Back to Transpacific Sound Paradise Playlist index
Transpacific Sound Paradise Main Page:
http://www.wfmu.org/tsp
Contact Rob Weisberg by sending him e-mail.
View Rob Weisberg's profile
Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Richard Gehr on India's Saptak Festival of Hindustani Classical Music
Hear this show now:
Pop-up player!
|
Add or read comments
Music journalist Richard Gehr
- who writes for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice and many others, and is author of
I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists
- recently attended the Saptak
Festival, one of India's foremost Hindustani Classical Music
festivals. The Saptak Festival spotlights superstars as well as
emerging artists. Join us as Richard shares the music - with live
recordings from the festival - and the memories.
This Week's Playlist:
(* = new)
Novos Baianos:
Preta Pretinha
/ Acabou Chorare
/ Mr Bongo
(0:00:00 Pop-up)
Reissue; originally from 1972.
La Troba Kung-Fu: La Pregaria / Santa Alegria (0:09:44 Pop-up)
Bareto: El Impredictable / Impredictable / World Village (0:11:46 Pop-up)
Brushy One String: Destiny / Destiny / RiseUp Entertainment (0:12:33 Pop-up)
West Bridge Band: Papa / Kibera Esbera / Electric Cowbell Records (0:19:11 Pop-up)
Koo Nimo & Vishal Nagar: It Takes So Much Energy to Hate / Koo Nimo & Vishal Nagar (0:22:09 Pop-up)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: Live at Saptak Festival 2013 (0:37:48 Pop-up)
Pandit Jasraj: Live at Saptak Festival 2014 (0:47:23 Pop-up)
Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain: Live at Saptak Festival 2014 (0:59:37 Pop-up)
Begum Parween Sultana: Live at Saptak Festival 2014 (1:06:13 Pop-up)
Shahid Parvez: Live at Saptak Festival 2014 (1:17:21 Pop-up)
Kaushiki Chakraborty: Live at Saptak Festival 2015 (1:27:07 Pop-up)
Ravi Shankar: Raga Manj Khamaj / At the Woodstock Festival (1:40:11 Pop-up)
Anoushka Shankar: Raga Manj Khamaj (Celebration) / Home / Deutsche Grammophon (1:43:40 Pop-up)
Amit Trivedi, Sneha Khanwalkar: Keh Keh Lunga / Various Artists (Music by Piyush Mishra): Gangs of Wasseypur OST (1:56:15 Pop-up)
Piyush Mishra: Ik Bagal / Various Artists (Music by Piyush Mishra): Gangs of Wasseypur OST (2:01:51 Pop-up)
Silk Road Ensemble (Composition by Vijay Iyer): Playlist for an Extreme Occassion Part Five / Playlist for an Extreme Occassion / Sony Masterworks (2:08:00 Pop-up)
Blarvuster: Gorgamor the Giant Echo / Blarvuster / Tzadik (2:10:53 Pop-up)
The Sway Machinery:
My Beloved
/ You Will Love No One But Me
(2:17:40 Pop-up)
GIGs: Sun Feb 14: Barbes, 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn: Valentines Ball: Sway Machinery + Hearing Things + The Fraternal Order of the Society Blues: 9 pm; March 23 (Wed)
Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St:
A-Wa (pronounced Ay-wa) + Sway Machinery. 7:30 pm
Qwanqwa: Kemekem / Volume 2 / * (2:17:52 Pop-up)
Songhoy Blues:
Ai Tchere Bele
/ Music in Exile
(2:22:53 Pop-up)
GIG: April 14 (Thurs): Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St:
Songhoy Blues. 7 pm.
Rail Band: Jurukan / Buffet Hotel De La Gare Bamako (2:26:26 Pop-up)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo:
Shosholoza
/ Singing For Peace Around the World (Live)
(2:38:29 Pop-up)
GIG / TICKET GIVEAWAY: Feb 19 (Fri)
The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
A World Music Institute production. 8 pm. Email robw via the link on this page w/ TIX in the subject line to enter the drawing.
Pedrito Martinez:
Los Santos
(2:42:09 Pop-up)
GIG / TICKET GIVEAWAY: Feb 19 (Fri) Grammy Award-nominated Latin jazz band The Pedrito Martinez Group, Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, 9 pm. Email robw via the link on this page w/ TIX in the subject line to enter the drawing.
Maurice El Medioni and Roberto Rodriguez:
Ana Ouana
/ Descarga Oriental - The New York Sessions
/ Piranha
(2:49:18 Pop-up)
This track from the 2006 collaborative cd by Medioni and Rodriguez also appears on the 2014 compilation The Rough Guide to Arabic Jazz (World Music Network).
RSS feeds for Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg: Playlists feed | MP3 archives feed
Back to Transpacific Sound Paradise Playlist index