Back to Transpacific Sound Paradise Playlist index
Contact Rob Weisberg by sending e-mail to Rob's Mail Page. WFMU main page: http://www.wfmu.org


Transpacific Sound Paradise

Saturday, August 11, 2001

Click here to hear this show starting Tuesday, August 14.

With the anniversary of Indian and Pakistani Independence from England coming up on August 15, this question came to mind: In Britain, a land where curry is the national dish, samosas and chicken tikka sandwiches are sold at every deli, and even the burger chains have served up McChicken Korma Nan sandwiches and Masala Burgers - who really was / is the colonizer and who the colonizee?

We decided to find out by letting Anglo-Anglo music (specifically, British folk-rock and neo-traditional music (Sandy Denny, Martin Carthy and their ilk) go head to head with Anglo-Asian music (Anglo-Asian electronica and rock, bhangra, and the work of self-styled artists like Sheila Chandra and Nitin Sawhney).

My partner Katie Gentile, violinist for the New York-based indie rock band Special Pillow selected the British folk material and I (Rob Weisberg) selected the Anglo-Asian tracks.

The show opens with a song in honor of the recently murdered champion of India's Untouchables, Phoolan Devi, featuring vocals by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; followed by several Anglo-Asian remixes of the work of Nusrat, who passed away on August 17, 1997. And we broke concept at the end to play an unreleased track by Special Pillow and Jaan Pehchaan Ho, the Hindi film song currently featured (with the astounding Elvis-esque visuals Gumnaam) in the American film Ghost World.

This Week's Playlist


Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Passion / Bandit Queen Soundtrack / Milan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan remixed by State of Bengal: Shadow / Star Rise / Real World

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan remixed by Bally Sagoo: Kinna Sonha / Big Noise / Hannibal

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan remixed by Dhol Foundation and Fun Da Mental: Nothing Without You + Tere Bina / Star Rise / Real World

Sheila Chandra: Lament of Macrimmon / Song of the Banshee / Roots and Wings / Narada

Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick: Reynardine / Prince Heather / Topic

Waterson / Carthy (featuring Eliza Carthy vocal): Maid Lamenting / Common Tongue / Topic

Sandy Denny: The Lowlands of Holland / BBC Sessions

Sandy Denny: It Suits Me / BBC Sessions

Nitin Sawhney: Herencia Latino / Displacing the Priest / Outcaste

Davey Graham & Shirley Collins: Rif Mountain / Folk Routes, New Routes / Topic

Bert Jansch: Needle of Death / The Complete Anthology / Castle

Incredible String Band: Maybe Someday / Incredible String Band / Hannibal

Bombay Talkie: Saunfia Dupatta

Bollywood Brass Band: Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha / Bollywood Brass Band / Emergency Exit Arts

Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band: Murder of Maria Marten / No Roses / Antilles

Asian Dub Foundation: Riddim I Like / Community Music / Virgin

Mike Heron: Call Me Diamond / Smiling Men with Bad Reputations / Island

Ananda Shankar and State of Bengal: Jungle Symphony / Walking On / Real World

Special Pillow: Poison Apples / unreleased track

Mohammed Rafi: Jaan Pehchaan Ho / Various Artists: Ghost World soundtrack / Shanachie


Back to Transpacific Sound Paradise Playlist index

Contact Rob Weisberg by sending e-mail to Rob's Mail Page. WFMU main page: http://www.wfmu.org