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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 New
Part VII
Keith Jarrett - Bordeaux Concert - ECM New
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 New
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 New
So
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
Sa
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
Desert Rouge
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
Gamse
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
Harmattan
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
Petit Soir
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
Soyayya
Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra - Eurythmia - Clean Feed Records New
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
Interactive CKCU
David Dalle (host)
Hope everyone is having a happy Thanksgiving weekend!

1:20 PM, October 9th, 2022
PeterB
JUST WOW! Going into Eve Risser Red Desert Orchestra as we type. Even the "Intro" was quite THE BOMB BEATS! Unfortunately, errands call ... On Demand later ...

2:09 PM, October 9th, 2022
David Dalle (host)
Yeah really dig this new album

2:16 PM, October 9th, 2022
David Dalle (host)
Yeah really dig this new album

2:16 PM, October 9th, 2022
David Dalle (host)
Yeah really dig this new album

2:16 PM, October 9th, 2022
David Dalle (host)
Twice even! ;)

2:17 PM, October 9th, 2022
David Dalle (host)
Or thrice...

2:19 PM, October 9th, 2022
Manmohan
Great show, Dave! Thanks again for filling in this afternoon.

2:52 PM, October 9th, 2022
hillbilly
Oooommmm..... ;-) fantastic! Happy Thanksgiving & Thankfull for your years of loving labour...what a guy! Peace.

3:15 PM, October 9th, 2022