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Saturday, May 14, 2016
Spring Mix

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TICKET GIVEAWAY TONIGHT!

DakhaBrakha ’s live soundtrack performance with the silent film Earth, Saturday night at Pace Schimmel Center.

We have two pairs of tickets available to see Ukraine’s theatric, dynamic, one-of-a-kind freeform-folk phenomenon DakhaBrakha perform a live film score to the silent film Earth at Pace University Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce St in lower Manhattan on Saturday May 21st at 7:30 pm.

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To get in the running for a pair of tickets: Email me, Rob W, here and please put the word "TIX" in the subject line. The deadline to enter is Sunday night at midnight; winners will be notified on Monday.

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DakhaBrakha will also be performing (in concert, without film) on Friday Night (May 20th) at 7:30 at the same venue, Pace University Schimmel Center.

Both events are presented by one of New York’s finest world music presenters, Live Sounds; info on both events at http://livesounds.org

More about Saturday’s screening and performance, and DakhaBrakha:

DakhaBrakha will perform their original score to a screening of the classic 1930 pre-Stalin silent film Earth (Zemliya) by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, considered to be one of the most important films and filmmakers of the Soviet era. The lyrical and poetic film depicts the lives of Ukrainian farmers with intense close-ups and impressive expanses of the landscape and is a passionate tribute to the land, nature and to the people that work it.

DakhaBrakha is a playful band from Kiev that researches and then reshapes ancient and contemporary Ukrainian music and theatre, creating an unexpected range of sounds in concert that are at once riotous and mesmerizing. eflecting fundamental elements of sound and soul, Ukrainian “ethnic chaos” band DakhaBrakha create a world of unexpected new music.

The name DakhaBrakha is original, outstanding and authentic at the same time. It means “give/take” in the old Ukrainian language.

DakhaBrakha was created in 2004 at the Kyiv Center of Contemporary Art “DAKH” by the avant-garde theatre director – Vladyslav Troitskyi. Theatre work has left its mark on the band performances – their shows have never been staged without the scenic effects. Having experimented with Ukrainian folk music, the band has added rhythms of the surrounding world into their music, thus creating bright, unique and unforgettable image of DakhaBrakha. It will help to open up the potential of Ukrainian melodies and to bring it to the hearts and consciousness of the younger generation in Ukraine and the rest of the world as well. Accompanied by Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian traditional instrumentation, the quartet’s astonishingly powerful and uncompromising vocal range creates a trans-national sound rooted in Ukrainian culture

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To get in the running for a pair of tickets: Email me, Rob W, here and please put the word "TIX" in the subject line. The deadline to enter is Sunday night at midnight; winners will be notified on Monday.

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This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Oumar Konate: Alada / Maya Maya / Clermont / * (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Tamikrest: Fassous Tarahnet / Taksera / Glitterbeat (0:05:25 Pop-up)

Imarhan: Imarhan / Imarhan / City Slang (0:10:09 Pop-up)
Touring Western Europe this summer - based on recent experience (in NY), this is a band worth seeing!

Mamadou Kelly: Ne Parles Tous Que Tu Voice / Djamila / Clermont (0:19:00 Pop-up)
GIGs: July 27 (Wed) at Joe’s Pub; Aug 10 (Wed) at Union Pool, Brooklyn

Baba Commandant & the Mandingo Band: Waso / Juguya / Sublime Frequencies (0:22:58 Pop-up)

Pierre Sandwidi: Yamb Ney Capitale / Various Artists: Voltaique Panoramique, Volume 1: Popular Music in Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978 / Kindred Spirits / * (0:32:20 Pop-up)

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba: Siran Fen / Ba Power / Glitter Beat (0:33:53 Pop-up)

Mbongwana Star: Shégué / From Kinshasa / Crammed Discs (0:39:46 Pop-up)
GIG: Aug 14 (Sun) Central Park Summerstage, Rumsey Playfield, 72 St. (mid-park): Mbongwana Star + Batida + Young Paris

Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra: Wongolo / Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra / Glitterbeat / * (0:45:00 Pop-up)
This new project features (on certain tracks) Tony Allen - plus Haitian percussionist and cultural icon Sanba Zao who you'll hear on our show next week with Lakou Mizik

Owiny Sigoma Band: I Made You / You Made Me / Nyanza / Brownswood (0:56:34 Pop-up)

Papa Wemba: Hambayi Ede / Papa Wemba / Sterns (0:59:09 Pop-up)

Irka Mateo: Palenquera / Single / * (1:03:49 Pop-up)
GIG: Joe's Pub, Sunday night (May 15), 7 pm

Carlos Vives: Pitán - Pitán / El Amor de Mi Tierra / EMI (1:07:20 Pop-up)
GIG: July 8 (Fri) The Theater at Madison Square Garden: Carlos Vives.

Francisco Ulloa: Pensando en Ti / ¡Ultramerengue! / GlobeStyle (1:12:00 Pop-up)

El Cieguito de Jacagua: Joaquin Garcia / Candela / Jose Luis (1:14:55 Pop-up)
WFMU Record Fair pickup!

Blas Durán y Sus Peluches: El Palito / Blas Durán y Sus Peluches / Kubaney (1:19:00 Pop-up)
Yet another WFMU Record Fair pickup!

Rivo Doza: Misa Zanako / Various Artists: Tulear Never Sleeps / Sterns (1:22:37 Pop-up)

Ram: Koulou Koulou / Ram 6 / Willibelle / * (1:26:35 Pop-up)

Fela Ransome-Kuti & His Koola Lobitos: Onifere No. 2 / Afro Beat Swings, Live at the Afro Spot / Knitting Factory / * (1:40:41 Pop-up)

Kwamena Ray Ellis Of Ghana and his Agoro Sound: Yaa Amponsah / Keyboard Africa / Agoro Records (1:43:41 Pop-up)

Kumasi Trio: Amponsah Parts 1 & 2 (Edit) / Fanti Guitar in West Africa 1928, Vol. 1 / Asherah Records / * (1:46:31 Pop-up)
New anthology

Osei Korankye: Yaa Amponsah / Live on WFMU, May 7, 2016 / Unreleased (1:51:56 Pop-up)

Malawi Mouse Boys: Kuthokoza (Thankful) / Forever is 4 You / Omnivore / * (1:59:32 Pop-up)

Gilberto Gil & Caetano Veloso: Domingo no Parque / Dois Amigos, Um Século de Música / Nonesuch / * (2:02:57 Pop-up)

Anna Sato: Kurudando (2:06:01 Pop-up)
GIG: Right now (!) at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn!

DakhaBrakha: Earth (OST) Excerpts / Unreleased (2:14:56 Pop-up)
GIG(s) TICKET GIVEAWAY is available for Saturday night's live performance by DakhaBrakha with a screening of the 1930 Soviet film Earth at Pace Schimmel Center, 3 Spruce St. in lower Manhattan. Info on how to enter above and to the left. NOTE: DakhaBrakha is also playing a concert (without film) on Friday night at the same venue.

Päre: Hausjärvi Beat / Hausjärvi Beat / Sibelius Academy / * (2:25:53 Pop-up)

Liisa Matveinen: Llot Ja Surut / Rauhan Satama / Olarin Musiikki / 1996 (2:31:41 Pop-up)
With Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Maria Kalaniemi, Timo Valo, Ritva Talvitie

Hainides: The Fairy / Long Voyage / Lyra (2:35:14 Pop-up)
From Crete

Amjad Ali Khan & Rahim Alhaj: Virgin Earth / Infinite Hope / Ur Music / * (2:41:53 Pop-up)

Heron Oblivion: Oriar / Heron Oblivion / Sub Pop / * (2:50:55 Pop-up)
GIG: Thurs May 26 at WFMU's Monty Hall (and um also May 28 at Union Pool in Brooklyn but you want to go to Monty Hall, don't you?!

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If you want to be on an email list for special ticket and music giveaways and to hear news about upcoming specials and special events (including our remote broadcasts from Barbes in Park Slope, Brooklyn - send an email to Rob W here and be sure to write "list" in the subject line.

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