Past Programs
Sacred - 2008
Sudha Ragunathan (sacred songs from southern India - first aired on 26.8.07 )
20/01/2008
Sudha Ragunathan is ‘clearly the leading female Carnatic vocalist today’ says Chennaibest.com. Very few singers - of whatever genre - approach her virtuosity. Sudha’s voice is uncommonly lovely, too. The even better news is that musicality and warmth are as intergral to Sudha’s artistry as her precision and agility. Even her nigh-‘impossible’ vocal flights are unforced, always lyrical. On the superbly recorded Shakti - Sacred song from Southern India Sudha is sensitively accompanied, most especially by violinist Embar Kannan.
Discover much more (and see her family photo album!) here:
www.sudharagunathan.com
Les Soeurs Diabaté { Guinean Lovesongs - first aired on 25.8.07 }
19/01/2008
Fine female, non-Western voices soar this weekend. Tomorrow, our primary address is in the south of India. Tonight’s is in West Africa. Donkili Diarabi - Guinean Lovesongs features the three voices of ‘Les Soeurs Diabaté’. Sona and Sayon Diabaté are in fact sisters. Mama Diabaté is Sona’s soul sister. Their distinctive voices are heard singly and together, with beautiful accompaniment on bolon, bala {respectively, a bass harp-lute and a xylophone which sounds more like a marimba than a Western xylophone} and acoustic guitar.
You can discover a little more, here:
wwww.africanculture.dk/en/sona.html
