Bassy
Mother Time single
No Format

Rosemary Standley & Dom La Nena
All the World Is Green
Tom Waits
Birds On a Wire
2014;Air Rytmo

Ghazi Abdel Baki & Ghada Shbeir
Recurrent Theme (muwashah)
Ghazi Abdel Baki & Ghada Shbeir
Communiqué #2
Foward Music

Indialucia
Gangaquivir (feat. Ambi Subramaniam & Paquito Gonzalez)
Miguel Czachowski
Acatao
Indialucia

Rahim Alhaj
Letter 3. Running Boy – Fuad
Rahim Alhaj
Letters from Iraq: Oud and String Quintet
Smithsonian Folkway