Transpacific Sound Paradise: PLAYLISTS and AUDIO ARCHIVES
Transpacific Sound Paradise: Popular and Unpopular Music From Around the World with Rob Weisberg
is heard
on Saturdays 6pm - 9pm
on WFMU 91.1 FM in the New York Metropolitan area and 90.1 in New York's Hudson Valley.
Archived shows with playlists and links below.
Or click here and you can listen to WFMU live online right this very second.
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See also:
** The Transpacific Sound Paradise (TSP) home page with recent show descriptions, archives and links, upcoming show listings etc: http://www.wfmu.org/tsp
** The TSP NYC / NJ World Music Concert Calendar: http://www.wfmu.org/world
** NJ Ethnic Eats tip-sheet http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Robw/restaurants.html
** Rob's (Somewhat Current) World Music Shopping Guide: http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Robw/list.html.
** For playlists prior to 2002 arranged chronologically click here.
** For an alphabetical listing of archived shows featuring special guests and/or live music, see http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Robw/alphabetical.html.
If you want to be on an email list for upcoming specials and special events (including our remote broadcasts from Barbes in Park Slope, Brooklyn) send an email to Rob W here and be sure to write “list” in the subject line.
Upcoming events:
- Saturday, September 6th, 6pm - 9pm:
Polka Madre y la Comezon and Tidawt
- Two very different WFMU live performance debuts in one show. Polka Madre is a Balkan / Polka / thrash mashing Mexican / Euro / US combo based in a warehouse in Mexico City. After their FMU session, they wrap up an extended tour of the boroughs by playing the Celebrate Mexico Now festival show at Hecho en Dumbo, 111 Front St., Bklyn on Sept 11. Tidawt (playing the Highline Ballroom Sept 22) is a stripped-down but compelling Tuareg guitar band from Niger in West Africa: just guitars and percussion, but very similar in style and intensity to Tinariwen.
- Saturday, September 13th, 6pm - 9pm:
Live from Barbes: Red Baraat Festival, Brooklyn Qawwali Party, and Kiran Ahluwalia
- A pre-Navratri South Asian musical spectacular! Percussionist Sunny Jain's Red Baraat Festival, New York's first Indian brass band plays boisterous wedding, folk and Bollywood songs. Brooklyn Qawwali Party morphs the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Sufi devotional songs into splendiferous jazz / improv tours-de-force. Plus a special intimate appearance by vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia, internationally acclaimed interpreter of the resplendent sung poems called "ghazals." With guest host / tech guru Irene Trudel. Free admission, free FMU swag, and fun for all at the cozy musician's hang at 376 9th St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- Saturday, September 20th, 6pm - 9pm:
Balval
- Balval is a lively young string-driven Paris-based band inspired by
Eastern European Gypsy / Roma music with elements of jazz, Latin music and Middle Eastern music in the mix as well. Our live session kicks off their inter-borough NYC tour - including a set at Barbes in Park Slope later this evening, Zebulon in Williamsburg on 9/24, the Droma Gypsy Festival at Drom in the East Village on 9/25 and several gigs at Cafe 50 West in Chelsea after that.
- Saturday, September 27th, 6pm - 9pm:
Electric Kulintang
- As Electric Kulintang (EK), multi-talented percussionists Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez explore Susie's Filipino roots. Kulintang is a melodic/percussive tradition from the Philippines with some similarity to Indonesian gamelan. EK's music re-imagines kulintang. It's experimental and electronic, but there are also strong connections to the roots. EK gives us a live in-studio preview of their Oct. 4 gig at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St. in lower Manhattan.
Playlists and Archives
If you'd like information about any of the
selections in the playlists above or have any comments or criticism,
send an e-mail message to me, Rob
Weisberg. I'm always interested in swapping cassettes with
folks so if you'd like to hear a program from the archives or
if you'd like to hear more of a particular type of music featured
on my show, let me know.
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