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If Music Could Talk - Feb 19, 2012 - Global Pop class visit to WRIR

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If Music Could Talk - Feb 12, 2012 - Music is love... or something like that

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Ancient Egyptian Percussion - talk and performance at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

"The sounds of drums bring ancient pictures to life. Join percussionists Yousif Sheronick and Layne Redmond for a visual survey of ancient Egyptian percussion drawn from temple walls, reliefs, tomb paintings, and sculptures. After the talk, Sheronick and Redmond will recreate a percussion ensemble, as pictured on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs"

With percussionists Yousif Sheronick and Layne Redmond

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Next Thursday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - 6:30pm on 2/23/2012

tickets available ($10 and $5 for VMFA members)

Here's a clip i transferred from 16mm (from an NBC segment on Egypt from 1977) of some Egyptian Bellydancers - featuring some really nice percussion in the background...

If Music Could Talk -Jan 29 2012 - Cumbia and Vallenato, etc

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If Music Could Talk - Jan 22 2012

Chinese 60s A Go Go set - Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Dragon! and much more... (including a short K-Pop set)

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If Music Could Talk - Jan 15 2012

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If Music Could Talk -Jan 8 2012 - Moanin' in the Moonlight

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If Music Could Talk -Jan 1 2012 - NEW YEAR'S DAY

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Marie Laforet - La Plage

her No 1 hit in 1965

(she sang this song in spanish too -- i actually prefer that version)

Upcoming Events

Bollywood Night - first one in 2012!



Non Stop K Pop - bumpin beats all night long from Korea's super fabulous pop scene, and many other countries (China, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Phillipines, etc)

Podcast - If Music Could Talk -Dec 18, 2011

this week's show: Groovy, moody outlandish psychedelic rock and soul from Erkin Koray, Rotary Connection, Poppy Family, Marianne Faithfull,a few gems from places like Egypt (Mohamad Abdel Wahab) and Malaysia (Sanisah Huri, June Izzudin) , some new dance electro sounds by Rustie, Floating Points and Kuedo, and some older acid-house from Black Devil Disco and Kerrier District (Vibert) - a new track by the Roots, some boogaloo and doo wop from Ray Baretto, Las Cuatro Monedas, Esquivel, and Eduardo Davidson. And some funky K Pop from Clazziquai, Jay Park, Shinee and Super Junior... and lots more. Just all over the place, as usual.... check it out for yourself!

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Album cover for Esperanza Spalding's forthcoming release "Radio Music Society"

The last album she put out was "Chamber Music Society" .. and the forthcoming release will be entitled "Radio Music Society" so you see there's a progression happening here..

from her interview with Billboard last March, she describes "Radio Music Society" as:

a "more upbeat and more sort of energetic" set that was conceived at the same time as "Chamber Music Society." "Originally I planned to release a double record, but that didn't work. The two (approaches) really couldn't be reconciled," Spalding explains. "So it became two different records. I just decided I wanted to do 'Chamber Music' first and then focus on 'Radio Music.' "

If Music Could Talk - Dec 11, 2011

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If Music Could Talk - Dec 3, 2011

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