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Halftime at the Apocalypse
Apr 18, 2024 8:00 PM – 9:55 PM
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With Jeff Rogers, Kevin
Halftime explores global consciousness, politics, life in general and music for the millenium. Kevin Mathews takes over the 1st Thursday of the month.
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Global Rhythm Radio
Apr 18, 2024 6:00 PM – 7:55 PM
Music
With Toby Roberts, Shelby Athouguia, Chris Miranda
Matt Moon takes you on a trip around the world with the finest international music. Parisa takes over for the 4th Thursday of the month.
Shelby Athouguia standing in for Matt Moon. Thank you for spending your Thursday night here on Community Radio
7:51 PM |
| Rupa Aaj Shanibar Disco Jazz Numero Group 2019 Rupa Biswas is an Indian singer who is known for her singular Disco Jazz album. The Khan brothers produced her first album Disco Jazz, which was completed in 1981 and released in 1982. The song "Aaj Shanibar" was mostly sung in the Bengali language, along with some Hindi. In 1982, Rupa sold a handful of copies of Disco Jazz and soon faded into anonymity. The album disappeared from circulation. |
7:46 PM |
| Yirinda Yuangan (Dugong) Yirinda Chapter Music 2024 Yirinda combine ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. Fred Leone and Samuel Pankhurst’s music invokes thousands of generations of story and culture, while emerging as something entirely new. Fred is one of three Butchulla songmen – a song and language custodian for the Butchulla people from the Fraser Coast region of Queensland, including K’gari (formerly known as Fraser Island). He sings the songs on this album in the endangered Butchulla language, now spoken by only a handful of people. Samuel is an internationally acclaimed contrabassist/producer known for his kaleidoscopic harmonies and polyrhythmic mastery. He has scored extensively for contemporary dance, recently for notable choreographer Thomas Kelly’s celebrated work SILENCE. |
7:41 PM |
| Ballaké Sissoko Yafa Djini Te Djitoyaye A Touma No Format! 2021 Malian player of the kora
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7:38 PM |
| Wu Mengmeng Buddha's Chat The Art of the Chinese Guzheng ARC 2019 She is a master of the guzheng, the Chinese harp
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7:35 PM |
| Glass Beams Mahal Mahal - EP Ninja Tune 2024 The enigmatic Naarm (Melbourne) based Glass Beams radiates a psychedelia rendered with cyclical riffs and dizzying melodies. |
7:32 PM |
| Agrupacion Ilegal Los Imparciales Cumbia con sabor Media Hora de Cumbia Agrupacion Ilegal los Imparciales 2014 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
7:24 PM |
| Mahmoud Guinia, Floating Points Minmoun Marhaba Marhaba Border Community Recordings Ltd 2015 In March 2014, James Holden and Floating Points were invited to the Fellah Hotel near Marrakech, to participate in a week-long residency collaborating with the legendary Maalem (Master) Mahmoud Guinia from Morocco’s Gnawa musical tradition. The four tracks on this EP are the product of Holden and Floating Points’ makeshift open-air recording sessions by the hotel pool with the Maalem Mahmoud Guinia and his band, featuring the Maalem on his three-stringed guembri instrument and lead vocals and accompanied by the trio of Guinia’s brother-in-law and two sons who provide the vocal chorus response and complex krakeb and clapping percussive rhythm cycles that characterise the Gnawa tradition. |
7:20 PM |
| Yu Su Watermelon Woman Watermelon Woman - EP Technicolour 2019 Electronic music producer and DJ. She was born in Kaifeng, China, and moved to Vancouver, Canada, in 2013. She started to produce music the following year and after a tour of mainland China in 2019 from Qingdao to Xining, she set up the record label bié in order to release the music of the artists she had met. |
7:17 PM |
| Les Filles de Illighadad Achibaba Les Filles de Illighadad Sahel Sounds 2016 Fatou Seidi Ghali, founding band member, would practice in secret a cousin’s electric guitar and taught herself to play. Ghali has become the first professional female guitarist amongst the Tuareg. With Alamnou Akrouni and Amaria Hamadalher, Ghali formed Les Filles de Illighadad (The Daughters of Illighadad, their native village), in 2017, the first female Tuareg band. |
7:15 PM |
| Mop Mop Alfa Lunar Love Agogo Records 2016 Andrea Benini better known by his stage name Mop Mop, is an Italian musician and producer. He performs with his band, the Mop Mop Combo, as well as a DJ worldwide. Mop Mop achieved international recognition when he was included in the soundtrack of Woody Allen's To Rome With Love in 2012. |
7:10 PM |
| Letta Mbulu Nomalizo In The Music The Village Never Ends RCA Records Label 1996 Letta Mbulu is a South African jazz singer who has been active since the 1960s
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7:05 PM |
| Sona Jobarteh Mamaké Fasiya African Guild Records 2011 Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. |
7:02 PM |
| Piero Umiliani Nel Villaggio Continente Nero Jaipur Music 2021 Italian composer of film scores
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6:59 PM |
| Pat Thomas Awurade Mpaebo Coming Home Strut 2016 Pat Thomas was born in Agona, Ghana. His father was a music theory instructor and his mother a bandleader. |
6:56 PM |
| Sessa Pele Da Esfera Estrela Acesa Mexican Summer 2022 From Brazil
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6:52 PM |
| Owiny Sigoma Band Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka (Rework) Owiny Sigoma Band Brownswood Recordings 2011 Founded in 2009, the Owiny Sigoma Band began during a cultural exchange project in Kenya entitled ‘The Art of Protest’. A group of london based musicians including Jesse Hackett, his brother Louis and school friend Tom Skinner were introduced to local musicians Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko. Whilst both of them were singers, Nyamungu specialised in playing the Nyatiti, a stringed lute popular amongst the Luo people in western Kenya, whilst Owoko would play the Nyaduonge drum. |
6:49 PM |
| Nahawa Doumbia Diby (L'ombre) Diby Cobalt 2003 singer from Mali's Wassoulou region |
6:45 PM |
| Meitei Chouchin Komachi Métron Records 2019 Hiroshima based experimental composer, was influenced from the tranquility and traditional Japanese mood while growing up with his grandmother, his music and art are driven by bringing back what he believes is fading away from the Japanese society generation after generation. |
6:40 PM |
| Keisuke Sakai Mizu Sumu Wa No Ne - EP Lemongrassmusic 2011 music producer, Ambient live musician, and synth player living in Tokyo. |
6:38 PM |
| Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Mais Que Nada Greatest Hits A&M 1970 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 is the first album by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. Referring to the song "Mas que Nada" Mendes said in 2014: "It was the first time that a song in Portuguese was a hit in America and all over the world". |
6:34 PM |
| Chiwoniso Zvichapera Zvichapera - Single Nyami Nyami Records 2015 Chiwoniso Maraire was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter, and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. She was the daughter of Zimbabwean mbira master and teacher Dumisani Maraire. Describing the mbira, an instrument traditionally used by male musicians, she said, "It is like a large xylophone." She died at age 37 due to complications of Pneumonia. |
6:29 PM |
| Nicola Cruz La Mirada Prender el Alma ZZK Records 2015 Ecuadorian DJ and producer Nicola Cruz effortlessly blends ancestral Andean cosmology and folkloric music customs from across the globe into decidedly contemporary electronic expressions. |
6:25 PM |
| N'Gou Bagayoko Kulu Kulu Frikyiwa la musique des maquis 2002 From Mali. He learnt playing guitar mainly by listening to the kamalen n'goni, a Malian instrument with 8 strings and a large calebash as a resonance box. The style he plays is inspired by the rhythm of the didadi, the music of Bougouni, and it is this combination of blues (kamalen n'goni) and swing (didadi) which makes his first album so attractive. |
6:23 PM |
| Ana Mazzotti Bairro Negro Ana Mazzotti Far Out Recordings 1977 Dubbed a “super-musician” by fellow Brazilian virtuoso Hermeto Pascoal, Mazzotti’s short but rich musical career culminated in just two studio albums: Ninguem Vai Me Segurar (1974), and Ana Mazzotti (1977). Outside circles of Brazilian funk aficionados, these two gems of spellbinding samba-jazz, lysergic funk and trippy bossa have remained relatively obscure. Ana died at the age of 37 in a battle with cancer. |
6:20 PM |
| Michel Banabila Echo Transformations Echo Transformations Knekelhuis 2021 Dutch composer and sound artist.
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6:16 PM |
| Francis Bebey Fleur Tropicale African Electronic Music (1975-1982) Born Bad Records 2012 A Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster. He was also the first African musician to use electric keyboards and programmable drum machines which he set alongside off the traditional African instruments. |
6:11 PM |
| Gia Fu Canton Mambo Canton Mambo - Single Kong Records Ltd. 2023 Gia Fu, a DJ/selector and music producer from Hong Kong, specializes in Afro-Latin music, particularly Salsa and associated rhythms. Beyond extensive touring as an international DJ and music producer, her research work explores how cultures - including her own Chinese heritage and Latin American influences - enrich one another. Having grown up in a culturally vibrant environment, her upbringing fuels her passion for challenging stereotypes and promoting inclusion within the music industry. |
6:08 PM |
| Joel Vandroogenbroeck Fairy Tale (Analog Remaster) Far View Drag City Records 2021 Belgian composer, arranger, keyboardist, flutist, sitarist, vocalist, harpist, percussionist, producer, engineer and conductor. |
6:04 PM |
| Afel Bocoum Penda Djiga Lindé World Circuit 2020 A musician from Mali, noted as a singer and guitarist. He is from the town of Niafunke on the River Niger, and a member of the Sonrai people. Bocoum is an agricultural advisor by profession. |
6:01 PM |
| Rajery Pk 18 Bedia Les Studios de la Ruche 2014 Pronounced "Rajer" A player of the valiha from Madagascar who founded the modern valiha orchestra. The valiha is a tube zither from Madagascar made from a species of local bamboo: it is considered the "national instrument" of Madagascar. |
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