World - Ethnic

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Live Remote Broadcast from What The Festival (2016)

Airs at: Thu, 06/16/2016 at 10:00pm - Fri, 06/17/2016 at 5:30am
  Tune in for a very special remote broadcast on KBOO Community Radio by Diablo -Dirty Diablo coming at you LIVE from What The Festival at the scenic Wolf Run Ranch nestled near the eastern base of the Mt. Hood National Forest. We'll be showcasing the musical and visual a... Read more

Bottlecaps & Spider Silk: Buzzing Songs from Africa

Airs at: Thu, 06/02/2016 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for Africa-O-Ye!
Two hours of exceptionally vibratory sounds emitted from traditional instruments affixed with rattling and buzzing objects: thumb-pianos with loose bottlecaps, xylophones with gourd resonators and shuddering spider webs, begena strings buzzing against leather strips & other... Read more

NEW in KBOO music library May 30, 2016

Alt Rock CDs       Big Thief Masterpiece Saddle Creek Alt Rock Claypool, Les & Lennon, Sean Delirium Monolith Of Phobos ATO Alt Rock Franti, Michael & Spearhead Soulrocker Boo Boo Wax Alt Rock Iska Dhaaf ... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 05/29/2016 at 10:00am - 11:00am
A special show honoring Jewish soldiers for Memorial Day, hosted by Liz Schwartz. Read more

Sounds Unsound late May 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/29/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Sounds Unsound
New music, and some older stuff. Experimental, psychedelic, industrial, avant-noise.... Read more

Sounds Unsound early May 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/15/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Sounds Unsound
music, noise and other sounds to caress your ear and disturb your mind...   Read more

A DIFFERENT NATURE salutes ORNETTE COLEMAN tonight at 8pm

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
Join the A DIFFERENT NATURE Collective tonight for a kind of radio primer on Ornette Coleman, as some of us share what recordings we still have of his most pivotal and radical music from our collections and reflect on the life and turbulent times of one of modern music's mo... Read more

Prince : Re-Wound and Re-Covered

Airs at: Tue, 05/03/2016 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for Vinyl Pajama Party
Prince : Re-Wound and Re-Covered To honor the memory of Prince we thought we'd look at his musical craft through other artist's ears and eyes... Join us - won't you?   (Here's one more song I neglected to include in  this show -) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILHRVgR... Read more

Music for Time Travel, part 1

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for Africa-O-Ye!
A special series dedicated to various strains of polyrhythmic, trance-inducing, hypnotizing musics throughout West Africa. Time-warping Yoruba apala & waka  --- spirit-invoking Fon vodun rhythms --- Tuareg issawat desert drones --- Mood-altering Bambara mystical orchestras ... Read more