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World Music from Mali To New Guinea
One of Afghanistan's best-known female singers, Ustad Farida Mahwash, trained with classical masters, and now lives in exile in California. She had given concerts and performed on the radio long before the Taliban regime came to power and has just released a tour CD, "Mahwash: Radio Kaboul,” recorded in honor of the musicians of Radio Kabul. On this edition of New Sounds, listen to music by Ustad Mahwash. Also, sample from the recent double live CD by Habib Koite of Mali, backed by the superstar musicians of Bamada. Koite's velvety, intimate voice combines with balafon, calabasse, harmonica, and the six-string kora-like kamale n'goni, for layers of sound “as light as filo pastry, as substantial as whole-grain bread,” according to The Beat magazine. Plus, hear recordings from Namibia, Mozambique, and Sunda (Indonesia).
PROGRAM # 2258, World Music from Mali To New Guinea
(First aired on Monday, 3/8/04)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Habib Koite |
Foly! Live Around the World |
Ma Ya [9:30] |
World Village#468021 www.worldvillagemusic.com* |
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Namibia |
Ju'hoansi Bushmen - Instrumental Music |
N[]aru Lake [3:00] |
Ocora #560179 www.radio-france.fr OR www.harmoniamundi.com* |
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Saba Saba |
Conjunto Music of Mozambique |
Conjunto Nimala: Bainxa [3:00] |
Globe Style #077 Possibly available through www.worldmusicstore.com OR www.acerecords.co.uk |
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Madagasikara 1 |
Current Traditional Music of Madagascar |
Tombo & Vaviroa: Dia Mahaory [5:00] |
GlobeStyle #012 See above. |
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Taarab 3 |
The Music of Zanzibar |
Mbaya Kufanya Jema [4:30] |
GlobeStyle #040 See above. |
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Seychelles |
Musiques oubliees des Iles: Danses et romances de l' Ancienne France |
Kotis (Scottish) [4:00] |
Ocora #559055. Out of print, but try www.gemm.com |
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Mahwash |
Radio Kaboul |
Listen to the Nai [7:30] |
Accords Croises# ACC-100 www.accords-croises.com |
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Tembang Sunda |
Music from West Java |
Tepang Asih [4:30] |
Celestial Harmonies #13134.** www.harmonies.com* |
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Telek |
Serious Tam |
Balamaris [4:30] |
Real World#49543** www.realworldrecords.com |
*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page
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