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.
Modern day musicians reinterpret and celebrate the songs of the troubadours in joyous and inovative polyphony and polyrhythms
Dark, Suspense, suspenseful music of popular song, movie soundtrack, musical theater with a few parodies thrown in for good measure
Listen to a great variety of music from regions that celebrate the Lunar New Year. We hear songs from China, Mongolia, Tibet, Taiwan, Korea, and Vietnam
Mostly music taken directly or inspired by literature
A brief survey of music from some of the Nordic countries
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.
