Latest Latin Loves
I’m a Latin Lover. No, that doesn’t mean I go about charming women with Antonio Banderas-like charisma (that’ll be the day); it’s my recurring…
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Day 4 of the World Music Central gift guide. We’ll be posting new items each day so come back and often as all the items…
View More 2014 Gift Guide – World Music Central, Day 4Bolivia’s Pujillay and Ayarichi Music and Dances Inscribed in 2014 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported this week that Pujillay and Ayarichi music and dances of the Yampara culture are…
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Southern Soul-Blues by David Whiteis has been chosen the Blues Book of the Year in the 2014 Critic’s Poll of Living Blues magazine as part…
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Day 3 of the World Music Central gift guide. We’ll be posting new items each day so come back and often as all the items…
View More 2014 Gift Guide – World Music Central, Day 3Jewish Devotional Songs for the 21st Century
Pharaoh’s Daughter Dumiyah (Magenta, 2014) Pharaoh’s Daughter album Dumiyah presents a series of devotional Jewish songs with a mix of traditional music and cutting edge…
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Day 2 of the World Music Central gift guide. We’ll be posting new items each day so come back and often as all the items…
View More 2014 Gift Guide – World Music Central, Day 2Isukuti dance of Western Kenya Inscribed for Urgent Safeguarding
The Isukuti dance of the Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya was inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of…
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There’s a dark corner under a bed somewhere or a specific closet shelf where some freakishly organized person, probably with a fair amount of obsessive…
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Konkoma – KonKoma (Soundway SNDW 044CD, 2012) Konkoma is an excellent London-based Afro-funk band inspired by the sounds of 1970s Ghanaian music. The group was…
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