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Saturday, April 1, 2017
Pakistani Singer Sanam Marvi's Stirring Sufi Songcraft (Hour 2) +
Our April Fool's Format Change - World Music For Short Attention Spans (Hour 1)

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Pakistani singer Sanam Marvi is bringing new light to a beloved South Asian repertoire of mystical Sufi poetry and qawwali music, as well as folk songs and more. Pakistan’s Newsline calls her “one of the finest performers in the Sufi, ghazal and folk genres.”

She’s on tour now, and coming to New York for two events:

She’ll talk about the music and culture and her background and perform a bit too at the Asia Society, 725 Park Ave. in Manhattan on Wednesday April 5th at 6:30 pm.

And she’ll give a full concert at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, on Thursday April 6th at 7:30 pm.

But first, Sanam Marvi join us on the WFMU airwaves! She performs with her stellar ensemble along with special guest Arieb Azhar - another excellent artist from Pakistan who, like Sanam Marvi, has toured the US thanks to a special program called Center Stage (more on Center Stage below). He translates for Sanam and shares some of his own insight as well.

Massive thanks to Center Stage, a cultural exchange program initiated by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and produced by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). Sanam Marvi is one of several artists from Algeria, Pakistan and Tanzania selected and fully funded by the Center Stage program to tour the US and share their music and culture over the past year.

And more massive thanks Alexis Ortiz, Deirdre Valente and Lisa Booth management and to our illustrious engineers Mark Koch and Manny Yupa. Photo of Sanam Marvi above is by Jinsaar Kandhro; photo below by Kohi Marri.

Links:

Sanam Marvi: https://www.facebook.com/sanamarviofficial/

Arieb Azhar: https://www.facebook.com/ariebazhar/

Sanam Marvi Wed 6:30 pm talk / demo @ Asia Society: http://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/sufi-voice-pakistan-conversation-sanam-marvi

Sanam Marvi Thurs 7:30 pm concert @ BAM Opera House: http://www.bam.org/music/2017/sanam-marvi

Center Stage tour Dates for Sanam Marvi as well as Sounds of Kolachi, a great electric-roots band from Pakistan who will also be guests on our show soon: https://centerstageus.org/events

Center Stage main page: https://centerstageus.org/



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TICKET GIVEAWAYS TONIGHT FOR TWO GREAT SHOWS AT LE POISSON ROUGE!

We have two pairs of tickets available for each of two superb shows this week at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village!

• Compelling Tunisian singer Emel Mathlouthi - the voice of Tunisia’s Arab Spring - Saturday night, May 6th at 7:30

• Indian sarod virtuoso Alam Khan, celebrating the birthday of his father, the late great Maestro Ali Akbar Khan (in a concert presented in conjunction with World Music Institute and Brooklyn Raga Massive), this Friday night April 7th at 8 pm.

To get in the running for a pair of tickets to either show: Email me, Rob W, here, please specify first and if possible second choice among the two concerts available, 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. Thanks and good luck!

More on Emel Mahlouthi: http://emelmathlouthi.com/

More on Alam Khan: http://www.alamkhan.com/

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This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Malawi Mouse Boys: Zikutamanda / Forever Is 4 You / Omnivore (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Gordon Easton: The Drunken Piper / Various Artists: Celtic Mouth Music / Ellipsis Arts (0:03:28 Pop-up)

Oni Wytars Ensemble, Ensemble Unicorn: Anon: Koleda Na Bozic / On The Way To Bethlehem - Music Of The Medieval Pilgrim / Naxos (0:05:01 Pop-up)

Per Gudmundson: Vallåt från Lima / Säckpipa / Caprice Records (0:05:12 Pop-up)

Ulsamer Collegium: La Rotta / Terpsichore - Renaissance and Early Baroque Dance Music / Deutsche Grammophon / Archiv Produktion (0:06:12 Pop-up)

Bebo Valdes: Tu Sonrisa / Bebo / Sony (0:08:50 Pop-up)

Zmei3: Somn De Frumusețe / Rough Romanian Soul / Six Degrees (0:09:14 Pop-up)

Gecko Turner: Medium Rare / That Place by the Thing with the Cool Name / Lovemonk (0:10:12 Pop-up)

Zulal: The Forgotten Suitor / Notes to a Crane / Zulal (0:11:31 Pop-up)

Nitin Sawhney: Brainwaves / Philtre / V2 (0:11:37 Pop-up)

Juanafe: Un Papel es un Papel / La Makinita / Oveja Negra (0:13:01 Pop-up)

Bea Palya: Tépem, Tépem... / Álom-álom, Kitalálom / Gryllus (0:13:06 Pop-up)

Nguyễn Thị Lản: The Rice Drum - Trống Cơm / Various Artists: Hanoi Masters: War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar / Glitterbeat / * (0:13:59 Pop-up)
Released in 2015, but new to WFMU

Hradistan: Jaro / Studanko, Rubinko / Indies Scope (0:15:10 Pop-up)

Incredible String Band: Whistle Tune / The Incredible String Band / Elektra (0:15:38 Pop-up)

Kristo Numpuby: Nanoh / Assiko City / Lon Yes (0:17:03 Pop-up)

Nagual [Нагуаль]: Otkrovenie [Откровение] / U Zemli Pod Yubkoy [У Земли Под Юбкой] / Novaya Kul'tura [Новая Культура] (0:17:28 Pop-up)

Samuel Torres: Oye / Yaoundé / Blue Conga (0:17:51 Pop-up)

Michael Baird: Musungu Kalela / Logo Rhythms - Michael Baird Plays the Music of the Roto-Bongi / SWP (0:18:31 Pop-up)

The Horse Flies and Friends: Wooden Thumbs / Two Traditions - Balaphon Banjo Fiddle & Drum / Jim Roberts (0:19:05 Pop-up)

Drums United: Tama Dakar / Lucas van Merwijk & Drums United + Marco & Su Ensamble Toro - Heartbeat / Drums United (0:19:53 Pop-up)

Maya Angelou: Oo-Dia-Ba-Doo / Miss Calypso / London Records (0:21:06 Pop-up)

Fela Kuti: SIgnature Tune / Koola Lobitos Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969) / Knitting Factory (0:24:52 Pop-up)

Hard Proof: Soft Bullets / Hard Proof / Hard Proof (0:25:11 Pop-up)

Fanfare Savale: Polca Pe Furate / Speed Brass of the Gypsies / Sub Rosa (0:26:01 Pop-up)

Hungry March Band: Bomb / Hungry March Band Official Bootleg / Hungry March Band (0:27:07 Pop-up)

Rita: Ani Holech, Aval Techef Ashoov (אני הולך, אבל תיכף אשוב) / Hasmachot Sheli (My Joys) השמחות-שלי / RiSH Records (0:27:12 Pop-up)

Arto Tuncboyaciyan & Armenian Navy Band: Life / Natural Seeds / Heaven and Earth (0:28:01 Pop-up)

Los Amigos Invisibles: Easy Going / Not So Commercial / Nacional Records (0:28:56 Pop-up)

Semi: Nduri Dana No. 2 / Various Artists: Nias: Epic Songs and Instrumental Music / Pan Records (0:30:39 Pop-up)
Field recordings made by Dutch ethnomusicologist Ernst Heins on May 30, June 1 and 2, 1992 at the island of Nias, Indonesia on a portable digital stereo recorder AIWA HD-S100 (DDD), and a portable stereo SONY walkman (ADD), using a SONY stereo electret microphone ECM-737

Wang Li: Bambou 3 / Reve de Sang / Buda Musique (0:31:30 Pop-up)

Quoc Hung: The Wind Blows It Away / Various Artists: Hanoi Masters: War Is a Wound, Peace Is a Scar / Glitterbeat / * (0:32:09 Pop-up)
Released in 2015, but new to WFMU

Miao Artist: Miao Folk Music Leaf-Blowing (Taijiang Fanpai) / Various Artists: Miao Folk Music / Western China Cultural Ecology Workshop (0:32:48 Pop-up)

Bibizada Suleymanova: Tatar Song - Uzlyau / Various Artists: Uzlyau: Guttural Singing of the People of the Sayan Altai and Ural Mountains / Pan Records (0:34:21 Pop-up)

Ingrid Karklins: Vocal Chord / Red Hand / Willow Music (0:34:36 Pop-up)

Ljova and the Kontraband: The Sacrifice / Lost In Kino / Kapustnik Records (0:34:49 Pop-up)

Circo Diatonico: Maramao Perché Sei Morto? / La Banda / Finisterre (0:35:49 Pop-up)

Lars Hollmer: Soldaten / The Siberian Circus / Resource Records (0:36:27 Pop-up)

Primary Mini-Band: Min'na issho ni [みんな一緒に] Everyone, Together / Kimamanahibi [きままなひび] / Branco Label (0:37:49 Pop-up)

Alek et les Japonaises: La Vie est Plus Belle / コケコッコー Kokekokko / Alek et les Japonaises (0:37:55 Pop-up)

Trebunie Tutki: Śpiew Pytacy / Jo Cłek Wolny / Pomaton EMI (0:38:04 Pop-up)

Kerekes Band: Anønymus / Back to Folk / EFB Music / * (0:38:44 Pop-up)

Tartit: Elan Heyelan / Ichichila / Network (0:39:50 Pop-up)

Uyghur Musicians From Xinjiang: Shadiana / Music from the Oasis Towns of Central Asia / GlobeStyle (0:40:27 Pop-up)
Featuring: Riyazdin Barat, Pasha Isha, Usanjan Jami, Musajan Rosi, Yasin Mukhpul, Tursun Simayi and Aziz Niyaz - recorded during their UK tour circa 2000.

Abigail Washburn and Shanghai Restoration Project: Quake / Afterquake / Undercover Culture Music (0:40:56 Pop-up)

Baka Beyond: Timeless / Various Artists: Miniatures 2: A Sequence of Sixty Tiny Masterpieces Edited by Morgan Fisher / Cherry Red (0:42:22 Pop-up)

Pino de Vittorio: Stormy E Mylo / Le Tarantelle Del Gargano / L'Empreinte Digitale

Roswell Rudd & Yomo Toro: Este Es Yomo Toro / El Espiritu Jibaro / Soundscape (0:47:45 Pop-up)
Voicemail message by Yomo Toro

Dva: Mikrotango / Fonók / Indies Scope (0:48:36 Pop-up)

Maarja Nuut: Polka "Terve Vald" / Soolo (0:48:51 Pop-up)

Ivan Zelenchuk and Group: Still the River Flows / Koliada - Winter Songs and Music from the Carpathians / Yara Arts Group (0:49:22 Pop-up)

Björn Ståbi & Ole Hjorth: Säckpipslåt / Folk Fiddling from Sweden: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Dalarna / Nonesuch Explorer (0:50:33 Pop-up)
Bagpipe tune from Gagnef

Ansamblul Ciocârlia: Manintelul / Seria Ansambluri Folclorice / Electrecord (0:51:29 Pop-up)

Hutsul Musicians; Miroslav Skorik (Composer): Sorceror - He's God To Us. People Feared Him, Yet They Needed Him / Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (A Film by Sergei Paradjanov) - Original Sound Track / Folk Sounds Records (0:52:25 Pop-up)

Mestra Vírgínia de Moraes: Pisa No Pilão / Various Artists: Das Lagoas – A Atual Música Popular e Tradicional de Alagoas / Das Lagoas (0:53:02 Pop-up)

Mestre Venâncio (Manoel Venâncio de Amorim): O Sol / Various Artists: Das Lagoas – A Atual Música Popular e Tradicional de Alagoas / Das Lagoas (0:54:03 Pop-up)

Telebossa: Etude No. 11 / Garagen Aurora / Staubgold (0:54:12 Pop-up)

Bicicletas Por La Paz: The Last Waltz (Ardillas #2) / Musica Por Puppets / Biciletas Por La Paz (0:54:52 Pop-up)

C.A.M.P.O.S.: Deutsche Clave / Miracles & Criminals / Peace & Rhythm (0:55:21 Pop-up)

Mexican Institute of Sound: Belludita / Piñata / Nacional Records (0:56:07 Pop-up)

R.U.T.A.: Orałbym Ja Wami / Gore / Karrot Kommando (0:57:06 Pop-up)

Sanam Marvi (Live on WFMU): Yaar Vekho (Look My Beloved) (1:06:38 Pop-up)

Sanam Marvi (Live on WFMU): Rabba Mere Haal Da Mehram Tu (1:21:45 Pop-up)

Sanam Marvi (Live on WFMU): Dhoondo Ge Agar Mulkon Mulkon (1:34:20 Pop-up)

Sanam Marvi (Live on WFMU): Dama Dam Mast Qalandar (1:42:59 Pop-up)

Sanam Marvi and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan: Parchan Shaall Pavar Dhola (1:50:43 Pop-up)
GIG: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan performs at NJPAC in Newark Sat. April 8. Sanam Marvi of course is at BAM this coming Thurs. night at 7:30 and she's giving a talk at the Asia Society Wed. at 6:30 pm.

Arieb Azhar: Dil Dhol / Wajj (Resonate) / Jazba (2:00:00 Pop-up)
Arieb is traveling on the current tour with Sanam Marvi, interpreting and adding his own insight as well as appearing as a special guest with her ensemble as well.

Sounds of Kolachi: Man Mora / Elhaam (Intuition) / Elements Media / * (2:06:56 Pop-up)
GIG: April 16 (Sun): Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St at 7 pm.

Alam Khan: Todi in Fast Tintal / Shades of Sarode (feat. with Salar Nader, tabla) / AMMP (2:16:04 Pop-up)
GIG / GIVEAWAY: Email me, Rob W, here and please put TIX in the subject line and mention that you're interested in the Alam Khan concert, and I'll put you in the drawing for a pair of tickets to see Alam Khan Friday night at 8 at Le Poisson Rouge.

Emel Mathlouthi: Ensen Dhaif / Ensen / Partisan Records / * (2:22:28 Pop-up)
GIG / GIVEAWAY: Email me, Rob W, here and please put TIX in the subject line and mention that you're interested in the Emel Mathlouthi concert, and I'll put you in the drawing for a pair of tickets to see Emel Mathlouthi Thursday night at 7:30 at Le Poisson Rouge.

Vieux Farka Touré: Ba Kaitere / Samba / Six Degrees / * (2:28:50 Pop-up)
GIG: BRIC House, 647 Fulton St., Brooklyn w/ Innov Gnawa this Thurs night at 8.

Salif Keita & Les Ambassadeurs International: Balla / Mandjou / Celluloid (2:35:34 Pop-up)
GIG: Already in progress I'm afraid... Salif Keita at Town Hall tonight...

Girma Beyene & Akalé Wubé: For Amha / Éthiopiques 30: "Mistakes on Purpose" / Buda Musique / * (2:41:44 Pop-up)

Baraji: Beasohn - Song of Prayer / Beasohn / Joe Eun Music [조은뮤직] (2:50:12 Pop-up)
GIG: Sat April 8 (a week from tonight) at BAM Cafe, 9 pm, free admission.

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Organizations supporting the rights of immigrants and refugees:

National Immigration Law Center: Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants.

National Immigration Forum: The National Immigration Forum is one of the leading immigrant advocacy organizations in the country, with a mission to advocate for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation.

New York Immigration Coalition: The New York Immigration Coalition aims to achieve a fairer and more just society that values the contributions of immigrants and extends opportunity to all. The NYIC promotes immigrants’ full civic participation, fosters their leadership, and provides a unified voice and a vehicle for collective action for New York’s diverse immigrant communities.

Arab American Family Support Center (New York City): The Arab-American Family Support Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-sectarian organization that provides culturally and linguistically sensitive services to immigrant communities throughout New York City.

Action NYC: ActionNYC connects New Yorkers to free, safe immigration legal help. You can make an appointment to learn your immigration legal options and get immigration application assistance. There are ActionNYC sites in all five boroughs. Appointments are required. Your appointment will be in your language.

Immigration Equality is the leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization in the country. It provide s advice and legal services to thousands of LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants seeking refuge, fair treatment, and freedom in the United States. The work is truly lifesaving because there are nearly 80 countries around the world where it is a crime to be LGBTQ, with consequences up to and including the death penalty. For this reason, Immigration Equality fights to obtain asylum in the United States for LGBTQ and HIV-positive refugees - with a remarkable 99% win rate.

International Refugee Assistance Project: The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. Mobilizing direct legal aid and systemic policy advocacy, IRAP serves the world’s most persecuted individuals and empowers the next generation of human rights leaders.

International Rescue Committee: The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF): AALDEF is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans by combining litigation, advocacy, education, and community organizing. Issues / focus include immigrant rights, civic participation and voting rights, economic justice for workers, language access to services, educational equity, housing and environmental justice, and the elimination of anti-Asian violence, police misconduct, and human trafficking.

Make the Road New York (MRNY): MRNY builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.

Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ): Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of immigrant and working class communities in New Jersey to achieve dignity and justice through community organizing, legal and support services, transformative education and policy innovation.

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