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Listen to the most recent Tangents show
03/19/2011
Label Artist Album Selection
Signature Sounds Crooked Still Shaken by a Low Sound Wind & Rain
Nettwerk Abigail Washburn
feat. Béla Fleck
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet It Ain't Easy
Upcoming Show: Abigail Washburn @ Yoshi's San Francisco Sunday, March 27, 2011, 7 PM, $18
8:10
Messenger Dan Bern and the IJBC Fleeting Days Fly Away
Upcoming Show: Dan Bern in Concert @ The Freight and Salvage, Thursday, March 27, 7 PM, $26.50 advance / $28.50 door
opening band: Common Rotation
World Village Robert Plant & Justin Adams Festival in the Desert (var)
[also available through cdroots]
Win My Trainfare Home
Mesa Mermen A Glorious Lethal Euphoria With No Definite Future and No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow...
dedicated to Butler's miraculous last-second victory over Pitt in the NCAA basketball tournament
8:25
Northern Blues Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt Slide to Freedom 2: Make a Better World (N) I Scare Myself
by Dan Hicks
World Village Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha Re-Covers
[also available at [amazon.com]
When The Levee Breaks
Rockadillo Records / Northside Wimme Gierran Havana
Columbia Värttinä Songs From The Cold Seas
Directed by Hector Zazou (var)
(file under Hector Zazou)
Annuka Suaren Neito
8:45
Tetrapod John Danley A Guitarist's Compendium (comp) (N) Toledo
9:00
Brass Tonic Records Sarah Wilson Trapeze Project (N) Love Will Tear Us Apart
originally by Joy Division
ACT Youn Sun Nah Same Girl (I) (N) My Favorite Things
Youn Sun Nah plays kalimba
Heads Up International Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society (N) Really Very Small
9:10
Columbia / Legacy Herbie Hancock The Essential Herbie Hancock (comp) (2 CD) Watermelon Man
Hannibal ¡Cubanismo!
Jesús Alemany & Alfredo Rodriguez
¡Cubanismo! Pa'Que Gozen
Upcoming Show: Alfredo Rodriguez Trio @ Yoshi's San Francisco Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 8 PM $18, 10 PM $10
with Francisco Mela and Peter Slavov
Vocalion Xavier Cugat Cugat's Favorite Rhumbas (comp) You Forgotcha Guitar
9:25
Palmetto Ben Allison
feat. Mamadou Diabate on Kora
Peace Pipe Third Rail
Nonesuch Oumou Sangare Seya (L) Kounadya
Walt Disney Records Regina Carter Every Body Wants to Be a Cat
Disney Jazz Volume 1 (var) (N)
Find Yourself
feat. Yacouba Sissoko on kora
Upcoming Show: MacArthur Genius Violinist Regina Carter's Reverse Thread @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Children's Matinee Sunday March 20 5 PM, $5 children under fifteen, $15 adults (accompanying parent), $22 general pricing
Sunday March 20 7 PM, $22 & Monday March 21 8 PM, $22
09:45
Triloka Jai Uttal Monkey TT
CD not commercially released yet Yemen Blues Yemen Blues (FC summer 2011) (I) Eli
A & M / Octone K'Naan Troubadour (L) America feat. Mos Def & Chalie 2na
World Music Network Balkan Beat Box The Rough Guide To Planet Rock (var) (I) Ya Man (originally released on "Balkan Beat Box")
10:10
Mango (Island) Ali Farka Toure The River Ai Bine
Portrait Ornette Coleman and Prime Time Virgin Beauty Desert Players feat. Jerry Garcia
Happy Birthday Ornette Coleman, March 19, 1930 (or possibly March 9)
10:25
ATO Chris Whitley Rocket House To Joy (Revolution of the Innocents)
Epic Stanley Clarke The Bass-ic Collection Hello Jeff feat. Jeff Beck
Upcoming Show: Stanley Clarke @ Yoshi's Oakland, Friday, April 1 & Saturday April 2, 8 PM & 10 PM, $30
Kid's Matinee Sunday April 3, 2 PM, $5 Kids, $22 Adults (with kids), $30 Adults (general)
Sunday April 3, 7 PM, $30
Upcoming Show: Jeff Beck @ The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Saturday, April 9, 8 PM
10:35
Nuevos Medios Son de la Frontera
[audio interview]
Cal (I) Un Compromiso (Committment)
Coda Una Vida (All the Life)
astar Cimarrón
Carlos Rojas Hernández, director
Quitapesares (I) (N) TT
Hannibal Pepe Habichuela A Mandeli Boabdil
Atlantic Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart Rising Above Bedlam Bomba feat. Natacha Atlas
10:55
ozella music slagr straum, stille (I) (N) april
11:00
Gaza Corner features news and music from the Arab world as events unfold
Each week new articles are posted in the Gaza Corner section of tangents.com
This week: music dedicated to Mohammed Nabbous, journalist killed today March 19
while reporting on the attacks from the pro-Gaddafi forces
Chilling audio of Mohammed Nabbous' last report from Benghazi
Related articles on the Committee to Protect Journalists site
Enja Dhafer Youssef Electric Sufi (I) Yabay
Elektra / Asylum Claude Chalhoub Claude Chalhoub (I)
prod. by Michael Brook
Kaa
Svota Music The Armenian Navy Band feat. Arto Tuncboyacian How Much is Yours? (I) For the Souls of Those Who Passed
11:30
P&M Debashish Bhattacharya Trinity of Guitars (OVP?) Gat Teentala
Upcoming Show: Debashish Bhattacharya in Concert @ The Freight and Salvage, Wednesday, March 23, 8 PM, $20.50 advance / $22.50 at door
AAMP (Midheaven) Ali Akbar Khan From Father To Son (8 minute excerpt)
Upcoming Show: Join the Ali Akbar College of Music in Maestro Ali Akbar Khan's Annual Birthday Tribute
featuring Aashish Khan, Shujaat Khan, Swapan Chaudhuri, Alam Khan, and many others
@ The Freight and Salvage, Friday, April 15, 7 PM, $22.50 advance / $24.50 at door
KEY

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
NCR = not commercially released

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