World Music with Deirdre Saravia

Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on KSTX 89.1 FM

Deirdre Saravia

World Music with Deirdre Saravia takes you on a musical journey to some of the world’s most fascinating places. From China to Brazil and the Balkans to Indonesia, World Music will introduce you to sounds from a world far from your own. A world traveler herself, the Belfast, Northern Ireland native introduces each piece with details about the music, the musicians and the culture that produced them.

Saravia credits the work of performers like Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon for bringing world music to the attention of American audiences, but she has also seen a change in attitude in America towards foreigners.

Today foreigners feel more comfortable in celebrating their uniqueness, and as a result, there is a burgeoning interest in world music. "Not understanding the language is no longer a problem," says Saravia. "People enjoy the music for the beat, the instrumentation."

Though each World Music show is built around a central theme, it will rarely center on one type of music. Saravia strives for variety, though there will always be a connection between the songs she plays; music from as many as 15 countries can be represented in the same show.

"You come to learn that people are basically the same throughout the world," she says. "They sing about the same things."

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see Deirdre's World Music Picks, a closer look at some of the most notable world musicians.

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February 23, 2013

8:07 PM

Alger

Artist : Lo’jo

Album : Cinema El Mundo

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Label : World Village

8:11 PM

Amazone

Artist : Iness Mezel

Album : Beyond The Trance

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Label : Wrasse

8:14 PM

Sharrafouni

Artist : Zein Al Jundi

Album : Sharrafouni

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Label : WMD Production

8:18 PM

Narbat

Artist : Nour

Album : Arabic Beat

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Label : Putmayo

8:21 PM

Algers Le Blanc

Artist : Djura

Album : Uni-vers-elles

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Label : Kondo Ra

8:25 PM

Zamane

Artist : Fantazia

Album : Fantaza

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Label : World Village

8:31 PM

Gol Bi Goldoon

Artist : Googoosh

Album : Pomgrantes

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Label : Finders Keepers

8:36 PM

River Waters

Artist : Idan Raichel

Album : Within My Walls

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Label : Cumbancha

8:39 PM

Eh Fi Amal

Artist : Fairuz

Album : Eh Fi Amal

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Label : Fayrouz

8:44 PM

Hayati Inta

Artist : Natascha Atlas

Album : Ana Hina

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Label : World Village

8:50 PM

Ya Rayah

Artist : Rachid Taha

Album : Cairo To Casablanca

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Label : Putumayo

9:07 PM

Pecada

Artist : Lila Downs

Album : Pecados Y Milagros

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Label : Sony

9:11 PM

Senor Judas

Artist : Los De Abajo

Album : Cybertropic Chilango Power

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Label : Luaka Bop

9:16 PM

Kurapana

Artist : Oceania

Album : Oceania 2

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Label : toi sha

9:20 PM

Opium

Artist : Dead Can Dance

Album : Anastasis

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Label : Pias America

9:26 PM

Subayado Bushi

Artist : Nami Makioka

Album : Japan

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Label : RGNET

9:29 PM

Katachi

Artist : Shugo Tokumaru

Album : In Focus?

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Label : Polyvinyl

9:32 PM

Ver Es Hot One has got

Artist : The Klezmatics and Chava Alberstein

Album : The Well

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Label : Xenophile

9:36 PM

Ha’rikud Ha’muzar Shel Ha’lev

Artist : Rona Kenan and Gidi Gov

Album : Israel

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Label : Putumayo

9:40 PM

Those Eyes Are Berries

Artist : Mum

Album : Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy

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Label : Warner Chappel

9:44 PM

Sarma

Artist : Kronor Quartet Kimmo Pohjonen Samuli Kosminen

Album : Uniko

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Label : Ondine Ode

9:50 PM

Angiolina

Artist : Fiamma Fumana

Album : Onda

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Label : Omnium

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World Music At SXSW

10:02 am

Tue March 26, 2013

Japan's Shugo Tokumaru Is In Control And 'In Focus'

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Shugo said Tokyo audiences have been noticably resistance to his musical charms.

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Shugo Tokumaru brings his folk/pop to Kenny Dorham's Backyard on Austin's Eastside.

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An accordian, xylophone, and melodica add subtle texture to Shugo's arrangements.

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Though Shugo create his latest album all by himself, he had to recruit two other musicians to help him on stage.

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Over Shugo's shoulder, the drummer stays on cue.

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A final crash, a final chord.

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Shugo takes a bow.

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

For his latest album, "In Focus?," Shugo Tokumaru maintained complete control over the creative process and played all the instruments on the recorded disk. In order to perform live, however, he needed some help, and had his band to back him up.

While the band delivered the songs with energy, complete with the subtle textural nuances that give Shugo's songs a little something special, he was visibly focused on the other two musicians during their performance the afternoon of March 14.

World Music At SXSW

12:44 pm

Mon March 25, 2013

Marianne Dissard's Latest, 'The Cat, Not Me,' A "Strange Album"

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From left to right: Andrew Joslyn, Josh Karp (Budo), and Marianne Dissard.

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Marianne's body position on stage provides an interesting complement to the pattern on the Brass House walls. She used the boxes in the forground as drums throught her set

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Walk a mile in her shoes; Marianne towers on stage over her boots.

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The red lighting provided a dramatic glow at the SXSW showcase

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

Marianne Dissard is an artist in every sense of the word.

She is a filmmaker, a poet, a singer, and not a single word or movement is wasted. When she plays live, all these elements combine on stage to deliver a story of depression, exhaustion, frustration, intrigue and joy.

The Tucson Music Factory showcase on March 12 at SXSW was the debut of her live collaboration with Budo, a Seattle-based producer and multi-instrumentalist who is known more for his work in Hip Hop circles than World Music.

World Music (& Film) At SXSW

3:50 pm

Fri March 22, 2013

Award-Winning Documentary Takes A Punk Rock Look At Intellectual Disabilities

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Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät starts their set at Headhunters on Red River Street.

Lead singer Kari Aalito

Guitar player and founder of the group Pertti Kurikka.

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The view from above at Headhunters

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (Pertti Kurikka's Name Day), a punk band from Finland, is the subject of the documentary "The Punk Syndrome," which won the SXGlobal Audience Award at this year's SXSW Film Festival.

The documentary provides a sincere and honest look at the lives of the four band members, who are all adults living with varying degrees of ~~mental~~ intellectual disabilities.

The band is made up of Pertti Kurikka (guitar), Kari Aalito (vocals), Sami Helle (bass) and Toni Välitalo (drums).

World Music At SXSW

11:21 am

Fri March 22, 2013

The Drifting, Laid-Back Sway Of Bordeaux's Alba Lua

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Benoit (left) and Clement talk about life in Bordeaux and the difference between French and American men.

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

Clément, the lead singer of Paris-based French band Alba Lua, still calls Bordeaux his hometown and loves to talk about life in southwest France. Though they are proudly French, the name of the band is actually a mixture of Spanish and Portugese.

"Alba is the dawn (in Spanish), and Lua is the moon in Portugese... I like the association of the two words and sometimes you can see the moon in the daylight and it has always been beautiful to me."

World Music At SXSW

3:25 pm

Thu March 21, 2013

The Meteoric One-Year Rise Of Iceland's Asgeir Trausti

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Ásgeir Trausti has a bright future with his English language album a few months from release.

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

Iceland's Ásgeir Trausti has taken the music charts in his native country by storm since his debut album, "Dyrd I Daudathogn," came out in September of last year. The presale of his album broke records on Icelandicmusic.com, reached gold sales in six weeks and has since gone platinum.

While some of the musical backing in his songs may sound familiar, the vocal stylings in his native Icelandic make the vocal feel more like a participating instrument than a means to deliver the lyrics.

World Music At SXSW

12:07 pm

Thu March 21, 2013

An Independent Musical Voice From Chile: Diego Peralta

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Diego Peralta was in the U.S. for the first time at this year's SXSW.

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

With undisputable pop leanings and an ear for a sweet vocal melody, Diego Peralta is one of the leading independent voices on the Chilean music scene in his hometown of Valparaiso.

Diego was one of only a few musicians representing Chile at this year's South By Southwest Music Festival (SXSW), and this was his first time in the United States.

World Music At SXSW

11:08 am

Thu March 21, 2013

Lisa LeBlanc And Her French-Canadian "Folk Trash"

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Lisa Leblanc is from Rosaireville, a town of 49 people in New Brunswick, Canada

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

Lisa LeBlanc's musical idols are from the world of classic rock and metal. They're big rock stars with charisma, many of them men. Her approach to folk music is bold and confrontational, a style that she has deemed "folk trash."

World Music Pick

1:57 pm

Tue March 19, 2013

Bajofondo: South American Landscapes

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By Deirdre Saravia

Bajofondo started as a loose collective of musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, but over time formed a solid core of players that have since become a cohesive band. Their latest release, "Presente," consists of twenty one tracks and has a massive sound.

For this CD the group augmented their sound with an enormous orchestral section, giving each of their songs a full and well-rounded sound.

SXSW Music Festival

1:36 pm

Mon March 18, 2013

Look & Listen: World Music At SXSW 2013

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Gonzalo Deniz goes by the stage name Franny Glass and tunes up his guitar at the Uruguay Music Showcase at the Speakeasy on Wednesday night.

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Juan Campodonico (guitar), leads Uruguayan group Campo onstage with Veronica Loza and Martin Rivero

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A group of drummers joins Campo for a loud finale to the set.

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SXSW is tough for bands promoting on their own so places like Uruguay, Canada, and Great Britain host their own showcases in order to help promote the bands from their home country

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Tucson's Marianne Dissard, who said she is moving to Italy to do more work in Europe, performs at her label's showcase at the Brass House.

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Sammy Decoster, a singer-songwriter from Grenoble, France, performs at the Tucson Music Factory Showcase at the Brass House.

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Shugo Tokumaru from Tokyo, Japan, plays an entrancing set at Kenny Dorham's Back Yard on Austin's East Side Thursday afternoon.

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Chihiro Yamazaki + Route 14 Band play at the Japan Nite showcase Friday at Elysium.

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Though the lyrics are in Finnish, stars of the documentary "The Punk Syndrome" Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät had a captive audience at Headhunters Friday night.

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Since none of the bands get paid for official show performances, many, like Kao=S from Tokyo, do some busking to get more ears and sell more merch.

By Chris Eudaily and Deirdre Saravia

With so many music groups in Austin for SXSW it is easy for any of them to get drowned out by all the noise, but luckily for World Music artists, their foreign musical stylings give them a uniqueness that audiences tend to stop and pay attention to.

The language barrier doesn't seem to matter

Many world groups sing in English in order to tap into the English-speaking market, but there is still a healthy demand for music sung in foreign languages.

World Music

1:47 pm

Fri March 15, 2013

World Music Celebrations: St. Patrick's Day

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By Deirdre Saravia

Each week on World Music (Saturday nights from 8-10 on KSTX 89.1 FM), I take a look at celebrations happening around the world. This weekend, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated not just in Ireland, but now around the world.

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