WZBC 90.3 FM Newton
Boston College Radio, Chestnut Hill, MA
Student-run radio station at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. USA
Transworld Airwaves
Jan 24, 2021 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Specialty
With DJ Madame B
It is a “cross-cultural musical journey united in voices and rhythms”. We feature voices and rhythms from ethno-techno and other eclectic rhythms, atonal voices from Tuva to Quebec, and international music rooted from the past, present, and future.
TWMC Best Expanded
As a panelist of the Transglobal World Music Chart, chosen by our network of sixty Transglobal World Music Chart (TWMC) panelists, DJ Madame B presents her favorites from the best of the 2020 Charts new release on Arc Music and expand from these original albums, in this #TWMCBestExpanded edition of Transworld Airwaves. The chart celebrates its 5th anniversary with the first ever compilation album which takes top ranking artists from each month's chart in 2020 and presents an illuminating collection.
| 7:00 PM |
| MergingArts Productions TWMC Best Expanded N Transworld Airwaves MergingArts Productions www.mergingarts.org 2021 CD As a panelist of the Transglobal World Music Chart, chosen by our network of sixty Transglobal World Music Chart (TWMC) panelists, DJ Madame B presents her favorites from the best of the 2020 Charts new release on Arc Music and expand from these original albums, in this #TWMCBestExpanded edition of Transworld Airwaves. The chart celebrates its 5th anniversary with the first ever compilation album which takes top ranking artists from each month's chart in 2020 and presents an illuminating collection. |
| 7:00 PM |
| Various Artists Selections in the Program N The Best of Transglobal World Music Chart 2020 Arc Music 2021 World Celebrating the best of World Music, chosen by the network of sixty Transglobal World Music Chart (TWMC) panelists. These global music disseminators are based in every continent and have a wide depth of knowledge and international connections from which to source new music. The chart celebrates its 5th anniversary with the first ever compilation album which takes top ranking artists from each month's chart in 2020 and presents an illuminating collection. |
| 7:01 PM |
| Asmaa Hamzaoui Bala Yourki (on The Best Of TWMC 2020) + Rebi Ya Moulay + Sidi Lafquih N Oulad Lghaba Ajabu! 2020 World Asmaa Hamzaoui is the foremost female ambassador of Gnawa music and with her group Bnat Timbouktou, she delivers a contagious brand of evangelistic desert blues. |
| 7:18 PM |
| Aziza Brahim Ard El hub + Lmanfa + Leil (on The Best Of TWMC 2020) N Sahari Glitterbeat Records 2019 World She is a Sahrawi singer and actress, born in in the desolate refugee camps in Algeria, as she travels the expanse between her Western Saharan roots and European in Barcelona, where she now lives. |
| 7:30 PM |
| Aynur Berfek Bari + Ezim Ezim Eziliyor + Govend E (on The Best Of TWMC 2020) N Hedur - Solace of Time Dreyer And Gaido/The Orchard 2020 World She is based in Turkey, presenting contemporary Kurdish Folk Music. |
| 7:48 PM |
| Cimarron Parranda Quitapesares + Tonada De La Palomita + Zumbajam (on The Best Of TWMC 2020) N Orinoco Cimarron Music 2020 World Led by hear by band leader and harpist, the late Carlos Rojas, Cimarron, from Colombia, perform joropo music from the Plains of the Orinoco River with a progressive global sound. Their music includes guitar-like cuatro and bandola, harp, maracas, and also Peruvian-flamenco cajón, Brazilian surdo, Afro-colombian tambora, foot-stomping dance and tribal indigenous whistles from Orinoco region. |