15 Sep 2018

Worlds of Music 15 September 2018

From Worlds of Music, 2:00 pm on 15 September 2018
Billie Holiday & Rokia Traoré - Strange Fruit

Billie Holiday & Rokia Traoré - Strange Fruit Photo: Supplied

Episode 102 features music from India, Japan, Tunisia, The Iberian Peninsula and a remarkable cover of the song Strange Fruit recorded by Malian vocalist Rokoia Traore. The song was originally written by American poet Abel Meeropol and made famous in 1939 by Billie Holiday. American record producer Ahmet Ertegun, who founded Atlantic Records, famously described the song as "a declaration of war ... the beginning of the civil rights movement".

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Music Details


Arke String Quartet & Trilok Gurtu
Nanda (To My Mother))
S. Dall'Ora
Arkeology
Promo Music

Anandi Bhattacharya
Migration Of Colours (Buleria Meets Holi)
Anandi Bhattacharya & Debashish Bhattacharya
Joys Abound
Riverboat Records

Masayoshi Fujita
It's Magical
Masayoshi Fujita
Book of Life
Erased Tapes

El Naan
Canto de Siega
El Naan
La Danza de las Semillas
RockCD Records

Dhafer Youssef
27th Ethos
Dhafer Youssef
Divine Shadows
Dhafer Youssef

José Manuel León
Chorroskina
José Manuel León
Sirimusa
José Manuel León


Warratahs
 Fast Train
Barry Saunders
Drivng Wheel Compilation
Warratahs/Southbound

Rokoia Traore
Strange Fruit
Abel Meeropol
Né So
Nonesuch

Rabih Abou-Khalil, Edmar Castañeda & Alex Acuña
Concierto de Aranjuez
Joaquín Rodrigo
Miles Español - New Sketches of Spain
Entertainment One US

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