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Eleutheromania

Apr 7, 2025 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With evanescent

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Desert Blues, Egyptian Balady, and Romani songs inspired by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio's Le Desert. Considered to be one of his breakthrough novels, Desert is a poetic, historically rich novel that intertwines two timelines: the 1909 migration of nomadic Berbers fleeing colonial violence, and the 1970s struggles of Lalla, a young woman descended from the same people, navigating life in Tangier and Marseille. The novel is a rich, sprawling, searching, poetic, provocative, broadly historic and demanding novel which documents the slow death of a North African culture. "They appeared as if in a dream at the top of the dune, half-hidden in the cloud of sand rising from their steps."

7:01 AM		Abou Diarra Koya Blues Abou Diarra Koya Mix & Métisse 2015
7:03 AM		Koudede Iferouan Koudede Taghlamt Taxila 2012
7:08 AM		Les Filles de Illighadad Achibaba Les Filles de Illighadad Les Filles de Illighadad Sahel Sounds 2016
7:11 AM		Afel Bocoum Penda Djiga Afel Bocoum Lindé World Circuit 2020
7:18 AM		N'Gou Bagayoko Yala Kulu Frikyiwa la musique des maquis 2002
7:19 AM		Abou Diarra AbouNicolas Abou Diarra Koya Mix & Métisse 2015
7:23 AM		Imarhan Achinkad Imarhan Aboogi City Slang 2022
7:29 AM		Koudede Kelourhou Koudede Taghlamt Taxila 2012
7:30 AM		sambda doure be ki don
7:34 AM		Les Filles de Illighadad Telilit Les Filles de Illighadad Les Filles de Illighadad Sahel Sounds 2016
7:47 AM		Mariem Hassan Ana Saharauia Mariem Hassan El Aaiun Egdat Nubenegra 2012
7:47 AM		Kel Assouf Alyochan Kel Assouf Black Tenere Glitterbeat Records 2019
7:51 AM		Tinariwen tenerre taqqim
7:57 AM		Tamikrest Awnafin Tamikrest Tamotaït Glitterbeat Records 2020
8:07 AM		Münir Nurettin Selçuk / S. Kaynak Cikar yüclerden Istanbul 1925 Traditional Crossroads 1994
8:09 AM		Selda Bağcan Katip Arzuhalim (Remix) Selda Bağcan (Remix) Majör Müzik Yapım 2017
8:12 AM		Liya Ag Ablil, Nadia Nid El Mourid, Abdallah Ag Ahmed, Mathias Vaguenez, Sanou Ag Ahmed, Yamina Nid El Mourid & Terakaft Awa Adounia Kel Tamasheq (Deluxe Edition) world village 2012
8:17 AM		Bombino AAmidinine Nomad Nonesuch
8:21 AM		Imarhan Tahabort Imarhan Imarhan City Slang 2016
8:25 AM		Orchestra Baobab Nijaay Orchestra Baobab Made in Dakar World Circuit 2007
8:33 AM		Özdemir Erdoğan Gurbet Özdemir Erdoğan Yorumcu Özdemir Erdoğan Müzik 1993
8:35 AM		sukru runar huzzam taksim
8:40 AM		Gnawa Bambara Bambara Gnawa Bambara Maleen Abdenbi el Gadari Felmay 2006
8:42 AM		Nizar Roahana Emm el Zeinat
8:52 AM		Hossam Ramzy West Naima Hossam Ramzy Hafla - Bellydance Party ARC 2007
8:52 AM		Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, Arto Tunçboyacıyan, Brian Keane, Ara Dinkjian & Hassan Isikkut Shashkin Omar Faruk Tekbilek Mystical Garden Celestial Harmonies 1996
9:05 AM		Upper Egypt Ensemble Luxor Baladna Upper Egypt Ensemble Afrah Baladna Sa'id (The Joy of Our City Sa'id) Egyptian Saidi Folk Songs Hollywood Music Center 2006
9:15 AM		Hossam Ramzy & His Egyptian Ensemble Egypt: Enta Omri Best of Bellydance from Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey ARC 2010
9:15 AM		Fatme Serhan Ala Warag Il Foull Fatme Serhan The Queen of Balady (Belly Dance) Hollywood Music Center courtesy of Big Fish Media 2005
9:20 AM		Salwa El Katib Khedni Maak
9:24 AM		Awlad Abou al-Gheit Abou Al-gheit - Sheikh from the Qalyubia Spirit Tribe Awlad Abou al-Gheit Zar - Trance Music for Women Sands of Time Music 2005
9:29 AM		Upper Egypt Ensemble Inta al-Amal Upper Egypt Ensemble Afrah Baladna Sa'id (The Joy of Our City Sa'id) Egyptian Saidi Folk Songs Hollywood Music Center 2006
9:31 AM		Upper Egypt Ensemble Salam Alekom Upper Egypt Ensemble Afrah Baladna Sa'id (The Joy of Our City Sa'id) Egyptian Saidi Folk Songs Hollywood Music Center 2006
9:31 AM		Fatme Serhan Taht Il Shibbak Fatme Serhan The Queen of Balady (Belly Dance) Hollywood Music Center courtesy of Big Fish Media 2005
9:37 AM		Belly Dance Rhythms Belly Dance Shimmy Medley Belly Dance Rhythms Belly Dance - EP Pasion 2014
9:45 AM		Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography, Moscow Chamber Choir & Gipsy vocal ensemble Apple Eugen Doga. Gipsy Camp Goes to Heaven Eugen Doga 2024
9:48 AM		Alesha Dimitrievich Eh raz, esche raz
9:53 AM		Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography, Moscow Chamber Choir & Gipsy vocal ensemble Nane Tsoha Eugen Doga. Gipsy Camp Goes to Heaven Eugen Doga 2024
9:55 AM		Ensemble Tchaïka Les tsiganes lèvent le camp Ensemble Tchaïka Chants et musiques russes DOM 2010
9:57 AM		Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography, Moscow Chamber Choir & Gipsy vocal ensemble Kai Ione Eugen Doga. Gipsy Camp Goes to Heaven Eugen Doga 2024

Chat is archived.

Good morning, evanescent! My wife just put "Le Desert" on hold at the library

audio sounds blown out

good morning!!

le desert has incredible prose, im excited for your wife to read it. let me know what she thinks!

hey joseph! figuring out the sound right now

don't know what things look like on your end but sounds like volume is too high or maybe bass too high. great tunes though

how is it now?

Just waking up, this is awesome.

good morning TAndy!

This show is suPeRB

thank you jimboooo

super fun time playing desert blues!

There's no better feeling that cruising through the desert in the morning.

well yes, your feet trudging through ochre sahara sand dunes as the sun heats the temple of your head and acidic sweat burns your eyes

we are getting into the more middle eastern side of things btw, although still in the north of africa (egypt)

I was driving over a train track when that last song started and i nearly had a heart attack because i thought it was a train horn

😭😭

"wprb out in the real world" - dj nem

never forget to look in all 5 directions when crossing a train track!

Those fifth dimension trains sneak up on ya

Any interest in playing contemporary Arabic music such as Haifa Wehby?

we're keeping it traditional today but i'm a big enthusiast of modern arabic music and will dedicate a show to it later this month(:

Shokran!

oh yes!!!

fun fact that band was originated in krasnodar, russia, not too far from where i grew up!

anyways to get back to music playing right now, we are continuing to explore the egyptian roots and traditions

the track playing right now is zar, a mystic and ancient tradition originated from ancient Ethiopian tribes

Good morning!

whats up parrscream!

Hi evanescent! Really enjoying the show this morning. :-)

very very glad(: north african and middle eastern roots are one of my favorite gems

the following song was reimagined by Visozkiy, a prolific Russian singer. Today I chose to play the original, folk version instead

These gems are getting me through Monday morning work. :-)

Russia has a large population of Ruska Roma, or Russian Romani peoples, estimated around 250,000 thousand. Their culture has been incredibly influential in music and literature. The tracks by Russian State Symphony Orchestra are, in fact, from a movie about the Romani peoples which was filmed during the Soviet Union and aired in theatres with considerable success.

from a personal note, I was often called a gypsy growing up in Russia because of my ethnic ambiguity, and hence originated my interest in the culture of the Romani people

Loving this playlist! I know we’re at the end of the show, but for a future one look into playing a song from Cafe Fejon—would blend in perfectly!