Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 22 hours 17 minutes
Hawaiian Guitar Virtuoso Jeff Peterson - Jahkey B., a musician and producer, has dedicated over a decade of his life to recording the music of Shamans of the Amazon. He came to WKCR recently with many of these recordings,
- Don Evangelino Murayay Jahkey B., a musician and producer, has dedicated over a decade of his life to recording the music of Shamans of the Amazon. He came to WKCR recently with many of these recordings,
Cosmas Magaya - Cosmas Magya is a master of the Mbira ( a type of thumb piano) from the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe. Here he performs and explains the way the instrument is used in ceremonies to contact ancestors.
Oran Etkin is a Grammy Nominated clarinetist and saxophone player, who has been making waves with his band Kelenia which combines his love of jazz and the music of West Africa. Featured in this live performance is Lionel Loueke of Benin, West Africa,
Famoro Dioubate is a master of the balafon from Guniea, West Africa. He performs live on the radio with Yacouba Cissoko on kora, Raul Rothblatt on cello and Sean Dixon on drums. We also hear him with his full ensemble Kakande. Famoro is djele,
A live set from the David Rogers and Kairos, an all-star band featuring Kenny Wessel, guitar; Sylvain Leroux, flutes, Matt Pavolka, Bass and Rob Garcia on Drums recorded a couple months ago at WKCR. Also a live recording from the Bernard Woma Ensembl...
This week on WKCR we had an exciting live performance from the Arun Ramamurthy Quartet who combine traditional Carnatic (South Indian) music with some Western instruments like the drum kit and the double bass. - Arun Ramamurthy,
Thomas Mapfumo - Photo by George Estreich - Thomas Mapfumo, of Zimbabwe, is a revolutionary musician in every sense of the word. Musically, his band was one of the first to experiment with combining the mbira (thumb piano) and electric guitars and he...
A couple recordings I made with a mini-disc recorder in Independent Samoa in 2002 0r 2003. Every Samoan can sing, if you started to sing a song on a public bus everyone would join you. The houses have thatched roofs and walls of woven leaves that are...
Brandon Terzic's Xalam Project and Negar Bouban This special show features an Oud Virtuoso from Tehran, Negar Bouban, and an Oud Virtuoso based in New York, Brandon Terzic. They met and played together for the first time live on the air for this show....