Tag: music
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Gendjer2: Borderless Music
The world is a better place with music in it and this song in particular brightens my day. It’s apparently based on an older Indonesian political song, bu I haven’t been able to get any (detailed) info on that. I’d like to and, if that happens, I’ll update this post. For now I’d like to present…
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Gloria’s Cause Revisited
Back in December of 2010 I was part of a stage production that took an abstract look at the American Revolutionary War and American culture in general. Directed by Dayna Hanson formerly of 33 fainting Spells, Gloria’s Cause was a fun and messy assortment of scenes that sometimes appeared to come from nowhere. The show…
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Sound Balloons: The Field Recordings of Mr. L’Roy
My dear friend Eugene Fauntleroy is travelling around the world. I know him as an entrepreneur, a dj, a bon vivant; sometimes a dandy, always someone worth engaging with. I recently found that he’s established a Soundcloud page for a set of field recordings he’s creating: http://soundcloud.com/gene-lroy/tracks There’s quite a few things happening here: Qawwalli vs bhangra (a…
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This Blackness It Burns
Whoa, Angolan production team Nirvanas & Beats fire up the heavy kuduro. I’d never heard of these cats until tonight, but I’ve listened to Buraka Som Sistema for a long time. Buraka is a Portuguese kuduro act that can break the night. What I don’t know about kuduro could fill many books. Doesn’t matter, though.…
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dirty bomb! the video!
my friend filastine has finally made a music video. it’s pretty damn fabulous and feels just like our conversations on life and culture. check it and then go grab his new record, ‘dirty bomb,’ at www.postworldindustries.com for the record, i suggested multiple times that he call the new effort ‘dirty dirty bomb bomb,’ but that…