TSP Saturday March 3, 2018 / Marathon Eve!

Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Marathon Eve!

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TICKET GIVEAWAY TONIGHT to see World Music Institute Presents Wu Man & Huayin Shadow Puppet Band, Saturday, March 17th at 8 pm at the New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 W 64th St, Manhattan!

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To get in the running for a pair of tickets: Email me, Rob W, here, and please put the word "TIX" in the subject line. (Two pairs of tickets available.) Deadline to enter is midnight SUNDAY. Winners will be notified by Monday.

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The Huayin Shadow Puppet Band (formerly known as the Zhang Family Band) comprises farmers from Shaanxi Province’s Huayin County in a rural village at the foot of Mount Hua in northwest China. For more than 300 years the band has toured the countryside, bringing its rugged shadow puppet plays that call to life the mythical heroes and gods of the oral folk culture of Shaanxi, often evoking famous battles of the Tang dynasty (618-907), to temple fairs and rituals.

Pipa virtuoso and Grammy Award-nominated musician Wu Man is a soloist, educator and composer (and a member of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble among other collaborations) who has given her lute-like instrument (which has a history of over 2,000 years in China) a new role in both traditional and contemporary music. Wu Man also travels to China’s remote regions to uncover the country’s ancient musical traditions that are in danger of being lost.

Wu Man joins the brilliant The Huayin Shadow Puppet Band for performances of traditional music with shadow puppetry. The Huayin Shadow Puppet Band sings and uses traditional string and percussion instruments and more to tell lively stories of rural life in remote China and draw the audience into places and sounds rarely heard in the West.

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To get in the running for a pair of tickets: Email me, Rob W, here, and please put the word "TIX" in the subject line. (Two pairs of tickets available.) Deadline to enter is midnight SUNDAY. Winners will be notified by Monday.

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This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Latin Souls: In The Midnight Hour / Boo-Ga-Loo And Shing-A-Ling / Kapp (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Spanglish Fly: Chain of Fools / Ay Que Boogaloo! / Chaco / * (0:04:09 Pop-up)

The Stylers: Bengawan Solo / Our Songs / Warner Brothers (0:09:21 Pop-up)
Famous Indonesian folk song

Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans: Tsugaru Jongara Bushi / Let's Go Eleki-Bushi - Electric Folk Song Tour of the Country / King Records (0:11:37 Pop-up)

Mashina Vremeni (Машина Времени): Rybka y Banke (Рыбка В Банке - Fish on the River Bank) / V Dobryy Chas (В Добрый Час) / Melodiya (0:14:47 Pop-up)
GIG: Fri, March 16, 2018 at Terminal 5

Dirtmusic: The Border Crossing / Bu Bir Ruya / Glitterbeat (0:18:09 Pop-up)

Xylouris White: Spud's Garden / Mother / Bella Union / * (0:23:36 Pop-up)

Maya Youssef: Queen of the Night / Syrian Dreams / Harmonia Mundi / * (0:27:19 Pop-up)

Zanmari Baré: Dezan / Voun / Cobalt / * (0:37:19 Pop-up)

John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillen' / King of the Boogie / Craft Recordings / * (0:42:22 Pop-up)

Imarhan: Muhagh / Temet / City Slang / * (0:45:41 Pop-up)
GIGs: Imarhan @ Rough Trade NYC Wed May 2, 9 pm / Imarhan @ Lincoln Center Rubenstein Atrium (FREE) Wed May 3, 7:30 pm

Les Filles de Illighadad: Tihilele / Eghass Malan / Sahel Sounds / * (0:50:08 Pop-up)

Oumar Konaté: Soyeya / Live in Bamako / Clermont / * (0:56:28 Pop-up)

Mbongwana Star: Nganshé / From Kinshasa / World Circuit (1:01:20 Pop-up)

DJ Katapila: Aroo / Aroo / Awesome Tapes From Africa / * (1:06:36 Pop-up)

Zazou Bikaye CY1: Eh! Yaye / Noir et Blanc / Crammed Discs / * (1:10:41 Pop-up)
New Reissue

Musci & Venosta: Dialogue Between a Dreamer and Others / Urban And Tribal Portraits / Soave / * (1:29:11 Pop-up)
New reissue

Sainkho: Tanola Nomads / Out of Tuva / Crammed Discs (1:25:04 Pop-up)

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: Intra La Danza / Canzoniere / Ponderosa / * (1:32:00 Pop-up)

DJ Dolores: Cala Cala / 1 Real / Crammed Discs (1:34:26 Pop-up)

Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde: O Medroso / Maga Bo a Presenta Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde / Kafundó Records / * (1:38:05 Pop-up)

Petrona Martinez: Sepiterna 2.0 (featuring Aterciopelados) / Petronica: Petrona Martinez' Electronic Suite, Vol.1 (1:42:05 Pop-up)

La Sucursal de la Cumbia: Ritmo Popular / Cumbia a Domicilio / Intolerancia (1:48:10 Pop-up)

Sonido Gallo Negro: Danza del Mar / Mambo Cósmico / Glitterbeat / * (1:50:44 Pop-up)

Hany Maehanna: Badaouiah / The Miracles of the Seven Dances / Radio Martiko / * (1:54:17 Pop-up)
New Reissue

DJ Click: I Garsona / Divan Airways (1:58:59 Pop-up)

Socalled: Work With What You Got / Sleepover / Dare To Care Records (2:03:45 Pop-up)

Freh Kodja: La Coladera / Various Artists: Habibi Funk 007: An eclectic selection of music from the Arab world / Habibi Funk / * (2:07:19 Pop-up)

LA MC Malcriado: Ka Bu Inganam / Nos Pobreza Ke Nos Rikeza (2:11:57 Pop-up)

Sami Ali & Sahar Hamdy: Eli Shatr Enhaa Tgannen / Various Artists: Yalla Hitlist Egypt / Mango (2:19:58 Pop-up)

Morena y Clara: Ya No Te Guardo Rencor / No Llores Mas / Pharaway Sounds / * (2:24:09 Pop-up)
New anthology

Dolores Vargas: El Despertador / La Terremoto: Anana Funk Hip 1970-1975 / Pharaway Sounds / * (2:26:04 Pop-up)
New anthology

Los Chicos Malos: Ritmo con la Punta del Pie / Los Chicos Malos / Vampisoul / * (2:28:59 Pop-up)
New reissue

Fruko y sus Tesos: Improvisando / Tesura / Vampisoul / * (2:32:15 Pop-up)
New reissue

Joe Eyison: Ponka Abo Dam / Old Hits By Joe Eyison / Eyimo (2:34:38 Pop-up)

Pat Thomas & The Sweet Beans: Merebre / Coming Home: Original Ghanaian Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1964-1981 / Strut (2:37:38 Pop-up)

Jorge Ben: Minha Teimosia, Uma Arma Pra Te Conquistar / A Tábua De Esmeralda / Canteloupe Music (2:45:55 Pop-up)

The Funk Ark: Man is a Monster / Man Is A Monster (2:49:08 Pop-up)

So Kalmery: Kizunguzungu / Bendera (2:56:05 Pop-up)

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Organizations supporting the rights of immigrants and refugees:

(For more suggestions see https://www.bustle.com/p/9-immigration-organizations-to-donate-to-if-you-want-to-support-daca-recipients-80757.)

National Immigration Law Center: Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants.

National Immigration Forum: The National Immigration Forum is one of the leading immigrant advocacy organizations in the country, with a mission to advocate for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation.

New York Immigration Coalition: The New York Immigration Coalition aims to achieve a fairer and more just society that values the contributions of immigrants and extends opportunity to all. The NYIC promotes immigrants’ full civic participation, fosters their leadership, and provides a unified voice and a vehicle for collective action for New York’s diverse immigrant communities.

Arab American Family Support Center (New York City): The Arab-American Family Support Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-sectarian organization that provides culturally and linguistically sensitive services to immigrant communities throughout New York City.

Action NYC: ActionNYC connects New Yorkers to free, safe immigration legal help. You can make an appointment to learn your immigration legal options and get immigration application assistance. There are ActionNYC sites in all five boroughs. Appointments are required. Your appointment will be in your language.

Immigration Equality is the leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization in the country. It provide s advice and legal services to thousands of LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants seeking refuge, fair treatment, and freedom in the United States. The work is truly lifesaving because there are nearly 80 countries around the world where it is a crime to be LGBTQ, with consequences up to and including the death penalty. For this reason, Immigration Equality fights to obtain asylum in the United States for LGBTQ and HIV-positive refugees - with a remarkable 99% win rate.

International Refugee Assistance Project: The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. Mobilizing direct legal aid and systemic policy advocacy, IRAP serves the world’s most persecuted individuals and empowers the next generation of human rights leaders.

International Rescue Committee: The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF): AALDEF is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans by combining litigation, advocacy, education, and community organizing. Issues / focus include immigrant rights, civic participation and voting rights, economic justice for workers, language access to services, educational equity, housing and environmental justice, and the elimination of anti-Asian violence, police misconduct, and human trafficking.

Make the Road New York (MRNY): MRNY builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.

Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ): Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of immigrant and working class communities in New Jersey to achieve dignity and justice through community organizing, legal and support services, transformative education and policy innovation.

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