Dunkelbunt Raindrops and Elephants: Piranha Re: Interpretations (Piranha, 2009) German DJ and remixer Dunkelbunt (Ulf Lindemann) was asked by Berlin-based Piranha Records to remix some…
Piranha Remixed
Month: August 2009
Maasai Community Goes Digital with High-Tech Support from UN Agency WIPO
[image1_left]The Maasai people of Laikipia in Kenya have received digital recording equipment, marking a milestone in a United Nations-backed pilot-project aimed at helping indigenous communities…
Latvia’s Shortest Night
Iļģi Īsākās nakts dziesmas [Songs of the Shortest Night] (Platforma Music, 2009) You know what your problem is? You don’t have enough Latvian folk in…
Jazz Musician and Guitar Inventor Les Paul Dies
Guitarist and inventor, known throughout the musical world for changing the very sound of music with the electric guitar and innovative recording techniques, Les Paul…
WOMEX 2009 Award for Professional Excellence to Christian Mousset
WOMEX announced the winner of 2009’s WOMEX Award for Professional Excellence which goesd to Christian Mousset (France). As Yorrick Benoist of Run Productions notes, "For…
Banjo Legend Tony Trischka Launches Online School Of Banjo
Banjo Virtuoso Tony Trischka opened his online banjo school today: the Tony Trischka School of Banjo. The site integrates Tony’s unparalleled 40+ years of playing…
World Music Institute Announces 25th Anniversary Season
New York’s bastion for world music, World Music Institute (WMI) will be celebrating its 25th season in 2009 with the finest traditional and contemporary music…
Still the Sweetest
Sugar Minott New Day (Stop, Look and Listen Records SLLROO2, 2008) Singer, songwriter, producer and promoter of young talent, Jamaica’s Lincoln “Sugar” Minott has been…
Project Ahimsa Provides Hope for the World’s Poorest Child Musicians on Global Lingo
Imagine the farthest reaching global talent show ever, but one where all the contestants are kids who grew up scavenging and struggling in some of…
Catie Curtis’ New String Band Sessions album, Hello, Stranger, Released in United States
In the fall of 2008 Catie Curtis released the critically acclaimed Sweet Life (her ninth recording), an album dedicated to Lynne Ramsdell, the neighbor who…