WHITE SUN III: LUMINOUS AND EPIC
The new release by the Grammy-winning Los-Angeles based trio is an ambitious lushly-produced double-disc with 23 tracks ranging from orchestrated pieces to more sparse arrangements. White Sun who specialize in sacred chants from an ancient yogic tradition consist of singer composer Gurujas Khalsa, producer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Adam Berry, and founder and gong master Harijiwan…
BEST WORLD MUSIC RELEASES OF 2017 PART II
Aired on KPFK 90.7 FM on 1/3/2018. You can listen to the show on the audio archives through 1/16/2017 here: http://archive.kpfk.org/ Scroll down to Global Village Weds 1/3/2018. And here is the playlist: Best of 2017, part 2, 1,3,2018
BEST WORLD MUSIC RELEASES OF 2017 PART I
Aired on 12/27/207 on 90.7 FM KPFK Los Angeles. Playlist: Best of 2017, part I, 12,27,2017 And you can listen here on the audio archives until 1/10/2018. Scroll down to Global Village Wednesday 12/27/2017. http://archive.kpfk.org/ Part II will air on Wednesday, January 3, 2018! Omar Faruk Tekbilek Lila Downs Toko Telo: Regis Gizavo, Monika Njava,…
ON FINDING HAPPINESS: LARRY KING INTERVIEWS AUTHORS MITRA RAHBAR AND PICO IYER
http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/2017/1/16/finding-happiness
FARED SHAFINURY’S INTO THE NIGHT
Composer, singer, poet and multi-instrumentalist Fared Shafinury is a perfect representative of what he calls a hyphenated generation of Iranian-Americans today. Born in Texas of Persian parents, and a resident of its musical capital Austin, he has forged a career beautifully blending traditional Persian music with Western sensibilities. His first instrument was the cello in…
ACCIDENTAL COURTESY, MUSICIAN DARYL DAVIS AND HIS QUEST TO CHANGE THE FACE OF WHITE SUPREMACIST AMERICA
Chicago Bluesman, R&B musician, keyboardist, actor, lecturer and author Daryl Davis has played with such musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Hornsby, and Bill Clinton. But besides his musical career, he has another vocation, one that is both seemingly dangerous and seen as controversial by some: in his efforts to improve race relations,…
KAYHAN KALHOR ON HIS LATEST RECORDING HAWNIYAZ, HIS ROLE IN MUSIC, AND WHAT FUELS HIS INSPIRATION
The Middle East and Central Asia have a lot in common musically and the coming together of artists from diverse regions can lead to a sound that while cohesive, is yet fresh and innovative. Such is the case for the latest recording Hawniyaz (meaning “two or more people who need each other”) by Kurdish Persian…
NERUDA, A NEW MOVIE BY PABLO LARRAÍN
In 1994, beloved Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was the subject of the fictitious movie Il Postino. His poems have been set to music by musicians across the world from Samuel Barber, to Mikis Theodorakis, Jackson Browne, Brazilian Girls and Ute Lemper, to name a few. Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez considered him “the greatest poet…
WHITE SUN’S SECOND ALBUM EFFECTIVELY COMBINES ANCIENT HEALING YOGIC MANTRAS WITH WORLD MUSIC
WHITE SUN’S SECOND ALBUM EFFECTIVELY COMBINES ANCIENT HEALING YOGIC MANTRAS WITH WORLD MUSIC In Eastern philosophy, sound is the origin of all things and it is the last sense to leave us when we leave the body. Within and without, we are constantly surrounded by vibrations. Sacred sound vibrations have a deep healing effect. Mantra…
HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA TRIO ON TOUR FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THE LATEST RECORDING EL VIAJE
HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA TRIO ON TOUR AND COMING TO L.A’S BLUE WHALE JAZZ CLUB ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2016, FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF THE LATEST RECORDING EL VIAJE Harold López-Nussa’s eighth and latest release El Viaje (The Journey), also happens to be his first US release on Mack Avenue Records. The conservatory-trained master pianist is the…
