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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Electric Kulintang

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Electric Kulintang at WOMEX, Sevilla, Spain, Oct. 31, 2007. Photos: Carlos Mendes Pereira.

As Electric Kulintang (EK), multi-talented percussionists Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez explore Susie's Filipino roots. Kulintang is the name for a melodic/percussive tradition from the Philippines with some similarity to Indonesian gamelan. It's also the name of the multi-gong instrument used to play the music. EK's music re-imagines kulintang. It's experimental and electronic, but there are also strong connections to the roots.

On this show, Susie gives us some background on the tradition as well as how EK uses it as a springboard for something entirely new and original. And she and Roberto play a few short unplugged live improvs. We also hear a recorded excerpt from the yet-to-be-released piece War Horses, one of several collaborations EK has undertaken with poets. And we hear field recordings Susie and Roberto recently made in the far reaches of the Phillipines in conjunction with an ambitious work-in-progress: a film about an endangered indigenous eagle, and similarly endangered musical and cultural traditions in the Phillipines.

Electric Kulintang performs at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St. near Astor Place in lower Manhattan on Saturday Oct. 4, 7:30pm.

Many thanks to our illustrious engineer Bil Bowen.

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WANTED: Obama Songs in multi-culti styles for our pre-election show!

We are putting together as many world music and / or non-English Obama songs as possible for the last show before the election on Saturday, November 1 and for a special one hour program during WFMU's special election day webstream on election day, November 4.

If you have suggestions for songs to play or want to offer your own creation, original song or mash-up please email your host Rob Weisberg via this g-mail address: r.l.weisberg AT gmail DOT com.

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