#4284: From the Soundcheck Podcast

From the Soundcheck Podcast series, listen to country music from Rwanda by The Good Ones, Balkan-Klezmer music by Danish outfit Mames Babegenush, and a folk song about a song from Devendra Banhart.

Hear music by the core members of The Good Ones – a band of Rwandan genocide survivors who write acoustic folk songs with unexpected vocal leads and harmonies. Their set features music that uses instruments at hand – sometimes farm tools, and sometimes boots - as percussion.

Listen to the sometimes manic, sometimes melancholy music by Danish giants of Klezmer Mames Babegenush. They play their Balkan and jazz-inflected music for dancing. Also, from the Venezuelan-American songwriter and artist Devendra Banhart, hear a gentle song about a song about someone named Carolina - in Portuguese. - Caryn Havlik

Program #4284: From the Soundcheck Podcast (First aired 10/04/2019)

ARTIST: The Good Ones
WORK: Despite It All I Still Love You Dear Friend [1:00]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Sept. 30
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/thegoodones 
INFO: thegoodonesband.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Mames Babegenush
WORK: Mountain Dance [3:17]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Aug. 30
SOURCE/INFO: newsounds.org/story/nordic-klezmer-band

ARTIST: Mames Babegenush
WORK: Mountain Dance [4:38]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Aug. 30
SOURCE/INFO: newsounds.org/story/nordic-klezmer-band

ARTIST: Mames Babegenush
WORK: "Point Nine" / Khosidl [8:18]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Aug. 30
SOURCE/INFO: newsounds.org/story/nordic-klezmer-band

ARTIST: The Good Ones
WORK: The Farmer [2:39]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Sept. 30
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/thegoodones 
INFO: thegoodonesband.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: The Good Ones
WORK: Despite It All I Still Love You Dear Friend [6:29]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Sept. 30
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/thegoodones 
INFO: thegoodonesband.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Devendra Banhart
WORK: Carolina [2:36]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Sept. 12
SOURCE: newsounds.org/story/devendra-banhart
INFO: nonesuch.com/albums/ma