World music, compiled by Stan Rijven.
Episode 12: A musical trip through Europe
Following the Eurovision Song Contest, the European Elections and the UEFA European Championship are just around the corner. It’s the perfect time for a musical journey through Europe: from Amsterdam to Athens, Bremerhaven to Budapest, and Tarifa to Tromsø.
Nearly half a century before Joost Klein’s ‘Europapa’, British pop musician Jona Lewie paid an unforgettable tribute to the European continent with ‘Hallelujah Europa,’ much like Kraftwerk did with ‘Trans Europe Express’. Since then, The Nits have expressed their European touch in the trilingual ‘Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof,’ Henny Vrienten captured the heartbeat of Rome, and Manu Chao’s ‘Clandestino’ portrayed the lives of ‘sans papiers’ asylum seekers.
Just like Eleni Vitali, who gives a voice to Greek Sinti. Our journey ends at the ‘La gare d’Amsterdam’, where Les Gueux entertains waiting train travelers. Bon voyage!
Playlist:
* Bremerhaven
1) Max von Sydow/ Europa
CD: Original Soundtrack Europa (Virgin- 1991)
* Amsterdam > Cologne > Paris
2) Amsterdam Klezmer Band/ Immigrant Song (NL)
CD: Remixed (Essay Recordings- 2006)
3) Kraftwerk/ Trans Europe Express (DE)
CD: Trans Europe Express (Kling Klang, 1977)
4) The Nits/ Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof (NL)
CD: Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof (CBS, 1984)
* Paris > Andalusia
5) Manu Chao/ Clandestino
CD: Clandestino (Virgin, 1998)
6) Radio Tarifa/ Manana
CD: Rumba Argelina (World Circuit, 1993)
7) Noir Desir/ Le vent nous portera
CD: Des Visages des Figures (Barclay, 2001)
* Athens > Rome
8) Eleni Vitali/ Song of the gypsies (GR)
CD: Songs of Greece’s Gypsies (FM Records, 1999)
9) Vinicio Capossela/ Abbandonato (IT)
CD: Rebetika Gymnastas (La Cupa, 2012)
* Bucharest > Budapest
10) Henny Vrienten/ Trastevere (NL)
CD: Passages (VPRO Eigenwijs, 1992)
11) Maria Tanase/ Lumen lumen (RO)
CD: Hotel Oriente (Oriente Musik, 2002)
12) Yonderboi/ Ohne Chanteuse (HON)
CD: Shallow & Profound, Mole, 2001)
* Oslo > Samiland
13) Agnes Buen Garnas & Jan Garbarek/ Rosensfole (NO)
CD: Rosensfole, medieval songs from Norway (ECM, 1989)
14) Mari Boine Persen/ Gula Gula (NO)
CD: Gula Gula (Real World, 1990)
* Amsterdam > Europe
15) Les Gueux/ La gare d’Amsterdam (NL)
CD: After Hours (Universe Productions, 1992)
16) Jona Lewie/ Hallelujah Europa (UK)
CD: On the other hand there’s a fist (Stiff Records, 1993)
