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New Sounds / April 06, 2008

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Sunday, April 06, 2008
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  • Ethiopiques

    Music from East Africa

    It’s a musical journey through an overlooked part of Africa, with excerpts from the Ethiopiques series, the new Zanzibara series, and recordings by Nursery Boys, Samite, and more. For this program, we’ll dip into the Ethiopiques series, so far numbering 21 in a series of 30 releases, all kinds of hypnotic groove from the "golden" years of the late '60s and early '70s in "swinging" Addis Ababa. Hear the ska, funk, and blues which permeated the Ethiopian pop and jazz music of the day, some with ferocious horns, some with swirls of Latino and Middle Eastern sounds as well. Plus, there’s orchestral taarab music from the island of Zanzibar – from the brand new series called Zanzibara. With oud, ney, qanun (zither) and frame drum, augmented with violins and accordion, it’s a blend of sounds from the Arab world, India, Indonesia and the West, combined with the classical traditions of Swahili poetry, local rhythm and melody. And more.

PROGRAM # 2533, A Musical Tour of East Africa
(First aired on Monday, April 10, 2006)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Ethiopiques

Vol. 21 – Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Homesickness, excerpt [1:30]

BudaMusique #860122 www.budamusique.com

Ethiopiques

Vol. 1 – Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music, 1969-1975

Tèshomè Meteku: Hasabe [4:00]

Buda Musique #82951 See above, or downloadable from emusic.com

Ethiopiques

Vol. 3 – Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music

Muluqèn Mèllèssè: Tenesh Kelbe Lay [4:00]

Buda Musique #82963 See above, or downloadable from emusic.com

Ethiopiques

Vol. 20 – Either/Orchestra Live In Addis

Antchin Endelela [7:00]

Buda Musique #860121 www.budamusique.com

Zanzibara

Vol. 2 – The Golden Years of Mombasa Taarab

Zein L’Abdin: Musiwe Na Mshangao [4:00]

Buda Musique #860119 www.budamusique.com

Zanzibara

Vol. 1 - Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club – A Hundred Years of Taarab In Zanzibar

Cheo Chako, excerpt [6:00]

Buda Musique #860118 www.budamusique.com

Abana Ba Nasery

Nursery Boys Go Ahead!

Sumila Omusiele [5:00]

Green Linnet #4002, re-released on the Globe/ City Hall label. Available at Amazon.com*

3 Mustaphas 3

Heart of Uncle

Kem Kem [4:30]

Rykodisc #20156 www.rykodisc.com

Samite

Embalasasa

Setula [6:00]

Triloka/Artemis #82071** www.artemisrecords.com *

Comments

  • [1] collins yartey from ghana west africa April 15, 2008 - 04:14PM

    i am a ghanaian music who will like to be part of your coming musical event.regards

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Nico Muhly (www.myspace.com/muhly)

Twitchy Renaissance-Infused Minimalism

New Sounds

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Nico Muhly presents a series of new electroacoustic ensemble works, combining “twitchy Minimalism” and Renaissance polyphony. Hear brand-new works from "Mothertongue," along with other works, recorded live.

Robert Moran

In Robert Moran's Kitchen

New Sounds

From October 30, 1989, the infamous "cooking show" with composer/raconteur Robert Moran. Recorded while cooking an Indian dinner in John Schaefer's kitchen, for reasons still not entirely clear. Along the way, we hear an "acoustic" version of Cage's 0:00 - for amplification of chopping vegetables and blender. And don't miss the teary conversation as onions are chopped. View the the recipes.

Michael Hedges and Michael Manring

New Sounds

The incredibly gifted and astonishingly original guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. Avant-folk and ever-entertaining, Hedges made brilliant music with alternate tunings, harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. His close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). On this October 10, 1987 edition of New Sounds, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.

Duke Ellington - www.dukeellington.com

Caravan Variations

New Sounds

Like camels slogging through the sand, the exotic strains of “Caravan,” by Duke Ellington and his sometime trombonist Juan Tizol (with rarely heard lyrics by Irving Mills), have been played loose, fast, swinging, and/or slow by just about everyone. For this New Sounds program, it’s another of the occasional series of programs of Theme and Variations, where the premise is simple: take a single piece of music and explore what a number of musicians have done with it, through arrangements, deconstructions, and revisions of the original theme. This time around, it’s Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Listen to arrangements by Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, Hungary’s Kalman Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalom Band, the California Guitar Trio, the ska group Hepcat, banjoman Bela Fleck, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell, among others.

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