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In the first two blog posts, I shared with you three CDs that changed my musical journeys in 1999. A year later I discovered a fourth CD that was almost as influential and talk a little about Scandinavian Music. That was the album Tra by the highly successful Swedish group […]
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Jill Scott – A Long Walk (A Touch of Jazz Mix) Jazzanova – Fifths [Jazzanova 6 Sickth Mix] Loungeclash – Lik Dis Karma Shadba – No Noise Mulatu Astatke – Love mood for two Metropolitan Jazz Affair – Escapism Jaga Jazzist – Lithuania Gerald Toto, Richard Bona, Lokua Kanza – […]
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This post is about the amazing music scene in Brazil, where they have blended European and South American elements. Some say the people of Brazil are ancestrally one-third European, one-third African, one-third Native American. This is probably not true, but Brazil may have the highest percentage of “mixed race” people […]
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Music is Not Perfection “Being a musician isn’t about perfection. It’s about passion. People don’t go to shows to hear a perfect performance. They go to feel something.” MusiciansUnite.com
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Playlist at Queen Street Brewhouse, 29 March 2018: (Please support the artists by buying their music) . Suns Of Arqa – Silent Witness (Youth Mix) Teymour Housego & Yves Mesnil – Global Odyssey Ryukyu Underground – Night Joi – Triatma Loop Guru – Shrine Kaya Dub Adrian Sherwood – You […]
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The only thing better than music is discovering new music. I was alerted by a follower on Twitter to this video: Mountain Kharkihiraa by Altain Orgil (the artist name is misspelled in the video description). Mongolian techno? I had never heard of such a thing much less the artist and […]
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Pardesi This is a rare documentary, Pardesi, filmed in 1991 by French filmmakers Martina Catella and Michel Follin, produced by PMA-Ethnies Visions. Most of the dialogue is in English with French subtitles throughout. The word “pardesi” means foreigner or stranger in (ironically) both Urdu and Hindi, from par (other) and desi […]
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Playlist at Queen St. Brewhouse 26 January 2018. 18:38:13 – Makyo – Pura 18:51:56 – EarthRise SoundSystem – Ajnabee 18:58:14 – Cell – Zaz 18:58:14 – Stop after this track: Disabled 19:08:03 – DJ Drez – Krishna’s Dub (feat. Marti Nikko and Domonic Dean Breaux) 19:15:14 – Cheb I Sabbah […]
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2017 listener stats for the Global Chillout station. Country # listeners Average time (min) United States 201355 41 Unknown IP 186698 47 Germany 41259 61 Canada 37822 74 United Kingdom 34095 71 Russian Federation 19390 42 Japan 18186 39 Australia 14007 73 Netherlands 12848 56 Spain 11463 61 Mexico […]
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Was a story about Spotify censored by online tabloid HuffPost? The article was an expose of a closed-door meeting between artists’ rights activist Blake Morgan of I Respect Music and executives of Spotify, the music corporation. Morgan is a regular contributor to HuffPost, and he published there an account of […]
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