Thursday, February 18, 2010

SAUTI ZA BUSARA- SOUNDS OF WISDOM IN A CITY OF DARKNESS

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It sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it, to hold a festival of African- mostly East African- music in one of the world’s most exotic loc...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

‘GENTE’ BY SAMBA DA- Indie em Portugues

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Bossa nova is the worst thing that ever happened to Brazilian popular music. In that one unique rise to the pinnacle of world music some...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Tito Gonzalez, ‘Al Doblar la Esquina’- Ship’s In

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Nobody was more surprised at the phenomenal success of ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ than the hard-line Communist Cuban government, which for ...
Friday, January 22, 2010

EVIE LADIN- BREAKING BARRIERS WITH THE BANJO ON ‘FLOAT DOWNSTREAM’

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So, since when did banjo music become world music- no foreign languages, no Africans, no salseros, nada ? I don’t know. What year did ...
Monday, January 04, 2010

BIGBANG- Last Call for ‘Edendale’

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For a foreign band to ‘make it’ in the US , or even the UK , is a tough proposition. It it doesn’t matter whether they’re singing in the...
Monday, December 14, 2009

CEDRIC WATSON AND BIJOU CREOLE- ‘L’esprit Creole’: Zydeco’s Next Wave?

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Though zydeco was one of the first ‘world music’ sub-genres out of the gates, its history has been a bit uneven. On the one hand it has ...
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA- ‘I Speak Fula’: Is it African Bluegrass or Blues… or Jazz?

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World music can be like a genome project sometimes, except here the DNA involved is an aspect of culture, not biology, and in this case mu...