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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Recent actions also include the offer of a 2 months’ work placement at the Timitar Festival in Agadir, Morocco, to young Ghanaian professional Edna Kankam, who was selected after a call for applications published on the social media.
From Indie Rock to Feminist Hip-Hop: A Playlist Guide to the Guatemalan Underground
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
A lot of these releases lack the media exposure that music from other countries enjoys, so this 17-song collection serves as handy guide to Guatemala’s indie music world.
Remembering South African Pianist, Composer Bheki Mseleku
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
In 1987, the late Ronnie Scott (never the most energetic of PRs, even for his own establishment) broke his usual code of leaving the jazz media alone, and took to ringing journalists up to tell them about Bheki Mseleku, the self-taught Natal-born pianist, saxophonist, guitarist and singer.
The glass harmonica’s unlikely comeback
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Solving a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, consisting of dozens of glass bowls, and referred to as a glass harmonica.
Giacinto Scelsi, the count who invented drone music
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Scelsi can without exaggeration be considered a true forerunner of drone music and minimalism, who was able to anticipate La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue and Nurse With Wound.
How White Kids Stole House Music from Black Aunties
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
So goes “The Word” — a classic a cappella by Chicago producer Aaron-Carl Ragland, since sampled on countless white label records played in club basements from the East Village to Edinburgh.
Highlife : Le cœur et l’âme de la musique populaire du Ghana
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
De ses débuts en tant que musique pour les élites urbaines à son apogée comme l’hymne du mouvement de libération au Ghana, la musique highlife est restée le socle de la culture populaire ouest-africaine.
1er Forum Africain de la Musique
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Organisé par le Conseil Africain de la musique et en collaboration avec Arterial Network, le Forum africain de la musique réunira des professionnels de l'industrie pour discuter des principaux problèmes rencontrés par l'industrie de la musique à travers le continent.
The cosmic sound of Cape Verde in 1980s
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
A long title for a compilation with a fascinating story.
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