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In the electrifying atmosphere of a live radio broadcast in New York City, musicians from all corners of the globe come to perform and discuss their music. The guests range from well-known (Steely Dan, McCoy Tyner) to up and coming artists. Hosted by David Ellenbogen.
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Saraswathi Ranganathan: Ragas Live 2019 (Midnight Set) #316
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
This is the first podcast release of a set from Ragas Live Festival 2019. The event was broadcast live on WKCR 89.9 FM-NY in front of an enthusiastic audience at Pioneer Works.
Saraswathi Ranganthan is performing the veena here and was joined by her Raghavan Sai on Mridangam. In a spontaneous decision Swaminathan Selvganesh who had played an amazing set earlier in the evening sat in on the set.
Ragas Live Festival is a 24 hour annual broadcast with over 60 musicians. We will return in 2020 - stay tuned!
Saraswathi brings with her a legacy of firsts. She is the first Indian woman and Veena artiste to win a Chicago Music Award in its 35-year history, the first Veena artiste to perform as an orchestra member of Disney’s Jungle Book production and the first Veena artiste to receive a $10,000 grant from the Logan Foundation in Chicago. She attributes her path-carving success to the inclusive energy in her music and in her life. Her goal? Bring artists and listeners together as one community united in music and understanding. – worded by Stephanie Jones, Jazzspeak.org
Saraswathi constantly endeavors for sounds of the Veena to reach a cross cultural global audience. She learned Veena from her mother Shantha Ranganathan and from Karnataka Kalashree EP Alamelu in Bangalore. She has been performing and teaching for over three decades now.
Saraswathi also has the distinction as being the first Veena artiste whose original multi-lingual song “Ennai Azhaithaen – I embraced me” was commissioned by the Chicago Humanities Fest.
Saraswathi is the first Veena artiste to perform live music for Chicago International Moves & Music Fest with original score for screening of the movie Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances.
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Jaimoe of the Allman Brothers #315
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
This is an epic hang with Jaimoe the legendary drummer of the Allman Brothers in 2014. He speaks about his early days with Otis Redding, meeting Duane and much more...
We were spinning a lot of records and hanging out...
Check out more about Jaimoe here. Also in the station was Alan Paul author of One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers and the music critic John Coltelli.
Enjoy!
Monday May 18, 2020
Recalling the Valley
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
Recored and broadcast live at the Ragas Live Festival 2017 from the Rubin Museum of Art, we hear the world premier of the new project: Recalling the Valley.
Jay Gandhi (bansuri) and Max ZT's (hammered dulcimer) pay tribute to their world-renowned teachers, Shivkumar Sharma and Hariprasad Chaurasia. With Ehren Hanson on tabla they will perform music inspired by their gurus’ beloved album, “Call of the Valley.”
They also have a great discussion with Andrew Shantz on the topic of creating art away from its place of origin.
Ragas Live Festival supported by the Rubin Museum of Art, WKCR and Humanities New York.
Monday May 11, 2020
Sebitiyin: Innov Gnawa perform the Jewish songs of Gnawa – Podcast 230
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
In this incredible episode we capture Innov Gnawa performing the "Sebatayin" repetoire, Gnawa music performed traditionally in Morrocco for the Jewish Community. They performed this for the end of Passover at Greenwich House Music School as part of the UNCHARTED concert series. The Jewish presence in Morocco dates back to over 2,500 years ago and upon interaction with the gnawa community, a bond formed over appreciation for gnawa music and its healing powers. Gnawa music pre-dates Islam and originally centered around animistic, spiritual, mystical concepts sung in sub-Saharan languages such as Bambara, Fulani and Sudani. Upon embracing Islam, gnawa songs began to incorporate Arabic language and themes around the Muslim prophets. Sebitiyin, meaning The Saturdays in Moroccan Arabic, is the collection of songs that grew out of the gatherings hosted by the Jewish community for the revered gnawa maalems whom they deeply respected. Themes of these songs still include the original elements of spirits and the natural world, and later came to incorporate shared saints from their Abrahamic traditions. Today, it is still rare to find a maalem that knows this full repertoire so we are especially lucky to have Maalem (Master) Hassan Ben Jaafer, son of the late Abdallah Ben Jaafer, lead us through a powerful moment of unity in music. Personnel: Maalem (Master) Hassan Ben Jaafer - vocals and sintir Samir Langus - vocals and qraqeb (castanets) Amino Belyamani- vocals and qraqeb (castanets) Ahmed Jeriouda- vocals and qraqeb (castanets) Nawfal Atiq- vocals and qraqeb (castanets) Said Bourhana- vocals and qraqeb (castanets) David Lizmi - vocals and qraqeb (castanets) Uncharted is a concert series featuring New York-based artists premiering new projects or meeting with new collaborators for the first time on stage that has consistently drawn the attention of tastemakers and curators from across the city over the past three years. The Uncharted season delivers eclectic excellence in a broad selection of musical genres representing New York City’s diverse artistic community, including Mexican folkloric, ragtime, classical, electronic, jazz, ancient Moroccan devotional and contemporary R&B.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Brooklyn Raga Massive Honors the Coltrane Legacy
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
The Coltrane Raga Tribute from Brooklyn Raga Massive has blowing some minds. As they released their album, we hang with Sameer Gupta, the tabla upstart, drummer and musical director of the project. We'll listen to a live performance from Pioneer Works. If you want to hear it all you’ll have to get the album! .
The all-star ensemble in the set we hear includes:
Sameer Gupta – Drumset/Tabla,
Brandee Younger – Harp,
Jay Gandhi – Bansuri,
Arun Ramamurthy – Violin,
Pawan Benjamin – Sax,
Trina Basu – Violin,
Neel Murgai – Sitar,
Ben Tyree – Guitar,
Rashaan Carter – Bass
Michael Gam – Bass
Special Guests:
Roopa Mahadevan – Vocal
Pyeng Threadgill- vocal
Anupam Shobhakar – Sarod
Jessica Lurie – Sax
Ken Shoji- Violin
Dawoud Kringle – Dilruba
Giancarlo Luigi – Chekere and Percussion
Recorded by James Clark and mixed by Sameer Gupta
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Randy Weston
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
I just learned of the passing of the great master Randy Weston, whose tall shadow hangs over all of us who love, Gnawa Music, African Music, jazz and the intersection of three. He was a lovely person, eager to pass along the knowledge he'd gathered through an amazing life.
I hope this podcast helps pass along some of his wisdom. He was humble, sweet and present and we're lucky to have had him on the planet for 91 years.
Friday Mar 06, 2020
McCoy Tyner Podcast 315
Friday Mar 06, 2020
Friday Mar 06, 2020
We just learned of the passing of the legend McCoy Tyner, who changed the course of jazz piano. Of course he's most well known for his work in John Coltrane's classic quartet, but he has an amazing body of work beyond that, his album Sama Layuca for a start.
Here's my 2011 interview that we conducted in the kitchen of the Blue Note.
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
William Parker #313
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
William Parker is a force in music and if you listen his words, he'll change your mind about what exactly the mystery of music might be.
He will be performing this big double bill on March 4th: SOUNDS OF JUSTICE: SUN RA ARKESTRA AND WILLIAM PARKER'S INSIDE SONGS OF CURTIS MAYFIELDi
This is a celebration of 25 years of the Vision Festival.
We had an amazing conversation until the batteries ran out on my recorder...enjoy!
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Zhou Family Band
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
We have a live performance in studio with Zhou Benming of the Zhou Family Band.
Zhou Jingzhi, founder of the Zhou Family Band, used to play in the royal court of the Qing Dynasty. After dynastic China came to an end, later generations of the family made their living by playing at local ceremonies.
The band has become so popular that sometimes people have to book them two years in advance for a ceremony. Now more than 100 members of the Zhou family and over 1000 students are active in playing at rituals in their hometown and the adjacent areas.
The band plays traditional wind and percussion music that has accompanied the birth and death of people in central-eastern China for more than 600 years. Coming from Lingbi, Anhui Province, part of the Central Plain area which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization, the Zhou Family Band have been musicians for seven generations, and are bearers of a tradition that represents the cream of Chinese folk music – Bolin Laba, a national intangible cultural heritage of China.
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Theramin 100 and the Ambient Church Episode 311
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
Sunday Feb 02, 2020
In this episode we chat with Dorit Chrysler director of of the NY Theramin society, who have a major event coming up at the Ambient Church.
Dorit Chrysler has been dubbed a superior wizard of the theremin. An Austrian-born, New York based composer and performer, Chrysler is the co-founder of the NY Theremin Society and has started the first international school for Theremin, KidCoolThereminSchool and L’Ecole Theremine with branches in NY and Paris. As much as the Theremin is a tool in Chrysler’s electronic instrument arsenal, she is also one of the most visible Thereminists spreading the gospel of this mysterious sounding instrument. Most recently she finished her analog soundtrack for a remake of “M” by Fritz Lang and was featured on the soundtrack of the HBO documentary "Going Clear". Chrysler received her master's degree of musicology in Vienna and has notably collaborated with Anders Trentemøller, Cluster, Adult., CERN, Carsten Nicolai, Elliot Sharp and Laurie Spiegel. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, had her work commissioned by MoMA and the Venice Biennale, and is the founder of “Dame Electric,” a festival dedicated to female pioneers in Analog Music. As the director of the NY Theremin Society, Chrysler is promoting the application of theremin in different art disciplines and is produced the THEREMIN100 compilation release, commemorating the 100th birthday of the Theremin in 2020.
For Ambient Church, Chrysler will perform original work along with the US premiere of "A Paraphrase." Composed by electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel, for Dorit Chrysler, "A Paraphrase" was inspired by a young Clara Rockmore and her professional relationship with Léon Theremin. Lana Anikin Suran will accompany on piano.