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NuDirections Feb 2021 - looking at the astounding debut album ‘As We Stand’ from the Harpist Tori Handsley

  • S21E5
  • 2:59:43
  • February 7th 2021

Tori Handsley, Ruth Goller, Moses Boyd - Rivers of Mind

Matthew Halsall, The Gondwana Orchestra - Badder Weather (feat. Josephine Oniyama)

SAULT – Wildfires

Grandbrothers - All the Unknown

Ali Farka Touré, Ry Cooder - Diaraby (with Ry Cooder)

Navasha Daya – The Liberation Song (with Gary Bartz)

The Last Poets - Tribute to Obabi

Tori Handsley, Ruth Goller, Moses Boyd - What's in a Tune

Ivo Meirelles & Funk N Lata - Baile Funk Medley

Luis Carlos Vinhas - Ye Mele

Lizz Wright - This Is

grandbrothers - What WeSee

Antibalas - Dirty Money

Gil Scott Heron - Three Miles Down

Makoto Terashita & Harold Land - Dragon Dance

Takahiro Izumikawa, Jermaine Holmes - Life Is Your Thoughts

Wildflower - Flute Song

Will Cahoun - Native Lands

The Comet Is Coming - Super Zodiac

Andrew Wasylyk - Last Sunbeams of Childhood

Airto Moreira - Celebration Suite

Lorenzo Morresi, Tenderlonious - Cosmica Italiana

Takeo Moriyama - East Plants

Terumasa Hino Sextet - Be And Know

Shaun Martin, Matthew Ramsey, Mike “Blaque Dynamite” Mitchell - Afro Blue

The Peoples' Workshop - Let's Get High

Bruna Mendez - Imagem (Em Mim)

Wildflower - Under the Night Sky

Tori Handsley, Ruth Goller, Moses Boyd - Out of Sight, out of Mind

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