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".
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
