Human Roots

Week Fifteen

Javier Sethness — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:40:33 GMT

Qawwali: Mehr Ali and Sher Ali "Az Hoosne Malihe Khud," the Sabri Brothers From Balochistan: Music of Makran (various artists) From Kashmir: Call of the Valley (Shivkumar Sharma et al.)

Week 14

Javier Sethness — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:55:11 GMT

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party: Devotional & Love Songs, The Last Prophet Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook: Night Song, Mustt Mustt

Week Thirteen

Javier Sethness — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:12:32 GMT

Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan: Endless Vision (Persian, Armenian) Burhan Ocal and the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble: Caravanserai (Turkish) Various: The Silk Road ('Central Asian')

Week Eleven

Javier Sethness — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:55:11 GMT

Music of Afghanistan The Afghan Music Project (various artists) Heat of the Robab (Humayou) Memories of Herat (Aziz Herawi) Robab of Herat (Mohammed Rahim Khushnawaz) There were a number of technical difficulties in this show....

Week Ten

Javier Sethness — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:28:39 GMT

Last week of 'Persian' music: Without You (Masters of Persian Music) The Rain (Ghazal)

Week Nine

Javier Sethness — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:55:42 GMT

More of 'classical Persian' music: Faryad ("The Cry"): Masters of Persian Music (Mohammed Reza Shajarian, Kayhan Kalhor, Hossein Alizadeh, Homayoun Shajarian) Without You: Masters of Persian Music We'll actually have one more week of classical Persian music (on Thanksgiving!) and then start with music from Afghanistan.

Week Eight

Javier Sethness — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:06:38 GMT

Continuing with 'classical Persian' music: Persian & Middle Eastern Percussion (Zarbang) Whisper (Ali Akbar Moradi, Pejman Hadadi) Night Silence Desert (Mohammed Reza Shajarian, Kayhan Kalhor) Next week will be more Persian music, and the week after that (or, two weeks after that), we'll be looking at music from Afghanistan. PS The music doesn't start until around 0:40. PPS I'm pretty sure the daf is not made of wool. Please forgive my orientalist ignorance.

Week Seven

Javier Sethness — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:53:12 GMT

Last week of 'Middle Eastern' music 'Armenian': Moon Shines at Night (Djivan Gasparyan) 'Persian/Kurdish': Iran: Persian Classical Music (Faramarz Payvar Ensemble) In the Mirror of the Sky (Kayhan Kalhor, Ali Akbar Moradi) We'll continue with Persian music for the next two weeks.

Week Six

Javier Sethness — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:01:25 GMT

Masters of the Arabian Flute (Mohammed Naiem) Sufi Traveler (Mercan Dede) Al-Asma Al-Husna (Jama'a Majhula)

Week Five

Javier Sethness — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:57:30 GMT

Naseer Shamma: Maqamat Ziryab (Desde el Eufrates al Guadalquivir) Rabih Abou-Khalil: Tarab, Nafas Week Four isn't going to make it, as the recording is of very low quality.

Week Three

Javier Sethness — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:31:21 GMT

'North African' music North Africa, generally: Arabesque (Natacha Atlas et al.) From Tunisia: Malak (Dhafer Youssef) From Egypt/Senegal: Egypt (Youssou N'Dour) Nubian: Music of Nubia and A Song of the Nile (Hamza el Din) Warning: The program begins half-way through the introduction, and the first song skips several times.

Week Two

Javier Sethness — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:47:32 GMT

'Spanish' music Traditional flamenco: Gino d'Auri, Isaac Albeniz Nuevo flamenco: B-Tribe Celtic: Hevia West/North Africa fusion: Radio Tarifa WARNING: The volume levels on this show are, for some odd reason, really low, so watch for other audio files that might play while listening to this.

Week One

Javier Sethness — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:07:58 GMT

Introduction to the show: Loreena McKennit; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (The Prayer Cycle); Samuel Barber; Sergei Rachmaninov; JS Bach