World Archives
10 Remixes, Les Negresses Vertes - Esther Perel, the therapist who wrote Mating in Captivity, has a radical explanation for marital bed death.
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane - On December 9, 1964 --- as I write, forty years ago to the day --- tenor saxophonist John Coltrane gathered his band in a darkened studio in New Jer
Abdel Wright -     Abdel Wright How's this for a Cinderella story? The boy never knew his father.
Ali Farka Toure - March 7, 2006 - Ali Farka Toure died in his sleep last night.
Amadou & Mariam: 'We'll shop with Gwyneth Paltrow' - Decades after they had to leave Mali to launch any kind of career in music, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are its best known citizens.
Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche a Bamako - Do you like music that makes you happy? I don't mean moderately happy, 7.5 on a scale of 10, isn't it a great day happy, kind of sort of happy.
Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali - Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have climbed to the pinnacle of World Music.
Amadou and Mariam: Folila - There’s nothing harder than creating the follow-up to genius. The next Shakespeare play produced after “Hamlet” was….”T
Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective - In warm weather, late at night and in the dark, we listen to Watina, the masterpiece by Andy Palacio and the Garufuna Collective. I wrote ab
Bob Marley & The Wailers , The Wailers - Think back to 1973. The great rock revolution of the ‘60s was over. Music had become what it is now: a business.
Bombino - Christmas comes early this year.
Boubacar Traore - Saving Barnes & Noble: Someone has to do it, or Amazon will rule bookworld.
Caetano Veloso & David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall - For one sensational week each year, the trees blossom and my street gains a canopy of white. In a light breeze, there are waves overhead.
Cesaria Evora - Cesaria Evora died over the weekend at her home on her native island of Sao Vicente. Can't place it? It's one of the Cape Verde islands.
Chants Of India, Ravi Shankar & George Harrison - May all be happy. May all be healthy. May all experience what is good and let no one suffer.
Chavela Vargas (1919-2012) - The challenge of the obituary, a great newspaperman wrote, is to make people care about a person they never heard of and is now dead. Confession: I ne
Divas of Mali - I know why the caged bird sings. Mali once controlled much of the African gold trade; now it's the world's fifth poorest nation.
Djivan Gasparyan - In the middle of the night, when it’s so quiet that you can barely hear the breeze, what kind of music would you want to hear?
Facing Future, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -     Facing Future by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole     Back when he had a Desk Job, Butler automatically began the day by
Fajar di Atas Awan, Suarasama - Fajar di Atas Awan Suarasama Few things are more fun than having something terrific that no one has --- or even knows