Hello folks and welcome to 2010 and more world music to hear on your community radio station in the Centre!

A Musical favourites program:

Shellie Morris: Angels

Vika and Linda Bull: Mama Shake that Thing

Ruby Hunter:  I am Woman

Madeleine Peyroux: Homeless Happiness

Mariza: Ha Uma Do Povo

Aretha Franklin and Eurythmics: Sisters are Doing it for Themselves

Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone : I shall be released

Aretha Franklin: People Get Ready

Rosie Burgess: Random Acts

This Saturday 28th November is the last live programme from the Vashti’s Voice team for 2009. We’re having a holiday, back on air on the first Saturday in February 2010.  During the summer we will play Women on the Line on Saturdays at 12  – this is a great women’s news journalism program produced by 3CR Community Radio. We invite all interested women to join us in 2010, to help produce Vashti’s Voice. Come along to the studio on Lindsay Avenue at Eastside Alice Springs at 11am Saturday 6th February to meet Vashti’s enthusiasts and to get the live Vashti’s programs start with a bang. See you there, stay tuned to 8CCC Community Radio!

A beautiful November morning in Central Australia and a dance between France and parts of Africa, and then a quick flight over to India for the second half of the show.

BRETT’s SELECTION
Rachid Taha (Algeria/France) – Rock El Casbah
Rachid Taha (Algeria/France) – Ya Rayah
Tito Paris (Cap Verte) – Danca Mi Ma Crioza
Peggy (Republic of South Afirca) – Uzonkhumbula
Lokua Kanza (Congo) – Cametra Dans Le Coeur
Fania (Senegal) – Refetna
Louis Mhlanga featuring Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe) – Zuva
Louis Mhlanga featuring members of Orchestra Baobab (Zimbabwe) – Rhumba all the way
Richard Bona (Ghana / France) – Ghana Blues
Richard Bona and Huong Thanh (Ghana / France / Vietnam) – Dragonfly

JOY’S SELECTION – a relaxed whizz through India!
AR Rahman and Chinmayee – Tere Bina
Susheela Raman – Nagumomo
Bollywood Breaks Orchestra – Cosmic Flute
Badmarsh and Shri – Dancing Drums
State of Bengal – Elephant Walk
Black Starliner – Kilal Connection
Thione Seck and Bombay Jayashree – Assalo
Paban Das Baul and Sam Mills – Dil Ki Doya
Jaipur Kawa Brass Band – Moriya
Dr L Subramanium and Ustad Rais Khan – Gat in Adital
Ram Naryan – Raga Mishra Bhairavi – Alap

Happy listening and exploring ….

Our journey began with Eric Bibb http://www.ericbibb.com/, the man with one of the finest hats around, as well as the ability to raise your spirits.  We featured some new performers from Denmark http://www.worldmusic.dk/en/defaulte.asp?sitemenuMainID=10 and Orishas, a band which mixes hip hop with a range of traditional Cuban dance music styles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orishas_(band)

Joy’s selections from 9am-10am
Eric Bibb (USA) - Turning World
Eric Bibb – Victory Voices
Anita Lerche (Denmark) – Chandeni
Paulina Lerche (Finland) – Tanssi Poika
Analogik (Denmark) – Gypsy Doodle
Frank London’s Klezmer Brass Allstars (UK / Yiddishland) – Our Ancestors 40,000 Years
Oriental Mood (Denmark) – Yoma
Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania) – Alii
Dijvan Gasparyan (Armenia) – Tsiranitsar
Ana Laan (Spain) – Para El Dolor
Manu Chao (Spain) – Raining in Paradise
Afeng Inn (Denmark) – Iguana Segregatis
Thierry Titi Robin (France) – Pundela  http://www.myspace.com/thierrytitirobin

Brett’s selections from 10am
Choi, Lee and Kang (Korea) Heoncheonus
Jose Feliciano – La Malaguena
MXO (South Africa) – Sista Kunjani
Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania)- 007 James Bond Theme (with a real twist)
Wickeda – Mm Yes
Suzzana Owiyo featuring necessary noise – Lek Ne Wounda
Te Vaka (Aotearoa New Zealand) – Samulai
Magic System – Bouger Bouger
Magic System – Matilisso
Orishas (Cuba) – Naci Orishas
Orishas (Cuba) – El Kilo
Orishas (Cuba) – Bombo
Ben Harper and the Blind Boys of Alabama (USA) – there will be light

Hi folks,

I’ve been enjoying the last few weeks sharing the presentation of The Big Bang Theory with Brett, who is relatively new to Alice Springs and an new member of 8CCC.  Its been great hearing some of his choice of music and as we are exploring together new sounds to our ears!

I’ve been a bit slack with giving you the track listings and web links but as from this week, we are back on track!

If you have suggestions for performers and styles of music you would like to hear, please drop an email to 8ccc@netspeed.com.au or phone us during the show on 08 8952 7771 with a request.

Happy listening

Joy

An eclectic mix on Vashti’s Voice this week. 

In the lead up to Water Week, we heard about the rainwater HOG http://rainwaterhog.com/, designed by Sydney-based architect, Sally Dominguez   and DIY business operator, Sandra Dobbin’s response to the lack of practical DIY tools for women to set up diywoman http://www.diywoman.com.au/, and at the same time raise significant amounts of money for breast cancer research. 

On my visit to Kalgoorlie-Boulder this week I picked up a copy of Kalgirls – a calendar put together by the women of the Ulysses Club, a motorbiking club whose motto is “grow old disgracefully”., as a fun fundraiser for the Ulysses Club Arthritis Research Fund, and a challenge to people’s perceptions about who can and should be calendar girls! If you would like to get a copy or find out more, contact one of the women members of the committee at http://www.kalwaulysses.com/Committee%20Members.htm

We featured the new album by multi-ligual singer songwriter Miriam Lieberman – Wakeli recorded in the West African country of Guinea, last year http://www.miriamsong.com.au/

Vashti’s Voice is a weekly program by women for women, which has been going to air in Central Australia and the Barkly for over 13 years.  the current collective members are Kate Lawrence, Nadine Williams and myself, Joy Taylor.  Come and join us!

Today’s show featured some leaders and innovators on the world music scene and included a conversation with John Huigen from Desert Knowledge Australia about a new Alice Springs intercultural leadership development program.  In 2010 we will meet some of the mentors and mentees in the program here on 8CCC.

For more information about the program and the call out for mentors for the program visit http://www.desertknowledge.com.au/dka/index.cfm?attributes.fuseaction=desertLeadership

And now to the music

A selection from the One World Music’s Zen Connection series (produced by Leigh Wood in Stanmore NSW) http://www.zenconnection.com.au/

Nitin Sawhney – Breathing Light
Natacha Atlas – This Realm
Ornament – Bleu
Bombay Dub Orchestra – Mumtaz

We then heard some film music written by AR Rahman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Rahman - from the movie Slumdog Millionaire fame.
Gurus of Peace – featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Yeh Rishta

Four Play – now called Four Play String Quartet are based in NSW and draw on music styles from all over the world to create their own stamp on the music scene, including re-working music by Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground and the Cocteau Twins … I featured tracks from their first album “The Joy of Fourplay” and their latest “Forthcoming”.  http://www.fourplay.com.au/
Meshugganah
Seekers who are lovers
Spanish Castle Music

Next we headed to Bahia in Brazil and back in time to the Tropicalismo scene of the 1960s to hear from Tom Ze and Gilberto Gil
Ma – Tom Ze
O riso e a faca – Tom Ze
Gilberto Gil – Queremos Guerra

We finished off the show with some more new sounds
Chris Combette – Les bas quartiers and Chaia from his album “a danse de flore”
Miriam Lieberman – Wakeli (to be featured on Vashti’s Voice 10/10/09 at midday
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba – I speak Fula
and finishing with a taster of a new album which will be featured next week on Big Bang PLANET BALKAN, Fanfare Ciocarlia with Duj Duj ….

Thanks for listening and tune in next week 0900-1100 Saturdays on 8CCC 102.1FM.

Thought it was a about time I put a post on the website. Ove the last month I’ve been featuring a few new names. Jordie Lane was playing at the Norfolk Hotel in Fremantle recently and I just happened to be there! So I bought a copy of his new CD called Sleeping Patterns and I’ve been playing it ever since. He’s young but he sounds and writes like an old soul. He also produced a great album with a Canadian gal, Tracy McNeil under the band name Fireside Bellows. So listeners have been hearing this album over the last month or so. Also Buddy and Julie Miller’s new album, “Written in Chalk” featuring guest appearances from Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant and Patty Griffin. I still haven’t tired of Teddy Thompson’s ”Upfront and Down Low” or Eilen Jewell’s “Sea of Tears”. Today I played Justin Townes Earle just to get in the mood for his Australian tour starting next week. I’ll be in Melbourne for next Friday’s gig at the Thornbury Theatre. I saw him last year at the Grace Emily in Adelaide and have been talking about him ever since. A show not to be missed!! It’s a pity these gigs are a bit more costly these days when you live in Alice Springs. I ordered a copy of JTE’s new album “Midnight at the movies and it still “hasn’t arrived. So that will be the feature of next week’s show. Hopefully a signed copy!

Hi, a quick visit to Spain this week brought some great new sounds to our ears, especially from Catalonia and a couple of surprises like I’d always thought Pascal Comelade was from France, which he is.  Confused well so am I.  Clearly I need to do some more investigation of one of Catalonia’s favourite sons …. at least a good track listing can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Comelade 

Interested in finding out more of the music of Spain?  Get started at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_spain Great thing about wikipedia is if you then find out something more or know something of interest yourself, you can add it to the collective knowledge.  Bit like here really.  If you have an idea on countries or music styles you would like explored on tte Big Bang Theory let me know.  And thanks for the suggestions so far.

Obrint Pas – Malaguenya de Barxeta

Peret – La Fama no me Cambiara

08001 – Ras El Ma

Dumbala Canalia – Vals Virgil

La Macanita – Buleria

Marina Rossell – El Meu Avi

Ana Salazar – El Acordeonista

Kaulakau – Maese

Pascal Comelade – Noia de Porcellana

Yasmin Levy – The girl of the flowers (for Christine Burke)

Ojos de Brujo – Tantas Flores

And then for an esoteric pick …..

 

U Srinivas and Michael Brook – Dance (for Beanie Festival volunteers and the Araluen staff supporting the Beanie Festival as they dance through a colourful, busy and joyous weekend at the Araluen Cultural Centre in Alice Springs)

1 Giant Leap – Passion (for Tim Rollason – Happy Brithday!)

Susheela Raman – Heart and Soul (for the members of the Beanie Bandits – thanks for your enthusiasm and willingness to perform on friday evening at the beanie festival opening)

Brian Eno and David Byrne – Help me somebody (cos I just love it …)

Oojami – Wicked and Wild (for Megg Kelham, local historian, to wish you good luck with the presentations about the history of the Old Gaol, next month at the National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame in Alice Springs)

Lura – Marinhero

The view from Madelaine’s Couch – Lula Boogaloo (for Fur and Chloe who welcomed my dog Idgie into their pack, ensuring that Idgie had a stress free time while my partner and I were moving house!)  Also for the RSPCA who are doing a promotion at the moment with the Alice Springs Town Council to encourage dog owners to get registered, so you can do the Lula Boogaloo down to the council offices in Todd Street and sign your dog up.

Have a wonderful week

Joy