Darek Mazzone: SANAM, Warsaw Village Band, Buzz Ayaz

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Darek Mazzone – KEXP’s longtime host of Wo’Pop, our Modern Global music show – takes us on a melodic journey from Cyprus to Lebanon to his homeland of Poland on today’s episode, concluding with a track that transcends all language for him.

And Music Director Chris Sanley shares a haunting, hypnotic, moody song from a Danish-Chilean composer, collaborating with a Copenhagen-based artist.

Songs featured:

SANAM - “Ya Nass”
Warsaw Village Band - “Kalinowy Mostek/Bridge of Wayfarer Tree”
Buzz' Ayaz - “Buzzi Ayazi”
John Coltrane - “Acknowledgment”
Molina - "Organs (feat. ML Buch)”

Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones 2024" playlist on Spotify or the “What's In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube.

Listen to Darek on Wo' Pop every other Tuesday from 7-10pm PT or on-demand anytime at KEXP.org or the KEXP App.

Hosted and produced by: Janice Headley and Isabel Khalili
Mixed by: Emily Fox
Mastered by: William Myers
Editorial director: Larry Mizell Jr.

Our theme music is “好吗 (Hao Ma)” by Chinese American Bear

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0:00.0	You're listening to In Our Headphones.
0:06.0	Your chance to discover the songs K-EXP DJs don't want you to miss.
0:11.0	I'm Janice Headley.
0:13.0	And I'm Isabel Kelly Lee, and this is your never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered K-E-X-P.
0:21.7	Hey, everyone. Janice here, and on this week's episode of In Our Headphones, we're talking to
0:27.9	KexP's longtime host of Wopop, our modern global music show, on the air Tuesday nights from
0:34.8	7 to 10 p.m. Pacific. It's Derek Mazzoni.
0:38.9	Welcome to In Our Headphones.
0:41.2	Thank you.
0:42.3	Good to hear of your voice.
0:43.8	It's good to hear yours as well.
0:46.6	So, Derek, if I understand correctly, you've recently returned from some travels.
0:51.9	Can you tell us a little bit about where you've been?
0:54.6	Sure. Sure. I was in, it was a pretty big trip, actually. In October, I'm usually gone for a
1:02.1	variety of reasons traveling in different parts of the world. This time, I was in Korea,
1:07.1	then I was in Taiwan, then I was in Malaysia, then Dubai, then Manchester, UK for a big event there,
1:16.0	and my 80s club kid manifestation worked really well there. I can share some stories with that
1:21.7	with you. Yes, please. Then I ended up in Lisbon and then back to Seattle. Amazing. I mean, what are, I mean, I'm sure there's so many, but what are a few of the highlights of this trip?
1:34.3	Oh, let's see.
1:36.4	It was my first time in Malaysia, and that was amazing.
1:39.2	It's an incredibly complicated and a beautiful country that has a intriguing colonial history, has an intriguing history tied to spirituality.
1:51.0	It has an animist, Buddhist, Hindu background, and now it is Muslim, and it's late to Islam, and the music that and the culture and the food of the country is really, really intriguing.
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