Blog: Spinner.com

Filed under: Around the World Generally, when people are building music from traditional sources, they'll seek out the best examples of the models. Or not. In gathering samples and ideas for 'Paspanga,' the new album by Burkina Electric - a collaborative effort of four artists from Burkina Faso with Austrian-born composer-musician Lukas Ligeti and German electronicist Pyrolator - a particularly bad example wound up standing out. Ligeti was strolling around an open-air market in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou a few years ago. [...]