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  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:13:02 -0500

Hi all,

Here's what we have planned this week:

Tonight's Inside Track unearths four compositions from composer Jon Gibson, compiled together on the album Relative Calm. Recorded in 1981, these four tracks highlight Gibson's involvement in the New York Minimalist, working with legends like Terry Riley and La Monte Young as well as being a founding member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. Like Glass, Gibson favors repetitive melodies that unfurl over long periods of time against a backdrop of slowly shifting drones and electronic washes. There's plenty of electronic and acoustic instrumentation that come together in a vibrant and colorful sound pallet, all culminating in the propulsive and beat-driven conclusion, "Return."

Monday's Outside Track features more reissued material, Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque In Upper Volta, the latest compilation assembled by the folks at Numero Group. Upper Volta is the West African country now known as Burkina Faso, and this collection highlights the vibrant and cosmopolitan music scene that existed in the country between their liberation from colonial rule and the 1983 military coup led by Thomas Sankara that shifted the cultural and political trajectory of the country. Plenty of the sounds on this album will be familiar to listeners of the afrobeat and highlife music that came from other West African countries at the time, but it's blended here with Latin flavored horns and percussion and influences and sounds drawn from contemporary French Yé-yé music. 




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