PLAYLIST FOR WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 31, 2008
“BEST OF 2008 PART 1”
10 AM – NOON
HOST: YATRIKA SHAH-RAIS
E-MAIL: yatrikashahrais@gmail.com

A HAPPY BLESSED NEW YEAR TO YOU!

Artist (country)/ Album/ Label

10:00 – 11:05 AM

1- Brad Mehldau Trio (USA)/ Live/ Secret Beach/ Nonesuch

2- Mamadou Diabate (Mali)/ Douga Mansa/ Bolomabory/ World Village

3- Strings Tradition (Mamadou Diabate, Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan, Lalgudi GJR Krishnan, Gourishankar, Murali Trichy – Mali-India)/ Strings Tradition/ Birds First Flight/ Felmay

4- Miles From India (various – India- USA – UK)/ Miles From India/ Spanish Key/ Times Square Records

5- Thomas Feiner & Anywhen (Sweden)/ The Opiates revised/ The Siren Songs/ Samadhisound www.myspace.com/thomasfeiner

6- Aldo Romano (Italy)/ Etat de Fait/ Visage de Femme/ Dreyfus

7- Wasis Diop (Senegal)/ Judu Bek/ So La La!/ Wrasse Records

8- Daby Toure (Mauritania)/ Stereo Spirit/ Yafodé/ Real World

Concert announcement
Simon Shaheen Ensemble performs at the Skirball Cultural Center on Thursday January 22, 2009 at 8:00 PM. 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90049 (take Skirball Center Drive off the 405 freeway). Info and tickets: www.skirball.org or 310-440-4500

9- Simon Shaheen (US via Palestine)/ Turath/ Longa Farahfaza/ Times Square Records

11:05 AM – Noon

Best of 2008 continued

10- Natasha Atlas & The Mazeeka Ensemble (Anglo-Egyptian)/ Ana Hina/ Ya Laure Habouki/ World Village

11- Desert Blues Volume 3 (various)/ Khaled (Algeria): Wahrane, Wahrane/ Network

12- Etran Finatawa (Niger)/ Desert Crossroads/ Saghmar N Nanna/ Riverboat

13- Jamshied Sharifi (Iranian American)/ One/ Darfur Is Burning/ Ceres Records

14- Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya conducted by Jordi Savall (Spain)/ Francisco Javier: La Ruta de Oriente/ Llegada a Goa, La India Portuguesa/ Alia Vox

15- Renaud Garcia-Fons Trio (France of Catalan extract))/ Arcoluz/ Berimbass/ Enja Records

16- Buika (Spain via Guinea Bissau)/ Niña de Fuego/ No Habrá Nadie En El Mundo/ Warner Music Latina

17- Juan de Lerida (Spain)/ Quimeras/ Quimeras/ Le Chant du Monde

18- Beata Soderberg & Justango (Sweden)/ Piachelo/ World Village

19- Bajofondo (Argentina)/ Mar Dulce/ Cristal/ Decca Records (Universal)