Real World Records is a record label started in 1989 by Peter Gabriel to record and produce world music.

Overview[link]

The label grew up alongside the success of the WOMAD festivals and Peter Gabriel's exploration of music from other cultures, and helped push world music into the general public's consciousness during the 1990s. Many of the label's releases are recorded at Real World Studios. The label is distributed in the US by Ryko.^[1]

Artists[link]

Artists who have recorded on the label include:

• Afro Celt Sound System
• Bernard Kabanda
• Big Blue Ball
• Charlie Winston
• Creole Choir of Cuba
• Dengue Fever
• Geoffrey Oryema
• Hoba Hoba Spirit
• Johnny Kalsi
• Joi
• Joseph Arthur^[2]
• Little Axe
• Maryam Mursal
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Ozomatli
• Paban Das Baul ^[3]
• Papa Wemba
• Peter Gabriel
• Portico Quartet
• Sheila Chandra
• Sevara Nazarkhan
• Spiro (band)
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
• The Imagined Village

Partial discography[link]

• ABoneCroneDrone, Sheila Chandra, 1996
• Among Brothers, Abderrahmane Abdelli, 2003
• Atom Bomb, The Blind Boys of Alabama, 2005
• Beat the Border, Geoffrey Oryema, 1993
• Big Blue Ball, various artists, 2008 (recorded 1991, 1992, 1995)
• Big City Secrets, Joseph Arthur, 1997
• Black Rock, Djivan Gasparyan & Michael Brook, 1998
• Coming Home, Yungchen Lhamo, 1998
• Djabote, Doudou Ndiaye Rose, 1992
• Emotion, Papa Wemba, 1995
• En Mana Kuoyo, Ayub Ogada, 1993
• Espace, Tama, 2002
• Higher Ground, The Blind Boys of Alabama, with Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and special guest Ben Harper, 2002
• In Your Hands, Charlie Winston, 2009
• Le Voyageur, Papa Wemba
• My Songs and a Poem, Estrella Morente, 2001
• Night Song, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook, 1995
• Night to Night, Geoffrey Oryema, 1996
• Pod, Afro Celt Sound System, 2004
• Quick Look, Pina, 2002
• Real Sugar, Paban Das Baul & Sam Mills, 1997
• Sampradaya, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, with Rahul Sharma, Shafaat Ahmed Khan & Manorama Sharma, 1999
• Serious Tam, Telek, 2000
• Sezoni, Mara! with Martenitsa Choir, 1999 (original release on Rufus Records, 1997)
• The Journey, Maryam Mursal, 1998
• The Last Prophet, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party, 1994
• The Truth (Ny Marina), The Justin Vali Trio, 1995
• The Zen Kiss, Sheila Chandra, 1994
• Tibet, Tibet, Yungchen Lhamo, 1996
• Trance, Hassan Hakmoun and Zahar, 1993
• Trísan, Trísan, 1992
• Untold Things, Jocelyn Pōōk, 2001
• Volume 2: Release, Afro Celt Sound System, 1999
• Volume 3: Further in Time, Afro Celt Sound System, 2001
• Weaving My Ancestor's Voices Sheila Chandra, 1992
• Yo‘l Bo‘lsin, Sevara Nazarkhan, 2003

References[link]

1. ^ announcement of distribution agreement with Ryko
2. ^ "Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts Enter the S.S." Rolling Stone, 1/27/2009
3. ^ Paban Das Baul

External links[link]

• Real World Records official website

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A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond. The website RecordSetter has begun to take on the same territory, but with a more inclusive policy.

Terminology[link]

In the United States the form World's Record was formerly more common. The term World Best was also briefly in use.^{[citation needed]} The latter term is still used in athletics events, including track and field and road running) to describe performances not recognized as an official world record: either because the event is a non-qualifying event (e.g. the 150 m run or individual events in a decathlon), or because it does not fulfil other criteria of an otherwise qualifying event (e.g. the Great North Run half-marathon, which has an excessive downhill gradient).

In culture[link]

Malaysia is one country where world record-breaking has become something of a national fad.^[1] In India the setting and breaking of records is popular: the country has a local version of the Guinness Book of Records, called the Limca Book of Records, after a local soft drink.

In sports[link]

Some sports have world records recognised by their respective sports governing body:

See also[link]

• Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
• Twin Galaxies - Video Game World Records
• RecordSetter

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Guinness World Records
• Unique World Records
• Book of Alternative Records
• RecordSetter
• World Records in Earth Science (wrong link)
• International Association of Athletics Federations Records
• World Records India - Book of Indian Records

Look up real world in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The real world is another term for reality.

Real World may also refer to:

Television[link]

• The Real World, a reality television program on MTV first broadcast in 1992
• "The Real World" (Stargate Atlantis), a episode from the third season of the American-Canadian television series Stargate Atlantis

Music[link]

• Real World (album), a 2010 album by Kokia
• Da Real World, a 1999 album by Missy Elliott
• "Real World" (The All-American Rejects song), a song by The All-American Rejects from their 2008 album When the World Comes Down
• "Real World" (D-Side song), a song by D-Side from their 2003 debut album Stonger Together
• "Real World" (Matchbox Twenty song), a song by Matchbox Twenty from their 1996 debut album Yourself or Someone Like You
• "Real World" (Queensrÿche song), a song by Queensrÿche from their 2007 compilation album Sign of the Times
• "Real World", a song by Pere Ubu, from their debut album The Modern Dance
• Real World Records, a record label, and
• Real World Studios, its associated recording studio

Other[link]

• The Real World?, a play by Canadian playwright Michel Tremblay
• Real World (novel), a 2008 novel by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino

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Iarla Ó Lionáird
Iarla Ó Lionáird in Woodstock Gardens, Inistioge, County Kilkenny in July 2011
Background information
Born	1964
Origin	Cúil Aodha, County Cork, Ireland
Genres	Irish traditional Celtic Experimental
Occupations	Singer Songwriter
Instruments	Voice
Years active	1996–present
Labels	Realworld Records
Associated acts	Afro Celt Sound System Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin
Website	http://www.iarla.com

Iarla Ó Lionáird (born 1964) is an Irish singer and producer well known for his involvement with the Afro Celt Sound System. He is one of the most prominent artists of the Irish Sean nós singing tradition, and has released three solo albums through Real World Records, the third being Invisible Fields, released in August 2005, which was voted "Best Folk Record" by the Irish Times in 2006. He also sings on the Peter Gabriel album OVO.

Early life, career[link]

Ó Lionáird grew up and learned his craft in the musical heartland of Cúil Aodha in the West Cork Gaeltacht. This region though historically rich both in instrumental and vocal music grew in fame through its association with composer Seán Ó Riada. Apart from his enormous role on the trajectory of Irish music generally, Ó Riada's influence in Cúil Aodha was profound. His choir, Cór Cúil Aodha, achieved cult status in traditional circles and it was in this milieu that Iarla Ó Lionáird grew and developed his art. From his iconic early recording of the vision song "Aisling Gheal" whilst still a boy, through to his recordings with Tony McMahon and Noel Hill, Ó Lionáird established himself both as a masterful exponent of Sean nós and as a pioneer in its renewal and development.^{[citation needed]}

Signed to Realworld label in the mid-1990s, he would go on to make many ground breaking recordings with the multi-million selling Afro Celt Sound System and achieved in this period two Grammy nominations. Ó Lionáird's three solo records have also received widespread plaudits at home and across the world. Ó Lionáird has sung in his unique style for audiences across the globe from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Royal Opera House in London, from Cape Town to Moscow, Rome and Tokyo. His many television appearances include among others the "Later with Jools Holland Show" for the BBC and "The David Letterman Show" in the United States. His music has also appeared on many film soundtracks including The Gangs of New York and Hotel Rwanda.

It is widely recognised that through this time he has had a major influence on the increase of awareness of the Irish ancient vocal tradition internationally.^{[citation needed]} He recently^[when?] toured a new work entitled "Grá agus Bás" with the Dublin-based Crash Ensemble. This work was commissioned by Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and composed especially for Ó Lionáird by the composer Donnacha Dennehy. It received its world premiere in New York in March 2007, and this work was subsequently released on a CD recording entitled, 'Grá Agus Bás' on the American Nonsuch label in May 2011. Ó Lionáird has also collaborated with composer Gavin Bryars, and is currently completing his fourth solo album, "Foxlight" with guitarist, composer and producer Leo Abrahams. This CD recording will be released by the Realworld label in September 2011.

Ó Lionáird holds a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick and is studying for a PhD in Music at Limerick University. He lives in Inistioge in County Kilkenny with his wife Eimear and their three children.

Discography[link]

Solo albums[link]

• The Seven Steps To Mercy, September 1997
• I Could Read the Sky (soundtrack), June 2000
• Invisible Fields, August 2005
• "Foxlight", September 2011

Albums With The Afro Celt Sound System[link]

See Afro Celt Sound System.

Other albums[link]

• Tony Mac Mahon, Noel Hill & Iarla Ó Lionáird / World (Shanachie Entertainment 2006)
• Grá Agus Bás / Classical (Nonsuch Records 2011)

External links[link]

• Official website
• Iarla's Fan page
• Iarla and his Invisible Fields on Real World Records
• MySpace
• Facebook

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Papa Wemba
Papa Wemba
Background information
Born	1949
Origin	Lubefu, Sankuru Province, DR Congo
Genres	Soukous

Papa Wemba was born Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba in 1949 in Lubefu (Sankuru District, DR Congo). He is a Congolese rumba (later known as soukous) musician, one of Africa's most popular musicians, and prominent in World music.

Musical history[link]

Zaiko Langa Langa[link]

Papa Wemba was one of the very musicians to join the influential Soukous band, Zaiko Langa Langa when it was created in December 1969^[1] in Kinshasa along with such well known Congolese musicians as Nyoka Longo Jossart, Manuaku Pepe Felly, Evoloko Lay Lay, Bimi Ombale, Teddy Sukami, Zamuangana Enock, Mavuela Simeon, and others.

In a Congolese musical world dominated at the time by Franco Luambo and his remarkable band TPOK Jazz, Tabu Ley Rochereau's Afrisa, and by then-new musical groups like Les Grands Maquisards, Le Trio Madjesi, and even younger bands like Bella-Bella, Thu Zaina and Empire Bakuba, the young and talented Papa Wemba (then known as Jules Presley Shungu Wembadio), was one of the driving forces that by 1973 made Zaiko Langa Langa one of the most-performing dominant Congolese groups, featuring such popular numbers as "Chouchouna" (Papa Wemba), "Eluzam" and " Mbeya Mbeya" (Evoloko Lay Lay), "BP ya Munu" (Efonge Gina), "Mwana Wabi" and "Mizou" (Bimi Ombale) and "Zania" (Mavuela Somo).

Isifi[link]

In December 1974, at the pinnacle of their fame (and just a month after the Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa), Shungu Wembadio (Papa Wemba), along with Evoloko Lay Lay, Mavuela Somo and Bozi Boziana (who'd joined Zaiko Langa Langa a year earlier), left Zaiko Langa Langa to establish their own musical ensemble Isifi Lokole, ISIFI being an acronym for "Institut du Savoir Ideologique pour la Formation des Idoles." Yet of course, not everything that Wemba claims in earnest can be taken as gospel. In July 1975, Shungu Wembadio officially adopted the soon-to-be-well-known worldwide artist name Papa Wemba, the addition of "Papa" (father) an allusion to what were in fact rather awesome family responsibilities as the first son in a family where both father and mother (Wemba's parents) had been deceased since the 1960s.

The "feux d'artifice" (fireworks) that was Isifi Lokole would only last a year, with the single "Amazone" (Papa Wemba) as its biggest commercial "hit" record. In November 1975, Papa Wemba, Mavuela Somo and Bozi Boziana abandoned Evoloko Lay Lay and Isifi Lokole to create the group Yoka Lokole (also known as The Kinshasa's Wa Fania All-Stars, or Lokole Isifi, or simply Isifi), along with Mbuta Mashakado, another Zaiko Langa Langa 'transfusion.' Yoka Lokole enjoyed slightly less popular success than the original Isifi Lokole, but for a time still managed to remain at the top the African pop music wave with hit songs like "Matembele Bangui", "Lisuma ya Zazu" (Papa Wemba), "Mavuela Sala Keba", and "Bana Kin" (Mavuela Somo).

Like Isifi Lokole, the electronic-instrument driven Yoka Lokole (or The Kinshasa All-Stars) would not last much longer than a year, given the merger of so many big-name talents in the band's lineup. After a year of modest success, controversies within Yoka Lokole over money and prestige (complicated by Wemba's arrest and brief incarceration in Kinshasa Central prison in December 1976 for the 'crime' of being suspected of having had physical intimacy with an influential army general's daughter) would lead Papa Wemba, then feeling diminished by peers and neglected by the public, to form his own group Viva la Musica in February 1977 after a very brief return to Isifi Lokole and Stukas Boys of Lita Bembo where he played for a few weeks as a guest.

Viva la Musica[link]

At his home in the Matonge neighborhood of Kinshasa, Papa Wemba structured Viva la Musica around young talented artists like singers Kisangani Esperant, Jadot le Cambodgien, Pepe Bipoli and Petit Aziza, guitarists Rigo Star, Syriana, and Bongo Wende. A young man of the name of Antoine Agbepa (currently known as Koffi Olomide), whose friend were calling "Cheri O", was the unknown writer of most of the hit songs of the group. The group had nearly instantaneous success, with hit songs like "Mere Superieure," "Mabele Mokonzi", "Bokulaka," "Princesse ya Sinza," and others.

During the height of his success in 1977, Papa Wemba's family home, in Kanda-Kanda street, which had become a popular, some even said hallowed/special place for Matonge youths to gather "à la mode" (i.e., to be cool) was named the "Village Molokai," and Wemba assumed the exalted moniker "Chef Coutumier" (Chief) of the Village of Molokai. That village in the heart of Matonge, included the following streets, which firsts letters were used to form the acronym: M-O-LO-KA-I: Masimanimba-Oshwe-LOkolama-KAnda-kanda-Inzia.

In those days people referred to Papa Wemba as the "chief from the heartland (village)" to differentiate him from Kinshasa-born musical bigshots Mavuela Somo and Mashakado. However years later Mavuela would say that their difficulties only simply amounted to trivial foolishness over money, ambition and fame between some very-young people (that at the time they all were).

Since 1977, Viva la Musica has seen both the 'defections' of musicians every two or three years and the entrée and emergence of other new talents. Fafa de Molokai, Debs Debaba, King Kester Emeneya (1977–1982), Koffi Olomide, as a singer, (1978–1979), Djuna Djanana (1978–1981), Dindo Yogo (1979–1981), Maray-Maray (1980–1984), Lidjo Kwempa (1982–2001), Reddy Amissi (1982–2001), Stino Mubi (1983–2001) are among the currently well-known Congolese musicians who have served at one time or another with Viva la Musica. An old Kinshasa anecdote says that a college student then-named Antoine Agbepa Koffi was such an impressive songwriter that one day in 1977 Papa Wemba exhorted, "Ooh! l'homme idee" (Oh! the idea-man!) thereby on-the-spot renaming the impressive young singer-songwriter Koffi Olomide - and the name stuck...

After the wave of African emigration to Europe in the 1990s, Wemba maintained one group in Kinshasa (called at times "Nouvelle Ecriture," "Nouvel Ecrita," and now again "Viva la Musica") and another one in Paris ("Nouvelle Generation," "La Cour des Grands," and now "Viva Tendance"). He has also consistently maintained a very high profile in World Music with such great hits as "L'Esclave" (1986), "Le Voyageur, Maria Valencia" (1992), "Foridoles, Dixieme Commandement" (1994), "Emotion" (1995), "Pole Position" (1996), "M’Zée Fula-Ngenge" (1999), "Bakala dia Kuba" (2001), and "Somo Trop" (2003).

Papa Wemba is also known as an actor. In 1987, he played the male lead role in the successful Zairean (Congolese) film La Vie est Belle by Belgian director Benoît Lamy and Congolese producer-director Ngangura Mweze.

High and low times[link]

On 18 February 2003, suspected of being involved in a network that has allegedly smuggled hundreds of illegal immigrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) into Europe, Papa Wemba was arrested at his home in Paris.

Papa Wemba was eventually found guilty at some level in June 2003 and spent three and a half months in prison, an experience which, on his release after a €30,000 bail was posted, he declared had had a profound psychological effect on him. The singer claimed to have undergone a spiritual conversion in jail and even recounted this episode on his new album, "Somo trop" (released in October 2003). On the song "Numéro d'écrou", Papa Wemba recalled the day "God" paid a visit to his cell.

Cross-cultural influence[link]

In 1979, Papa Wemba became the leader of the Sapeur (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes d'Élégance or SAPE) which he promoted as a youth cult.^[2] Wemba said:

The Sapeur cult promoted high standards of personal cleanliness, hygiene and smart dress, to a whole generation of youth across Zaire. When I say well groomed, well shaven, well perfumed, it's a propriety that I am insisting on among the young. I don't care about their education, since education always comes first of all from the family.

Recently, Priyan Weerappuli, the leader of the Sri Lankan group Pahan Silu; referred to Wemba as being among his greatest musical influences.

Discography[link]

• Pauline (1970, Zaiko Langa Langa)
• L'Amoureux Decu (1972, Zaiko Langa Langa)
• Mete la Verite, Chouchouna (1973, Zaiko Langa Langa)
• Liwa ya Somo (1973–1974, Zaiko Langa Langa)
• Ainsi Va La Vie, Amazone (1975, Isifi Lokole)
• Matembele Bangi, Lisuma ya Zazu (1976, Yoka Lokole)
• Mere Superieure, Bokulaka, Mabele Mokonzi, Muana Molokai (1977)
• Princesse ya Senza, Fleur Betoko, Zonga-Zonga (1978)
• Anibo, Ata Nkale (1979)
• Levre Rose (1979, with Rochereau & Afrisa)
• Telegramme (1979, with Simaro Massiya & OK. Jazz)
• Analengo (1980), Amena (1980, duo with Pepe Kalle)
• Santa, Matebu (1980, first full album in Paris)
• Melina La Parisienne, Ufukutano (1981)
• Evenement, Rendre A Caesar (1982)
• Eliana, Bukavu Dawa (1983)
• Proclamation (1984, in Paris with Ngashie Niarchos)
• Destin ya Moto (1985)
• L'esclave, Papa Wemba – Au Japon (live) (1986)
• Papa Wemba Ekumani (1987)
• M'fono Yami (1989)
• Biloko ya Moto-Adidas Kiesse (1991)
• Le Voyageur (1992)
• Foridoles (1994)
• Emotion (1995)
• Pôle Position (1996)
• Wake-Up (1996, duo with Koffi Olomide)
• Nouvelle Ecriture (1997)
• Molokaï (1998)
• Nouvelle Ecriture dans L (1998)
• M’Zée Fula-Ngenge (1999)
• Muana Matebu(1999)
• A La Une (2000)
• Zea (2001)
• Bakala Dia Kuba (2001)
• Somo Trop (2003)
• Muana Molokaï (2004)
• Ba Zonkion (2005)
• Cheeky Summer time - Collab with Father J (2004)
• Attention L'artiste (2006)
• Notre Père Rumba (2010)

Filmography[link]

• Les Habits neufs du gouverneur (The Governor's New Clothes) (2004)
• Combat de fauves (1997) - The African
• La Vie est Belle (Life Is Beautiful) (1987) - Kourou

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography of Papa Wemba