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Glitterbeat Records 2016 

DAMIR IMAMOVIĆ'S SEVDAH TAKT 

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And it is all you would hope for. The 

songs are well chosen, then pared down to 

their core and aimed at the heart – simple, 

poignant and spare. From opener, the Carter 

Family’s Give Me Your Love & I’ll Give You 

Mine, the tone is set. West’s voice entwines 

winningly in harmony with the divinelyvoiced 

Dori Freeman – as soul-nourishing as 

Gram and Emmylou – and the sweet, mellifluous 

electric guitar interplay with Bill 

Frisell is meltingly lovely. Freeman’s timeless 

If I Could Make You Mine sees each stepping 

forward for soaring solo verses over plunky 

banjo and pedal steel. 

The tunes are then rich, mellow-toned 

mood pieces, allowing for individual instrumental 

dexterity to glow, but never showy or 

unnecessary. Elizabeth Laprelle’s stark harmony 

vocal on Rainbow Midst Life’s Willows, as 

affecting as ever, is an even match for the 

glorious string-ringing instrumental version. 

A blueprint for class and style. 

elidoes.com 

Sarah Coxson 

FELA RANSOME KUTI & 

HIS KOOLA LOBITOS 

Highlife – Jazz And Afro-Soul (1963- 

1969) Knitting Factory KFR1134-2 

This latest output from Knitting Factory’s Fela 

reissue campaign is going to delight a lot of 

enthusiasts. Kuti’s main body of work hasn’t 

been so hard to find. But these Koola Lobitos 

recordings – the early days, precursor and laboratory 

to Afrobeat – have been anything 

but. Now, thanks to the musical archaeology 

of Mr Toshiya Endo, Professor of Chemistry at 

Nagoya University, they are. Three albums of 

seminal Fela reveal the momentous meeting 

of jazz and highlife. We hear an initially somewhat 

gauche but outstandingly creative force, 

working his way from dance music to a powerful 

and revolutionary fusion with something 

deeper and more challenging, his confidence 

and authority growing from track to track. 

The first CD is a collection of singles – 

good-humoured dance stuff, quite cute, but 

not the ‘uncommercial’ jazz that Fela wanted 

to play, even then. Album two is the one that 

has been released by Stern’s and other labels 

– six tracks of considerable punch – while the 

third album is Fela and band playing live at 

the Afro Spot. It is a statement, an announcement 

of a birth. You can sense the exhilaration. 

The band is up for it. Also you can hear 

some pretty rough sax work from our hero; 

he always was a better man on trumpet. But 

as a band leader he was truly inspirational, 

and you can hear it here. 

www.knittingfactoryrecords.com 

Rick Sanders 

DAMIR IMAMOVIĆ’S 

SEVDAH TAKHT 

Dvojka Glitterbeat GBCD033 

Damir Imamović has always 

taken exception to the codifying 

of his beloved sevdah 

(follow ing the ‘golden age’ 

of sevdah, half a century 

ago) and the consequent 

arbitrary limiting of musical 

possibilities, and imposition 

of a nationalist sheen. 

So this is serious. Lijepi Meho is a bucolic 

but deadly violin-led dance into a suddenly 

locked space. Through the creeping drama 

and warning, and beyond language, we can 

hear the lyricism and the storytelling in the 

music and despairing vocals. When it returns, 

the violin is darker, deeper, grave. And we are 

left in that seriousness, the tension unresolved. 

Photo: Amer Kapetanovic 

Damir Imamovic 

Sarajevo, an Imamović original, is his 

unearthing of an ‘other Sarajevo’, an examination 

of the nonconformists with whom he 

identifies in his home city. The song maintains 

that the city’s children “will be taught with 

venom and hate, dreaming about a distant, 

happy fate, [while] at home they will fear 

their shadow”, disturbing, beneath smooth 

and seductive real soul singing. Imamović 

sings profoundly primal sevdah. And it is 

noted that the word derives from the Turkish 

word for love, ‘sevda’; which is in turn 

derived from the Arabic word for black bile, 

‘sawda’. The combination of love and black 

bile may well explain everything. And there is 

an immediate clarity in the links between 

classical and contemporary material, and 

with fado (‘sawda’ and ‘saudade’). 

His vision is shared by Nenad Kovačić, a 

Croatian percussionist who has studied the 

multifaceted rhythms of both the Balkans 

and West Africa; by Ivan Mihajlović, from Serbia, 

a bass player of extraordinary daring and 

originality, who plays a steadily cutting 

groove; and by Ivana Durić, who displays a 

smoothly dangerous and convoluting set of 

violin tunes around these darkest of songs. 

Imamović, meanwhile, enjoys freedom with 

the tambur, unconstrained by the done thing 

and seeking out every possible sound to form 

these deliberate ecstasies of lament. 

So this is an international sevdah album 

in its base notes and grace notes and lyrical 

thinking. It mines a collection of songs centuries-lost 

in a German library, revives songs 

collected in Bosnia between the two World 

Wars, and composes anew, accompanied by 

solid black bass tones. “Is it day yet?” 

Imamović asks, in conclusion. “No,” he 

answers. 

www.glitterbeat.com 

John Pheby 

PETE MORTON WITH 

FULL HOUSE 

Game Of Life Fellside FECD271 

Weird how Pete Morton always seems to disappear 

under the radar. Consistently one of 

Britain’s finest songwriters over the last three 

decades or so, he never seems to be invited 

on those multi-artist gigs or themed songwriting 

retreats or even get mentioned in 

despatches whenever it’s awards time. 

An independent spirit, an old-school 

troubadour if you like, he continues his own 

merry niche and, following hard on the heels 

of his excellent last album The Land Of Time, 

he teams up with Chester band Full House to 

re-visit some of his own’ greatest hits’. Sensitive 

and not remotely overbearing, they 

bring plenty of tea and sympathy to lovely 

old songs like Another Train, Disobedience 

(“Ghandi taught us disobedience, so let’s not 

let him down…”), Shores Of Italy, Listening 

To My Boots, The Luckiest Man and the festival 

anthem to end them all, When We Sing 

Together. The vocal harmonies and fiddle 

playing of Clare Smith merit particular praise, 

offering temperate balance to the torrent of 

words in which Morton habitually deals. 

You can certainly question the over-simplification 

of Two Brothers, reducing the 

Palestinian question to a bad-tempered spat 

between two little boys is uncomfortable; but 

elsewhere the weight of wit, words and 

scatter-gun delivery on tracks like Battle Of 

Trafalgar, Sock On The Line and Seven Billion 

Eccentrics is irresistible. 

“Nothing was ever planned,” Morton 

tells us in his sleeve notes. “I played the game 

to try and change the world but everything 

was always a gamble from the start in the 

hope that the words and tunes could give a 

message worth telling.” Always, Pete, always. 

www.fellside.com 

Colin Irwin 

VARIOUS ARTISTS 

Zydeco – Black Creole French Music and 

Blues 1929-1972 Frémeaux & Associés FA 

5616 

This two-CD release from prolific and eclectic 

French label Frémeaux & Associés contains 

much which is available elsewhere, but is 

compiled here in a well thought-out, roughly 

chronological order. 

The album opens with the first commercial 

recordings from superb accordeonist 

Amedé Ardoin, with Dennis McGee on fiddle, 

including the astonishing One Step d’Oberlin 

– an object lesson in improvised one-chord 

hypnotic blues, and two later solo tracks that 

have been rather nicely sonically restored. 

Oakdale Carriere’s Catin, Prie Donc Pour 

Ton Nègre, recorded by John Lomax in Angola 

State Penitentiary in 1934 is another highlight. 

His strong singing and dextrous 

accordeon playing make you wonder if he 

would have been commercially recorded if he 

hadn’t been in prison. 

Several cuts recorded at beer joints and 

parties in Houston and Lafayette by Chris 

Strachwitz in the early ’60s are also included, 

and document the music moving from a rural 

to a more urban setting with the likes of 

Willie Green, Paul McZiel and Albert Chevalier. 

Songs like Allons A Lafayette and Zydeco 

Sont Pas Salés, still popular dance hall 

favourites today, feel so vital and intense 

played with just accordeon and rub-board, 

giving an idea of what was to come as the 

music evolved. 

Disc One finishes with four tracks from 

Fremont and Bee Fontenot, brothers recorded 

at home in 1972 playing spellbinding old 

French dances and bluesy songs learned early 

in the century which testify to old forms of 

Afro-Louisianan expression never commercially 

recorded. 

Disc Two deals mainly with the development 

of Zydeco into a more urban style, 

through early studio recordings of Clarence 

Garlow, Boozoo Chavis and of course Clifton 

Chenier. Boozoo’s signature song Paper In My 

Shoe features a pick-up band with a somewhat 

entertaining guitar chord all the way 

through. Some also say that Boozoo was so 

drunk at one of his early sessions that he had 

to be strapped to a chair as he played. The 

music still stands though, particularly his 

great Forty One Days. The first commercial 

Zydeco record is here too, featuring Lightnin’ 

Hopkins on the organ!


London evening standard: 



Transglobal World Music Chart 

MAY 2016 

1 Bombino 

Azel - Partisan Records (7 ) 

2 Aziza Brahim 

Abbar el Hamada Glitterbeat Records (2=) 

3 Rokia Traoré 

Né So - Nonesuch (1 ) 

4 La Banda Morisca 

Algarabya - Fol Música (9 ) 

5 Konono Nº1 meets Batida 

Konono Nº1 meets Batida - Crammed Discs 

(8 ) 

6 Lakou Mizik 

Wa Di Yo - Cumbancha (12 ) 

7 Fanfare Ciocărlia 

Onwards to Mars! - Asphalt Tango Records 

(6 ) 

8 The Gloaming 

2 - Real World Records (4 ) 

9 Stefano Saletti & Banda Ikona 

Soundcity - Finisterre (- ) 

10 Katerina Tsiridou 

Aman Katerina: A Tribute to Panayiotis 

Toundas - Protasis Music (15 ) 

11 Sociedade Recreativa 

Sociedade Recreativa - La Chaudière Production / 

Jarring Effects (16 ) 

12 Damir Imamović's Sevdah Takht 

Dvojka - Glitterbeat Records (- ) 

13 V.A. - Every Song Has its End: Sonic 

Dispatches from Traditional Mali - 

Glitterbeat Records (28 ) 

14 Las Hermanas Caronni 

Navega Mundos - Les Grands Fleuves (3 ) 

15 Anoushka Shankar 

Land of Gold - Deutsche Grammophon (- ) 

16 DagaDana 

Meridian 68 - Karrot Kommando (- ) 

17 Sidestepper 

Supernatural Love - Real World Records (5 ) 

18 Elza Soares 

The Woman at the End of the World / A Mulher do 

Fim do Mundo - Mais Um Discos (- ) 

19 Karsh Kale 

Up - Six Degrees Records (14 ) 

20 Päre 

Hausjärvi Beat - Zebo Records (31 ) 

Members of the TWMC panel (May 2016 vote): Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane 

(ES), 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), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer 

(US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Ian Anderson (GB), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina 

(RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kugay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), 

Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Sergey 

Maiboroda (KZ), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS) 

www.transglobalwmc.com 

May 2016 Top 40: www.transglobalwmc.com/charts/may-2016-chart/ 

Album submission’s procedures: www.transglobalwmc.com/album-submissions/ 

Contact: transglobalwmc@gmail.com


GERMAN


Jazzthetik: 

Damir Imamovic’s Sevdah Takht 

Dvojka 

CD review 

Jazzthetik 

May/June 2016


ITALIAN

Ascolta Tambur 



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LANGUAGES: 

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DUTCH 

ENGLISH 

FRENCH 

GERMAN 

HUNGARIAN 

ITALIAN


ENGLISH


The Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/05/damirimamovics-sevdah-takht-dvojka-review


Rhytmpassport: http://www.rhythmpassport.com/articlesand-reviews/album-review/album-review-damir-imamovicsevdah-takht-dvojka-glitterbeat-records-29th-april-2016/


and http://www.rhythmpassport.com/articles-andreviews/interview/interview-damir-imamovic-may-2016/



DEUTSCH


Deutschland Radio Kultur: 

http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/sevdah-musikmelodien-fuer-ein-neuesbosnien.2177.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=355953


DUTCH


Mixedworldmusic 

http://mixedworldmusic.com/recensies/index.php?id=1083&of 

fset=12&poffset=0


ITALIAN


DISTORSIONI 

http://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/dvojka


SLOVENE


NOVA MUSKA http://novamuska.org/?p=14312


NOVA MUSKA http://novamuska.org/?p=15339


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INTERVIEW: 

- Balkanblogger 

http://balkanblogger.com/2016/02/24/damir-imamovic-beimsevdah-lied-sarajevo-stehen-verzweiflung-und-hoffnung-imvordergrund/ 

- Deutschlandradiokultur: 

http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/sevdah-musikmelodien-fuer-ein-neuesbosnien.2177.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=355953 

ANNOUNCEMENT: 

- Tunatheday 

http://www.tunatheday.com/go/mix/showmix%282386%29 

INTERVIEW: 

- Robert Rigney 

http://www.robertrigney.com/2016/05/04/interview-withdamir-imamovic/ 

ALBUM REVIEW: 

- The Guardian: 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/05/damirimamovics-sevdah-takht-dvojka-review 

- Messengernewspapers: 

http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/leisure/music_review 

s/14309265.CD_reviews___Bonnie_Raitt__Milos__Damir_Imamov 

ic_s_Sevdah_Takht__Soul_For_Dancers_2/ 

- Beehy.pe 

http://beehy.pe/damir-imamovic-sevdah-takht-lijepa-zejnodvojka/ 

- The Artsdesk: 

http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/cd-damirimamovi%C4%87s-sevdah-takht-dvojka 

- Rhytmpassport: 

http://www.rhythmpassport.com/articles-and-reviews/albumreview/album-review-damir-imamovic-sevdah-takht-dvojkaglitterbeat-records-29th-april-2016/ 

and 

http://www.rhythmpassport.com/articles-andreviews/interview/interview-damir-imamovic-may-2016/ 

PLAYED SONGS: 

- BBC: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0739kst 

and 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0745634 

- Mixcluod SOAS Radio A world in London DJ Ritu: 

https://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/awil-173/


DUTCH ALBUM REVIEWS: 

- Mixedworldmusic 

http://www.mixedworldmusic.com/nieuws/newsItem.php?n01 

ID=17639 

and 

http://mixedworldmusic.com/recensies/index.php?id=1083 

&offset=12&poffset=0 

- Moorsmagazine: 

http://www.moorsmagazine.com/muziek/wereldmuziek/balka 

n/damir-imamovics-sevdah-takht-dvojka-balkanblues-nu/ 

- Music Frames: 

http://www.musicframes.nl/2016/04/damir-imamovicssevdah-takht/#more-39572 

- Vpro: 

http://www.vpro.nl/vrijegeluiden/media~POMS_VPRO_3831082~lijepa-zejno-damirimamovi%C4%87~.html 

- Rootstime: 

http://rootstime.be/index.html?http://rootstime.be/CD% 

20REVIEUW/2016/MEI1/CD81.html 

CROAT 

IAN 

ALBUM REVIEWS: 

- Pot lista: 

http://www.potlista.com/recenzije/sevdah-takht-damiraimamovica-dvojka 

- Barikada: 

http://barikada.com/damir-imamovics-sevdah-takhtdvojka/ 

- Jergović: Subotnja matineja 

http://www.jergovic.com/subotnja-matineja/damirimamovic-tambur-u-triblju/ 

- Amir Misirlić blog: 

https://amirmisirlic.com/2016/06/16/dvojkaza-cistupeticu/


SLOVENE 

ALBUM REVIEW: 

- Radio Študent: 

http://radiostudent.si/glasba/tolpa-bumov/damirimamovi%C4%8D-sevdah-takht-dvojka 

- Nova Muska: 

http://novamuska.org/?p=14312 

INTERVIEW: 

- Nova Muska: 

http://novamuska.org/?p=15339 

- Delo: 

http://www.delo.si/sobotna/glasba-povecuje-empatijodo-vsega-drugacnega.html 

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ITALIAN 

POLISH 

FRENCH 

CONCERT REVIEWS: 

- Delo: 

http://www.delo.si/kultura/glasba/damir-imamovicmoderni-sevdah-za-moderno-obcinstvo.html 

- Radio Študent: 

http://radiostudent.si/glasba/r%C5%A1- 

recenzija/ciklus-sogodbe-damir-imamovi%C4%87-sevdahtakht 

ALBUM REVIEW: 

- Ekultura 

http://www.ekultura.hu/hallgatnivalo/ajanlok/cikk/20 

16-05-08+10%3A00%3A00/zenek-a-nagyvilagbol-avagyvilagzenerol-szubjektiven-21 

ALBUM REVIEW: 

- Distorsioni 

http://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/dvojka 

- Blogfoolk 

http://www.blogfoolk.com/2016/05/damir-imamovicssevdah-takht-dvojka.html 

-Giornale della musica 

http://www.giornaledellamusica.it/approfondimenti/?i 

d=118247 

ALBUM REVIEW: 

- Nowamuzyka: 

http://www.nowamuzyka.pl/2016/05/16/damir-imamovicsevdah-takht/ 

ALBUM REVIEW: 

- Mobile Lesinrocks: 

http://mobile.lesinrocks.com/2016/06/18/musique/10- 

albums-aller-balkans-a-lextreme-orient-11846700/

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