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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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Lebanese Hidden Treasures

TJ Nelson June 12, 2011 No Comments

Charbel Rouhana Doux Zen (Forward Music, 2010) Charbel Rouhana’s Doux Zen, out on the Lebanese label Forward Music, is a bit like following a cat…

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Lushly Sentimental Essence of Mediterranean Music

TJ Nelson June 8, 2011 No Comments

Amina Alaoui Arco Iris (ECM Records, 2011) Recently, I happened upon a BBC conversation where the commentator was discussing comments made by the Trinidadian-British writer…

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Peruvian Afrodiaspora

TJ Nelson June 4, 2011 No Comments

Susana Baca Afrodiaspora (Luaka Bop, 2011) Attuned to the musical landscape of Latin America, especially her native Peru, Susana Baca hits the world music scene…

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Veena Elegance

TJ Nelson May 29, 2011 No Comments

Nirmala Rajasekar Into the Raga (Innova Recordings, 2011) Riding the elegance that belongs to the veena, the plucked, stringed instrument of the lute family found…

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Delightful Peek Into Afghan Music

TJ Nelson May 25, 2011 No Comments

Afghan Ensemble featuring Zohreh Jooya and Ustad Hossein Arman Afghan Music (ARC Music, 2011) The problem with truly nutty people is they tend to be…

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Kaleidoscopic Sultans of String

TJ Nelson May 23, 2011 No Comments

Sultans of String Yalla Yalla! (McKhool/Laliberte, 2011) Every once in a while I get one of those CDs where the musicianship just screams “I love…

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Vieux Farka Toure Discloses the Secret

TJ Nelson May 20, 2011 No Comments

Vieux Farka Toure The Secret (Six Degrees, 2011) “Do you want to know the secret? You have to listen to the album,” so says Vieux…

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Dengue Filters

TJ Nelson May 17, 2011 No Comments

Dengue Fever Cannibal Courtship (Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group, 2011) The Cambodian, surf, garage band Dengue Fever has hit the streets with their latest Cannibal Courtship,…

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Sergent Garcia’s winning hybrid sound

TJ Nelson May 15, 2011 No Comments

Sergent Garcia Una y Otra Vez (Cumbancha, 2011) Mestizo music scene guru and indie rocker Bruno Garcia, alias Sergent Garcia, is back after five years…

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Putumayo Presents Jazz Classics

TJ Nelson May 11, 2011 No Comments

Various Artists Putumayo Presents Jazz (Putumayo World Music, 2011) From the opening strains of Nina Simone’s version of “My Baby Just Care For Me,” Putumayo’s…

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