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March 9, 2006
Modern-sounding African music to get excited about.
Issa Bagayogo's CDs, Timbuktu and Tassoumakan
They make me feel good.Click here for my review, including links to song samples.
(I Borrowed them from the local library - what a great resource.)
December, 2005
I've just watched two music DVDs. Highlights for me:
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival:
Robert Randolph
Doyle Bramhall II
John Mayer
Joe Walsh - this guy still has the energy and musical ability he had in the seventies.
David Hidalgo (He's the guy I've always enjoyed in Los Lobos)
And, The Strat Pack, Live in Concert:
Joe Walsh, again, and
David Gilmour.
Here's a song I play over and over, by Glen Velez. It's called Pan Eros, from his CD of the same name. I have the song here on a Times Square Records compilation CD called The World of Drums and Percussion. I want to find the original CD.
I can't find much on the net for you in the way of links to pages about this song. But the current sound at Glen's home page is indicative of the drumming and percussion soul you'll hear on it. It's persistent and powerful enough to get under my skin and takes me somewhere, repeatedly. Wait for about three and a half minutes.
With a picture, http://www.emusic.com/artist/10560/10560752.html
http://www.artist-shop.com/cmp/
I don't have an image to go with the song, but wanted to pass it on anyway.
Subwoofer recommended.
05/05/05
This is good news to me.
Cream Reunion
Rolling Stone link
Especially this picture, from the above site.
Ginger Baker is 65, and he did it. Hallelujah. An icon of the sixties survives. I am happy.
But ya know,
(he writes a couple of months later,
while listening to the song...)
...there may never be a more eloquent,
more definitive moment in live rock,
than Cream's original live recording of Crossroads.
I have trouble seeing or imagining it.
I doubt that ANYONE could perform that song
the way it was originally recorded for the Wheels of Fire album,
March 10, 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco.
From an e-mail tonight,
And after a day like today, I'm enjoying getting lost in an image or two, a bit of writing, and a new CD that the library bought. It's one I had a record of in the 70s.
Ralph Towner's,
Solstice
Even as soon as they handed it to me, the wonderful tree image on the cover almost made me laugh, because I love it so much.
Kind of spacey jazz.
(Here's a mouthful for ya:)
Sophisticated-and-pure-but-organic.
Yep.
70's ECM European-sounding - great stuff.
The tracks on my sticky note:
1. Oceanus
3. Drifting Petals
6. Piscean Dreams
Wow.
Makes me scared, just to think of what to play next.
On Adonis Puentes' CD, Vida, the song I can't stop playing is
track one, Comerciante. Adonis has this song available on his website
and you can download and play it while you view images from his 2005,
Victoria Folkfest concert here athttp://www.swinehall.com/music/puentes05.html
February, 2005
If you like Eric Burdon, check out the video of him with other beloved faces from the sixties. It's called Once Upon a Time, at http://www.ericburdon.com
Mary Jane Lamond,
What a great song!