Planet Afropop - Boom.Diwan: Arabian Pearl Diving Meets Afro-Cuba
Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill is abo…
February 13, 202541m 24s
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Ghazi and Boom.Diwan with Arturo O’Farrill is about as unlikely a group as you could imagine. Ghazi Al-Mulaifi is a rocking guitar player and an ethnomusicologist who studies the music of Arabian Gulf pearl divers, among them, his own ancestors. Boom.Diwan is an ensemble based around the Kuwaiti percussionists who preserve the vanishing art of pearl diving music. How they came together with Arturo O’Farrill, leader of New York’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra is a story for the ages. This podcast tells that story and samples the astounding music that resulted. Produced by Banning Eyre.
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