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Author: TJ Nelson

TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena's Shadow. Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena's Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931. Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
Album reviews

Lovely and Innovative Musique De Nuit

TJ Nelson October 30, 2015 No Comments

Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal Musique De Nuit (Six Degrees, 2015) Sharing song composition duties Malian kora master Ballake Sissoko and French cellist Vincent Segal…

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Concert Review: Buena Vista Social Club, Luminaries Of Cuban Music In Durham

TJ Nelson October 27, 2015 No Comments

  Done wowing Europe on their farewell tour, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club is several weeks in on the North American leg of the…

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Lush and Lovely Collaboration

TJ Nelson October 26, 2015 No Comments

Shujaat Husain Khan and Katayoun Goudarzi Ruby (Shujaat Husain Khan, 2015) Brimming over with flute, tabla, sarangi, santoor, percussion and lavish sitar lines by the…

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Lusciously Seductive Kora

TJ Nelson October 22, 2015 No Comments

Sekou Kouyate Sabaru (One World Records, 2015) Son of kora player M´Bady Kouyate and cousin to Ba Cissoko, Guinean kora musician and composer Sekou Kouyate…

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Delicious Encounter between Swiss and Mongolian Musical Traditions

TJ Nelson October 14, 2015 No Comments

Arga Bileg Ethno Jazz Band and Heiri Kanzig Quintet Agula: Swiss-Mongolian Music Exchange Project (Musiques Suisses, 2015) A Mongolian band and a Swiss jazz band?…

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Musically Poetic and Inventive

TJ Nelson October 11, 2015 No Comments

Bachar Mar-Khalifé Ya Balad (InFine, 2015) With a musical pedigree that includes a degree from the Conservatory of Paris, work with conductors Lorin Maazel and…

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Dizzyingly Good Gnawa Music

TJ Nelson September 22, 2015 No Comments

Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa Mazal (World Village, 2015) Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa return for another musical dip into the fiery depths…

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Eclectic Musical Fantasy

TJ Nelson September 16, 2015 No Comments

Mamak Khadem The Road (Innova, 2015) Iranian singer Mamak Khadem is set to dazzle fans with her latest The Road on the Innova label. Brimming…

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Album reviews

Music is Like Freedom

TJ Nelson September 14, 2015 No Comments

Terakaft Alone (OutHere Records, 2015) Music is a fragile thing and sadly there are some out there in the world who would stamp it out…

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Francesca Blanchard’s Poignant Eulogy and Whole-Hearted Welcome

TJ Nelson August 21, 2015 No Comments

Francesca Blanchard Deux Visions (Vis-A-Vis, 2015) Okay, I’ll admit it – sometimes when I read “deeply personal” and “singer-songwriter” on press material I inwardly cringe…

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