Maverick
Radio Network
89.7 KMSU/Mankato & 91.3 KMSK/Austin
"Southern Minnesota's True Alternative"
playlist
for May 01, 2004
host/producer Mark R. Thomas
Øystein
Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham Hill Records
Fiddler's
Green
a selection of Celtic instrumentals
Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey: The Hunters
Purse
Máire Breatnach: Éist
Blix Street
Susan
McKeown
Sweet Liberty
The Wee Birds Have Come and Gone/Fisherman's
Caledonia
artist website: Susan
McKeown
Harmonia Mundi/World Village
Hibernian Music
On "Sweet Liberty" the pure and lilting voice
Susan McKeown revives long lost tunes and recounts tales of a bygone era
Frigg
Frigg
Särö
Matts näsi
NorthSide
artists website: Frigg
The group Frigg creates a next generation of acoustic Nordic folk combining
Finnish and Norwegian tunes with touches American roots music.
Rough
Guide
Italia Nova
Italian underground: the hybrid generation
Alpha Bass featuring Mascarimirí: Aradanse
Gai Saber: Quand Lo Rossinhols Escria
World Music.net
Italia Nova represents a new way of interpreting traditional Italian tunes
and ritual dance; some having Celtic roots dating back to the invasion of
the Gauls. Given new technology and a growing club culture have inspired many
traditional folk artists to graft their traditional sounds - such as pizzica
and tarantella - on to electronic beats to create a hybrid for the new millenium.
Carl
Henry Brueggen
Cinzano & Cocaine
Sea-sprite hula
Planetary Group
File under: European chill-out/jazz-lounge
Shao Rong
Orchid II
Milky Way
Qindao Breeze
Pacific
Moon Records
Music of the Chinese lute, known
as the Pipa. (read liner notes on air history of the pipa)
Agatsuma
Beyond
Dawnlight
Domo
Ralph
E. Hayes
Long Drive Home
Inflection Point
33rd Street Records
relaxed minimalistic music of the classic Stratocaster: file under the category
Guitar Noir:
Mary
Youngblood
Feed the Fire
Passions to Ignite
SilverWave Records
Artist website: Mary
Youngblood
Mary Youngblood plays flute on the tune "Feed the Fire, her vocals on
"Passions to Ignite" are accompanied by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
Various
Artists/New Earth
Inner Balance - Music for Yoga & Healing Arts
Chinmaya Dunster: Karma Circles (India/UK)
New Earth
Records
rich and uplifting music fit for meditation and celebration...
Yoga
Rhythms
"Timeless
grooves and chants... music to energize the flow of yoga"
Prana (Sahana Vavatu)
Sounds True
Putumayo
World Music
World Reggae
Apache Indian: Om Numah Shivaya (India/UK)
Putumayo Records
Next-up a Hindu-mantra, turned reggae this is "Om Numah Shivaya."
Sainkho
Namtchylak
Who Stole the Sky?
Music Mail to Tuva
Who Stole the Sky?
Ponderosa Music &
Art
Avant-garde Tuvan singer, Sainkho Namtchylak, borrows from the ancient Siberian,
shamanic traditions, folktales and rituals of her country and combines them
with the mysterious sounds of “throat singing” and the wisdom of the Buddhist
religion. Her new CD, "Who Stole the Sky?," is sung in Russian,
Tuvan and English, and mixes electronica and traditional singing.
Luis
Garay Percussion World
Sacumba
Marimba Azucar
Percumba Records
artists website: Luis Garay
Sacumba is a new Afro-Latin percussion CD by Luis Garay, Wilbur Wood, Leon
Enatyan and Miguel Alfaro with the subtitle, "The Passion and Inspiration
of the Drum."
Carlos
Maza
Salvedad
Sindicato
Label-Bleu
Carlos Maza is known as a Chilean political agitator who currently lives
in Cuba. His album, Salvedad, takes-on many different genres and cultural
traditions and at times sounds like the soundtrack of a surrealistic caberret
or stage-play.
Rough
Guide
The Rough Guide to theMusic of
Kenya
"roots benga, coastal taarab, urban rap"
Queen Jane: Nduraga Ngwetereire
World Music.net
The Rough Guide to Kenya
Angélique
Kidjo
Oyaya!
Seyin Djro
Congoleo
Columbia Records
artists website: Angélique
Kidjo
World Beat Pick
of the Month
West African singer Angélique Kidjo has roused the desire of many African
women to become singers. Her mix of Afro-pop, American R&B and Caribbean
rhythm is full of exuberance and vigor. This album is the third part in a
trilogy that previously explored African Roots music in the United States,
called "Oremi" and in Brazil, "Black Ivory Soul."
Putumayo
World Music
Women of Africa
Judith Sephuma: Le Tshephile Mang (South Africa)
"Lesepfillemang"
Khadja Nin: Sina Mali, Sina Deni (Burundi)
Putumayo Records
Judith Sephuma is a rising star on the South African muscic scene. In
her song "Le Tshephile Mang" she sings, "Our nation, our people,
who do we trust? / We are always fighting, in who do we trust? / Why can't
we be happy for each other, stop all hatred and build our nation together?"
Khadja Nin was
raised in the small African country of Burundi, between Congo and Tanzania.
Her song "Sina Mali, Sina Deni" or (Free) is an adaptation of a
Stevie Wonder song and speaks of spiritual liberation, "I'm free like
water / Which flows to the heart of the savannah / Like the wind, like eyes,
like a shooting star / Like
water, like me now I'm saved."
Ba
Cissoko
Sabolan
Maïmouna
artist website: Marabi
Productions
Two koras, one bass and percussion, carried by four young griot-trained
Guineans.
Tony
Mangra
Feeling Good
Feeling Good
Lots of Movement Records
Tony
Mangra.com
Andy
Narell & Calypsociation
The Passage (music
for steel drum orchestra)
The Long way Back
HEADS UP
Steel drummer Andy with special
guests Michael Brecker, Paquito O'Rivera and Hugh Masekela
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Maverick
Radio Network
89.7 KMSU/Mankato & 91.3 KMSK/Austin
"Southern Minnesota's True Alternative"
playlist
for May 01, 2004
host/producer Mark R. Thomas
Øystein
Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham Hill Records
Fiddler's
Green
a selection of Celtic instrumentals
Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey: The Hunters
Purse
Máire Breatnach: Éist
Blix Street
Sweet Liberty
The Wee Birds Have Come and Gone/Fisherman's
Caledonia
artist website: Susan McKeown
Harmonia Mundi/World Village
Hibernian Music
On "Sweet Liberty" the pure and lilting voice Susan McKeown revives long lost tunes and recounts tales of a bygone era
Frigg
Särö
Matts näsi
NorthSide
artists website: Frigg
The group Frigg creates a next generation of acoustic Nordic folk combining Finnish and Norwegian tunes with touches American roots music.
Italia Nova
Italian underground: the hybrid generation
Alpha Bass featuring Mascarimirí: Aradanse
Gai Saber: Quand Lo Rossinhols Escria
World Music.net
Italia Nova represents a new way of interpreting traditional Italian tunes and ritual dance; some having Celtic roots dating back to the invasion of the Gauls. Given new technology and a growing club culture have inspired many traditional folk artists to graft their traditional sounds - such as pizzica and tarantella - on to electronic beats to create a hybrid for the new millenium.
Cinzano & Cocaine
Sea-sprite hula
Planetary Group
File under: European chill-out/jazz-lounge
Orchid II
Milky Way
Qindao Breeze
Pacific Moon Records
Music of the Chinese lute, known as the Pipa. (read liner notes on air history of the pipa)
Beyond
Dawnlight
Domo
Long Drive Home
Inflection Point
33rd Street Records
relaxed minimalistic music of the classic Stratocaster: file under the category Guitar Noir:
Feed the Fire
Passions to Ignite
SilverWave Records
Artist website: Mary Youngblood
Mary Youngblood plays flute on the tune "Feed the Fire, her vocals on "Passions to Ignite" are accompanied by Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
Inner Balance - Music for Yoga & Healing Arts
Chinmaya Dunster: Karma Circles (India/UK)
New Earth Records
rich and uplifting music fit for meditation and celebration...
"Timeless grooves and chants... music to energize the flow of yoga"
Prana (Sahana Vavatu)
Sounds True
World Reggae
Apache Indian: Om Numah Shivaya (India/UK)
Putumayo Records
Next-up a Hindu-mantra, turned reggae this is "Om Numah Shivaya."
Who Stole the Sky?
Music Mail to Tuva
Who Stole the Sky?
Ponderosa Music & Art
Avant-garde Tuvan singer, Sainkho Namtchylak, borrows from the ancient Siberian, shamanic traditions, folktales and rituals of her country and combines them with the mysterious sounds of “throat singing” and the wisdom of the Buddhist religion. Her new CD, "Who Stole the Sky?," is sung in Russian, Tuvan and English, and mixes electronica and traditional singing.
Sacumba
Marimba Azucar
Percumba Records
artists website: Luis Garay
Sacumba is a new Afro-Latin percussion CD by Luis Garay, Wilbur Wood, Leon Enatyan and Miguel Alfaro with the subtitle, "The Passion and Inspiration of the Drum."
Salvedad
Sindicato
Label-Bleu
Carlos Maza is known as a Chilean political agitator who currently lives in Cuba. His album, Salvedad, takes-on many different genres and cultural traditions and at times sounds like the soundtrack of a surrealistic caberret or stage-play.
The Rough Guide to theMusic of Kenya
"roots benga, coastal taarab, urban rap"
Queen Jane: Nduraga Ngwetereire
World Music.net
The Rough Guide to Kenya
Oyaya!
Seyin Djro
Congoleo
Columbia Records
artists website: Angélique Kidjo
World Beat Pick of the Month
West African singer Angélique Kidjo has roused the desire of many African women to become singers. Her mix of Afro-pop, American R&B and Caribbean rhythm is full of exuberance and vigor. This album is the third part in a trilogy that previously explored African Roots music in the United States, called "Oremi" and in Brazil, "Black Ivory Soul."
Women of Africa
Judith Sephuma: Le Tshephile Mang (South Africa) "Lesepfillemang"
Khadja Nin: Sina Mali, Sina Deni (Burundi)
Putumayo Records
Judith Sephuma is a rising star on the South African muscic scene. In her song "Le Tshephile Mang" she sings, "Our nation, our people, who do we trust? / We are always fighting, in who do we trust? / Why can't we be happy for each other, stop all hatred and build our nation together?"
Sabolan
Maïmouna
artist website: Marabi Productions
Two koras, one bass and percussion, carried by four young griot-trained Guineans.
Feeling Good
Feeling Good
Lots of Movement Records
Tony Mangra.com
The Passage (music for steel drum orchestra)
The Long way Back
HEADS UP
Steel drummer Andy with special guests Michael Brecker, Paquito O'Rivera and Hugh Masekela