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Şenay | Dalkavuk | Various Artists: Istanbul 70 Sampler | Nublu | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
Mohammad Jamal محمد جمال | Mili Ma Mal El Hawa ميلي ما مال الهوى | Doroup El Hawa دروب الهوى | EMI | Lebanese artist, just passed away. Audio c/o Gary Sullivan, host of Bodega Pop, Wednesdays 7 - 10pm (EDT) | on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio | 0:05:22 (Pop-up) | |
The Panthers | Khatak Dance | Various Artists: A Beginner's Guide to Sublime Frequencies Vol 1&2 | High Castle Teleorkestra | Revved up folk dance but same melody as a Sufi qawwali anthem (Mast Qalandar). | 0:10:14 (Pop-up) | |
Vaqo | Teatri chokhebit | Gveleshapi (rotsa sikete damartskhda) | Bloom music | One-man band from Republic of Georgia. | 0:13:31 (Pop-up) | |
Withered Hand | Black Tambourine | New Gods | Slumberland | Katie's pick this hour | 0:16:45 (Pop-up) | |
Lorraine Klaasen & Mongezi Ntaka | Amampondo | Ukubonga (Gratitude) | Justin Time | Album spotlights the South African Township songbook. | 0:19:36 (Pop-up) | |
Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens | Jive Makgona | Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89 - Umsakazo | Umsakazo | 0:23:13 (Pop-up) | ||
Star Feminine Band | L'Excision | Star Feminine Band in Paris | Born Bad | Young women from Benin singing for girls' and womens' rights, as in this anti-FGM song. | 0:34:41 (Pop-up) | |
Kerfala Kante Jr. | Konikélé | Jokoto | Roadmusic Prod | From Guinea, musician / griot family, got a break when invited to play in Salif Keita's band | 0:38:11 (Pop-up) | |
Kala Jula & Gangbé Brass Band feat. Fama Diabaté | Gede | Asro | Buda Musique | Band from Benin fronted by young singer. (The word "gangbe" means "sound of metal" in the Fon language.) | * | 0:42:12 (Pop-up) |
Sia Tolno | Weather Song | Baya | Slow Walk | Guinean-Sierraleonian singer also fronts a Grateful Dead covers project ("Afro Dead"). | * | 0:48:38 (Pop-up) |
Dur Dur Band Int. | Wan Ka Helaa (Fadumina) | The Berlin Session | Out Here | Revival of legendary Somalian band. | 0:54:29 (Pop-up) | |
Iftin Band | Sig Sig Nima (Come Closer) feat. Luul Jeylaani & Cabdiraxman Fanaan | Mogadishu's Finest / The Al-Uruba Sessions | Ostinato Records | Vintage cassette recordings from pre-war Somalia. | 0:58:12 (Pop-up) | |
Captain Planet | Loose Wires (feat. El Din) | Sounds Like Home | Bastard Jazz | * | 1:07:04 (Pop-up) | |
Atse Tewodros Project | Set Nat | Maqeda | Atse Tewodros Project | Ethiopia meets Italy | 1:10:14 (Pop-up) | |
Entoto Band | Aifalkn Gehrnete | Entoto Band | Guitar Globetrotter Recordings | Ethiopia meets Netherlands | 1:15:30 (Pop-up) | |
Celibate Rifles | Pretty Pictures | Platters du Jour | Katie's pick for this hour | 1:19:23 (Pop-up) | ||
Imarhan | Derhan | Aboogi | City Slang | GIG: Saturday, 15 July @ Brooklyn Bowl. (Album recorded in Tamanrasset, Algeria's first permanent studio.) | 1:25:44 (Pop-up) | |
Mdou Moctar | Azawad | Niger EP Vol. 2 | Matador | GIG: Mdou Moctar / Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore / Rough Francis / dj.henri @ Central Park Summerstage Sat July 29 6 pm / Azawad is a geographic term for parts of Tuareg land and also was the name of an unrecognized state that declared independence from Mali on April 6 2012 | 1:29:06 (Pop-up) | |
Etran de L'Aïr | Tarha Warghey Ichile | Agadez | Sahel Sounds | GIG: Etran de L'Aïr @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, 29 June 8 pm | 1:33:11 (Pop-up) | |
Tamikrest | Azawad | Tamotaït | Glitterbeat | GIG: Tamikrest @ Rockefeller Park (Free) Thursday, 20 July, 7 pm (part of River & Blues festival) | 1:36:46 (Pop-up) | |
Saroyé | Mon Bané | In Lèr | Compagnie 4000 / Inouïe Distribution | Fusion of members of the maloya group Ti'Kaniki from Reunion with Cuban rumba musicians. | 1:44:35 (Pop-up) | |
Pedro Lima | Meu | Antologia Vol.1 | Les Disques Bongo Joe | "Pedro Lima was certainly the most iconic singer from Sao Tomé island." - bandcamp | * | 1:47:33 (Pop-up) |
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah | Omhona-Omhona | World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah | Luaka Bop | From Nigeria, blending highlife and traditional music with Islamic teachings. | 1:53:13 (Pop-up) | |
Azuka Moweta & his Anioma Brothers | Ejene Luno | Nwanne Bu Ife | Palenque Records | "Moweta’s musical style could be characterized as a blend of Ekobe music and Igbo Highlife, imbued with his Asaba dialect," - World Music Central | * | 2:02:57 (Pop-up) |
Okwy Osadebe and Highlife SoundMakers | Matador Sound System | Igbo Amaka | Palenque Records | Son of highlife legend Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe | * | 2:07:51 (Pop-up) |
Al Valdés Y Su Conjunto | Gózalo | Gozando! | Vampi Soul | From Peru, recorded with musicians of Machito's band | 2:12:34 (Pop-up) | |
Estrella Acosta & Esquina 25 | Amor de Millones | Tierra | eStar 136 | Musicians from Cuba, Venezuela, Uruguay, Germany and the Netherlands, songs inspired by womens' rural music of Cuba. | * | 2:15:42 (Pop-up) |
Lengaïa Salsa Brava | Lengaïa está sonando | Estética de un rumbero | Lulaworld Records | Montreal band celebrates its 10th anniversary | * | 2:21:33 (Pop-up) |
Naïssam Jalal | Rituel de la Riviere | Healing Rituals | Les Couleurs Du Son | GIG: Thursday evening June 29 @ Lincoln Center Rubenstein Atrium. | * | 2:29:08 (Pop-up) |
Maniucha i Ksawery | Czumak | Oj borom borom | Wodzirej | GIG: Performing songs of Polissya region in Ukraine as part of Poland's Jazztopad festival NY offshoot, in a free double bill at Lincoln Center Rubenstein Atrium Wed eve June 28. | 2:38:42 (Pop-up) | |
Norma Waterson | Black Muddy River | Norma Waterson | Hannibal | Katie's pick for this hour. | 2:42:09 (Pop-up) | |
Sopa de Pedra | Breu - VI Queimada | Do Claro ao Breu | Lovers & Lollypops | Womens' vocal group from Portugal (their name means "stone soup"). | 2:46:07 (Pop-up) | |
Mawaca | Nama Pariret | Nama Pariret | Ethos Music | Global group from Brazil - singing in over twenty languages. | 2:50:11 (Pop-up) | |
Beatriz Aguiar | Tatata | Ultramar | Silvox Records | Europe, originally from Uruguay. | * | 2:52:53 (Pop-up) |
La Marisoul and Los Texmaniacs | Me caí de la nube / I Fell from the Cloud | Corazones and Cancion | Smithsonian Folkways | Eva Marisol "La Marisoul" Hernández (of LA-based band La Santa Cecilia) and San Antonio-based Tejano conjunto Los Texmaniacs | * | 2:55:31 (Pop-up) |
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