Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Ba-Ere Yotere a master of the African Gyil performs live with great percussionists Valerie Naranjo (also on Gyil) and Barry Olsen. We hung out at Valeries house and recorded a few songs as well as talking to Ba-Ere about his early […]
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Kane Mathis (Kora) and Brandon Terzic (Oud and Ngoni) Live! – Podcast 111
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Kane Mathis and Brandon Terzic performed live sets of incredible beauty of the NYC radio airwaves. First Kane Mathis played solo (on the 21-string Mandinka Harp) and then he was joined by Brandon on the Oud and later the Ngoni. Kane began taking […]
Finding Fela! Femi Kuti and friends remember Fela Kuti – Podcast 110
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Fela used music as a weapon against injustice. He was beaten, arrested over 200 times, married 27 women and was buried in a glass coffin with a spliff in his hand. We’re still trying to get a handle on who he was […]