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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, July 18, 2015
El Habib Louai sings Alan Ginsberg and Amiri Baraka in Arabic, plus lots more

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Moroccan Berber poet, scholar, translator and teacher El Habib Louai was inspired to write by the Beat Poets, who famously were inspired by travels to his home country. His love is not unrequited: Habib recently won a scholarship to the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - which was founded by Beat Poets Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima and kindred spirit John Cage.

El Habib Louai's work includes translating poetry from English into the Berber language of his home region in southern Morocco, as well as into Classical Arabic. He joins us along with a couple of musical fellow travelers for Arabic-language musical interpretations of poems by Ginsberg and Amiri Baraka as well as Berber sung-poetry and lots more.

This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

King Creosote: 678 / KC Rules OK (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Trembling Bells: Richie's Story / Various Artists: Shirley Inspired / Earth / * (0:06:32 Pop-up)
Shirley Collins Tribute

Illka Heinonen Trio: Erikonig / Savu / Rockadillo Records / * (0:11:39 Pop-up)

Violons Barbares: Saturday Yurt Fever / Saulem Ai / World Village (0:16:54 Pop-up)

Vishten: Coeur en Mer / Terre Rouge / Productions Takashoun / * (0:25:41 Pop-up)

Newpoli: Pizzicarella / Tempo Antico / Beartones (0:29:01 Pop-up)

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: Rirollalla / Quaranta (40) / Ponderosa Music & Art / * (0:35:13 Pop-up)

Ludovico Einaudi: Core Meu / Taranta Project / Ponderosa Music & Art / * (0:40:14 Pop-up)

Toto la Momposina: Dame la Mano Juancho / Tambolero / Real World / * (0:48:50 Pop-up)
This is a collection of unreleased tracks from the 1991-92 Real World studio sessions that were used on her breakout album La Candela Viva.

Nation Beat with Cha Wa: Vou Cantar Esse Coco (guest vocals: Silverio Pessoa) / Carnival Caravan / * (0:53:37 Pop-up)
GIGs: July 31 (Fri) Littlefield, 622 DeGraw St. Gowanus, Brooklyn: Nation Beat’s Carnival Caravan feat. Cha Wa + Aug 2 (Sun) Central Park Summerstage, Rumsey Playfield, 72 St. (mid-park): Nação Zumbi + Nation Beat’s Carnival Caravan feat. Cha Wa + DJ sets by Vinil Pompéia. Nation Beat and Cha Wa have more area gigs too - see http://www.wfmu.org/world for more listings

El Habib Louai and Friends: The Sigh of the Nay (Poem by Rumi) - Live on WFMU (1:10:58 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: Talouine (Live on WFMU) (1:19:00 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: Somebody Blew Up America (Amiri Baraka poem) excerpts, in classical Arabic - Live on WFMU (1:22:37 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: Gnawa Improvisation - Live on WFMU) (1:28:56 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: America (Alan Ginsberg poem) excerpts, in classical Arabic - Live on WFMU (1:34:32 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: Amazigh (Berber) Poem "Free Bird" - Live on WFMU (1:46:29 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: Simon's Song about doing your own thing - Live on WFMU (1:51:02 Pop-up)

El Habib Louai and Friends: We Are the Same (Simon's song) - Live on WFMU (2:01:05 Pop-up)

Eva Sola y Nadia Szachniuk: En Otro Poder / Vidala / Universidad de Congreso (2:06:16 Pop-up)

Nadka Karadjova: Young Brides and Maidens Have Started - a song connected with the dark years of the Ottoman yoke / A Lambkin Has Commenced Bleating / Balkanton, licensed to FMS UK (2:09:25 Pop-up)

Torupilli Jussi Trio: Moose Hunting Song (from Maks Kerson) (2:11:47 Pop-up)

Alim Qasimov: Nazil Yar / Azerbaidjan / Ocora (2:15:37 Pop-up)

Toenpa Kyap, Tsering Lodoe: Homage to the Lama (Amdo Folk Song) / Various Artists (Musicians from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts & Nechung Monastery) - Men of Dharamsala / Yarlung / * (2:17:43 Pop-up)

Toni Iordache: Cântec de Ascultare Si Breaza / Sounds From a Bygone Age, Volume 4 / Asphalt Tango / * (2:20:46 Pop-up)

Gaby Lunca with Toni Iordache: Omul Bun N-are Noroc / Sounds From a Bygone Age, Volume 4 / Asphalt Tango (2:23:23 Pop-up)

Willie Payne & the Starlite Tempos: Wa Sise / Various Artists: Highlife on the Move: Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 / Soundway / * (2:26:42 Pop-up)
Temp pronouncer: WAH shee-SHEH

Fela Ransome-Kuti and his Koola Lobitos: Nigerian Independence / Various Artists: Highlife on the Move: Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 / Soundway / * (2:29:17 Pop-up)

Bostich + Fussible: El Coyote / Motel Baja / Nacional (2:49:08 Pop-up)
GIG: July 23 (Thurs) Lincoln Center Damrosch Park Bandshell, Amsterdam Ave. and W. 62 St: Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors free concert: Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible With special guest Wolfgang Flür/MusikSoldat (ex-Kraftwerk) + Jungle Fire 7:30 pm

The Dolomites: Kusuri Rhumba / The Japan Years, Volume 1 / Alien Arts Alliance / * (2:51:26 Pop-up)
GIG: Wed July 22: Bryant Park, 40-42nd St. between 5th and 6th Avenues: Accordions Around the World, weekly series Wednesdays in July and August, 6-8 pm, free admission. http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/accordion.html Take a cross-cultural musical journey - from France to Colombia, from the Balkans to Louisiana, from Cumbia to Jazz, and more - with accordions, harmoniums, concertinas, and bandoneons. Accordionists will be playing all around the park. This week featuring: Eva Salina - Balkan Albert Behar - Gypsy Jazz + Waltz Musette Mary Spencer Knapp - American Soul + Pop Peter Flint - American Jazz + Classical Julian Hintz - American Rock Mario Tacca - French Musette + Waltz Niall O'Leary - Irish Livia Mattos - Brazilian Gregorio Uribe - Colombian Cumbia + Vallenato The Dolomites - Japanese + Romanian

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