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World Music For Kids + Emmanuel Jal interview 2008-05-09 17:49:00 Spin The Globe playlist9 May 2008This week we spun global music for kids in anticipation of the upcoming Seattle International Children's Festival. Plus an interview
with Emmanuel
Jal of Sudan, and more.By the way, there's a whole new look at the KAOS radio website -- have a look!hour 1 (Artist - Song - Album) Firewater - Borneo - The Golden Hour Adriana Maciel - Samba dos Animais - Brazilian Playground Emmanuel Jal - Warchild - Warchild Emmanuel Jal interview Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim - Nyambol - Ceasefire Emmanuel Jal - Stronger - Warchild Zap Mama - Zap Bebes - Ancestr Read more:World
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Monday's mp3: Women's Work 2008-05-12 21:25:00 My family had the usual Mother's Day gathering yesterday, and following our recent trend of culinary themes, we found ourselves awash in a vast array of salads. Previous years had seen menus entirely of sandwiches and, another year, all pies. It's my grandmother, the family's matriarch, who makes the choice, so we just crank up our creativity and it usually turns out well.As with culinary choices, Read more:Monday
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World Music Top 10 - May 2008 2008-05-14 12:39:00 SoundRoots / Spin The Globe Top 10 WorldMusic
Albums - May 20081. various artists: Rough Guide to Brazilian Street Party 2. DJ Dolores: 1 Real3. various artists: Bollywood Steel Guitar4. Firewater: The Golden Hour5. Toumast: Ishumar6. Sergio Mendes: Encanto7. Golem: Fresh Off Boat8. Etran Finatawa: Desert Crossroads9. Gamelan X: Sa
Tod A: the grumpy global griot 2008-05-15 10:43:00 CD REVIEWFirewater: The Golden Hour(Bloodshot Records) I love life -- even with the earthquakes, floods, and political turmoil. But that's not to say I can't appreciate a good escapist message, especially one delivered with the deep growly angst that Tod A pours into The Golden Hour's opening
Reem Kelani Meets the Buddhists? 2008-05-16 16:47:00 Spin The Globe playlist16 May 2008Today's show started with an interview with the delightful and articulate Palestinian singer Reem Kelani (listen at link below playlist), and progressed to music from the most Buddhist nations on the planet and some new releases.(artist - song - album)hour 1 Mynta - First Summer - First Summer Reem Kelani - A
SoundRoots Spring Cleaning 2008-05-17 10:17:00 Once again, a giant roundup of mp3s, links, and information from the great pile in the corner of the SoundRoots global headquarters. Like a cyber-garage-sale, but without all the unused exercise equipment. Best of all, it's all free (though you're welcome to drop something in the donation jar, if you feel inclined).Feel like dancing? Kuduro de Angola has some intriguing tracks (along with a rich v Read more:Spring
, Cleaning
Monday's mp3: Bigga Afrobeat 2008-05-20 14:41:00 Yes, yes... I know it's Tuesday. Please pardon me for being a day late this week, but I think you'll find this track worth the wait.Lion Head Recordings is the new label from veteran electronic dub producer Glyn “Bigga” Bush. Best known for his work with Rockers Hi Fi during the 1990s and since the turn of the century his solo albums for Sonar Kollektiv and Stereo Deluxe, Lion Head is to be t Read more:Monday
Playlist: World Music Top 10, May 2008 2008-05-24 10:45:00 Spin The Globe Playlist
23 May 2008This week's show featured selections from our favorite global releases for May 2008. You'll see them counted down at the top of the playlist, followed by other new releases, old favorites, and concert previews.Tune in to KAOS on Monday May 26 from 1-3pm when I'll be guest-hosting the show Sacred Sound and bringing a distinctly global vibe to that show's ethereal t Read more:World
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Monday's mp3: Memorial Day 2008-05-26 11:44:00 Today is Memorial
Day here in the USA -- a day (not, one would hope, the only day) on which we remember those who perished while in military service to the nation. It's a day fraught with mixed emotions during the ongoing Iraq war, which could become the longest and most expensive war in the country's history (4082 US military dead and more than $500 billion...and counting).This isn't the day for Read more:Memorial Day
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Honk if you love global music 2008-05-29 17:56:00 CD REVIEWThe LA Drivers Union Por Por Group: Por Por - Honk Horn Music of Ghana (Smithsonian Folkways) Both strange and wonderful, this CD is a survey of a most unusual style of music created by the LA Drivers Union of Accra, Ghana, using a vari
Serbia Meets Sudan 2008-05-31 00:46:00 Spin the Globe Playlist30 May 2008We paired up a couple of politically troublesome but musically rich locations this week, alternating music from Serbia
and Sudan
in the first hour of the show, and moving to new releases, faves, and concert previews in the second half.Congratulations to listener Faye from Olympia, USA for being the winner of the CD Brazen by Brass MenazeriArtist - Song - Album
Monday's mp3: Those Japanese Blues 2008-06-02 19:01:00 The Yoshida Brothers really are too young to be putting out a "best of" compilation, but that shouldn't stop you from checking out this album if you're not already familiar with the duo. Shamisen playing lads from Hokkaido, Kenich and Ryoichiro Yoshida are on the forefront of Japanese
fusion music, and their efforts collected here run the gamut from folk to blues to rock.The CD includes two previo Read more:Monday
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World Music Top 10, June 2008 2008-06-03 18:07:00 SoundRoots / Spin The Globe Top 10 WorldMusic
Albums - May 2008 1. Emmanuel Jal: Warchild 2. various artists: Bollywood Steel Guitar 3. Les Amazones de Guinee: Wamato4. Afrissippi: Alliance5. various artists: Rough Guide to Brazilian Street Party 6. various artis
World Music, Recorded Live 2008-06-06 17:02:00 World Music
Recorded Live - Spin The Globe playlist6 June 2008Artist - Song - Album hour 1 Oliver Mtukudzi - Hear Me Lord - Shanda Mynta - Rapatal - Mynta Live Tarika - Ady (live at WOMAD) - Tarika 10: Beasts, Ghosts & Dancing with History Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat - Mi Read more:World
K'naan, the dusty footed rapper 2008-06-05 20:03:00 CD REVIEWK'naan: The Dusty Foot on the Road (Wrasse) buy CD/hear samples K’naan raps so smoothly, you’d think he grew up deep in the heart of US hip hop culture. In truth, he hails from the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. And like Sudanese rapper Emmanuel Jal (about whom we've
Funky Lagos 2008-06-07 18:38:00 CD REVIEWvarious artists: Nigeria 70-Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat Highlife & Afro-Funk(Strut)buy CD/hear samples I don't know what's going on with Strut Records -- their .uk website is defunct and their new .com site is under Read more:Funky
Monday's mp3: Flamenco Chill 2008-06-09 19:07:00 CD REVIEWChambao: Con Otro Aire(Norte / Sony BMG)Con Otre Aire is the fourth album from the Spanish-rooted group Chambao – I can’t tell you too much about their evolution, as I’ve only heard this and their previous album, Pokito a Poko. That release was denser and more heavily produced Read more:Monday
, Chill
Playlist: World Music Top 10, June 2008 2008-06-13 19:40:00 Playlist for Spin The Globe on radio KAOS13 June 2008This week's show features highlights from our favorite new global CDs (for more info on the albums, check out the Spin The Globe charts).Artist - Song - Album hour 1 10-Francois Lindemann & Tewan - Sabai Dee Mai - Thai Read more:Playlist
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Monday's mp3: Fiery Fantasma 2008-06-16 19:09:00 Grupo Fantasma's fourth CD hits stores tomorrow, and it's a big burning ball of steamy fun. It's hot, I tell you! If you're from Austin, you already know about this 11-piece group, which calls itself a "Latin funk orchestra."They've certainly got the sound to support that -- Sonidos Gold begins with funky percussion and a wall of horns on "El Sabio Soy Yo" and only slows down a bit on the final Ry Read more:Monday
Music of the Caribbean + Kobo Town interview 2008-06-20 19:34:00 Playlist for Spin the Globe on radio KAOS20 June 2008For the summer solstice we took a Caribbean
vacation... one for your ears if not your body (archive link is below). We heard music from Cuba, Trinidad , Jamaica...plus an interview
with Drew Gonsalves of the band Kobo Town , and a Read more:Music
The Best Semi-Secret Festival on Earth 2008-06-19 18:16:00 My favorite secret festival has come and gone once again, leaving me with new cultural impressions, a bit of puzzlement, and a lot of music and laughter ringing in my ears.The organizers of the Seattle International Children’s Festival
aren’t trying to keep it a secret. In fact, they do a great job of spreading the word to area schools, which ship off shouting yellow busloads of kids, filling Read more:Earth
Pacifika Pop 2008-07-05 10:56:00 Pacifika: Asuncion (Six Degrees) buy CD/hear samples It’s not often that a new Latin alternative/pop band grows up among the towering Douglas firs of British Columbia. But Vancouver-based Pacifika isn’t letting their northern climate get in t
Zimbabwe Meets USA 2008-07-04 17:11:00 Playlist for Spin The Globe - 4 July 2008as heard on radio KAOS - 89.3 FMWe honored the coincidence of two cultural events -- USA Independence Day and the opening day of 2008's Zimfest -- by alternating music from Zimbabwe
and the US in the first hour, followed by more widely ranging tunes in hour 2. I was dearly hoping to play "The Flintstones Meet the President" by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band --
Zimfest! 2008-07-03 18:12:00 It's Zimfest time again! Tomorrow is the start of the annual three-day celebration of the music and dance of Zimbabwe. It all takes place at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. So get thee hence! Yes, it's troubled political/social times back in the African nation itself, but all the more reason to celebrate the positive culture from the nation in anticipation of getting things stra
Save the kitten! 2008-07-02 11:04:00 I hate to resort to threats, but it's come to this. SoundRoots has been receiving a record number of hits and downloads. At the end of June, we had to take some content offline because we'd hit our bandwidth ceiling. That pains us, because we're here to help spread the word about global culture, specifically new music that has crept into our hearts. And just reading about the music isn't fun, I kn
Borneo envy 2008-07-01 09:49:00 I've got it, after watching this video of my radio friends up at KEXP doing the island-native backup vocals for Firewater's "Borneo
" (about which and for free mp3, see earlier post).We here at SoundRoots global headquarters want to be backup singers. It's a little dream we have...is it really so much to ask?tags: worldmusic, borneo, firewater, kaos, kexp, video, youtube
Monday's mp3: The Veil of Niyaz 2008-06-30 16:49:00 Still struggling under an excessive bandwidth demand... which is a good thing, sort of. I'll address that shortly (in the meantime, visit the Tip Jar!), but for today here's something fabulous direct from Six Degrees Records. They've just released the latest from Niyaz, a group formed in 2005 by the trio of Azam Ali (Vas), Loga Tamin Torkian (Axiom of Choice), and Carmen Rizzo (R-New Mexico. No, Read more:Monday
Burning Through Bandwidth 2008-06-27 19:51:00 SoundRoots fans: Have you noticed that the mp3 links are disconnected? Turns out this month has set new hit records for SoundRoots, which is a great thing! But we've run out of bandwidth for the month, so those links will be inert until July 1. We'll get some other goodies posted in the meantime (hey -- time to catch up on some reviews!). Thanks for your patience. And if you wish to contribute for Read more:Burning
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Fela's Footprints 2008-06-27 16:52:00 Playlist for Spin The Globe - KAOS radio27 June 2008This week's show was prompted by the current tour of Seun Kuti, son of the great Afrobeat creator Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Well, one of his sons, from one of his many marriages. Since Seun's people have yet to send any of his music to SoundRoots/KAOS (hello! people!), we spun music from another son -- Femi -- as well as from musicians who inspired or Read more:Footprints
Monday's mp3: Swingin' with Sväng 2008-06-23 18:59:00 Sväng, their record label claims, "is a refreshing and uplifting new phenomenon in the genre of harmonica bands." Frankly, I was unaware that harmonica bands had earned their own genre. I'll leave that point to the experts. The point of this CD is to Read more:Monday
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