Youssou N’Dour Dakar-Kingston (Emarcy Records, 2011) Youssou N’Dour draws deeply from his own childhood experiences of listening to the easy, breezy reggae recordings played in…
New Reggae Flavor on Dakar-Kingston
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.
Traore’s Finely Drawn Musical Map
Boubacar Traore Mali Denhou (Lusafrica, 2011) There must be something in the air of Mali in order to produce such extraordinary talents like Ali Farka…
Ferociously Good Bombino
Bombino Agadez (Cumbancha, 2011) Omara “Bombino” Moctar has cornered cool on his latest Agadez out on the Cumbancha label today. Edgy, slyly hip and wholly…
Sufi Expression in Bollywood Films
Various Artists Sufis at the Cinema: 50 Years of Bollywood Qawwali & Sufi Song 1958-2007 (Times Square Records, 2011) I have to admit a fascination…
Whopping Crossbreed of Genres
Invisible System Street Clan (Harper Diabate Records, 2011) Following up on their Songlines World Music Award Best Newcomer nominated CD Punt (Made in Ethopia), Invisible…
Under the Spell of Azam Ali
Azam Ali From Night to the Edge of Day (Six Degrees Records, 2011) Azam Ali’s hauntingly lovely voice should be a familiar one considering her…
The Best of Celtic Music for Saint Patrick’s Day 2011
If you stand very still, tilt your head and gaze just so into the green you can see St. Patrick’s Day from here. Those of…
Celebrate Music Freedom Day 2011
It’s time to find your favorite censored music and play it loud and proud. As the official sponsor of Music Freedom Day, Freemuse.org has reached…
A Call for the Protest Song
I attended to my first anti-war march when I was three years old. Okay, I was in a stroller and was, technically, pushed. I’ve attended…
Frisell and Cantuária Create Something Extraordinary
Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária Lágrimas Mexicanas (Entertainment One Music, 2011) Guitar guru Bill Frisell and Brazilian singer, musician and songwriter Vinicius Cantuária have teamed…