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Friday, April 08, 2011

THAI NEW YEAR IN LA… AND THE FILMS OF APICHATPONG WEERASETTHAKUL, (in which cause + effect = NOT)

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New Year in Thailand is something of a joke, i.e. ‘which one’? Never one to sit out a party, Thailand celebrates them all...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

Native American Music Lives!!! (North of the 49th parallel, too)…

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When you think of Native American music, you probably think of it most often as a genre, typically exemplified by the prominent ro...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

‘CRUSH’ by TELEPATH (MICHAEL CHRISTIE)- Producer as Auteur... and Star?

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In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the nuclear musical group is quickly going the way of the nuclear family- whoever shows up for Sunday...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

‘HANDMADE’ by Hindi Zahra- Expect the Unexpected

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Were you expecting Chipmunk-like vocals from some Hindi-language Bollywood-based diva, maybe? Or perhaps you were thinking of tablas ...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

‘CHAMBER MUSIC’ by Ballake’ Sissoko and Vincent Segal- Mind Over Music

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It had to happen sooner or later… that world music would produce a successful collaboration of African classical with Western classica...
Friday, November 19, 2010

‘LARU BEYA’ by Aurelio- Garifuna Music Lives!

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The Garifuna people are one of the most unlikely success stories in the long sordid histories of both the African diaspora AND the Nat...
Sunday, November 07, 2010

MOUNQALIBA by NATACHA ATLAS- Classic Arab on Rai, a la Francaise s.v.p.

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Though Frau Merkel may have unilaterally declared ‘multi-kulti’ to be dead, the reality at ground zero of world music would hardly a...
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...
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