March 6, 2012: Rob Weisberg: World Vocal Music - for Radio Boredcast

ROB WEISBERG: WORLD VOCAL MUSIC – FOR RADIO BOREDCAST

For this hour of the Boredcast, I’ve selected fifteen slow-moving songs or pieces centered on the human voice, sometimes a cappella, sometimes with drone, ambient or otherwise low-key or understated accompaniment. All of these pieces have roots in traditional music or contain traditional elements from Europe and Asia. But many blend elements of the traditional and the modern; with the exception of the selection from Buddhist monks in Bhutan, none of these are not ethnographic field recordings.

Rob Weisberg is the host of Transpacific Sound Paradise, the “peerless world music show” (Time Out New York) heard Saturday evenings on non-commercial radio station WFMU. The program features recorded and live music, interviews, and remote broadcasts from Barbes, a performance venue in Brooklyn and occasionally other venues. The noted abstract painter Mary Heilmann was inspired to name one of her works after the show, Transpacific (2007) and Rob’s voice from the show has been heard in two documentary films. Rob’s obsessively-maintained online world music calendar has become an essential resource for NYC metro area world music fans.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/tp
http://www.timeout.com/newyork
http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/12/mary-heilmann/biography
http://www.wfmu.org/world 

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