Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg: Playlist from March 1, 2025

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New	Approx. start time
Rabih Abou-Khalil	Blue Camel   → "Blue Camel" by "Rabih Abou-Khalil"	Blue Camel	Mesa			Rabih Abou-Khalil is a Lebanese oud player and composer who blends Arabic music with jazz, classical and other styles. He has collaborated with many renowned musicians and hosted a TV series on world jazz. - wiki			0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Abdelli	Achaah (Resentment)   → "Achaah (Resentment)" by "Abdelli"	New Moon	Real World			Abderrahmane Abdelli is a Berber author, composer, and singer songwriter known for mixing the traditional North African music of his homeland with modern sounds. - wiki			0:09:03 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Baba Zula	Pisi Pisi Halayı   → "Pisi Pisi Halayı" by "Baba Zula"	İstanbul Sokakları (Streets Of Istanbul)	Glitterbeat						0:17:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kazim Al Sahir	Anta Al Hakam   → "Anta Al Hakam" by "Kazim Al Sahir"	Various Artists: Sif Safaa	EMI						0:20:56 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kemani Cemal Cinarli	Kirkpinar Ciftellisi   → "Kirkpinar Ciftellisi" by "Kemani Cemal Cinarli"	Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Bellydance	World Music Network						0:25:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rastak	Havar Havar   → "Havar Havar" by "Rastak"	Tales of Earth and Sun				"Tales of Earth and Sun" by Iranian band Rastak is a journey through the heart of folk music, bringing together six tracks inspired by the rich musical traditions of Kurdistan, Lorestan, Balochistan, Hormozgan (this track), Kermanshah, and a heartfelt love song from Afghanistan. Each piece carries the spirit of a place, telling stories of joy, struggle, and memories that connect generations. - PR		*	0:34:06 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sheikhs Shikhat & B'net Chaabi	Still to come   → "Still to come" by "Sheikhs Shikhat & B'net Chaabi"	Sheikhs Shikhats & B'net Chaabi	Zephyrus Records			Morocco, Belgium. Laïla Amezian and her colorful extra large ensemble pay tribute to the shikhats and ghanayats, singers who fought for freedom of expression in 19th-century Morocco through popular 'chaabi' songs. - PR			0:41:16 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ensemble Chakâm	Femme qui rougit comme l'univers   → "Femme qui rougit comme l'univers" by "Ensemble Ch...	The Blazing Winds				The trio blends the radiant sound of Sogol Mirzaei‘s tar(Iran) with the gentle touch of Christine Zayed‘s qanoun(Palestine), and the deep tones of Marie-Suzanne de Loye‘s viola da gamba(France). Drawing from the classical foundations of Persian, Arabic and Baroque repertoires, where intense rhythms give way to vibrant, melodic monologues. - PR		*	0:49:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pauanne	Maailman mielet villitsee - The minds of the world bewitch   → "Maailman mielet villitsee - The minds of the worl...	Joku raja rakkaudessakin	Nordic Notes			Pauanne focuses on Finnish and Karelian archival recordings, describing their style as “Underground Folk: making music with the voices of singers who have long since passed away.” They update archival recordings from the last century, transforming them into contemporary folk songs with new lyrics and melodies. The album Joku Raja Rakkaudessakin centers on Finnish fears of diversity and clouded emotions, giving a voice to those marginalized by society. - PR		*	0:59:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Paparats	Valytai   → "Valytai" by "Paparats"	Folk and Great Tunes from Belarus	CPL-Music / CPL-Musicgroup			We are from Belarus. We perform songs written by band leader Tatsiana Soloviova and our own arrangements of Belarusian folk songs. - bandcamp			1:04:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Lo Cor de la Plana	La Despartida   → "La Despartida" by "Lo Cor de la Plana"	Marching!	Buda Musique						1:09:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Fagel Roc	Mannen På Berget (Diyarbakır - Stockholm) (Full Band Version)   → "Mannen På Berget (Diyarbakır - Stockholm) (Full ...	Roc Guitar Refurbed Replayed Remixed				"Roc Guitar Refurbed Replayed Remixed" is Fågel Roc's 15th album. It is a multi instrumental treatment of the totally uncommercial album "Roc Guitar Solo" which was made under extremely simple conditions in 2012, and recorded according to the rules: One man – One guitar – One take. With a guitar echoing its distant relatives Bouzouki, Saz, Oud, Cümbüş and the others. - PR		*	1:13:47 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rahman Mammadli	Qoca Daglar   → "Qoca Daglar" by "Rahman Mammadli"	Azerbaijani Gitara Volume 2	Les Disques Bongo Joe					*	1:17:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bawin	Ya Binaya Goumi (Oh Girl, Stand Up)   → "Ya Binaya Goumi (Oh Girl, Stand Up)" by "Bawin"	Various Artists: Choubi Choubi! Folk And Pop Songs From Iraq	Sublime Frequencies						1:23:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Shagan	Umai / Karuna   → "Umai / Karuna" by "Shagan"	Free Spirit				«FREE SPIRIT», the new album by the Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound producer and performer Vladislav SHAGAN, stems from a desire to delve into the history and culture of the Bulgarians, i.e. of the Danubians living today in the West and of the proto-Bulgarians whose tribes lived in the East, in the area at the border among Mongolia, China and India, in the region of Pamir, Hindi Kush, and the Himalayas. - PR		*	1:31:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Agent Starling	Minor Surgery (radio edit)   → "Minor Surgery (radio edit)" by "Agent Starling"	European Howl (Radio Edits)				Agent Starling’s debut album, European Howl is full of catchy hurdy-gurdy tunes, new songs, hypnotic drones, live bass grooves & strings, all with an experimental edge. Influenced by musical traditions from nations across Europe, instrumental pieces, spoken word and songs, themes range from a miscellany of Greek Tales (Wine Dark Sea) to an elegy by a dying lover (Requiem). - PR			1:40:15 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Trancexpress / Polish and Occitan	Suite obourrek n°2   → "Suite obourrek n°2" by "Trancexpress / Polish and...	Polish and Occitan - Trancexpress	Muzyka Zakorzeniona			The relationship between Sieradz's owijok and France's bourree trois temps, though geographically impossible, nevertheless easily embodies a philosophy of shared movement, rhythm and thinking about music. On this surprisingly similar musical ground arose the Polish-French band Trancexpress, a project in which the artists speak one musical language – although, as they say, "with a slightly different accent." - PR		*	1:43:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Félix Lajko	Elso varoskep   → "Elso varoskep" by "Félix Lajko"	Gisl	Fono			Giselle is a groundbreaking masterpiece of 19th-century Romantic ballet, whose popularity remains unbroken to this day. The title role is every ballerina's dream. Premiering in 1841, the piece conquered the world with the music of Adolphe Adam. In a new interpretation by Győri Ballet, the production was brought to life on the stage of Budapest’s Müpa with choreography by László Velekei and music by Félix Lajkó. - PR		*	1:47:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
DAAU	Delete Alt and Undo   → "Delete Alt and Undo" by "DAAU"	Eight Definitions	Excelsior			DAAU (short for Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung) is a classical, jazz, experimental and multi-genre music group from Antwerp, Belgium. The band was founded in 1992 and borrowed its name from the novel Der Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse. - wiki			1:53:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Flook	Jig For Sham /The Dawn Wall / Johnny Ds /Timewaver   → "Jig For Sham /The Dawn Wall / Johnny Ds /Timewave...	Sanju	Flatfish Records			When Flook formed in 1995, there was nothing to compare them to; a flute-driven phenomenon, not Irish nor English, perfectly comfortable in their own musical skin and free to go as the wind goes. And boldly go they did. - PR		*	2:06:38 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frigg	Vastkusten Twist   → "Vastkusten Twist" by "Frigg"	Dreamscapes	Bafe's Factory			Since forming in 2000, the Finnish/Nordic folk powerhouse Frigg has carved a unique space in the global music scene, blending Finnish and Norwegian traditions with bluegrass, Americana, and classical influences. - wnmufm		*	2:12:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Anne-Mari Kivimäki	Maalo   → "Maalo" by "Anne-Mari Kivimäki"	Kotiin	Rockadillo Records			Finnish. accordionist Anne-Mari Kivimäki combines hypnotic accordion trance with wishful and impassioned music on her new album Kotiin (Homeward). In addition to some of Finland’s finest musicians, the guests include Polish-Ukrainian band DagaDana as well as Estonian duo Puuluup, who created a big buzz at Eurovision Song Contest 2024. - PR		*	2:18:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hedningarna	Ukkonen   → "Ukkonen" by "Hedningarna"	Karelia Visa				trad. Karelian song. Hedningarna (The Heathens) is a Swedish, and for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music. Their music features yoik or juoiggus, a traditional Sami form of song. - wiki			2:20:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Heera	Samb Samb   → "Samb Samb" by "Heera"	Cool & Deadly	Arishma			1989 UK. This hugely popular Bhangra band from Southall was formed in 1979 by the lead singer at the time Bhupinder Bhindi, Satwant Taak, Balbir Gill and Debbi. It was not until Jaswinder Kumar and Palvinder Dhami joined the band (after lots of encouragement of Bhupinder), that the real Heera Group became a 1980s Bhangra music entity. In 1983, they worked with Indian music director Charanjit Ahuja for their first the album Bhabi Te Nanaan Nachdi. Then, Heera came under the wing of the now established and highly recognised Kuljit Bhamra, who helped them produce their first major hit album, Jago Wala Mela. - Desiblitz			2:26:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Bappi Lahiri	Everybody Dance With Me   → "Everybody Dance With Me" by "Bappi Lahiri"	College Girl				Legendary Bollywood composer d 2022, this is his 1978 solo pop record. Fondly known as "Bappi Da", Lahiri is credited for getting the disco ball spinning in India. His music from the movie Disco Dancer introduced a new form of freeform dancing in Bollywood. It also turned actors like Mithun Chakraborty into icons, whose groovy moves to the bouncing synths, immortalised him as a dancing legend. Lahiri composed songs for several other hit Bollywood flicks such as Himmatwala, Sharaabi, Adventures of Tarzan, Dance Dance, Satyamev Jayate, Shola Aur Shabnam, among others. - BBC			2:32:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kady Diarra	Aw ko tian   → "Aw ko tian" by "Kady Diarra"	Burkina Hakili				Born in Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso, Kady Diarra comes from a family of griots of the Bwaba ethnic group. She quickly developed a pronounced taste for dance and worked with several troupes in Abidjan. Back in Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso in 1992, Kady worked in dance, song and theater, especially in Foliba Adama Dramé. - discogs			2:40:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jupiter & Okwess	Ekoya   → "Ekoya" by "Jupiter & Okwess"	ِِEkoya	Airfono			Jupiter & Okwess - Ekoya (Airfono, 2025) Jupiter & Okwess, veterans of Kinshasa's vibrant music scene, return with their fourth album, Ekoya, a striking hybrid of soulful Congolese funk, rock, and soukous infused with fresh influences from Mexico and Latin America. - World Music Central		*	2:45:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Johansen as Buster Poindexter	Hot Hot Hot   → "Hot Hot Hot" by "David Johansen as Buster Poindex...	Buster Poindexter							2:49:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Fiston Lusambo	Beyo Beyo   → "Beyo Beyo" by "Fiston Lusambo"	Kabila Moja				Congolese but drawn to Nairobi, where he regularly appears on Kenyan TV, Fiston sought to showcase the cultural richness around him—something more accessible to him as an African musician than to traditional musicologists. With longtime friend and activist Tabu Osusa, he used an Arts Council England grant to record music deep in Northern Kenya’s marginalized communities, capturing sounds from traditional instruments, birds, and even a goat. Back in the studio, he replaced Western electronic elements with these organic recordings, blending his digital production expertise with raw traditional sounds. - PR		*	2:55:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)