Various Artists – Songs across Walls of Separation (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2009) Norwegian record producer and founder of the label, Kirkelig Kulturverksted, Erik Hillestad and I…
Songs across Walls of Separation
Author: Patricia Herlevi
From the Heart of the African Bush Conversation with Samite Mulondo
Samite will be appearing at 7:30 p.m., April 24 at McIntyre Hall, (Skagit Valley Community College campus), Mount Vernon, Washington. For more information on this…
The Samba Effect–Conversation with Brazilian Musician Jovino Santos Neto
I discovered the healing effects of Brazilian music, samba in particular back in the early 1990s when I began listening to Astrud Gilberto classics. Even…
Stayed on Freedom–Blue Age Music for the 21st Century
Ruthie Foster – The Phenomenal (Blue Corn Music) Eric Bibb – Get Onboard (Telarc Blues) Both of these albums, Eric Bibb’s “Get Onboard” and Ruthie…
Songs of the Lark: Folk Sounds from the Past
The Lark in the Morning (field recording, 1955), folk songs and dance from the Irish countryside (Tradition Records) The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1959),…
Singing the blues for Mother Earth
Where We Live, Benefit CD for Earthjustice (Higher Octave Music, 2003) Musicians have proven time and time again their compassion by recording benefit albums or…
Sweet, sweet showers of Blues
Knut Reiersrud –Tramp (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1993) & Sweet Showers of Rain (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2001) Norwegian blues man Knut Reiersrud discovered Miles Davis when he was…
Songs of Freedom
Kabul Workshop – Trigana (Tinder Records, 2002) Imperialism in all its guises and current world politicking have created a new diaspora with many of the…
More Fun in the Desert
Justin Adams – Desert Road (World Village, 2002) During the Victorian era many French and English adventure seekers headed to Imperialist Africa to escape Victorian…
Digital Bled
Digital Bled – Caravana (Tinder Records) Digital Bled, led by Portugal’s DJ Joao Pedro Velosos mixes dub, funk, and hip hop tempos with musical styles…