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Famoro Diouabate – Podcast 13 Sep 16, 2011

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Famoro Dioubate is a master of the balafon from Guniea, West Africa. He performs live on the radio with Yacouba Cissoko on kora, Raul Rothblatt on cello and Sean Dixon on drums. We also hear him with his full ensemble Kakande. Famoro is djele, or griot, and his family have been an unbroken chain of musician/historians for almost 800 years.

David Rogers Quintet / Bernard Woma Podcast – 12 Sep 07, 2011

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A live set from the David Rogers and Kairos, an all-star band featuring Kenny Wessel, guitar; Sylvain Leroux, flutes, Matt Pavolka, Bass and Rob Garcia on Drums recorded a couple months ago at WKCR. Also a live recording from the Bernard Woma Ensemble on Jumbie Records. David Rogers is an artist who lived and studied in West Africa for many years and his music is deeply informed by those grooves and his jazz roots. Bernard Woma is a master of the gyil, the wooden xylophone of northern Ghana. He is the master drummer of the Ghana Dance Ensemble, Ghana's National Dance Company and keeps a busy schedule on 3 continents.

Arun Ramamurthy Quartet – Podcast 11 Aug 05, 2011

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This week on WKCR we had an exciting live performance from the Arun Ramamurthy Quartet who combine traditional Carnatic (South Indian) music with some Western instruments like the drum kit and the double bass. Arun Ramamurthy, violin; Perry Wortman, bass; Akshay Anantapadmanabhan, mridangam; Sameer Gupta, drums Arun performs Carnatic music at the Cornelia Street Cafe on the fourth Sunday of every month and there will be a festival of Carnatic music there from Aug 15-17. You can hear Sameer Gupta playing tabla with Srinivas Reddy on Sitar on podcast 3.

Thomas Mapfumo – The Lion of Zimbabwe – Podcast 10 Jul 25, 2011

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Thomas Mapfumo, of Zimbabwe, is a revolutionary musician in every sense of the word. Musically, his band was one of the first to experiment with combining the mbira (thumb piano) and electric guitars and he was the first to put his own lyrics to traditional Shona melodies. Politically, these songs became the anthems of the freedom fighters during White minority rule. When the revolution succeeded and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, he continued to be a gadfly. He questioned the integrity of Robert Mugabe and the current government. He now lives in exile and while immensely popular his music is banned in the country where he is most beloved.

Music From Samoa – Podcast 9 Jul 22, 2011

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A couple recordings I made with a mini-disc recorder in Independent Samoa in 2002 0r 2003. Every Samoan can sing, if you started to sing a song on a public bus everyone would join you. The houses have thatched roofs and walls of woven leaves that are folded up during the daytime so the breeze sweeps through. Here are some pics: the father and son are from the Falonga Bay village in Upolo, where I recorded the outstanding youth chours.

Oud Summit: Brandon Terzic’s Xalam Project and Negar Bouban – Podcast 8 Jul 07, 2011

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Brandon Terzic's Xalam Project and Negar Bouban This special show features an Oud Virtuoso from Tehran, Negar Bouban, and an Oud Virtuoso based in New York, Brandon Terzic. They met and played together for the first time live on the air for this show. Brandon also brought his amazing band, Xalam Project. Xalam's line-up that evening was Luke Notary and Matt Kilmer on Percussion, Matt Darriau on winds and sax, Ethan Mees on Bass and Brandon on the Oud.

Kojiro Umezaki- Shakuhachi – Live Performance and interview Jun 10, 2011

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Kojiro Umezaki - Shakuhachi- Live Performance and Interview This podcast features live performances and interview with Kojiro Umezaki, who plays the Japanese Zen instrument, the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute. While Kojiro performs the instrument traditionally, he is also experimenting with some new directions in music. Kojiro designs computer programs so that during performances the programs will generate sounds that react to his flute playing in the moment. We'll hear live performances with and without this technology and learn a lot about the history of this amazing instrument. Kojiro Umezaki performs regularly with the Grammy-nominated Silk Road Ensemble and has recorded on the Sony BMG, World Village, and Smithsonian Folkways labels.

The Source feat. Abdoulaye Diabate, Live Performance and interview with Sylvain Leroux May 31, 2011

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Live Performance from the Source featuring Abdoulaye Diabate, plus a demonstration of the fula flute and interview with the founder of the Source, Sylvain Leroux. This episode features a demonstration of one of the signature techniques of the Fula Flute by Sylvain Leroux and a live performance recorded at the Zinc Bar by Erik Gunderson and originally aired on WKCR when Sylvain was my guest. The lineup on the recording is Sylvain Leroux -Fula Flute, Western flutes and Saxophone Abdoulaye Diabate - Guitar and vocals Bailo Bah - Fula Flute Abdoulaye Alhassane - guitar Mamadou Ba - Bass Emi Yabuno - Keys Sean Dixon - Drums You can catch the Source the first Friday of the month and the Zinc Bar on 3rd street between Sullivan and Thomson in the West Village. Sylvain also has an exciting show coming up for the River to River festival on June 25 with his Fula Flute Ensemble.

Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, Live Performance and Interview- Podcast 4 May 23, 2011

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Live performance and interview from Adam Rudolph. Adam Rudolph is a master percussionist, pioneer of world music, and creative music visionary. He came to the radio station to celebrate the release of his new album Both/And by his group Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures with the Organic Orchestra Strings. He also was kind enough to share an exclusive perfomance recorded live by Moving Pictures at the Painted Bride in 2010. The line-up for the live performance featured here, and the new album is: Adam Rudolph - handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba) thumb piano, bata (itotele), mouth bow, percussion Ralph M. Jones - hulusi, bass clarinet, alto and c germanic flutes, soprano and tenor saxophones, bamboo trumpet, bamboo flutes Joseph Bowie - trombone, organic/electronics, vocal, harmonica, congas, bamboo trumpet, percussion Graham Haynes - cornet, flugelhorn, bamboo trumpet, percussion Brahim Fribgane - oud, cajon, bendir, tarija, percussion Kenny Wessel - electric and acoustic guitars, banjo Jerome Harris - acoustic bass guitar, slide guitar, vocal Matt Kilmer - frame drums, kanjira, bata (okonkolo), percussion Many thanks to Adam for sharing this amazing performance with us!

Srinivas Reddy and Sameer Gupta – Live! – Podcast 3 May 18, 2011

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This podcast is a beautiful live performance by Srinivas Reddy and Sameer Gupta when they came to the studio to celebrate the release of their album Hemant and Jog in December of '08. Sameer, who is great tabla player and jazz drummer, has recently released an amazing album on Motema called Namaskar. The lineup includes jazz musicians like pianist Mark Cary, who co-produced the album, and maestros of Indian Raga such as Pt. Anindo Chatterjee and Pt. Ramesh Mishra. Srini has been busy since then as well. He just published a book called The Giver of the Worn Garland: Krishnadevaraya's Amuktamalyada The work is a literary translation of a famous Telugu epic that poetically describes the devotional love of the ninth century South Indian mystic Antal. These are some heavy cats!

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