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Pangaea was a supercontinent which connected all the landmasses, during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. Like a puzzle whose pieces you can still see today—Africa fitting into South America, Greenland tucking back into Canada—it assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago, all according to livescience.com. The plates, and us on them, are still moving today, because of giant molten waves in the earth’s core, generated by convection currents. The good news is, Pangea wasn’t the first supercontinent in our 4.5 billion year history, and it won’t be the last, according to geologic predictions that say we’ll keep bumping our continental shelves into each other as long as the old home orb survives. Which is how today's show came about—cleaning and rearranging my CD shelves, I thought about how music truly does bring us all together, despite the shelf breaks of geography, language, instrumentation, or genre. Today, on ear to ear—continental shelves collide! Hermeto Pascoal, Laurel MacDonald, Terra Sul, Aziz Sahmaoui, Amy Sacko, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, more.

Beginning with the Balafon of the Griot, to Lou Harrison's gamelan Homage to Pacifica, to the blacksmith-flutists of the Peulhs in Mali, wide-ranging musical thanks and appreciation for Squallis Puppeteers' long, successful, and award-winning run on WXOX.

It's all about the voices...songs about singing, unusual culture-based and experimental vocal techniques. A tribute to the diversity of DJ voices at WXOX, and a prelude to our Voix de Ville event coming up!

Dr. Angela Scharfenberger and students from The Louisville Folk School discuss and perform music from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, along with recorded examples from these music-cultures, stories about teachers and experiences studying and researching.

To your health! A common enough toast, which my mother enjoyed in a longer version in Spanish: “Amor, salud, dinero, y el tiempo para gustar los” Love, health, and wealth, and the time to enjoy them. It is somewhat strange I suppose to include health as a proffered wish when consuming braincell-slaying beverages, and maybe that’s part of the reason it’s there—good luck against the forces of ill-health, including the one you have in your hand! But I suppose it can and should also be said with any shared libation. Today’s show searches for wellness, meditates on good health, mental and physical feelings, and will include a traditional doctor’s cure from Uganda for those of you already under the weather, a get well soon card from Bob Brookmeyer, and the sentiment behind our first piece from Mbira master Forward Kwenda—and the song Zvichapera Chete: this too shall pass.

Jazz, world music, food themes.

Interview with author and journalist Michael L. Jones on the history of jug band music, its Louisville connections, and featuring rare recordings of early jug bands plus recent groups inspired by jug band music, but taking it in unexpected directions.

all vinyl, mostly jazz, some world music