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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Richard Gehr on India's Saptak Festival of Hindustani Classical Music
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Music journalist Richard Gehr
- who writes for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice and many others, and is author of
I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists
- recently attended the Saptak
Festival, one of India's foremost Hindustani Classical Music
festivals. The Saptak Festival spotlights superstars as well as
emerging artists. Join us as Richard shares the music - with live
recordings from the festival - and the memories.
This Week's Playlist:
(* = new)
Novos Baianos:
Preta Pretinha
/ Acabou Chorare
/ Mr Bongo
(0:00:00 )
Reissue; originally from 1972.
La Troba Kung-Fu:
La Pregaria
/ Santa Alegria
(0:09:44 )
Bareto:
El Impredictable
/ Impredictable
/ World Village
(0:11:46 )
Brushy One String:
Destiny
/ Destiny
/ RiseUp Entertainment
(0:12:33 )
West Bridge Band:
Papa
/ Kibera Esbera
/ Electric Cowbell Records
(0:19:11 )
Koo Nimo & Vishal Nagar:
It Takes So Much Energy to Hate
/ Koo Nimo & Vishal Nagar
(0:22:09 )
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt:
Live at Saptak Festival 2013
(0:37:48 )
Pandit Jasraj:
Live at Saptak Festival 2014
(0:47:23 )
Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain:
Live at Saptak Festival 2014
(0:59:37 )
Begum Parween Sultana:
Live at Saptak Festival 2014
(1:06:13 )
Shahid Parvez:
Live at Saptak Festival 2014
(1:17:21 )
Kaushiki Chakraborty:
Live at Saptak Festival 2015
(1:27:07 )
Ravi Shankar:
Raga Manj Khamaj
/ At the Woodstock Festival
(1:40:11 )
Anoushka Shankar:
Raga Manj Khamaj (Celebration)
/ Home
/ Deutsche Grammophon
(1:43:40 )
Amit Trivedi, Sneha Khanwalkar:
Keh Keh Lunga
/ Various Artists (Music by Piyush Mishra): Gangs of Wasseypur OST
(1:56:15 )
Piyush Mishra:
Ik Bagal
/ Various Artists (Music by Piyush Mishra): Gangs of Wasseypur OST
(2:01:51 )
Silk Road Ensemble (Composition by Vijay Iyer):
Playlist for an Extreme Occassion Part Five
/ Playlist for an Extreme Occassion
/ Sony Masterworks
(2:08:00 )
Blarvuster:
Gorgamor the Giant Echo
/ Blarvuster
/ Tzadik
(2:10:53 )
The Sway Machinery:
My Beloved
/ You Will Love No One But Me
(2:17:40 )
GIGs: Sun Feb 14: Barbes, 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn: Valentines Ball: Sway Machinery + Hearing Things + The Fraternal Order of the Society Blues: 9 pm; March 23 (Wed)
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St:
A-Wa (pronounced Ay-wa) + Sway Machinery. 7:30 pm
Qwanqwa:
Kemekem
/ Volume 2
/
*
(2:17:52 )
Songhoy Blues:
Ai Tchere Bele
/ Music in Exile
(2:22:53 )
GIG: April 14 (Thurs): Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St:
Songhoy Blues. 7 pm.
Rail Band:
Jurukan
/ Buffet Hotel De La Gare Bamako
(2:26:26 )
Ladysmith Black Mambazo:
Shosholoza
/ Singing For Peace Around the World (Live)
(2:38:29 )
GIG / TICKET GIVEAWAY: Feb 19 (Fri)
The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
A World Music Institute production. 8 pm. Email robw via the link on this page w/ TIX in the subject line to enter the drawing.
Pedrito Martinez:
Los Santos
(2:42:09 )
GIG / TICKET GIVEAWAY: Feb 19 (Fri) Grammy Award-nominated Latin jazz band The Pedrito Martinez Group, Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, 9 pm. Email robw via the link on this page w/ TIX in the subject line to enter the drawing.
Maurice El Medioni and Roberto Rodriguez:
Ana Ouana
/ Descarga Oriental - The New York Sessions
/ Piranha
(2:49:18 )
This track from the 2006 collaborative cd by Medioni and Rodriguez also appears on the 2014 compilation The Rough Guide to Arabic Jazz (World Music Network).
Listener comments! | |
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Sat. 2/13/16 6:05pm
Mark R.:
Greetings, Mr. Weisberg. Looking forward to some hot sounds to warm us all up! | |
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Sat. 2/13/16 6:06pm
Rob W:
Thanks Mark and good evening everyone... it is indeed a bit chilly around here! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 6:06pm
Bas NL:
Hi Rob! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 6:07pm
Bob Slee:
dag Bas |
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Sat. 2/13/16 6:08pm
SeanG:
that was a great song |
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Sat. 2/13/16 6:08pm
Bas NL:
Dag Bob! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 7:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...don't hear 'Indian Classical' too very much here - just beautiful - Thanks so much ! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 7:37pm
Ike:
I agree, that Indian classical show on WKCR on Sundays at 7 p.m. is quite good (though I haven't tuned in to it much lately). |
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Sat. 2/13/16 7:49pm
geezerette:
This is splendid. | |
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Sat. 2/13/16 7:51pm
Listener Robert:
For a couple bars there, it sounded like Indian calypso. So sort of East & West Indian at the same time. | |
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Sat. 2/13/16 7:53pm
Bas NL:
(applause!) |
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Sat. 2/13/16 7:59pm
Rob W:
Thanks everyone! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:05pm
geezerette:
what a stellar program Rob W! | |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:07pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
This is more Hindi music than Geet Mala on WVKR, even! DJ Padma's show is just two hours, though. |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:08pm
Bas NL:
Thanks Richard! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:23pm
maestroso:
Wow, these last four or five songs...wow. Great for cooking dinner by. Thanks Rob! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:33pm
northguineahills:
Thanks Rob! It's been a great soundtrack for a chilly night! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:33pm
Ike:
What NGH said. |
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Sat. 2/13/16 8:34pm
Rob W:
Thanks! |
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Sat. 2/13/16 9:00pm
Bas NL:
Thanks Rob! |
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