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

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

JB&BP has been a hallmark program for years.

Richard / Allentown, PA

On 12/5/06, Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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>
> > TV Announcer: It's 11:00.  Do you know where your children
> > are?
> > Homer: I told you last night, *no*!
> > <http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F06.html>
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