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Favoriting December 2, 2023: Yemen Blues Giveaway


TICKET GIVEAWAY: We have two pairs of tickets to see Yemen Blues and DJ Busquelo at House of Yes at 2 Wyckoff Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Thursday night at 8:30 in a concert presented by the World Music Institute. To enter the drawing for the tickets, send an email here with TIX in the subject line, and I'll let you know this afternoon if you're a winner.

Yemen Blues is a contemporary quartet led by vocalist Ravid Kahalani. The band blends their Yemenite and West African musical influences with funk grooves and mambo rhythms, conjuring up a rich and diverse aural palette. The instrumentation is composed of percussion, oud, horns, and strings. Yemen Blues’ myriad influences carry over on stage, where the ensemble navigates from the boisterous to the romantic, from joyous celebration to anguished balladry. Horns fire off bombastically, percussion adds deep rhythmic textures, while oud strums out subtle melodies. - World Music Institute

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Artist Track Album Label Comments New Approx. start time
Bembeya Jazz National  N'Gamokorô   Favoriting The Syliphone Years  Sterns      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Willie Bobo  Bobo! Do That Thing   Favoriting Various Artists: Hit the Bongo! The Latin Soul of Tico Records  Craft Recordings    *   0:08:59 (Pop-up)
Leon Keita  Domanin   Favoriting Leon Keita (Analog Africa Dance Edition No​.​16)  Analog Africa  New anthology.Leon Keita is a compilation highlighting songs by the mysterious Guinean guitarist Leon Keita, a familiar face on the Malian music scene. His remarkable compositions are defined by Manding traits blended in with funk, jazz, Afrobeat and Afro-Cuban flavors. - World Music Central  *   0:12:45 (Pop-up)
Faratuben  Nana   Favoriting Changement    Faratuben is a great meeting between first rate musicians from Mali and Denmark. The name, is a mix of the words Farafin (black) and Toubabou (white). Instead of playing the traditional kora music, they are representing the bobo-culture. The bobo-music is made for dancing and drinking, and is traditionally played on only balafon (trad. Westafrican marimba) and talking drums. -Sounds of Subterrania  *   0:19:53 (Pop-up)
Santrofi  Cocoase   Favoriting Deep into Highlife (live)  Outhere Records  Santrofi is a new, dynamic collective of celebrated young musicians from Accra’s music scene, gathered together by bassist and producer, Emmanuel Ofori, known for his work with Highlife legend, Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas’s Kwashibu Area Band. The aim is to celebrate classic highlife music, in all its diverse variants. - WOMEX  *   0:23:48 (Pop-up)
Haruna Ishola and His Apala Group  Asa Ko Gbodo Wole Gbeiyele   Favoriting Various Artists: Apala: Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-1970  Soul Jazz    *   0:29:39 (Pop-up)
Almir Mešković & Daniel Lazar  Eudoxa feat Balla & Toumani Diabaté   Favoriting Family beyond blood  Alda Records  Almir Meskovic and Daniel Lazar duo are highly skilled musicians known for their virtuosic performances that capture the emotions of their listeners. - homepage  *   0:37:01 (Pop-up)
Rasgueo  Gute Laune   Favoriting Eleven    Comparing with Rasgueo´s previous albums, „11 has a cool and slightly different sound, yet the combination of flamenco guitar and jazz trumpet remains the quintessence of Rasgueo´s sound. - Amazon  *   0:40:30 (Pop-up)
Bombay Rickey  Lekar Ham Diwana Dil   Favoriting Bombay Rickey    GIG:Saturday, January 13, 2024 6:30pm Secret Planet 2024 at Drom. Praised as “a true treat for the adventurous ear” . (TimeOut NY), Bombay Rickey is a five-piece band with a unique sound evocative of 1960s movie soundscapes. The group plays both covers and original music that borrow equally from the worlds of surf rock, cumbia, spaghetti-Western, and Bollywood, balanced out with soaring operatic vocals. - home page  *   0:44:17 (Pop-up)
Asha Bhosle  Aaja o mere raja jannat ki sair karaungi   Favoriting Various Artists: Apna Desh (Bollywood OST)    Composed by R.D. Burman. Apna Desh ( transl. Our country) is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language action drama film,. Asha Bhosle is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. - Wikipedia    0:49:35 (Pop-up)
Himesh Reshammiya, Keerthi Sagathia, Palak Muchhal  Photocopy   Favoriting Various Artists: Jai Ho (Bollywood OST)    Jai Ho (transl. Let there be Victory) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language socio-political action drama film directed by Sohail Khan. - Wikipedia    0:55:17 (Pop-up)
Ritesh Das  5.5   Favoriting To Begin With    Ritesh Das (born 9 June 1957 in Kolkata, India) is a tabla player who has been teaching and composing music since the early 1970s. He is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Toronto Tabla Ensemble. - Wikipedia  *   1:05:38 (Pop-up)
Fine Blue Thread  Forever   Favoriting What Makes Me Human    Australia's Fine Blue Thread is an exciting collaboration of three creative musicians from very different worlds. - bandcamp  *   1:08:38 (Pop-up)
Abby V, Ricky Kej  Balama More (ft. Antara Nandy)   Favoriting Aarambh    A peculiar friendship was forged between two desis in the city of Toronto, Canada. Youtube star Abby V found a kindred spirit in multiple Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej. Over the last three years, this unlikely duo has birthed a musical creation they've aptly named Aarambh. - Free Press Journal  *   1:13:39 (Pop-up)
Dengue Fever  Touch Me Not   Favoriting Ting Mong    Dengue Fever is an American band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian rock and pop music of the 1960s and 70s with psychedelic rock and other world music styles. - Wikipedia  *   1:21:09 (Pop-up)
Ros Seresyothea  Penh Chet Tae Bong Mouy (I Love Only You)   Favoriting Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cambodia    រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា was a Cambodian singer (b. 1948 Battambang), dubbed "The golden Voice of the Royal Capital" by monarch King Norodom Sihanouk (1941–1955 and 1993–2005). Sothea managed to gain a great popularity in her entire native country in a short time. - Discogs    1:25:25 (Pop-up)
Meas Samoun  The Engagement   Favoriting Various Artists: Cambodian Rocks Vol 1    Meas Samoun (មាស់ សាមន) is Cambodia's first comic singer. His songs would often feature a character in comical situations. His regular female duet partners were Pan Ron and So Savouen. - Last FM    1:29:06 (Pop-up)
Yemen Blues  Um Min Al Yaman   Favoriting Live in Tel Aviv  Chant Records  GIG / GIVEAWAY: Thurs. night @ House of Yes, presented by World Music Institute.    1:33:59 (Pop-up)
Soma - Frana Karimi Montanari  Breeze   Favoriting Soma  Felmay  SOMA is the debut album of the SOMA Trio Peppe Frana (oud, Afghan Robab), Masih Karimi (tanbur, daf) and Ciro Montanari (tabla, percussion). Frana and Montanari, Italians who have been engaged in research into extra-European musical traditions for years and Iranian Masih Karimi who is a virtuoso of the Kurdish tanbur and daf. - bandcamp  *   1:39:46 (Pop-up)
Abdo Buda Marconi  Trantela   Favoriting Oltremura  Felmay  Born as a causal meeting of the Milanese guitarists FABIO MARCONI and MANUEL BUDA who were soon joined by the Kurdish musician, ASHTI ABDO, the trio ABDO-BUDA-MARCONI went well beyond the first casual encounter. - banddcamp  *   1:43:21 (Pop-up)
Fränder  Kung Björns polska   Favoriting II    Fränder is a world touring Estonian-Swedish band, that plays ravishing music that is based on both folk music of Estonia and of Sweden and their own complex arrangements. - Reval Folk  *   1:47:26 (Pop-up)
Gangar  Masurka fra Herefoss (ft. Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen)   Favoriting Stubb    Gangar combines folk music with jazz, metal, and rock in the most natural way. They find old traditional tunes in folk music archives and arrange them with inspiration from bands such as Hoven Droven, AC/DC and Meshuggah. - Bandcamp  *   1:52:50 (Pop-up)
Naaljos Ljom  Halling etter Jørn Hilme   Favoriting Naaljos Ljom 2  Motvind Records  Diving into the seams of Norwegian folk music, Anders Hana and Morten Joh as Naaljos Ljom unlock the microtonal potential hidden in their source material. - Rewire Festival  *   1:57:23 (Pop-up)


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tom tom the pipers son:

hello rob w and folk...
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TDK60:

Good morning DJ Rob. Let's go! And/or we have arrived!
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Handy Haversack:

Morning, Rob, Border Smashers.
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slugluv1313:

greetings, Rob! Paradisians!
getting ready to head out -- but i will be listening 😺😺
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Juli:

Yaye!
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Mxter Baba:

Hello, Rob and folx! Sounding great in the stream this rainy San Francisco morning
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Rob W:

Hi Mxter Baba and everyone. It's bright and early in San Francisco isn't it?
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Mxter Baba:

↳ Rob W @9:16
Ah yes, so early it's not even bright yet!
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TDK60:

↳ Mxter Baba @9:16
Hello early riser, Mxter Baba.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am
Handy Haversack:

Gotta take off. Thanks, Rob.
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Rob W:

Thanks Handy.
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TDK60:

↳ Handy Haversack @9:44
Best, Handy.
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gone with the wind:

↳ Rob W @9:16
good morning...took me a while to find your new time slot :) getting used to it.
  10:01am
jake:

Beautiful tracks! Checking in :)
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Shira:

Tuning in from Minneapolis :)
  10:01am
Bo:

Morning, Rob! Checking in from Baltimore
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thatpatsmith:

Listening from Brooklin, ME.
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Juli:

:::::}}}
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nortonjutland:

Enjoying the show Rob.
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Rob W:

Thanks everyone for listening and checking in!
  10:06am
Erik:

And from the multicultural paradise of
Maine!
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chresti:

Hi Rob and sound paradisians!
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Rob W:

Hi chresti and Erik!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning, Rob and Earthicans!
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Rob W:

Good morning Ken!
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Squidocto:

Greetings from upstate 👋
  10:17am
rx "rexy" scabin:

Good morning from the middle of nowhere, Rob and Everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18am
Rob W:

Good morning rexy! I hope all is well in the middle of nowhere.
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katie:

good morning everyone. the coffee is on and the cats are in the cat porch. They benefit from global warming.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:35am
spodiodi:

good morning, Rob and all 🌞
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Rob W:

Good morning spodiodi!
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Chris Hiatt:

Stopping by late! Howdy, y'all.
  10:40am
Mike M:

Enjoying the show!
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Rob W:

Thanks Mike! And hi Chris.
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Juli:

↳ rx "rexy" scabin @10:17
As in trees?
  10:48am
Panther:

Great show Rob!! Love it!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:49am
Rob W:

Thanks Panther!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53am
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Kung Björns polska" by "Fränder"
Loved this!
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chresti:

Thanks Rob!
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Rob W:

Thanks Chris and chresti!
  10:57am
rx "rexy" scabin:

@Juli a small town in Western NY. I was born and raised here. The county is Wyoming County. There are trees. The county went 97% for Trump.
  10:58am
rx "rexy" scabin:

Thank you, Rob. I needed this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:59am
spodiodi:

great show, Rob!
thank you
  10:59am
rx "rexy" scabin:

@Juli a large deer ran out of the woods and into the side of my truck on the way home from work Thursday night.
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TDK60:

Gracias, RW!
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Bas NL:

Thanks Rob! Great show!
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