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01/02/2016
Tribute to Native American Activist John Trudell, February 15, 1946 - December 8, 2015
Remembering John Trudell    Profile of John Trudell    Review of John Trudell's Life
Label Artist Album Selection
Ryko John Trudell Blue Indians Blue Indians
Ryko John Trudell Johnny Damas And Me Rant and Roll
8:10
Capitol Robbie Robertson Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy The Sound is Fading, feat. Lea Hicks Manning (John Trudell's mother-in-law)
  Kris Kristofferson & John Trudell (youtube video) Johnny Lobo (studio version on A Moment of Forever)
Capitol Robbie Robertson Contact From The Underworld Of Redboy Sacrifice feat. Leonard Peltier
8:30
Ryko John Trudell A.K.A. Grafitti Man Bombs Over Baghdad
Ryko John Trudell Johnny Damas And Me All There Is To It
Ryko John Trudell Blue Indians Devil and Me
9:00
John Trudell John Trudell and Bad Dog Wazi's Dream (L) Stone People
Ryko John Trudell Blue Indians Angel of Sin
2015 Tangential Favorites Part 2 (blue indicates recommended CD)
Vanguard The Word
feat. John Medeski,
The North Mississippi Allstars
& Robert Randolph
Soul Food (N) Play All Day
Bafe's Factory Southpaw Steel'n'Twang Stat(u)e of Mind (I) (N) Route 68
Alligator Shemekia Copeland Outskirts of Love (N) Jesus Just Left Chicago
9:15
Cumbancha The Garifuna Collective Ayó (L) Gudemei (Poverty)
Nation Beat Nation Beat Carnival Caravan (5 song EP) (N) Casa Diamante
Sony Bomba Estereo Amanecer (N) Mar (Lo Que Siento)
9:30
Parlophone St. Germain St. Germain (I) (N) Real Blues
Sterns Kandia Kouyaté Renasence (N) Koala Boumba
Glitterbeat Bixiga 70 III (N) Ventania
10:00
Mystery contest: Who is the band, or who is the guitar player?
Answer: Kim Simmonds has been the guiter player for Savoy Brown since 1965, when the band formed
RUF Savoy Brown The Devil to Pay (N) Got An Awful Feeling
Ain't Got Nobody
Glitterbeat Samba Touré Gandadiko (Burning Land) (N) Gandadiko
Ma Case Ezza Alkher (I) (L) Hima
locuramusic LoCura Dale De Comer (Feed It) (L) Amarantos
Real World Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores Tambolero (N) Gallinacito
10:30
Igloo Majid Bekkas Al Qantara (I) (N) Bouregreg
Harmonia Mundi Mohamed Abozekry & Heejaz Extended Ring Road (I) (L) Messages
10:50
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: Israel Bans Novel on Arab-Jewish Romance From Schools for 'Threatening Jewish Identity'
Bringing in the new year with scandals and banned books
DAM DAM Dabke on the Moon (I) (L) Mama I Fell in Love with a Jew
11:00
Endless Afghanistan War Update: A year of Taliban gains shows that 'we haven't delivered,' top Afghan official says
The True Cost of the Afghanistan War May Surprise You
This week's featured artist: Afghani rubab master Quraishi
Evergreene Music Quraishi, rubab (the national instrument of Afghanistan) Pure and True Herati
Pi Recordings Amir ElSaffar Crisis (N) The Great Dictator
Nonesuch Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot (L) To Negate
11:30
Real World John Metcalfe The Appearance of Colour (N) Sun (excerpt)
ECM David Torn Only Sky (L) At Least There Was Nothing
ECM Savina Yannatou Songs of Thessaloniki (N) Greek Hymn of St. Dmitrius
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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