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Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been a sad 2022 for music in India. Even while India was mourning the loss of its greatest singer, Lata Mangeshkar, the empress of song, it lo...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Rod Clarance has traveled to more countries than you can shake a stick at. His Song Story is pulled from his memories of his first time in Europe.
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 05:22
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: :12
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In this short audio document we'll visit a fascinating small museum which celebrates the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. We'll discover fascin...
Bought by WABE
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
A relaxing interstitial piece that may put you in a brief tropical state-of-mind.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 01:24
Sandip Roy discovers the very old recordings of the Archive of Indian Music.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Gaetane Abrial unabashedly declares her love, passion and desires in the song "Unknown Flavors" co-written with André Manoukian.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 04:50
"I love you", three short words, full of sweetness, but there are undercurrents and a darker side, as Jean-Jacques Goldman tells us in his song "Kn...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 04:56
We have crossed swords, we have suffered sleepless nights. Do we dare reach out to each other with open arms?
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 05:02
I'll show courage, I'll channel my anger and let time go by, but it will take a lot more to cope with the loss of your beauty.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 04:33
The singer/songwriter 'Et Maxence' found her audience through the internet. Her song "Early September", about a relationship full of doubts, is in ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 05:23
Audio postcard from DIY punk music festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 11, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Following a traumatic breakup, Mathilde is back in town, leaving her ex-partner in a state of panic.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 04:08
Do not fear happiness. It does not exist. We shall die tomorrow. Let yourself go for the duration of a kiss...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 04:34
A young Frenchman visits the Red Square in Moscow. His guide is a pretty Russian girl. Romance blossoms, notwithstanding Cold War politics.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
A poem by Jacques Prévert, "As Simple as 'Good Morning'" has become a song that celebrates a serene and contented love. Vanina Michel interprets...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
A man promises pearls, diamonds and riches to a woman. She responds: I have no need for these treasures. Bars on the window are bars even if they ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1