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12/24/2016
Tangential Christmas & Chanukah
Label Artist Album Selection
Music Maker Records Gordon Giltrap Elegy A Christmas Carol
Takoma John Fahey The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album Silent Night
Relativity Adrian Legg High Strung Tall Tales Silent Night - the Movie
Blue Hen Jim Campilongo Almost Christmas All I Want for Christmas Is You
Back Porch Charlie Sexton & Shannon McNally Southside Sessions Nothing Mysterious
8:15
Sony Masterworks The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal Talkin' Christmas Talkin' Christmas
Alligator Shemekia Copeland Genuine Houserockin' Christmas (var) Stay a Little Longer, Santa
Concord Records Ray Charles Spirit of Christmas Baby It's Cold Outside, feat. Betty Carter
Stax Little Johnny Taylor Christmas in Soulsville (var) Please Come Home for Christmas
Columbia Mahalia Jackson Silent Night: Songs for Christmas (var) Silent Night
8:40
Rip Bang Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band Xmas at K-Mart (self-produced single) Xmas at K-Mart
Alligator C.J. Chenier & the Red-Hot Louisiana Band Genuine Houserockin' Christmas (var) Zydeco Christmas
Ryko Joseph Spence MAS! A Caribbean Christmas Party (var) Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Telarc Otis Taylor Double V Reindeer Meat
Vanguard John Hammond Best of the Vanguard Years (comp) Hellhound Blues
8:55
Putumayo Ingrid Lucia New Orleans Christmas (var) 'Zat You, Santa Claus?
Stax Mack Rice Christmas in Soulsville (var) Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin
9:05
Nonesuch / Elektra Don Byron Don Byron plays the music of Mickey Katz Dreidel Song, feat. Lorin Sklamberg
Happy Hanukkah!
Evidence Music Pharoah Sanders A Prayer before Dawn Christmas Song
Nomad World Jazz Duofel Nomad Christmas: A World Music Celebration (var) Jingle Bells Brazil
Warner Brothers Bela Fleck & Bob James Warner Brothers Jazz Christmas Party (var) White Christmas
Bela plays a "sitar banjo"
Nomad World Jazz 5 Piece Ensemble feat. Simon Shaheen & Glen Velez Nomad Christmas: A World Music Celebration (var) Taqasim: God Rest Ye (intro)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Evergreene TriBeCaStan Coal, Again! Jingle Bells
9:45
Nomad World Jazz Folk Scat Nomad Christmas: A World Music Celebration (var) Silent Night
ECM Jan Garbarek Rites (2 CD) We Are The Stars, feat. Boys from the choir Solvguttene
Alula Kirile Loo Saatus Vana Kannel (The Ancient Psaltery)
10:00
Mystery contest: What is this band?   Answer: The Mermen
KTA The Mermen Do You Hear What I Hear: A Very Mermen Christmas Arabian Dance
Upcoming Show: The Mermen New Years Eve with Special Guests - 20th Anniversary Show
@ the PARK CHALET on Ocean Beach, 1000 Great Hwy, San Francisco, Saturday, December 31, $30
10:10
Peter Apfelbaum Tangential Experience
Upcoming Show: Peter Apfelbaum and Sparkler @ Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
Monday, December 26, doors 7 PM, show 8 PM, $24 adv. / $26 door
  Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler Alma Matters (FC 2017) Use It All
10:30
M. O .D Technologies Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler I Colored It In for You (EP) (N) I Colored It In for You (studio version)
Soundway Ibibio Sound Machine, feat. Eno Williams, vocals Ibibio Sound Machine (D) Prodigal Son
M. O .D Technologies Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler I Colored It In for You (EP) (N) I Colored It In for You (Bill Laswell Remix)
11:05
ACT Peter Apfelbaum & the Hieroglyphics Ensemble It Is Written Titiwa, feat. Abdoulaye Diabate, vocals
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: Iqrit: A Christmas Eve Displacement Tragedy
Full Background and Details of the Iqrit Displacement Tragedy
Christmas and the Nakba
Knesset plans lobby for return of Palestinians to their villages
This week's featured artist: Palestinian singer Rim Banna
KKV Rim Banna April Blossoms - Songs from Palestine Dedicated to All the Children (I) Christmas Feast
Oxfam Marta Sebestyen Think Global: Christmas (I) Bethlehem, Bethlehem
KKV Rim Banna Seasons of Violet (I) A Prayer - based on a Hindu Chant (duet with Hindu Monk Siddhartha Krishna)
11:55
OPL James Whetzel Holiday: Sarod and Beats Greensleeves (solo sarod) (excerpt)
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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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