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Nóirín Ní Riain: Vox de Nube - There are voices that crack glass. That’s impressive, always. Nóirín Ní Riain has a voice that stops you in your tracks and fills your eyes with tears and makes all
Nos - Virginia Rodrigues was in her 30s. A manicurist. Professional status: singing Bach in a church choir. Then she got the part of a deaf mute in a play. Not much to do
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Who was bigger than Elvis? Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. But unless you haunt the “World Music” bins, the name is probably unfamiliar. That's not the case anywhere else in
Peter Tosh - When Peter Tosh sang “Get Up, Stand Up” --- you think of it as a Bob Marley song, but Tosh and Marley wrote it together --- that was something to
Radio Tarifa - "Rumba Argelina" is featured on the Guardian's list of "1,000 albums to hear before you die." Rumba began life as African music. Slavery brought it to the New World, then back to
Sandy Bull: Re-Inventions - There are books, music and movies that are popular, and you read about them everywhere. There are books, music and movies that are special, and telling you about them is
SMOD - "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, kinda sorta happy. I mean
Snow Day Special: 10 ways to console yourself because you can’t go to work - Snow days. I remember being zipped into a snowsuit. A hat --- my mother insisted. And then it was outside for hours with my sled, a wooden Flexible Flyer. The
Summer Music - Summer music is reggae. It always was. It ever will be. Late nights, dancing outside, beer from the bottle, joints passed around, the body eradicating the mind. These are the
The Best of Caetano Veloso - The Almadovar film, “Talk to Her” --- did you see it? If so, you cannot possibly have forgotten a musical interlude: a lanky, grey-haired singer/guitarist delivering, almost in
The Harder They Come - As I write, it's 38 degrees in New York. In Negril, where I spent the most joyous holidays of the last decade, I'd be finishing a beach walk, waving off
The Kali Yuga - What if what's going on is bigger than politics, economic inequality, jingoism, racism and sexism? What if we’re experiencing a series of prompts that, taken together, should open our eyes
The Source - Six hundred years ago, Timbuktu was the trading capital of the world. One hundred thousand people lived there, including 25,000 scholars and students. Now the city in dusty, hot Mali
Toots Hibbert: The Otis Redding of Reggae - Toots Hibbert has died. The Times called him "a father of reggae." True, that. I saw it for myself. The year was 1973. The Harder They Come was a
Umalali: The Garifuna Women’s Project - When my heart hardens and my armor needs piercing, I go to the music of women. And if they don't sing in English, the better --- it's the
Welcome to Jamrock - His latest recommendation is Damian Marley, youngest son of you-know-who. This is not exactly an esoteric choice. Marley's last CD won a Grammy; this one entered at #7
World Music Roundup - The Khaled concert was to have been held shortly after 9/11, but what were the chances that Arabs living in Europe were getting on planes bound for New
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - Give this man credit for sincerity. The thank-yous in the booklet of “An Other Cup” --- his first collection of new songs in 28 years ---
Zucchero & Co. - Zucchero & Co.
