Monday, March 05, 2012

DEL CASTILLO’s "Infinitas Rapsodias": Guitar String Theory En Espanol

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If music reviewers had to be certifiably impartial judges in order to air their opinions in these not-so-hallowed nets and webs of intri...
Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Kami Thompson’s “Love Lies”: Folk Music Goes Around Until It Comes Back Around

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I’ve been waiting a long time for folk music to make a comeback, without really knowing exactly what that would sound like if it did indee...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

“SABANI” by Leni Stern—Expect the Unexpected

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You gotta’ keep an open mind.   That is one of the first things you learn in life, hopefully, and one of the best, certainly.   Now I’...
Friday, December 02, 2011

“My Life” by Sia Tolno: Another African Success Story

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When you hear the name of the country “Sierra Leone,” music is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind, more likely being the mo...
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...