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The Desert Blues In Touareg Country
Because access to music is easy in our networked world, when music from far-flung corners trends, it’s also easy to delve into it without any concern for its context. There are ways to both superficially and deeply characterize the appeal of the sound of cultures here-to-for foreign to us. At the surface these musics are exotic, different, danceable, funky. More deeply, because this diffusion works in the other direction too, such musics are syncretic, can contain hooks familiar to us, and, in certain respects, can replicate the ‘sociality’ of music–although without the western listener knowing anything about the context of sociality at the source. So, we well comprehend that this exotic music is communicative, one can move to it, and, that even a strict language barrier doesn’t prevent our interest and enjoyment.
http://casualradio.blogspot.com/2010/06/these-countries-that-are-not-mine.html
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Le Revelateur
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Neko Case – Prison Girls
Can you identify the other players?
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A Buddy and Two Steves
Buddy Miller, he of mad guitar skills, aces songwriter and singer, and on-call auteur for Robert Plant and Emmylou Harris, has defied the usual odds in assembling an all-star confab featuring his picking with that of Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz. Farm meets downtown–and Majestic Silver Strings‘ conceptual variety, understatement, guest vocalists, including Emmylou, Shawn Colvin, (and, hold on, Chocolate Genius,) plus the featured felicitous interplay spark a sterling set. (Interview)
new disc by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Steve Dawson
In the same vein, although not at all low key, is Canadian jack-of-all-string trades Steve Dawson‘s latest recording Nightshade. Dawson’s is a slide and steel guitar specialist, he’s a good enough songwriter to offset his workmanlike singing with a slew of bright, at times country-funky, essays in good time rock and roll. Dawson is similar to Ry Cooder, Sonny Landreth, and Dave Lindley. Good company of course, and the Juno award winner definitely deserves a wider audience in the states, with his third solo recording.
(For pedal steel enthusiasts, his instrumental date from 2008, Telescope, is essential.)
For just a moment I mistook Chicago’s Steve Dawson for his Canadian counterpart, when I searched at Bandcamp. Must have been the steel and slide guitar scattered throughout his fine record from last year, I Will Miss the Trumpet and the Drums. Songs from that record pop up on his live date from April 2011, Live at Simons. A little bit looser than the earlier record, it attractively squares a jazzy ambience–with vibraphone–with Dawson’s mid-tempo folk-rock, while also plugging in some sauntering instrumentals, featuring his band.
He’s on Bandcamp, so one can try out any of his four BC records.
In addition: Steve Dawson web home, where this beguiling video is featured.
Mastodons from steve dawson on Vimeo.
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The Music Scene
“The Music Scene” from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.
A Ninjatune commission featuring Blockhead.
In my late thirties my right hand at The Record Den was Chris, aka DJ Weirton, and he not only was a very cool cat, but he turned me on to a lot of great music. He leveraged our common ground stretched between Lee Perry, Run DMC, and Bill Laswell, so I offered up Muslimgauze, and he offered up a world of chill hip hop and breaks and turntable-ism and dub. Much of this centered on the stable at Ninja Tune, with Coldcut, The Herbalizer, Up Bustle and Out, DJ Food, Roots Manuva, Hexstatic, Wagon Christ, The Cinematic Orchestra, Funki Porcini, Kid Koala, Amon Tobin leading the way.
Ninja Tune has been celebrating it’s twentieth anniversary for the last year, and at the end of March, Rarities was released. The label has churned out a lot of hoppin’ compilations over the years, including a number of deluxe multi-disc sets. Actually, the six disc anniversary set, Ninja Tune XX, would be the place to start the journey. The compelling feature given the sonic mashing found on the various compilations are the threads drawn between different musical sources, so, for example, there is the beguiling stitching together of Cuban music, breaks, dub, and hip hop in the music of Up, Bustle and Out, or the mix of drum and bass and Brazilian music discoverable in Amon Tobin‘s grooves. And, literally, this goes on and on.
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