Upcoming Events Okayplayer News Pitchfork NewsHey peoples, hope you caught today’s edition of Sound Travels, another great set, another live edition. Today, it was Milwaukee’s own Urbanites in the studio for Sound Travels giving the global direction I present every Friday at noon, a bit of local flavor for the day.
The set was potent, and a pure pleasure to see [...]
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Hey y’all, today’s Sound Travels was live wasn’t it? Of course, by live I really mean live as we went all 414 Music on ya’ with a live performance from Yaya Kambaye. Yaya was great in the studio, rocked us with live kora music from his homeland Dakar, Senegal, on the Western coast of Africa. [...]
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Sound Travels : Mashout The Third !!!
1. Nass El Ghiwane : “Lahdia” A musical group appeared in the late 60’s in Morocco. Whenever mentioned in the Western literature, they are referred to as The Rolling Stones of Africa, as American producer Martin Scorsese once put it. They are living legends who merged the rich repertoire [...]
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Now many of you are already wondering what ‘desi’ means but dig the dance. Today’s Sound Travels has been all about the Indian subcontinent and the sounds that it has inspired. Being that Diwali was only last week, I thought it only apropos to play something with a sitar or a dhol drum or a [...]
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In keeping with the theme of the month here at the station, I thought what better way to end the month’s Sound Travels with a special edition of conscious music from around the world. The mix was harder for all the particularities of building a groove around a theme or purpose, but I got it [...]
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I know that you all ain’t fools, so the idea that world music is exceptionally rudimentary or primitive, probably ain’t your assumption. And if it were, today’s Sound Travels ought dispell your illusion. The world has gone digital indeed. And that’s not referring simply to techniques to record, it also means techniques for making music. [...]
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Sound Travels : Global Mashout #2 (9/18/08)
1. BHAI DAVINDER SINGH : “Anandmayi Simran” - Anandmayi Simran This pure vocal track runs parallel to Martin Atkins’ China Dub, the mantra Wahe Guru is Gurumuki, a language of Punjabi Sikhs. Wahe…Guru, for the Sikhs is the inhale…exhale, the mantra is God’s name in the sense that it [...]
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This week’s Sound Travels a bit different than in the past as I have a playlist that, rather than homing in on a particular pair of styles or a certain region of the world, is more in the flow and global in it’s go go. Got to get away from the analysis this week as [...]
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Welcome to the Sound Travels web edition for the show on Friday, July 18th. Today’s trip is though Latin America, exploring one of its defining sounds: Cumbia. Specifically, it’s the sound of cumbia nueva, or cumbia villera which much like cumbia employs a rhythmic shuffle of the rhythm section with accordions wheezing and electronic beats, [...]
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