Ther’s something captivating bout all these wonder children. Kourosh Yaghmae is Iran answer to Mozart, Yami Bolo and MJ. When Kourosh was 10 years old his father gave him a santour, the Persian traditional string-percussive dulcimer, and according to the the legend he started to play a tune after only a few tries. At the age of 15 he started to play the guitar and assembled his own pop/rock bands which he both composed for and played in. Kourosh introduced rock music to Iran with a pop arrangements but his voice, and guitar, was banned for 17 years after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Now it’s finally reckoned and play once again. Ajvar especially likes Hajme Khali, Tavalode Yek Sedaand Leila.
Canada can be blamed for a lot. But not for being known as the most famous or fantastic music nation in the world. But if you’ll seek, hard and long, you’ll find. The Canadian “‘funky jazzy horn rock band” Natural Gas released their only album in 1970 on label Firebird. The song Live and Learn is a funky tune with the coolest horn. Could be the next it-genre in a hip club near by.
Gilberto Gil - Miserere Nobis
Natural Gas - Live And Learn
Daniel Klauser - Azteca Space (Sonora Remix)
Kourosh Yaghmae - Hajme Khali
Kourosh Yaghmae - Leila
El Rego - Zon Dede
bANDISTA - Selam Size
DJ Angola - Che Che Cole
San La Muerte - Vlva San La Muerte
Bert On Beats - Suomo (Ku Bo Remix)
Toddla T - Badman FLu
MIR Crew ft. Sanjin & Yuthman & Joey Fever - Yu-Go-Moom-Bah-Ton
With new year comes new ideas and desires to change one self and the world. Not from Ajvar though. Our only promise for 2012 is that we’re going to work hard to do the same incomparable thing, perhaps a little bit better, as always. That is more crazy, funky, multi kulti beats from everywhere every Saturday. Like the Chilean orchestra Chico Trujillo’s beautiful mixture of classic cúmbia, bolero, reggae, latin american and balcanic music that’s suitable for a basement as well as a ballroom. Or the Roskilde Festival where the band played in 2010. Varga-Varga is an Ajvar anthem for 2012.
The Arabic spring was the thing last year and among many more or less political musicians we particularly like Golden Beirut - The new sound of Lebanon, release on Outhere Records, that focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut’s underground. They’re tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, angry about Euro-American exoticism and so on. Satirical Folk Rock band Mashrou’ Leila are the first to slowly rise from underground hype to reaching wider audiences and their Raksit Leila is as funky as vicious.
Prince Francis - Rock Fort Shock
Chico Trujillo - Varga-Varga
Marcia Maria - Amigo Branco
Flora Purim - Sarara
Emílio Santiago - No Balanço Do Trem
Badle Ki Aag - Mehbooba Song
El hijo de la cúmbia - Cumbia Del Los Barrios
Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Terk (P Mmillenaar Remix)
Kamuran Akkor - Ikimiz Bir Fidaniz
Mashrou’ Leila - Raksit Leila
Onra - The Anthem
Honoré Avolonto Et L’orchestra Poly-Rythmo- Tin Lin Non
John Ozila - Ozila 2001
L’vovo Derango - Resista
Amanzeba Nat Brew - Tsemo
For premier treat we’re throwing in the fantastic Bollywood-video Mehbooba song from the 1982 Bollywood film Badle Ki Aag. Watched bout 20 times at Ajvar’s Goa-vacation this Christmas.
Everything must come to an end. Not Ajvar though, but our broadcasting-clubing-mixing 2011 is per today over. Closing the book, like we do every year, with the beautiful and breathtaking Christmas anthem Irie Christmas by Freddie McGregor. And a classic Ajvar mix made to last over the holiday and a few days more. Hip hip hooray.
When in Japan there’s so much more than rice and raw fish, claustrophobic public transport and sharp swords. Like a fantastic music scene. For guidance Ajvar invited Japan connoisseur Gustaf Kjellin aka. DJ Gus to talk and play us through the very best of modern Japanese jazz from the 90’s till today - top notch nu-jazz and modern jazz.That scene that exploded some ten years ago when Gustaf Kjellin fist went to Japan.
It all started with Tokyo based United Future Organization (UFO), a trio who began the accid-jazz era in 1994 and was followed by groups and artists as Kyoto Jazz Massive, Jazztroniks, Naoya Matsuoka and Museum Of Plate.
- I would say that the modern jazz is the biggest thing in Japan, the kind of music you’ll here at all the bars and restaurants. But not as familiar to us as the playdisco or crazy rock. That’s a challenge for Stockholm’s clubs and bars to be brave enough to star a place where DJ can provide new interesting things, says Gustaf Kjellin.
This Friday is it. Ajvar will make Morfar Ginko’s basement in Stockholm dance like there’s no tomorrow. And for those of you that can’t make it to the venue, what a shame, here is a Spotify list that surely will ease your abstinence wherever you might be Friday night. And for those of you coming to Morfar - this is the only pre party-list necessary. Enjoy. And welcome!
Jalan means street and Jalan Surabaya is a huge street market in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, but it’s also a music duo that brings a whole new sound of hip hop. Via Denmark and the record label UrbanWorld Records that focus on electronically fused world music, funk, jazz, cumbia, latin, afro, balkan beats, asian music. A true Ajvar fusion.
And since ska-music havn’t been the thing for some time we, off course, had to showed off some great up to date ska-tunes. Like Hepcat’s 90:s classic Nigel and Yebo’s Skazz from the excellent album Ska…Ska…Skandal!
Jalan Surabaya - Alam Maya
Hepcat - Nigel
Yebo - Skazz
Gramatik - Break Loose
Los Skartoi - Balkan Parade
Robertinho Silva - Falange Dos Tambores
La Brass Banda - Marien Käfer
The Spy From Kairo - Jennaty
Meitz - Swakalani
Sail Joia - Amsterdao (DJ Silence Remix)
Azymuth - Depois Do Carnival
Doris Mobteiro - Eu Quero, Eu Quero, Eu Quero
Tamikrest - Aicha
Blehorkestra Bakija Bakic From Vranje - Pobjednicki Cocek
Sarawash Soul - Mestíco
Atiya Astrobeat Arkestra - Put Leg To Road
Torito Bandido - Saya De San Benito
Next Friday, the 9th of December, Ajvar goes pre christmas-dance down in that basement in Stockholm. So start getting excited and check out our Facebook-group for more info. Or the blog in a coulple of days.
This Saturday we’re very in to a fusion of organic Afro-Latin beats and electronic club music. Like Austria’s finest electronic drum ensemble Makossa & Megablast. The duo Marcus Wagner-Lapierre and Sascha Weisz releasted their secons album Soy Como Soy earlier this year in true Ajvar-style. Electronic meets world tunes meets Dance, Afro-beat, ethno, house, dub, disco, broken beats, some hip hop and reggae-inspired vocals. With a little help from Tony Allen & DG Spirit the song Wangu is the album’s masterpiece.
We also like Ethiopia and it’s neighbour country Eritrea particularly much. Eritrean Asamara All Stars’ amazing guitar dubby tune Amajo is one of a kind. As is Ethiopian Teshome Mitiku’s catchy Ambati. The singer and keyboardist fled from Addis Ababa to Sweden (of all countries) at the peak of his musical career in 1969 after the government endorsed a strict, mandatory night curfew. He permanently moved to Sweden in 1970 and enrolled at the Music Conservatory in Malmö and started performing with a 12-piece, jazz band, called Tolvan. It’s a small world sometimes.
After hundreds of letter of enquiry the week’s weird song made a come back this week. Dancehall and vocoder master Pompidoo and his Synthesizer Voice speaks for it selves. Literally.
Asamara All Stars - Amajo
Teshome Mitiku - Ambati
Ali Hassan Kuban - Habibi
Joe Quijano & His Canjunto Cachana - Fun City Shingaling
Africando - Jaye Boy
Palov & Mishkin - Et De Clarinete
Makossa & Megablast ft. Tony Allen & DG Spirit - Wangu
Orlando Julius & His Afro Sounders - Kete Kete Koro
From the electro-traditional tunes from the suburbs of Kinshasa and Sangeeta’s beautiful breath of Bhangra/Bollywood air to futuristic Portuguese kuduro by Buraka Som Sistema, Moombahton and Swedish grime with a twist. Some would say it’s a little bit schizophrenic. We just call it an ordinary but oh so brilliant Ajvar mix. And it will make your Saturday night.
Holliday week-end (Dia de los muertos) means Ajvar’s taking a break from broadcasting to celebrate death and pumpkings. Since we never leaves our listerners treatless we’ve put together an excellent Spotify list for you with our favourite Middle Eastern-belly dancing-Arabique-drum solo-oriental-tunes. It’s Baba Zula, Omar Khorshid, Waled Abed, Mohammed El Bakkar, Rashid Taha and many more.
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About Ajvar
This is Ajvar. A radio show that started in 2005 playing music from all around the world. Music with heart, soul, groove and rythm. Everything from Japaneese playdisco, Bollywood classics, Eastern folk, African blues, European brass, Carribean grooves to American folk.
Every Saturday we deliver a new one hour show at THS Radio 95,3.
Ajvar is broadcasted live, no modifications, minimal planing. With a lot of energy and spontaneity.
Ajvar is:
Boris Lukic aka Toni Bassi. DJ and music producer. Runs a DnB label MIR.
Emir Krkic aka Emir Fönk. DJ and music producer. Runs a label FEED Records.
Helena Björck - A genius and the show-producer.
Contact us: info@ajvar.se
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