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Songlines
01/13/2024
Label Artist Album Selection
Nonesuch Youssou N'Dour Egypt Allah
Real World Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee Bamanan Shezita (Take a Seat)
A&M Don Cherry Brown Rice (1976) Degi-Degi
9:15
Sony/ATO Vusi Mahlasela Say Africa, prod. by Taj Mahal Naka Mokhura
Tania Claudia Villela Cartas Ao Vento (N) Instrumento
Upcoming Show: Claudia Villela Quintet
@ Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
Thursday, February 8, 8 PM
9:30
Nonesuch Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi & Yo-Yo Ma Build a House Build a House
Opus Music Ventures Blame Sally Night of 1000 Stars, prod. by Lee Townsend Night of 1000 Stars
Columbia Shawn Colvin All Fall Down All Fall Down
9:45
Yep Roc The Third Mind The Third Mind Journey in Satchidananda
Upcoming Show: The Third Mind @ The Chapel, 777 Valencia St., San Francisco, Saturday, January 20, 8 PM
9:50
Columbia Blood Sweat & Tears Blood Sweat & Tears Blues - Part II
10:00
Mystery contest: What is the name of the band?   Be Bop Deluxe
Harvest (EMI) Be Bop Deluxe feat. Bill Nelson Live! In The Air Age (3 CD Reissue of 1977 release) Shine
10:15
CNI The Third Planet Kurdistani (I) Baaran
Homerecords.be Sitardust Suites (I) (N) Kabir Flowers
Incognito Kinan Azmeh, clarinet
Dinuk Wijeratne, piano
Complex Stories, Simple Sounds (I) Ibn Arabi's Postlude
Upcoming Show: Kinan Azmeh, Haruka Fujii & Karen Ouzounian
@ Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, Sunday, January 14, 4 PM
STANDING ROOM ONLY
10:40
Real World Yungchen Lhamo One Drop of Kindness
onedropofkindness.org (N)
Dream Song
Upcoming Show: Yungchen Lhamo
@ Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
Wednesday, January 24, 8 PM
Hearts of Space Opium Moon Where We Are Gathered (N) Through The Ages
Saphrane Katerina Papadopoulou & Anastatica Anástatis (Resurrection), a Journey Through Old Greek Music (I) (L) Thracian Table Song
Katerina Papadopoulou has performed on every Tangents Greece Music Tour.
This concert poster is from the October, 2023 music tour.

For information about the October 4-21, 2024 Greece Music Tour,
email Dore: tangentsgreecetour@gmail.com and/or visit tour home page
11:00

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:

US strikes on Yemen won't solve anything
The Houthis have withstood similar onslaughts and the attack only adds fuel to the widening of Israel's war on Gaza
(by Paul R. Pillar, Responsible Statecraft, 12 Jan., 2024)

'Unacceptable': Biden denounced for bypassing Congress over Yemen strikes
Critics on left and right furious that president failed to seek congressional approval for strikes against Houthi militants
(by Lauren Gambino, Guardian, 12 Jan 2024)

Biden's Strikes in Yemen Are Unconstitutional, Bipartisan Members of Congress Say
The attacks against the Iran-backed Houthis stoked fears of U.S. involvement in a regional conflagration.
(by Nausicaa Renner, The Intercept, 11 Jan., 2024)

The Escalation To Yemen Is Here. Now What?
(by Spencer Ackerman, Forever Wars Newsletter, 12 Jan. 2024) note: Paywall

Who are the Houthis? A simple guide to the Yemeni group
(Al Jazeera, 12 Jan., 2024)

Negotiating Saudi Arabia's Defeat and the Houthi Victory in Yemen
(by Thomas Juneau, War On The Rocks, 15 May, 2023)

San Francisco supervisors passes resolution for Gaza ceasefire
(by Ruth Dusseault, SF Gate, 9 Jan. 2024)

Family of key case in New York Times October 7 sexual violence report renounces story, says reporters manipulated them
A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.
(by The Short String, Mondoweiss, 3 Jan., 2024)

Gaza Corner theme music: Palestinian oudist Adnan Joubran
Label Artist Album Selection
Extreme Muslimgauze Zul'm
Dedicated to the unknown Palestinians buried in mass graves in Al-Riqqa cemetary, Kuwait City
Mass Graves in Kuwait (NY Times)
Fakir
ECM Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui Siwan (Equilibrium) Thulathiyat
11:45
Global Fusion Ian Dogole Quinta Essentia (N) Nubian Dreams, homage to Hamza El Din
Upcoming Show: Ian Dogole and Music Beyond Borders: The Last Trane to Africa
@ 142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley, Saturday, January 20, 8 PM, $20 - $35
Piranha Mahmoud Fadl, feat. Salwa Abou Greisha The Rough Guide to World Music: Africa & Middle East We Daret El Ayam, also on Umm Kalthoum 7000
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L = latest     OVP = Out of Print     N = new     NR = newly reissued
sdtrk = soundtrack     TT = title track     var = various     N/A = not available
NCR = not commercially released

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