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The Spanish Hour 2410: Paseo Latinoamericano
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA, KVNO and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
StoryCorps: Gina Livingston and Decio Rubano
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Just as his music career was heating up, Decio Rubano discovered he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported to Canada as a young man. He came to St...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:15
The Apple Seed - Black Mamba
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed we'll hear a story by the great storyteller Charlotte Blake-Alston, about a village who's survival depends someho...

Bought by KSJE, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KTXK


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
Life of the Law #117: The Gift and Curse of Music - Haiti's Fight for Copyright
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Serge Turnier
The Gift and Curse of Music – Haiti’s Fight for Copyright is the story of Serge Turnier, a music producer and composer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ju...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 35:55
  • Purchases: 1
Africa's Beating Heart (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The daffodils are blooming, days are getting longer, and gardeners are feeling those familiar twinges of excitement. At the same time, about eight ...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Bonjour Chanson Series 16, Episode 80
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 16
Caption: By Courtesy of Lucrèce Sassella
Very new, new and older Francophone songs introduced in English. No need to speak French to Enjoy the show.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Northern Highlights with Marek Zebrowski
From: D. Christine
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Just in time for a winter's night! These classical pieces come to you from the frozen north. Bundle up by the fire and enjoy symphonic works from...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:29:00
North Wind, South Wind
From: D. Christine
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Instead of fighting the chill, why don’t we revel in it? Carl Byron hosts a musical journey that begins in the far and ancient north, with hauntin...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
Sacred Music from the Navel of the World
From: Zak Rosen
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
Bonjour Chanson , Series 10, Episode 50
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
Caption: Lyon, Red Bridge
A Jubilee Episode, the 50th, in which we bring the diverse world of French Language Popular Music to English speakers. This genre will enrich your ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 25:40
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 10, Episode 46.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 10
Caption: Finis Terrae, Brittany
This Episode of "Bonjour Chanson" runs the gamut from a fantastic world where kids solve mysteries hidden in iron masks and stone sarcophagi, to a ...

Bought by XRAY.fm, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 3
Bonjour Chanson Series 9, Episode 41.
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 9
Caption: Versailles
Six very diverse Francophone artists perform in this musical program specially created for English Speaking Audiences. No need to understand French...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 25:22
  • Purchases: 2
Hawaii Ukulele Festival
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, Credit: Heidi Chang
The Hawaii Ukulele Festival attracts thousands of people from around the globe. Hear from musicians like Jake Shimabukuro, who's inspiring a resurg...

Bought by KUOW and WILL


  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas
English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Guitarist Robin Guthrie
Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
The East-West fusion of Urban Nature
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Carmen Rizzo
Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Chris Bocast and MJ Catalin: Global Possibilities
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Chris Bocast
Ambient guitar meets electronica percussion via the internet in a CD of cinematic sweep

  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Inbar Bakal's Hebrew hymns on electronic wings
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Israeli singer Inbar Bakal
Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer born of Yemeni and Iraqi parents. Her music, composed with producer Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morrisette), is a ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Eliades Ochoa
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Eliades Ochoa in Havana, Credit: (c) 2008 Reese Erlich
An intimate profile of the cowboy hat wearing singer and guitarist who starred in the original Buena Vista Social Club CD.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2009
  • Length: 06:31
Fernwood: Acoustic Americana world chamber music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Fernwood mixes Americana sounds with Appalachian strings, along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Ludovico Einaudi: Ambient chamber music from the classical birthplace
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Ludovico Einaudi talks about his lush, harmonic piano music

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:30