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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Festival of World Sacred Music, Fes, Morocco plus Boom Pam Live
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The Festival of World Sacred Music in the medieval city of Fes, Morocco
annually brings together prominent musicians from the three Abrahamic religions -
Christian, Jewish, Muslim - as well as other faiths in what's literally a
week-plus lovefest. Of course it's wonderful to hear great music in
remarkable settings, amid ancient ruins and centuries-old Moorish gardens.
But the festival has a broader agenda too: It was launched in 1994 as a
pro-peace response to the first Gulf War.
Rob
attended the festival for the first time this year. He and
fellow
travelers Tom Pryor of National
Geographic's World Music Website, Richard Gehr of emusic.com and AARP's
Music For Grownups and Judy
Cantor Navas, Latin and World Music
Programming Manager for MTV
Urge report back on the music, the
mission, and the fabulous city of Fes.
Rob and co. play music by notable festival performers – including some
recorded at the festival.
We
also hear additional site-recorded audio:
An excerpt from a visit to Mohamed Semlali’s musical instrument with Tom,
fellow journalist Kristin Berendsen
and Rob’s sidekick (and assistant for the festival) Katie Gentile; and a brief
performance by the kids at the Association Fes Dhar El Mehraz, a performing arts and community
organization based in a very poor section of Fes, with song explanations by the
Association’s Music Director Driss Bouabid. (Apologies for technical sloppiness when we played this; I
will re-air it with additional related material in a later show.)
This
year for the first time, performances by the Association were incorporated into
the festival. Here’s a web page
where you can read about Briton Lynn Evans’ mountain-climbing efforts to aid
the organization - it includes her contact info if you’re interested in
learning more or possibly even supporting the Association: http://riadzany.blogspot.com/2007/04/sponsored-trek-to-summit-of-jebel.html
FES-RELATED WEB STUFF:
Rob’s Fes Festival blog (first installment, with much more text, visuals and also audio to come) on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog:http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/06/i-knew-right-aw.html
Fes Festival of Sacred Music homepage: http://www.fesfestival.com/en07/index.htm
UK
journalist Peter Culshaw’s excellent 2007 Fes Festival postmortem: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/06/12/nosplit/bmfes112.xml
Richard
Gehr’s AARP Music For Grownups blog posts on this year’s festival:
http://blog.aarp.org/music/2007/06/seeking_the_sacred_in_fes_part.html and http://blog.aarp.org/music/2007/06/seeking_the_sacred_in_fes_part_1.html
Tom
Pryor's recent article on the Fes festival for Global Rhythm magazine:
http://www.globalrhythm.net/Travel/TheSoundOfSufismPrayersRingOutInFes.cfm
National
Geographic World Music: http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com
Richard
Gehr: http://www.levity.com/rubric/ and/or
http://www.emusic.com/editorial/bios.html. AARP's "Music for Grownups": http://www.aarp.org/fun/music
Judy Cantor’s writing on world musics: http://www.judycantor.com
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Boom Pam is just your everyday Tel Aviv /
Mediterranean / Balkan guitar/bass/drums/tuba surf band. Working the Dick Dale Miserlou angle
perhaps – although they’re actually inspired more directly by Aris San, a Greek
guitarist who was popular for similar folk-to-surf adaptations in early 60s
Israel. Live, they’re a blast (and
they have a great cd on Essay Recordings too). We taped a rocking session earlier this year and with their
NYC return imminent (Knitting
Factory, June 26 with Slavic
Soul Party) we will squeeze it in at the end of this week’s show.
There’s a great youtube-posted video that combines a Boom Pam vocal (from the
song Hatul VeHatula), a groovy Middle-Eastern-style instrumental track and
great stock video, called “Hashish:
The Drug of a Nation.”
See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZTC_jUaVPw.
You can also see a video of the Boom Pam original Hatul VeHatula here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnlx1VX9Ls
This Week's Playlist:
Moniajat Yulcheva: Sufi Song of South Asia / Various Artists: Fes Festival of World Sacred Music Volume 2 / Sounds True
Katie Gentile:
TSP Show Open
Featuring ambient elements from the compilation cd Morocco: Crossroads of Time (Ellipsis Arts) and also from Rob Weisberg's field recordings in Fes, 2007
Sidi Thami Mdaghri: Malhoun of Fes / Various Artists: Fes Festival of World Sacred Music Volume 2 / Sounds True
Amarg Fusion:
Winu Mas Tnnit
/ Agadir Ifawn
/ Amoud Music
Crossfade from Fes Festival recording to studio recording
Parissa and Dastan Ensemble:
Live at Fes Festival 2007
Claire Zalamansky: De Edad De Quinze Anos / Gul Pembe / Arion
Fes Medina: Visit to Musical Instrument Shop
Ouled Kamar Gnaoua Ensemble:
"The Sons of the Moon, Keepers of the Invisible Sacred Music" / Live at Fes Festival 2007
Nass el Ghiwane: Kesset Laagouz / La Legende / Platinum
Darga:
Sandiya
/ Darga Live
I didn't clarify on-air that this is the band's release, NOT recorded at the festival
Ghizlane: Baba Moussa Ja / Ghizlane / Fassiphone
Angelique Kidjo: Mama Golo Papa / Djin Djin / Razor & Tie
Youssou N'Dour: Shukran Bamba / Egypt / Nonesuch
Association Fes Dhar El Mehraz:
A Call For Peace
Field recording. Association Fes Dhar El Mehraz is a community performing arts organization based out of a very poor neighborhood in Fes; this year for the first time their performances were incorporated into the festival. Apologies for technical errors at beginning and especially end of this piece. It will be rebroadcast with additional related material on a later show.
Curro and Carlos Pinana with the Diapson Quintet:
Live at Fes Festival 2007
Boom Pam:
WFMU studio session recorded in January 2007; occupies final 37 minutes of this show.
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