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Transpacific
Sound Paradise
Transpacific Sound Paradise: Popular and
Unpopular Music from Around the World ("TSP" for short) with Rob
Weisberg airs Saturdays 6-9pm New York / NJ time on WFMU.
You can also listen to archived
programs any time. WFMU is an
independent, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 FM in the New
York Metropolitan area and 90.1 in New York's Hudson Valley, with live streams
and archives via http://www.wfmu.org/audiostream.shtml.
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To hear Transpacific
Sound Paradise any time – current
and past shows - and see playlists visit: http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Robw
Check out the TSP NYC-area world music concert calendar:
http://www.wfmu.org/world
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Our
Latest Special Archive:
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Saturday July 19: Andrea Kalima Zawose + Okello Kelo Sam + Robert Ajwang’: Music of East Africa.
Listen to the show, see the playlist, add a comment: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27982
A
rare visit by three East African traditional artists: Okello Kelo Sam is an
actor (he played a part in The Last King of Scotland), playwright and creative director
of the internationally-known Ndere Troupe. Robert Ajwang’ is a musician,
dancer, and choreographer from northern Tanzania. Andrea Kalima Zawose is an
adopted member of the legendary Zawose musical family, long associated with the
Bagamoyo College of Arts in Tanzania. His musical mentor was
the late great Hukwe Zawose. All
three are here to participate in East Africa Speaks, a series of free theatrical
performances and events at CUNY's Martin E Segal Theatre, 365 Fifth Avenue July
21-22. They'll stop by at the top of the show to demonstrate traditional
instruments rarely heard around here, and talk about the music and their work.
Info on the artists’ visit and the CUNY events: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/MESTC/programs/spring08/eti_east_africa_speaks.html
Special thanks to
Brooklyn's 651 Arts, co-producers of the CUNY events.
Okello Kelo Sam is
also director of Hope North Uganda, a residential refuge for former
child soldiers in northern Uganda (where fighting has raged for over two decades).
Learn more, get in touch, make a donation at http://hopenorth.org.
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Saturday July 26: Habib
Koite, guitarist / songwriter / bandleader from Bamako, Mali.
Gifted
Malian guitarist and songrwriter Habib Koite quietly has become one of the
best-selling artists in African music.
Koite, who tours extensively, returns to NYC Sunday August 3 at Prospect
Park bandshell in Park Slope as part of Celebrate Brooklyn’s annual all-day African music
festival. For Habib Koite tour dates worldwide see: http://www.contrejour.com/artists/habibkoite/index2.php?page=concerts or http://www.imnworld.com/IMN/tourdates/artist/14/0/,
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Saturday Aug 9: WFMU’s 50th Birthday: WFMU Radio Greats Weekend.
It’s
true, WFMU is officially middle-aged.
And to celebrate, many djs of yore will return to the airwaves from Aug
4 through Aug 10, especially on the Aug 8-10 weekend (see http://www.wfmu.org/upcoming for details). This week on TSP we join the party by
suspending (for the most part) our usual ‘world music’ quasi-format and letting
all hell break loose. Joining in
studio will be indie artist manager extraordinaire (Manage This!) and former
FMU dj / Program / Music Director David
Newgarden + musician / composer and former FMU dj Matthew
Ostrowski. And we’ll play
some memorable excerpts from the WFMU audio archives, especially from the
mid-80s to early-90s: DJ Fred
Frith, the Ex and Tom Cora broadcast live from the Knitting Factory in 1992,
and more…
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Saturday Aug 23: Field Recordings from Africa with the guys who recorded them, sonic
explorers Wills
Glasspiegel and
Drew Alt.
Wills
is a project manager at 651 Arts and a producer for Afropop
Worldwide, and he spent some time with David Byrne’s Luaka
Bop label, among other things. And in his college days at Yale, Drew used to lead Sonido Unidad, an Afro-Cuban jazz orchestra.