The first place of the June Transglobal World Music Chart was taken by the couple Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté with the album “The Sky Is the Same Color Everywhere”.
The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere is a spiritual meditation by two master musicians and culture bearers of centuries-old musical traditions. This duo recording is something special taking us on an improvisational musical journey into new landscapes.
Kayhan Kalhor, from Iran, is the leading player of the kamancheh, the Persian spike fiddle. Toumani Diabaté, from Mali, is likewise the leading player of the West African kora, a 21-string harp-lute and a sublime creation of gourd, cow skin and fishing line. This is Kayhan’s first collaboration with an African musician.
“The qualities of minimalism and trance that I like in Persian music are also there in Toumani’s,” says Kayhan. “That’s how I like to think and tell a story. That quality in African music has always attracted me and I think Toumani does that really well.”
“It’s like this music was already there waiting for us,” says Toumani. “And it’s like the two of us knew each other before – in another life.”
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Top albums June 2023:
- Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté · The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere · Real World [-]
- Ali Farka Touré · Voyageur · World Circuit [1]
- Fatoumata Diawara · London Ko · 3éme Bureau / Wagram Music [-]
- Baaba Maal · Being · Marathon Artists [12]
- Dur-Dur Band Int. · The Berlin Session · Outhere [2]
- Damir Imamović · The World and All That It Holds · Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [-]
- Kimi Djabaté · Dindin · Cumbancha [5]
- Omara Portuondo · Vida · One World [-]
- Hiram Salsano · Bucolica · Hiram Salsano [10]
- Driss El Maloumi · Aswat · Contre-Jour / Zig Zag World [7]
- King Ayisoba · Work Hard · Glitterbeat [3]
- Altın Gün · Aşk · Glitterbeat [4]
- Al Bilali Soudan · Babi · Clermont Music [-]
- Aditya Prakash · Karnatik Roots · Yarlung [-]
- Sissoko, Segal, Parisien, Peirani · Les Égarés · Nø Førmat [23]
- Plena Libre · Cuatro Esquinas · GN Música [19]
- Seckou Keita with BBC Concert Orchestra · African Rhapsodies: A Work for Kora and Symphonic Orchestra · Claves [-]
- Inna Baba Coulibaly · Djilly Kawral · Remote / Studio Mali [-]
- Brìghde Chaimbeul · Carry Them With Us · Tak:til / Glitterbeat [24]
- Naïssam Jalal · Healing Rituals · Les Couleurs du Son [20]
- Mara Aranda · Sefarad en el Corazón de Grecia · Mara Aranda [9]
- Jawa · Last Breaths from Aleppo · Muziekpublique [-]
- Dom La Nena · Leon · Sabia / Big Wax / Alter K [-]
- Sophie Lukacs · Bamako · Disques Nuits d’Afrique [-]
- Frigg · Perintö / Heritage · Bafe’s Factory [-]
- Mostar Sevdah Reunion · Lady Sings the Balkan Blues · Snail [8]
- La Marisoul and Los Texmaniacs · Corazones and Canciones · Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [16]
- Le Cri du Caire · Le Cri du Caire · Airfono / Les Disques du Festival Permanent / L’Onde et Cybèle [37]
- Keturah · Keturah · Hen House Studios [-]
- Gao Hong & Kadialy Kouyate · Terri Kunda · ARC Music [11]
- Zuco 103 · Telenova · Zuco Sound / Six Degrees [27]
- Dobrila & Dorian Duo · Dobrila & Dorian Duo 2: Pile Šareno · SJF [13]
- Bassidi Koné · Kaïra · Remote / Studio Mali [14]
- Blick Bassy · Madiba · InFiné [-]
- Karkum Project · Sahira · Karkum Project [30]
- Violons Barbares · Monsters and Fantastic Creatures · Violons Barbares [21]
- Gaïsha · Ana Aïcha · Zephyrus [17]
- Sarah-Jane Summers, Juhani Silvola & Sølvstrøk · Sølvstrøk · Heilo [-]
- Yalla Miku · Yalla Miku · Les Disques Bongo Joe [32]
- Yarákä · Curannera · Zero Nove Nove [-]
Founder members and administrators Transglobal World Music Chart:
Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES)
Current active members:
Alexis Herrería (MX), Rosângela Britto (BR), Ula Nowak (PL), Liana Cisneros (PE), Banning Eyre (US), Magda Tejchma (PL), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN/US), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (BE), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Chen Hanzi (CN), Takuya “Salam” Unagami (JP), Janaína Ávila (BR), Roger Short (UK), Ankur Malhotra (IN)
More at: https://www.transglobalwmc.com/
