From the category archives:

Europe

Getting deep in Corsica

4 November 2009

Review of the book, Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage.

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Sevdali Dunya’s shares her moments of Love

4 November 2009

Review of Sevdali Dunya’s album, Worlds of Love.

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Rebetiko – Greece’s urban sound

4 September 2009

Imam Baildi, literally the Imam Fainted, is a dish traditionally prepared with aubergines, and involves cooking it over a flame until it can take no more!. It’s the name that both Orestis Falireas and Lysandrop Falireas have given to a music project that sees Greece’s urban music genre Rebetiko, catapulted into the 21st century. They’ve [...]

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Sara Tavares – Xinti

2 September 2009

Born in 1978 Sara Tavares grew up in Portugal but is originally of Cape Verdean descent. It was not until 2006 with her album release “Balance”, that I first discovered this versatile and expressive singer. All the songs were written by Tavares herself, and she also played most of the instruments too. It should be [...]

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Let’s start our journey right here

1 September 2009

We start our journey with an album that is still affecting me more than 2 years after I purchased it. As much as when I became entranced by Antonio Carlos Jobin’s ‘the composer of desifinado plays’ . It has a similar simple style with beautiful acoustic playing, but it does not derive its influences from [...]

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