Positively Puzzled

My friend and colleague Gypsy Flores asked me to fill in for her on Saturday to do her world music radio show Musical Migrations , KUSP FM, Santa Cruz. Gypsy is leaving the area, and we wish her well. She and her great show will be greatly missed. The playlist for Saturday's show is here , and can currently be heard on demand via The KUSP Music Show Player in the Global category. It will only be available till next Saturday (June 13, 2009). I started with a duet between Ry Cooder, playing bottleneck guitar, and V.M. Bhatt on vina, a plucked string instrument of India, from an album called A Meeting by the River . This led me to mine KUSP's dusty LP archives in search of my old classical Indian favorites from when I hosted the world music shows, Ringing True and Sound in Time in the early 80s. Hariprasad Chaurasia, classical bamboo flute master In fact, Hariprasad Chaurasia's performance of "Raga Madhuvanti" was something of an epiphany for me. It was pla...

Hosting Musical Migration, 2-7-2009 (radio show) My friend and colleague Gypsy Flores asked me to fill in for her on Saturday to do her world music radio show Musical Migrations . The show is now up on the Internet to listen to on demand; see below for locating the link. It will only be available till next Saturday. I found myself playing music from countries where there's a lot of political unrest and violence, e.g. Madagascar, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, India. The wonderful music from those areas is a poignant contrast. I had a little trouble finding CDs I wanted to play, because that section of the station library has moved around quite a bit since I last did a world music show. Some curious segues resulted. You can see exactly what was played by referring to the playlist (originally broadcast 2/7/2009). Player of Valiha, Malagasy Art Gypsy Flores is the regular host of Musical Migrations on Saturday afternoons, 3-5 (PT). KUSP Radio is now offering On Demand downlo...

Kundan on the trail... , originally uploaded by DaveSinclair . The Johar Valley, Kumaon , India - on the way to Nanda Devi .