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    05/19/2012
    Label Artist Album Selection
    ANTI- Mavis Staples We'll Never Turn Back
    produced by Ry Cooder
    Down In Mississippi
    ANTI- Tom Waits Mule Variations Get Behind The Mule
    feat. Charlie Musselwhite
    8:10
    Barbés Nation Beat Growing Stone (L) Bicu de Lambu
    National Geographic Music Toubab Krewe TK2 NTB
    8:25
    MCA / GRP Rob Wasserman Trios American Popsicle
    feat. Edie Brickell & Jerry Garcia
    ACT Youn Sun Nah Same Girl (I) Pancake
    8:35
    Island Grace Jones Private Life: the Compass Point Sessions (comp) (2 CD set) Walking In The Rain
    orig. on Nightclubbing
    Happy Birthday Grace Jones May 19, 1948
    ANTI Bettye LaVette I've Got My Own Hell To Raise Sleep To Dream
    8:55
    Back Porch Charlie Sexton Cruel and Gentle Things Burn
    9:00
    Columbia Chris Whitley Long Way Around: An Anthology 1991-2001 Big Sky Country
    orig. on Living With The Law
    9:05
    Savoy Jazz Floratone
    Bill Frisell
    Floratone II (N)
    prod. by Lee Townsend
    Do You Have It?
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    Genre defying fusion at its very best led by the innovative and versatile guitarist Bill Frisell
    Chronicles (Polydor) Ellen McIlwaine Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years Sliding
    orig. on We The People
    9:15
    Ryko Morphine Cure For Pain Thursday
    Kool Arrow Kultur Shock Kultura-Diktatura Da Ye
    Flametal Flametal The Elder Bruja Tortura
    9:30
    Deutsche Grammophon Anoushka Shankar Traveller (N) Bulería Con Ricardo
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    Anoushka, daughter of Ravi Shankar, plays a riveting blend of Hindustani classical sitar with flamenco
    Nuevos Medios Son De La Frontera Son De La Frontera Buleria Negra Del Gastor
    9:45
    ACT Nguyên Lê Songs of Freedom (I) (N) Whole Lotta Love
    feat. Youn Sun Nah, vocal
    10:00
    Palm Pictures Sidestepper 3am (in beats we trust) Deja
    Real World Dub Colossus Addis Through The Looking Glass (N) Guragigna
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    Ethiopian jazz featuring outstanding Ethiopian artists
    10:10
    Real World Samuel Yirga Hagere (N) (I) Abet Abet
    Cumbancha The Touré-Raichel Collective
    Vieux Farka Touré
    Idan Raichel
    The Tel Aviv Session (N) Experience
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    Organic improvisations spearheaded by Malian guitarist Vieux (son of Ali Farka Toure) and Ethiopian/Israeli Idan Raichel on keyboards
    10:30
    CNI The Third Planet Kurdistani (I) Baaran (Rain)
    10:40
    World Pacific, Blue Note Marisa Monte Mais Borboleta
    ACT Gerardo Nuñez Andando El Tiempo (I) Trasgo
    Mesa Al Di Meola World Sinfonia
    feat. Arto Tuncboyacian
    Heart Of The Immigrants They Love Me From Fifteen Feet Away
    Blue Jacket Monica Salmaso
    feat. Nano Vasconcelos
    Trampolim Canto Dos Escravos
    10:55
    Blue Note Bobby McFerrin Beyond Words Circlings
    Columbia John McLaughlin with the One Truth Band Electric Dreams Guardian Angels
    feat. Shankar: violin
    Triloka Jai Uttal Beggars and Saints Coda
    ECM David Torn Cloud About Mercury Suyafhu Skin
    World Village Le Trio Joubran feat.
    Dhafer Youssef, vocals
    Youssef Hbeisch, percussion
    AsFâr (I) (N) Zawâj El Yamâm
    11:10
    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: articles about this week's featured artist: Legendary Algerian Singer Warda Dies in Cairo at 72
    Warda Biography
    World Music Network Warda Rough Guide to the Music of Egypt Walaw Ennak Ya Habibi Beied
    11:15
      Warda youtube video Yana Ya Harana
    11:25
    EMI Arabia Fairuz Legend: The Best Of Fairuz (comp) (I) Sallimleh Alayh
    Six Degrees Niyaz Sumud (steadfastness) (N) Sosin
    11:40
    Opal / Warner Brothers Brian Eno Nerve Net Wire Shock (Tunestack)
    11:50
    Elektra / Asylum L. Subramaniam Global Fusion Jai Hanuman!
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    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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