Monday, July 27, 2009

Morley Brings Lyrics to LA; TJ’s Got Talent 2

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Don’t look now, but sincere heartfelt lyrics may just be making a comeback. Just when you (or I, that is) thought that hip-hop’s mindl...
Monday, July 20, 2009

‘TECHNO ISSA’ KICKS OFF SKIRBALL’S SUMMER CONCERT SEASON

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If you’re a world music fan then you live for creative musical combinations- Cambodian psych-pop, Celtic salsa, Swedish bluegrass, etc...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

AMADOU & MARIAM: ‘THE MAGIC COUPLE’

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It’s always been urban legend that handicapped people compensate for it in other ways, sharpening their other capabilities even to the poi...
Monday, July 13, 2009

QUILOMBO EM PASADENA, ROCKY REGGAE IN DOWNTOWN L.A.

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Sometimes music genres and sub-genres emerge and disappear largely on the basis of the fame of its one or two chief protagonists. If h...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

OMAR FARUK TEKBILEK GOES BEYOND THE NEW AGE IN ‘RARE ELEMENTS’ REMIX

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Omar Faruk Tekbilek has been pleasing Western audiences, particularly those of ‘new age’ orientation, for some twenty years with...
Monday, July 06, 2009

DJANGO LIVES IN LA, TRIPOLAR DISORDER IN TJ

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Where else could you go and hear Django Rheinhardt music live? KJAZZ kicked off their ‘Wine and Jazz’ Tuesday night music series at Ho...
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...