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Articles tagged "world music" Travel FeaturePathways to Creation: Exploring Sacred Music in Fes, Moroccoby Derek Beres[21.Jul.08] :. PopMatters goes to Morocco for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to honor and share the world’s great spiritual music traditions. At this 14th annual festival, Derek Beres would hear the indigenous sounds of Vietnam, Tunisia, Norway, Pakistan, Belgium, America, and much more.  Music ReviewDobet Gnahoré: Na Afrikiby Deanne Sole[26.Jun.07] :. It's disappointing to discover that Cumbancha's latest release is an album that asks to be tossed in the "Africans With Nice Voices Singing Nice Songs" drawer.  Music ReviewBenjamin Escoriza: Alevanta!by Deanne Sole[8.May.07] :. After listening to Alevanta! it's easy to think of this as the fifth Radio Tarifa album that never was.  Music ReviewVusi Mahlasela: Guiding Starby Aarik Danielsen[23.Apr.07] :. Though its 16 tracks vary in subject, style, and dynamic, each seems to be an unadulterated cry from Mahlasela's soul.  Music ReviewStephen Marley: Mind Controlby Colin McGuire[20.Apr.07] :. Middle Marley stays true to formula of reggae while brothers keep searching.  Music ReviewVarious Artists: Backspin: A Six Degrees 10 Year Anniversary Projectby Heather Snell[20.Apr.07] :. There is pleasure in hearing our favourite songs "indigenized" by artists who, thanks to the proliferation of independent music labels, are made readily available at mainstream music retailers. The Marleys and Mind Controlby Derek Beres[5.Apr.07] :. The efforts of major corporations to disarm their consumers is a reminder that music used to be judged by how it made the listener feel, not how many times it was downloaded. PopMatters Pick Music ReviewTinariwen: Aman Imanby Deanne Sole[16.Mar.07] :. Tinariwen plays rock guitar with a rangy American sound, broad and lazy and slow. Featured Article Column: South MeridianBrazilian Choro Music: The Oldest Jazzby Marcelo Ballvé[1.Mar.07] :. Before jazz, before samba and bossa nova, before even Stravinsky had been born, musicians in 19th century Rio were testing their virtuosity playing choro tunes. Tropicália: Brazil’s Musical Revolution Turns 40by Marcelo Ballvé[2.Feb.07] :. Tropicália would combine the cosmopolitan sensibilities and lyrical precision of rock with the entire geological depth of Brazil's considerable musical tradition. Desert Tranceby Derek Beres[8.Dec.06] :. These are the sort of flowers that bloom in the Sahara Desert: thumb pianos, distorted amps, muddy blues, and traditional chants. Tartit: Abacabokby Deanne Sole[9.Nov.06] :. Comparisons between Tartit and the better-known Tinariwen seem inevitable, but, really, there's no reason why one should be confused with the other, or why you shouldn't like both in different ways. Tinariwen: Amassakoulby Gypsy Flores[5.Jan.05] :. Although Halloween night was cold and cloudy in Santa Cruz, the desert winds blew in soft and sultry toward the Kuumbwa Jazz Center to quite possibly one of the finest concerts of the year of 2004 in... Various Artists: Festival in the Desertby Gypsy Flores[13.Jan.04] :. More than anything else, the Festival in the Desert is a symbol of unity and peace between nomadic tribes. The Tamashek of northern Mali and Niger, who had been warring for years, had recently burned... Tinariwen: The Radio Tisdas Sessionsby Barbara Flaska[17.Jan.03] :. This debut album by Tinariwen, also known as the Tuareg Rebel Blues Band, can seem the antithesis of Western pop music, even that generated by the engines currently driving the world music markets. |
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