Playlist 99 feb 10: Braziliarabiagrooveout

Date.Time

Artist

Album

Song

What grabbed me:

1999.02.10 09:15 pm

mäuse

teen riot günther-strackture

im orbit samtentzug

open up after the ballgame and start with something that has even chances of keeping and losing listeners

1999.02.10 09:18 pm

Badar Ali Khan

Lost in qawwali

my heart

well DAMN! my glasses broke and i have to put on a long song to try fix them. one of the lenses fell out & i have to figure out how to hold the lens in while not having the damn screw... the thing is lost somewhere on the floor.

1999.02.10 09:34 pm

Helcio Milito

Kilombo

lembarenganga

i don't think i really ever understood this album until now, but as i know more of the Brazilian world, this album contains more and more really funky shit cool elements

1999.02.10 09:43 pm

Paulo Moura e os Batutas

Pixinguinha

2 songs: carinhoso & misura e manda

more brazilian music to please my ears where i can get the fulfillment of my modern composition vibe... okay the first song isn't that hot, but the second really kicks ass...

1999.02.10 09:56 pm

Gilberto Gil

o sol de oslo

tata engenho novo

sure, it's odd to have a brazilian tune start off with indian ta-ga-ta sounds, but it happens to fit into the brazilian drumming from before just fine!

1999.02.10 10:02 pm

Virginia Rodrigues

Sol Negro

blackness of the night

damn her voice is great even if the song doesn't do justice to it...

1999.02.10 10:06 pm

VA-Begonia Olavlde & Mudejar Ensemble

Hamdulillah: fes festival of world sacred music

medieval andalusian music

cool voice and really neat transition from brazil to the arab world.

1999.02.10 10:13 pm

Anouar Brahem w/ John Surman & Dave Holland

Thimar

Houdouth

arabic flavored darker sound that builds up really nicely from its totally calm start.

1999.02.10 10:19 pm

Bar Kokhba Sextet

Zevulon

Lilin

oops, played the wrong track, but what the hell, it works really well anyway! Group is mark feldman on violin erik friedlander on cello, greg cohen on bass, marc ribot on guitar, cyro baptista on percussion, and joey baron on drums. What a great band!

1999.02.10 10:28 pm

Kronos Quartet (w Tuuvan throat singers)

Night Prayers

Kongerei

change of pace but at the same time a really beautiful piece to start a tuvan segment with.

1999.02.10 10:31 pm

Huun-Huur-tu

Tuva, among the spirits

fantasy on the Igil

where the last one had nice and regular violin sounds, this one has the two stringed igil making a much less organized but far more

1999.02.10 10:39 pm

Ondar

back tuva future

two lands one tribe

man does the rest of this album suck, but the opening of this track is totally stunning. it's got to be the best throat singing i know. Bill Miller does the native american singing. cool mix!

1999.02.10 10:43 pm

German Khatilaev & Klavdia Khatilaeva

Tuva, among the spirits

sakha animal imitations

Stunning. just too amazing for words to really describe

1999.02.10 10:44 pm

Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin & Gideon Freudmann

Sound of Distant Deer

Sound of Distant Deer

It's a long piece but it gets to so much of the sparse sound that my shows have been moving toward. And the cello sounds damn good.'

1999.02.10 10:54 pm

Klezmatics w/ Chava Alberstein

The Well

The Well

Put a bit of a higher rhythm into the show, especially since the last few songs have been SO amazingly sparse. oh, and it doesn't hurt that the start meshes perfectly to the chord all through the last song.

1999.02.10 11:01 pm

Susana baca

susana baca

enciendete candela

Rhythm and voice and the feel that one person flows in a whirlwind within the music. i love this album and this tune!

1999.02.10 11:06 pm

Manu Chao

Clandestino

three tracks: luna y sol, por el suelo, welcome to tijuana

bopping into fun... usually i start the show w/ this much energy and i just won't go to bed early tonight... but what the hell, entoy it while it\s here! whoohoo hahee!

1999.02.10 11:16 pm

everything but the girl

VA- red hot & rio

corcovado

old classic energy song... at least i'm not doing what i used to do with public enemy or anything...

1999.02.10 11:23 pm

dj food

big noise, amambo inn compilation

dub lion

that song was very tasty, might i have another bite of it?

1999.02.10 11:28 pm

bally sagoo

tum bin jaya

strobe's d'n'b mix

a bit calmer, but still really cool groovy & joyful.

1999.02.10 11:34 pm

crystal waters

va - red hot & rio

boy from ipanema

and in this one laura calls me to say that she's enjoying the show, too. but the energy is a bit too much for her...

1999.02.10 11:40 pm

maryam mursal

the journey

hamar

calm out all the way down to a groove...

1999.02.10 11:50 pm

fela kuti

music is the weapon of the future

roforofo fight

and end the show on the total groove... DAMN the trumpet whips my ass into a happy funk out!

Michael C. Wittmann
University of Maryland 
Physics Department 
College Park, MD 20742-4111 
tel: (301) 405-5983