Sounds Imported 12/13/09

Hey world music fans. This week I played a bunch of tunes I found across the interweb world that I think you'll dig. We had some bollywood steel slide guitar, some taarab music from east Africa, some folk pop sung in Catalán, and some Bahian surf guitar. Here's the playlist:

Arrington De Dionyso|Tak Terbatas
Manel|En la que el Bernat se't troba
Manel|Dona estrangera
s. hazarasingh|chhedo na dekho na (from 'jigri dost' 1969)
s. hazarasingh|mast baharon ka (from 'farz' 1968)
kazi aniruddha|o haseena (from 'teesri manzil' 1966)
kazi aniruddha|main hoon pyar tera (from 'teesri manzil' 1966)
van shipley|chahe mujhe koi junglee kahe (from 'junglee' 1962)
Retrofoguetes | O Falso Turco
Retrofoguetes | Enmáscarado
Matano Juma | Dada
Zuhura Swaleh | Ya Zamani
Zein l'Abdin | Musiwe na Mshangao
Yasseen Mohamed | Ni Wewe
Matano Juma | Mpelekee Muhibu
Dariush Talai, Madjid Khaladj | Hekayat-2 (en Neyshabourak Et Nava)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba | Andra's Song
Miriam Makeba | Maria Fulo
Araci Cortes With Orch. Brunswick | Quero Sossego
Mosh Ben Ari | Eem Rak Na'iz

Check 'em all out here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dtd3em1mtm2

Let me know what you think and enjoy!

SOUNDS IMPORTED SHOW 12/6/09: Live Carnatic (South Indian Classical) Music Performance

This past Sunday we had a stellar performance from the amazing South Indian classical vocalist (and also UM audio engineering grad student) Krithika Rajagopal. Providing a stellar accompaniment for her on the Mridangam drum was her friend and fellow UM student Saheelan Sinnarajah. Here are the songs that they performed in order:

1) Chalamelara – Rangasamy Nattuvanar

2) Vathapi Ganapathium – Muthuswami Dikshitar

3) Deva Deva – Swathi Thirunal

4) Chalamelara – Tyagaraja

5) Nidhichala Sukhama – Tyagaraja

6) Telisi Rama – Tyagaraja

7) Shiva Shiva – Tyagaraja

8 ) Chinnan Chisu – Bharathi

9) Samayamidhe – Patnam Subramanya Iyer

10) Thillana – G. N. Balasubramanya

11) Jayathi Jayathi – Mayuram Vishwanaata Shaastri

You can download and listen to the whole performance here

Send any questions to soundsimported@wvum.org

-Taylor