Continental Drift #680 - 13 October 2024 -Dreamscapes

Ambience, electronica, atmospherics and exotica follow the themes of dreaminess and dreaming, including shakuhachi played in a tunnel under Darwin, giant bamboo gamelan and First Nations dreaming.

Continental Drift #679 - 6 October 2024 - Qais Essar tour (Afghan rebab) / New and recent releases

Qais Essar is an American/Afghan musician who will again tour Australia to promote his new album. He plays an ancient lute called the rebab, and he delves deep into the world of Indian and Afghan folk and classical music, with the added perspective of an American upbringing and his musical interact…

Continental Drift #678 - 29 September 2024 - Australian, African, Yemeni, Scandi

Among the new releases are a women's group from Arnhem Land, an edgy Yemeni trio called El Khat, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, singers from Mali, Gabon and Ghana, and the beatboxer vocalist from Finnish group Tuuletar.  Sadly I'll also acknowledge the passing of Zulya, the Melbourne-based singer original…

Continental Drift #677 - 22 September 2024 - The new (lost) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album

Chain of Light with 4 devotional Sufi songs by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party was recently discovered in the tape archives of Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records. It was recorded in April 1990 while Nusrat worked on the album Mustt Mustt with Canadian producer Michael Brook, so he was in equally fine…

Continental Drift #676 - 15 September 2024 - Norway, Africa, Turkey, Hungary, Romania & Australia

Moroccans in Norway, Roma music from Sweden, an American with a spiritual from the Bahamas, and trippy jazz from Budapest are among the new releases in a program that certainly reaches across cultures and borders.