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WVR Show 380 World Music Half Hour
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Crank up your ipod. We’re going on a musical journey around the world on this week’s edition of the World Vision Report. In Iran, Isla...

Bought by WSLR, KRZA, and WPTC


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
WVR Show 380 World Music
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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Even poor people can be rich in music. It can calm your nerves, please your passions, and spur people to action. This week the World Vision Rep...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 40
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Avignon, France
In this Episode 6 Francophone Artists are introduced in English with one of their songs. No need to understand French to enjoy their offering becau...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 39
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Strasbourg, Alsace
Six Francophone Singers/Songwriters are introduced in a manner that English speaking Audiences can understand and enjoy. Some are rising stars, oth...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 27:40
  • Purchases: 1
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bonjour Chanson, Series 8, Episode 38.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
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We bring a wonderful mixture of French Language Music from Yesterday and Today. All human life is there and you do not need French Language skills ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 37.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Belle Ile, Port Coton
We continue our exploration of French Language Popular Music in a program specially created for English speaking Audiences. Six artists are introdu...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 26:50
  • Purchases: 1
Herbie Hancock - The Imagine Project -- Part 2
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Herbie Hancock
Hancock talks about his collaboration with African and Latin American stars.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 07:21
Lyuti Chushki: The Music of Bulgaria
From: Andrew Hiller
Series: Andrew Hiller's News Features
Caption: Lyuti Chushki: From Left to Right: Varol Saatcioglu (gaida), Bruce Sagan (gûdulka), Len Newman (tambura), Tzvety Weiner (vocals), Valeri Georgiev (kaval), Larry Weiner (tûpan)
It may not have as big an impact as the Brittish Invasion, but the folk music group, Lyuti Chushki are bringing their styling of traditional Bulgar...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jul 05, 2010
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 36
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
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We bring you a wonderful mix of French Language Songs from today and from the past. The melodies are beautiful and we tell you about the artists a...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 35
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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We bring you six French Language singers each with one song. We tell you about the artists and the songs in English and when you'll hear those song...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 34
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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Bonjour Chanson invites English speakers into the world of French Language Popular Music by introducing Artists in English and paraphrasing portion...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 27, 2010
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 33
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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Six French Language Artists are introduced in English with one of their songs. Enjoy the wonderful melodies of French Popular Music even if you do...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 1
A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Jimmy Wahlsteen turns a pop melody sensibility into fingerstyle instrumentals

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 32
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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Enjoy the best of French Language Popular Music although you do not speak French. We tell you about the artists and songs in English. When you/ll...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 27:12
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 31
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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Whether you speak French or not, you might enjoy listening to a program where we discuss 6 French Language Musical Artists in English and then list...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview With Baaba Maal
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Baaba Maal
Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Robin Guthrie
Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 6, Episode 29
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 6
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Six More French artists are introduced to English speaking audiences with one of their songs. No need to speak French to enjoy the show.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 24, 2009
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 1
The East-West fusion of Urban Nature
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Carmen Rizzo
Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1