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Today's World Music playlist

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TURKEY I
UNESCO: A Musical Anthology of the Orient
Music of the Mevlevi

Barenreiter-Musicaphon
 
Mom was born in Frankfurt but moved 100km south (with grandma) when we started bombing the piss out of them.

The Schoemner clan got here a little earlier. Bavarian Anabaptists, chased up the Rhine by the Roman Catholics, who then passed the torch to the Lutterans who, by the flicker of fires, encouraged my forebear's passage (what was left of them) to Amerigo's Place.

Then they found the promised land for Bavarian Anabaptists... Texas.
 
Then they found the promised land for Bavarian Anabaptists... Texas.

Hah! Grandma moved to Texas in '47 after marrying an American serviceman. There weren't any german men left between the ages of 20-30 so I can't blame her. Well, except for the Texas part.
 
'Splain please. Turkey=Orient?

Remember the "Orient Express" from Vienna to Istanbul? Instanbul is considered classically to be beginning of the Orient, from a very Euro-centric worldview (who invented the word "Orient").
 
I always thought of Constantinople (Istanbul) as the gateway to the Orient due to its unique location. I guess I never thought of it as part of the Orient.

What's the record sound like? What we'd consider Turkish or more East Asian?
 
What's the record sound like? What we'd consider Turkish or more East Asian?

Turkish, but a definite sub-set. In some ways, probably closer to the time Istanbul was known as Constantinople. The image on the front is of twirling male dancers with knives in their waistbands. They are what became known in the West as "Whirling Dervishes". Cool schit.
 
Here's something that's a little different. Box set of traditional flamenco recorded in Spain in 1958 on Hispavox. Comes with a huge booklet that explains the nuances of how each Cante was put together. Virtually unplayed and found on a back bookshelf of a thrift store dusty and unloved.

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Antologia Del Cante Flamenco
Hispavox 1958
 
I got turned on to The Silk Road Project today, and listened to the 1st CD of A Musical Caravan this morning as I'm home sick from work, probably for the rest of the week. CD 2 will probalby be played tomorrow morning.

"The Silk Road Project fosters cultural exchange by uniting artists from Asia, the Middle East and the West in creative collaborations, the fruits of which are presented to audiences around the world."

I guess that qualifies it as "World Music." Yo-Yo Ma is part of the ensamble. I dug it.
 
From France (the good part... away from Paris).

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MUSIQUES TRADITIONELLES DU LIMOUSIN
Lo Jai

Revolum
 
From the Congo.

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SONGS OF THE CONGO
including Missa Luba (a Congolese-style Latin Mass)
The Troubodors of King Baudovin

Epic
 
Going through the pile of vinyl Ballylongford gave me I found a very nice copy of...

Olatunji! - Drums of Passion

Not all the stuff coming out of Nigeria is bogus. Good stuff!
 
Greetings. I opened a World Music thread recently only because I hadn't seen this one. Pardon.

Habib Koite- Afriki (Cumbancha). Sweet, soulful music in any language.

D'Gary, Brian Gore, Miguel de la Bastide, Clive Carroll- International Guitar Night II (Pacific Music). Exceptional music. Exceptional recording.
 
Late Junction
13 March 2008
Listen to this episode for up to 7 days after broadcast

Thursday 13 March 2008 23:15-1:00 (BBC Radio 3)

Fiona Talkington presents a varied musical mix, with new albums from the Dowland Project and ice-instrument maker Terje Isungset, plus Steve Reich, Robert Parsons and El Tanbura.
Duration:

1 hour 45 minutes

Playlist

Thursday 13 March

11:15
Brozman: Tagore Street Blues
Bob Brozman; Debashish Bhattacharya
Taken from the album Mahima
Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCD1029

11:19
Trad: O Rosa
The Dowland Project
Dowland Project
Taken from the album Romaria
ECM New Series 476 5780

11:24
Stephen Montague: Tigida Pipa
Backbeat Percussion Quartet
Taken from the album Switchback

11:35
Robert Parsons: Magnificat
Voces Cantabiles/Barnaby Smith
Taken from the album First Great Service
Naxos 8.570451

11:50
Stanko: Balladyna
Marcin Wasileski Trio
Taken from the album January
ECM 1737345

11:56
Ane Brun: To let myself go
Ane Brun
Taken from the album A Temporary Dive
Determin/V2 DEMCD 03 VVR1031192

12:00
Trad, Arr. Munir Bashir: Ishtar
Munir Bashir and Omar Bashir
Taken from the album Duo de 'ud
Auvidis Ethnic B 6874

12:13
Zakaria Ibrahim: Between the desert and the sea
El Tanbura
Taken from the album Between the Desert and the Sea
World Village/Harmonia mundi 450002

12:16
Reich: Desert Music -Third Movement (Part One)
Steve Reich and Musicians; Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic/Chorus;
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
Taken from the album The Desert Music
Nonesuch 791012

12:24
Purcell, Arr. Brun: Laid in Earth
Ane Brun
Taken from the album A Temporary Dive
Determin/V2 DEMCD 03 VVR1031192

12:28
Alperin: Via Dolorosa
Misha Alperin (piano); Arkady Shilkloper (horn); Anja Lechner (cello)
Taken from the album Her First Dance
ECM 171 6742

12:35
Arr. Aga: Abatatchen Hoy (Pater Noster)
Alemu Aga
Taken from the compilation Ethiopiques
Manteca Mantdecd215

12:40
Bhattacharya: Lullabai
Debashish Bhattacharya and Bob Borzman
Taken from the album Mahima
Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCD1029

12:44
Isunget: Ice talks
Terje Isungset
Taken from the album Ice Concerts
All Ice Records ALLICE0804

12:47
Ante Mikkel Gaup: Cahclottas
Terje Isungset; Sara Marielle Gaup Joik
Taken from the album Ice Concerts
All Ice Records ALLICE0804

12:51
Marcus Paus: Vond dag
Terje Isungset, Silvia Moi; Jon Halvor Bjornseth
Taken from the album Ice Concerts
All Ice Records ALLICE0804

12:55
Ante Mikkel Gaup: Duottarjogas
Terje Isungset, Silvia Moi
Taken from the album Ice Concerts
All Ice Records ALLICE0804
 
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