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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

Entrancing Mehraab

TJ Nelson March 22, 2012 No Comments

Loga Ramin Torkian Mehraab (Six Degrees Records, 2012) Iranian composer and musician Loga Ramin Torkian’s debut solo recording Mehraab is a densely rich musical landscape…

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Delightfully Daring Geomungo Factory

TJ Nelson March 17, 2012 No Comments

Geomungo Factory Metamorphosis (Dada Media, 2012) Every once in a while I get a CD that is truly astonishing, I mean something that stops any…

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Soulful Passion of Masters of Bandoneon

TJ Nelson March 15, 2012 No Comments

Leonardo Suarez Paz’s Cuartetango String Quartet Masters of Bandoneon (Azica Records, 2012) Tango junkies should take notice that Azica Records has a new tango recording…

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Sheer Mastery and Expansive Grace

TJ Nelson March 8, 2012 1 Comment

Anoushka Shankar Traveller (Deutsche Grammophon, USA release: 2012) Anoushka Shankar’s debut recording, Traveller, on the Deutsche Grammophon is a fantastical journey of going forward and…

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Best New Celtic Music for St. Patrick’s Day 2012

TJ Nelson March 2, 2012 1 Comment

We are about to leap headlong with wild abandon and unrepressed joy into the green. St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and there’s…

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Zemelewa

TJ Nelson February 22, 2012 No Comments

Zieti Zemelewa (Grigri Discs, 2012) It only takes a brief look at the liner notes to know that there’s a story behind Zieti’s debut recording…

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Obituaries

Sudanese Singer and Musician Mohammed Osman Wardi Dies

TJ Nelson February 21, 2012 No Comments

Covered by state television, thousands of fans gathered, along with friends, family and government officials, on Sunday at the Farouk Cemetery in Khartoum, Sudan to…

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North Carolina Fiddler and Folk Musician Dies

TJ Nelson February 21, 2012 No Comments

African American, “old time” stringband musician Joe Thompson passed away Monday, February, 21, 2012 due to declining health according to family. He was 93. Mr.…

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Borrachito

TJ Nelson February 14, 2012 No Comments

Sergio Pamies Borrachito (Bebyne Records, 2012) I’ve never asked a musician if the art of playing music is a real and solid physical force. I…

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Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall

TJ Nelson February 10, 2012 No Comments

Caetano Veloso and David Byrne Caetano Veloso and David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall (Nonesuch, 2012) A long time in coming Caetano Veloso and David…

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