Friday, November 20, 2009

Sounds Imported! 11/15: Greece

This past sunday I played a bunch of awesome music from Greece. I don't have the exact playlist, but some of the CD's I played music from were:





You can check out some of that here: http://www.mediafire.com/?zwywmwm3j2n

I also played some awesome tracks from a 1972 National Geographic vinyl record called simply "The Music of Greece" which you can check out here.


In addition to that I played some tracks from vinyl from 1968 called "Bouzoukee: The Music of Greece" led by Bouzoukee player Iordanis Tsomidis , Speros Kapos on baklama, George Karathanasis on accordion, Alex Panos on Guitar, Haralambas Papafogos and a bass player named James Bond! Check it!


Well that's about all the World Music I can handle for now. Be sure to check out my show streaming live this sunday from 6:30-8PM  on 90.5FM in Miami,  wvum.org and right here.
DIG!
-Taylor

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Ghulam Ali


My awesome roommate found this tape by Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali at a local thrift shop here in Miami. Ghulam Ali is an amazing singer of classical Hindustani music and he is usually performing on vocals and harmonium, along with violin, sitar, and tablas players to accompany him. Here's the tape:

http://www.mediafire.com/?zfwmzojrdwi 


Here's a video of him performing in a rather formal concert that's no less impassioned than any of the recordings:

Hope you all enjoy it!
-TS

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Just found this awesome live video of the amazing Moroccan traditional music group Nass El Ghiwane performing a song called "Essiniya"
check it out:



Also if you don't already have one, sign up for livejournal.com for one reason only:
their fm worldbeat community. If you're a livejournal member (no money involved here it's free to sign up) you can join the group and check out the hundreds of amazing world music albums they post to that group. I've come across so much good/strange/beautiful music from that group that I've eventually used on my radio show, so I highly recommend it! Right now they've got 16 albums of Native American music, A Buddha Bar compilation, a Swedish band called Diablo Swing Orchestra that puts their genre as "Avant-garde/symphonic/operatic metal" and that's just the first 3!
Check it!:
http://community.livejournal.com/fmworldbeat/?skip=20

On that community blog I found that amazon.com has a bunch of free world music MP3's up. Just go to amazon.com and type in "free world music mp3" in the search bar and you'll find them. Pretty awesome stuff. A bunch from Putumayo and some other world compilations.

I stumbled across this Indian music site dishant.com that has all different styles of Indian music categorized by region and style which can give you a pretty good overview of the vast range of music that enormous country has to offer. The mp3 streams are not the highest quality, but what they lack in quality, they at least compensate for in the huge quantity of music available. If you sign up for the site (also free) you can save playlists (called PCDs) and go back and listen to your favorite tracks whenever you want.

That's all I've got for now, time to go play some avant-garde jazz!

-TIS

Sunday, November 8, 2009

SOUNDS IMPORTED NOV 8


Hey kids, Today I played a bunch of music from Haiti and various other French speaking and otherwise awesome music filled nations. I did have some sweet vinyls that I was going to play, but the WVUM studio is pretty lax on fixing their turntable. I will be transferring some of those vinyl tracks to my computer so you guys can check em out. That's all for now!
6:34 PM Antoine Dougbè Et Black Santiago | Dou Dagbe Wé
6:38 Ti Band L’avenir | Mizisyen
6:47 Magnum Band | Libete
6:54 Ralph Thamar | Mi Se La
7:00 Ti Band L’avenir | Ti Band L’avenir / Panamam Tombe
7:03 Ensemble L’avenir | Ensemble L’avenir / Ti Zwazo
7:08 SÈ Kool | Pa Dèkourajè
7:13 Carimi | Ayiti (Bang Bang)
7:18 Sakad | Rebati Kay-La (Rebuild The House)
7:22 Ti Band L’avenir | Haiti Chèrie
7:31 Haiti Twoubadou | Ki Demon Sa-A
7:37 DP Express | E E E E
7:44 Kassav’ | RÈtÈ (Live Version)
7:48 Egschiglen – Elstiin Ganga
7:51 Alan Raghallaigh | The rocks of bawn
7:53 Staff Benda Billi | Sala Keba
7:56 Los Destellos | Valicha
7:59 Ghulam Ali | Aek to Chehra aesa ho


Let me know what you think!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

SOUNDS IMPORTED NOV 1st:

Oi amigos do blogspot!
I played some beautiful fado music, some indian slide guitar, and lots of other good ones on SOUNDS IMPORTED! sunday. Here's the playlist:


Artist Name
Mariza - Por Ti!
Mariza - Loucura
Cristina Branco - Ai Vida
Mafalda Arnauth - Talvez Se Chame Saudade
Amália Rodrigues - Primavera
Debashish Bhattacharya - Gypsy Anandi
Debashish Bhattacharya - Maya
Gilberto Gil - Domingo no Parque (feat. Os Mutantes)
The Caribbeanas - Melody De Amour
Lord Christo - Tantie Earnestine
Anon - Unknown –from the Cambodian Cassette Archives Khmer Folk & Pop music
Paco De Lucía & Raphael Canizares - Los Gitanos
Ayub Ogada - Dala (Album)
Agepê - Ela Não Gosta De Mim
Cristina Branco - Meu Amor é Marinheiro
Sabicas - Danza árabe - Damasco
Traditional Music Of Peru 4 - 300 Pounds Of Gold
Lars Hollmer - Prozesscrik
Dungen - Panda
Eskorbuto - Ratas en Biskaia
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabate - Kaira

Check it out here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/qqnjj3zyj1n/FADO&MORE.zip

Also found this sweet blog:

http://afrofunkforum.blogspot.com/

And this awesome distro company that has tons of world music from various different labels:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/index.html


That's all for this week kids. I'll try to keep on top of keeping this thang updated. Be sure to check out my next show on sunday from 6:30-8PM on 90.5FM in Miami and online at wvum.org!

Much Love,

Taylor