A World of Primitive Music - La Casa Encantada - Show # 15 - Feb. 7 2014

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 15 - "A World of Primitive Music" Feb 7 2014 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

We continue the saga of Alan Lomax started on the previous show, focusing on the international part of his work and we take a deep look into the World Library of Folk and Primitive Music. We visit dark, mysterious and barbaric lands such as England, Ireland, Canada, Spain, Italy, Gabon, Rhodesia, Congo, Java, the ex-Yugoslavia, Japan or India. Follow us in a trip from African Pygmy yodeling to Andalusian Bulerías, from Native American chants to English and Scottish diddling and from Croatian dances to Italian tarantellas... Around the world in 60 minutes!

The Ballad of a Song Hunter - La Casa Encantada - Show # 14 - Jan. 31 2014

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 14 - "Alan Lomax, Song Hunter" Jan 31 2014 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).




This is the 14th show, aired Jan. 31th 2014, coinciding with the 98th Birthday of Alan Lomax.
Thus we follow the story of the World's most famous Song Hunter and folk music song collector in field recordings.

Photo taken by Alan Lomax at a Church in Portsmouth, Va. in 1960.

We devoted this show to the American part of his endeavors and thus we had Blues, Folk, Hillbilly, Calypso, Spirituals, Texas Ballads and much more, from Georgia to the Mississippi Delta, from New Orleans to New York; from Woody Guthrie and Jelly Roll Morton to Son House and Muddy Waters. Plus the Duke of Iron and a homage to Alan's friend Pete Seeger, who sang his "House Carpenter".

This is the first part of our humble homage (in 2 shows) to the man about whom Studs Terkel said "what Caruso was to singing, Alan Lomax is to musicology ... a key figure in 20th-century culture".

Alan Lomax (sosteniendo el micrófono) grabando en Escocia.