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Transpacific Sound Paradise
Saturday, February 4, 2017
New Music, Mixed Bag

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This Week's Playlist:

(* = new)

Rail Band: Mouodilo / Various Artists: The Original Sound of Mali / Mr Bongo / * (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Dur Dur Band: Garsore Waa Ilaah / Volume 5 / Awesome Tapes From Africa (0:04:33 Pop-up)

King Ayisoba: Africa Needs Africa / Various Artists: This Is Kologo Power! A Bolgatanga Ghana Compilation. / Makkum / * (0:13:19 Pop-up)

Maalem Mokhtar Gania & Bill Laswell: Zaini / Tagnawwit - Holy Black Gnawa Trance / M.O.D. Technologies / * (0:19:16 Pop-up)

Dhafer Youssef: Al-Akhtal Rhapsody Part II / Diwan of Beauty and Odd / OKeh / * (0:32:51 Pop-up)
GIG: Feb 8 (Wed) Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St: Dhafer Youssef. 7:30 pm.

Dhafer Youssef: Cheerful Meshuggah / Diwan of Beauty and Odd / OKeh / * (0:34:42 Pop-up)

Perújazz: Azimut / Perújazz / Vampisoul / * (0:39:34 Pop-up)

Waltel Branco: Efeito / Apresenta Musicas Da Novela Assim Na Terra Como No Ceu Incluindo Tres Temas Da Novela " Irmaos Coragem" / Mr Bongo (0:42:27 Pop-up)
2015 reissue of 1970 LP

Maga Bo: Eu Vim de Longe / Various Artists: Turntables on Ipanema / Wonderwheel / * (0:47:17 Pop-up)

Maracatu New York: Dia do Cabocio / Various Artists: Turntables on Ipanema / Wonderwheel / * (0:48:17 Pop-up)

MeiaMeia: Gregory Beyer: Berimbau Quartet no. 1: “Chip” / Arcomusical / Innova / * (0:51:35 Pop-up)

Kandia Kouyaté: Tie Faring (Souri) / Renascence / Sterns (0:57:05 Pop-up)

Mariem Hassan: Almara / La Voz Indomita / Nubenegra / * (1:09:26 Pop-up)
Posthumous release

Noura Mint Seymali: Soub Hanak / Arbina / Glitterbeat (1:14:42 Pop-up)
GIG: Feb 24 (Fri) Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St: World Music Institute Presents: Noura Mint Seymali. 8 pm.

Jeich Ould Badu and Ahmedou Ahmed Lewla: Erkiz / Top WZN / Sahel Sounds / * (1:19:07 Pop-up)

Afous d'Afous: Tarhanine Tegla / Single / Sahel Sounds (1:23:35 Pop-up)

TisDass: Yamedan / Yamedan / Sahel Sounds (1:29:29 Pop-up)

Mdou Moctar: Tarha Tazed / Adounia Ayassohen / OTOroku (1:34:19 Pop-up)
Live at Cafe OTO, Dalston, London, 2014 - "Cafe OTO provides a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream with an evening programme of adventurous live music seven nights a week" per their website... "The concert programme at Cafe OTO is managed by OTOProjects – a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC)."

Goat: Goatfuzz / Requiem / SubPop / * (1:44:58 Pop-up)

Boiled in Lead: Berber / Silver / Omnium (1:51:48 Pop-up)

Garmarna: Labyrint / 6 / Westpark (1:56:56 Pop-up)

Group Doueh & Cheveu: Moto 2 Places / Dakhla Sahara Session / Born Bad / * (2:01:00 Pop-up)

Gaye Su Akyol: Hologram / Hologram İmparatorluğu / Glitterbeat / * (2:04:01 Pop-up)

Indrani Perera: Eka Dawasak / Various Artists: Sri Lanka: The Golden Era of Sinhalese & Tamil Folk-pop Music / Akuphone / * (2:13:15 Pop-up)

Lilanthi Karunanayake: Malli / Various Artists: Sri Lanka: The Golden Era of Sinhalese & Tamil Folk-pop Music / Akuphone / * (2:17:12 Pop-up)

Malphino: Republica Federal de Malphino / Lalango 7" b-side / Names You Can Trust / * (2:19:48 Pop-up)

C.A.M.P.O.S.: Luz Blanca, El Cantante / Miracles & Criminals / * (2:22:33 Pop-up)

Agrupacion Ilegal Los Imparciales: Ni Chicha Ni Limonada / 7" / Names You Can Trust (2:26:25 Pop-up)
From Buenos Aires

Aniceto Molina: La Danza de la Chiva / De Parranda con Aniceto Molina (2:29:44 Pop-up)

Tulipa Negra: Tulipa Negra / Joaninha Namorada (2:31:11 Pop-up)

Bana: Serpentina / Bana a Paris / Sons D'Africa (2:34:48 Pop-up)

Pedrinho: Nanda / Various Artists: Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 / Ostinato / * (2:38:09 Pop-up)

The Funk Ark: Man is a Monster / Man is a Monster / Ropeadope (2:45:57 Pop-up)

Ssing Ssing: Minyo Medley / Unreleased (2:53:52 Pop-up)

Organizations supporting the rights of immigrants and refugees:

National Immigration Law Center: Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants.

National Immigration Forum: The National Immigration Forum is one of the leading immigrant advocacy organizations in the country, with a mission to advocate for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation.

New York Immigration Coalition: The New York Immigration Coalition aims to achieve a fairer and more just society that values the contributions of immigrants and extends opportunity to all. The NYIC promotes immigrants’ full civic participation, fosters their leadership, and provides a unified voice and a vehicle for collective action for New York’s diverse immigrant communities.

Arab American Family Support Center (New York City): The Arab-American Family Support Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-sectarian organization that provides culturally and linguistically sensitive services to immigrant communities throughout New York City.

International Refugee Assistance Project: The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. Mobilizing direct legal aid and systemic policy advocacy, IRAP serves the world’s most persecuted individuals and empowers the next generation of human rights leaders.

International Rescue Committee: The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF): AALDEF is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian Americans by combining litigation, advocacy, education, and community organizing. Issues / focus include immigrant rights, civic participation and voting rights, economic justice for workers, language access to services, educational equity, housing and environmental justice, and the elimination of anti-Asian violence, police misconduct, and human trafficking.

Make the Road New York (MRNY): MRNY builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.

Make the Road New Jersey (MRNJ): Make the Road New Jersey builds the power of immigrant and working class communities in New Jersey to achieve dignity and justice through community organizing, legal and support services, transformative education and policy innovation.

The following message is being circulated on Facebook (original post here),
from Matthew Covey, directory of Tamizdat (a non-profit musical / cultural exchange organization that among other things has a service to provide visa service for international musicians coming to the US):
U.S. ARTS PRESENTERS: If you have a currently booked performance with a performing artist from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan or Yemen, please send an email with the information about the performance to matthew (at) tamizdat (dot) org. We are trying to document the immediate impact denying entry to individuals from these countries would have on cultural programming. Please indicate whether the booking can be shared with the public or not. (IMPORTANT: Information will be confidential unless you indicate otherwise, but, alas, will NOT be protected by attorney client privilege). PLEASE COPY AND REPOST.



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