Spin the Globe: Live Locally, Groove Globally

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Spin the Globe: Live Locally, Groove Globally Spin the Globe is a wide-ranging radio show covering traditional and contemporary music from across the planet. "World Music" is a term so vague it borders on useless, but it leaves the door open to explorations ranging from Tuvan overtone...
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Artist	Title	Length
Traditional Music From Korea	Samullori	5:47
Simon Shaheen	Olive Harvest	4:18
Askura Alexander Shkuratov	Be Like the Sun	5:34
Zein Al-Jundi	Skaba	3:46
Hossein Alizadeh & Djivan Gasparyan	Birds	22:18
Abed Azri�	Ali	9:31

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Artist	Title	Length
Fantazia	The Lost Place	4:21
Yerba Buena	Bla Bla Bla	6:03
Trio Mocoto	Marinella	4:00
Solomon & Socalled	Hassidish	3:02
Tactequete	Caxixis	6:50
SambaSunda	Sambasunda	5:13
Konono N�1	Kule Kule	4:31

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Global Hiphop from Spin the Globe

Too often, world hiphop groups focus so much on the lyrics that the music suffers, often sounding like cheap parodies of US-UK hiphop. Listeners outside the language won't find it engaging no matter how clever the lyrics are. These selections come from groups doing a good job incorporating local sounds into their music, a blend that's appealing whether you speak the language or not.

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Artist	Title	Length
Alif	Dakamerap	3:53
Sultana	Pek Yaman	3:16
Achisa	Afrapella	3:15
Lecker Sachen	Raus	4:25
Rappin Hood	Sou Negr�o (I'm Black)	6:00
Bloque	Rap del Rebusque	4:25
Yerba Buena	Bote Bote Va	2:51
Aziza	Bundan Sonrasi (From Now On)	4:16
Tarika	Madindo [Transglobal Underground Remix]	5:17

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Artist	Title	Length
Antibalas	Hypocrite	5:05
Ex Centric Sound System	Bring Your Calabashe	4:35
Da Lata	Serious (feat Mamani Keita, Bemba Segue)	6:27

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Artist	Title	Length
DEBU	Angin Sepoi-Sepoi (Gentle Breeze)	4:29
Gjallarhorn	Suvetar/Goddess of Spring	5:13
Mariza	Primavera	4:42
Liu Fang	Spring Rain	7:00
Brass Attack	In your garden twenty fecund fruit trees w/Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars	3:53
Oum Kalsoum (aka Umm Kulthum)	Ghanna rabi'bi -lisan at - tayar (Le printemps a chant� dans la langue des oiseaux (The spring sung in the bird's language)	7:15
Maria Santiago	La Primavera	3:35
Robert Tree Cody	Spring Song	4:06
The Afghan Ensemble	Bahare Shaug (Joyful Spring)	5:28

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