View Rob Weisberg's profile |
Popular and Unpopular Music From Around the World (Visit homepage.)
<-- Previous playlist | Back to Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg playlists | Next playlist -->
October 8, 2022: A Visit with Ljova and his fadolin
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
TICKET GIVEAWAY to see Malian Tuareg band Al Bilali Soudan Wednesday October 12th at Union Pool!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
To get in the running for a pair of tickets to the show: Email me, Rob W,
here, and please put the word "TIX" in the subject line. The deadline to enter is tonight at midnight; winners will be notified by Monday.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) [ˈˈljɒvə (lɛv ʒʊərˈbiːn]) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, as well as a busy career as a violist, fadolínist & musical arranger. Among recent projects are commissions from the City of London Sinfonia, The Louisville Orchestra, a new work for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider, a clarinet quintet for Art of Élan, and works for The Knights, Sybarite5 and A Far Cry, as well arrangements for the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, tenor Javier Camarena, conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Alondra de la Parra, songwriters Ricky Martin, Natalia Lafourcade and Carlos Vives, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla and Osvaldo Golijov. Ljova frequently collaborates with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon, Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with Parsons Dance). In 2018, he was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University’s Atelier program, co-teaching a course on collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist.
Ljova is the author of more than 120 compositions for classical, jazz, and folk ensembles, as well as scores to numerous feature, documentary, and short subject films. He has released eleven albums on his label, Kapustnik Records, and his compositions have been recorded on Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Bridge Records, Naxos and In A Circle labels. He is an alum of the Sundance Institute’s Film Composers Lab. His music has been licensed by HBO, PBS, BBC, CNBC, and NHK networks, among many other independent projects.>
AL BILALI SOUDAN are from Timbuktu Mali. Their performance is an improvisational tour de force of traditional instruments, rhythms and scales. The group members all come from a well-known Tuareg griot family who have performed for generations. Aballow Yattara is the current group leader. Other
members of the group are his uncle Aboubacrine Yattara and their sons Mohamed Ag Abellow and Tchiale Ag Aboubacrine. Their stringed instrument, known as tehardant in Tamashek, ngoni in Bambara, kourbou in Sonhrai, and tidinit in Arabic, is widely heard in West Africa. Some refer to the tehardant as precursor to modern banjo. It has accompanied bards, dancers and vocalists for centuries. Percussion is calabash, a hollowed half gourd. These traditional instruments are foundational to the development of the style that has evolved into the modern desert blues sound.
Abellow and Aboubacrine Yattara began to play this three-stringed fretless instrument when they were adolescents. Both their fathers were master musicians. His uncle can be heard on the first recordings of traditional music in Northern Mali. Abellow Yattara can be heard on early recordings by Ali Farka Toure, on 1970’s recordings of the Orchestre de Tombouctou, and many Radio Mali broadcasts. He accompanied the vocalist, Khaira Arby, on recordings and on tour.
Listen to this show:
Pop-up player!
Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | Approx. start time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mohammad Gâmshazehi | Simorgh | Baloutchistan: Musiques d'Extase et de Guérison | Ocora Radio France | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Ligeti Quartet | Eki Attar (The Best Steeds) | Songbooks, Vol. 1 | 0:06:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Kronos Quartet | El Sinaloense (The Man from Sinaloa, 1943) | Nuevo | Nonesuch | 0:08:31 (Pop-up) | |
The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc | Frygg | Bonfrost | 0:15:18 (Pop-up) | ||
Trio Violon (Champeval, Durif, Vrod) | Bourrée de Chabot | La Concordance Des Temps | 0:17:59 (Pop-up) | ||
Torupilli Jussi Trio | P6drajaht (Moose hunting song) | 0:20:28 (Pop-up) | |||
Frigg | Kekripolska | Frixx | 0:24:21 (Pop-up) | ||
Kevin Dempsey, Dave Swarbrick | The Pepperpot / Banksie | Dave Swarbrick: English Fiddler | 0:29:40 (Pop-up) | ||
Labyrinthus Ensemble | Ecce mundus moritur | Carmina de morte | 0:33:12 (Pop-up) | ||
Laura Cannell | A New Theory of Eclipse | Simultaneous Flight Movement | 0:34:22 (Pop-up) | ||
Performer Unknown | Taqsim (Improvisation) On Violin | Various Artists: Paris To Calcutta: Men And Music On The Desert Road [Disc 2] | 0:38:28 (Pop-up) | ||
Gino Sitson | VoCello | VoiStrings | 0:41:56 (Pop-up) | ||
Al Bilali Soudan | Khadeidja | Tomboctou | Clermont | We have a ticket giveaway going for their Wednesday night show at Union Pool - email me via the link on this page to get in the running! | 0:47:52 (Pop-up) |
haapoja & illmari collective | Mainen | Huomeneen / Tomorrows | 0:56:49 (Pop-up) | ||
Michael Gordon (featuring Todd Reynolds, Violin) | Idle | Light is Calling | Nonesuch | 1:01:02 (Pop-up) | |
Nick Doneff | Nihavend Karsilamas | Raw Fiddle [disc 2: International Intrigue] | Rounder Select | 1:06:19 (Pop-up) | |
Justyna Jablonska and Jyotsna Srikanth | Varna | Songs for Cello and Carnatic Violin | Stitch Records | 1:11:56 (Pop-up) | |
Cheikh Ahmed Zaitouni | Violin Solo | Musique Andalouse de Tanger | Institut Du Monde Arabe | 1:15:33 (Pop-up) | |
West Bridge Band | Amilly | Kibera Esbera | 1:19:49 (Pop-up) | ||
Bina Koumaré & Madou Diabate | N'Djaba | Every Song Has Its End - Sonic Dispatches from Traditional Mali | 1:21:58 (Pop-up) | ||
Evalisto Muyinda | Omusango Gwe Nyama | Music of the Baganda | Pan Records | 1:25:54 (Pop-up) | |
Layale Shaker and Sefarand | Ushaq | Inner Rhyme | In A Circle Records | 1:30:23 (Pop-up) | |
Meybahar | Eridanus | Abyss | Fonó | 1:34:17 (Pop-up) | |
Dimitar Petrov | Bavna Melodija I Racenica | Balkan Blues [Disc 1] | 1:39:05 (Pop-up) | ||
Maarja Nuut | Siidisulis Linnukene | Une Meeles | 1:43:16 (Pop-up) | ||
Akkajee | Orpopojan valssi | Lastenkerääjä | Eclipse | 1:46:26 (Pop-up) | |
Edita Gumauskaitė | Valsas prazudytas gyvenimas | Styginių orkestra | 1:53:18 (Pop-up) | ||
Vidar Lande | Sordølen, gangar | Various Artists: UNESCO Music & Musicians of the World: Norway: Fiddle Music from Agder | 1:58:46 (Pop-up) | ||
Sequentia | Ragnarok (The End of the Gods) | Edda: Myths from Medieval Iceland | 2:00:15 (Pop-up) | ||
Raiss Lahcen Akhtab | Track 03 | Raiss Lahcen Akhtab Vol. 2 | Agadir Vision | 2:01:47 (Pop-up) | |
Julaba Kunda - Juldeh Camara and Griselda Sanderson | Balatara Canto | Julaba Kunda | 2:06:18 (Pop-up) | ||
Abel Selaocoe | Zawose (for Hukwe Zawose) | Where is Home (Hae Ke Kae) | 2:09:36 (Pop-up) | ||
Ljova | O'Carolan's Farewell to Music | Enter the Fadolin | 2:24:07 (Pop-up) | ||
Ljova | The Gaze | 2:36:01 (Pop-up) | |||
Ljova | Volleywaltz | Lost in Kino 2 | 2:44:25 (Pop-up) | ||
Ljova | Song of Parting | Lost in Kino 2 | 2:45:49 (Pop-up) | ||
Ljova | Playground Mood | Live on WFMU | 2:50:37 (Pop-up) | ||
Ljova | The Inland Sea | Live on WFMU | 2:53:48 (Pop-up) |
<-- Previous playlist | Back to Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg playlists | Next playlist -->
RSS feeds for Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed
| E-mail Rob Weisberg | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg |Listen on the Internet | Contact Us | Music & Programs | WFMU Home Page | Support Us | FAQ
Live Audio Streams for WFMU: Pop-up | 128k AAC | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3 (More streams: [+])
Listener comments!
chresti:
john_zilla:
Rob W:
Meesalikeu:
john_zilla:
chresti:
Rob W:
chresti:
john_zilla:
brad:
Joe Stracq:
Rob W:
HyperDose:
Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:
Ike:
Rob W:
Ike:
katie:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Rob W:
Ike:
john_zilla:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
tim from washington:
I recently saw Qwanqwa live and thought to myself “This is a total Transpacific Sound Paradise band! I’m stoked!”
HyperDose:
Rob Weisberg:
katie:
tim from washington:
Eek:
Eek:
Carmichael:
chresti:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Rob W:
chresti:
Rob Weisberg:
john_zilla:
john_zilla:
Rob W:
Wilson in SO:
maestroso:
Rob W:
WR:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
pot8o:
Rob W:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Glorious Estephonic:
slugluv1313:
been listening since i got home -- maybe about 7pm? -- REALLY crappy week, such a HUGE comfort to be here with you all! 😺😺
(just gotta crank up the volume on the terrestrial and computer, to drown out whatever swill is going on upstairs -- bath salts fueled karaoke?!?)
hi Katie! yes, pledging for fiddles AND *little* FEBO 😻😻
hi pot80! oh cool, you made it here!
hi RevRab! yes, that almost-full Moon sure is magnificent! 🌕
gotta get back to work -- invoking Finnish Sisu! 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
chresti:
Jupiter to the right of the moon tonight
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
i0.wp.com...
pot8o:
Folsom:
Robm:
@Slugluv hope next week is better
Folsom:
Rob W:
chresti: