Saturday, November 05, 2011

JONI HAASTRUP & MONOMONO- TIME TRAVEL ON THE MAGIC CARPET DNA OF MUSIC

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It’s not often that you get the chance to re-visit a bygone era and help rescue one its great protagonists from the shadows of obscurity.  A...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

C. J. CHENIER’S ‘CAN’T SIT DOWN’- ZYDECO LIVES!

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The first time I saw Clifton Chenier play was at Antone’s blues club in Austin, TX in 1975, back when it used to be down on Sixth Street, b...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

Summer’s not over yet, Best of the Fests yet to come- Electronicaboriginal, maybe?

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When you think of music festivals, in the US at least, you probably think of Coachella or Lollapalooza, maybe Bonnaroo, all of which boa...
Thursday, August 04, 2011

Addis Acoustic Project’s Tewesta, “Remembrance”- Eat it with the Fingers

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I don’t remember if I went to Ethiopia first or listened to the album Ethiopiques first- the two events were more or less simultaneous- but...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

ON CD- MALI: TALE OF TWO TRAORE’S; IN FESTIVAL(S): CANADA & LA

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What Ali Farka Toure’ accomplished with his Talking Timbuktu album with Ry Cooder, has been consolidated and spread like wildfire through ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

VIEUX FARKA TOURE’- TELLING ‘THE SECRET’, TALKING LA2

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Until recently if you were to Google the word ‘jihad’, guess which region of the world you’d be referred to, Palestine maybe, or Iraq ? T...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

‘Hammock House- Africa Caribe’ by Fania All-Stars, remixed by Joe Clausell

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The term ‘Afro-Cuban’ was always something of a misnomer, and ‘Afro-Caribe’ is no different, applying logic to some past event that wa...
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...