For my apologies / frame of mind when making the list - check the mentions post : Some notes : Hate to sound like a white suburban teenager, but the hazy lo-fi sounds of Matt Mondanile & friends has been the soundtrack to this year. Beware! too much of this will make you think that you live in a two storey prefab with American siding, have a bunch of lazy teenagers in trucker caps as friends and make love to sleazy girls at the beach. Which is quite the contrary to what [...]
Comfusões A lot of Brazilian people don't know much about Angola. What sparked your interest in that country? And how many times have you been there? Well, the first time I heard Angolan music was when my old friend Moreno Veloso (son of great singer Caetano Veloso) put the Alliance Française compilation "Angola 70's" to play. I felt at home with all that music, melodies, and was really affected by the lyrics, by their struggle for independence, by the way Teta Lando and Bonga sang. Later in my [...]
Last night we heard the news that the father of modern anthropology and noted figure of structuralism Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away, aged 101. An important thinker of 21th century and one of the greats who did much to celebrate different cultures of the world. A proper way to thank him would be with a diverse selection around the world, that's when our friend Ozgur Uckan gave the keyword "Tristesse Tropiques". This selection is a collab between him and me, features music from Brasil, Angola, Hawaii, Egypt & Cuba, more or less around the tropics, and almost exclusively sad. [...]
Too busy with real life stuff at the mo, but been listening to music all day, this is just a quick recap of what kept me movin' and shakin' during the day. Stuff from Nomo 's Invisible Cities on Ubiquity , another one from last week's Carlos Lamartine album we featured , just can't get enough of it. Baden Powell 's Canto de Xangô version on solo guitar, a rare 12" from 70's Jamaica, The Light of Saba and the dub version of their most famous song, Lambs Bread Collie. Finally A Tribe called Quest [...]
Filed under: Around the World "Angola's a really weird place." That comes not from a tourist, not from a xenophobic businessman, not even in an unguarded moment from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who just visited the southwestern African coastal country. It's from an experienced traveler, someone who's spent much time in a wide range of situations in Africa and elsewhere. "This was quite different from any trip I'd gone on to Africa," says Benjamin Lebrave, intrepid voyager and proprietor of the adventurous Akwaaba Music label, some [...]
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