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Friday, June 26, 2009

JOURNEY TO OCOTLAN W/ ‘COCONUT ROCK’ BY OCOTE SOUL SOUNDS/ADRIAN QUESADA

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Which came first, Afro-beat or Cuban music (hold the salsa)? That’s obvious, maybe you say, since so many Cubans came from Africa origi...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

JUSTIN ADAMS AND JULDEH CAMARA- ‘TELL NO LIES’

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This collaboration may not be first Anglo/African supergroup- Ali Farka Toure and Ry cooder did that long ago, not to mention Paul S...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

‘MARIACHI CLASSICS’ FROM MARIACHI REAL DE SAN DIEGO- IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE… AND RESPECT

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Mariachi music is like the Rodney Dangerfield (remember him?) of music genres- they don’t get much respect. Maybe that’s what happens wh...
Monday, June 08, 2009

MEETING THE MASTER DUDUK MAKERS OF ARMENIA

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We Westerners tend to have this romantic notion of village arts and crafts as something handed down through generations, father to s...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

SANTERO RETURNS REGGAETON TO ITS ROOTS

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It’s time to re-think urban music- rap, hip-hop, and especially reggaeton. Despite its huge popularity, and its sociological acceptance ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

INBAR BAKAL’S MUSIC TRANSCENDS POLITICS

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The debut album by Inbar Bakal, ‘Song of Songs’, is a wonder and a revelation, with its lush harmonics and rich melodies. This also fi...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

OLIVER ‘TUKU’ MTUKUDZI ROCKS ADDIS ABABA

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There was supposed to be a ‘festival’ two weekends ago in Addis Ababa called Selam Music Festival sponsored by a group whose initi...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

SEATTLE’S GOT RHYTHM! (IT’S IN THE WATER)…

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Two weekends ago Seattle was the scene of the World Rhythm Festival, sponsored by the Seattle World Percussion Society (SWPS or ‘sw...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

WARSAW VILLAGE BAND’S REINCARNATION TO INFINITY

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I’m not always kind to musicians wanting to ‘get all philosophical’ or even intellectual, depending on how well they do it of course, but ...
Monday, April 20, 2009

‘SLEEPWALKING’ DVD DOCUMENTS MULTI-KULTI FANTASY

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So maybe you’re a college student who listens to ‘indie’ music and you’ve heard a novelty song or two recently that you liked from the Cam...
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