01 March 2008

PLAYLIST: 1March08: New Releases (and just generally wandering the globe . . .)

Track
Artist
Album
Year
Country/Notes


3:00pm

Superlight
Yannah Valdevit
Future Sound of Jazz,Vol. 11
2007
Croatia

Morena de Angola (Chocalho Mix)
DJ Ze Pedro
Lo Mejor Para Dancar
2003
Brazil; remix of classic vocals

Devil Kuri from Mars
Alien Chatter
Invasion EP 2
2008
Indo-jazz-fusion

3:15pm

Me Cai (I Fell)
Pacifika
Asuncion
2008 (will release in April)
Peru/Canada/Barbados

Esa Musica (w/Juan Chills)
Bitman & Roban
Musica Para Depues de Almuerzo (Music for After Lunch)
2007
Chile

Como el Aqua Cale
Macoco & Ms. Maiko
Ingravitto
2007
Spain; includes founder of Ojos de Brujo

3:30pm

Ride (w/Chery Denise/J Grier)
Chosan
The Beautiful Side of Misery
2007
Artist from Sierra Leone, now living in the Bronx; "blood diamond" activist

Bataxal
Alif
Dakamerap
2006
Senegal; all-girl rap band w/lyrics about survellience

Diawar
Ismael Lo
Diawar
1989
Senegal; AIDS activist

3:45pm

Bambumiehta (Bamboo Honey)
Wimme
Cuga
2007
Finland; "Sami yoki" style of vocal chanting (from nomadic Lapplanders)

Teknochek (M.E.M.O.R.Y. Man Remix)
Slavic Soul Party & Marc Uselli
Remixed
2008
Immigrant artists living in NYC, from Mexico, Eastern Europe & Asia

4:00pm

Bethe Bethe Kese Kese
Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Dub Qawwali Remixes
2008
Pakistan

Tu Ki Janis Na 1
Arnob
Hok Kolorob
2008
Bangladesh

The Sacrifice
Bikram Ghosh
Drum Invasion
2008
India

4:15pm

The Swallow's Bridge
Huong Thanh & Nguyen Le
Fragile Beauty
2008
Vietnam

Chimuguri Utasha (Ryukyu Underground Remix)
Miyazawa
Deeper Than Oceans
2003
Japan (recorded in Brazil with Japanese and Brazilian musicians)

Seeing Hands
Dengue Fever
Venus on Mars
2008
Cambodia & San Francisco

4:30pm

Le Temps de L'Amour
April March
Paris in April
1996
Ohio (yes, Ohio . . . artist lived in France most of her life)

4:45pm

Sweet Dreams
Bebel Gilberto
Live Session
2008
Brazil; cover of Eurythmics 1980s recording

Contraditorio
DJ Dolores
Contraditorio
2006
Brazil; uses rhythms from NE Brazil

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