http://en.world.freemusic.cz Weblog about WorldMusic Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:13:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [by Ken Hunt, London] March's stuff and nonsense comes from Mickey Hart and chums, Joni Mitchell, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Bob Bralove and Henry Kaiser, Wajahat Khan and the Medici String Quartet, The Six and Seven-Eights String Band, Jo Ann Kelly, Dillard & Clark, Farida Khanum and Sohan Nath 'Sapera'. Rolling ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/giant-donut-discs%c2%ae-march-2010/ [by Ken Hunt, London] This month's prime quality stuff offers up some seriously magnificent music. This time round on the Banquet Isle with the hole in the middle, Joseph Spence and the Pinder Family, Steeleye Span, Emily Portman, Chumbawamba, Jenny Crook and Henry Sears, Eddi Reader, Lennie Tristano, Kate & ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/giant-donut-discs%c2%ae-february-2010/ [by TC Lejla Bin Nur, Ljubljana] Bonjour (Barclay/Universal, 2009) is Rachid Taha's eighth studio album since he started on his solo path in 1990. During this time he had released at least two Best Ofs, a hefty pile of remixes, extras & vinyl for collectors and a few concert albums ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/rachid-taha-bonjour-barclayuniversal-2009/ [by Ken Hunt, London] Peggy Seeger was one of people like Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Big Bill Broonzy and Cisco Houston whose records introduced Britain to an authentic lexicon of Americana. That word didn't exist in the 1950s but if it had those musicians would have pretty much defined it. ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/peggy-seeger-on-creativity/ [by Ken Hunt, London] Vienna is a hothouse of regional musical idioms. And Trude Mally, who died on 4 June 2009, aged 81 in the Austrian capital, mastered two of the Vienna region's three principal indigenous and typically Viennese folk forms. She sang Weanalieder (Wienerlieder in standard German, literally 'Viennese ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/trude-mally-1928-2009/ The "greatest sarod maker" - sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan [by Ken Hunt, London] The Indian instrument maker and repairer Hemendra Chandra Sen died at his south Kolkata (Calcutta) home on 2 January 2009 at the age of 87. From apprentice to master craftsman, over the course of more than ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/hemendra-chandra-sen-1922-2010/ [by Ken Hunt, London] Who said most months' Giant Donut Discs reflect deadlines and commissions with a pinch of music for pleasure? This month's reflects twinges of pain as well. A little pain goes a long way. This time around, we feast on Davy Graham, Wenzel, Llio Rhydderch and (Fernhill's) ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/giant-donut-discsr-january-2010/ [by Ken Hunt, London] The doom and gloom of recession and depression, inflation and deflation affected people's lives enormously during 2009. Some say it put dampeners on life. Musically though, on balance it was a year of hope, despite losses. New releases Aruna Sairam / Divine Inspiration / World Village Damien Barber & ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/best-of-2009/ [by Ken Hunt, London] Most months' choices reflect deadlines and commissions with a pinch of music for pleasure. As ever, there is no particular order. These selections lodged in the cranium for various reasons. In the main, they reflect events and associations. Inara George came from nowhere. Matt Turner, Peg ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/giant-donut-discsr-december-2009/ [by Ken Hunt, London] [jpeg MT_Circles] In 1959 the impresario Albert Grossman told the journalist Robert Shelton, "The American public is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of folk music." Who he meant if not himself is moot. That year the black folk-blues artist Josh ... http://en.world.freemusic.cz/index.php/mary-travers-1936-2009/