Re: [Swprograms] Favorite *non-English* music on shortwave?

[Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, "Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes" on Radio Taiwan International
is an excellent music program, much better than the Mandopop101
program I suggested!  UTC Wednesday in the States at 0230-0255,
repeated at 0330-0355, on 5950 khz.  Usually very soothy music,
excellent for falling asleep to, which is what I am often trying
to do in the latter hour.

Kevin Anderson
--- Ted Schuerzinger <fedya@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> graced hard-core-dx.com with
> these
> words of wisdom: 
> 
> > On 12/4/06, Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> If I can, I try to catch RTI's Mandopop101, which is UTC
> Fridays
> >> in the States at 0220-0255, repeated at 0320-0355, on 5975
> khz.
> >>
> >> Kevin Anderson
> >
> > Is that in their (presumably) Mandarin Chinese service?
> > 
> > (I'm being lazy...didn't check to see if that was in their
> English
> > language block)
> 
> No; that's part of their English programming.
> 
> I don't particularly care for Asian pop music, althought at
> least what's 
> on Mandopop 101 isn't as bad as the stuff KBS World Radio has
> on Sundays 
> on "K-Pop Interactive" -- a bunch of foppish boy-band wannabes
> singing 
> formulaic combinations of synth and rap, or soloists (male and
> female) 
> singing incredibly treacly ballads that might make even "Up
> With People" 
> vomit.
> 
> I prefer "Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes" on Wednesdays from
> around 0230 UTC.  
> 
> China Radio International's English service has "China Roots"
> on Saturdays 
> at 1100 UTC on 5960 kHz, but that frequency hasn't been coming
> in as well 
> as whatever they were using over the summer.  (Never mind that
> it's now 
> 6AM here in the East!)
> 
> Croatian Radio plays some fun pop music when they come in on
> 7285 kHz.  At 
> least, it's fun for me -- it reminds me of the sort of music
> popular in 
> Russia when I studied there back in 1992.  It sounds like a
> bad Communist 
> interpretation of 1970s-era Western pop, but it's just too
> cheesy to 
> resist.
> 
> Radio Bulgaria plays some similar music in some of their music
> segments.
> 
> -- 
> Ted <fedya at bestweb dot net>
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Kevin Anderson, Dubuque IA USA, K9IUA
k9iua (at) yahoo (dot) com
http://postoilgeography.blogspot.com/
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