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Monday, November 09, 2009

TOTO LA MOMPOSINA’s “La Bodega”- the Missing Link?

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I’ve always wondered at the musical concept “Afro-Latino,” usually expressed as “Afro-Cuban” with no ensuing explanation, as though the ...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

MUMIY TROLL’s “Paradise Ahead”- New EP, Live in SD

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If you were a Russian, what would you do after seventy years of stifling Communist domination? Probably the same thing you’d do if you w...
Monday, October 26, 2009

CESARIA EVORA- The ‘Barefoot Diva’ Returns with “NHA SENTIMENTO”

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One thing nice about world music is that it not only respects its cultures, but it respects its elders… AND its women. While pop and cou...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

OMARA PORTUONDO SERENADES CALIFORNIA, BAJA Y ALTA TAMBIEN

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It’s always nice to pick up some quality music while traveling, but the timing seldom works out unless I’ve actually planned it t...
Monday, October 05, 2009

Slide to FreedomII: Make a Better World- "Dobro means good in any language."

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That’s an old motto of the Dobro Manufacturing Corporation- for any of you non-industry people less than 100 years old- the word ‘dobro’ i...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

'IMIDIWAN: COMPANIONS' by TINARIWEN- the Desert Bears Fruit

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Mali’s Tinariwen is one of only a handful of artists in the history of modern alternative popular music- The Beatles, Stones, Bowie and El...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

“AGUA DEL POZO” by ALEX CUBA- More Pop, Hold the Salsa

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He may wear an Afro and he may be Cuban, but Alex (Puentes) Cuba is definitely not Afro-Cuban, at least not his music… well, not much anyway...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Les Triaboliques’ “rivermudtwilight”- Guitar String Theory 401 (frets optional)

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Justin Adams is on something of a roll these days, at least as rolls go in the world music genre. In addition to his day job as Robert P...
Monday, September 07, 2009

2009 FESTIVAL SEASON NOT OVER YET

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Coachella and Lollapalooza may take the limelight, but world music has some good festivals, too, and a couple of the best are yet to come....
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

“Ake Doni Doni- Take It Slow” by Cheick Hamala Diabate- Griot-pop For the People

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Our wild crazy modern global village creates some pretty incongruous combinations, but a griot in Washington , D.C. ? Yep, and his...
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