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01/16/2016
Label Artist Album Selection
EMI Ben Harper There Will Be a Light 11th Commandment (solo)
Well, Well, Well, feat. The Blind Boys of Alabama
Hands Solo Phil Kellogg Passive-Aggressive What The Dog Said
8:10
21st Century Blues Chris Thomas King Red Mud Sessions Red Mud
Ryko Morphine Cure For Pain Buena
Indirecto John Scofield Medeski Martin & Wood Juice Juicy Lucy
8:25
Columbia Leon Bridges Coming Home (D) (N) Brown Skin Girl
Vanguard The Word
feat. John Medeski,
The North Mississippi Allstars
& Robert Randolph
Soul Food (N) When I See the Blood, feat. Ruthie Foster, vocals
Anti- Mavis Staples Livin' on a High Note (FC February 2) High Note
8:40
Noir City Film Festival, January 22 - 31 @ The Castro Theater
The Film Noir Foundation, dedicated to rescuing and restoring America's Film Noir heritage
Mesa Mermen A Glorious Lethal Euphoria With No Definite Future and No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow...
Tribute to David Bowie, January 8, 1947 - January 10, 2016
Is there a musician who reinvented himself as often as Bowie?
He paved the way for combining concepts of rock, theater, and sexuality.
Few artists have been as experimental with an ability to be mass appeal.
ISO David Bowie Blackstar (N) Blackstar
Ryko David Bowie Low Subterraneans
9:00
ISO David Bowie Blackstar (N) Lazarus
Ryko David Bowie Low Sound and Vision
Ryko David Bowie Lodger Red Money
9:15
Ryko David Bowie Low Weeping Wall
Ryko David Bowie Heroes Sense of Doubt
Ryko David Bowie Low Warszawa
9:35
Ryko David Bowie Heroes Heroes
V-2 Schneider, for Florian Schneider-Esleben, founding member of Kraftwerk
9:55
Ryko David Bowie Low Art Decade
Ryko David Bowie Heroes Moss Garden
Innova Van-Anh Vanessa Võ Three-Mountain Pass (L) The Legend
ACT Huong Thanh Dragonfly feat. Nguyên Lê (I) What the Bird Says
10:15
Mystery contest: What exotic instrument does David Bowie play on this song?   Answer: Japanese koto
Ryko David Bowie Heroes Moss Garden (revisited)
Magnatune Bindi Society Falling in Light Mourner's Kaddish (for David Bowie)
Innova Van-Anh Vanessa Võ Three-Mountain Pass (L) Three-Mountain Pass
10:35
Van-Anh Vanessa Võ Live in KALW Studio
Upcoming Presentations: Vân-Ánh Võ & The Va'v (Vân-Ánh Võ Quartet)

The Odyssey - from Vietnam to America

@ YBCA Forum, 701 Mission St., San Francisco
Friday, January 22 & Saturday, January 23, $20 - $30 (Student / Teacher / Member discounts)
Created by composer-performer Vân-Ánh Võ in partnership with Asian Americans for Community Involvement

  Van-Anh Vanessa Võ, playing the Dan Tranh She's Not She She's Not She
10:55
  Van-Anh Vanessa Võ, playing the Dan Bau Live in KALW Studio Lullabye
11:00
  Van-Anh Vanessa Võ, playing the Dan Tranh & the Dan Bau She's Not She Gnossienne No. 3
Upcoming show: Notes from Vietnam, feat. Van-Anh Vanessa Võ: World Premiere of Lullaby for a Country, on Dan Tranh
@ Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakland
Friday, February 12, 8 PM, $20 / $30 / $45 / $60 / $75
ECM Anders Jormin, double bass
Lena Willemark, viola
Karin Nakagawa, 25-string koto
Trees of Light (L) Hirajoshi
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: Academicians for Peace: We will not be a party to this crime!
Erdoğan continues to rail against academics, calls them 'despicable,' 'cruel'
Chomsky hits back at Erdoğan, accusing him of double standards on terrorism
Turkey Releases Detained Academics Who Signed Petition Defending Kurds
  Ensemble of 48 musicians arranged by Ayşe Tütüncü (Vimeo video) Soğuk Bir Bahar Günü
A Cold Spring Day
In memory of the Dersim Kurdish Massacre, 1938
Atlantic Al Di Meola World Sinfonia Heart of the Immigrants Little Cathedral
Fol Uxía Meu Canto Os Teus Ollos (Your Eyes)
Upcoming Show: Uxía & Narf: A Night of Galician Music @ The Red Poppy Art House, Thursday, March 3, 7:30, $20
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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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