The World Music Podcast
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Join the World Music Podcast host Will Marsh in celebrating the diversity of the world's music traditions through inspired interviews with musicians from around the globe. This Podcast explores the infinite world of music with curiosity, inspiration and openness. Will’s featured guests span a world of perspectives, traditions and genres. From Hindustani classical music to world inspired electronic music, you'll be sure to find inspiration through new sounds and approaches to music. Created, hosted and produced by Will Marsh.
Location:
United States
Description:
Join the World Music Podcast host Will Marsh in celebrating the diversity of the world's music traditions through inspired interviews with musicians from around the globe. This Podcast explores the infinite world of music with curiosity, inspiration and openness. Will’s featured guests span a world of perspectives, traditions and genres. From Hindustani classical music to world inspired electronic music, you'll be sure to find inspiration through new sounds and approaches to music. Created, hosted and produced by Will Marsh.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.willmarshmusic.com/
Episodes
19: Bahman Sarram - Paths to Freedom
12/12/2022
Episode #19
Bahman Sarram is an artist, violinist, composer, producer and singer/songwriter whose music ties together many cultures and expressions into an ecstatic celebration of life. Based in San Diego, Bahman has won over audiences with his passion and unlimited energy that vibrates through his performances and diverse musical palette.
Bahman’s musical versatility knows no bounds and can’t be categorized into a single genre. No matter what style he’s playing whether funk, jazz fusion,...
Duración:00:41:52
18: Odeya Nini
8/26/2022
Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interest is performance practices, textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Her solo vocal work extends the dimension and expression of the voice and body, creating a sonic and physical panorama of silence to noise and tenderness to grandeur. Odeya has collaborated...
17: Chris Votek
6/1/2022
Chris Votek is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer, producer, arranger, and educator living and breathing music in Los Angeles. He records, writes, and performs with ensembles ranging from North Indian Classical, Arabic, Electronica, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Western Classical, Pop, and Rock, his ceaseless curiosity and devotion to musical traditions from around the world have guided him along a musical path perpetually branching out. He is a disciple of the legendary...
Duración:00:50:16
16: Smiz
5/24/2022
Sam Setchko better known as Simsamiza or Smiz if you happen to be in to brevity. Born in Oakland, California little Smiz was a rugged renegade who’d gone rogue and found his heart skating the streets of the Bay Area whilst discovering the intrinsic rhythms of all things. Eventually ascertaining that frequency and rhythm were different expressions or density’s of the same fundamental value he’s spent a lifetime artistically collaborating and performing in a myriad of mediums that sometimes...
Duración:00:50:58
15: John DePatie
5/16/2022
John DePatie is an LA-based touring and session guitarist who has played with music greats such as Nancy Sinatra, Jarvis Cocker, Leif Garrett, and Little Steven. Here is praise for John from the Jazz Review, "John DePatie's guitar work is exquisite. His perfect solos and background work show his ability to perfectly capture an emotion and run with it." This episode was originally recorded on 5.13.21.
Website- https://johndepatie.com/Home.html
Intro Music by John DePaite “The Viking and...
Duración:00:45:52
14: Brock Pollock
1/28/2022
Brock Pollock is a session and touring bassist as well as a composer and original artist. As a multi-instrumentalist, he works with artists and producers writing music and making magic. Brock plays bass, guitar, piano, mandolin, ukulele, melodica, banjo, Native American flute and percussion in different ensembles and sessions.
Website - http://www.brockpollock.com/
Intro Music by Brock Pollock “Breath of Life” from the album Seedling. Listen here
the World Music Podcast Jingle- composed...
Duración:00:48:16
13: Derrick Skye
12/30/2021
American composer Derrick Skye is known for integrating music practices from different cultural traditions around the world into his work with classical music communities. The Los Angeles Times describes Derrick’s music as “something to savor” and “enormous fun to listen to.” During his studies at the USC and the California Institute of the Arts, music across many cultures became an integral part of his musical vocabulary. Skye’s music has been commissioned and/or performed by ensembles...
Duración:00:44:26
12: Aminah Chishti
12/11/2021
Aminah Chishti Qawwal is a leading force in the art of traditional qawwali tabla. As a student of the great Ustad Dildar Hussain Khan (tabla player for Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for 28 years), Aminah has embodied this music through years of study and commitment. She has challenged the cultural confines of women in Pakistan and India not only by performing tabla in an all-male arena, but also by receiving permission to perform at the shrines of Pakistan's greatest Sufi saints, where women haven't...
Duración:00:54:05
11: Will Faerber
11/19/2021
Will Faerber is an International recording artist and singer/songwriter whose 1997 release “No Small Comfort” was hailed as “one of the best of the year” by David Allen from the BBC. The recording spawned five dance club hits and kept Will and his band touring the UK and Europe for three years where they headlined such notable festivals as the Jacksonville and the Americana while also performing at London’s Wembley Arena twice. Will runs his own record label called Plustone Music that...
Duración:00:54:40
10: Ahee (Chris Adams)
11/4/2021
AHEE (aka Chris Adams) lights up dance floors with his unique blend of high energy dance floor bangers and sonically complex weird bass tunes that have captured the attention of thousands. Known for his prolific output and friendly online personality, AHEE's engaging live sets are often 100% original material. In our interview, Chris shares about his creative journey from his earliest sparks of musical inspiration to how he stays balanced with his current busy touring schedule. This...
Duración:00:46:43
9: Shambhavi Dandekar
10/19/2021
Shambhavi Dandekar is the Indian classical Kathak dancer par excellence who has dazzled the world with her performances and choreography. What is Kathak dance? It's an incredible dance style from North India that you'll learn all about in this episode. Shambhavi’s International School of Kathak (SISK) is Shambhavi's dance school that has made its presence felt around the world with branches in India and the USA, presently training over 400 students. Shambhavi has trained under both her own...
8: Ian McCartor
9/27/2021
Ian McCartor has spent years working in hospice as a registered nurse incorporating his background in musical composition and visual arts to develop the services of Legacy Songs and Ashes Portraits. It was amazing to hear Ian share more about his process of crafting a song to commemorate the life and wisdom of a person as they transition on. Our conversation brought up some really beautiful reflections on life, death, grief and music, all of which are universally shared experiences.
Connect...
7: Daniel Paul
9/27/2021
Fulbright India scholar Daniel Paul earned his 9 year degree in the classical music of India from the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA. Primarily studying under the guidance of the late Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, Daniel also served as the maestro's personal assistant and tour manager, all the while studying tabla drumming under several of India’s great classical masters: Zakir Hussain, Swapan Chaudhuri and Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Throughout his long career Daniel has performed with a...
6: Spencer Ludwig
8/26/2021
Spencer Ludwig is a Latin Grammy winning and Grammy performing trumpeter, songwriter, producer and musical director. Since being the original trumpeter in the multi-platinum band Capital Cities, the Los Angeles-born, half-Filipino vocalist-instrumentalist has gone rogue, adding a new dimension of possibility to not only his sonic weapon of choice, but to pop music, overall. In 2018, he launched his own record label, Trumpet Records to facilitate his wide-ranging musical flavors. Spencer has...
Duración:00:48:24
5: Deobrat Mishra
8/12/2021
Deobrat Mishra is an 11th generation musician hailing from the Benares Gharana. He plays sitar, surbahar and is a composer. Deobrat learned under his father, the renowned Pandit Shivnath Mishra. Deobrat's ability to intertwine Indian classical music with jazz and other styles can be heard in his Indian/Jazz ensemble "Trio Benares." I feel lucky to know Deobrat personally and to have been able to spend time with him in India. He shares wonderful perspectives on his upbringing in Hindustani...
4: Chloe Pourmorady - composer, vocalist, multi instrumentalist
7/29/2021
Chloe Pourmorady is an award-winning artist known for the versatility of her creative expression. A recent winner of both the Global Music Awards and Independent Music Awards for debut album,"Begin Majesty," the music she creates is innovative and imaginative, influenced by tradition, yet modern. Chloe has comfortably sang in over 10 languages, plays violin, kamancheh, and guitar, and writes music in many different styles; instrumental, liturgical, folk, modal, and more.
In addition to...
3: Kala Ramnath - acclaimed Hindustani violin master
6/25/2021
Kala is a seasoned master performer on the Hindustani violin and her insights on performance, practice and learning music in this episode are mind-opening.
Maestro Kala Ramnath with her ‘Singing Violin’ stands among the world’s finest, most inspirational instrumentalists. Her playing has been featured on the Grammy-nominated Miles from India project, compositions of hers have appeared on the Grammy-winning album In 27 Pieces and the Kronos Quartet’s 50 For The Future.
Connect with Kala and...
Duración:00:43:47
2: Steve Gorn - master bamboo flautist and saxophone player
6/22/2021
It was a real pleasure chatting with Steve and hearing his insights on life and music as one who has spent a lifetime devoted to his craft.
Steve Gorn is a master bamboo flautist and saxophone player who is featured on Grammy nominated cds by Paul Simon, Glen Velez, Jack DeJohnette, Paul Winter, Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Tony Levin, Adam Rudolph, Layne Redmond, Richie Havens, Alessandra Belloni, Badal Roy, Simon Shaheen, Deepak Chopra, Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, and numerous Indian...
Duración:00:53:25
1: Jai Uttal - grammy nominee, kirtan artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist.
6/22/2021
Hear Jai Uttal share amazing stories and insights from a life as a musician and devotee of sound in this fun and deeply personal interview.
Jai Uttal is a grammy nominee, kirtan artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist. He is considered a pioneer in the world music community with his combined influences from India and American rock and jazz. Jai has been leading, teaching, and performing World Music and kirtan—the ancient yoga of chanting or singing to God—around the world for...
Duración:00:54:45
0: Intro to the World Music Podcast by Will Marsh
6/14/2021
Welcome to the World Music Podcast!
Here in Episode #0 I speak about what this podcast is all about.
My life journey as a musician led to me discovering the richness musical culture outside of the Western world. I'm passionate about sharing such music as well as the cultural ideals along with it. This podcast is a great place for someone who appreciates creative music and is looking to broaden their awareness of music outside the main stream. There are some fun questions and topics that...
Duración:00:11:13