Your musical guide through the Global Village
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Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes between notes that characterize Arabic “makams.”
“The makams are scales and modes with quarter-tones and three quarter-tones intervals,” Maalouf says. “This is something that you cannot find in Occidental music.”
Maalouf credits his father, the renowned Lebanese classical trumpeter Nassim Maalouf, with the innovation.
“This trumpet that he invented is really pure genius. …
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World music DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on ”All Things Considered” to share what he’s been spinning on “Global Village,” the show he hosts on KPFK in Los Angeles. This week, Arcos brings some of his favorite new Cuban music. His picks include Pedrito Martinez’s convergence of Cuban and flamenco rumbas, an ancestral tale from The Creole Choir of Cuba, Tiempo Libre’s amalgam of jazz, funk, and R&B and Yunior Terry’s nod to salsa.
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World music DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on “All Things Considered” to share the music he’s been playing on “Global Village,” the show he hosts on KPFK in Los Angeles. This week, Arcos brings his favorite new tracks from Argentinean and Uruguayan artists.
From the spirit of the old style rooted in the bordellos of Buenos Aires to the Andean style known as huayno to an approach that weaves in orchestral and electronic elements, Arcos’ picks showcase the diverse landscape of tango.
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Lara Bello grew up surrounded by Flamenco music and dance. Granada is one of the cradles of this emblematic Spanish tradition. As a teenager, Bello studied voice and violin at a conservatory. But before that she learned how to sing and dance Flamenco.
“Before I started as a musician I was a dancer,” Bello says. “I love very much to connect the sounds with the movements of the body. So I trained in flamenco and contemporary dance and Arabic dance because …
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DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on “All Things Considered” with more of the music he’s been spinning on “Global Village,” his world-music program on KPFK in Los Angeles.
This week, Arcos selects some of his favorite new music coming out of Spain. His picks include a guitarist inspired by baroque music, an all-female quartet with a flamenco flair, a ballad singer and a Galician bagpipe master. To hear his conversation with NPR’s Jacki Lyden, click the audio link on this page.
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Fans of Mexican-American singer and actress Jenni Rivera are in mourning.
The Mexican-American singer and actress died after her plane disappeared early Sunday morning.
Rivera was killed when the Learjet 25 went down in Nuevo Leon state.
She had just given a concert in Monterrey, Mexico.
Also on board were four members of her entourage and two pilots.
She was born in California in 1969 to Mexican parents, sold more than 15 million records of norteno and banda music.
She was a judge in the popular …
