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Songlines
01/15/2022
Label Artist Album Selection
One World Music Gary Muszynski Roots & Wings - Medicine Music (N)
Watch a 3 minute video about the making of Roots & Wings here
Shifting Sands
Les Couleurs du son Naïssam Jalal Om Al Aagayeb (I) (L) Ya Roh, feat. Cheikh Mohamed Mohammadi, vocals
10:10

Gaza Corner features news and music from the Middle East and beyond as events unfold
Newly launched Gaza Corner Newsletter. To subscribe, email tangentsradio@gmail.com

This week:

Suhail Khoury, Director of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, speaks about being tortured in Israeli prison
during the First Instifada in 1988. Suhail was the first Palestinian artist imprisoned for composing music.

'A journey through the past': lost music of the Palestinian uprising is restored
(by Bethan McKernan, Guardian UK, 1/12/22)

(Mo'min Swaitat said this 1980s intifada album tape by composer Riad Awwad was one of his most special finds.)
(photo uncredited)

Mo'min Swaitat (bio)

My Voice is My weapon: Music, Nationalism and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
(by David McDonald, 359 pg PDF)

Drawing outside the frames
Resistance art during the First Intifada


Gaza Corner theme music: Palestinian oudist Adnan Joubran
Les Couleurs du son Naïssam Jalal Om Al Aagayeb (I) (L) Bint Al Balad
10:35
Mo'min Swaitat Mona Meraachli Vintage Arabic Vinyls Mix (Var) Shams el Maghareb
10:50
Excerpt from Dore's interview with Suhail Khoury,
General Director of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM),
as he tells how he became the first Palestinian imprisoned (and tortured) for composing music
Edward Said National Conservatory of Music Oriental Music Ensemble
Suhail Khoury, ney
Habib Shihadeh, oud
Emm El Khilkhal (I) Awaiting Bayya' el khawatem (improvisation)
11:15
Mystery contest: What island is this band from?   Answer: Daulute Trio is from Crete
Daulute Trio Daulute Trio (unreleased) Vythos
Daulute Trio played on all the Tangents Greece Music Tours

Electric laouto innovator Dimitris Sideris of Daulute performing during the 2018 Tangents Greece Music Tour

photo by Jeffrey Blake
For information about future Tangents Greece Music Tours, email Dore: tangentsgreecetour@gmail.com
11:30
Monsieur Doumani Monsieur Doumani Pissourin (N) Astrahan
Monsieur Doumani played in the October, 2018 Tangents Greece Music Tour
For information about future Tangents Greece Music Tours, email Dore: tangentsgreecetour@gmail.com
Bella Union Jambinai Onda Sun, Tears, Red
E.G. King Crimson Discipline Indiscipline
11:50
Rattle Ariana Tikao & Al Fraser Nau Mai E Kä Hua (I) (N)
Interview with Ariana Tikao and Al Fraser
Ka Taka Te Motoi
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