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It's Totally Albanian!

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

The First of November Albanian Mix, discovering where do songs come from with Norman Rose, tributes to Leslie Bricusse, Paddy Moloney, and Mikis Th...

Come From Away: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Ford’s Theatre commemorates the anniversary of 9/11 with Come From Away: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial. We speak with Producer Sue Frost and D...

Bought by WMPG, Spokane Public Radio, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and RADIOLEX

Billy McComiskey plays traditional Irish music at its finest1

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Billy McComiskey, Credit: Edwin Remsburg, Remburg Inc.

Button accordionist and 2016 National Heritage fellow billy McComiskey plays beautifully and builds a community for irish music.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP

Vicente Gutierrez, the publisher and editor of Highway: Making it Work

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPIP-LP, WNJR, KPVL, and WABE

In Global Culture Space - Rana Dasgupta & Hung-Kuan Chen

From: Open Source

We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

American Conversations with Andrew Bacevich & Vijay Iyer

From: Open Source

This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...

Bought by KUOW

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

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

Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

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

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...

Ludovico Einaudi's Nightbook

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He's a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his nati...

A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

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

Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Jimmy Wahlsteen turns a pop melody sensibility into fingerstyle instrumentals

An Interview With Baaba Maal

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

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

Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL

The East-West fusion of Urban Nature

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

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

Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

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

Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio