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Label Artist Album Selection
Little Village Foundation HowellDevine
Joshua Howell, slide guitar
Pete Devine, percussion
Howl (N) Going Down South, by R.L. Burnside
Upcoming Show: HowellDevine @ Biscuits and Blues, 401 Mason St., San Francisco
Wednesday, December 27, 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM, $30
Upcoming Show: HowellDevine NYE Party with Special Guest, Kid Andersen on B3
@ Club Deluxe, 1509-1511 Haight St. (Upper Haight), Sunday, December 31, 9:30 PM
Legacy North Mississippi All Stars Prayer for Peace (L) Bird Without a Feather, by R.L. Burnside
Transmit Sound / Legacy Son Volt Notes of Blue (L) Midnight
Superlative Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Way Out West (L) Way Out West
Tangential hit single of the year
Upcoming Shows: Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives with Deke Dickerson @ Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
All Electric Set Saturday, January 13, doors 7 PM, show 8 PM   All Acoustic Set Sunday, January 14, doors 6 PM, show 7 PM
$40 advance / $44 door + $4 facility fee   VIP packages available for Sunday show $99 / $139
8:20
Paradise of Bachelors James Elkington Wintres Woma (The Sound of Winter) (D) Greatness Yet to Come
Silver Cross Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer Not Dark Yet (N)
Chicago Tribune review of Not Dark Yet
Is It Too Much
Wayward Justin Adams Ribbons (N) Deep C
Strand
Anti Tinariwen Elwan (L) Tiwàyyen
No Format! Oumou Sangaré Mogoya (I) (L) Kamelemba
Nonesuch Robert Plant Carry Fire (N) Carry Fire, feat. Justin Adams, guitar
8:50
Trance Mission Baraka Moon
Stephen Kent, didjeridu
Sukhawat Ali Khan, vocal
Wind Horse (L) Rasa Divine
groundup House of Waters House of Waters (L) Hamza, dedicated to Hamza El Din
feat. Priya Darshini, vocals
Synthesis Productions Justin Gray & Synthesis New Horizons (N) Migration
Nordic Notes Maija Kauhanen Raivopyörä (I) (N) Raivopyörä (World of Rage)
9:20
Crammed / Kwaidan Yasmine Hamdan Al Jamilat (The Beautiful Ones) (I) (L) Ta3ala
Matcha / InOuïe distribution Arash Sarkechik Tout Ira Bien (I) (D) (N) Requiem
ARC Amine & Hamza M'raihi & The Band Beyond Borders
Amine M'raihi, oud
Hamza M'raihi, qanun
Fertile Paradoxes (I) (N) Spleen, feat. Vincent Ségal, cello
Gashiki Chakraborti, vocals
9:40
Piranha Frank London
Glass House Orchestra
Astro-Hungarian Jewish Music (I) (N) Glass House
Cultural Action Greece Balarom Trio Balarom Trio (I) Emigrapolis
Balarom Trio performed on the October, 2017 Tangents October, 2017 Greece Music Tour

Dore & Loukas Metaxas of Balarom Trio
For information on the October 2018 Tangents Greece Music Tour, email Dore: tangentsgreecetour@gmail.com
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9:55
Glitterbeat Bargou 08 Targ (I) (N) Mamchout
10:00
Mystery contest: What country is the lead artist originally from?   Answer: Saeid Shanbehzadeh is from Iran
Buda Musique Jazz Bandari
Saeid Shanbehzadeh, bagpipes & saxophone
Rostam Mirlashari, vocals
Naghib Shanbehzadeh, percussion
Manu Codjia, guitar
Pour-Afrigha (Descendant of Africa) (I) (N) Jazz Bandari
Djane Showki
Shah Soltan
Abstract Logix John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension Live at Ronnie Scott's (N) New Blues Old Bruise
Lusafrica Boubacar Traoré Dounia Tabolo (I) (N) Yafa Ma
10:45
Kalan Ses Görüntü The Secret Ensemble and Mahsa Vahdat Kuşların Çağrısı (Call Of The Birds) (I) (L) Sevgillye Verilen Söz (A Promise to My Beloved)
Edict Records Tarek Yamani Peninsular (I) (L) Al Qorbi Nasnas
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

Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh
The Israeli Military First Took His Legs, Then His Life   (video)
IDF: Soldiers didn't intentionally kill double amputee in Gaza riot
Ibrahim 'the half bodied,' an icon of Gaza skirmishes, loses his other half for Jerusalem
This week's featured artists: Palestinian group Duo Sabîl & Palestinian singer and oudist Issam Murad
Harmonia Mundi Duo Sabîl
Ahmad Al Khatib, oud
Youssef Hbeisch, percussion
Zabad, L'ecume Des Nuits (Twilight Tide) (I) (L) Samai Parts I & II
Mazzika Issa Murad Joussour (I) (N) La Folle Qui Danse (The Wild Girl who Dances)
11:30
Ralph Carney

January 23, 1956 - December 16, 2017
Special Studio Guest Joshua Raoul Brody with a remembrance of Ralph Carney
Rhino / Warner Bros. Tin Huey Contents Dislodged During Shipment The Revelations of Dr. Modesto
  Allen Ginsburg & musicians, feat. Ralph Carney live recording at the Cow Palace The Ballad of the Skeletons
studio version avail. on The Ballad of the Skeletons
  Tom Waits, Joshua Raoul Brody, Ralph Carney live at the San Jose Performing Arts Center Way Down in the Hole
  Ralph Carney unreleased recording Lament for Charleston
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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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