Our latest Global Music Show can be heard on KUNM's Two Week Archive

Our global music show from Monday, 5/4/15 is on KUNM's two week archive (http://kunm.org/two-week-archive) if you want some nice musical accompaniment to your working Tuesday. We intersperse songs about work (in honor of May Day) with some of the newest global and world releases. Just after 10:30, I think, Megan has a nice tribute to her recently deceased Dad. A good show overall! Just enter Monday, 5/4 at 10 pm and let it play! (Due to our spacing off, there is a dead air gap of about 15 seconds somewhere in the program as Megan announced a song by King Sunny Ade, and forgot to put the CD into the player).

Ancestral Trance: Christine Salem and "Komor Blues"

The random song for today is Komor Blues by Christine Salem. Salem is from the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, a French territory about 120 miles southeast of Mauritius. Her music centers around "maloya," the traditional music made up of work songs and chants of the former African slaves of the island. These songs are percussion driven and of the call and response type and are often used to induce a trance where one communes with their ancestors in a musical gathering called "servis kabaré". The music was illegal on the island until 1981, as it was considered by the Catholic Church to be "devil's music" and by the authorities as a political threat. In fact, a woman singing this type of music upset some of the older generation, because it was also generally seen as "men's music." Salem came upon the music while attending a servis kabaré, and she became hooked. She has received international acclaim for this music, and has performed at WOMAD. Komor Blues can be found on her 2013 release Salem Tradition.