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World Music Institute - WMI Plus at Home

World Music Institute

25 episodes

1 month ago

Send us a text Sunny Jain, a Brooklyn-based drummer, dhol player, bandleader, and composer, speaks with artist Samita Sinha in the first WMI Plus At Home session of WMI’s 40th Season. The two friends discussed Sunny’s upcoming WMI Season opening performance at Bryant Park along with Gamelan Dharma Swara, and Sunny’s project Wild Wild East, which explores themes of immigration and identity through a fusion of jazz and Indian music. The conversation highlighted the power of music to bridge cult...

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Send us a text Sunny Jain, a Brooklyn-based drummer, dhol player, bandleader, and composer, speaks with artist Samita Sinha in the first WMI Plus At Home session of WMI’s 40th Season. The two friends discussed Sunny’s upcoming WMI Season opening performance at Bryant Park along with Gamelan Dharma Swara, and Sunny’s project Wild Wild East, which explores themes of immigration and identity through a fusion of jazz and Indian music. The conversation highlighted the power of music to bridge cult...

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Music Interviews

Performing Arts

Episodes (20/25)

World Music Institute - WMI Plus at Home

Percussionist and Bandleader Sunny Jain with Samita Sinha

Send us a text Sunny Jain, a Brooklyn-based drummer, dhol player, bandleader, and composer, speaks with artist Samita Sinha in the first WMI Plus At Home session of WMI’s 40th Season. The two friends discussed Sunny’s upcoming WMI Season opening performance at Bryant Park along with Gamelan Dharma Swara, and Sunny’s project Wild Wild East, which explores themes of immigration and identity through a fusion of jazz and Indian music. The conversation highlighted the power of music to bridge cult...

2 months ago

52 minutes

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Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute) with Adam Robinson and Ralph Samuelson

Send us a text Adam Robinson and Ralph Samuelson joined us for this WMI Plus At Home session, where they introduced the Japanese flute (shakuhachi). Adam and Ralph spoke about the history of the instrument and the different contexts it was used in as it developed. They discussed how traditional music is taught and how the shakuhachi has grown into a modern, globally connected instrument. During their talk, Ralph and Adam played musical examples of shakuhachi music, performed a traditional due...

5 months ago

52 minutes

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Sardinian Guitar Innovator Paolo Angeli with Guitarist Joel Harrison

Send us a text Sardinian guitarist, composer, vocalist, and instrument innovator Paolo Angeli recently joined us for a WMI Plus At Home conversation with fellow guitarist and founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit Joel Harrison. Paolo treated us to some traditional music and took us through the decades-long process of crafting his unique instrument based on a prepared Sardinian guitar with levers and pedals designed to add percussion and additional instrumentation to his repert...

7 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

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Multi-Instrumentalist Jen Shyu with Rachel Cooper

Send us a text Jen Shyu is a versatile composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, her instruments include piano, violin, Taiwanese moon lute, Chinese erhu, Japanese biwa, and Korean gayageum. For this WMI Plus At Home, she was joined by Rachel Cooper, Director of Performing Arts and Culture as Diplomacy Initiatives at the Asia Society, as the two mapped Jen’s journey through music. More about Jen Shyu Jen's Journ...

11 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

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Hurdy-Gurdy Player Ariel Ninas and Devon Léger

Send us a text Ariel Ninas has been playing the hurdy-gurdy since 2001, incorporating a unique style based on traditional Galician music. His work blends elements of contemporary avant-garde aesthetics, including electronic, droning, and free improvisation. Here he demonstrates the medieval instrument, shares music, and chats with journalist and fellow hurdy-gurdy enthusiast Devon Léger. Support the show Stay in touch with us! Join our newsletter

1 year ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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Thandiswa Mazwai with Farima Kone Kito

Send us a text Thandiswa Mazwai sits down with Farima Kone Kito to discuss her upbringing in Apartheid South Africa and shares insights on her latest album Sankofa, created in Soweto, Dakar, and NYC, in which she brings traditional music from across the African continent and archival Xsosa samples into the present in a collection that Songlines magazine praises as "eleven incredibly unique songs". Additionally, she reflects on the encouragement and inspiration she has received from fellow art...

1 year ago

47 minutes

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Pura Fé and Gwendolen Cates

Send us a text Pura Fé, an Indigenous activist, singer-songwriter, and storyteller of Tuscarora/Taino descent, is known for her soulful voice. She founded the Native Women’s a cappella trio, Ulali, empowering Native women’s music. Pura Fé explores Native Blues, where she is known for her lap-steel slide guitar recordings. Her music has been featured in many films including the award-winning documentary “RUMBLE: The Indians that Rocked the World” and she engages in social justice events as a s...

1 year ago

46 minutes

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WNYC's John Schaefer with Yonatan Gat, Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson, and Maalem Hassan Benjaafar

Send us a text Ahead of his performance at the New York Guitar Festival, now in its 25th year, producer, guitarist, and composer Yonatan Gat (Stone Tapes) sat down with the Host of WNYC's New Sounds, John Schaefer, joined by two artists who will also perform as a part of Night Two of the festival - Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson of the Eastern Medicine Singers and Gnawa master Maalem Hassan Benjaafar. Rounding out the Night Two lineup will be Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Mamady Kouyaté, and Laraaji...

1 year ago

55 minutes

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Haleh Liza Gafori and Shahzad Ismaily - The Poetry of Rumi

Send us a text In this WMI Plus At Home, Haleh Liza Gafori and Shahzad Ismaily engage in a conversation about the timeless and universal appeal of the music and poetry of Rumi. Rumi was a Persian Sufi mystic and dervish from the 13th century whose spiritual writings have inspired people across borders and different faiths, making him one of the most beloved poets around the world. He has amassed a celebrity following including Brad Pitt, Chris Martin, Beyoncé, and Jay Z who are drawn to his e...

1 year ago

51 minutes

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Clarinetist Oran Etkin and Brazilian Pianist Benjamin Taubkin

Send us a text Grammy Award-winning Israeli-born composer, clarinetist, and educator Oran Etkin and Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer, and producer Benjamin Taubkin came together to discuss their passion for and commitment to engaging in a musical dialogue with artists from other cultures to build bridges between people around the globe. They shared music and chatted about working together on Oran's innovative project Open Arms which will be released in January 2024. More about Ora...

1 year ago

54 minutes

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Iranian Composer, Vocalist, and Kamancheh Master Mehrnam Rastegari

Send us a text Mehrnam Rastegari is an award-winning score composer, singer, and master kamancheh player. Originally born in Iran, she now lives in NYC. For this WMI Plus At Home session, she is joined in conversation with her friend and fellow composer and kamancheh player Niloufar Shiri. Mehrnam shares music and the two artists discuss their instruments and personal musical journeys, as well as the challenges facing women musicians in Iran today. Mehrnam also joined us for a FolkTales sessi...

2 years ago

56 minutes

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Dominican Guitarist Yasser Tejeda with Journalist Ed Morales

Send us a text Yasser Tejeda, an award-winning Dominican composer, guitarist, vocalist, and producer, shares music and talks with author and journalist Ed Morales about his third album La Madrugada (Daybreak), the African roots of Dominican traditions, the influences of life in NYC on his music, and the message behind his single "Tu Eres Bonita". More about Yasser Tejeda Support the show Stay in touch with us! Join our newsletter

2 years ago

56 minutes

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Brazilian Cellist Dom La Nena with Catalina Maria Johnson

Send us a text Multi-lingual composer, vocalist, and cellist Dom La Nena joins journalist Catalina Maria Johnson (Beat Latino) for a special WMI Plus At Home conversation from Dom's home in Paris. She performs songs from her critically-acclaimed solo album Tempo (Six Degrees Records) and shares stories about her unique career path that took her from her home in Brazil to Argentina and France, as well as the distinct melodies of the three languages - Portuguese, Spanish, and French - that she ...

2 years ago

54 minutes

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Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango

Send us a text This special WMI Plus At Home Session commemorates Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day. Join members of the Payadora Tango Ensemble and Lenka Lichtenberg with journalist/music producer Dan Rosenberg as they present stories and music from Silent Tears: the Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees Records), a project based on poems, testimonies, and writings of women who were subjected to sexual violence and torture during the Holocaust. Some songs are from a project led b...

2 years ago

54 minutes

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Changüí - The Music of Guantánamo w/ Arturo O'Farrill and Gianluca Tramontana

Send us a text Music producer and journalist Gianluca Tramontana joins Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, educator, and founder of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance Arturo O'Farrill, for an exploration of changüí - a rarely documented roots music from the Guantánamo region of Cuba, where Tramontana spent several months capturing the music of the changüiseros. Those recordings have been released in a critically-acclaimed collection on Petaluma Records: https://www.petalumarecords.com Ch...

2 years ago

53 minutes

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Composer, Percussionist, and Author Adam Rudolph with Journalist Piotr Orlav

Send us a text Adam and journalist Piotr Orlov chat about Adam's many collaborations with artists including Don Cherry, Hassan Hakmoun, Dave Liebman, and Yusuuf Lateef that were part of the WMI legacy series of the late 1980s / early 1990s called 'Improvisations'. At the time of the recording, Adam was in the process of rebooting that influential series for our 2022-2023 Season launch event with SummerStage in Central Park on Sep 10 featuring some of the original artists from the series...

3 years ago

50 minutes

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Tibetan Artist Yungchen Lhamo and Jamshied Sharifi

Send us a text Award-winning Tibetan singer/songwriter Yungchen Lhamo joins her friend Tony Award winner and record producer Jamshied Sharifi to share her beautiful voice along with a conversation about her unusual journey from Tibetan to Australia and the US, fulfilling her commitment to serving others through sound healing, and her collaborations with artists including Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Natalie Merchant, and Peter Rowan. More about Yungchen Lhamo WMI PLUS At Home episodes are s...

3 years ago

54 minutes

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Lokua Kanza with Banning Eyre (Afropop Wordwide)

Send us a text Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist Lokua Kanza sat down with Banning Eyre (Afropop Worldwide, NPR) to share music and talk about his work as a UNICEF ambassador, developing his unique musical style mixing his conservatory training with Congolese rumba, and the process of recording his first album in 11 years entitled Moko, meaning “one” in Lingala, which involved 100 musicians and 20 recording studios across 12 countries on 5 continents. WMI ...

3 years ago

1 hour

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Irish American Violinist Eileen Ivers with Paul Keating

Send us a text Grammy Award winner Eileen Ivers, hailed “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin” by The New York Times, shares tunes and chats with Irish Voice columnist Paul Keating about her musical training and upbringing in The Bronx (“the 33rd county of Ireland”), her memories of visiting and playing in Ireland, her experience touring with Riverdance, and the challenges of innovating while honoring musical traditions. More about Eileen Ivers WMI PLUS At Home episodes are supported by a grant f...

3 years ago

59 minutes

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Tabla Virtuoso Zakir Hussain with Radio Host David Ellenbogen

Send us a text World renowned Grammy Award-winning tabla artist, composer, and music producer Zakir Hussain shares stories from his life and career beginning with his father, tabla legend Allah Rakha, the genesis of prolific collaborations with artists including Mickey Hart, George Harrison, and John McLaughlin, and the importance of always staying a student. With David Ellenbogen, artist and radio host at WKCR. More about Zakir Hussain Ravi Shankar and Allah Rakha at Monterey Pop Fest...

3 years ago

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