Tag: World Music
The Safari Discovers More Ethiopian Music from the Addis Acoustic Project – Tewesta!!
If you’re like me and long for Ethiopian music to be like it was in my childhood in the 1950s and 60s, back when Ethiopia’s pop music of this era predominantly featured acoustic instruments such as the mandolin, accordion, clarinet, and double bass, played along with traditional instruments such as the “Kirar”, …
The Safari Explores the World Fusion Music of Get Tribal – God of Drum!!
Today in Music – Dec 5, 1947 – Happy Birthday, Egberto Gismonti !!
Somewhere over the last several weeks I came across the name of Egberto Gismonti and even listened to his 1980 release Circense. From AllMusic guide…. This excellent release by Egberto Gismonti was conceived under the concept of a circus, an institution that has the ambivalent quality of being at the same …
2013 Jazz from Cuba’s Roberto Fonseca – Yo! (that resonates here in the Philly Area)
2013 Jazz – The Music of Omar Sosa – Eggun: The Afri-Lectric Experience
So the other day MOG by way of their Just for You section introduced me to the music of Omar Sosa, and I’m glad they did!! Sosa is a Cuban born composer, bandleader, and jazz pianist. His newest band Afreecanos, combines Afro Pop, jazz, and a variety of European instruments. The band, which includes musicians …