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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Tal National in Concert: Electrifying Rock and Roots from Niger

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Niger's roots rock powerhouse Tal National is a culturally diverse band, with members from Niger's Songhai, Fulani, Hausa, and Tuareg populations. The band transforms elements from all those traditions into high energy electric dance music, driven by hypnotic and cathartic guitar-led workouts. Tal National blew away audiences during its North American debut tour in 2013.

The band is back on tour in North America now supporting an excellent new LP, Zoy Zoy (FatCat Records) - with stops at at Pace University's Schimmel Center on Thursday April 2nd and at the Falcon in Marlboro, NY on Friday April 3rd. We get a taste of Tal National's awesome powers tonight with highlights from a rousing October 2013 show at the Mercury Lounge.

TICKET GIVEAWAYS TONIGHT!

To enter a drawing for a pair of tickets, email me, Rob W, here and please put "TIX" in the subject line. Please specify which show you're interested in (or if if both, indicate your order of preference). The deadline to enter is 11 pm (NYC time) tomorrow, Sunday March 29 2015. Winners will be notified by noon (NYC time), Monday, March 9 2015.

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We have two pairs of tickets available for each of these two great shows!

Tal National - the electrifying band from Niger whose live set we’re hearing on the show tonight - presented by Live Sounds at the Pace University Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce St. (near the Brooklyn Bridge) this Thursday April 2nd, 7:30 pm.

Ahmet Erdoğdular leads his annual Heart of the World Concert, in conjunction with his Ottoman Turkish music society Makam New York
at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center / Goodman House, 129 W 67th Street, Sunday April 12th, 7:30 pm.
Featuring: Turkish classical musicians Ahmet Erdoğdular Vocals, percussion; Yurdal Tokcan Oud; Omer Erdoğdular Ney; Pedram Khavarzamini Tombak; Goksel Baktagir, Kanun and Cretan traditional music great Ross Daly, Cretan Lyra, Tarhu.

To enter a drawing for a pair of tickets, email me, Rob W, here and please put "TIX" in the subject line. Please specify which show you're interested in (or if if both, indicate your order of preference). The deadline to enter is 11 pm (NYC time) tomorrow, Sunday March 29 2015. Winners will be notified by noon (NYC time), Monday, March 9 2015.

This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Don Cavalli: Gonna Love You / Temperamental (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Mercedes Peon: Deroran / Various Artists: Cantigas de Mulleres / Folmusica (0:04:34 Pop-up)

9Bach: Lliwiau (Colors) / Tincian / Real World / * (0:07:31 Pop-up)

Dom La Nena: La Nena Soy Yo / Soyo / Six Degrees / * (0:09:50 Pop-up)
GIG: March 31 (Tues) @ Subculture, 45 Bleecker St / and, she'll be a guest on Trouble's show on WFMU that morning.

Leila Gobi: Aichetma / Leila / Clermont / * (0:18:03 Pop-up)

Khaira Arby: La Liberte / Gossip / Clermont (0:24:09 Pop-up)

Mariam Hassan: Alu Ummi / Shouka / Nubenegra (0:30:33 Pop-up)

Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa: Lawah-Lawah / Mazal / World Village / * (0:35:06 Pop-up)

Bobo Rondelli e L'Orchestrino: Bimbo Sui Leone / A Famous Local Singer (0:40:55 Pop-up)

Sway Machinery: Longa / Purity and Danger / * (0:42:49 Pop-up)
GIG: April 1 (Wed) @ The Hive, 29 Cook St., Brooklyn: The Sway Machinery + Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality + El Imperio

Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra: Signs / Wendelu / Ubiquity / * (0:45:59 Pop-up)

Ajoyo: Chocot' / Ajoyo / Rope-a-Dope / * (0:50:12 Pop-up)

Benyoro: Boulkassoumbougou / Benyoro (0:57:45 Pop-up)
GIG: March 30 (Mon) @ Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn: Los Hacheros + Benyoro. 9 pm

Tal National: Live @ Mercury Lounge, October 20, 2013 (1:07:22 Pop-up)
GIGs: April 2 (Thurs) @ Pace University Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce St, 7:30 pm (see Ticket GIveaway on this page); also April 3 (Fri) @ The Falcon, 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro NY and April 4 (Sat) @ The Half Moon, 48 Front St., Hudson, NY

Tempte du Desert Group: Yarra (Hausa) / Various Artists: Folk Music of the Sahel / Sublime Frequencies / * (2:11:41 Pop-up)
Recorded by Hisham Mayet

Mdou Moctar: Chet Boghassa / Afelan / Sahel Sounds / * (2:14:48 Pop-up)

Kasai All Stars: The Ploughman / Beware the Festish / Crammed Discs (2:17:39 Pop-up)

Rev. Louis Overstreet: In the Morning (Holiness Dance) / Rev. Louis Overstreet with His Sons and the Congregation of St. Luke's Powerhouse Church of God in Christ / Arhoolie (2:26:03 Pop-up)
Recorded in December, 1962, Phoenix, Arizona

Jones Family Singers: Bones in the Valley / The Spirit Speaks (2:32:37 Pop-up)

The Supreme Jubilees: I am on the Lord's Side / It'll All Be Over / Light In The Attic / * (2:36:37 Pop-up)
Reissue from S&K Records, Seattle, 1980

The Relatives: Bad Trip / The Electric Word / Yep Roc (2:41:13 Pop-up)

Dengue Fever: Cardboard Castles / The Deepest Lake / Tuk Tuk / * (2:45:30 Pop-up)
GIGs: Chhom Nimol of Dengue Fever sings with Cambodian rockers at WFMU's Monty Hall on Tuesday night April 28th. And she'll do the same at City Winery for two shows on April 24th. The gigs are in conjunction with Film Forum, NY screenings of the film "Don't Think I've Forgotten" about the flowering of rock and roll in Cambodia in the late 60s and early 70s before the Khmer Rouge killed most of the artists.

Zakir Hussain: Nines Over Easy / Zakir Hussain and the Rhythm Experience (2:56:28 Pop-up)

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