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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Live from Barbes in Park Slope - Global Sounds of NYC

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Join Rob and illustrious co-host / tech guru Irene Trudel at Barbès, the music-lover's haven at 9th St and 6th Ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn for a jam-packed four-act evening of NY-based ensembles inspired by music from around the world. Admission is free of charge!

- Seyyah opens the show with a fresh take on music from Turkey at 6 pm
- Songwriter Ilusha Tsinadze explores his roots in the Republic of Georgia and life in NYC at 6:45 pm
- Navatman Music Collective re-imagines South Indian vocal music at 7:30 pm
- and Rosa Tatuata closes the show with stirring sounds from Southern Italy and Sicily at 8:15 pm

Join us at Barbès or via the airwaves for three solid hours of great music!

And if you do make it to Barbès: If the great music (free of charge) isn't enough, we'll be doling out free FMU swag too - but get there early before we give it all away!

Massive thanks to Olivier Conan and also Vincent Douglas from Barbès, and to engineer Rob Christiansen and board op Joe Duffy!

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Help keep Barbès alive - it’s a Brooklyn cultural gem!

Donate to the Barbès crowd funding campaign (and get some musical treats, and concert tickets, in exchange for your support) at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/barbes-needs-help

Barbès is a small Brooklyn club which has been presenting music on a daily basis for 15 years. Started on a shoestring budget in a former barber shop in the South Slope, Barbès has for years acted as a kind of laboratory for all different kinds of new projects and become a true community hub. Transpacific Sound Paradise has proudly broadcast some 25 live music shows from Barbès and we hope to do lots more in the future.

But changing demographics and a new economic reality are now threatening Barbès. Today Barbès owes a total of $70,000 - 20,000 to be repaid before July 1st.

You can support Barbès in two ways:

Again, you can donate to the Barbès crowd funding campaign at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/barbes-needs-help

And / or: Come to Drom, 85 Ave A on Friday June 9th for a Benefit for Barbès featuring a cross-section of the types of artists central to Barbès, including: Innov Gnawa, Bulla en el Barrio, Big Lazy, Maracatu NY and first-time ever brass band supergroup Fanfare Barbes + DJs.

Get tickets to the benefit here - or if you donate to the crowd funding campaign at a high enough level, one or more tickets may be included.

More info on the Benefit for Barbès, Friday June 9th at Drom, here.

Venue info at http://www.dromnyc.com

This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Seyyah: Live from Barbès (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Ilusha Tsinadze: Live from Barbès

Maracatu NY: Dia de Cabloco / Various Artists: Turntables on Ipanema (1:28:32 Pop-up)
GIG: Maracatu NY is one of the bands playing the Barbès benefit at Drom on Friday June 9th!

Los Wemblers de Iquitos: Mentecata / Ikaro del Amor / Barbes / * (1:32:31 Pop-up)
GIG Monday October 16th at Pioneer Works in Red Hook (Ikaro del Amor EP is not officially released yet - official release dates for vinyl and digital are in June 2017)

Navatman Music Collective: Live from Barbès (1:45:36 Pop-up)

Battle of Santiago: Aguanileo / La Migra / * (2:25:55 Pop-up)
GIG: Tomorrow (Sunday May 14th) at Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St., Red Hook, Brooklyn

Rosa Tatuata: Live from Barbès (2:30:55 Pop-up)

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