http://www.worldmusicwire.com/ While the era of the mash-up only hit mainstream ears in recent years, unabashed hybrids have been the norm in Miami for decades. It’s the hotbed of a young, club-crazy art scene. It’s the playground of the East, perched provocatively on the Atlantic Rim, where centuries of commerce and migration have formed a crossroads that unites Africa, Western Europe, the Ca
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http://www.worldmusicwire.com/ Dancer and percussionist Max Pollak has performed for Fidel Castro one night and rural Cuban sugar workers the next. He has painstakingly transcribed a Mongo Santamaria timbales solo for six tap dancers and has traded moves (and shoes) with Cuba???s rumba masters. It all started when Pollak realized he not only wanted to play Afro-Cuban music, he wanted to d...
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World Music News Wire Line-up to feature Calypso Rose, Chicha Libre, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Hot 8 Brass Band, Kailash Kher???s Kailasa, L&O, La Troba Kung-f??, Marcio Local, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Tanya Tagaq, and Watcha Clan .WNYC.org to Webcast Live All Three StagesTickets are $35 for general public (18 ) through November 30, and $40 ther...
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World Music News Wire Afrofunk band Chopteeth came from an unexpected place. Labor organizer and guitarist Robert Fox was mourning the sudden, heartbreaking death of a close friend in a car accident. ???It was a terrible, terrible thing,??? remembers Fox. ???I came back from this and thought, ???Wow, that could have been me!??? It made me assess what???s important in life.??? After some ...
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World Music News Wire A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan???s bloody civil war at age six, winds up in a refugee camp where he regains his dignity, but not his childhood. An outspoken singer is compelled to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of police intimidation at her concerts and a pervasi...
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World Music News Wire A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan’s bloody civil war at age six, winds up in a refugee camp where he regains his dignity, but not his childhood. An outspoken singer is compelled to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of police intimidation at her concerts and a pervasive.
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World Music News Wire Hambone. Gumboot. Palmas. Kecak. From the tundra to the tropics, people can???t resist the urge to snap, clap, step, slap, holler, and sing artful music. This universal resonator???our bodies???and its myriad global sounds will ignite audiences at the First International Body Music Festival in San Francisco and Oakland (December 2-7, 2008), featuring body musicians perfor...
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World Music News Wire In a room on the edge of a tropical forest in Rio de Janeiro, five friends lay down tracks on hacked software, coordinating their takes with the purring of fist-size cicadas and the occasional cry of a monkey. The sounds of this global city bleed through every beat on Rio hip hop crew A Filial ???s $1,99 , out on Verge Records , an independent label dedicated to supportin...
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World Music News Wire In a room on the edge of a tropical forest in Rio de Janeiro, five friends lay down tracks on hacked software, coordinating their takes with the purring of fist-size cicadas and the occasional cry of a monkey. The sounds of this global city bleed through every beat on Rio hip hop crew A Filial 's $1,99 , out on Verge Records , an independent label dedicated to supporting ...
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World Music News Wire Decades ago, when young Lakota prankster Charles Wise Spirit was constantly tucking snakes and hornet nests into his teachers??? desks, he was saving something precious. By getting kicked out of every government boarding school in the region, he was saved from their ???civilizing??? influence. And Wise Spirit became one of the last links to the power of Lakota song.Now, ...
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World Music News Wire Decades ago, when young Lakota prankster Charles Wise Spirit was constantly tucking snakes and hornet nests into his teachers' desks, he was saving something precious. By getting kicked out of every government boarding school in the region, he was saved from their "civilizing" influence. And Wise Spirit became one of the last links to the power of Lakota song.Now, in a v...
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World Music News Wire The origins of Latin roots music ensemble Sol y Canto are in musical hope-making. Founders Brian and Rosi Amador's musical collaboration began when they joined a peace expedition to Nicaragua; U.S. artists going to perform and to witness what was really happening there in the 1980s. "We were struck by so many people living in extreme poverty, in dangerous and horrible c...
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World Music News Wire Surf-rock guitars, hallucinogens, and a plane crash. It might sound like a familiar ???60s or ???70s rock tale, but this one emerged thousands of miles away from the ears tuned into British and American rock. It took place on the edge of Peru???s Amazon; the psychedelics were ayahuasca (made from the bark of a jungle vine); and the musicians were dressed in the garb of Sh...
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World Music News Wire Almost a century ago, after a thousand years of Persian poetry, there was a major shift. It paralleled a seemingly global movement in which older artistic languages were transformed. In the West, this transformation can be seen in art (Kandinsky), music (Schoenberg), and literature (James Joyce). It happened in other parts for the world. In Persian poetry, maybe it was a ...
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World Music News Wire This is the story of Tibetan Chants for World Peace, a collection of The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir's transcendent chants, some of which have never been heard outside the walls of the Gyuto Tantric Monastic University, until they were recorded by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart.Shimmering above a tone so low it seems to boom from the earth itself, the overtone chants of G...
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World Music News Wire To understand power-string band Frigg, you must take a mental journey to the small Finnish village of J??rvel??. ???The joke is that if your name is J??rvel??, you were born with a fiddle in your hand. So they always ask, ???Are you one of those J??rvel??s??????? explains band leader and bass player Antti J??rvel??, who like many people in this Western region of Finland ca...
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World Music News Wire While on his musical mecca to Africa, Jayme Stone rarely let locals know of his accolades and burgeoning recording career in North America. He went to immerse himself in the high-spirited soundscapes, the daily life and lore of Africa. What he came home with was knowledge of two banjo ancestors never revealed before in the West, aspects of African music that eluded its Am...
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World Music News Wire While on his musical mecca to Africa, Jayme Stone rarely let locals know of his accolades and burgeoning recording career in North America. He went to immerse himself in the high-spirited soundscapes, the daily life and lore of Africa. What he came home with was knowledge of two banjo ancestors never revealed before in the West, aspects of African music that eluded its Am...
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World Music News Wire An era of re-definition and experimentation, the seventies had a burgeoning fascination with science-fiction as the age of technology began to blossom. It was also a time of great musical innovation with the dawn of the remix, disco, and hip-hop DJ???s borrowing from all over the musical map and meshing new sounds???many of them influenced by technology???to create music t...
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World Music News Wire An era of re-definition and experimentation, the seventies had a burgeoning fascination with science-fiction as the age of technology began to blossom. It was also a time of great musical innovation with the dawn of the remix, disco, and hip-hop DJ's borrowing from all over the musical map and meshing new sounds—many of them influenced by technology—to create music that
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