World Music Matters

About World Music Matters

Paris is a hub for musicians from all over the world. Our weekly show is a forum for sharing that music, and exploring its emotional impact. World Music Matters is hosted by RFI's Alison Hird.

Publisher

RFI English

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Oct 2019

Latest episode

18 Sept 2020

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Sept 2020

   Electric Vocuhila: the French quartet with taste, and talent, for African rhythms

   Electric Vocuhila combine the spirit of free-jazz legend Ornette Coleman with driving urban guitar rhythms like tsapiky from Madagascar or Congolese sebene. They masterfully sew them together on their pulse-raising third album, Palaces.

2. 

   8 Sept 2020

   Cult 1984 album 'Sons of Ethiopia' enchants new audiences in 2020

   Admas, a quartet of young Ethiopian musicians living in exile in Washington DC, had a ball recording an album of synth-heavy, funked up versions of Ethiopian classics. 'Sons of Ethiopia ' was soon forgotten but became cult among fans of ethiojazz. Now reissued by Frederiksberg Records, it reflects happier times from a generation that "just escaped" the worst of the Derg.

3. 

   11 Jul 2020

   Ennio Morricone: a tribute to the late maestro

   Italian composer Ennio Morricone was famed for his film scores but his work straddled jazz, pop, psychedelia as well as the avant-garde, influencing bands as diverse as Air and Metallica.