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Transpacific Sound Paradise Favoriting
Saturday, April 16, 2016 Favoriting
2015 Rainforest World Music Festival
at the splendiforous Sarawak Cultural Village,
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia-Borneo -
Day Three

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Photo above of festival artists on stage together at the end of the festival (above) and Ndima with Mah Meri (below) are courtesy of Sarawak Tourism Board.

The Rainforest World Music Festival takes place every summer at the fascinating Sarawak Cultural Village outside of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, on the spectacular tropical island of Borneo. It's a great festival at a remarkable site and Rob was fortunate enough to be invited by the Sarawak Tourism Board to attend this past August.

Tonight's show looks at day three of the three-day gathering, with concert excerpts, a musical taste of one of the many festival multi-artist cross-cultural workshops, and interview or press conference sound bites from the performers. You’ll also hear festival MC Hendrick Foh, host of The Borneo Broadcast, deliver his colorful stage intros for the artists.

For more, check out Rob's shows covering day one and day two of the festival.

Also recommended: Manhuman Rao’s superb coverage of the festival, with excellent photos, for World Music Central.

The next Rainforest World Music Festival will be August 5 to 7, 2016. Featuring among many others, Ghanian highlife great Pat Thomas, Southwest China’s visionary trad-rock band Shanren, Stelios Petrakis Cretan Quartet - which recently gave a great performance at globalFEST in NYC, tri-cultural fiddle-wizards Violons Barbares, Cuban a cappella icons Vocal Sampling, engaging UK-based Ethiopian trio Krar Collective, and of course an array of excellent ensembles from peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak, plus lots more. Tickets and info at http://rwmf.net/.



This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Bombino: Iyat Ninhay / Jaguar (A Great Desert I Saw) Favoriting / Azel / Partisan / * (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Yoshie Fruchter: Tzur Chayeinu Favoriting / Schizophonia / Blue Thread (0:10:17 Pop-up)
Based on a recording by cantor Leib Glantz

Sona Jobarteh: Mamamuso Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (0:21:39 Pop-up)

Sona Jobarteh: Bannaya Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (0:32:57 Pop-up)

Solomon Gau from Lan E Tuyang: Interview at Sarawak Cultural Village Favoriting / Unreleased / None (0:45:20 Pop-up)

Lan E Tuyang: Welcoming Song + Warrior Dance Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (0:50:46 Pop-up)

Lan E Tuyang: Urau Kawa Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (0:57:47 Pop-up)


Matthew Ngau Jau (with sapé) and Solomon Gau of Lan E Tuyang.

Lan E Tuyang: Song Welcoming Visitors to Village Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:01:15 Pop-up)

Lan E Tuyang: Usun Apau (Song of Remembrance) Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:06:24 Pop-up)

Lan E Tuyang: To Love Somebody Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:09:20 Pop-up)
Sape and vocal version of the 1967 Bee Gees song

Various Artists: We are the World Jam (excerpt) Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:20:29 Pop-up)

Ndima: Medley of Aka Pygmy traditional music and dance Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:23:35 Pop-up)

Ndima and Mah Meri: Rainforest Collaboration Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:36:56 Pop-up)

Sayu Ateng: Medley (3 songs) Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (1:52:43 Pop-up)

Korrontzi: Medley (3 songs) Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (2:14:12 Pop-up)

Olivier Araste from Lindigo: Interview at Sarawak Cultural Village Favoriting / Unreleased / None (2:32:40 Pop-up)

Lindigo: Medley Favoriting / Live at Rainforest World Music Festival 2015 / Unreleased (2:38:20 Pop-up)



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Listener comments!

Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:18pm Bas NL:

Hi Rob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:27pm Rob W:

Good evening Bas and everyone, thanks for listening!
  6:29pm charlesmacbookowski:

What's the name of this performer/song?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm Rob Weisberg:

Charles, this is Sona Jobarteh, from the UK but with family roots in Gambia - see www.sonajobarteh.com
  6:37pm charlesmacbookowski:

thanks! incredible stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm Rob W:

Thanks Charles, glad you enjoyed that!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm Dave in Vermont:

Thanks, Rob.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm Rob W:

Thanks for listening Dave!
Avatar 7:08pm geezerette:

Hey Rob,I listen every week,always beautiful and often new to me.
Thanks for sharing with us all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm Rob Weisberg:

Thanks very much geezerette!
  7:15pm Ike:

Delayed comment: Holy shmow, Sona Jobarteh was totally amazing! Thx Rob.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm Rob W:

Glad you enjoyed that Ike!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:45pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Was just out for a stroll on the Walkway Bridge and streaming the program. Sounded great!
  7:47pm Listener Robert:

The percussion on this one sounded like it went with the typing animation on the sound bite of the day graphic on the WFMU home page.
  7:54pm Listener Robert:

Thanks, Ken from Hyde. I just Google mapped where you were & see it's a rails-to-trails conversion of which I'd not been aware. Does it admit bicycles?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm Rob W:

Any similarity to the typing animation is purely coincidental but certainly possible!
  8:02pm Listener Robert:

Psychologic entrainment, I'm sure, Rob W. But the kind of percussion used at that point did sound like typewriter keys hitting the paper on a platen roll.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm coelacanth:

greetings Rob and palanese
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm coelacanth:

very pretty vox
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Robert. I think they allow anything that doesn't have a motor in it. www.walkway.org
  8:57pm Listener Robert:

Thanks, Ken from Hyde. Google Maps also provided a link to it. It's wide enough, and it'd be asking people a lot to have to dismount at either end.
  8:59pm Listener Robert:

The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail has a bridge on it with no guard rails that's signed for walking only, but it's plenty wide, and you can be pretty safe biking down the middle. I've seen other bridges on ped trails alongside vehicle lanes that are too narrow to accommodate ped + bike, but I've done it anyway.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Almost no one walks their bikes, that I've seen. I've biked it quite a few times and haven't been asked to walk it. Use common sense, don't speed and keep an eye out for kids darting around and crossing by bike will go smoothly. Thanks for tonight's show, Rob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm coelacanth:

Thanks Rob!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm Bas NL:

Thanks Rob!
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