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.
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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.
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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, July 4th, 6pm - 9pm:
Pan-Planetary Patriotism: World Music of the U S of A with Scott Kettner of Nation Beat
- Nation Beat, the rousing New York band inspired by the music of Northeast Brazil but also with New Orleans, Appalachia, rock, funk, even klezmer in the mix, recently found itself effectively censored at a "world music" festival: the band was told that it could only perform its Portuguese-language songs, not the English ones. This inspired Nation Beat to take control of the musical agenda and create a platform to question the informed wisdom about "world music" - by starting its own festival.
The all-day event, "Is America Part of the World?" takes place Saturday July 11 at the Brooklyn Yard in Carroll Gardens. On today's show Nation Beat's leader Scott Kettner stops by to do a little rabble-rousing - as well as spinning selections by festival artists and also some Brazilian faves. And Rob will play tracks by other artists who blur the distinction between music of the US of A and the rest of the planet.
- Friday, July 10th, 7pm - 11pm:
Live broadcast from Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing Series
- A special live broadcast from Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing Series, hosted by Rob Weisberg. First we'll hear from the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, a Chicago-based collaboration between American jazz players and two former members of the highly regarded Ghanaian highlife band Western Diamonds. The Occidentals, who just released their first CD, are building a following playing shimmering old-school West African and Congolese electric dance music. Then at 9 pm we'll be treated to a performance by one of the all-time great singers of Congolese style electric dance music, Samba Mapangala with Orchestra Virunga. While based in Kenya in the early 80s, Samba and Virunga recorded one of the all time African classics, Malako. And Samba's still going strong today: His 2008 election song Obama Ubarikiwe (Obama Be Blessed) was a YouTube sensation.
- Saturday, August 1st, 6pm - 9pm:
Rokia Traore
- Singer / songwriter / bandleader Rokia Traore has always gone her own way. She's Malian by birth and often sings in her native Bamanan, but with a diplomat dad, Traore grew up around the world, and she has based her career in France. She has incorporated traditional Malian music into her sound but she would not call herself a traditional musician. Her lyrics often support women's rights and other socially progressive themes. Her latest CD, the sparse, intimate "Tchamantché" (Nonesuch) takes a step further away from her West African roots - but still does not abandon them completlely. Rob catches up with Rokia Traore for an interview in advance of two free concerts she's playing in NYC this summer, at BAM Metrotech Aug 6 and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Aug 7.
- Saturday, August 8th, 6pm - 9pm:
The Tel Aviv Show a/k/a Not Quite JM in the PM
- This week Transpacific Sound Paradise time-shifts back to Rob's recent Holy Land Tour for a show recorded at Israel College of Management radio station Kol Ha Kampus ("The Campus Voice"). Kol Ha Kampus is probably Israel's most adventurous and influential non-commercial music station - in fact by some accounts it is the second most listened to radio station in Tel Aviv. Rob is joined by guest-DJs Gil Rouviou of Kol Ha Kampus and Ilan Rosenberg, Tel Aviv native but currently host of Jaffa Jive Sundays at noon on WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gil and Ilan give us a multi-genre intro to rootsy contemporary Israeli (and some Palestinian) artists, many of whom have rarely been heard on US airwaves. This is not your stereotypical Jewish music - not a bit of schmaltz, and nary a klezmer song is in the mix. Well except, of course, for Oy Division.
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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