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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | New | Approx. start time |
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| Shanren |
Track 1
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Shanren | Originally from Yunnan province, relocated to Beijing. | 0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Tulegur |
Eagle Eyes
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Walk Away | Sea of Wood | Tulegur, a modern nomad group, rooted in traditional tunes of Inner Mongolia and influenced by rock music. - bandcamp | * | 0:07:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Baba Zula |
Arsız Saksağan (Cheeky Magpie)
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İstanbul Sokakları | Glitterbeat | Baba Zula is a Turkish alternative musical group that combines traditional instruments, electronica, reggae, and dub. - wiki | * | 0:14:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Erkin Koray |
Türkü
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Elektronik Türküler | Doğan Plakcılık | Erkin Koray was a Turkish singer and guitarist who played Anatolian rock and invented the electro baglama. - wiki | 0:20:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Frédéric D. Oberland / Grégory Dargent / Tony Elieh / Wassim Halal |
Enuma Ellis
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Sihr | Sub Rosa | * | 0:29:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| El Khat |
Ward
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Mute | Glitterbeat | * | 0:34:30 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Julián Mayorga |
El Vorrh
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Chak Chak Chak Chak | Glitterbeat | Avant-garde Colombian singer-songwriter Julián Mayorga returns with his ninth album, a clattering, absurdist slice of post-cumbia psychedelia. - bandcamp | * | 0:41:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Ruta |
Hulaj Pole!
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Na uschod (Wolność albo śmierć) | Karrot Kommando | Polish folk-punk collaboration. | 0:44:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Justin Adams & Mauro Durante |
Santu Paulu
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Sweet Release | Ponderosa Music & Art | Justin Adams, guitarist, producer and composer with deep experience in African traditions and post-punk grooves, in collaboration with Mauro Durante, one of the leading players in the pizzica style of Southern Italy and leader of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. | * | 0:49:47 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Didon |
Salat
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Malak | Electrofone | DIDON, a Tunisian-American duo featuring Meriem Ben Amor's captivating vocals, original Arabic lyrics and melodies, as well as Carmen Rizzo's Grammy-nominated production expertise, DIDON has created a unique sound that seamlessly combines traditional North African and Arabic instrumentation with modern rhythms and synth lines. - bandcamp | * | 0:54:56 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Euis Komariah & Agus Sjarif / Electrica Band |
Abdi Mah Dulang Tinande
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Modjang Bandung | Remaco | Komariah was renowned as a singer of Sundanese songs. | 0:59:22 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Peni Candra Rini |
Pucung
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Wani | New Amsterdam | Dr. Peni Candra Rini, PhD (b. 1983) is a renowned Javanese singer, composer, and faculty member at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts. The Kronos Quartet has described her as “one of the world’s greatest singers.” She is a master of several traditional forms and is regarded as one of Indonesia’s most daring young composers, one of only a handful of female composers in the majority Muslim nation. - home page | * | 1:02:06 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Moana & the Tribe |
Tōku Reo feat. Inka Mbing
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Ono | Black Pearl Ltd. | ONO means six in Māori. It is also the title of a concept album project that begins in Aotearoa New Zealand and travels the world. Each song showcases the voice, language and culture of six Indigenous wāhine from lands where Moana & the Tribe has performed. - home page | * | 1:13:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Accra Quartet |
Abommofo (Hunters)
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Gbefabi (Travelers) | FPE | Recorded on a hot night in a one-room gospel music studio in the New Town district of Accra, comes Gbɛfalɔi -- a remarkable record exploring the edges of contemporary African music. - label | * | 1:20:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Momi Maiga |
Kairo
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Kairo | Segell Microscopi | Momi Maiga is a passionate Senegalese musician, composer, and singer who creates unique sounds with his kora. - home page | * | 1:25:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Bassekou Kouyate & Amy Sacko |
Domba
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Djudjon, L'oiseau De Garana | The latest album by the Malian griot couple is centred around Bassekou Kouyate's adventurous life journey together with his wife, the worldwide praised singer, Amy Sacko. - oneworldsmusic | 1:30:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Franco (vox Ntesa Dalienst, Wuta Mayi, Lukoki Diatho) |
Tala Ye Na Miso
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Guitar Hero | Cantos | François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi was a Congolese singer, guitarist, songwriter, bandleader, and cultural revolutionary. He was a central figure in 20th-century Congolese and African music, principally as the bandleader for over 30 years of TPOK Jazz, the most popular and influential African band of its time and arguably of all time. He is referred to as Franco Luambo or simply Franco. - wiki | 1:39:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Orchestre Maquis du Zaire |
Double Double
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Zanzibara 11, Congo in Dar- Dance No Sweat 1982-1986 | Buda Musique | Compilation of two East African bands, Orchestre Maquis du Zaire and Orchestre Safari Sound. | * | 1:49:24 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Oriental Brothers International Band |
Ndaa Julie
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Onye Rie Ibe Ya Erie | Palenque | The Oriental Brothers International Band of Nigeria is a popular Igbo highlife boy band from Nigeria [based in Owerri] for several decades, known for their powerful lyrics (whether it be of proverbs, or specials being dedicated to special people in the country of Nigeria), and deft instrumental work (whether of the lead guitar, or the conga man's professional play of the congas in their break sections of songs) with their unique style of highlife. - bandcamp | * | 1:58:57 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Pembey Sheiro |
Sala Ni Toto
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Various Artists: Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola | Strut | * | 2:07:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| N’golá |
Mezanu, Your Man Just Wants to Bring You Down
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Our Ancestors Swam to Shore | Free Dirt Records + PM Press | "Our Ancestors Swam to Shore" showcases the rarely heard music of Angolar Creole (N’golá) speakers from the African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. Many of the five thousand residents are descendants of escaped Angolan slaves, who, as their folklore tells, swam to shore after a shipwreck off the coast. - bandcamp | * | 2:18:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Gitkin |
Go Time
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Golden Age | Wonderwheel | With elements of Peruvian chicha, Saharan tuareg, Cuban son montuno, and psych-rock, Gitkin draws from styles around the world but manages to create his own authentic essence. - bandcamp | * | 2:23:37 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Feqadu Amde-mesqel · Mulatu Astatke |
Asmarina (My Asmara)
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Ethiopiques 4: ethio jazz & musique instrumentale 1969-1974 | Buda Musique | 2:27:34 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||
| Hadouk |
Dew Dance
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Le Concile des Oiseaux | Continuo Musique - UVM - Believe Digital | In complete freedom, the story of these two extraordinary instrumentalists was written over several decades. Didier Malherbe and Loy Ehrlich met in 1970. The first was part of the legendary progressive rock group Gong; the second blends into African music with the groups West African Cosmos, Touré Kunda and Youssou N’Dour. - dunose productions | * | 2:31:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Meridian Brothers |
Mandala
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Mi Latinoamerica Sufre | Les Disques Bongo Joe | In this new release, Los Meridian Brothers tell us the story of Junior Maximiliano Tercero, a peculiar character who wanders through those confusing nooks and crannies of self-improvement [1-“I know I'm changing” (Latin high life)], and who, through psychedelic substances that he affectionately calls "soma", finds fulfillment and manages to enjoy his youth [2-“Es mi nueva era” (positive vibrations)]. - bandcamp (translated from Spanish) | * | 2:35:15 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Eduardo Zurita |
La 3a De Los Toquecitos
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Various Artists: Super Disco Pirata - De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980 | Analog Africa | During the 1980s, a group of music dealers and record collectors from Mexico City joined forces to create a series of illegally manufactured vinyl records containing rare and highly-sought hits from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and beyond. - amazon | * | 2:39:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Lucho Bermúdez |
Plinio Guzman
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Various Artists: The Coastal Invasion | Radio Martiko | Lucho Bermúdez was a Colombian musician, composer, arranger, director and performer of cumbia and porro. He adapted traditional Colombian musical styles into modern rhythms that became symbols of national identity and influenced many artists in Latin America. - Wikipedia | 2:42:49 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |
| Danilo Pérez & Bohuslän Big Band |
Galactic Panama
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Lumen | Naxos | Panamanian jazz luminary Danilo Pérez and Sweden’s renowned Bohuslän Big Band have crafted a sonic masterpiece with their new album, Lumen. Blending the fiery rhythms of Latin America with the cool sophistication of Nordic jazz,the collaboration results in a captivating and innovative sound. - jazzdelapena | * | 2:46:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| SuRealistas |
La Vuelta
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La Vuelta | Musicastrada Records | With origins in Argentina, UK, Italy and Bosnia, the Surealistas’ collective beat includes afroamerican clave, cumbia, son, MPB and tropical sounds, not forgetting their adolescent origins drawing from rock, psychedelia, songwriters and literature. - bandcamp | * | 2:54:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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greetings, Rob! Paradisians!
must feed the felines -- but glad to be home and listening with you all! 😺😺
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wow, that looks great -- will check it out, thank you! 😺😺
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haha the felines have had their dinner, so (sort of) leaving me be -- not that they have any interest in medicare/medicaid, haha!
(finally have had the time today to untangle it all -- medicare ok, but still gotta call NJ medicaid on Monday, oh joy! 😹😹)
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fantastic, Rob -- as always! -- thanks so much!