The new March 2009 Songlines podcast is now available through iTunes
Posted on February 5th, 2009 in Songlines News.
This podcast includes highlights from the March 2009 issue of Songlines (#58) – our 10th anniversary edition – opening with an excerpt by Esma Redzepova’s version of ‘Djelem Djelem’ from Network album Road of the Gypsies. Songlines editor in chief, Simon Broughton, plays an extract from Kayhan Kalhor’s album Ghazal (ECM), one of his best albums of the last decade.
Nasim Masoud looks at our ‘Ten Songs that Shook the World’ (cover feature for this issue), playing music by Khaled (Wrasse), Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Heads Up) and more of the opening track by Esma Redzepova. Jan Fairley with a feature on Malian singer Oumou Sangaré playing a track from her new album Seya (World Circuit) and Philip Sweeney reports on Cuban band To’Mezcalo with an extract from their debut album Hibrid (Tumi Music).
Nathaniel Handy brings you the latest news with music by Mansour Seck (Stern’s), 51st Grammy Nominees Lila Downs, Debashish Bhattacharya and Grupo Fantasma and two of the artists performing at the Songlines Jazz Café concert series, Daby Touré and Trilok Gurtu, both with new albums.
The podcast ends with a report from Tehran by Simon Broughton with extracts of revolutionary music of the Chavosh movement and a look at the underground music scene with a special excerpt from explicit track ‘The Level of My Hotness’.
The next Songlines podcast, featuring highlights from the April/May issue (#59), will be available from March 20 2009.