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Tinariwen in Session, Commonwealth Connections 13

Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a live session from Tuareg band Tinariwen and the 13th part of Commonwealth Connections, which features music from Solomon Islands and Samoa.

Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a live session with Tinariwen, the Tuareg band from the Sahara desert, and our Commonwealth Connections series, this week with music from Solomon Islands and Samoa.

TINARIWEN LIVE
A live session in our studio, plus interview, with this celebrated nomadic Tuareg band from the Sahara desert, offering more of their unique brand of Malian blues. Tinariwen plays material from their new album Emmaar, recorded in another desert, in California, miles away from their homeland because of its political instability.

COMMONWEALTH CONNECTIONS FEATURE: SOLOMON ISLANDS
Bamboo grows all over the Solomon Islands and provides a perfect natural material for making musical instruments. The 13 piece Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble makes full use of the bamboo which grows around them to create their joyful, life-affirming sound. Hear the musicians talk about the history of this form of music making and enjoy a special session which captures a raw, hi-energy performance recorded at the Solomon Islands Broadcasting studios in the capital city of Honiara.

COMMONWEALTH CONNECTIONS HERITAGE TRACK: Samoa
Sia Figiel is a novelist, painter and poet who won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Fiction (SE Asia/Pacific Region). Her choice of Heritage Track LOTA NU'U, sung by the Samoa Teachers' Choir, evokes deep emotions not only in her, but in many Samoans across the world, and is almost an unofficial national anthem, dissolving boundaries and bringing them, and all Pacific peoples, together as children of the great ocean, Moana.

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Fri 2 May 2014 23:00
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Music Played

  • Nazagh Ejbal (feat. Tinariwen)

  • Kid Hod Chu (feat. Angkanang Kunchai)

    • THE SOUND OF SIAM VOLUME 2 - MOLAM & LUK THUNG ISAN FROM NORTH-EAST THAILAND 1970-1982.
    • SOUNDWAY RECORDS.

  • Ross Ainslie

    True

    Performer: Ross Ainslie.
    • Wide Open.
    • www.rossainslie.com.

  • Western Samoan Teachers' Training College

    Lota Nu'u Moni (My True Land) by Western Samoan Teachers' Training College

    Performer: Western Samoan Teachers' Training College.
    • Samoa I Sisifo - Music and Dances of Western Samoa.
    • Kiwi Pacific Records.

  • Violons Barbares

    Saulem ai

    Performer: Violons Barbares.
    • Saulem ai.
    • Harmonida Mundi.
    • 1.

  • Adnan Joubran

    Beat The Dream

    Performer: Adnan Joubran.
    • Borders Behind.
    • Randana.
    • 8.

  • Toumast Tincha (feat. Tinariwen)

  • Timadrit In Sahara (feat. Tinariwen)

  • La Chiva Gantiva

    Me Voy de mi Cabeza

    Performer: La Chiva Gantiva.
    • Vivo.
    • Crammed Discs.

  • 厂惫盲苍驳

    Jeppo

    Performer: 厂惫盲苍驳.
    • Karja-La.
    • Galileo-MC.

  • Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble

    Paepae Au (Digging Swamp Tharo)

    Performer: Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble.

  • Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble

    Zuluzulu (Dancing Song)

    Performer: Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble.

  • Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble

    Aarana (Wild Duck Song)

    Performer: Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble.

  • Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble

    God E Nanama (God Is Great)

    Performer: Waurana Pan Pipe Ensemble.

  • Kronos Quartet

    Tusen Tankar

    Performer: Kronos Quartet.
    • A Thousand Thoughts.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast

    Thresherman

    Performer: Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast.
    • Belshazzar's Feast Live! The Whiting's On The Wall.
    • Unearthed Records.

  • Orquestra Folk Sondeseu

    Folerpas e Danzas Brancas

    Performer: Orquestra Folk Sondeseu.
    • Danzas Brancas.
    • Fol Musica.

  • Sastan Nakham (feat. Tinariwen)

  • Chaghaybou (feat. Tinariwen)

  • Thievery Corporation

    Meu Nego

    Performer: Thievery Corporation.
    • Saudade.
    • ESL Music.
    • 2.

  • Da Cruz

    Atras do Carnaval

    Performer: Da Cruz.
    • Disco E Progresso.
    • Boom Jah Records.
    • 5.

  • Afroelectro

    Omin

    Performer: Afroelectro.
    • Brazilian Bass.
    • Farout Recordings.
    • 9.

  • Rubin Zahra

    Tal-Hammarun by Rubin Zahra

    Performer: Rubin Zahra.

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  • Fri 2 May 2014 23:00
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