Saturday, June 20, 2009

For #21, I went to podcastdirectory.com and searched music, thinking I would find a talk show or interview or something. What I found, after clicking on "world beat" was DragonRadio74. The byline is "Live from Hong Kong, Asian Pop for the Western Ear". The American-sounding DJ introduced some bands we'd be hearing: Shonen Knife, the godmothers of Asian pop (I think he said); Sound Fragment from China; Soul Korea, the old boy of hip-hop and soul; and another with a more crude name. The music was very well done, very familiar-sounding. The singing was wonderful, although I couldn't understand the language. If I listened long enough, maybe (maybe, she says hopefully), I could begin to understand.

No comments:

Post a Comment