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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Waning Days

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Come to our fall live events in Hoboken and Jersey City!

• Saturday September 9th: Live broadcast from Issyra Gallery, 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken:

Martin Vejerano’s NYC Gaita Club (deep flute and drum traditions from Colombia's Caribbean Coast); Tuki Buki Trio featuring Smokey Hormel, Ngor Jallow and Issa Sow (shimmering West African songs); Maracatu NY (driving northeast Brazilian style percussion) and Akoko Nante Ensemble (Powerful West African style drumming) Issyra Gallery is an amazing space, it must be seen to be believed, jam-packed - floor to ceiling - with traditional African art and contemporary art. Info about the space and photos at: http://www.hobokenafricanartgallery.com/ .

Free admission, free WFMU swag!

AND

• Thursday October 12th: HONK NYC! at WFMU’s Montgomery Hall, 7:30 to 11 pm

with Damas de Ferro (electrifying all-female brass band from Brazil), New Creations Brass Band (New Orleans second line power), Pussy Grabs Back (a bombastic brass band response to the State of the Union), the Balkan-inspired revelry of Veveritse Brass Band and the first-ever Montgomery Hall appearance by NYC’s first and finest agit-brass leviathan, Hungry March Band!

Get your tickets now at http://tiny.cc/honknyc-wfmu-ticketfly !

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This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

The Moonstones with Indrani Perera: Sigiriya / Various Artists: Sri Lanka : The Golden Era of Sinhalese & Tamil Folk​-​pop Music / Akuphone (0:00:00 Pop-up)
From the Sooriya Records archives

The Sherbone Stars: We Joe / Nokuzola / Ziya Duma (0:02:56 Pop-up)
South Africa, 1979

The Movers: Movers on the Way / Best of the Best Volume One / Gallo (0:06:00 Pop-up)

Barro: Mato o Nego / Miocardio / * (0:08:25 Pop-up)

Curumin: Boca de Groselha / B O C A / Fonomatic / * (0:15:24 Pop-up)

Juana Molina: Boca de Groselha / Halo / Crammed Discs / * (0:18:54 Pop-up)

Tongues in Trees: Is Falling Flying / Parallel / SinJ (0:24:19 Pop-up)

Navatman Music Collective: Offering / An Untimely Joy / Navatman (0:29:35 Pop-up)
GIG: at Navatman's Drive East Festival, Dixon Place, 161 Chrystie St. on the Lower East Side, Sunday (TOMORROW) afternoon at 2.

Maracatu NY: Dia do Caboclo / Baque do Brooklyn (0:41:12 Pop-up)
GIG: Saturday September 9th: WFMU Transpacific Sound Paradise live broadcast from Issyra Gallery, 300 Observer Highway, Hoboken, 6-9 pm

Emilsen Pacheco y su Bullerengue Tradicional de San Juan de Urabá: Pelen Pelen / Mi Tambor es Mio / Sonidos Enraizados (0:47:34 Pop-up)
GIGs: Tonight starting around 7:30 at C'mon Everybody, 325 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn; Sunday evening workshop and performance at Starr Barr, 214 Starr St., Brooklyn: Monday night at 9 at Barbes, 376 9th St., Park Slope, Brooklyn; Tuesday night at Terraza 7, 40-19 Gleane St., Elmhurst, Queens at 8 pm.

Innov Gnawa: Banwari / Innov Gnawa (Live at Xoomba Loft, Brooklyn) (0:51:42 Pop-up)
GIGs: Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, Sun Aug 27 (tomorrow) at 8 pm; C'mon Everybody, 325 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn Fri Sept 1 at 11 pm; Fri Sept 15 at Barbes, 376 9th St. in Park Slope at 10 pm, and opening for Group Doueh at Le Poisson Rouge, Fri Sept 29 at 8 pm.

DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar: Sid Sma Xango Iansa / Gaia Musica Volume 2 / * (0:56:52 Pop-up)
Collaboration with Moroccan gnawa musicians

Kasai Allstars & Orchestre Symphonique de Kinshasa: Bilonda / Around Félicité (Soundtrack to the film by French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis) / Crammed Discs / * (1:05:53 Pop-up)
Kasai Allstars also appear in the film, which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2017

Ogun Afrobeat: Oro Le Gbo / Koko Iroyin / * (1:10:51 Pop-up)
Based in Madrid, Spain; featuring musicians from Colombia, Senegal, Morocco, USA and Cuba

Jupiter & Okwess: Ofakombolo / Kin Sonic / Glitterbeat / * (1:15:04 Pop-up)
Featuring Jupiter Bokondji from Democratic Rep. of Congo via Europe - Jupiter was formerly in Staff Benda Bilili

Lavaman: Cukus Bag / Various Artists: Pozee Rhythm / Julians / * (1:17:39 Pop-up)
GIG: SOBs Thursday night Aug 31: SOBs, 204 Varick St: Soca show with Lavaman, Orlando Octave, Voice, Mr Legz and more. 11 pm.

Mahmoud Ahmed: Kantchi Gar Kalhonè / Ethiopiques 26: Mahmoud Ahmed & The Imperial Bodyguard Band / Buda Musique (1:26:39 Pop-up)
GIG: Sept 15 (Fri) Town Hall, 123 W 43rd St: World Music Institute and Le Poisson Rouge present: Mahmoud Ahmed + Hailu Mergia at 7 pm.

Hailu Mergia and the Walias Band: Yikirta Lemminalehu / Tche Belew / Awesome Tapes From Africa (1:30:13 Pop-up)
GIG: Sept 15 at Town Hall w/ Mahmoud Ahmed (see above)

Paa Kow: Lonely / Cookpot / * (1:33:58 Pop-up)
GIG: Club Bonafide, 212 E 52nd St, Thurs Sept 7th, sets at 7:30 and 9:30 pm.

Markscheider Kunst: Mokili / Krasivosleva / S.B.A. (1:37:15 Pop-up)
GIG: Sept 6 (Wed) Drom, 85 Ave A: Markschneider Kunst. 8 pm.

Salif Keita: Calculer / M'Bemba / Universal (1:42:14 Pop-up)
GIG: SOBs, 204 Varick St., Sept 14 (Thurs) at 8 pm

Dilika: Lomhlaba / Various ‎Artists: A Night In South Africa / Sony (1:48:02 Pop-up)

Toko Telo: Toy Raha Toy / Toy Raha Toy / Anio / * (1:49:34 Pop-up)

Vakoka: Aomby Mazava Loha / Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Acoustic Africa / World Music Network (1:54:46 Pop-up)

Aurelio Martinez: Funa Tugudirugu / Darandi / Stone Tree / Real World / * (1:59:00 Pop-up)

Kepa Junkera: Marea Zumaian / Maletak / Altafonte ‎– Folmusica (2:03:52 Pop-up)

Carmelo Torres y los Toscos: La Camisola / 7" / Names You Can Trust (2:07:24 Pop-up)

Luis Carlos Borges: Forró nas Missões / Single / * (2:11:27 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Amer Lyn / Sousoume Tamachek / Sahel Sounds / * (2:24:09 Pop-up)
GIG: Sept 28 (Thurs) Lincoln Center Rubenstein Atrium, Broadway between 62nd and 63rd St: Mdou Moctar. 7:30 pm. Free admission but get there early to make sure you can get in. Plus Thursday October 5th at Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer St., Red Hook, Brooklyn (with Drunken Foreigner Band, who are inspired by music of NE Thailand, opening)

TisDass: Taladrot / Yamedan / Sahel Sounds (2:28:22 Pop-up)

75 Dollar Bill: Beni Said / Wood Metal Plastic Pattern Rhythm Rock / Thin Wrist Recordings (2:33:24 Pop-up)
GIG: Opening for Group Doueh at WFMU's Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery St., Jersey City NJ., Sat Oct 7 at 8:30 pm

Group Doueh: Zayna Jumma / Zayna Jumma / Sublime Frequencies (2:45:52 Pop-up)
GIG: WFMU's Monty Hall with 75 Dollar Bill Sat Oct 7th; also at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St in Manhattan with Innov Gnawa Fri Sept 29th

Amir El Saffar / Rivers of Sound: Hijaz 21/8 / Not Two / New Amsterdam Records / * (2:48:14 Pop-up)
GIG: Sept 8 (Fri) Lincoln Center Rubenstein Atrium, Broadway between 62nd and 63rd St: Amir ElSaffar and Brooklyn Raga Massive: Outside (In)dia. 7:30 pm. Free admission but get there early to make sure you can get in.

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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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