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Top Releases week ending 11.21.2005

Weekly Report from Boulder
Weekly Reports For 11/21/2005

Geez, it's Monday evening and rather than being rested from the weekend, I'm more exhausted. What the week was throwing at me decided not to stop before yesterday. I'm so ready for a four-day weekend, it's just too bad there isn't more snow up in the high country for a ski getaway.

Last week the California Guitar Trio came through town with special guest Tony Levin. Funny how they never before had a chance to play live when I was on air, well this time it all came together. It was a treat to stand in our performance room not five feet away watching Tony play! Afterwards they said this was some of their best radio sound ever. I hadn't seen them play in a while so it was good to catch up again.

Opening up the show were Sandra Wong and Ross Martin. Sandra's nyckelharpa and fiddle playing are rooted in Nordic traditions that draw a lot of similarities to bluegrass. It was fun to watch the audience, so used to the Robert Fripp School of Attentive Listening as they didn't know how to react to the music. At the end it was obvious she'd been a hit! It was a treat to have her join the lads on stage for a few pieces. Hearing their rendition of Penguin CafÈ Orchestra's Music for a Found Harmonium, I had to wonder how they did it without her as she drove the melody line.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!

If you are or know someone in the Denver/Boulder area, check out the KGNU homepage. We're raffling off a party at the Walnut Room for New Year's Eve! Tickets are only $25 and we'll only sell 500 so chances of winning are pretty good. You have to supply the band, it will be open bar but for the midnight champagne, but it's a great opportunity at a wonderful new space in Denver. Yep, time to get holiday plans underway, (she says, barely knowing what she'll be doing in four days, much less late December!)


Elaine C. Erb. KGNU Music Director. <º))))><
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KGNU Top 30, Week Ending 11.14.05
1. Messer Chups Crazy Price Ipecac Recordings
2. Various Artists Sound Of The World Wrasse
3. Bettye Lavette I've Got My Own Hell To Raise Anti/Epitaph
4. Dengue Fever Escape From Dragon House Birdman
5. Various Artists Another World Is Possible Koch
6. Balkan Beat Box Cd Jdub
7. Various Artists Creative Musicians Vol 2 Perfect Toy
8. Les Nubians Nubian Voyager Triloka Records
9. Lint! Halloween On The Moon/Castle Of Evil Panda Candy
10. Amadou & Mariam Dimanche A Bamako Nonesuch Records
11. General Elektriks Cliquety Kliqk Quannum Projects
12. Either/Orchestra Live In Addis Buda Musique
13. Various Artists Latin Travels, Vol. 2 Six Degrees
14. Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Sixty Six Steps Rca/Victor
15. Ooioo Gold And Green Thrill Jockey
16. Calexico/Iron And Wine In The Reins Overcoat Records
17. Sam Cooke Night Beat Legacy
18. Amadou & Mariam Je Pense A Toi Circular Moves
19. Devendra Banhart Cripple Crow XL
20. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Grand Opening And Closing Seeland Records
21. Konono No 1 Congotronics Crammed Discs
22. Various Artists Rockabilly Lives Hightone Records
23. Bob Dylan No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Legacy
24. Mary Flower Bywater Dance Yellow Dog Records
25. Bass Nectar Mesmerizing The Ultra Organic Records
26. Tom Verlaine Warm And Cool Thrill Jockey
27. John Juke Logan The Truth Will Rock You Mocombo
28. Various Artists Choubi Choubi! Sublime Frequencies
29. Gang Of 4 Return The Gift V2 Music
30. Animal Collective Feels Fat Cat
Adds Wilco Kicking Television Nonesuch
Adds Sambasunda Rahwana's Cry Network
Adds TsuShiMaMiRi Pregnant Fantasy Self Produced
Adds Mul Sheshe Fantazia World Village
Adds Long Winters Ultimatum Barsuk
New World Charts For Week Ending 11.21.2005
1. Various Artists Sound Of The World Wrasse
2. Various Artists Another World Is Possible Koch
3. Amadou & Mariam Dimanche A Bamako Nonesuch Records
4. Various Artists Latin Travels, Vol. 2 Six Degrees
5. Amadou & Mariam Je Pense A Toi Circular Moves
6. Konono No 1 Congotronics Crammed Discs
7. Various Artists Choubi Choubi! Sublime Frequencies
8. Anoushka Shankar Rise Angel
9. Various Artists Rolas De Aztlan: Songs Of The Chicano Movement Smithsonian Folkways
10. Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim Ceasefire Riverboat Records
Jazz Charts For Week Ending 11.21.2005
1. Either/Orchestra Live In Addis Buda Musique
2. Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Legacy
3. Thelonious Monk W/ John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall Blue Note Records
4. The Bad Plus Suspicious Activity? Columbia Records
5. Miami Saxophone Quartet Midnight Rumba Fourtitude Records
6. Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Buryat Band Blue Mongol Sunnyside
7. Calhoun Native Lands Half Note
8. Herbie Hancock Possibilities Self Produced
9. Flora Purim Flora's Song Narada Jazz
10. Eyal Maoz Edom Tzadik
Beatbox Charts For Week Ending 11.21.05 (Based On All Shows Reporting)
1. Bettye Lavette I've Got My Own Hell To Raise Anti/Epitaph
2. Various Artists Creative Musicians Vol 2 Perfect Toy
3. Les Nubians Nubian Voyager Triloka Records
4. Sam Cooke Night Beat Legacy
5. Various Artists Night Train To Nashville Lost Highway
6. Sam Cooke The Best Of Sam Cooke Legacy
7. Sound Directions The Funky Side Of Life Stones Throw Records
8. Maceo Parker School's In Bhm Productions
9. Breakestra Hit The Floor Ubiquity
10. Various Artists Searching For Soul Luv 'N Haight
Rpm Charts For Week Ending 11.21.05
1. Bass Nectar Mesmerizing The Ultra Organic Records
2. Various Artists Bar Brasilia Globesonic
3. Bailey, Denio, Palmer The Gospel Record Self Produced
4. Mr Scruff Mrs. Cruff Ninja Tune
5. Meat Beat Manifesto Off-Centre Thirsty Ear Communication
6. Various Artists Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked Impulse!
7. Four Tet Everything Ecstatic Domino
8. Mcpullish Barn Rockers (Night Owl Dub Part 5) Self Produced
9. Ripple Effect: De Johnette Hybrids Kindred Rhythm
10. Philip Glass Glass Cuts Orange Mountain
Americana Charts For Week Ending 11.21.2005
1. Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Sixty Six Steps Rca/Victor
2. Mary Flower Bywater Dance Yellow Dog Records
3. John Juke Logan The Truth Will Rock You Mocombo
4. Jimmie Dale Gilmore Come On Back Rounder
5. Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 Inside Recordings
6. Terry Evans Fire In The Feeling Valley
7. Taj Mahal The Essential Taj Mahal Legacy
8. Johnny Guitar Watson The Funk Anthology Shout Factory
9. Buddy Guy Bring 'Em In Silvertone
10. Delbert McClinton Cost Of Living New West
11. Big Mama Thornton In Europe Arhoolie Productions
— - Alternative Charts For Week Ending 11.21.05
1. Various Artists Latin Travels, Vol. 2 Six Degrees
2. Various Artists Rolas De Aztlan: Songs Of The Chicano Movement Smithsonian Folkways
3. Nortec Collective The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 Nacional Records
4. Seu Jorge Cru Wrasse
5. Ska Cubano !Ay Caramba! Casinosounds
6. Flora Purim Flora's Song Narada Jazz
7. Sierra Maestra Son: Soul Of A Nation Riverboat Records
8. Zuco 103 Whaa! Six Degrees
9. Various Artists The Rough Guide To Latin Music For Children World Music Network
10. Various Artists From Earth To Sky Dos Manos
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