#2480: Essentials: Traditional Music

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
It's the middle of WNYC's Winter Fund Drive and for this edition of New Sounds, John Schaefer offers a guide to traditional music. Listen to recommended recordings of music from Sunda, Zimbabwe, Turkey, Tibet, Chile, India, and more.

PROGRAM # 2480, New Sounds Essentials: Traditional Music (First aired on Wednesday, 11-29-05)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Anthology of African Music: Ba-Benzele Pygmies

"Song of Rejoicing" {4:00}

Barenreiter BM30L 2303. German import. Out of print. A similar collection, with a song of rejoicing was issued on Rounder Records in 1998, ROUN5107 www.rounder.com

Inti-Illimani

Flight of the Condor

Papel de Plata [2:30]

BBC #22440 Out of print, but there's info at www.gamisim.com/index_illimani, complete discography at www.nuevacancion.net/inti

E. Koestryara

Sangkala!

Reumbeuy [5:00]

Ikon #5502 Out of print.

Zimbabwe: The Soul of Mbira

Traditions of the Shona People

Taireva [4:00]

Nonesuch Explorer #79704** www.nonesuch.com *

Martin Swan & Mouth Music

Live, WNYC, 1991

S’Muladach [5:00]

This performance not commercially available, but Mouth Music’s CDs were released by Rykodisc, www.rykodisc.com AND some are available on www.emusic.com

Ravi Shankar

The Genius of Pandit Ravi Shankar

Dhun-Keharwa [5:30]

Oriental #108 orientalrecords.com

Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares

(Vol. 1)

Kalimankou Denkou [5:00]

Nonesuch Explorer #79165** www.nonesuch.com*

The Music of Islam

Vol. 9 – Mawlawiyah Music of the Whirling Dervishes

Prayer for Permission for Whirling [6:00]

Celestial Harmonies #13149 www.harmonies.com*

Tibetan Buddhism

Tantras of Gyuto

Mahakala, excerpt [3:30]

Nonesuch Explorer #79198** www.nonesuch.com*

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