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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.
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A Story of Love between the Iraqis and Music

TJ Nelson May 17, 2015 No Comments

Ahmed Mukhtar Babylonian Fingers (ARC Music, 2015) Premier oud player, composer and teacher Ahmed Mukhtar just isn’t content to dazzle listeners with his renditions of…

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Global Soul of Southern Italian Trance Music

TJ Nelson May 15, 2015 No Comments

Ludovico Einaudi Taranta Project (Ponderosa Music & Art, 2015) The Italian conductor, composer and musician Ludovico Einaudi has created works like Stanze, Una Mattina and…

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Sheer Loveliness of Mahsa Vahdat

TJ Nelson May 13, 2015 No Comments

Mahsa Vahdat Traces of an Old Vineyard (Kirkelig Kulturverksted/Valley Media, 2015) I confess an affinity to hear real female vocals, not those digitally enhanced vocals…

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Wildly Fresh Los Crema Paraiso

TJ Nelson May 11, 2015 No Comments

Los Crema Paraiso De Pelicula! (Cultupra Productions, 2015) Good music, mediocre music and sometimes very bad music flows across my desk, but I’m rarely ever…

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Keen Edged Coolness

TJ Nelson May 9, 2015 No Comments

Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band Rye Groove (Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band, 2015) The Finnish progressive/rock/folk group Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band is back with…

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High-octane Ameranouche

TJ Nelson May 7, 2015 No Comments

Ameranouche Sun Shine Soul (Red Squirrel Records, 2015) The fiercely polished sound of the Boston-based trio Ameranouche’s May 1st release of Sun Shine Soul is…

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Deep House Sitar Mindful Escape

TJ Nelson April 24, 2015 No Comments

Ronobir Hypnosis – Deep House Sitar (Valley Entertainment, 2015) Every once in a while it’s necessary to slip mindlessly into music, to not have to…

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Bassekou Kouyate’s Masterfully Potent Sound

TJ Nelson April 16, 2015 No Comments

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Ba Power (Glitterbeat, 2015) World music fans, in particular those fans of Mali’s Griot musical traditions, have fallen head over…

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Edgy and Irresistible Pimps of Joytime

TJ Nelson April 10, 2015 No Comments

Pimps of Joytime Jukestone Paradise (Write Home Records, 2015) At least a dozen times a day there’s a car traveling through our neighborhood blasting out…

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Infectiously Energetic Quebecois Folk

TJ Nelson April 5, 2015 No Comments

Le Vent Du Nord Têtu (Borealis Recordings, 2015) With a fist full of awards that include a couple of Junos or Canada’s version of the…

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