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Les Abranis - "Ikhaq Wul" - Album No 1 (Id Ed Was) [Wewantsounds is delighted to continue its Algerian music reissue program with the release of Les Abranis' coveted 1983 LP, Album No. 1. Originally recorded in Paris and privately pressed by the group, the album is now being reissued for the first time. Curated by Cheb Gero, who recently compiled the Sweet Rebels Rai set for Wewantsounds, Album No. 1 is a masterful blend of Kabyle grooves, funk, and hints of reggae. Also known as Id Ed Was, the album is reissued with its original artwork and audio remastered by Colorsound Studio in Paris. - bandcamp] [0:00:00] Choban Elektrik - "Beratche From Prespa" - Choban Elektrik [GIG: Next Saturday night at the Brooklyn International Music Fest, Tavern Stage at Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, 9 to midnight.] [0:05:29] Ihsan Al Munzer - "A Night At The Station" - Various Artists: egypt & lebanon: Cosmic arabic disco & searing dance floor bangers 1974-1985 [0:11:53] Turbo Tabla - "Telegrafin Telleri" - Arabic Music Re-Imagined [In 2001 I performed my first show as TURBO TABLA. The name was born from my love of alliteration. "Tabla/Tublah/طبلة" is what we Egyptians call the goblet drum, a.k.a. Darabuka/Derbeke/Dumbek, yet different from the Tabla/Baya 2-drum instrument found in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh. "Turbo" represents the big, overdriven, electrified and amplified sound I love, like a car with an extra powerful and voluminous engine. In these first performances, I performed to my favorite classic Arab songs, adding my raucous amped drumming over the top, while dancing and remonstrating emphatically. - Karim Nagi on bandcamp] [0:13:17] Najat Aâtabou - "Ândak Tkoun Boudina" - Ândak Tkoun Boudina [As a song writer and singer of the Moroccan Chanson, she told the story of the modern Moroccan woman and tried to improve feminism within Morocco. In 1992, she scored her biggest hit, “Hedi Kedba Bayna” which was extremely popular throughout the whole Arab world, Spain and France. Hedi Kedba Bayna is about a woman whose husband is cheating on her. The title literally means “This lie is obvious”. Another song “Shoufi Ghirou”, is about women who are in a relationship with married men, while in Morocco it is illegal to have such a relationship. Her songs have evoked social and political discussion in Morocco and improved a lot on the area of feminism. - wiki] [0:21:18] Bedouin Burger - "Bedouin Too" - Ma Li Beit [Two words, two worlds! First, that of the nomads of the deserts of the world, these men and women on the move who have patiently developed a frugal but tasty way of life. Then, that of the great powers of today, with cultural productions so appetizing that they ultimately impose standardized, globalized food on the rest of the planet. Right between the two, there is a duo who refuses to choose, who seizes everything they can play with. Lynn Adib found a partner of choice in Zeid Hamdan. For Bedouin Burger, Zeid invents new rhythms, crunchy and crackling, tending towards trance, above which Lynn's diaphanous voice hovers. Their playing field is endless, and everything is only just beginning… - PR] [0:26:00] Al Andaluz Project - "Quen a omagen da Virgen" - The Songs of Iman Kandoussi - Traditional Arabic Andalusian [The Al Andaluz Project group was formed in 2005 after the musicians of Estampie attended a concert by the Spanish band Aman Aman as part of the Jewish Culture Days in Munich. With the aim of reviving the music of the Jewish-Sephardic, Christian and Arabo-Andalusian cultures, as they were in Moorish-ruled Spain in peaceful and mutually beneficial coexistence, the band recorded four studio and one live album between 2006 and 2013 and played numerous concerts and festivals throughout Europe. The three singers Sigrid Hausen, Mara Aranda and Iman Kandoussi, each representing one of the three cultures, were always at the centre of the music. ‘The Songs of Iman Kandoussi’ is now the first thematic...

Guy Klucevsek - "The Grass, It Is Blue" - Polka From the Fringe [In memory of Guy Klucevsek] [0:00:00] Guy Klucevsek - "The VCR Polka" - Polka From the Fringe [David Garland composition] [0:05:02] Guy Klucevsek - "The Disinformation Polka" - Polka From the Fringe [Fred Frith composition] [0:07:33] Guy Klucevsek - "Medjunarodni Nacin Polka" - Polka From the Fringe [Anthony Coleman composition] [0:11:40] Värttinä - "Kukkilintu" - Kyly [Värttinä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈʋærtːinæ], meaning "spindle") is a Finnish folk music band that started as a project by Sari and Mari Kaasinen in 1983 in the village of Rääkkylä, in Karelia, the southeastern region of Finland. Many transformations have taken place in the band since then. Värttinä shot into fame with the release of their 1991 album Oi Dai. The vocalists sing in the Karelian dialect of the Finnish language. - wiki] [0:16:34] Constantinople & Benedicte Maurseth - "Summer Solstice" - Nordic Lights in Persian Sky [Hardanger fiddle player, composer and writer Benedicte Maurseth (b.1983) is an esteemed composer/performer on Norway’s folk music scene. Maurseth has studied with Hardanger fiddle master Knut Hamre for close to 30 years. She is an alumna of the prestigious Ole Bull Academy, where she studied Norwegian Folk Music Performance, and in recent years, Maurseth has expanded her work to include Norwegian traditional folk singing (kveding). Constantinople promotes the creation of new works incorporating musical elements of diverse musical traditions around the world, drawing from medieval manuscripts to a contemporary aesthetic, passing by Mediterranean Europe to Eastern traditions and New World Baroque. - Constantinople home page] [0:20:04] Gamelan Salukat x Jan Kadereit - "Saih Cenik Part I" - Áshira [Salukat combines two sets of instruments that are tuned to different seven-note scales, therefore enriching the tonal and harmonic possibilities of Gamelan music. After releasing six critically acclaimed albums, they invited composer/percussionist Jan Kadereit in 2023 to collaborate on new music. This resulting album is full of unheard harmonies and beautifully intertwined melodies. - PR] [0:25:00] Gamelan Salukat x Jan Kadereit - "Saih Cenik Part II" - Áshira [0:25:48] Electric Kulintang - "Drum Code 2: 21 Million Hectares" - Drum Codes [Electric Kulintang is the musical pairing of percussion duo Roberto Rodriguez and Susie Ibarra. Their music revolves around the Kulintang, a traditional Philippine instrument, which is a series of eight gongs, played with sticks. The kulintang sound is both dense and ethereal. Surrounding this tonal resonance are electronics, percussion, field recordings and for the first time on record, the vocal styling of Susie Ibarra. - Amazon] [0:27:09] Danongan Kalanduyan and the Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble - "Singkil Dance Music" - Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine Diaspora [Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Southern Philippines, Eastern Malaysia, Eastern Indonesia, Brunei and Timor, Kulintang evolved from a simple native signaling tradition, and developed into its present form with the incorporation of knobbed gongs from Sundanese people in Java Island, Indonesia. - wiki] [0:34:16] Regalado - "Pinoy Funk" - Various Artists: Ayo Ke Disco: Boogie, Pop & Funk from the South China Sea (1974-88) [For Ayo Ke Disco (meaning ‘Let’s go to the disco’ in Indonesian), 10 rare tracks of disco-funk, psychedelic funk, synth, city pop, and Hindustani-Arabic rhythms were painstakingly licensed from local labels – forming a snapshot of the vibrant discotheques and live scenes across Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand,...

Bokani Dyer - "Vuvuzela" - Various Artists: The Rough Guide to South African Jazz [0:00:00] Madala Kunene & Baba Mokoena Serakoeng - "Market Place Featuring Sibusiso Bernard Mndaweni" - First Double [Madala Kunene is a Zulu guitarist and singer who blends blues, soul and afro folk. He has collaborated with Melt2000, Baba Mokoena and others, and released albums such as 'King Of The Zulu Guitar' and '1959'. - music in Africa] [0:09:02] Kim Sinh - "Ly My Hung & Vong Co" - The Art of Kim Sinh [0:19:57] Nashaz - "City of Sand" - Nashaz [0:52:12] Brian Prunka - "Reunion" - Live on WFMU [1:07:57] Ameer Armaly - "Improvisation" - Live on WFMU [1:13:09] Kane Mathis - "Etude (For Oud in 3 Sections)" - Geminus [1:37:14] Ameer Armaly & Brian Prunka - "Bint el Chalabi" - Live on WFMU [1:44:21] Le Trio Joubran - "Asfâr" - As Fâr [Le Trio Joubran is an oud trio playing traditional Palestinian music. The trio consists of brothers Samir, Wissam, and Adnan Joubran, originally from Nazareth and currently dividing their time between Nazareth, Ramallah and Paris. - wiki] [1:58:38] The Secret Trio - "Şeker Oğlan" - Coexist [TICKET GIVEAWAY: Email robw AT wfmu dot org with TIX in the subject line to see Ara Dinkjian's New York Oud Festival show at the Sultan Room with Mal Barsamian Wednesday May 21, opening night of the festival. We also have tickets to see Gabe Lavin, Ameer Armaly and Brian Prunka at Jalopy Friday May 30. Please specify in your email which show you're interest in. Thanks!] [2:15:55] Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian - "Sokoot-e Hayahoo" - Noor-e Vojood [2:20:13] Muhammed Qadri Dalal - "Makam Nawa" - Maqamat Insolites [2:28:51] Marcel Khalife - "Achikain" - Andalusia Of Love [2:32:43] Farid al-Atrash - "Laktob Aourak El Chagar" - Aghany Film Hikayet El Omor Kollow-Zaman Ya Hob [2:38:05] Sheikh Amin Abdel Qader - "Mould fi Madina Tanta (Born in the City of Tanta)" - Various Artists: Born in the City of Tanta - Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore and Bedouin Shaabi from Libya's Bourini Records 1968-75 [In Egypt, far from the bustling cosmopolitan center of Cairo, north and northwest, in towns like Tanta and Alexandria and extending across the Saharan Desert to the Libyan border, dozens of fully marginalized artists were developing a raw, hybrid shaabi/al-musiqa al-shabiya style of music, supported by smaller upstart, independent labels, including the short-lived but deeply resonant Bourini Records. - bandcamp] [2:48:11] Ammar El Sherei - "El Donya Helwa" - Music from The East [Al-Sherei started composing while still at school and wrote music for over 50 films and 120 television series, working with many renowned Egyptian directors. His scores were awarded numerous prestigious Arab and international awards. He also composed over 150 songs for most of the major music stars of the Arab World, including Warda, Latifa, and Ali El-Haggar. - see.news] [2:53:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152170