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12/26/2015
2015 Tangential Favorites Part 1 (blue indicates recommended CD)
Label Artist Album Selection
Bafe's Factory Southpaw Steel'n'Twang Stat(u)e of Mind (I) (N) Aloha Garage
Okeh Bill Frisell Guitar in the Space Age (N) Rumble
8:10
Vanguard The Word
feat. John Medeski,
The North Mississippi Allstars
& Robert Randolph
Soul Food (N) Come By Here
OVP John Mayall and the Blues Breakers
feat. Peter Green, Guitar
Mick Fleetwood, drums
John McVie, bass
John Mayall's BluesBreakers Live in 1967 (N)
(never before heard live performances)
All Your Love, by Otis Rush
8:20
Red House Records Jorma Kaukonen Ain't in No Hurry (L) Bar Room Crystal Ball
Bully Cat Music Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers Last Night, This Morning (N) Lola, My Baby's Coming Home
Nonesuch Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell The Traveling Kind (N) Higher Mountains
Legacy Cassandra Wilson Coming Forth by Day (L)
Homage to Billie Holiday
Billie's Blues
Columbia Leon Bridges Coming Home (D) (N) River
Nonesuch Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops Tomorrow is My Turn (L) Round About the Mountain
8:50
Universal Becca Stevens Band Perfect Animal (L) Be Still
8:55
XL Ibeyi
(NPR review of Ibeyi)
Ibeyi (L) Oya
Ghosts
River
Sterns Criolo Convoque Seu Buda (I) (L) Convoque Seu Buda
9:15
Parlophone St. Germain St. Germain (I) (N) Real Blues
Atlantic Songhoy Blues Music in Exile (N) Al Hassadi Terei
Real World Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores Tambolero (N) Chi Chi Mani
RazDaz Avishai Cohen Trio From Darkness (L) Abie, dedicated to Abie Rodriguez
9:30
Ponderosa Ludovico Einaudi Taranta Project (I) (L) Preludio / Nar I_Seher
feat. Ballaké Sissoko
Mercan Dede
KiranMusic Kiran Ahluwalia Sanata : Stillness (L) Hayat
Motema Awa Sangho Ala Ta (L) Somofola
World Village Titi Robin avec Mehdi Nassouli Taziri (N) Ne T'Envole Pas
9:55
Atlantic Al Di Meola Elysium (N) Amanjena
10:00
Mystery contest: What is the name of this band?    Answer: The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman
Nonesuch The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman (N) Friend or Foe
10:15
Austroplastik Özlem Bulut Band Aşk (I) (L) Arkadaş (Friend)
Lovesick Babel Janam The Space Between (N) Nida, by Gari Hegedus
Jazz Village Smadj Spleen (I) (N) Smadjibe
Yemen Blues Yemen Blues Insaniya (Humanity), prod. by Bill Laswell (N) Tonight I'll Be Pretty, feat. Mariem Hassan
Innova Mamak Khadem The Road (N) A Thousand Strings
Romance
10:45
Headspin Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra The Reason Why Vol. 2 (I) Dokuz Seki (Nine Benches), by Okay Temiz
Karrot Kommando R. U. T. A
Na Uschod Wolnośĉ Albo śmierć (I) Kto U Pana Nie Sluźyl, Biedy Jeszcze Nie Uźyl
11:00
Muziekpublique Vardan Hovanissian, duduk
Emre Gültekin, baglama
Adana (I) (N) Bingyol
11:05
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: Freed prisoner Samir Kuntar assassinated by Israeli airstrike in Syria
Mostakeli Maryam Saleh with Zeid Hamdan Halawella (I) (N) Emchi Ala Rimchi
KKV Tania Saleh A Few Images (N) Hushed Scat: Siléncio
Oriente Musik Kroke Ten (I) (N) Bright Clouds
Monsieur Doumani Monsieur Doumani Sikoses (I) (N) Siskoses
Harmonia Mundi Trio Chemirani Dawâr (I) (L)
La Langue Invisible | The Universal Rhythm
Sahar
Baykus Muzik Cenk Erdoğan Kara Kutu (Black Box) (I) (L) Yağmurla Gelen
11:40
Deutsche Grammophon Anoushka Shankar Home (N) Guru: Raga Jogeshwari-Gat in Rupaktal
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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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