In October’s Transglobal World Music Chart, Cypriot band Buzz’ Ayaz shone the brightest with their debut album.
Hailing from Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia, and led by Antonis Antoniou, the founder of Monsieur Doumani and Trio Tekke, Buzz’ Ayaz creates a transfixing Eastern Mediterranean psychedelia. Their self-titled debut album is a fuzzed-out urban soundscape of dubby electronics, 70s-psych organ, growling bass clarinet, amplified folk instruments, ritual beats and Greek and Anatolian melodicism.
The band members come from both sides of the capital’s divide, and the music found on Buzz’ Ayaz is a deliberate attempt to give a voice to the city as a whole. A mercurial sound that echoes above the concrete walls and checkpoints.
Top albums October 2024:
- Buzz’ Ayaz · Buzz’ Ayaz · Glitterbeat [4]
- Bassekou Kouyate & Amy Sacko · Djudjon, l’Oiseau de Garana · One World [1]
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party · Chain of Light · Real World [-]
- The Zawose Queens · Maisha · Real World [2]
- El Khat · Mute · Glitterbeat [-]
- Ruşan Filiztek · Exils · Accords Croisés [7]
- Vigüela · We · Mapamundi Música [3]
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 · Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head) · Record Kicks [-]
- Meridian Brothers · Mi Latinoamérica Sufre · Les Disques Bongo Joe [6]
- Arooj Aftab · Night Reign · Verve [8]
- Los Cumbia Stars · La Cumbia Une a Latinoamérica · Discos Fuentes [24]
- Driss El Maloumi Trio & Watar Quintet · Details · Contre Jour / Zig Zag World [21]
- Jyotsna Srikanth · Carnatic Nomad · Naxos World [11]
- Ayom · Sa.Li.Va · Ayom / Believe [-]
- África Negra · Antologia Vol. 2 · Les Disques Bongo Joe [-]
- Varijashree Venugopal · Vari · GroundUP Music [9]
- Bab L’ Bluz · Swaken · Real World [5]
- K.O.G. · Don’t Take My Soul · Heavenly Sweetness [-]
- Lemon Bucket Orkestra · Cuckoo · Lemon Bucket Orkestra [26]
- Carla Pires · VaiVem · Ocarina [20]
- Ali Doğan Gönültaş · Keyeyî · Mapamundi Música [18]
- Süperstar Orkestar · Guča Revisited · Hajde [-]
- Dobet Gnahoré · Zouzou · Cumbancha [10]
- Wowakin · Latem · Baba Studio [22]
- Soba · Fiman · MDC [-]
- Söndörgö · Gyezz · GroundUp Music [29]
- V.A. · Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia · Ostinato [-]
- Nfaly Diakité · Hunter Folk Vol 1: Tribute to Toumani Koné · Mieruba [16]
- Arun Ramamurthy Trio · New Moon · Greenleaf Music [34]
- The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys · Wanderers Like Me · Smithsonian Folkways Recordings [-]
- Ahmed Moneka · Kanzafula: Afro-Iraqi Sufi Soul · LulaWorld [35]
- Moira Smiley · The Rhizome Project · Moira Smiley [40]
- Ánnámáret · Bálvvosbáiki · Uksi Productions [-]
- Taikuh Jikang · Birds · microAction [-]
- Sar Kamler · Butterfly: Colors of Armenian Duduk · Dudukhouse [-]
- Bhutan Balladeers · Your Face Is Like the Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars · Glitterbeat [12]
- Hamed Sadeghi · Empty Voices · Hamed Sadeghi [25]
- Marta Topferova · Sombras · Moravia Publishing [15]
- Karantamba · Galgi · Teranga Beat [-]
- Martina Camargo · Canto y Río · Chaco World Music [23]
NMR (photo: press Buzz’ Ayaz)
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/
