Thursday, October 28, 2010

MIRA by JIENAT- Engineer as Auteur

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One of my first philosophical proclamations- at the ripe old age of eight- was that all of the suitable themes for popular music had ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The Front Lines of World Music

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"Today I wish to inform as many people as possible about the paranoid atmosphere of a so called modern country China. Our neighbour i...
Monday, October 04, 2010

HARDLY STRICTLY SAN FRAN… MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

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What’s the greatest music festival in the world… that nobody’s ever heard of? WOMAD Canarias, maybe, or Sauti za Busara in Z...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

‘SHOSHAN’ by Shye Ben-Tzur- Israeli Sufi music? Only in India…

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I’m not a musician. Oh sure, I did my time in the high school band, spewing on the business end of a trombone as part of what our band...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

LA SUMMER SEASON WINDING DOWN IN STYLE

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Los Lobos playing down at the corner record store? For free? Ooohh, life’s rough. This is THE Los Lobos, after all, veterans o...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

THE OTHER LA: CAMBODIA TO COLOMBIA, HIGH DENGUE FEVER & THE VALLENATO FLU

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Oh, but last weekend was another sublime compilation of subtle pleasures in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Rí...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

AFRO-BEAT, AFRO-TRAD, AFRO-DIASPO, & A TOUCH OF FEVER IN LA

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Well, it doesn’t get much better than this past weekend for variety and quality in the LA free music department, some of it ex...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

“… HIP-HOP CHILDREN OF BE-BOP PARENTS…”, LA GETS HIP WITH DAAOOD, TRIBLE, AND THE WHOLE INDUS VALLEY

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I haven’t heard anything like it since listening to Jack Kerouac over Steve Allen’s piano (on tape, a**hole, I’m not THAT old)… okay, so m...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

PETE E TOPS MUSICAL WEEK IN LA

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Well, this week in free outdoor entertainment- particularly of the world music variety- got off to a bit of a slow start this ...