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Tag Archives: Music
Song(s) for the Road 6 – An African New Year’s Day
I’m not one for resolutions, for they don’t work, but I do have a couple of traditions for New Year’s Day. One, shared with a longtime friend, is to check what day is Easter on the calendar, and then to … Continue reading
Posted in Music review, Odd ones out, Random memories
Tagged Addis, Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba, Africa, African music, Afrique, Afrobeat, Algeria, Black Company, Bombino, Elwan, Ethio-Jazz, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Farka Touré, Fatoumata Diawara, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Foli, Funk, Guinée, Guinea, Imarhan, Jazz, KEXP, Lagos, London, Mali, Malinke, Mulatu Astatke, Music, music review, Musique de l'Afrique, New York, Nigeria, No Accommodation for Lagos, Ofo, Rokia Traore, Songhoy Blues, Tamikrest, Ténéré Tàqqàl, Teneré, Tinariwen, Tony Allen, Womad, Youtube
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Song(s) for the Road 5 – Waylaid by the War on Drugs
It was meant to be a busy afternoon. I’ve spent the day delivering a course, the first time in my life being a trainer rather than a trainee (if only my mother could’ve seen me!) and I’ve returned to 60 … Continue reading
Posted in Music review, Odd ones out, Random memories
Tagged Music, Music for the road, music review, Odd ones out, The War on Drugs
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Four years and two days.
I nearly missed, I must confess. Had it not been for the urge of seeing Shut Up and Play the Hits that, at regular intervals, comes to haunt me I’d have probably missed it altogether (and you’d have escaped this post, possibly). … Continue reading
Widening my cultural horizons – classical concert night
Have you ever read those jokes where books, historical events or theatre plays are synthetized in one or two sentences? You know, those where Homer’s Odyssey is condensed in something along the lines of “A man leaves home for twenty … Continue reading
Songs for the Road 4 – A slightly introspective Christmas
This year will be an odd Christmas, at least for me. In the last 12 months, in facts, my biological family has shrunk – through deaths and inheritance-caused greed – from 8 members to two, my brother and father. It … Continue reading
Posted in Music review, Reflections
Tagged African Blues, Ali Farka Touré, Apparat, Blues, djembe, Electronica, Ellen Allien, IBM, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, Movement, Music, music review, Orchestra of Bubbles, Remix, Songs for the road, Techno, Tennis, Turin
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Travelling through a country’s music – Mali
It all started with two groups and neither of them were Malian. Ofo The Black Company was the first and I discovered them in the Botswana special of Top Gear: James May was overtaking, in a old and battered beige … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Music review, Reflections
Tagged Africa, African music, Ali Farka Touré, Amadou et Mariam, Blues, Boubacar Traore, Desert Blues, France, Mali, Music, Operation Serval, Rokia Traore, Samba Touré, Sidi Touré, Songhoy Blues, Tamikrest, Tinariwen, Toumast
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Scotland, Part 2. Reasons why you should visit Edinburgh before anywhere else in Britain.
Later this year, Scotswomen and men will be queuing up at polling stations to have their say about what’s probably the most important decision they’ll collectively make in their life time. Given the historic importance of such an event I … Continue reading
Posted in All things food, Overlooked locations, Scotland, UK
Tagged Edinburgh, Food, Music, Random memories, Scotland
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Scotland, Part 1. Winter, or “what’s that white stuff falling from the sky?”
Later this year, Scotswomen and men will be queuing up at polling stations to have their say about what’s probably the most important decision they’ll collectively make in their life time. Given the historic importance of such an event I … Continue reading
Posted in London, Overlooked locations, Public Transportation, Random memories, Scotland, UK
Tagged Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, London, Music, Scotland, Snow, UK, Winter
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Songs for the road No. 2
I’m currently cruising at some 30,000 ft between London and Budapest, with a funny 9-months toddler sitting next to me, his dad profiting of the empty middle seat between us… And what’s bangin’ in my eardrums? Read on. Left Lane … Continue reading
Posted in Music review, Reflections
Tagged LCD Soundsystem, Left Lane Cruiser, Music, Music for the road, Queens of the Stone Age
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Songs for the road No. 1
Are you one of those people who cannot stop from humming a tune whilst en route, or that associate a record to a particular trip? Then you’re not alone! These are the albums I’m listening to while travelling these days, … Continue reading
Posted in Music review, Random memories, Reflections
Tagged Kraftwerk, Left Lane Cruiser, Modeselektor, Music, Music for the road, Tamikrest
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