Needles & Grooves AoTM /// Vol. 4 - October 2019 /// Camarón de la isla - La leyenda del tiempo

This whole "World Music" talk reminded me of a band from my hometown called Radaid that defined themselves as World Music. I think the label made sense in their case, as one song would feature a sitar and be sung in arab, and the next would fuse a Chinese harp with electronics and be sung half in Spanish and half in English.

I suggest you give their album "L'intent" a listen. It is simultaneously their most accesible and most focused project. Rolling Stone Mexico gave it a 5 star rating, and I believe it is one of the few Mexican records to receive such raiting from the magazine. This album is more of an art rock/post rock record with heavy influences from indigenous music from all over the world, and most of the lyrics are sung in English.



Standout tracks for me are Shine, La gran victoria sobre la muerte, These times, these days, The cravings of the dead and Butterfly
 
agutierrezb said:
This whole "World Music" talk reminded me of a band from my hometown called Radaid that defined themselves as World Music. I think the label made sense in their case, as one song would feature a sitar and be sung in arab, and the next would fuse a Chinese harp with electronics and be sung half in Spanish and half in English.

I suggest you give their album "L'intent" a listen. It is simultaneously their most accesible and most focused project. Rolling Stone Mexico gave it a 5 star rating, and I believe it is one of the few Mexican records to receive such raiting from the magazine. This album is more of an art rock/post rock record with heavy influences from indigenous music from all over the world, and most of the lyrics are sung in English.



Standout tracks for me are Shine, La gran victoria sobre la muerte, These times, these days, The cravings of the dead and Butterfly
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I wish there was an “ooooooh” emoji!
 
I got lazy and developed a backlog on entering my records on Discogs. So it was today that I discovered that Nicole Atkins Goodnight Rhonda Lee has a genre classification of “Rock, Blues, Folk, World, & Country.” So the pick this month can apparently be anything terrestrially produced 🤪
 
Okay, my guess is:

Elis Regina - Elis (from 1966)

She performed at Montreux in 1979, this album was originally released by Philips, there's an European reissue available on Amazon/Discogs in the 30 dollars ballpark (though it may have very few copies - Amazon lists only 4 in stock).
 
I'm having a hard time coming up with more guesses due to availability. If we are using the Montreaux and Philips clues we think are the intent, outside of jazz, it is mostly Brazilian music at the festival, especially if we are looking at Montreaux prior to 1982.

Other than doubling up albums for which artists have already been guessed, I was looking at Milton Nascimento, but the obvious guesses aren't available. Also, Gilberto Gil, since that album guessed is actually a VA album, not a Gil album, but those aren't available either.

I don't think Flora Purim, Ney Matagrosso or Elba Ramalho were on Philips, at least not the ones I'd guess.

If we start looking at the later appearances at Montreaux there are some artists that could fit. I haven't spent much time on that yet.

Camaron de La Isla stood out since he is listed on the main Montreaux page, but my guess would have been La Leyenda del Tiempo which has a limited Spanish reissue but looks hard to get in the US, so it is very unlikely unless I'm missing something.
 
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