Silva,Mario Rui - Stories From Another Time 1982 - 1988 (Sealed) (LP)

The roots of Angolan popular music explored in the meticulous guitar studies of Ma?rio Rui Silva. For fans of Nana? Vasconcelos, John Hassell’s Fourth World ambient, Eduardo Mateo’s psychedelic folk and Cameroonian electronic music visionary Francis Bebey. Tracklist : A1 Kazum-zum-zum 05:40 A2 Kizomba Kya Kisanji 01:44 A3 Dembita 05:43 A4 Ngisumba 04:47 B1 Sung'ali 05:16 B2 Mgeni 06:58 B3 Lonjura 03:24 B4 Madimba M'ami 02:53 C1 Kora Kya Ngola 03:07 C2 Nu Tempo Du Antigamente 04:32 C3 Maniku 05:27 C4 Nahary 04:53 D1 Lembran?a De Um Velho 05:48 D2 Dongada 02:41 D3 Depois De Uma Conversa 02:07 D4 Ngele-ngele-ngele 04:35 D5 Kambanza K'etu 01:29 https://soundcloud.com/time-capsule_space/sets/stories-from-another-time-1982-1988/s-1VdGUop3lZW Genre: World, Jazz, African Style: Semba Format: Double LP with linernotes The roots of Angolan popular music explored in the meticulous guitar studies of M?rio Rui Silva 1980s albums. For fans of Nan? Vasconcelos, John Hassell’s Fourth World ambient, Eduardo Mateo’s psychedelic folk and Cameroonian electronic music visionary Francis Bebey. Whether on mesmerising acoustic ballads or hypnotic groove-led tracks, the music of Angolan guitarist, researcher and intellectual M?rio Rui Silva has a beguiling, melancholy quality, woven into the dynamics of his deft guitar playing. Rhythmically complex yet supremely effortless, the music collected here stems from three albums M?rio released in Luanda in the 1980s that reflect his diverse range of influences, from traditional Angolan and West African rhythms to European jazz and classical instrumentation. It is united by a sense of low-key beauty, whether on the chugging opener ‘Kazum-zum-zum’, the jazz-funk keys of ‘Lembran?a Dum Velho’, or the twinkling, late-night poly-rhythms of ‘Kizomba Kya Kisanji’. Born in Luanda, Angola in 1953, M?rio dedicated his life to Angolan popular music. His fifty-year career has seen him live between Angola and Europe, rub shoulders with Cameroonian musicians Francis Bebey and Ewanj?, record the seminal album Angola ’72 with fellow Angolan musician Bonga, and draw influence from Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell. It was the teaching of Angolan legend and Ngola Ritmos co-founder Liceu Vieira Dias that M?rio gained a technical, political and spiritual understanding of Angolan musical culture. In the hands of Liceu, the traditional Angolan semba and kazukuta rhythms of the 1940s and ‘50s helped create an emancipatory sense of national pride and collective agency that awakened its listeners to the racism and tyranny of colonial rule, underpinning the country’s push for independence in the process. What might sound like the intonations of Brazilian influence are what M?rio attributes to the “African rhythms taken by the slaves [which] gave rise to other musical cultures” around the globe. Instead, this music emerged from a collective instinct to assert a cosmopolitan Angolan identity free from the patronising falsehoods of Lusotropicalism. “There was a need within me to contribute in doing new things,” M?rio describes. “In the sense of solidifying the music of Angola that was the result of the meeting of two cultures, and wanting to value the Angolan part whenever possible.” A selection from M?rio’s three 1980s albums, Sung’Ali (1982), Tunapenda Afrika (1985) and Koizas dum Outru Tempu (1988) have been compiled here as a 2xLP release by Time Capsule’s Sam Jacob and Kay Suzuki. Together, they provide a snapshot of one man’s journey to the core of his nation’s music, charged with the search for a culture uprooted by colonialism. https://time-capsule.space