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Saturday, November 7, 2015
Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert - Monty Hall Movie Preview

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We're screening something fun and a bit different at the next Monty Hall movie night a week from Saturday: The first ever Tuareg-language rock-u-drama! Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai - or Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert - is a collaboration between first-time filmmaker Christopher Kirkley and the standout artist on Kirkley's Sahel Sounds record label, guitarist and singer Mdou Moctar.

The movie stars Moctar as an aspiring guitar hero overcoming family pressures, a jealous and underhanded competitor, and romantic challenges. Kinda like, well, Purple Rain and other classic music-driven feature films - but shot in the desert city of Agadez, Niger and chock-full of spellbinding psychedelic Sahel guitar music! Akounak is showing one time only, Saturday night November 14th at 8 at WFMU's Monty Hall.

We'll chat with Kirkley and spotlight Mdou Moctar's amazing music on tonight's show.

European listeners - Mdou Moctar is on tour in Europe right now, through the end of November - France & UK + dates in Amsterdam and Istanbul still to come - info at http://sahelsounds.com/2015/10/mdou-moctar-fall-tour-2015/.

This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Joe Cuba: Psychedelic Baby (0:00:00 Pop-up)

The Clarendonians: Be Bop Boy (0:04:22 Pop-up)

Wailers: Jailhouse / The Wailing Wailers At Studio One / Heartbeat (0:05:36 Pop-up)

Nicolás Falcoff y la insurgencia del Caracol: Ya se Mira / Germina / * (0:10:46 Pop-up)

El Polen: Mi Cueva / Fuera de la Ciudad (0:13:38 Pop-up)

Flor Pucarina: Sola Siempre Sola / Sola Siempre Sola (0:18:02 Pop-up)

Orquesta Huanca: Capricho del 64 / Various Artists: Huayno Music of Peru Volume 2 / Arhoolie (0:20:49 Pop-up)

Empresarios: No Vamos a Parar / The Vibes / * (0:25:57 Pop-up)

Locos Por Juana: Mueve Mueve / Caribe / * (0:29:09 Pop-up)

Conjunto Barbacoa: Calambre / Various Artists: Diablos Del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1975-1985 / Analog Africa (0:32:29 Pop-up)

Fruko y Sus Tesos: Cachumbembe / Various Artists: Big Box of Afrosound (7" Box Set) / Vampisoul / * (0:37:06 Pop-up)

Grupo Fantasma: Problemas / Problemas / Blue Corn Music / * (0:41:27 Pop-up)

Dieuf-Dieul De Thiès: Rumba Para Parejas / Aw Sa Yone Vol. 2 / Teranga Beat / * (0:46:05 Pop-up)

Miria - Union Malian des Aveugles: Farinya Manji / Various Artists: Lost in Mali / Riverboat / * (0:54:06 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Tahoultine / 7" / Sahel Sounds (1:03:21 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Tahoultine / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST / Sahel Sounds / * (1:08:07 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Chimoumounin / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST / Sahel Sounds / * (1:12:59 Pop-up)

Christopher Kirkley, Mdou Moctar: Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai - clip montage (radio show + film open) (1:22:40 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Sibidoul / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST / * (1:34:22 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Adounia / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST / * (1:45:27 Pop-up)

Fatou Seidi Ghali: Song 1 / From Sahel Sounds blog (1:57:45 Pop-up)
Fatou has a split single coming out soon on the Sahel Sounds label.

Mdou Moctar: Iblis Amghar / Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai OST (2:02:30 Pop-up)

Mariem Hassan y Vadiya Mint El Hanevi: Aichetu / Mariem Hassan y Vadiya Mint El Hanevi / Nube Negra / * (2:09:12 Pop-up)

Noura Mint Seymali: El Madi / Tzenni / Glitter Beat (2:12:47 Pop-up)

Baba Zula: Babasiz Kizlar Balosu / Üç Oyundan Onyedi Müzik (Seventeen Pieces From Three Plays) / Doublemoon (2:16:02 Pop-up)
GIG: Tonight at midnight at Drom, 85 Ave A, East Village

Du-Sems Ensemble: Entarisi Damgali / Music From Turkey and Greece / Arc Music / * (2:19:17 Pop-up)

Monsieur Doumani: That's What the Kitten Wants / Sikoses / * (2:22:32 Pop-up)

Raya Brass Band: Dren Gajda / RAYA / * (2:26:17 Pop-up)
GIG: Sat Nov 14 @ Littlefield, Brooklyn, w/ West Philadelphia Orchestra

Haïdouti Orkestar: Bint el Chalabiya / Dogu (2:30:26 Pop-up)

Ljiljana Buttler and Mostar Sevdah Reunion: Niska Banja / Mother Of Gypsy Soul / Snail (2:34:22 Pop-up)

Black Masala: Bhangra Ramo / I Love You Madly / * (2:44:05 Pop-up)
GIG: Sat Nov 14 at Mehanata at 113 Ludlow St., Lower East Side

Efren Lopez: Kurtoglu / El Fill del Llop / Buda Musique (2:50:01 Pop-up)

Ponk: Sibenicky / Postfolklor / Indies / * (2:56:04 Pop-up)

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