World of Music
Pgm #150 – We’re seeing February out like a lion today with a fury of great global dance beats Catch the show on Mondays 3-5pm ET – at 105.9FM in Burlington, VT or online at The Radiator
—- Nas with Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry: Wake Up (It’s Africa Calling) / Open Remix http://www.intrahealth.org/open/ (download) – (USA / SENEGAL)
—- SuperString Theory featuring Helen Kerlin-Smith: Aliwu Mix / SuperString Theory Goes To Senegal / Worldsoul 42 – (USA / SENEGAL) Aurelio Martinez: Yange / Laru Beya / Stonetree (demo) – (HONDURAS) *NEW* Mariana Montalvo: Tu Color Café (Your Coffee Color) / Cantos del Alma / Putumayo 174 – (CHILE) Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia: Drut Gat in Teentaal / Sāns (Breath) / Navras Records 9006 – (INDIA)
—- Ibn Thabit: Yassir / Khalas Mixtape, vol. I: Mish B3eed / www.enoughgaddafi.com (download) – (LIBYA) *NEW* Black Uhuru: Bloodshed / Iron Storm / Mesa 79035 – (JAMAICA) Lila Downs: Mi Corazón Me Recuerda (My Heart, My Memory) / La Linea (Border) / Narada World 7243810265 – (MEXICO) Alpha Yaya Diallo: Politik / Djama / Jericho Beach Music 501 – (GUINEA)
—- Tiné: Cobrinha / What’s Happening in Pernambuco? / Luaka Bop 6808990065 – (BRAZIL) Agnese Manganaro: Voglio Restare Sveglia / Mille Petali / IRMA Records 846 – (ITALY) Célia Maria featuring Amparo: Matriaméricas / Santa Rebeldia / Globalista 8 – (BRAZIL) Saber El Robaie: Bersha / Oriental Beats 2 / Alam 626 – (TUNISIA)
—- Sergent Garcia: Yo Soy Salsamuffin / Una y Otra Vez / Cumbancha 19 – (SPAIN) *NEW* – coming out 3/29 Willie Colón: Jazzy / El Malo / Fania 773130029 – (PUERTO RICO) Dota und die Stadtpiraten: Utopie / Bis Auf den Grund / Kleingeld Prinzessin Records 12708 – (GERMANY) Usted Allarakha: The Tree of Rhythm / Rhydhun / Free Spirit 72017 – (INDIA)
—- Toumast: Ikalene Walegh (The Countries That Are Not Mine) / Ishumar / Real World 148 – (NIGER) Balkan Beat Box: Habibi min zaman / Nu*Med / JDub 106 – (ISRAEL) El Combolinga: Cumbia Caimanera / Mira Que Bien / Atxeh Independent Records 2 – (SPAIN) Maria Bethânia: Feita Na Bahia / Encanteria / Quitanda 18 – (BRAZIL) Novalima: Se Me Van / Coba Coba / Cumbancha 9 – (PERU)
—- Shantel: Planet Paprika / Planet Paprika / Crammed Discs 54 – (HUNGARY) Karima Skalli: Ghannî yâ Fannân (Oh singer, please sing) / Wasla / Moucharabieh 321077 – (MOROCCO) Hossam Ramzy & Phil Thornton: Electribe Blues / Egypt Unveiled / ARC Music 2316 – (EGYPT) *NEW* Ibn Thabit: El Sooal / Khalas Mixtape, vol. I: Mish B3eed / www.enoughgaddafi.com (download) – (LIBYA) *NEW*
February goes out like a lion with this week’s “World of Music” – we’ll feature new and classic grooves to keep you dancing into the new month.
Today’s show is a musical answer to the question, “what do Peru, Libya, Belize, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Senegal, Algeria, and Vermont have in common?” (They’re all in the world, and they’re all the source of very compelling music.) Vermont’s contribution is from Putney-based composer and instrumentalist Derrik Jordan’s recording, “SuperString Theory Goes to Senegal”.
World of Music is a colorblind casbah of blues, jazz, poetry, and world music every Monday from 3-5pm ET on the Radiator. Online, or at 105.9FM if you’re listening in Burlington, VT.
Overheard in the hallway at work today: “Well it really is quite a monumental shift in world politics…”
It’s on everyone’s minds: Libya, divided, after a solid week of protests with an ostensibly liberated East now under opposition control and a ferociously government-held West.
Today Human Rights Watch and 62 other international organizations petitioned the UN to remove Libya from its Human Rights Council even as protesters and Gaddafi supporters clashed in the streets of Tripoli, and government forces fired openly on the crowds. The entire Libyan UN delegation defected today and renounced their association with Gaddafi, saying they would only represent the Libyan people. Gaddafi responded to the developing situation by offering a payment of around $400.00 to every Libyan family to help offset the high cost of food. The US embassy in Tripoli closed shop and all personnel are being evacuated as I write this.
That’s a recap – a very short overview of some recent developments in the last day or so in this complex, volatile political and humanitarian crisis.
On the musical front, here’s an update from Libyan artist Ibn Thabit. His very latest is a “Libyan Love Song”. He posted it on facebook today with the message: “I think this fits the present mood a little more than last week…”
Who are the real voices and faces of revolution in today’s Middle East and North Africa?
We’re sharing some of them with you here because these are people using their art and music to change their world.
Ahmed Basiony was an art teaching assistant at Helwan University and he was killed on January 25th during the protests in Cairo. This is one of his final musical statements, recorded here with Abou Asala at last year’s “100Live electronic Music Festival” in Egypt.
From Egypt, “the sound of freedom”. This is a collaboration between Sout Alhoureya, Amir Eid Hawary, Hany Adel , and Sherif Mostafa.
Who will write Libya’s freedom anthem? Will anyone be left standing to write it when the bloody civilian massacre is over?
I went out and said I’m not coming back
I wrote with my blood in every street
We made those who couldn’t hear, finally listen
We broke down all the barriers
Our weapon was our dreams
And tomorrow is clear in front of us
For so long we’ve been waiting
We’re looking, we can’t find our place
In every street in my country the sound of freedom is calling
In every street in my country the sound of freedom is calling
We raised our heads to the sky
And hunger no longer worries us
The most important thing is our right
And writing our history with our blood
If you were one of us
Better not blabber and tell us
To go away and leave our dream
And stop saying the word “I”
In every street in my country the sound of freedom is calling
In every street in my country the sound of freedom is calling
The sound of freedom is calling.
As of this writing (Sunday, Feb. 20th around 11:45pm ET) more than 230 protesters have been killed over the last few days on the streets of the Libyan cities Benghazi and al-Baida, many at the hands of the Libyan Army which has even opened fire on crowds of funeral attendees.
Violence has also touched protests in Zenten, and the country’s largest city of Tripoli. No one really knows how many have died or how many have been arrested because the entire nation is operating under a news blackout and the internet has been shut down.
This week’s World of Music is dedicated to the voices of revolution: from Cuba and Curaçao to New Orleans, North Africa, and beyond. The centerpiece of the show is a shockingly powerful recording of Arabic rap and hip-hop songs ripped directly from today’s international headlines. I downloaded the mix early last week from the Libyan exile site “enoughgaddafi.com”. Two days later the website was taken offline.
We’re going to track through the entire 12 songs of the mixtape, with contributions from Lotfi Double Kanon and Ibn Thabit (Libya), Ramy Donjevan (Egypt), Tunisian rapper El Génèral, and many more. This isn’t music you’ll be able to download yourself now, or hear almost anywhere else on American radio.
Don’t miss it – incredible times call for incredible music, and this is it. This is now.
World of Music is a voice for change every Monday from 3-5pm ET on the Radiator. Online, or at 105.9FM if you’re listening in Burlington, VT.
