Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Around the World As Luaka Bop celebrates 21 years of bringing crucial music from far-flung locales to mainstream global attention -- sounds from Brazil to Bollywood, from Africa to Okinawa -- with a compilation CD, 'Twenty First Century Twenty First Year,' label president Yale Evelev wants to get a jump on the next 21. To that end, he's been out in the field tracking down fresh, undiscovered sounds from intriguing cultures. On one trek not long ago, he found himself having to navigate some odd circumstances just to experience [...]