11 avril 2008

Afrique, la rock alternative

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Tendance. Foals, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer… Plusieurs groupes anglo-saxons dans le vent puisent une partie de leurs influences sur le contin...

Sa Ding Ding: China's next major export?

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Scanning The Independent the other day, we came across a piece about a gloriously named singer called 萨顶顶 ( Sa Ding Ding ) that caught our ...

State Radio

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(...) The Boston-based trio State Radio , which is touring in support of its new CD, “Year of the Crow.” The band’s sophomore album was rel...
10 avril 2008

China's Sa Dingding in line for World Music award

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China's folk fusion queen Sa Dingding has been nominated for a prestigious World Music award by BBC Radio. The multi-talented singer, ...

Africa unite

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Zanzibar's legendary Bi Kidude in As Old as My Tongue Vues d'Afrique film festival showcases a continent in crisis Africans have lon...
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Human Rights Video in a Participatory Culture

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One of our goals at the Center for Future Civic Media is to identify best practices from existing projects which might inform those initiat...
06 avril 2008

Big Blue Ball !

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Big Blue Ball (Limited Edition 150 Gram Blue Vinyl: 2LP) Big Blue Ball Limited Edition blue vinyl – 1000 copies. An albu...

Beauty triumphs throughout Daniel Lanois album

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Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is (Red Floor Records, 2008) The new album by Canadian-born Daniel Lanois is a soundtrack to his film of the s...

Emmanuel Jal Joins MtVu's "Turn It Up" Fight Against Darfur Genocide

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"War Child" Feature Documentary Part of Tribeca Film Festival's Line-Up . Jal's "Warchild" Digital Track Now A...

Folk group performing live for church cash campaign

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A Church fundraising campaign sees its latest event take place next week with outstanding folk group Sheelanagig performing live. Aslackby ...

Youssou N'Dour, Sénégal Inc.

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Youssou N’Dour . Figure de la chanson mondiale, la star de Dakar diversifie ses activités en homme d’affaires avisé. Prudent, il évite la po...
03 avril 2008

Living With Music: A Playlist by A.M. Homes

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On Wednesdays, this blog is the delivery vehicle for “Living With Music,” a playlist of songs from a writer or some other kind of book-world...

Elle est Babel, ma musique

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World. Le forum marseillais professionnel a réuni 12 000 spectateurs ce week-end. Face aux Docks des Suds, où s’est tenu ce week-end le quat...
31 mars 2008

Daniel Lanois Here Is What Is

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This guy quietly has been at the epicenter of some of the most sonically adventurous yet commercially and artistically successful albums rel...
30 mars 2008

Folk duo's Durham debut

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One of the UK's finest folk duos are to make their Durham debut next week. Show of Hands , featuring the combined talents of Steve Knigh...

I predict a riot

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When the musician Björk cried out "Tibet, Tibet " during her concert in Shanghai on March 2, it was always going to be controver...

Daniel Lanois lets his life's work show through

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The notable producer and guitarist reveals his approach to music with a new film and album. Both are titled 'Here Is What Is.' Artf...

The sounds of Scorsese

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As the veteran film-maker releases his concert movie on the Rolling Stones, Nick Coleman applauds a director who's always put music at ...

A world of talent at Jefferson Center

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Angelique Kidjo wants to make you move. She also wants to make you think. Kidjo, whose latest CD, "Djin Djin," won the Grammy fo...
29 mars 2008

La voix du doudouk

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J’ai pour les instruments de musique une passion qui remonte à loin... Disons plus simplement que je suis tombé dedans quand j’étais petit e...