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07/23/2016
Upcoming Show: KALW's 75th Anniversary Concert

Featuring the Kronos Quartet and Bruce Cockburn

@
The Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes St. (between Van Ness & Franklin)
Thursday, August 4, 8 PM, $35
Special post-show reception with Kronos, Bruce and KALW music programmers
(Sarah Cahill, JoAnn Mar, Devon Strolovitch, Peter Thompson, Kevin Vance, and Dore Stein)
for a $240 donation to KALW
Label Artist Album Selection
21st Century Blues Chris Thomas King Les Blues (4-song EP) (N) I Can Fly
Alligator Roy Buchanan Deluxe Edition (comp) Mrs. Pressure, orig. on When A Guitar Plays The Blues
8:10
Peace of Eden Guy Buttery Guy Buttery (I) (N) The Upper Reaches, feat. Vusi Mahlasela, vocals
Upcoming living room concert Tangents parties September 2 & 4, featuring Guy Buttery
email Dore for details
8:15
True North Bruce Cockburn Stealing Fire If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Bruce Cockburn's comments about the song
Columbia Jeff Buckley You and I (comp) (N) Just Like a Woman
Short Stuff Kaki King The Neck is a Bridge to the Body (L) Anthropomorph
Maarja Nuut Maarja Nuut Une Meeles (In the Hold of a Dream) (I) (N) Hobusemăng
8:40
Real World John Metcalfe The Appearance of Colour (L) The Silver Track
7d Media The Security Project Live 1 (N) The Family and the Fishing Net
Epic Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio, drums and Tony Hymas, keyboards Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop Guitar Shop
Upcoming Show: Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy @ Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California St, Tuesday, August 16
doors 7 PM, show 8 PM, $76 - $205
9:00
Blue Note Ambrose Akinmusire The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint Our Basement (Ed)
feat. Becca Stevens, vocals
Osso String Quartet
Upcoming Show: Ambrose and Friends @ Stanford Jazz Festival Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Tuesday, August 2, 8 PM, $15 / $42 / $55
9:10
Blue Note Ambrose Akinmusire The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint
NPR interview with Ambrose Akinmusire
Ceaseless Inexhaustable Child (Cyntoia Brown), feat. Cold Specks, vocals
Tü Music Paolo Fresu & Omar Sosa Eros (N) What is Inside / Himeros
ACT Vince Mendoza & Arif Mardin Jazzpaña Tanguillo
9:30
Palya Bea Palya Bea (Woman) (I) (N) Oly Szép Vagy Nekem
Audience Magillah Fotografie (I) (L) Rumanian Fantasy / Doina
Black Sun Daniel Binelli Tango Danza Proteña
Elektra/Nonesuch Kronos Quartet & Astor Piazzolla Five Tango Sensations Asleep
Upcoming Show: KALW's 75th Anniversary Concert
Featuring the Kronos Quartet and Bruce Cockburn

@ The Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes St. (between Van Ness & Franklin), San Francisco
Thursday, August 4, 8 PM, $35
Hannibal (Ryko) Maria Kalaniemi and Albargaz Iho Triolipolska
10:00
Mystery contest: What is the specific name of the instrument in the intro to this song?   Answer: Bawu (Chinese reed instrument)
Sony Classical Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home (N) Green (Vincent's Tune), feat. Roomful of Teeth
Upcoming Show: The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at the Greek
@ The Greek Theater (University of California), 2001 Gayley Rd, Berkeley, Thursday, August 18, $95 - $175 (student discount available)
10:10
Nonesuch Iva Bittová Iva Bittová Fragment, part 1
Cloud Valley Sans Sans Live (I) (L) Tuuli (Wind)
Kalan Ayşenur Kolivar Bahçeye Hanımeli (2 CD) (I) Da im Yusuf Orti
for the women living in the East Black Sea region of Turkey
Ayşenur Kolivar performed on Dore's Tangents Turkey Music Tour
10:25
Nonesuch Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté Toumani & Sidiki Hamadoun Toure
Motema Awa Sangho Ala Ta (L) Somofola
Som Livre Trio Madeìera Brasil Ao Vivo em Copacabana (I) (N) Passarim
10:45
Cobalt Faytinga Eritrea (I) Goda Anna

Faytinga and Dore, at the Førde Music Festival
Lusafrica Lura Herança (I) Herança, feat. Naná Vasconcelos
11:00
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: Mass Murder that doesn't make headlines:
International coalition warplanes massacre civilians north of Manbij
US-led coalition purportedly levels northeast Aleppo school with internally displaced Syrians inside
Alarm over reports of high civilian death toll from US-led airstrikes on Manbij
Manbij's public parks turn into graveyards during five-week siege
This week's featured artists: Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh & Syrian vocalist Dima Orsho
Sony Classical Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home (N) Wedding (by Kinan Azmeh)
Upcoming Show: The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma at the Greek
@ The Greek Theater (University of California), 2001 Gayley Rd, Berkeley, Thursday, August 18, $95 - $175 (student discount available)
Harmonia Mundi Jean-Guihen Queyras, Sokratis Sinopoulos, Bijan Chemirani and Keyvan Chemirani Thrace (Sunday morning sessions) (FC late August) Dance in 7/8
Sony Classical Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble Sing Me Home (N) Cabaliño, feat. David Salvado, vocals, & Anxo Pinto, sanfora (hurdy-gurdy)
Upcoming Event:

Zam Zam Water: Gala for Gaza

@ Paradise Ballrooms: Diamond Palace - 4100 Peralta Boulevard, Fremont, Sunday, July 24, 5 PM - 10 PM
11:35
Arun Ramamurthy Arun Ramamurthy Trio
Arun Ramamurthy, sitar
Sameer Gupta, drums
Perry Wortman, bass
Jazz Carnatica (D) (L) Delusions
11:50
Upcoming Show:

3 Ouds with Percussion: an evening of Turkish, Armenian and Arabic music with Gary Haggerty (Gari Hegedus), Paul Ohanesian, Omar Abbad and Faisal Zedan

@ DaSilva Ukulele Co., 2547 8th Street #28, Berkeley, Tuesday, July 26, 7:30 PM - 9 PM, $20 donation
truelifetrio.com True Life Trio & Gari Hegedus Like Never Like Always (N) Iris
Somewhere Else, Altogether
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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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