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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Field Recordings from West Africa
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Field Recordings from Africa with the guys who recorded them, sonic explorers Wills Glasspiegel and Drew Alt.
Wills is working on a sound / music / field recording project for CARE, he's a project manager at 651 Arts and a producer for Afropop Worldwide, and he spent some time with Smithsonian Folkways and David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, among other things. Drew recently spent a year in West Africa working with the government of Ghana. He's also a pianist and trombonist. He led Sonido Unidad, an Afro-Cuban jazz orchestra in his college days at Yale.
Together they do a radio podcast - see
http://www.jazzinstinct.com.
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WANTED: Obama Songs in multi-culti styles for our pre-election show!
We are putting together as many world music and / or non-English Obama songs as possible for the last show before the election on Saturday, November 1 and for a special one hour program during WFMU's special election day webstream on election day, November 4.
If you have suggestions for songs to play or want to offer your own creation, original song or mash-up please email your host Rob Weisberg via this g-mail address: r.l.weisberg AT gmail DOT com.
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This Week's Playlist:
The Ex and Getatchew Mekuria: Sethed Seketelat / Moa Anbessa / Terp
Musicians from Benin:
Call to Song
Field recording
Ghana Cape Coast recording:
Field recording
GIrl from Benin:
Field recording
Prince Nico Mbarga and Rocafil Jazz: Music Line / Musicline / Rogers All Stars
King Bruce & the Black Beats: Agodzi / Golden Highlife Classics / RetroAfric
Kofi Nkarabea: Ampadu I Kofi
Pat Thomas: False Lover / In Retrospect / T-Vibe
African Brothers Band: Seantie
Bob Pinodo: Love is Love / Love Is Love / PAD
Maa Amanyua: Suku True
Schoolgirls in Ghana:
Oh My Home
Field recording
Abayudaya: Hiwumbe Awumba / Abayudaya: Music From The Jewish People Of Uganda / Smithsonian Folkways
Kemuli String Band: My Father, My Heart / Various Artists: Bosavi - Rainforest Music of Papua New Guinea / Smithsonian Folkways
Choir from Sierra Leone:
Chant de Louanges
Field recording
Field Recording: Compay Segundo Funeral
Pupy y Los Que Son Son: Rehearsal Excerpt
Sonido Unidad:
La Unidad
Featuring our guest Drew Alt
Lucha Reyes: Regresa / Los Mejores Exitos de Lucha Reyes / Continental
Felipe Teodoro:
Huanyo
Field recording
Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto: Mi Regreso / Un Fuego De Sangre Pura / Smithsonian Folkways
Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble: The Messenger / The Messenger / Delmark
Imaginary Homeland: Anthem / Jump for George / Jumbie
Sounds of Taraab: Bashraf Salama / Zanzibar, New York
The Military Band Of The Old Turkish Army: Old Army March "Your Forefathers" / Turkish Military Band Music Of Ottoman Empire / King Records
Sat. 8/23/08 7:27pm
From:
listener carl
Listened forever but never found out who does your intro song. Can you let me know? Great show.
Sat. 8/23/08 7:32pm
From:
Your DJ
That's my sidekick Katie Gentile - who also plays violin in the band Special Pillow (http://www.myspace.com/thespecialpillow)
Sat. 8/23/08 7:34pm
From:
Hatch
Bosavi! This is absolutely perfect.
Sat. 8/23/08 8:40pm
From:
dirkzaffer
Whe have ONE golden medal !
High Jumpin !!!
Thanks to Tia Hellebaut
Greetings !!!!
Sat. 8/23/08 8:53pm
From:
JT
I am a very, very long time fan of the double reed instruments aka zurna rhaita shawm shenai. Damn sorry to miss that.
It's the electric guitar of the bronze age.
Sat. 8/23/08 9:01pm
From:
JT
Ah this turkish song is familiar. I have it on an LP somewhere. It's a stone standard.
Many of these types of songs worked well as military songs. The double-reed is so piercing and carries so well in air that it was often a military band fixture - even the highland pipes fall into this category.
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