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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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Dabke Ravishment

TJ Nelson November 22, 2011 No Comments

Omar Souleyman Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts (Sublime Frequencies, 2011) Omar Souleyman’s Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts, out on the Sublime Frequencies label, is a…

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Sublime Nuance

TJ Nelson November 20, 2011 No Comments

JeongGaAkHoe Gagok (Female) Pungnyu III (AkdangEban, 2011) Considered one of the most revered vocal styles of Jeongak or Korean court music and on part of…

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Electric and Strikingly Sumptuous

TJ Nelson November 18, 2011 No Comments

Natacha Atlas Mounqaliba Rising – The Remixes (Six Degrees, 2011) Remix junkies rejoice because once you crack open the gorgeous exoticism of Natacha Atlas’s Mounqaliba…

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2011 Holiday Music

TJ Nelson November 11, 2011 No Comments Christmas musicholiday music

For a spicy holiday splash check out Asalto Navideño by Willie Colón and Hector Lavoe digitally remastered on the Fania label. This tropical holiday fare…

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Warm Richness of Live Malian Music

TJ Nelson October 18, 2011 No Comments

Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba at Duke University October 14, 2011 For those of you lucky enough to already have tickets to Bassekou Kouyate‘s and…

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Obituaries

Indian Ghazal Singer Dies

TJ Nelson October 10, 2011 No Comments

Singer, composer and musical director Jagjit Singh died October 10, 2011 in Mumbai, India at the Lilavite hospital. Mr. Singh had been in a coma…

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Sweeping Elegance

TJ Nelson October 6, 2011 No Comments

A Moving Sound A Moving Sound (Motema Music, 2011) Lush and exotic A Moving Sound is a stunning collection of tracks celebrating the musical tradition…

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Persian Tapestries

TJ Nelson September 27, 2011 No Comments

Mamak Khadem A Window to Color (2011) Wrap Mamak Khadem’s vocals with clarinet, electric cello and oud surrounded by a tapestry of percussion and the…

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Uzbek Seduction

TJ Nelson September 24, 2011 No Comments

Sevara Nazarkhan Tortadur (Sevaramusic, 2011) Often our first taste of a new musical flavor is bold. On her latest recording Sevara Nazarkhan introduces listeners to…

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Kiran Ahluwalia Unearths a Magical Mix

TJ Nelson September 16, 2011 No Comments

Kiran Ahluwalia Aam Zameen: Common Ground (Avokado Artists Recordings/Ais, 2011) The Indian Canadian artist Kiran Ahluwalia is a female powerhouse on the world music scene…

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