Thongs S'long
Settled in to watch Y tu mamá también the other night and was instantly floored by the music in the DVD menu. A super tight and funky rhythm con sabor Mexicano. A vocal sample rings a bell but I can't place it. The woman's vocal all hot and urgent. I had to have it.
AMG tells me that it's "Afilo de Comilo" by Titan y Maria Rodriguez. Two names new to me, but I'll be catching up. Good thing the entire soundtrack's solid; I couldn't find a downloadable version of the track so shelled out for the CD. Great tracks by Plastilina Mosh and Cafe Tacuba in one vein, and Eno and Zappa in entirely another.
Then there's the Rough Guide to Yodel, a new release from the World Music Network's endless series. It starts with an effective and illuminating "Yodel Lesson" by Cathy Fink that put this particular vocal acrobatic within reach. Yodel reveals itself in a remarkably broad range of musical styles and traditions, as it turns out. As one might expect, the collection includes a few of your basic country & western and Swiss yodels, but also features a Hawaiian cowboy song, an Inuit piece by Sainko Namtchylak, and my favorite, "Pygmy Divorce", sung by the late Francis Bebey and featured in today's show.
Rumor has it that the webstream will be up and running by next week. Good news for out-of-towners and, ironically, Boulder listeners, who can only get the 1390AM signal in their cars.
Next week also marks the start of KGNU's Fall Membership Drive. Please consider lending your support to KGNU during TerraSonic, or whatever time is convenient for you.
Once the show starts streaming--and if Underheard is willing and able to continue manually posting the podcast--I'll probably stop posting the show here and instead go back to offering up a couple of tracks every week that I think you'll like (and, I hope, consider purchasing)
Here's this week's show (and here's the playlist). As always, thanks for tuning in to TerraSonic.
TerraSonic - 23 September 2006
AMG tells me that it's "Afilo de Comilo" by Titan y Maria Rodriguez. Two names new to me, but I'll be catching up. Good thing the entire soundtrack's solid; I couldn't find a downloadable version of the track so shelled out for the CD. Great tracks by Plastilina Mosh and Cafe Tacuba in one vein, and Eno and Zappa in entirely another.
Then there's the Rough Guide to Yodel, a new release from the World Music Network's endless series. It starts with an effective and illuminating "Yodel Lesson" by Cathy Fink that put this particular vocal acrobatic within reach. Yodel reveals itself in a remarkably broad range of musical styles and traditions, as it turns out. As one might expect, the collection includes a few of your basic country & western and Swiss yodels, but also features a Hawaiian cowboy song, an Inuit piece by Sainko Namtchylak, and my favorite, "Pygmy Divorce", sung by the late Francis Bebey and featured in today's show.
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Rumor has it that the webstream will be up and running by next week. Good news for out-of-towners and, ironically, Boulder listeners, who can only get the 1390AM signal in their cars.
Next week also marks the start of KGNU's Fall Membership Drive. Please consider lending your support to KGNU during TerraSonic, or whatever time is convenient for you.
Once the show starts streaming--and if Underheard is willing and able to continue manually posting the podcast--I'll probably stop posting the show here and instead go back to offering up a couple of tracks every week that I think you'll like (and, I hope, consider purchasing)
Here's this week's show (and here's the playlist). As always, thanks for tuning in to TerraSonic.
TerraSonic - 23 September 2006
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