blog from prague
yo musiclovers, greetings from Prague where I am on a great assignment that I can’ tell you about. today me and laura bush are 63, which I can’t relate to at all, but time doesn’t care whether you relate to it or not. Claude Levi-Strauss is dead at 100. I remember running by a plate-lipped …Read More
#45: Tracing the interconnected origins of world music from flamenco to the blues.
Tracing the interconnected origins of world music—from flamenco to the blues—Alex Shoumatoff travels to India in search of the Gypsy music of Rajasthan.
By Alex Shoumatoff
The overnight train from New Delhi to Rajasthan is called the Pink City Express, and at nine in the morning it pulled into the big, seething capital city of Jaipur. After …Read More
#25: A Blues Lover’s Pilgrimage to the Motherland
By Alex Shoumatoff
Bamako : A Blues Lover’s Pilgrimage to the Motherland
There is at first glance nothing about Bamako to suggest that it is one of the hottest music spots on the planet. Bamako is the capital of Mali, the parched, land-locked West African country, two thirds of which is in the Sahara desert, which was …Read More
#24: A Slideshow from the Congo
By Craig Lapp
The collection of slideshows are in Apple Quicktime. Click here to download Quicktime if you don’t already have it.
The best way to view these slideshows is to Right click, and select “save target as” or “save file” and save these to your hard drive.
If you are using a Mac, hold the “option” key …Read More