Sangam Playlist for Monday, 06 May, 2013

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A bevy of female singers Roona Laila, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanum, Najma Akhtar, and Nadia Ali. Midival Punditz and Fun Da Mental, Rahat and Nusrat.

Compare versions of the same song by Farida Khanum and Najma Akhtar. The Fateh Ali Khan clan shine at what they do; Nusrat and Rahat render their versions of the same song and Muazzam of the Rizwan-Muazzan duo teams up with Fundamental.

Listen here till 20 May, 2013: http://kfai.org/node/35795

Thanks for listening.

Don't forget the Rahat Fateh Ali Khan concert at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Friday, 10 May, 2013, at 7:30 pm.

Artist	Track Title	Album	Label
Roona Laila	Tez hui dil ki dharkan	Best of Roona Laila	Legend Series
Manjeet Singh	Keray keray	One	Fire Records
Iqbal Bano	Ulfat ki nayee manzil ko	Greated Hits of Iqbal Bano	EMI
Farida Khanum	Dil jalane ki baat	Best of Farid Khanum, Album 1	Time Line
Najma Akhtar	Dil jalane ki baat	Pukar	Mondo Melodia
Entity Paradigm	Bolo bolp	Coke Studio, Season 3, Episode 1	cokestudio.com.pk
Junoon	Sayonee	Azadi	Sonic
Bikram Ghosh	Rhythm speaks	Fusion Mosaic	?
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	Tere bina	Charkha	Fire Records
Midival Punditz	Khayal	Midival Times	Six Degrees Records
Nadia Ali	Fantasy (Morgan Page Remix)	?	Amazon Digital Services
World Service	Skanking for Jullandar	Qilaash	Nation Records
Fun>Da>Mental	Spy-Cat	There Shall Be Love!	Nation Records
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	Charkha	Charkha	Fire Records
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	Shaman paiyan	Tanhai	Sonic
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	Shaman paiyan	Kinna Sohan	Navras
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	Laga rog wachhoray da	Rahat	American

Posted: 2013 May 10
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Sangam Playlist for, 15 April, 2013

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Roona Laila, Farida Khanum, Iqbal Bano, Najma Akhtar, and more. Mixed "media" from Delhi 2 Dublin, Midival Punditz, Naida Ali, an Fun Da Mental. Two pieces from Rahat Fateh Ali who will be performing in concert at the Minneapolis Convention Center on April 26, 2013.

Access the archived program audio till Monday, 29 April, here: http://kfai.org/node/35395

Thanks for listening.

Artist	Track Title	Album	Label
Roona Laila	Saiyan anadi se	Best of Roona Laila	?
Manjeet Singh	Ishq	One	Fire Records
Farida Khanum	Wo ishq jo hum sey	Best of Farid Khanum, Album 1	Time Line
Iqbal Bano	Too lakh chale re gori	Greated Hits of Iqbal Bano	EMI
Munni Begum	Botal khuli hai	Botal Khuli Hai, Raqs Mein	Time Line Records
Najma Akhtar	Dil jala ne ki baat	Pukar	Mondo Melodia
Bikram Ghosh	Tandav	Fusion Mosaic	?
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	Tere bina	Charkha	Fire Records
Noori, Zeb & Haniya	Tann dolay	Coke Studio, Season 3, Episode 1	cokestudio.com.pk
Junoon	Mahival	Azadi	Sonic
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	Kinna sohna	Top Hits of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	Modern Music
Delhi 2 Dublin	Get on the bus	Delhi 2 Dublin	MAPL
Midival Punditz	Desolate	Hello Hello	Six Degrees Records
Nadia Ali	Fine Print (Serge Devant Remix)	?	Amazon Digital Services
Hustlers H.C	Let the hustlers play	Creative, Innovative, Uncomprising	Nation Records
Fun>Da>Mental	There shall be love!	There Shall Be Love!	Nation Records
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan	Khaba wich meray toon na aa	Rahat	American

Posted: 2013, April 19

Sangam Playlist for 04 March, 2013

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Filmi geet, pop, and fusion. Plus we gave away two pairs of tickets to the Delhi2Dublin concert on Sunday, March 31, 2013, at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis.

You can listen to a recording of the show here: http://kfai.org/node/34538 till March 18.
Note that it started a few minutes late due to the previous program running over.

Here is the playlist:

Artist	Track Title	Album	Label
Rangeela	Tere kise pe aaye dil	Best of Rangeela	Legend Series
Mujeeeb Aalam	Mein tera sheher chord jaoon ga	Pakistani Sada Bahar Dilkash Geet	SRC
Attaullah Khan Essa Khailvi	Asan mast sharabi lokan	Rab Rakha Pardesi Dhola	Sonic Enterprises
Ali Sher	Rahon mein	Mann Marzi	Sadaf Stereo
Sajjad Ali	Yaad	Chief Sab	Sound Master
Jawad Ahmad	Zindagi meri zindagi	Bol Tujhe Kya Chahiyeh	Sonic Enterprises
Collage	Jaanay jaanay	Collage	The Musik
Ali Zafar	Teri yaad aayi	Huqa Pani	Sadaf Stereo
Shami	Kehna tha	Jaise Koee Khwab	The Musik
Amanat Ali	Raha jai na	Kohram	Fire Records
Suroor	Aa jee lain zara	Pyar Tou Hona He Hae	Fire Records
Salman Ahmed	Do dil	Infinti	EMI
Najma Akhtar	Kaaga	Fariyaad	Connecting Cultures
Autorickshaw	Nalina kanthi	So The Journey Goes	Tala-Wallah Records
Sheila Chandra	Strange minaret	The Struggle	Narada
Raghav	Angel eyes	Storyteller	Times Music
Kuljit Bhamra	Oh kuri	Bhangra Latina	Keda Records
Roxen	Malangi	Rozen-e-Deewar	Fire Records
Bill Laswell	Assassinations 2	The Hashisheen	Sub Rosa
Krome Assassins	Return of the Shankar	Eastern Uprising	Sony Music
?	Fear of a brown Planet	Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars, and Sitars	Motel Records
Trilok Gurtu	Don (Black Star Liner Remix)	Izzat, CD-1 Remixes	Times Square Records

Thanks.


Posted: 2013 March 09
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Sangam playlist for 11 February, 2013

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Hello,

The 11th February Sangam program can be accessed till 25th February, 2013, here: http://kfai.org/node/34098

Old-time film songs; some jazzy fusion from Najma Akhtar, Autorickshaw, and Kuljit Bhamra; lots of pop; Raghav, new on this show; and Joi returns.

Good stuff. Tracey though so!

Artist	Track Title	Album	Label
Masood Rana	Mere dil ki hai avaaz	Mere Dil Ki Hai Awaz	Universal Music
Noor Jehan	Tere bin you ghariyaan	Meri Zindagi Hay Naghma, vol. 3	Mega Sound
Attaullah Khan Essa Khailvi	Mede dhol koon qasid	Zara Insaaf Kar Mahi, vol. 8	Sonic Enterprises
Ali Sher	Chan sajna	Mann Marzi	Sadaf Stereo
Sajjad Ali	Naraz	Chief Sab	Sound Master
Jawad Ahmad	Bin tere kiya hai jeena	Bol Tujhe Kya Chahiyeh	Sonic Enterprises
Collage	Yaar milda nahi	Collage	The Musik
Ali Zafar	Ishq	Huqa Pani	Sadaf Stereo
Fakhre Alam	Zindagi (feat. Ustaad Hamid Ali Khan)	The Best of F Alam	DJ Gold
Shazia Khusk	Mai aaya mukh vaikhane	Lal Pijaro	TP Gold
Suroor	Lamhe	Pyar Tou Hona He Hae	Fire Records
Salman Ahmed	Main tum sey dur	Infinti	EMI
Najma Akhtar	Paani barsan	Fariyaad	Connecting Cultures
Autorickshaw	Heavy traffic	So The Journey Goes	Tala-Wallah Records
Sheila Chandra	Puppet tears	The Struggle	Narada
Raghav	Can't see enough	Storyteller	Times Music
Natacha Atlas	Ghanwah bossa nova	Mish Maoul	Beggars UK-Ada
Kuljit Bhamra	Tablas guruve	Bhangra Latina	Keda Records
Joi	Goddess	Eastern Uprising	Sony Music
Byron Metcalf	Clan Travelers (from Not Without Risk)	Nataraja	Sound True

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Posted: 2013 February 13

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Hanif Kureishi and Daniel Day-Lewis

Her's an interesting film tidbit.

Daniel Day-Lewis (actor, "Lincoln", likely Academy Award nominations this year) and Hanif Kureishi (writer, "The Buddha of Suburbia", Whitbread Prize) got their start together.

"In 1985 My Beautiful Laundrette launched Kureishi and its star Daniel Day-Lewis into film, and won Kureishi an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay." (2008 interview below)

A recent (2012) interview with Kureishi is given here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9722077/Hanif-Kureishi-the-pariah-of-suburbia.html

In this interview Kureishi talks a little bit about his visit to Karachi. One of his latest short stories "The Door is Shut" starts in Karachi.

“I remembered being in Karachi in the Eighties and the liberalism my family lived under then was much under threat,” he says. “Now it’s completely gone. There are no Jews, Christians or Hindus. There are no Chinese restaurants. It has a terrible dead fascist atmosphere."

Read a 2008 interview with Hanif Kureishi at the link below: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3671392/Hanif-Kureishi-A-life-laid-bare.html

Note also this quote from Kureishi from this same interview:

"Art's got to feel dangerous to you and to other people; that's when it's working."

Some of Kureishi's books are:

The Body: A Novel 

Something to Tell You: A Novel

My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father

Collected Essays

Collected Stories

Posted: 2013 January 23

Sangam Playlist for Monday, 21 January, 2013

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Below is the draft playlist for 21 January show, which also happens to be the date for the US Presidential Inauguration.

Listen live (to the music show!) here: http://kfai.org/sites/default/stream/jplayer.html between 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm US Central Time on the 21st (02:00-04:00 UTC, 22 January, 2013). Or tune in to the audio archive after the show.

Listen to the archived shoe here: http://kfai.org/node/33693

See if you can figure out the little story or joke built from the song titles and lyrics starting with Salman Ahmed's piece and going through to the last song (must be bilingual in Urdu and English).


Here is the question I meant to ask on the show and forgot:

Q. When was the title "Malika Tarannum" given to Noor Jehan? Who awarded the title?

Also,


Q. Where can one find a high quality video clip of Abida Parveen singing Bulleh Shah's kafi " jay rab milda nathaya dhotayaan...Mandir maseeti"? Something of much better video and audio quality than what's typically found on YouTube.



Answers to these items would be much appreciated, especially if received by Sunday, 27 January, 2013.



Best.

Artist	Track Title	Album	Label
Masood Rana	Jhoom ae dil	Mere Dil Ki Hai Awaz	Universal Music
Noor Jehan	Kahan hai tera piaar sajna	Meri Zindagi Hay Naghma, vol. 3	Mega Sound
Attaullah Khan Essa Khailvi	Kis liye jaan-e-man	Zara Insaaf Kar Mahi, vol. 8	Sonic Enterprises
Ali Sher	Hijr	Mann Marzi	Sadaf Stereo
Sajjad Ali	Mehndi	Chief Sab	Sound Master
Jawad Ahmad	Palkon pe chamakte aansoo	Bol Tujhe Kya Chahiyeh	Sonic Enterprises
Collage	Dil ruba	Collage	The Musik
Ali Zafar	Rangeen	Huqa Pani	Sadaf Stereo
Fakhre Alam	Husn valo	The Best of F Alam	DJ Gold
Shazia Khusk	License pyar da	Lal Pijaro	TP Gold
Suroor	Dil mera	Pyar Tou Hona He Hae	Fire Records
Salman Ahmed	Al vida (Good bye)	Infinti	EMI
Najma Akhtar	Naa jaa (Don't go)	Fariyaad	Connecting Cultures
Autorickshaw	So the journey goes	So The Journey Goes	Tala-Wallah Records
Nadia Ali	Pressure (Alesso Mix)	The New Dance Mix USA, vol. 2, In the Club	Phase One Music
Safri Goes to Bollywood	Dum maro dum	Eastern Uprising	Sony Music
Natacha Atlas	Something dangerous	Something Dangerous	Mantra Recordings
Byron Metcalf	Clan travelers (from Not Without Risk)	Nataraja	Sound True
Kuljit Bhamra	Invitation	Bhangra Latina	Keda Records
Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Rita de Ghent	Achcha	Ritesh Das and the Toronto Table Ensemble	Naxos World
Ananda Shankar & State of Bengal	Pluck	Walking On	Real World

Posted: 2013 January 20
Updated: 2013 January 21

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Sangam playlist for Monday, 14 January, 2013

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Hello,

This episode of Sangam has music ranging from old-time filmi geet to fusion jazz with a couple of playlist construction stories. The latest album releases by Niyaz (Azam Ali) and Najma AKhtar, a lovely desi blues, the Toronto Tabla  Ensmble, plus many of your favorite singers. Good listening music!

Listen here: http://kfai.org/node/33564  The file will be available till January 29, 2013.

Best.

Artist	Track Title	Album	Label
Masood Rana	Hum bhi musafir	Mere Dil Ki Hai Awaz	Universal Music
Noor Jehan	Saathi meray, bin teray	Meri Zindagi Hay Naghma, vol. 3	Mega Sound
Haroon	Jao tum	Lagan	Eagle Gold
Rahim Shah	Kho gaye nain	Gul Jana	A to Z Music
Collage	Na chad jaween yaar	Collage	The Musik
Faakhir	Jan pay bhi	Sub Tun Sohniyeh	Sadaf Stereo
Jawad Ahmad	Dosti	Ucchiyan Majajan Vali	Sonic Enterprises
Ali Zafar	Jugnuon say bhar le aanchal	Huqa Pani	Sadaf Stereo
Fakhre Alam	Talaash	The Best of F Alam	DJ Gold
Najma Akhtar	Iss jahan main	Fariyaad	Connecting Cultures
Niyaz (Azam Ali)	Rayat al sumud	Sumud	Six Degrees Records
Kaya Project	Ghasi Ram blues	Nataraja	Sound True
Autorickshaw	Surya	So The Journey Goes	Tala-Wallah Records
Earthtribe	Rude boy	Eastern Uprising	Sony Music
Abhijeet & Anuradha Shriram	Chunari, chunari	Monsoon Wedding	Milan
Sukhwinder & Shweta Pandit	Rung de	Bombay Nights, Disc 2	Water Music
Natacha Atlas	Daymalhum	Something Dangerous	Mantra Recordings
Kuljit Bhamra	Einstein comes to town	Bhangra Latina	Keda Records
Toronto Tabla Ensemble	Geometry	Ritesh Das and the Toronto Table Ensemble	Naxos World
Bill Laswell	Pattabhi jois	Aspiration	Metastation

Posted: 2013 January 15