I play many different genres of music from all over the world and throughout the history of recorded music. You will hear a lot of a cappella and polyphonic vocals and a fair amount of polyrhythmic percussion.
A small selection of the music that I discovered this past year
We listen to a small sampling of the many different kinds of music from this fascinating region
Your host and guest DJ, Eli Brandwein, trade tunes on this very eclectic intergenerational show. New discoveries abound.
"What's going to happen to the tots?" asks Noel Coward. Listen to him and others, including children sing about the concerns of children. We'll here everything from the Taiwu Ancient Ballads Troupe to the Asylum Street Spankers.
We explore the origins and spread of the slide guitar from Hawaii to India to Indonesia to Africa to Greece to France. Along the way we'll encounter jazz, blues, country, kroncong, and avant-garde music.
From jazz to calypso to classical to alternative to folk we stuff ourselves with songs about food
From Western Sahara to Kenya to Isreal to Brooklyn to Rochester, we listen how Arab music has interacted with jazz, blues, and folk music.
A brief exploration of samba, forro, tropicalia, classical, and indigenous Brazilian music
A playlist of soulful, life-affirming music from across genres and seas. Favorites from my collection.
We start with a blast of horns from Rajasthan, India, the reputed home of the Romani people. We follow them across the Middle East, across the Mediterranean and Europe and explore how the music changes as it adapts to different cultures. Put on your dancing shoes!
