Conference of the Birds, 7-28-09
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Early (proto-) Raï music from Ahmed Wahbi (Algeria) and Sïf Mohammed (Morocco); modern Raï singer Cheb Nasro plays critically on the tradition of "La Souffrance"; Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris; Billy Bang reflecting on Vietnam; Les Amazon & Les Rossignol de Guinée; new music from North Sumatra; El Lebrijano w/ Sainkho Namtchylak and a group of young Bulgarian vocalists; Tunisian vocalists modernize the Judeo-Arabic canon for/in the Maghreb; much more...
Recent music from the Garifuna Women's Project (from Belize), Iragi-American composer and multi-instrumentalist Amir el Saffar, Thione Seck from Senegal (traveling to India and Egypt), Djelimady Tounkara (from Mali's Rail band) Toumani Diabate's Symetric Orchestra, and dipping into archives for music from Eddie Gale, Rip Rig & Panic, Don Cherry, Alfredo Rodriguez, and much more.
Music from I. Wayan Sadra, avant-garde composer from Sunda; inventive Jaipongan pop from Java; Pansori (solo opera from Korea); Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble salutes novelist Octavia Butler; seldom heard Qawwali from Pakistan; Steve Coleman's Five Elements weaving 'Koreo-Brazilian' symoblics; music from Equal Interest (Myra Melford, Joseph Jarman, Leroy Jenkins); recent recordings from Hadjia Kouyaté and Nahawa Doumbia; much more...
Texts by Franz Fanon and Aimé Césaire set to music; Sun Ra in Egypt; Youssou N'Dour in Egypt; Les Amazones de Guineé; Craig Harris in Istanbul; Pierre Akendengue salutes African freedom fighters; new Algerian cha'abi music from Abdel Hadi Halo & classic cha'abi from Dahmane el Harrache...much more.
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