This Island Earth
Sunday October 9th, 2022 with David Dalle
Music from Morocco, Mali, India, Cameroon, Iran, the Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra and more!
Filling in for This Island Earth this Thanksgiving weekend. We will hear a great range of music, beautiful and unusual, full of joy, anger, courage.
I will start will start with what has become the protest anthem for Iranians in and outside Iran. A short but urgent song by the young singer Shervin Hajipour, "Baraye". It's a song that has captured the sadness and pain of Iranians and their burning desire for freedom.
"Baraye"
For dancing in the streets
For the fear of kissing
For my sister, your sister, our sisters
For the change of rotten minds
For embarrassment, For poverty
For longing for a normal life
For the waste picker kid and his dreams
For the corrupted economics
For the polluted air
For the withered trees of ValiAsr street
For Piroz and his anticipated extinction
For the innocent forbidden dogs
For non stop weeping
For imagining the recurrence of this scene
For a smiling face
For students, for future
For this forced heaven
For the improsined intellectuals
For immigrant Afghan kids
For all this and all that was not repeated
For the empty slogans
For the collapse of flimsy houses
For peacefulness
For the sun rising after long nights
For tranquilizers and insomnia
For man, homeland, development
For the girl who wished to be a boy
For woman, life, freedom
For freedom
For freedom
For freedom
| Baraye Shervin Hajipour - Single 
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| Part VII Keith Jarrett - Bordeaux Concert - ECM
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| Unknown Unknown Gnawa musicians - Gnawa vol. 2 - Fassiphone |
| Ikerifaye Bako Dagnon - Titati - Syllart |
| Kano Mbifé Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto - Instant - Ma Case |
| Lahidou Vieux Farka Toure - Les Racines - World Circuit |
| Plenty Time The Movers - The Movers Vol. 1 1970-1976 - Analog Africa
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| Odylife Damas Swing Orchestra - Cameroon Garage Funk - Analog Africa |
| Moni Ngan Willie Songue et Les Showmen - Cameroon Garage Funk - Analog Africa |
| French jazz pianist and composer Eve Risser has just released a new album with her new ensemble Red Desert Orchestra which mixes European and West African musicians, the main inspiration for this album is Mali. She says she finds her place right now as "Between dance, trance, techno, West African music (and so many others!) and romanticism, expressionism." |
| Intro Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| So Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| Sa Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| Desert Rouge Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| Gamse Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| Harmattan Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| Petit Soir Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| Soyayya Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records
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| City of Words (feat. Trap Poju & Mirande) Sarathy Korwar - More Arriving - The Leaf Label |
| We start the next set with John Luther Adams' 5th string quartet "Lines Made by Walking". Like much of Adams' music, it evokes deep time extremely well. I can easily imagine these lines tracing the ghostly footsteps of vanished early humans walking over the landscape during the Pleistocene... |
| Lines Made By Walking John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Lines Made By Walking - Cold Blue Music |
| Raga Bhairav - Bhajan Kishori Amonkar, Purushottam Wadawalker, Balkrishna Iyer, Milind Raikar, Vidya Bhagwati - Sampradaya - Navras Records |
| Leaving you with one of my favourite songs of the past couple of years, which has not been heard on This Island Earth before. |
| Un vetement pour la lune (with Feu! Chatterton) Ballake Sissoko - Djourou - No Format |
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Hope everyone is having a happy Thanksgiving weekend!
1:20 PM, October 9th, 2022