To be added to the TSP email list for notification of
upcoming special guests, Barbes remotes and other show-related news send an
email to Rob, ROBW AT WFMU.ORG or by clicking HERE, and please include the word LIST in the subject line.
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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 musicians: Okello Kelo Sam is
creative director of Uganda's internationally-known Ndere Troupe and he's also a playwright. Robert
Ajwang’ is a musician, dancer, and choreographer from northern Tanzania. Andrea
Kalima Zawose comes from the legendary Zawose musical family, long associated
with the Bagamoyo College of Arts in Tanzania. His musical mentor was
his uncle, 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.
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Coming
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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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Date TBA (August or early September): A visit with members of 17
Hippies, the defiantly acoustic band from techno-mad Berlin that
was drawn to the music of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin
wall. Rock Family Tree note:
Founding / current bandmember Lutz Ulbrich and sometime collaborator Harald
Grosskopf are members of the legendary Krautrock band Ash
Ra Tempel.
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Date TBA:
Guest DJ: Producer / writer / ethnomusicologist-in-training and Rough Guides
anthologist Nili Belkind presents a wide-ranging look at the music of Israel which
is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its independence. Possible musical guest TBA.
Date TBA: San Francisco’s creative
geniuses Charming Hostess – Jewlia Eisenberg and Jason Ditzian
for ths session – perform music from the Bowls
Project: Music to the texts of ancient Babylonian incantation
bowls.
Date TBA:
A visit with brilliant Colombian vocal stylist and innovative collaborator Lucia
Pulido.
Date TBA: New faces and new acquaintances from Norway: Unni Lovlid, Karl Seglem and