For this New Sounds, listen to indie artists straddle the divide between world music, ambient and electronica as they incorporate or approximate traditional instruments, traditional sounds, and take the results well out of indie rock-land.  We'll hear from the Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers record, the latest in the Congotronics series, where carefully chosen artists have recorded homages to the original source material - landing someplace between reinventions and cover versions, and often go as far as being worthy of the dancefloor. 

Sample a few of these reworkings, including one by Andrew Bird reinventing Konono No. 1, and Animal Collective reworking music by the Kasai All-Stars.  We'll also listen to On Fillmore, a collaboration between Glenn Kotche (also the drummer in Wilco) and Darin Gray, who mix percussion, acoustic bass, bird calls by Dede Sampaio (recorded in a grain silo) and other field recordings. Plus, music from Six Organs of Admittance (guitarist Ben Chasny) which chimes and drones, and some ambient music by Loscil, who happens to be drummer Scott Morgan of the Vancouver-based band, Destroyer.

PROGRAM #        3160, Indie Rock meets World, Ambient, & More                          (First aired on 1-18-11)