Roots

Tonight the Echo Chamber proudly presented the Mad Professor’s Live Dub Show [part 1] — recorded at Abbey Pub, Chicago, on April 4th. (Thanks to TurntableTerrorist at WLUW-FM). Also, new releases from Finn the Giant, Sardinia Bass Legalize, Mayd Hubb, Manwel T, and Jemini.

Thank you so much to Melis, who joined us for around the Sur Seine:http://www.surseine.org in 90 minutes! We covered 10 days of shows in that time. The festival continues through May 25th. Check out the playlist for a preview, and other new music we heard.

Today we began with music from the Palawan Highlands of the Philippines (le Chante du Monde), Irish accordion master Joe Cooley (Gael Linn), music from Celtic Spain from Milladoiro (Green Linnet), Music from Malaysia (World Music Network, Accordion music from Czech composer, Leos Janacek (Winter and Winter), Hurdy Gurdy music from the Hungarian Hurdy Gurdy Ensemble (Fono), Welsh music from Julie Murphy and Dylan Fowler (Fflach), Taarab music from Zanzibar (Globestyle), Music from Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca performed by Cafe de Chinitas (Shamrock Records), and Carmen Linares (Auvidis).

During the second hour we had Brazilian music from local group Brasamaba, and guest Tom Klein with Irish bagpipe music by Patrick D’Arcy and Jimmy O’Brien-Moran.