Roots

This morning we heard from the 25th Anniversary of Red House Records boxed set, as well as new music from Nikka Costa, The Iguanas, and Brett Dennen—I think no one else in Twin Cities radio has picked up his happy-vibe disc yet, but it’s good stuff so I think you’ll hear more of him around in 2009.

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  Some new jazz, and new country, some old R B, old reggae and a birthday for Bette Midler

Today we listen to Latvian folk rock group Ilgi. There show was recorded at the Cedar Cultural Center by Chris Dronen and edited by Dan Rein.

During the second hour we listened to music from the latest release from the Accordion Tribe (Allula), music from the Luba-Shankadi of Zaire (fonti musicali), a couple of tracks from Voices of the World (le Chante du Monde), accordion music from Armand Lassagne (harmonia mundi), music from Marrakesh (le Chante du Monde), Native flute player, Kevin Locke (Makoche), Iranian dutar master, Haj Qorban Soleymani (Mahoor), vocal music of the West Flores of Indonesia (Smithsonian), Spanish group La Musgana(Mad River), and we finished with Hungarian group, Vizonto (Pan).