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Deanne Sole

Features

Wednesday, April 1 2009

WOMADelaide 2009

From the fanaticism that surrounded Seun Kuti’s Saturday night performance to the seated crowd that succumbed to Dona Rosa’s smile, WOMADelaide was a mix of sights, styles, and instruments.


Thursday, December 11 2008

The Best World Music of 2008

Albums from India, Central America, Australia, Quebec, and Ethiopia are but a globetrotting fraction of the year's best music from around the world.


Wednesday, July 9 2008

Saint Vinnie

Deanne Sole journeys Melbourne's charity outlets, exploring the fundamentals of the down under St. Vincent de Paul outlet: Bargains, surprises, drunks.


Tuesday, December 18 2007

Kids Don't Go and Buy Anything Out of This Section: World Music 2007

As a category world music is both useful and frustrating. It puts CDs on the shelves and prevents people picking them up. It is the other-than category: other-than rock, other-than indie, other-than everything. It is the whole world and nothing definite.


Tuesday, December 12 2006

East and West: World Music in 2006

From Thailand to Tanzania, from France to Cuba and Romania: Deanne Sole's wrap-up of the year's best world music trips the globe fantastic.


Reviews

Monday, May 13 2013

2cellos: In2ition

They could have done something interesting with this idea, something exaggerated and unlovely.


Wednesday, May 8 2013

Nick Brooke: Border Towns

Nick Brooke wants you to know he is working with fragments and the fragments come mainly from radio tunes broadcast in the southern-border towns of the United States.


Tuesday, May 7 2013

Abbass Mehrpouya: Soul Raga

He has the Bollywood knack of winning you over to a song by going that extra step to the edge of too-much.


Monday, May 6 2013

Various Artists: Delicious Peace: Coffee, Music & Interfaith Harmony in Uganda

There's a kind of endemic patience in the fabric of these performances, a mood that doesn't depend on the speed of the song.


Friday, April 26 2013

Various Artists: Tisheh o Risheh

Strings, strings -- violins, violins, streaming aside like milky curtains.


Ana Moura: Desfado [12.Apr.13]
Nuru Kane: Exile [10.Apr.13]
BLO: Step Three [8.Aug.12]
Neung Phak: 2 [27.Jul.12]
Sagapool: Sagapool [30.Mar.12]
Kufuki: Kufuki [21.Feb.12]
Frigg: Grannen [17.Oct.11]
O Bando: O Bando [12.Aug.11]
Rob: Funky Rob Way [15.Jun.11]
Embrujo: Embrujo [7.Apr.11]
Ami Dang: Hukam [6.Apr.11]
Telepath: Crush [22.Feb.11]
Donso: Donso [2.Dec.10]
Carlou D: Muzikr [14.Oct.10]
Amabutho: Sikelela [20.Sep.10]
Trúbrot: Trúbrot [30.Aug.10]
Óðmenn: Óðmenn [24.Aug.10]
Lúnasa: Lá Nua [28.May.10]
Amanaz: Africa [5.May.10]
SambaDá: Gente! [26.Feb.10]
Razia: Zebu Nation [24.Feb.10]
Fredrik: Trilogi [19.Feb.10]
Mai Lev: Birthday [18.Jan.10]
Kiila: Tuota Tuota [24.Sep.09]
Jaqee: Kokoo Girl [24.Aug.09]
Lura: Eclipse [18.Aug.09]
Mamer: Eagle [25.Jun.09]
Musk Ox: Musk Ox [22.May.09]
Yonlu: Yonlu [15.Apr.09]
The Isles: Troika [26.Mar.09]
Asa: Asa (Asha) [10.Mar.09]
Bio Ritmo: Bionico [11.Nov.08]
Tagaq: Auk/Blood [17.Sep.08]
Lia Ices: Necima [4.Sep.08]
Funkadesi: Yo Baba [26.Aug.08]
Kakande: Dununya [29.Jul.08]
Sa Dingding: Alive [28.Jul.08]
Isol / Zypce: Sima [30.Jun.08]
Sonantes: Sonantes [23.Jun.08]
Toumast: Ishumar [3.Mar.08]
Pascal: Galgberget [27.Feb.08]
CéU: Remixed EP [11.Jan.08]
Saba: Jidka [16.Oct.07]
Circo: Cursi [4.Oct.07]
Nawal: Aman [30.Aug.07]
Various: Colombia! [16.Jul.07]
Islaja: Ulual YYY [22.Jun.07]
Various: Merdeka [19.Jun.07]
Burbuja: Burbuja [10.May.07]
Z: Mikabe [27.Feb.07]
Bunalim: Bunalim [19.Jan.07]
Kamijo: Martha [12.Jan.07]
Boom Pam: Boom Pam [12.Dec.06]
Tartit: Abacabok [9.Nov.06]
Dýrðin: Dýrðin [31.Oct.06]
Lataye: Tou Manbre [20.Sep.06]
Kad: Société [19.Sep.06]
JPP: Artology [6.Sep.06]
Lulendo: Angola [9.Aug.06]
Kal: Kal [17.May.06]
Nuru Kane: Sigil [17.Mar.06]
Samite: Embalasasa [27.Feb.06]
Frigg: Oasis [21.Dec.05]

Blogs

Thursday, December 13 2012

Bubbling Under the Top 75: Filastine - 'LOOT'

PopMatters spotlights a few additional 2012 albums that didn't quite crack the Best 75 list.


Friday, December 18 2009

Various Artists: Legends of Benin

Various Artists: Legends of Benin - Analog Africa [$25.98]


Monday, September 21 2009

Lovesong by Elizabeth Jolley


Thursday, August 27 2009

Bible Readings for the Home Circle


Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (Re:Print) [28.Apr.09]
Ann Radcliffe (Re:Print) [19.Sep.08]
In appreciation: Bruno Schulz (Re:Print) [2.Oct.07]
The great Christina Stead (Re:Print) [24.Sep.07]
Author appreciation: Henry Treece (Re:Print) [13.Aug.07]
Depth of Field: Big Girls and Little Heroes (Short Ends and Leader) [20.Jun.07]

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