GLOBAL A GO-GO: Orgasmatron

February 3, 2024

Orgasmatron

Richmond loves throat singing. I know this to be true because there's usually a throat singing band at the Folk Festival, and they're always the band everybody is talking about during and after the Festival.

Well, throat singers aren't just for the Folk Festival. The Alash Ensemble (Richmond Folk Festival class of 2013), from the Republic of Tuva in Russia, will be back here on Monday February 12 performing live at In Your Ear Studios (more info here: jaminc.org/the-other-worldly-sounds-of-alash-the-tuvan-throat-singers). You'll hear Alash's music this week on Global A Go-Go along with some other like-minded polyphonic singers. And one of you will win a pair of tickets to the Alash show that I'll be giving away during this week's program.

(What's throat singing, you might be asking? It's the production of two or more notes in a single vocalization. Probably the part of the world that's most famous for its throat singing tradition is northeast Asia, specifically Mongolia, China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Russia's Republic of Tuva. Canada's Inuits, Japan's Ainu, Buddhist monks in Tibet and India, and Sardinians also practice throat singing. And Popeye the Sailor Man's speaking and singing voice is produced with throat singing techniques.)

Also this week (Sunday February 4, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site): New Anatolian rock from Berlin's Cherry Bandora, the latest from the beyond-category Hazmat Modine, and a very funky second hour featuring new music by London Afrobeat Collective and great new reissues of Benin's Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and the South Bronx's Ghetto Brothers.

Podcast: radio4all.net/program/117303

All the podcasts: radio4all.net/series/Global%20A%20Go-Go

GLOBAL A GO-GO

February 3, 2024

Orgasmatron

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