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King Sunny Ade on NPR's All Things Considered TONIGHT!!!

Posted Tue, 09/15/2009 - 5:14pm by Rock Paper Scissors

rps client King Sunny Ade will be on NPR’s All Things Considered tonight at the end of the program, around 5:50 in a normal 4-6 broadcast.  If you miss it, it will be on the NPR website by late tonight.

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Salaam on NPR's All Things Considered

Posted Tue, 09/15/2009 - 4:50pm by Rock Paper Scissors

There's a new record that takes listeners from the western edge of Morocco right to the heart of Baghdad — by way of Bloomington, Ind. It's the new, self-titled album by the Bloomington-based band called Salaam.

Classically trained Iraqi-American violist Dena El Saffar founded Salaam in 1993 after a journey she took to Baghdad with her father at the age of 17. Because she took her viola along to practice, that trip changed her life.

Read more and listen to the interview here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112141269

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Granada Doaba on NPR's All Things Considered

Posted Thu, 09/10/2009 - 2:52pm by Rock Paper Scissors

August 4, 2009 - Granada, Spain, is the setting of the new album Granada Doaba, an improvised mix of flamenco, Andalusian and hip-hop music from ethnomusicologist and musician Canyon Cody. Its 14 tracks were performed, recorded and mixed in Cody's makeshift studio above a flamenco guitar shop in Granada, as he studied the multicultural history of the region on a Fulbright scholarship. Cody recently spoke with NPR's Madeleine Brand about his album's musical, historical and social undercurrents...

Read more at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111534784

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Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara on PRI's "The World"

Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 4:31pm by Rock Paper Scissors

In today’s Global Hit we meet two musicians from very different backgrounds.

Justin Adams is a rock guitarist from Britain.

Juldeh Camara a singer and spiked fiddle player from Gambia. In Africa, Juldeh Camara is known as a griot — a musical storyteller.

Together Adams and Camara have released a new album called “Tell No Lies.”

And you can’t help but hear a bit of American blues on some of the tracks. Here’s one called — Kele Kele.

“And point out the people that are really doing good in the country and those who aren’t doing so good.”

Listen here http://www.theworld.org/2009/07/23/justin-adams/

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