Getting Spiritual with Acoustic World

4 November 2009

Review of Coro’s latest album release Acoustic World, India.

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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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Arabo-Muslim…the Great River tradition

23 October 2009

Latest review of Afel Bocoum’s album, Tabital Pulaaku, a great album shining strong in the African Blues tradition.

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Asa Started a Fire on the Mountain

23 October 2009

Born in Paris but with Lagos, Nigeria, called home since the age of two, comes Asa (pronounced Asha), an artist with an album so refined, you’d think it was her greatest hits, but it’s not, it’s in fact her first! She’s been given a huge amount of profile on the World music circuit, but that [...]

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Let the women reign, Garifuna style!!

22 October 2009

The magic of the Garifuna collective. Music from Guatemala telling a story of a people shipwrecked a long way from home.

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Introducing the Kora’s top 5 albums

22 September 2009

Following our earlier post on the Kora,  let’s now open ourselves up to its fabulous World. [If you're on the posts page, you can start YouTube video on the right for some Kora background music.]
I’m going to begin with a dedication to the Gambian artist responsible for introducing me to the Kora, his name, Basiru [...]

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