For those whose brains can take no more of the time proof christmas melodies, this week’s broadcast features a slew of far-off holiday classics, and a trip to Palestine – land of many holy days and peoples.
May all your navidads be merry and enlightened..
Genius or madman?
In this episode, we take a journey through the strange and wonderful world of electroacoustic music. If extraterrestrials bothered to make music, it would likely sound like this..
Curated by Cameron Catalano, president of avant-garde composers guild Vancouver Pro Musica, the first hour bridges the gap between early pioneers of electronic wisdom, and the far out pop music that appropriated the style and brought it into the mainstream.
Hear the electronical sonical mayhem {{HERE}}
Group Doueh: Electric Desert Blues
The second hour takes us to a land split in two.. One of the most sparsely populated territories on the planet, in the north-western Sahara: Western Sahara. While the majority of this former Spanish colony is still claimed by Morocco (when the Berlin Wall was beginning to crumble in the 1980s, the Moroccan government was busy building a fresh 2,700 km wall of sand to claim their territory) an independence movement has been simmering for decades, and many musicians featured on this program are supporters of the Polisario Front, the main organization fighting for a free nation.
Whether recorded in the Liberated Territories, the Southern States, or in exile, Saharawi soul transcends borders and breathes timelessness…
Hear the Western Saharan soundscape {{HERE}}
Playlist:: HERE
The Hen, northern Nü Caledonia. Free range heaven on a tiny beach.
On the north tip of the sleeping continent Zealandia, there is a land of super crows and bubblegum reggae that rises out of the deep Pacific. New Caledonia (increasingly known as Kanaky by locals) is still a “special collectivity” of France. But 40% of the overall population are native Melanesians, and there is an ongoing push for independence from their far-off administrators.
But regardless of who they call président, the Kanak are a strong and proud people, keeping their culture alive and infusing traditional vocal and percussion music with reggae and reggae-related vibes. Yes, this is as far from the Caribbean as it is from France, but in the South Pacific, reggae rules supreme.
Hear skanking of many forms, ancient chants, janglin’ oldies, french hip hop and more on the Kanaky special… {STREAM HERE}
(As a side note, there is very little information available about these artists.. the song titles are often missing. Hey, if I lived on a tropical island I wouldn’t spend much time on the computer either.. but O the wealth of music from a mere quarter million people!)
((we got the good wood vibrations))
Also, the first hour’s Global Mix {HERE}
CDs for eyes?! Ḍarāvanā!
Yes it’s that time of year again.. when lighthearted darkness consumes our minds and we invite spirits to the dinner table. This year’s Hallowe’en Special is guaranteed to leave you slightly unnerved, with a brain full of foreign tongues and monster grooves.
((Stream the full episode here))
…featuring vampire rap, monster reggae, Catalonian hellbilly, Bollywood gore, dark cabaret, zombie calypso, goblin folk, French drone, deep Greek electro, and much gore..
Just off the coast of Venezuela are 3 beautifully mixed-up islands… Aruba! Bonaire! Curacao! Welcome to the land of fusion.. the Dutch Caribbean.
Willemstad, Curaçao: too darn cute for words
Far removed from the major-player Caribbean islands (and proudly outside of the hurricane belt), the ABC islands are small but full of technicolor goodness. The culture (and homegrown language, Papiamento) is a mixture of Dutch, Portuguese, African, Spanish, Native Caribbean and English. The Dutch brought legalized prostitution (you can call it Amsterdam of the tropics) and the rest brought groovy pan-Caribbean music, creating a local style called tumba. Masha bon!
Hear the ABC Island soundsplash {{HERE}}
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