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Listen to the most recent Tangents show
07/16/2011
Label Artist Album Selection
Signature Sounds Crooked Still Some Strange Country Locust in the Willows
Upcoming Show: Crooked Still @ Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street (SF)
Thursday July 21, March 9, 8 PM $16
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West
Signature Sounds Crooked Still Some Strange Country (N) You Were Gone
Northern Blues Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt Slide to Freedom 2: Make a Better World (I) (N) I Scare Myself
by Dan Hicks
Atlantic Madeleine Peyroux The Inner Flame (var) Life Is Fine
Adapted from Langston Hughes poem
8:15
Warner Brothers Los Lobos Colossal Head Everybody Loves a Train
Upcoming Show: Los Lonely Boys / Los Lobos @
The Mountain Winery, 14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga, CA, Tues., July 26 doors 5:30 PM / show 7:30 PM $35.00 - $69.50
  Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys Grand Isle (N) C'est Trop
Ruf Records Lightnin' Malcolm
Cameron Kimbrough, drums
(grandson of blues legend Jr. Kimbrough)
Renegade (I) (N) Stop Fightin' Over Me
8:30
Upcoming Show: KALW 70th Anniversary Concert @ Freight and Salvage
Saturday, August 27, 8 PM (doors open at 7 PM), $25.50 advance / $30.50 at door
feat. Wake the Dead, George Brooks & Kai Eckhardt's Tangential Experience, & Flatt & Scruggs Tribute Band
ANTI Bettye LaVette (originally released as a single on the Calla label in 1965, not aware of an album it can be found on) Let Me Down Easy
a Live version is available on Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy - In Concert
Upcoming Show: Bettye Lavette @ Yoshi's Oakland, Thursday, July 21, 8 PM $30
ANTI- Bettye LaVette
[Fresh Air Interview]
The Scene of the Crime Jealousy
8:40
ANTI- Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone (L) Too Close / I'm On My Way To Heaven Anyhow
Donny Gerrard, vocals on Too Close
Vanguard Bukka White Blues with a Feeling (var) Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
8:50
Opal / Warner Brothers Daniel Lanois' Black Dub Black Dub (L) Slow Baby
Acoustic Groove Jack West & Curvature Continuum Slinky
Antilles Third Rail
feat. James "Blood" Ulmer, Bill Laswell, Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, Bernie Worrell, and Amina Claudine Myers
South Delta Space Age Dusted
9:10
Guest DJ Intercultural Tangential Saxophonist, Composer and Visionary Hafez Modirzadeh
zaman8 Global Phatness & Hafez Modirzadeh suryaghati Candra
Upcoming Show: Hafez Modirzadeh and ETHEL

with Mili Bermejo, Amir Elsaffar, Amir Abbas Etemadzadeh, and Faraz Minooei
@ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, July 23
Hear Hafez discuss his new suite In Convergence Liberation @ 7:15, Show begins 8 PM July 23
Disques Chromodal Hafez Modir Bemsha Alegria Martinete de Turry
ECM Jon Balke &
Amina Alaoui
Siwan (Equilibrium)
[amazon.com]
Toda Ciencia Transcendiendo
Fiddletalk Music Mili Bermejo Love Songs of the Americas Pasarero
9:45
Faraz Minooei Faraz Minooei Black Snow
Santur solo (N)
TT
X Dot 25 Hafez Modirzadeh People's Blues Nava-ye Mardom
Nonesuch Kronos Quartet
Kimmo Pohjonen, accordion
Samuli Kosminen, percussion / sampling
Uniko (N) Kamala
cantaloupe Ethel Light (I) Arrival
10:25
Pi Recordings Amir Elsaffar two rivers Hemayoun
Upcoming Show: Cornelius Dufallo with Amir Elsaffar and Special Guests: Post-Idiomatic Blues and Beyond
@ The Red Poppy Art House, Friday, July 22, doors open 8:30 PM, show 9 PM, $10 - $15
Forrest Hill / Harmony Music Luigi Cinque Tarantula Hypertext O'rchestra Tangerine Café (I) Garritm / Core amante feat. Paolo Fresu on trumpet
Zoho Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet Natural Selection (L) Lament (by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
11:05
Innova Cornelius Dufallo Dream Streets Prelude
Ceres Jamshied Sharifi One TT feat. Yungchen Llamo & Abdoulaye Diabate
Real World Records Syriana
feat. Nick Page aka Dubulah, guitar
Abdullah Chhadeh, Qanun
Bernard O`Neill, double Bass
The Road To Damascus (D) (I) TT
11:30
 
Gaza Corner features news and music from the Middle East and North Africa as events unfold
Each week new articles are posted in the Gaza Corner section of tangents.com
This week: an article from Guardian U.K.: The brutal murder of a young Palestinian woman helped change the law over so-called 'honour' killings
This week's Featured Artist: Kamilya Jubran
Harmonia Mundi Kamilya Jubran Makan Concert by Kamilya Jubran in Jemmapes
to promote the release of Makan
Valley Entertainment Kamilya Jubran
formerly with Sabreen Association for Artistic Development
Listen to the Banned (var) (N)
FreeMuse article on Listen to the Banned
Al Shatté Al Akhar
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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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