Days like today are what you live for if you’re a fan of
world music and/or a reluctant Angeleno, hoping to justify your existence, or
at least the higher rents of LA, vis a vis the Golden Triangle (that’s northern
Thailand I’m talking about, not the greater Beaumont area). How often, on some random Thursday, do you
get your choice of the Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, Bombino, or the Garifuna
Collective? And this isn’t even the
weekend ferchrissakes! And they’re all
for free, unless you count parking fees. That may apply most seriously to the Sierra Leone guys,
who’re playing out at the Skirball, difficult of access by public trans. Only problem there is the security check,
reminiscent of the El Al counter in Munich .
Better eat those brownies first, just to
be safe. If you don’t know, they’re war refugees
from Sierra Leone—Britain’s equivalent of Liberia—who chose to make the best of
a bad situation, and who, over the last decade, have produced some of the world’s
best music.
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Showing posts with label Garifuna Collective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garifuna Collective. Show all posts
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Friday, August 02, 2013
HOLLY WOOD BABEL: Peruano, Africano, Colombiano, Angeleno… Novalima, guey
Did you know that Peru had Africans? If you’ve heard (of) Susana Baca, then you did; or should, anyway. They’ve been there since the early days of Spanish colonialism, though never in huge numbers, apparently. Still it doesn’t exactly fit the image of an Andean nation with an Amerindian culture defined by its high degree of advancement and largely unassimilated entrance into the modern age. That’s the point, that the races in Peru never really mixed, natives confined to the Cordillera, and whites content to stay along the coasts where they—and their African slaves—landed.
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