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I was meaning to start this item myself just so I could jump up and down about http://www.wen.com. Their "radio" section might not count as radio, exactly; they are weekly or monthly programs, assembled and presented by DJs and editors who are fairly well known in the world music field. They're more like "radio on demand" than a live broadcast. I came here looking for the two-hour monthly show by Ian Anderson -- not the guy from Jethro Tull, but a musician in his own right who also edits Britain's FOLK ROOTS magazine. Like the magazine, his show wanders all over the place: the June show starts with Asian Dub Foundation, wanders through Greece for a while, then some blues, then some British traditional folk songs, then there's a sequence of "Punks Playing Folk/Roots Music" which includes tracks from David Johansen, Joe Strummer, and the Mekons. And I haven't gotten through the second hour yet. The other DJ who has really caught my attention is Charlie Gillett. Gillett is renowned for a two-hour show broadcast in London on "Saturday Night," and those shows are stockpiled here. A recent one included David Byrne and Susana Baca in the studio with him. But so far my favorite is Gillett's "World Music Charts Countdown," sort of like the old Casey Kasem show except that most of the music is from Africa. The May show has been one of the great listening experiences of my life, introducing me to Geoffrey Oryema from Uganda (a classic pop singer), Kristi Stassinopoulou from Greece, and Amadou & Miriam from Mali. I've played the may show about five times in the last week.
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