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Alain de Botton on atheism and religion

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I found this talk on Ted yesterday and found his ideas on what atheists can learn from religion intriguing. A transcript is included on the site, which I am also posting here in case you wish to read it.

Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0

One of the most common ways of dividing the world is into those who believe and those who don't -- into the religious and the atheists. And for the last decade or so, it's been quite clear what being an atheist means. There have been some very vocal atheists who've pointed out, not just that religion is wrong, but that it's ridiculous. These people, many of whom have lived in North Oxford, have argued -- they've argued that believing in God is akin to believing in fairies and essentially that the whole thing is a childish game.

Now I think it's too easy. I think it's too easy to dismiss the whole of religion that way. And it's as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. And what I'd like to inaugurate today is a new way of being an atheist -- if you like, a new version of atheism we could call Atheism 2.0. Now what is Atheism 2.0? Well it starts from a very basic premise: of course, there's no God. Of course, there are no deities or supernatural spirits or angels, etc. Now let's move on; that's not the end of the story, that's the very, very beginning.

I'm interested in the kind of constituency that thinks something along these lines: that thinks, "I can't believe in any of this stuff. I can't believe in the doctrines. I don't think these doctrines are right. But," a very important but, "I love Christmas carols. I really like the art of Mantegna. I really like looking at old churches. I really like turning the pages of the Old Testament." Whatever it may be, you know the kind of thing I'm talking about -- people who are attracted to the ritualistic side, the moralistic, communal side of religion, but can't bear the doctrine. Until now, these people have faced a rather unpleasant choice. It's almost as though either you accept the doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

So that's a sort of tough choice. I don't think we have to make that choice. I think there is an alternative. I think there are ways -- and I'm being both very respectful and completely impious -- of stealing from religions. If you don't believe in a religion, there's nothing wrong with picking and mixing, with taking out the best sides of religion. And for me, atheism 2.0 is about both, as I say, a respectful and an impious way of going through religions and saying, "What here could we use?" The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly, I would argue. And a thorough study of religion could give us all sorts of insights into areas of life that are not going too well. And I'd like to run through a few of these today.

I'd like to kick off by looking at education. Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place, we think education; that's where we put a lot of money. Education is going to give us, not only commercial skills, industrial skills, it's also going to make us better people. You know the kind of thing a commencement address is, and graduation ceremonies, those lyrical claims that education, the process of education -- particularly higher education -- will make us into nobler and better human beings. That's a lovely idea. Interesting where it came from.

In the early 19th century, church attendance in Western Europe started sliding down very, very sharply, and people panicked. They asked themselves the following question. They said, where are people going to find the morality, where are they going to find guidance, and where are they going to find sources of consolation? And influential voices came up with one answer. They said culture. It's to culture that we should look for guidance, for consolation, for morality. Let's look to the plays of Shakespeare, the dialogues of Plato, the novels of Jane Austen. In there, we'll find a lot of the truths that we might previously have found in the Gospel of Saint John. Now I think that's a very beautiful idea and a very true idea. They wanted to replace scripture with culture. And that's a very plausible idea. It's also an idea that we have forgotten.

If you went to a top university -- let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge -- and you said, "I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live," they would show you the way to the insane asylum. This is simply not what our grandest and best institutes of higher learning are in the business of. Why? They don't think we need it. They don't think we are in an urgent need of assistance. They see us as adults, rational adults. What we need is information. We need data, we don't need help.

Now religions start from a very different place indeed. All religions, all major religions, at various points call us children. And like children, they believe that we are in severe need of assistance. We're only just holding it together. Perhaps this is just me, maybe you. But anyway, we're only just holding it together. And we need help. Of course, we need help. And so we need guidance and we need didactic learning.

You know, in the 18th century in the U.K., the greatest preacher, greatest religious preacher, was a man called John Wesley, who went up and down this country delivering sermons, advising people how they could live. He delivered sermons on the duties of parents to their children and children to their parents, the duties of the rich to the poor and the poor to the rich. He was trying to tell people how they should live through the medium of sermons, the classic medium of delivery of religions.

Now we've given up with the idea of sermons. If you said to a modern liberal individualist, "Hey, how about a sermon?" they'd go, "No, no. I don't need one of those. I'm an independent, individual person." What's the difference between a sermon and our modern, secular mode of delivery, the lecture? Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information. And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition. The tradition of sermonizing is hugely valuable, because we are in need of guidance, morality and consolation -- and religions know that.

Another point about education: we tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. Sit them in a classroom, tell them about Plato at the age of 20, send them out for a career in management consultancy for 40 years, and that lesson will stick with them. Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on you knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

So religions are cultures of repetition. They circle the great truths again and again and again. We associate repetition with boredom. "Give us the new," we're always saying. "The new is better than the old." If I said to you, "Okay, we're not going to have new TED. We're just going to run through all the old ones and watch them five times because they're so true. We're going to watch Elizabeth Gilbert five times because what she says is so clever," you'd feel cheated. Not so if you're adopting a religious mindset.

The other things that religions do is to arrange time. All the major religions give us calendars. What is a calendar? A calendar is a way of making sure that across the year you will bump into certain very important ideas. In the Catholic chronology, Catholic calendar, at the end of March you will think about St. Jerome and his qualities of humility and goodness and his generosity to the poor. You won't do that by accident; you will do that because you are guided to do that. Now we don't think that way. In the secular world we think, "If an idea is important, I'll bump into it. I'll just come across it." Nonsense, says the religious world view. Religious view says we need calendars, we need to structure time, we need to synchronize encounters. This comes across also in the way in which religions set up rituals around important feelings.

Take the Moon. It's really important to look at the Moon. You know, when you look at the Moon, you think, "I'm really small. What are my problems?" It sets things into perspective, etc., etc. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often. We don't. Why don't we? Well there's nothing to tell us, "Look at the Moon." But if you're a Zen Buddhist in the middle of September, you will be ordered out of your home, made to stand on a canonical platform and made to celebrate the festival of Tsukimi, where you will be given poems to read in honor of the Moon and the passage of time and the frailty of life that it should remind us of. You'll be handed rice cakes. And the Moon and the reflection on the Moon will have a secure place in your heart. That's very good.

The other thing that religions are really aware of is: speak well -- I'm not doing a very good job of this here -- but oratory, oratory is absolutely key to religions. In the secular world, you can come through the university system and be a lousy speaker and still have a great career. But the religious world doesn't think that way. What you're saying needs to be backed up by a really convincing way of saying it.

So if you go to an African American Pentecostalist church in the American South and you listen to how they talk, my goodness, they talk well. After every convincing point, people will go, "Amen, amen, amen." At the end of a really rousing paragraph, they'll all stand up, and they'll go, "Thank you Jesus, thank you Christ, thank you Savior." If we were doing it like they do it -- let's not do it, but if we were to do it -- I would tell you something like, "Culture should replace scripture." And you would go, "Amen, amen, amen." And at the end of my talk, you would all stand up and you would go, "Thank you Plato, thank you Shakespeare, thank you Jane Austen." And we'd know that we had a real rhythm going. All right, all right. We're getting there. We're getting there.

(Applause)

The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies. And when they teach us a lesson, they do it via the body. So for example, take the Jewish idea of forgiveness. Jews are very interested in forgiveness and how we should start anew and start afresh. They don't just deliver us sermons on this. They don't just give us books or words about this. They tell us to have a bath. So in Orthodox Jewish communities, every Friday you go to a Mikveh. You immerse yourself in the water, and a physical action backs up a philosophical idea. We don't tend to do that. Our ideas are in one area and our behavior with our bodies is in another. Religions are fascinating in the way they try and combine the two.

Let's look at art now. Now art is something that in the secular world, we think very highly of. We think art is really, really important. A lot of our surplus wealth goes to museums, etc. We sometimes hear it said that museums are our new cathedrals, or our new churches. You've heard that saying. Now I think that the potential is there, but we've completely let ourselves down. And the reason we've let ourselves down is that we're not properly studying how religions handle art.

The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from art: The first idea is that art should be for art's sake -- a ridiculous idea -- an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try to do anything with this troubled world. I couldn't disagree more. The other thing that we believe is that art shouldn't explain itself, that artists shouldn't say what they're up to, because if they said it, it might destroy the spell and we might find it too easy. That's why a very common feeling when you're in a museum -- let's admit it -- is, "I don't know what this is about." But if we're serious people, we don't admit to that. But that feeling of puzzlement is structural to contemporary art.

Now religions have a much saner attitude to art. They have no trouble telling us what art is about. Art is about two things in all the major faiths. Firstly, it's trying to remind you of what there is to love. And secondly, it's trying to remind you of what there is to fear and to hate. And that's what art is. Art is a visceral encounter with the most important ideas of your faith. So as you walk around a church, or a mosque or a cathedral, what you're trying to imbibe, what you're imbibing is, through your eyes, through your senses, truths that have otherwise come to you through your mind.

Essentially it's propaganda. Rembrandt is a propagandist in the Christian view. Now the word "propaganda" sets off alarm bells. We think of Hitler, we think of Stalin. Don't, necessarily. Propaganda is a manner of being didactic in honor of something. And if that thing is good, there's no problem with it at all.

My view is that museums should take a leaf out of the book of religions. And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum -- if I was a museum curator, I would make a room for love, a room for generosity. All works of art are talking to us about things. And if we were able to arrange spaces where we could come across works where we would be told, use these works of art to cement these ideas in your mind, we would get a lot more out of art. Art would pick up the duty that it used to have and that we've neglected because of certain mis-founded ideas. Art should be one of the tools by which we improve our society. Art should be didactic.

Let's think of something else. The people in the modern world, in the secular world, who are interested in matters of the spirit, in matters of the mind, in higher soul-like concerns, tend to by isolated individuals. They're poets, they're philosophers, they're photographers, they're filmmakers. And they tend to be on their own. They're our cottage industries. They are vulnerable, single people. And they get depressed and they get sad on their own. And they don't really change much.

Now think about religions, think about organized religions. What do organized religions do? They group together, they form institutions. And that has all sorts of advantages. First of all, scale, might. The Catholic Church pulled in 97 billion dollars last year according to the Wall Street Journal. These are massive machines. They're collaborative, they're branded, they're multinational, and they're highly disciplined.

These are all very good qualities. We recognize them in relation to corporations. And corporations are very like religions in many ways, except they're right down at the bottom of the pyramid of needs. They're selling us shoes and cars. Whereas the people who are selling us the higher stuff -- the therapists, the poets -- are on their own and they have no power, they have no might. So religions are the foremost example of an institution that is fighting for the things of the mind. Now we may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

Books alone, books written by lone individuals, are not going to change anything. We need to group together. If you want to change the world, you have to group together, you have to be collaborative. And that's what religions do. They are multinational, as I say, they are branded, they have a clear identity, so they don't get lost in a busy world. That's something we can learn from.

I want to conclude. Really what I want to say is for many of you who are operating in a range of different fields, there is something to learn from the example of religion -- even if you don't believe any of it. If you're involved in anything that's communal, that involves lots of people getting together, there are things for you in religion. If you're involved, say, in a travel industry in any way, look at pilgrimage. Look very closely at pilgrimage. We haven't begun to scratch the surface of what travel could be because we haven't looked at what religions do with travel. If you're in the art world, look at the example of what religions are doing with art. And if you're an educator in any way, again, look at how religions are spreading ideas. You may not agree with the ideas, but my goodness, they're highly effective mechanisms for doing so.

So really my concluding point is you may not agree with religion, but at the end of the day, religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

Chris Anderson: Now this is actually a courageous talk, because you're kind of setting up yourself in some ways to be ridiculed in some quarters.

AB: You can get shot by both sides. You can get shot by the hard-headed atheists, and you can get shot by those who fully believe.

CA: Incoming missiles from North Oxford at any moment.

AB: Indeed.

CA: But you left out one aspect of religion that a lot of people might say your agenda could borrow from, which is this sense -- that's actually probably the most important thing to anyone who's religious -- of spiritual experience, of some kind of connection with something that's bigger than you are. Is there any room for that experience in Atheism 2.0?

AB: Absolutely. I, like many of you, meet people who say things like, "But isn't there something bigger than us, something else?" And I say, "Of course." And they say, "So aren't you sort of religious?" And I go, "No." Why does that sense of mystery, that sense of the dizzying scale of the universe, need to be accompanied by a mystical feeling? Science and just observation gives us that feeling without it, so I don't feel the need. The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. So one can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

CA: Actually, let me just ask a question. How many people here would say that religion is important to them? Is there an equivalent process by which there's a sort of bridge between what you're talking about and what you would say to them?

AB: I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged. It's not as though, as I try to suggest, it's not as though either you have religion and then you have to accept all sorts of things, or you don't have religion and then you're cut off from all these very good things. It's so sad that we constantly say, "I don't believe so I can't have community, so I'm cut off from morality, so I can't go on a pilgrimage." One wants to say, "Nonsense. Why not?" And that's really the spirit of my talk. There's so much we can absorb. Atheism shouldn't cut itself off from the rich sources of religion.

CA: It seems to me that there's plenty of people in the TED community who are atheists. But probably most people in the community certainly don't think that religion is going away any time soon and want to find the language to have a constructive dialogue and to feel like we can actually talk to each other and at least share some things in common. Are we foolish to be optimistic about the possibility of a world where, instead of religion being the great rallying cry of divide and war, that there could be bridging?

AB: No, we need to be polite about differences. Politeness is a much-overlooked virtue. It's seen as hypocrisy. But we need to get to a stage when you're an atheist and someone says, "Well you know, I did pray the other day," you politely ignore it. You move on. Because you've agreed on 90 percent of things, because you have a shared view on so many things, and you politely differ. And I think that's what the religious wars of late have ignored. They've ignored the possibility of harmonious disagreement.

CA: And finally, does this new thing that you're proposing that's not a religion but something else, does it need a leader, and are you volunteering to be the pope?

(Laughter)

AB: Well, one thing that we're all very suspicious of is individual leaders. It doesn't need it. What I've tried to lay out is a framework and I'm hoping that people can just fill it in. I've sketched a sort of broad framework. But wherever you are, as I say, if you're in the travel industry, do that travel bit. If you're in the communal industry, look at religion and do the communal bit. So it's a wiki project.

(Laughter)

CA: Alain, thank you for sparking many conversations later.

Valik and Valerik

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Valik and Valerik. Clown duo Valeri Kashkin and Valentina Rumyantseva. "Guitarist". Валерий Кашкин, Валентина Румянцева. Клоунский дуэт Валик и Валерик. Реприза "Гитарист". From St. Petersburg State Circus, Russia.

Rabbit Creates a Clay Man

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:45:00 +0000

In a world long before this one, there was enough for everyone until somebody got out of line.
We heard it was Rabbit, fooling around with clay and the wind.
Everybody was tired of his tricks and no one would play with him; he was lonely in this world.
So Rabbit thought to make a person.
And when he blew into the mouth of that crude figure to see what would happen, the clay man stood up.
Rabbit showed the clay man how to steal a chicken.
The clay man obeyed.
Then Rabbit showed him how to steal corn.
The clay man obeyed.
Then he showed him how to steal someone else’s wife.
The clay man obeyed.
Rabbit felt important and powerful.
The clay man felt important and powerful.
And once that clay man started he could not stop.
Once he took that chicken he wanted all the chickens.
And once he took that corn he wanted all the corn.
And once he took that wife, he wanted all the wives.
He was insatiable.
Then he had a taste of gold and he wanted all the gold.
Then it was land and anything else he saw.
His wanting only made him want more.
Soon it was countries, and then it was trade.
Any thought, action or dream
Rubs up against everyone else.
The wanting infected the earth.
We lost track of the purpose and reason for life.
We began to forget our songs, we forgot our stories; we could no longer see or hear our ancestors, or talk with each other across the kitchen table.
Now Rabbit couldn’t find a drink of fresh water.
The forests were being mowed down all over the world.
The earth was being destroyed to make more and Rabbit had no place to play.
Rabbit’s trick had backfired.
And now his clay man was too consumed to run with him.
Rabbit tried to call the clay man back, but when the clay man wouldn’t listen Rabbit realized he’d made a clay man with no ears.

Rabbit Is Up to Tricks by Joy Harjo

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:18:00 +0000

Veszelka Kommandó - Engem Anyám

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Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 8.5.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:13:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, August 5th.

The show airs on Fridays on WMUA 91.1 from 12:00 to 2:30 pm EST. Two and a half hours of eclectic music from our wonderful planet - music from overseas, underground, inner space & the outer limits!

If you don't live within the broadcast range, you can stream it live through iTunes. Just go to iTunes, click on "Radio" and search for WMUA in the "College / University" and "Eclectic" sections. You can also join us on Facebook.

Be sure to check out & "Like" the WMUA 91.1 Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/wmua91.1

To listen to a podcast of the show, click on the flash player at the beginning of the post/ playlist and enjoy listening! Also, you can check out this playlist and others from WMUA online at: http://www.wmua.org/playlists.

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Skalpel - High - Skalpel - Ninja Tune
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass - Sadhanipa - Passages - Private Music/ BMG

Pece Atanasovski Orchestra - Stojane luda delijo - Music from Dolneni - Pece Atanasovski Orchestra
Vesa-Matti Loiri - Turkish Coffee - 4+20 - Porter Records
Marijata - No Condition Is Permanent - This Is Marijata - Marijata
Noor Alam - Dilkabate Tin Daraja - The Rough Guide To Sufi Music (CD2) - Rough Guides/World Music NetworkM. Abdul Gani, M. Haja Maideen & S. Sabur Maideen - The Saint - Nagore Sessions - EarthSync
Arif Lohar and Meesha Shafi - Alif Allah Chambey Di Booty - Coke Studio Sessions - Coke Studio
Wild Children - 咒語 - (Unknown) - (Unknown)
Caffe-In - 明知山有虎 and Bomb Girl - Caffe-In - (Unknown)
Caffe-In - 加油小毛虫 (Go, Caterpiller)
Kartick & Gotam - Supreme Chaos - Business Class Refugees - White Swan
Kartick & Gotam - Heer - Business Class Refugees - White Swan
Cascadia 10 - Pharaohs of Elysium - Live - Cascadia10
The Funk Ark - El Beasto - From The Rooftops - ESL Music & Outernational Music
Hauschka - Freibad - Ferndorf - Fatcat Records
Team Me - Weathervanes and Chemicals - Team Me EP - Propeller Recordings
Suchy Chleb Dla Konia - Amsterdam [Negatyw's cover] - Suchy Paradoks - Suchy Chleb Dla Konia
Hanggai - Drinking Song - Introducing Hanggai - Return to the Sources
Imperial Tiger Orchestra - Djemeregne (original track by Muluqen Mellesse) - Addis Abeba - Mental Groove
Tandy Love - Bear Ham - Turk Jerk: Anatolian Anagrams - Fat City
Tandy Love - Asia Subs Kenya - Turk Jerk: Anatolian Anagrams - Fat City
Owiny Sigoma Band - Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Remix) - Tafsiri Sound - Brownswood Recordings
Ali Hassan Kuban - Sukkar, Sukkar, Sukkar - From Nubia to Cairo - Piranha
Abra K Dabra - The Juju is the Thing
Aktuala - Ugula Baliuè African Planet - Tappeto Volante - Bla Bla
Wulomei - Wo Wee Loo - Walatu Walasa - Acord
Barry Forgie - Mindbender - Stringtronics: Mindbender - PID

Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show 7.29.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:10:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, July 29th.

Be sure to check out & "Like" the WMUA 91.1 Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/wmua91.1

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Ikebe Shakedown - Tujunga - Ikebe Shakedown - Ubiquity Records - new

Rotofobia - Neony - Neony - Rotofobia

NOFF - Przed Znieczulenium - DEMO - NOFF

The Rebels Of Tijuana - Fire Till The Break of Dawn - Orange Juice - Echo Orange - new

Sonora Ponceña - Luz Negra - A Band And Its Music - Fania - new

El-Abranis - Athedjaladde - Waking up Scheherazade Vol. 1 - 60's and 70's Cross-Over Rock from North African Countries and The Middle East. - Grey Past (Netherlands) - new

El-Abranis - Avetheri A L'afjare - Waking up Scheherazade Vol. 1 - 60's and 70's Cross-Over Rock from North African Countries and The Middle East. - Grey Past (Netherlands) - new

Kareem Isaaq & Middle Eastern Rock - Besasha - Waking up Scheherazade Vol. 1 - 60's and 70's Cross-Over Rock from North African Countries and The Middle East. - Grey Past (Netherlands) - new

Ancient Future - Alap - World Without Walls - Capitol Records - new

Ancient Future - Indra's Net - World Without Walls - Capitol Records - new

Ancient Future - Gopi Song - World Without Walls - Capitol Records - new

Fatoumata Diawara - Kanou - Kanou EP - World Circuit - new

Buszkasi - No Cukor - FÜLE ZENEIMNEK - EGAL Cultclub - new

Therese Aune - Chameleon - Oslo 2 - Spoon Train Audio

Therese Aune - Film #1

Dav Intergalactic - Lakier - Mechanika Płynów - Dav Intergalactic

Czaqu - Zdumiony (live) - Koncert w Radiu Dla Ciebie (2008) - Czaqu

Cabaret - Lesz Koszt - - EGAL cultclub

Los Vigilantes - Ven Vamos - S/t - Slovenly Records - new

Los Vigilantes - Nina Donde Estas - S/t - Slovenly Records - new

Fatoumata Diawara - Clandestin - Live at The Sage, Gateshead - Unreleased - World Circuit - new

Meyong - "Les Peuples" en Langue Fang

Frere Merimee i - Femme de distinction

Simphiwe Dana - Ndiredi

Amy Koita - Alla Noh

Mónica Naranjo - Europa - Tarántula - Sony BMG Music Entertainment España

Univers Zero - Ronde - 1313 - Cuneiform Records

Penelope - Si Tu Reviens Chez Moi (5 Gentlemen cover) -- La Triperie - La Triperie

Les 5 Gentlemen - Si Tu Reviens Chez Moi

Les Sparks - Palladium

Distemper - Доброе утро - Доброе утро! - Distemper

Primitive Reason - Shadow Man - The Firescroll - Kaminari Records

Cheo Feliciano - Los Entierros - La Herencia - Fania

Skruvmejsel - Mr.Yr - The X-Dump: Female - Skruvmejsel

WMUA 91.1 World Music Show Playlist 7.27.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:07:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the WMUA 91.1 World Music Block, Wednesday, July 27th.

Catch the world music block Mondays through Fridays on WMUA 91.1 from 12:00 to 2:30 pm EST. Two and a half hours of eclectic music from our wonderful planet - music from overseas, underground, inner space & the outer limits!

Be sure to check out & "Like" the WMUA 91.1 Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/wmua91.1

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Jimmy Heap & His Orchestra - Gismo - Las Vegas Grind Part One - From Meanwhile / Gismo 7"

Thirteen Senses - Crystal Sounds - Crystal Sounds - 101 Distribution
Farben Lehre - Erato - Snukraina - Mystic Production
Zmaza - Wstyd - Owszem - Zmaza
Leniwiec - PiekłoNiebo - Reklamy na niebie - Leniwiec
Farben Lehre - Urwis - Ferajna - Farben Lehre
Akurat - Kapitał - Prowincja - Akurat
Muzyka Końca Lata - Żabi - Jedno wesele, dwa pogrzeby
Suchy Chleb Dla Konia - Telefony - Ocalenie
News - Tell Me (Lebanon) - Waking up Scheherazade Vol. 2 - 60's and 70's Cross-Over Rock from North African Countries and The Middle East. - Grey Past (Netherlands)
Ronnie Bird - On S'Aime En Secret - Twistin' The Rock CD1
Silje Nes - The Grass Harp - Opticks - Fat Cat Records
Sol Y Canto - Beso Discreto - Cada Día Un Regalo - Amador Music
Ilaiyaraaja - One And Two Chachacha (Featuring T.M. Soundarajan & L.R. Eswari) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Curly Davis And The Uniques - Black Cobra Pt. 2 - Chains & Black Exhaust
The Sparkles - The Hip - 45's
Thunderball - Rio Mescalito (Mexicans with Guns Remix) - 12 Mile High Remixed - Thunderball DC
Da Cruz - Boom Boom Boom - Sistema Subversiva - Six Degrees
Ilaiyaraaja - Kholapurase Kudasathrivasi (Featuring S.P. Sailaja & Chorus) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada - The Revolt of The Cockroach People - Coconut Rock - ESL Music, Inc.
Khandahar - Down at the Finckle's - Long Live The Sliced Ham - Sony
Khandahar - Survivin' Boogie - Long Live The Sliced Ham - Sony
Monomono - Awareness is What You Need - Dawn Of Awareness - Capitol Records
The Great Big Taters - Don't Go Now - Fake It - Potato Records
The Great Big Taters - Human Shit - Human Shit - Potato Records
Besh O Drom - Ayelet Chen - Ha Megfogom az Ordogot - Sony Music Entertainment
Kerekes Band - Ethno Funk - World Music from Hungary - Sony Music Entertainment
Delicate Steve - Butterfly - Luaka Bop Presents Xingu - Luaka Bop
Tom Ze - Roquenrol Bim-Bom - Luaka Bop Presents Xingu - Luaka Bop
Baoku t.c.r - Freedom - OKODORO ORO The Realistic Reality
Susana Baca - Bendiceme - Luaka Bop Presents Xingu - Luaka Bop
Javelin - Bye n Bye - Luaka Bop Presents Xingu - Luaka Bop
Balkanbeats / Ot Azoj Klezmer Band - Turkish Honga - Balkan Beats Vol. 2 - Eastblok Music
Cheo Feliciano - Los Entierros - La Herencia - Fania

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 7.22.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:03:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, July 22nd.

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Hollywood Persuaders - Drums A Go Go - Drums A-Go-Go - Crossfire Publications
Ocote Soul Sounds - Pirata - Taurus - ESL Music & Outernational Music

Mão Morta - Oub' Lá (Demo '87) - Mao Morta K7 - Cobra Discos
Ancient Future - Lakshmi Rocks Me - World Without Walls - Capitol Records
Ancient Future - End of the Beginning - World Without Walls - Capitol Records
Ilaiyaraaja - Mayakkama (Featuring Vani Jairam) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Ilaiyaraaja - Vaa! Naailukku Naall (Featuring S.P. Balasubrahmanyam) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Zdenek Liska - Aquatic Babicak (Song) - Malá Morská Víla - B-Music
Zdenek Liska - Games / Echoes - Malá Morská Víla - B-Music
Ilaiyaraaja - Solla Solla (Featuring S.P. Balasubrahmanyam) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Ilaiyaraaja - Raja Rani Jaakki (Featuring S.P. Sailaja & Malaysia Vasudevan) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Ilaiyaraaja - Thithikkum (Featuring S.P. Sailaja & S.P. Balas) - Solla Solla - B-Music
Ancient Future - Turkish Taffy - World Without Walls - Capitol Records
Ancient Future - Nyo Nyo Gde - World Without Walls - Capitol Records
Derdiyoklar - Dazlaklar - Oyun Havalari ve Halaylar - Türküola Müzik
Derdiyoklar - Çiftetelli - Oyun Havalari ve Halaylar - Türküola Müzik
Curly Davis & The Uniques - Black Cobra Pt. 1 - Because You're Funky
Ludger - Cowboy Sale - Le Motel des Astronautes - Éditions Haïku
The Opposition Party - Agbadza - Live At Primitive - The Opposition Party
Vern Blair Debate - Super Funk - Texas Funk - Jazzman
Captain Planet - Dame Agua - The Ningané EP - Bastard Jazz
Loga Ramin Torkian - Az Pardeh- Through the Veil - Mehraab - Electrofone Music
Razika - Nytt Pa Nytt - Program 91 - Smalltown Supersound
Silje Nes - Giant Disguise - Ames Room - FatCat Records
Elakelaiset - Pottajenkka - In Humppa We Trust - live
Elakelaiset - Humppa - Elakelaiset
Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band - Djurdjevdan - Live from the 2010 Golden Festival - Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band
Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band - Kalasnjikov - Live from the 2010 Golden Festival - Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band
Baoku - Free Nigeria - Okodoro Oro The Realistic Reality - baokutcr.com
Sakis Zachariades Staff - It All Sounds Greek To Me - Steel Gallery Records
Monomono - Awareness is What You Need - Dawn Of Awareness - Capitol Records
Koes Bersaudara - Hari Ini - To the So Called 'The Guilties"
Rəmiş - Tekcə sənnən xoşum gəlir - Albom Kolleksiyası - İnstrumental Musiqilər
Dara Puspita - A Go Go - A Go Go
Los Bunkers - Cancion De Lejos - Canción de Lejos - Big Sur Records
Los Bunkers - Sabes Que - Canción de Lejos - Big Sur Records
Khandahar - Down at the Finckle's - Long Live The Sliced Ham - Sony
Khandahar - Survivin' Boogie - Long Live The Sliced Ham - Sony

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 7.15.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, July 15th.

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Intended Immigration - Tangodeur - Sneak Peek Passport - Wooden Hat Records - new

Genesis - Supper's Ready - Foxtrot - Wea Int'l

Canzoniere Del Lazio - Ballu - Spirito Bono - Indie Europe/Zoom - new

Sparks - Biology 2 - Sparks - Rhino

Poom Puwarin - Tai Por Karm Bar (Die Because Of The Chubbiness) - Luk Thung! (The Roots Of Thai Funk) - ZudRangMa - new

Todd Rundgren - Miracle In The Bazaar - A Cappella (AP13 Vinyl Rip) - Rhino / Wea

Todd Rundgren - Lockjaw - A Cappella (AP13 Vinyl Rip) - Rhino / Wea

Les Hou-Lops L`intégrale volume 1 - Blue Jeans Sur La Plage - Tout ira très bien

Tillman Sillescu - Army Angels - Action And Adventure Vol 1 - Freeplaymusic, BMI - new

Tilly & The Wall - Rainbows in the Dark - Bottoms of Barrels - Team Love Records

Thawal Pukathorn - Pu Ying Yang Nong (Women Like You) - Luk Thung! (The Roots Of Thai Funk) - ZudRangMa - new

A Taste of Honey - Hong Kong Sci-Fi Girl Garage Band 7

Evy - Une question qui se pose - Girls in the Garage Vol 12 - Romulan

Les Princesses - Oh ! dis-moi - Girls in the Garage Vol 12 - Romulan

Buppha Saichon - sao na khoi khu - mon rak luk thung (o.s.t.)

Mundo Cão - Caixão da Razão - Mundo Cão - Som Livre

Natisú - Perros Para Colgar la Ropa - Natisú - Natisú - new

Neeraj Shridhar - Ishq Ka Kalma - Dhan Dhana Dhan... Goal - Neeraj Shridhar - new

Pony Bravo - El Rayo - Si bajo de espalda no me da miedo (y otras historias) - El Rancho Casa de Discos - new

Yulduz Usmanova - Schoch Va Gado - The Hundred Thousand Fools Of God/ Theodore Levin - Indiana University Press

I Giullari DI Piazza - Canto Di Afrodite (Song Of Aphrodite) - Earth, Sun & Moon - Lyrichord

Radio Bagdad - Giną jak we mgle (wersja radiowa) - Giną jak we mgle - maksisingiel - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - A ja nie! - Słodkie Koktajle Mołotowa - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Londyn Dzwoni - Londyn dzwoni (Singiel) - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Czas Naszych Czasów - Słodkie Koktajle Mołotowa - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Tak bardzo przypominasz mi - Kupując czerń - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Kupując czerń - Kupując czerń - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Magister - Słodkie Koktajle Mołotowa - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Bedziem Robić Politykę - Słodkie Koktajle Mołotowa - Radio Bagdad - new

Radio Bagdad - Patrzymy Wam na Ręce - Słodkie Koktajle Mołotowa - Radio Bagdad - new

Husnu Ozkartal Orkestrasi - Su Derenin Sulari - Psych Funk 101 - World Psychedelic

Kukumbas - Respect - Psych Funk 101 - World Psychedelic

Zmaza - Wstyd - Owszem - Zmaza

Funk Inc. - The Hill Where The Lord Hides

Farben Lehre - Terrorystan - Farbenheit - Farben Lehre - new

Zmaza - Sam na sam - Sam Na Sam- Singiel - Zmaza - new

Leniwiec - Deportacja 68 - Z tarczą lub na tarczy - Leniwiec - new

Leniwiec - Narodowość nieznana - Z tarczą lub na tarczy - Leniwiec - new

Leniwiec - PiekłoNiebo - Reklamy na niebie - Leniwiec - new

Farben Lehre - Urwis - Ferajna - Farben Lehre - new

Akurat - Kapitał - Prowincja - Akurat - new

Pece Atanasovski Orchestra - Stojane luda delijo - Music from Dolneni - Pece Atanasovski Orchestra - new

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 7.8.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:57:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, July 8th.

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Django Reinhardt - Brazil

Samba Chula De São Braz - Samba, Cachaça E Viola - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - Plataforma de Lançamento - new

Clecia Queiroz - Pimenteira - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Roberto Mendes - Beira-Mar - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Tiganá - Maçalê - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Baianasystem - Ôxe Como Era Doce - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Lucas Santtana - Amor Em Jacumã - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Manuela Rodrigues - Barraqueira - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Marcella Bella - Quando O Samba Quer - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Márcia Castro - Frevo Pecadinho - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - - new

Radiola - Gelo Liso É Paraíso Pra Quem Sabe Dançar - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Orkestra Rumpilezz - Floresta Azul - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Mateus Aleluia - Cordeiro De Nanã - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Quinteto Sao Do Mato - Kuzey Mane - Musicas Minas - Music From Minas Gerais/Brazil - BM&A/ Musica Minas - new

Alejandro Carbajal - Conclusiones Personales

Blasted Mechanism - Blast Your Mind - Mind at Large - Toolateman

Blasted Mechanism - Start To Move (Paranormal Att - Mind at Large - Toolateman

Nelio Guerson and Carlos Guerson - Forro Dos Cumpadre - Top Hits From Brazil - Independent

Seu Jorge - Carolina - Carolina - Mr. Bongo - new

Brothers of Brazil - Samba Around The Clock - PunkaNova

Brothers of Brazil - I Hate The Beatles - PunkaNova

Amarguinhas - Just Girls - Amarguinhas - IPLAY

Amarguinhas - Diabo à solta - Amarguinhas - IPLAY

Buraka Som Sistema - Sound of Kuduro - Black Diamond - Fabric 591 Limited

Buraka Som Sistema - Hangover (BaBaBa) - Hangover (BaBaBa) - Enchufada - new

Ilê Aiyê - O Mais Belo Dos Belos - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Hugo San E Orquestra De Pagode - Sinfonia Primeira De Pagode - Brazilian Sampler From Bahia (Songlines #77 Bonus CD) - new

Los Gatos Salvajes - La Respuesta

Forro In The Dark - Nonsensical (Album Version) - Light A Candle - Nat. Geo Music

Forro In The Dark - Saudades de Manezinho Araujo - Nat Geo Amazon Sampler - Nat Geo Music - new

Os Haxixins - Depois de Um LSD

Os Baobás - Down Down - Mocambo CS 1.246

Vitor Ramil + Marcos Suzano - Que Horas Não São? - The Rough Guide To Brazilian Café (CD2) - new

Andreia Dias - Noites - Brazil New Series - BMA Brazil - new

Dois Do Samba - Contrariedade - Musicas Minas - Music From Minas Gerais/Brazil - BM&A/ Musica Minas - new

Chico Pinheiro - Ao Vento - Brazil New Series - BMA Brazil - new

The Real Tuesday Weld - (Return I will) to Old Brazil

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 7.1.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:53:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, July 1st.

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Dub Colossus - Guragigna - Addis Through The Looking Glass - Real World Records - new

Bang On A Can - Andriessen: Hout - Industry

Kai-Jo Brothers - Chewit Tee Pan Nam - new

NAIV - Chto Nam Delat (What Must We Do)

Слот (Slot) - 2 войны (2 Wars)

Наив - Обыватель - Наив - Обывател

NAIV - Nie Nie Bedzie Nas

สล็อต แมชชีน (Slot Machine) - จันทร์เจ้า (Goodbye) - new

Les Dirigeants Africains - Smod - new

Thievery Corporation - Culture Of Fear - Culture Of Fear - new

he Phenomenal Handclap Band - The Journey to Serra Da Estrela (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix) - Friendly Fire Recordings 2011 Sampler - new

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - Vamos Ya! - Nacional Records Sampler 2011 | The New Sounds Of Latin Music Volume 2 - new

Monareta - Fried Speakers - Nacional Records Sampler 2011 | The New Sounds Of Latin Music Volume 2 - new

Lumerians - Black Tusk - Knitting Factory Records 2011 Spring Sampler - new

Femi Kuti - Dem Bobo - Knitting Factory Records 2011 Spring Sampler - new

Carminho - Escrevi Teu Nome No Vento (Fado Carriche) - Fado - EMI new

Bombino - Ahoulaguine Akaline - Agadez - Cumbancha Discovery - new

Blind Note - Chiraki Par - Blind Note - Muziek Publique - new

Susana Baca (Featuring Quetzel) - Que Bonito Tu Vestido - Afrodiaspora - Luakabop - new

Forty Thieves Orkestar - Last Band Standing - Last Band Standing - Enja Records - new

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan - Mann Ki Lagan - Sufis at the Cinema - Saregama - new

Jess Lége, Joel Savoy And The Cajun Country Revival - Corina - The Right Combination - Valcour Records - new

Nils Økland, Sigbjørn Apeland - Sylkje-Per - Homage a Ole Bull - ECM Records - new

Momo Wandel Soumah - Toko - Afro Swing - Fonti Musicali

Excerpt From Life In A Day Soundtrack - Angolan Women Singing - Life for a Day/ Miguel Malta - new

Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley - The Coo-Coo Bird - The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962 - Smithsonian Folkways

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Having A Party - Scratch Came, Scratch Saw, Scratch Conquered - Megawave

Asha Bhosle - Ina Mina Dika - Aasha - Saregama -

El-Abranis - Athedjaladde - Waking up Scheherazade Vol. 1 - 60's and 70's Cross-Over Rock from North African Countries and The Middle East. - Grey Past (Netherlands) - new

Caddywhompus - The Weight - The Weight - Chinquapin Records/ Community Records - new

The Flaming Tsunamis - REFUSE TO DIE - Zombies vs Robots - EP - Community Records

Farben Lehre - Erato - Snukraina - last.fm

Leniwiec - PiekłoNiebo - Reklamy na niebie - last.fm

Farben Lehre - Urwis - Ferajna - last.fm

Akurat - Kapitał - Prowincja - last.fm

News - Tell Me (Lebanon) - Waking up Scheherazade Vol. 2 - 60's and 70's Cross-Over Rock from North African Countries and The Middle East. - Grey Past (Netherlands) - new

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 6.24.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:48:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, June 24th.

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Jerry Goldsmith - Our Man Flint - Our Man Flint (Original Soundtrack) - 20th Century Fox

Wall Of Voodoo - Ring Of Fire (Remix) - Ring Of Fire (Remix) The Morricone Themes (Live) 12" - Index

Maya Beiser - Cello Counterpoint by Steve Reich & World to Come by David Lang - Live at TED Conference June 2011 - Maya Beiser - new

Maya Beiser - Kashmir - Provenance - Innova - new

Apocalyptica - Burn - Worlds Collide - Red Int / Red Ink

The Ethiopians - In Dis Ya Time

The Ethiopians - Train to Skaville - Train to Skaville: Anthology 1966-1975 - Trojan Records

The Ethiopians - Conquering Lion of Judah

The Maytals - Monkey Man - Monkry Man - Sanctuary Records

Paolo Conte - L'Ultima Donna

Freshlyground - Fire Is Low - Radio Africa - Freeground Records/Sony Music Africa - new

Freshlyground - Vula Amehlo - Radio Africa - Freeground Records/Sony Music Africa - new

Freshlyground - Doo Be Doo - Nomvula - Wrasse Records

Freshlyground - Human Angels - Nomvula - Wrasse Records

Freshlyground - Ma' Cheri (Live)

Freshlyground - Pot Belly (Live) - Wrasse Records

Irka Mateo - El Morro de Montecristi - Anacaona - Irka Mateo/ Socan

Malaika - Never Change My Mind - Sekunjalo - Giant Steps

Spirit - Fresh Garbage - Spirit - Sony

The Negro Problem - The Meaning Of Everything - Post Minstrel Syndrome - Smile Records

Mike Oldfield - Platinum, Part 4: North Star/Platinum Finale - Platinum - Blue Plate Caroline

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile - A Brief History/ Mary And Max Soundtrack - Virgin

Chico Buarque - Feijoada Completa - Chico Buarque

Chico Buarque - Ate O Fim - Chico Buarque

George Adams - I.J. - Live At Montmartre - Timeless Jazz Legacy

Laika And The Cosmonauts - Rikki On The Loose - Cosmopolis - Grand Pop

Laika & the Cosmonauts - Theme from 'The Avengers' - The Amazing Colossal Band - Upstart

Spirit - Mechanical World - Spirit - Sony

Jerry Goldsmith - You Are A Foolish Man Mr. Flint!; It's Got To Be A World's Record; Stall! Stall! Flint's Alive!!!!; End Title - Our Man Flint (Original Soundtrack) - 20th Century Fox

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 6.17.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:44:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, June 17th.

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Mitchell Froom - Thrill Factor - The Key of Cool/Café Flesh - Slash

Shakti - Mind Ecology - Natural Elements - Sony/Columbia

Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble - Free Style Boogie - Live Recording at Teatro Gil Vicente - Coimbra, Portugal - November 2006

Gloria Ríos - El Relojito (Rock Around the Clock), México 1956

Jazzimodo - Castillos en el Aire - new

Svjetlana - Secret (Metatheory Remix) - new

Braids - Plath Heart - Native Speaker - Kanine Records - new

Braids - Lemonade - Native Speaker - Kanine Records - new

Matias Cena - 5 Norte 5 Sur - A Todos Nos Mintieron - Carter Vol.3

Matias Cena - No Todos Queremos Mediador - A Todos Nos Mintieron - Spies Vol. 1

J. Magan & M. Rodriguez vs Nari & Milan - Musica Magica vs Etnika (2mischt Bootleg)

Buke And Gass - Your Face Left Before You - Riposte

Milan Nikoli & Balkan Beat Orchestra - Milioni

Kailasa - Kaise Main Kahoon - Yatra (Nomadic Souls) - Songlines CD #75 (April/May 2011) - new

Ahmad Zahir - Yak Dil Mega Boro

The Devil's Anvil - Shisheler - Hard Rock From The Middle East - 101 Distribution

The Devil's Anvil - Misirlou - Hard Rock From The Middle East - 101 Distribution

Dariush - Cheshm-E Man - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Googoosh - Talagh - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Googoosh - Bemoun Ta Bemounam - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Googoosh - Gol Bi Goldoon - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Kourosh Yaghmaie - Gol-E Yakh - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Marjan - Kavir-E Del - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Mehrpouya - Soul Raga - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Mohammad Nouri - Biya Bar-E Safar Bandim - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Nosoh Afarin - Gol-E Aftab Gardoon - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Parva - Mosem-E Gol - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Ramesh - Sharm-E Boos-E - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Sima Bina - Naz Kardanet Vaveyla - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Soli - Miravi - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Soli - Negar - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Zia - Helelyos - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Zia - Kofriam - Pomegranates - Finders Keepers - new

Kate Miller-Heidke - Career Advice

Basic Sounds of Pittsburgh - Down Beat

Sunrise Movement - Running Wild

Rah Band - Downside Up - The Very Best of - Shocking Music

Mitchell Froom - Thrill Factor (Reprise) - The Key of Cool/ Café Flesh - Slash

WMUA 91.1 World Music Show Playlist 6.15.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:16:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the WMUA 91.1 World Music Block, Wednesday, June 15th.

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Ad Ville Que Pourra - Les Bois Noirs - Menage a Quatre - Xenophile
Nicky Lee et Les Playboys - Dansons le Meringue
Barachois - Pot-Pourri - Barachois - House Party
Jacques Lebreque - La Parente
Chuck and Albert Arsenault - (Unknown)
Chuck and Albert Arsenault - A la Clair Fontaine
Chuck and Albert Arsenault - (Unknown) - Live at NERFA 2008
La Vent du Nord - Lanlaire - La Part Du Feu - Borealis Recording
Genticorum - Violon Guerisseur
Genticorum - Tout le Long du Voyage - Nagez Rumeurs - Roues et Archets
Genticorum - Reel Circulaire - Nagez Rumeurs - Roues et Archets
Genticorum - Cascou
Genticorum - La Bibournoise - La Bibournoise - Mad River Records
Genticorum - Le Moine Blanc - La Bibournoise - Mad River Records
Le Vent Du Nord - Octobre 1837 - La Part Du Feu - Borealis Recording
Claude Dubois with Eric Lapointe et Garou - La Chasse Galerie - Celine sur les Plaines
Les Maudits Matous - Martin de la Chasse Galerie
Vishten - Mariez-Moi (Avec Paroles) - Vishten
Vishten - Les Yeux Noirs
La Bolduc - La Bastringue
La Bolduc - La Chanson du Bavard
Oscar Thiffault - Le Rapide Blanc
La Famille Soucy - Les Fraises et Les Framboises
La Famille Soucy - Son p'ti Bidou Lie Lie - Un Party Ben l'fun
Jacques Labreque - Ah Toi! Belle Hirondelle - Le Quebec en 100 Chansons
Garolou - Ah Toi! Belle Hirondelle - Tableaux D'Hier Vol. 1
Les Gendarmes - Radio - Les Gendarmes
Les Gendarmes - Sold Out - Les Gendarmes
Les Gendarmes - Do What Mama Said - Les Gendarmes
Pierre Noles - Paint It Black
Willie Lamothe - Je Chante a Cheval - Le Quebec en 100 Chansons
Guylaine Guy - A Rosemont Sous la Pluie - Le Quebec en 100 Chansons
Stan Rogers - Cape St. Mary's - For The Family - Gadfly
Genticorum - Le Brandy Culotte - La Bibournoise - Mad River Records
La Vent du Nord - L'Adieu du Soldat - La Part Du Feu - Borealis Recording
La Vent du Nord - Petit Reve 5 - La Part Du Feu - Borealis Recording
Paolo Noel - Carre Saint-Louis - Le Quebec en 100 Chansons

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 6.10.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:03:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from the Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, June 10th.

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Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 - Slave Masters - From Africa with Fury: Rise - Knitting Factory Records

Joan Soriano - Aye Belie - El Duque de la Bachata - iASO

Dengue Fever - Uku - Cannibal Courtship - Fantasy

Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens/ Soul Brothers - Hamba Phepa Lami - Jive & Soul: The Very Best Of - Demon

Madou Sidiki Diabate, Ahmed Fofana & Alex Wilson - Donkan - Mali Latino - Alex Wilson Records

Da Cruz - Curumin - Sistema Subversiva - Six Degrees

Ali Reza Ghorbani - Dar Achegi - Songs of Rebirth/ Tribute to Rumi - Accords Croises

Wganda Kenya - La Trompeta Loca - The Afrosound of Colombia Vol. 1 - Vampisoul

Lapiro De Mbanga - Constitution Constipee - Listen to the Banned - Heilo

Rachid Taha - It's an Arabian Song - Bonjour - Universal

Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Rawalpindi Blues - Escalator Over The Hill - JCOA

Karsh Kale - Supernova - Cinema - Six Degrees

Ricardo Parreira - Meditano - Nas Veias De Uma Guitarra - HM Musica

Nirmala Rajasekar - Sarasuda - Into the Raga - Innova Recordings

JPP - Hammennys "Perplexcity" - OArt Music - OArt Music

Fruko & Joe Arroyo - Fruko y Sus Tesos - Rebelion Tropical - Nascente

Fruko Y Sus Tesos Piper Pimienta) Canto A Panama Rebelión Tropical: The Very Best Of - [Disc 1] Fruko Disc

Yaars - Scrooge - Persian Underground - Songlines Recordings

Tito Puente - Mambo Diablo - Greatest Hits - Fania -

Latin Dub Sound System - Babalu Remix - Global Local Festival Champions - Songlines Recordings

Fania All Stars - Estrellas De Fania - John Leguizamo - Ghetto Klown - Music From My Hood - Fania

Felix Lajko - Boban Markovic Orkestar - Crni Voz - Best of Fono - Fono

Le Vent du Nord - Elise - La Part du Feu Borealis Records

Robin and Makyn

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:22:00 +0000

Robin and Makyn
by Robert Henryson

Robyn sat on a good green hill,
Keeping a flock was he
Merry Makyn near him till,
"Robin, have ruth for me;
I have loved thee loud and still
For years now two or three,
Doleful in secret; unless thou will,
I fear I shall doubtless die."

Robin answered, "By the Rood,
Nothing of love I know
But keeping my sheep under yon wood--
Lo! where they wander a-row:
What has marred thee in they mood,
Makyn, I beg thou show;
Or what is love, or to be loved?
Fain I would learn that law."

"At love's lair, to learn its lore
Take there this a-b-c:
Be kind, courteous, and fair as fair,
Wise, generous, hearty
So that thou need not to endure
What hidden hurts may harm thee;
Fight thy pain with all thy power,
Have patience and be privy."

Robin answered her again,
"I know not what is love,
But I am marvelous uncertain
What makes thee thus to grieve:
The weather is fair, I have no pain,
My hale sheep climb above;
And should we play upon this plain,
We both would earn reproof."

"Robin, pay heed unto my tale,
Work all as I have said,
And thou shalt have my heart all hale,
Aye, and my maidenhead.
Since God sends thee beauty for bale,
And mourning is remade,
I plead with thee, if I turn tail,
Doubtless I am but dead."

"Makyn, this morning it may betide,
While ye waylay me here,
My sheep may hap to stray aside
While we have lain full near;
I fret this moment as I bide
That they shall disappear--
What freights my heart I will not hide;
Makyn, be of good cheer."

"Robin, thou rob my ruth and rest;
I love but thee alone."
"Makyn, adieu, the sun goes west,
The day is nearly gone."
"Robyn, I grieve; I am distressed
That love will be my bane."
"Go love, Makyn, wherever thou list,
For mistresses I want none."

"Robin, I stand in such a stall;
I sigh, and that full sore.
"Makyn, I have been here this while;
At home God grant I were."
"My honey, Robin, talk awhile,
If thou wilt do no more."
"Makyn, some other man beguile,
For homeward I will fare."

Upon his own way Robin went
Light as the leaf of a tree;
Makyn, spited of her intent,
Watched Robin across the lea
And vowed to spurn him without stint.
Then Makyn cried out on high,
"Now may thou sing, for I am spent!
What ails this love in me?"

Makyn went home and did not fail,
Weary of learning to weep.
Then Robin in a full-fair dale
Gathered together his sheep,
When some part of what made Makyn ail
Into his heart did creep;
He followed her fast till he could hale
And tell her, "Take good keep!

"Abide, abide, thou fair Makyn,
One word for anything;
For all my love, it shall be thine,
Without any departing.
O take my heart, for to have thine
Is all my coveting;
My sheep till tomorrow's hours nine
Will need of no keeping."

"Robin, thou hast heard sing and say
In gestes and stories old,
The man that will not when he may
Shall have not when he would.
I pray that Jesus every day
Increase their cares and cold
Who shall contend with thee to play
By firth, forest, or fold."

"Makyn, the night is soft and dry,
The weather is warm and fair,
And the greenwood is here nearby,
We may walk privy where
No gossips will be near to spy
Upon our trysting there;
Therein, Makyn, both ye and I,
Unseen we may repair."

"Robin, that world is all away
And quite brought to an end,
And never again after today
Shall I come as thou wend;
For of my pain thou made but play,
Vainly did my bough bend;
As thou hast done, so I shall say,
'Mourn on, I think to mend.'"

"Makyn, the hope of all my weal,
My heart on thee is set,
And ever to thee shall I kneel
While I have blood to let;
Never to fail, as others fail,
Whatever grace I get."
"Robin, with thee I will not deal;
Adieu, for thus we met."

Makyn went home, blithe anew,
Across the forest floor;
Robin mourned, and Makyn flew,
She sang, he sighed full sore;
And so she left him woe and rue
In care and in dolor,
Keeping his herd beside a sleugh
Upon the forest floor.

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 6.3.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:05:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from The Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, June 3rd.

Be sure to check out & "Like" the WMUA 91.1 Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/wmua91.1

If you like a particular song and are interested in purchasing it for yourself, just follow the link.

Louis Andriessen - De Stijl - De Stijl; M Is for Man, Music, Mozart - Nonesuch

Ação Direta - Repugnável - Resistirei

CPG - Mindennek te Vagy az Oka

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey - Minsato Le, Mi Deyihome - World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing - The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa - Luaka Bop

Ray Manzarek - Whirling Dervish - The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll - Mercury

Mogollar (Les Mogol) - Wild Flower - Danses et Rythmes de la Turquie - World Psychedelia

Akashic Record - Free Time - Akashic Record EP

Karsh Kale - Mallika Jam - Cinema - Six Degrees

The Aay Jays - Dachi Waliya Mor Mohar - 4 Tunes Played By The Group - EMI

The Aay Jays - The Aay Jays Theme - 4 Tunes Played By The Group - EMI

Skorpió - Szevasz, Haver - 1974 - Well Hung - B- Music

Skorpió - Másképp Dobogna

Skorpio - Menetirány - Ünnepnap - Hungaroton Records

Janko Nilovic - Drug Song - Soul Impressions - Vadim Music

Youssou N'Dour - Redemption Song - Dakar - Kingston - Universal Music

Vinicius Cantuária & Bill Frisell - Calle 7 - Lagrimas Mexicanas - eOne Music

Brother Jack McDuff - Hunk O' Funk - 1970

The Funkees - Slipping Into Darkness

Black Sugar - Understanding - 1970

Matata - I Feel Funky - 1970

Talvin Singh & Niladri Kumar - River - Together - World Village

Edip Akbayram - Kolum Nerden Aldin Zinciri - Yillar - Emre Grafson Müzik

Brian Eno & David Byrne - America Is Waiting - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts - Sire

Nancy Ajram - Mo'gabah / نانسى عجرم - معجبة - Ya Tabtab - Art Line Music

Sabina Odone - Mariposa Blanca - Sentencia De Amor Imposible - Feria Music

Experience Unlimited - Functus

Funk Inc. - Bowlegs (early 70's)

Funk Inc. - The Thang

Masimbabele - The Unknown Cases

David Byrne - Two Soldiers ( LP Version ) - The Complete Score From "The Catherine Wheel" - Sire

Grooved Pavement World Music Show Playlist 5.27.2011

noreply@blogger.com (Elliott M. Burke) — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:04:00 +0000

Here's the playlist from The Grooved Pavement World Music Radio Show, Friday, May 27th.

Be sure to check out & "Like" the WMUA 91.1 Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/wmua91.1

If you like a particular song and are interested in purchasing it for yourself, just follow the link.

David Byrne - Ade - The Catherine Wheel - Sire

Talking Heads - I Zimbra - Sand in the Vaseline - Sire

David Byrne - Big Business - The Catherine Wheel - Sire

LiLiTS - Nina Engreida - Sueltas

Ofo & The Black Company - Allah Wakbarr - World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing - Luaka Bop

Shantel - Eyes Of Mine - Ethno Music: The Best 2010 - Ethno Music: The Best 2010

Goran Bregovic - Bijav - Ethno Music: The Best 2010 - Ethno Music: The Best 2010

Lisa Ono - Swing Time In Honolulu - Ethno Music: The Best 2010 - Ethno Music: The Best 2010

Tabla Beat Science - Big Brother - Ethno Music: The Best 2010 - Ethno Music: The Best 2010

Romany Rota - Diri Diri So Kerdjan - Ethno Music: The Best 2010 - Ethno Music: The Best 2010

Daiqing Tana - Dancer In The Darkness - Ethno Music: The Best 2010 - Ethno Music: The Best 2010

Gunesh Ensemble - The Rhythms of the Caucasus - Rishad Shafi present Gunesh - Rishad Shafi present Gunesh

Alexandrina Hristov - Fata Merge Pe Jos - Om de Lut - A&A Records

Kaba Mane - Chefo Mae Mae - Chefo Mae Mae

Makishi Band - Basamora - Ba Samora

Gojogo - God Doesn't Make Junk - Gojogo - Gojogo

First June Repression - Serie C - CaputMundi! - First June Repression/ last.fm

AfroCubism - Keme Bourana - AfroCubism - World Circuit

Kante Manfila - N'na Niwale - N'na Niwale

Kante Manfila - Ni Kanu - Ni Kanu

Νίκος Ξυλούρης (Nikos Xylouris) - μπηκαν στην πολη οι οχτροι (The Enemies Have Entered The City)

Red Mass - Cadavre Mecanique - Summer Love EP - Semprini Records

Fiskales Ad Hok - Pet Cementerio (The Ramones) - Absenta Musical Vol.1 Punk Ska - Absenta Musical Vol.1 Punk Ska

LiLiTS - Contrareloj - Absenta Musical Vol.1 Punk Ska - Absenta Musical Vol.1 Punk Ska

Renaud Sechan - Chanson pour Pierrot - Ma Gonzesse - Decca International

Mustafa Ozkent Orchestra - Uskudar - Genclik Elele

MNDR - Cut Me Out - Green Label Sound

Lonely Drifter Karen - This World Is Crazy - Grass Is Singing

Darren Johnston Quintet - The Big Lift - The Big Lift - Porto Franco Sampler