#2455: Music Without Borders

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

A world of musical influences are fused together as the Bombay Dub Orchestra draws from ambient, western classical, Indian classical & light classical music and many other places. On this edition of the program, hear selections from the forthcoming album by Bombay Dub Orchestra, who are UK based producer and composer Garry Hughes and classical composer and arranger Andrew T. Mackay. There’s also music from the Canadian Ghazal singer Kiran Ahluwalia and her sometime Celtic backing band. Ahluwalia was raised in Toronto where she fell in love with ghazals, the sophisticated musical love poems of India she was exposed to by her Punjabi parents. Plus works from Cheb I Sabbah, whose latest release is a mix of Arab, Jewish, and Berber elements.

PROGRAM # 2455 Cross-Cultural Music (First aired on Wed. 9/21/05)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Cheb I Sabbah	La Kahena	Alkher lla Doffor (Peace Is Found Behind Wounds) [8:30]	Six Degrees #1711** www.sixdegreesrecords.com*
Bombay Dub Orchestra		The Berber of Seville [4:00]	Due in January 2006 on Six Degrees Records www.sixdegreesrecords.com*
Cheb I Sabbah	La Kahena	Im Ninalou (If The Doors Are Locked) [6:30]	See above.
Kiran Ahluwahlia	Kiran Ahluwalia	Vo Kuch [5:30]	Artemis/Triloka #82055** www.triloka.com*
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan	Sunda Song	Kalangkang (Illusion) [7:00]	Naxos World #76061** www.naxosworld.com*
Patrick Grant	Dedication Music for Sacred Sister	Abstract 1A [3:00] Ambient [1:00]	Strange Music #12 www.strangemusic.com*
Uakti	Aguas Da Amazonia – music by Philip Glass	Japura River [4:30] Purus River, excerpt [4:00]	Point #289464 064 Try www.philipglass.com*

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