#3333: Global Guitars & Things

For this New Sounds program, sample a globetrotting set of acoustic music with guitar as the starting point.  There’s music by Stephane Wrembel, who visits everything from blues to flamenco to rock on his record “Origins.”  Listen next to South African guitarist Derek Gripper, who has also studied and mastered the kora, the instrument of the Malian griot.

We’ll also hear a bit of music for kora from Ablaye Cissoko with trumpeter Volker Goetze, something from pipa player Wu Man & multi-instrumentalist Adulla Majnun (diltar, dutar, tambur) from Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.  Plus, music from composers Christian Frederickson & Ryan Rumery from Palissimo's "The Painted Bird (Part III): Strange Cargo"  to accompany dances by choreographer Pavel Zustiak.

PROGRAM #3333, Global Guitars & Things  (First aired on 5/2/2012)