World 2006 - released 24 July- Korova/Rhino KODE1010

[Charlie]

Seq - Artist - Song - Country

CD One:

1 - Kevin Johansen + The Nada - La Falla de San Andres - Argentina/USA
2 - Think of One - Tirar Onda - Belgium/Brazil
3 - Gipsy Kings - Rhythmic - France
4 - Free Hole Negro - Caballeros Para El Monte - Cuba
5 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Caravan - Romania
6 - Blue Asia - Dao Ruang Dao Roi - Japan/Thailand
7 - Oki - Iutaphonic Dub - Japan
8 - Nitin Sawhney - Dead Man - UK/India
9 - K'naan - Hoobaale - Somalia/Canada
10 - Salif Keita - Yambo - Mali
11 - Kronos Quartet + Asha Bhosle - You've Stolen My Heart - India/U.S.
12 - Sara Tavares - Balancê - Portugal/Cape Verde
13 - Isaar - Azul Claro - Brazil
14 - Ulla Pirttijärvi - Gadja Nilla - Finland
15 - Sofia Blanco - Nibari - Guatemala
16 - Amira Saqati - Sabra Dima - Morocco/Switzerland
17 - Tara Fuki - Okamzik - Czech Republic

CD Two:

1 - Amadou & Mariam - Djanfa - Mali
2 - Moussu T e lei jovents - Bolega Banjo - France
3 - Ry Cooder - Muy Fifi - USA
4 - Ali Farka Toure - Penda Yoro - Mali
5 - Souad Massi - Inspiration (Ilham) - Algeria
6 - Gal Costa - Voyeur - Brazil
7 - Kekele - Tubela - Congo
8 - Ljiljana Butler - Od Kako Sam Tudia Zena - Yugoslavia
9 - Leningrad - Kto Kogo - Russia
10 - Howe Gelb - Paradise Here Abouts - USA
11 - Marta Topferova - Semana Azul - Czech Rep/USA
12 - Bogdan Loebl - Ulica Zachodzacego Slonca (Sunset Street) - Poland
13 - Aïwa - Entronic - France/Iraq
14 - Titi Robin - Amantito - France
15 - Camille - Jolie Bruine - France
16 - Cheb I Sabbah (feat Cheba Zahouania) - Esh 'Dani, Alash Mshit (Why Did I Follow Him?) - Algeria/USA
17 - Noor - Akhian Ni Akhian - Pakistan

[David M]

Usual cracking selection Charlie, seems no 'World Music' artist is immune from your charms these days, all the big names are in there. Interested in the inclusion of the Gypsy Kings track in a 2006 comp though. Seems a long time since that one came out(in the way that your usually so current). 2004?

[ritchie]

does nt suprise me...great selection. At first glance not a 'theo' amongst them (the track that will not get played)

Mind you, you could have played safe and included 'the track that should nt be mentioned'

just think how many you would have sold.

love the cover art as well.

regards

Richaiya

[Charlie]

Mind you, you could have .... included 'the track that should nt be mentioned'

just think how many you would have sold.

Richaiya

I did put in a request for the original version of 'Chaiya Chaiya' but in the time available we could not find out who owned it.

It is on the Bollywood Star album (Universal), where Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Company is shown as the owner, but Warner's clearance expert found that Really Useful don't acknowledge ownership.

Iain Scott, who sometimes helps out in this forum on Indian music topics, did his best to guide us, but we hit only blank responses and had to abandon it.

[Charlie]

Interested in the inclusion of the Gypsy Kings track in a 2006 comp though. Seems a long time since that one came out(in the way that your usually so current). 2004?

If you were to persuse the (c) dates on earlier compilations, you'll often find a couple of tracks on each volume that are two years earlier than the date on the album itself.

Sometimes it's because I discovered the track late, and my feeling is, this music has no sell-by date, unlike pop music that is fixed by the periiod it was being heard five times a day on the radio.

Other times, as in this case, it's because I was turned down the first time I asked. The Gipsy Kings have a general policy not to allow their tracks on compilations, so had to be left off Sound of the World. But since then, music consultant Richard Thomas has started working on projects for Sony BMG (who release the GKs in the UK) and told me he thought he could put a case to the group's management. I asked him to go ahead and ask, and lo and behold, like Larry Williams they said 'yeah', so I gratefully included them.

It does help general browsers if, when they pick up one of these albums in a record store, there are one or two names they have heard of. On this album, the Gipsy Kings might be the only familiar name to many people.

[David M]

Thanks for that Charlie. I had in mind that Gypsy Kings tracks were on every compilation called things like Dance Party Latin Style. How wrong I was.

It's interesting what you say about feeling that much of the music you(& others) champion has no sell by date due to lack of airplay . Living in my own little world of carefully chosen music radio(yourself & the usual suspects) & a bit of pot luck in Sterns or downstairs at HMV, I rarely knowingly have heard the hits of the day(so I guess I have a pleasant surprise coming when I finally hear Gnarls Barkley). So for me tracks like 'Rhythmic' were Top of the Pops & I give them a right regular playing when they come out then move on to a new 'hit'. Just played it now & it still sounds powerful, but for me some stuff once popular in WM circles, as I think has been said before on this forum, sounds so dated, Salif Keitas 'Soro' being the previously quoted example.

Re Chaiya Chaiya it also came out on the Outcaste compilation 'The Very Best Bollywood Songs' in 2001. Have just checked the small print of the licencing details for the individual tracks but it's not mentioned. I suppose that Outcaste must have got clearance from whoever though.

[Alan]

I'm sure you don't really need them to tell you how special it is, but here are some reviews of World 2006 that appeared over the weekend

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http://tinyurl.com/lez2u Observer

Various World 2006 (Korova) £14.99

Now an institution, the annual 'World' compilation from broadcaster and writer Charlie Gillett is both a sampler of outstanding albums and an uncoverer of obscure delights. So alongside tasters for eminent names such as Mali's late Ali Farka Toure and France's Gipsy Kings come Arctic meditations from Finland's Ulla Pirttijarvi and septuagenarian Polish poet Bogdan Loebl rumbling to an African backdrop. There's Japanese dub, Bollywood queen Asha Bhosle singing with the Kronos Quartet and a Romanian brass band blasting Duke Ellington's 'Caravan'. It could get worthy, but Gillett's instinct for groove remains unerring.

NS
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http://tinyurl.com/p4o4s Times

Various Artists World 2006 (Korova)

Charlie Gillett knows his world music. Ill-health has recently forced him to give up his long-running BBC radio show but — as this double CD compilation demonstrates — he is still driving the bus.

This time his aural road trip takes in 27 countries and 34 artists, many of whom — such as the Arabic rap duo Aiwa — have a UK profile thanks to his Peel-like championing.

The big names are here: the Malian caruso Salif Keita, the Bollywood diva Asha Bhosle, and the Brazilian provocateur Gal Costa. There are also Finnish warblers, Pakistani pop singers, Romanian gypsy bands and all manner of left-field hybrids. What this record shows is that there is a lot of world music talent out there.

JANE CORNWELL

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http://tinyurl.com/lpg5z Sunday Times

VARIOUS ARTISTS World 2006 Korova KODE1010 (2CDs)

It’s that Womad time of year, the ideal moment to sample the latest of Charlie Gillett’s world-music tours d’horizon.

It’s a rich vintage this time, with ample space for South America. Roots lovers will gravitate towards Think of One’s infectious Tirar Onda. Mellower types will be more interested in Voyeur, by the bossa veteran Gal Costa. An eyebrow or two may be raised over the inclusion of the pop-tinged Kevin Johansen, but he earns his place, as does that introverted Czech singer of all things Latin, Marta Topferova. A recent Gillett fave, the spacey French chanteuse Camille, shines too. In fact, there isn’t a weak link. Four stars

CLIVE DAVIS

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http://tinyurl.com/fdqt2 Telegraph & http://tinyurl.com/hngbz Telegraph page 2

Various World 2006 Korova, £14.99

Charlie Gillett is the John Peel of world music, an avuncular super-enthusiast with a rare gift for engaging the listener in his passions. While the veteran DJ has abandoned his much-loved Radio London show because of ill-health, his annual compilation remains the most entertaining guide to what's happening in this mind-bogglingly diverse field.

Gillett, indeed, seems to revel in world music's phantasmagoric variety, highlighting musical collisions of ever greater unlikeliness - a Belgian brass band at large in Brazil, a Toronto-based Somali former child-soldier turned rapper, a Czech specialist in Afro-Cuban balladry and - my favourite - a wonderfully throaty Thai woman recorded by Japanese ambient musicians in a Bangkok karaoke bar.

Almost no one, it seems, now operates in just one genre or hangs around long in their country of origin. Even the late Ali Farka Touré, profoundly rooted in his Malian Sahara, features a Greek Cypriot harmonica player from Croydon.

This isn't, though, just a cabinet of curiosities. There is depth, resonance, even the odd touch of majesty along the way. And Gillett himself is thankfully said to be on the road to recovery.

Mark Hudson

[NickH]

Saturday’s Morning Star was impressed with Charlie’s latest compilation too.

I'm looking forward to hearing World 2006 later this week.

Going global
(Saturday 22 July 2006)
ALBUM: Various Artists - World 2006
(Rhino)
SELECTED by the BBC radio DJ Charlie Gillett, this is a compilation of music from around the world - 34 artists from 27 countries.

While the faux-Gypsy outfit Gogol Bordello are flavour of the month at the NME, we have the real deal here with the leading Romanian Gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia, who contribute an excellent version of Duke Ellington's Caravan.

Mali is represented by the positive energy of Amadou and Mariam and the late guitarist Ali Farka Toure.

The latter's Penda Yoro, taken from his critically acclaimed new album, suggests the original birthplace of the blues may have been West Africa.

Elsewhere, singer K'naan, brought up in war-torn Mogadishu, raps Somali proverbs and political truisms.

With such a diverse range of performers and musical styles, this album requires repeated visitations and will send listeners off on a voyage of discovery.

An antidote to the increasingly bland, corporate music currently clogging up our airwaves.

IAN SINCLAIR

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/inde ... ing_global

[howard male]

And here's a sneak preview of my review for The Word which might just squeeze into the next issue (my review copy arrived only a day or two before their deadline) but will more likely be in the following one.


World 2006 - Various Artists

Is it really that time of the year again already? Since the turn of the millennium BBC broadcaster Charlie Gillett has put together an annual collection of the planet's finest music - no fillers.

It's not just what's excited him during the year, it's also influenced by listeners who have e-mailed or phoned to say 'That was amazing! Where can I get it from?' But what really makes these compilations such a joy is there's no meaningless theme such as 'chill' or 'lounge', just 34 hugely varied snapshots of current music from Japanese dub (Oki) to Somali hip-hop (K'naan).

There's tracks from all the obvious world music hothouses such as Mali, Brazil and Cuba, but Guatemala, Iraq and Finland also weigh in. And it's all as sharply produced and agreeably innovative as anything our pop music has to offer. So don't be scared - just dive in. You'll love it.

[Charlie]

There have been more reviews this year than ever before, perhaps a tribute to the effectiveness of PR man Richard Wootton, a long time friend (once a regular Honky Tonk phone volunteer!) who has never worked on any of my albums before.

Warrner reinforced the impact with ads in the Guardian and Independent on Friday, quoting some of the favourable comments, and there was a surge of purchases at Amazon, where World 2006 is number 89 in their album best sellers today (July 29). Only Ali Farka Toure (at 18) is above it among world music releases.

But frustratingly, Amazon's own World Music chart doesn't show what's going on, and World 2006 is listed at number 12, below records at 1,892 in their sales list. And although it is by far the top selling world music compilation at Amazon, it's not even in that list at all! Baffling.

I wonder if it makes any difference. Does anybody go to the world music best sellers on Amazon and choose something from the top 5 without looking any further?

[Gustavo]

I Don't Charlie.
I for ex, will just ask my wife to order it from amazon today.
Great selection; mainly Blue Asia, K'naan and Kevin Johansen.
Too bad that Mahmoud Ahmed wasn't included.
By the way, I played Xin by Fat Marley on World 2004 to a taiwanese friend of mine and to my surprise she knew the lines (and sang it perfectly!).
The girl in the track sings in a Taiwanese dialect.

Best,
Gustavo

[Gordon Neill]

I hesitated about buying this as I thought I must have heard all the tunes on the radio show and already got a hold of the good ones. As usual, though, there's a good crop of gems that I somehow missed over the past year or so: 'Caravan' by Fanfare Ciorcarlia (sounds good for an-of-night conga), 'Dead Man' by Nitin Sawhney, and 'Nibari' by Umalali & Sofia Blanco.

Best of the lot though, for me, is 'Amantito' by Thierry Titi Robin. So good that I'm investing in Robin's latest album 'Ces Vagues Que L'amour Souleve'. The sleeve notes to World 2006 refer to Robin 'making great records for many years'. Are there any which are particularly recommended (albums, not years)?

[gordonfmoore]

Just bought it and again excellent. It contains mostly the tracks I would(!) have put in my Gillet's Favourites folder on my computer. Perhaps Charlie you should (get someone and) set up a world music track download service from your site, then we can get the cream and the artists can get their money properly.

I have refrained from doing a "Brian Eno" on the new compilation and listen to it in the order as planned! :)

Why the change in title and style again? Didn't the last marketing idea work? (I call the last one World 2005 anyway).

Gordon

[Charlie]

Why the change in title and style again? Didn't the last marketing idea work? (I call the last one World 2005 anyway).

You answered your own question correctly, Gordon

Whenever a record doesn't sell, we look for all kinds of explanations, usually unable to accept that people simply don't want the album.

In this case, it seems that most browsers resisted paying full price for a double-CD compilation with so many unfamiliar names, especially when they can spend less money on a triple or even quadruple collection crammed with more familiar names.

It's very tough out there. But at least there is some continuity if we keep the year in the title. I notice at Amazon that 'people who bought this record also bought' some of the earlier compilatons.

World 2006 continues to hover in or just below Amazon's top 100 albums, and has crept into their top ten world albums. But it's still nowhere to be seen in their list of best selling world compilations.

[Charlie]

After much prevarication, it seems that Rhino will release the compilation in the US, but not until December.

As it will hopefully continue to sell in the New Year, they need to take out the reference to 2006 in the title.

So, what would be a good alternative?

We can't use Sound of the World because that was used by Wrasse and Rhino would not want to start their series with Sound of the World Vol 2.

Do we go with the bus image on the cover and call it a journey or trip?

The programme on the World Service is now called World of Music.

World Journey
World Trip
World Apart
A Different World
World of Music

More ideas welcome, and they don't have to include World.

I'd like a title that could be a song title or at least part of a lyric.