Bebo Valdes Legendary Pianist and Composer
Friday, April 7, 2023, 10:00am
Hot on the heels of his appearance in the 2000 film Calle 54 , with his son, Chucho and his stunning Latin/flamenco project Lagrimas Negras , This 2-CD/DVD set is an impressive musical autobiography of the Cuban-born, Stockholm-based octogenarian pianist, Bebo Valdes. He's supported by an array of...
The Pace of Palm Wine Music
Saturday, December 3, 2022, 9:00am
Palm wine music began to attract its first audiences at the turn of the 20th century with a name liberated from a regional drink transformed into a hybrid folk-like style. Nevertheless, it remains an integral part of the region's cultural heritage, serving as an accepted musical currency for the...
In The Wake Of Wassoulou Music
Saturday, November 26, 2022, 9:00am
Wassoulou music, takes its name from its geographical birthplace, is a form that fuses traditional and contemporary elements authored by women vocalists. The style is set within a pentatonic scale using a hunter's harp and exhibited by womanist-centered vocals that are passionate, pointed, and...
María Dueñas Presents Fauré’s Après un rêve
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 10:00am
“María Dueñas is inspiring not only for her technical perfection and virtuosity but also, and above all, for her musical sensitivity and emotional commitment” –Jury citation on awarding María Dueñas the 2021 Rheingau Music Festival Lotto Prize “María is one of the best, most exciting young...
Connecting With Cornish Music
Saturday, October 22, 2022, 9:00am
Helping to make the country of Cornwall unique, is the integral aspect of Music in everyday life where brass compositions, choral works, dance, and jingles, small and large, reveal the existence of a sweeping musical landscape with a rich, and diverse musical legacy.
Origin of the Organ
Saturday, October 15, 2022, 9:00am
Ctesibius, whose discoveries include elasticity, the water clock, and the water organ, a type of pipe organ the third century BCE, created an instrument called the hydraulis , a mechanical flute that used wind pressure regulated by water pressure on a set of pipes played in the arenas of the Roman...
Follow The Flute
Saturday, October 1, 2022, 9:00am
Flutes, after the human voice, are the earliest identifiable musical instruments, as paleolithic examples with hand-bored holes. Several flutes dating from about 43,000 to 35,000 years ago were discovered in Slovenia. Wisconsin and First Nation - Indigenous people have a long historical...
Charming The Charango
Saturday, September 24, 2022, 9:00am
The charango is among the most honored and exalted instruments in all of Andean culture. It has a long history dating back to the late 1400s, sometime after Christopher Columbus first came in contact with the people-populated islands of the Bahamas. What was discovered was an ancient world, despite...
Ibibio Sound Machine
Friday, April 29, 2022, 10:00am
Fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West- African funk & disco and modern post-punk & electro. The band’s self-titled debut album was released in 2014 on Soundway Records...
PAUL BOWLES’ “A PICNIC CANTATA”
Friday, April 29, 2022, 10:00am
Featured Artists Include Amanda Lynn Bottoms, Amy Owens, Chelsea Shephard, Naomi Louisa O’Connell, Barry Centanni, Michael Barrett, and Steven Blier New Release Out Friday, November 18, 2022 on NYFOS Records A Picnic Cantata is the result of a one-time collaboration between the piano-duo team of...
African Americans In Paris
Friday, April 29, 2022, 10:00am
“ Bricktop’s Paris vibrantly recreates and reimagines the fascinating world of Jazz Age Paris by placing black women at the center of the story. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting gives us a valuable new perspective on Ada “Bricktop” Smith, giving her the prominence usually attributed to Josephine Baker...
World Music Albums
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 10:00am
Here's another 'super fun' release worth considering for your world music library. Check it out via your favorite online source. --Jonathan With their February 2022 release, The Mazel Tov Cocktail Party Orchestra - a culturally diverse collective of artists from around the globe, come together to "...
12 African-Centered World Music Albums For Your Collection
Friday, October 29, 2021, 10:00am
Here's a worthy list of recordings to consider for your world music library. Check them out via your favorite online source and decide which ones you like best, least and, are willing to invest in. I'm leaning toward Cesaria Evora. More suggestions from other regions of the world coming soon. --...
Inka's Music
Friday, September 3, 2021, 10:00am
During my 2015 Excursion to Peru, I discovered this CD and its companion CD. I purchased it without reviewing it beforehand. Little did I know that copies of it were and are still not easily acquired in the U.S. It was two or three years later before I took some time to listen to it. This recording...
The Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble
Thursday, July 1, 2021, 10:00am
Have you ever listened to an album for the first time and just new moments into the first track that it was just really, really good? The new 2021 release by the Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble is even better. Better yet, I was tempted to overload last Saturday's broadcast with it. "2009 Finnish...
120,000 Stories
Thursday, July 1, 2021, 10:00am
Upon receiving the new 2021 CD released by Smithsonian Folkways titled "120,000 Stories," I was reminded once again of the global breadth and rich diversity of sounds linked to World music. This album features Asian American artist Nobuko Miyamoto. Generally, when I receive a CD for airplay...
Japanese Folk Songs
Thursday, April 1, 2021, 10:00am
Editor's Note: "This CD includes Japanese folk songs, arranged by Joji Hirota (vocals, shakuhachi, Japanese percussion and drums), with the London Metropolitan Orchestra and two children's choirs from schools destroyed in the 2011 tsunami. Hauntingly beautiful melodies conjure images of Japanese...
In Harlem in Montmartre
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 10:00am
My budding enthusiasm for ragtime music led me to the following text. Join me in reading, learning and pondering the question asking if the Paris music scene in fact played a 'legitimate' role in helping to 'legitimize' jazz in the U.S. From the introduction: During the years between the world wars...
Granada 1013-1502
Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 10:00am
From the introduction of this 2016 recording: "On this moving portrait of Granada, Jordi Savall leads Hespérion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in an exploration of 500 years of Spanish history. Granada is a symbol, like no other, of the fruitful but conflictual encounter of the three...
Susana Baca - Ambassador for Afro Peruvian Culture
Friday, September 25, 2020, 10:00am
My 2009 visit to Peru introduced me to the deeply influential music created by the country's Afro Peruvian communities especially in El Carmen, Cañete and Chincha that have significant Afro Peruvian residents. With the voice of Afro Peruvian musician Susana Baca, and exponent of the Afro Peruvian...