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Welcome to Ray Room Studio, the home of NuDirections FM (NDFM). I take great pride in our not-for-profit venture, which started as a weekly radio show on a community station. Within three years NDFM has evolved into a significant music streaming service. Now with a global audience of over 40,000 open-minded music enthusiasts spanning 24+ music platforms across 57 countries. Our mission is to unite music from various cultural backgrounds, resulting in a diverse, uncompromising sound that can only be described by the generic name Jazz.
Way back in the mid-1970s, Billy Cobham released an album that altered the course of my life, The Album Crosswinds and the track Heather just took my musical mind in a different direction, I started to go to Jazz clubs to hear and see this music that set my mind on fire.
Ian Daley (aka Selwyn) from Route Publisher (Music books). The interview was about the book "Train of Ice and Fire". This is the story about the maddest and most dangerous ever tour done by a rock band. The band was Mano Negra from France. The ex band of its leader Manu Chao.
All those that know me – know Joe Zawinul is my music man and my band was Weather report, then the Zawinul Syndicate. Around 2002 Joe released the Faces and places album - I arranged what was my very first interview and it was with Joe Zawinul my music idol, using a mini disc recorder to record a phone call to Joe’s home in the USA.
Tom was the singer of Inspiral Carpets in the days of the Madchester scene and is one of the greatest voices of his generation
All those that know me – know Joe Zawinul is my music man and my band was Weather report, then the Zawinul Syndicate. Around 2002 Joe released the Faces and places album - I arranged what was my very first interview and it was with Joe Zawinul my music idol, using a mini disc recorder to record a phone call to Joe’s home in the USA.
Mestizo Sounds is continuing with “Let's Talk about Music” series, this new programme will focus on the musical cities of Barcelona and Manchester. Jordi Ballart, a Barcelona native from Hospitalet, writer and Catalan linguist, will talk with Mestizo Sounds about the music of these two cities.