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12/08/2007
Label Artist Album Selection
Smithsonian Folkways Blind Willie Johnson Anthology of American Folk Music (var) John the Revelator
Transmit Sound Gob Iron (Anders Parker, Jay Farrar) Death Songs for the Living Death Is Only A Dream
Takoma Leo Kottke 6- and 12-String Guitar Vaseline Machine Gun
Sheer Guy Buttery Songs from the Cane Fields (I) Mad Scientist Ritual
8:22 pm
Verve Luciana Souza The New Bossa Nova (N) Down To You (written by Joni Mitchell)
AstralWerks Beth Orton Comfort Of Strangers Shadow of a Doubt
8:30 pm
Goatscape Nina Gerber Not Before Noon Back Into My Arms (vocals: Vickie Randle)
EMM Ellen McIlwaine Mystic Bridge (L) Save The World
Shanachie D'Gary Malagasy Guitar Tiako Ianao
8:43 pm
GHA (Belgium) Yamandu Costa Ida e Volta (I)(N) Cebolão
Verve Maria João / Mário Laginha Cor Rafael Ou A Cor De Moçambique feat. Trilok Gurtu
Times Square Tcheka Nu Monda (N) Djan Kre Bejabu
9:00 pm
World Village Lobi Traoré Mali Blue Warani
Riverboat Records / World Music Network Nuru Kane Sigil (I) Gorée
Ludos / CNI Nour-Eddine Zri-Zrat Al Ghorbat
SELF / COP International Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (I) Sahara Blues
9:20 pm
Philips El Camaron De La Isla Autorretrato: Versiones y mezclas, nuevas: 1970-1990 (comp)(I) En Tu Puerta Da La Luna (feat. Tomatito)
Emarcy Jacques Schwarz-Bart Soné Ka-La (N) Papalé
World Circuit / Nonesuch Grupo Sierra Maestra Tibiri Tábara Felipe Blanco
World Circuit / Nonesuch Orchestra Baobab Specialist In All Styles Jiin Ma Jiin Ma
9:44 pm
Cyber Aphrodesia Lagos By Bus (N) White Elephant
Upcoming Show: Aphrodisia @ The Independent, Friday, December 21
MCD Barbatuques (I) O Seguinte é Esse Baianá
Do Right The Souljazz Orchestra Freedom No Go Die (I)(N) Mista President
10:00 pm
Vocalion Xavier Cugat Cugat's Favorite Rhumbas (comp)(N) You Forgotcha Guitar
Roulette Jazz Machito Kenya Congo Mulence feat. Cannonball Adderly
Columbia Billie Holiday Remixed and Reimagined (various remixers)(N) Billie's Blues (remixed by Daniel Y)
10:10 pm
Happy Birthday Sinead O'Conner, December 8, 1966
Virgin Massive Attack 100th Window What Your Soul Sings feat. Sinéad O'Connor
7d Quodia The Arrow: A Story In Seven Parts (CD+DVD)(N) Sitting on the Bank
Blue Note Floratone (Matt Chamberlain, Bill Frisell, Tucker Martine, Lee Townsend) Floratone (N) TT
10:27 PM
ANTI- Tom Waits Mule Variations Big In Japan
Jericho Beach Tanya Tagaq Sinaa (D)(I) Surge
Asphodel Diamanda Galas Malediction and Prayer (live) My World Is Empty Without You
Island John Cale Slow Dazzle Heartbreak Hotel
10:44 pm
Oriente Kroke Seventh Trip (I)(N) TT
Apple The Beatles Revolver Tomorrow Never Knows
Today In History: John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City
10:57 pm
Mystery Artist
RCA Victor / Legacy Charlie Mingus Tijuana Moods Ysabel's Table Dance
end of mystery artist
11:12 pm
Happy Hanukkah!
Elektra Don Byron Don Byron plays the music of Mickey Katz Dreidel Song feat. Lorin Sklamberg
Doublemoon Selim Sesler Anatolian Weddings (I)(N) Butcher's Air
Jaro Okay Temiz Magnetic Band Magnetic Orient (I) Kemalpaşa Çiftetelli (clarinet/oud: Hüsnü Senlendirici)
Selim Sesler, Okay Temiz, and Hüsnü Senlendirici will likely be part of the Spring Tangents Turkey Music Tour.
11:28 pm
a.m.i. artistic agency Shujaat Khan / Stawomir Kulpowicz Live at Warsaw Philharmonic
(may not be commercially available, but we're researching that)
[track 2]
11:49 pm
World Circuit / Nonesuch Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club Pueblo Nuevo (feat. Ruben Gonzales, who died on this day in 2003)
11:56 pm
Vanguard Mimi Fox La Guitara: Gender Bending Strings (var) Lady Byrd
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D = debut     comp = compilation     FC = forthcoming     I = import
L = latest     OVP = Out of Print     N = new     NR = newly reissued
sdtrk = soundtrack     TT = title track     var = various     N/A = not available

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