Your Music 8

Track List for Your Music 8
1) "You Got It" from Taj Majal started that set - that's from the Warner Brothers 1977 release Music Fuh Yuh.
2)Carolina Chocolate Drops with their bluegrass version of the Beyonce song "Hit 'em up Style" - that cut was from a live recording made with the band's permission at a bluegrass festival in 2007.
3)Luminescent Orchestri chimed in with "Amaritsi" from their self-published 2005 CD "too hot to sleep".
4) E Museki and a cut called "Guadiana" from THEIR self-puiblished 2005 CD, "sindh".
5) Gyspy Kings started that set with "Bambaleo" that's rom their Rare and Un plugged" CD released in 2003 on the NewSound label
6)Voyager compilation called "the art of bellydance". That tune was called "Bahija"
7)The Cincinnati-based group Indus Red - "Serpent Dance" off their self-titled recording simply called "Indus Red"
8)Kusun Ensemble from Ghana closed the set with "Ga Highlife" from their self-published 2002 release, Nokoko.
9)Asheville, North Carolina's afro-beat ensemble Toubab Krewe with a track called "Devil Woman"
10) Manu D'Bango with the title track from his 1994 Giant Records release Wakafrica. 11)Baka Beyond with "Adukbe" from their 2000 Rykodisc recording called "sogo" 12)King Suni Ade with the tune "Ilako" from his 1983 ablum on King records, Synchro System.
13)"Aphrodesia " from the movie soundtrack from a film called Kama Sutra - that's on TVT records, released in 1977
14) "Brown Rice"- that's from Shaddowfax's 1995 live album on the Sonic Images jazz label.
15) Santana's version of the Tito Puente tune, "Oye Como Va", from the 1977 colombia classic Abraxas - enjoy.

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Your Music 5

I've selected an assortment of experimental genre-crossing pieces by some well known and some less well known African American innovators from several different eras that I think you'll enjoy, and that I think go well together. Some of these tunes you'll undoubtedly be familiar with and a few you may not, like this first piece from a musician by the name of Andy Palacio and his group, the Garifuna Collective. Garifuna is a musical and linguistic fusion blending African traditions with aboriginal North American culture of the Arawak people who lived on the Caribbean Islands before the European conquest and genocide. A ship carrying slaves from West Africa sank off the coast of the Isle of Saint Vincent and those who survived and made it to shore were welcomed by the Arawaks thus beginning the Garifuna culture. Small pockets of Garifuna descendents now live in both Belize and Nacaragua. Andy Palacio is from Beliz. Here he is with a song sung in the Garifuna language. The song is titled; Sin Precio, which translates to "worthless".

We started that set with 1) Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective off their 2007 release called Watina - that's on the Cumbancha label out of Belize.
Next we heard 2)Taj Mahal with a song called Walkers Cay of of his 1977 release on Warner Brothers titled Music Fu Yuh
3)Manu D'Bango was next with Doctor Bird, from his 1981 release on Mango, "Ambassador"
Here's one of the genre-bending numbers I mentioned earlier This is 4)Ali Farka Toure's contribution to Salsa;

Next was the 4)Burning Spear classic; Throw Down Your Arms from his 1977 release Dry and Heavy on Island Records
Let's jump to the mainland now and back a bit further as we join the great 5)Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach for this version of Ellington's composition; Caravan -oh, and, by the way; I don't know the source of this recording so if any of you Jazz afficionados out there have an idea please let me know. I'll give an e-mail address at the end of the program.

Then we heard an old British club recording for the 6)Jimi Hendrix Experience doing Jimi's signature tune Purple Haze.
And we finished that set with 7) John Coltrane and friends performing one of Coltrane's best known compositions, A Love Supreme. All three of those recordings came to me without any liner notes, but they were just too good to file away for want of info on he record labels or the years when they were recorded.
Here's another of those mystery recordings; it's 8)Miles Davis with Charlie Parker and in this case I don't even know the name of the song. I hope someone ut there will recognize it and let me know.

9)Herbie Hancock from his 1974 Columbia release called "Thrust" and the tune was "Spank-a Lee".

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