Another Trip Around the World Music Blogosphere
Tuesday November 4, 2008
Get your passports ready, we're heading out again!
The big and exciting news in the world music business community is that WOMEX, the major international world music conference, wrapped up this past weekend in Sevilla, Spain. I expect to start seeing some exciting wrap-up blogs soon (when everyone gets caught up on their sleep), but to tide us over, World Music Central has an insightful wrap-up of WOMEX by the numbers. I wish I could've been there but, as I've been promising myself for years, I'm gonna make it next year!
Over at SoundRoots, there's a review of a new CD by a Bay Area based Balkan Brass Band (say that five times fast!) called Brass Menazari. I'm not familiar with this group, but SoundRoots also gives us an MP3 of their song Kozarica Kolo. I can't say I'm 100% hooked quite yet, but what I hear sounds promising!
I have been really digging Calcopyrite Communications insightful blogs about some of the issues surrounding the world music industry lately. They also post CD reviews and playlists, which are great, but they've got a real knack for explaining some of the more complex legal issues surrounding, say, internet radio royalties, in a way that mere mortals can actually understand what they're saying.
Steve Hochman over at Spinner.com is always great for a thoughtful interview, and this time around, he's talking with Miles Copeland, whose music, which features both Arabic and Western pop musicians, has recently been featured in a PBS documentary. You don't read a lot of stories which feature Donald Rumsfeld, Sting, and Courtney Cox... it's definitely worth a gander!
And right here at About.com, my friend Kim Ruehl (our intrepid guide to Folk Music), has a fun little piece about what I call the frottoir, but is also called a rub board or washboard... it's one of those scary instruments that makes sheer magic in good hands, and just makes horrible top-volume noise in less capable hands. I, unfortunately, fall into the latter category.
Read any good world music blogs lately? Leave a comment and let us know!
The big and exciting news in the world music business community is that WOMEX, the major international world music conference, wrapped up this past weekend in Sevilla, Spain. I expect to start seeing some exciting wrap-up blogs soon (when everyone gets caught up on their sleep), but to tide us over, World Music Central has an insightful wrap-up of WOMEX by the numbers. I wish I could've been there but, as I've been promising myself for years, I'm gonna make it next year!
Over at SoundRoots, there's a review of a new CD by a Bay Area based Balkan Brass Band (say that five times fast!) called Brass Menazari. I'm not familiar with this group, but SoundRoots also gives us an MP3 of their song Kozarica Kolo. I can't say I'm 100% hooked quite yet, but what I hear sounds promising!
I have been really digging Calcopyrite Communications insightful blogs about some of the issues surrounding the world music industry lately. They also post CD reviews and playlists, which are great, but they've got a real knack for explaining some of the more complex legal issues surrounding, say, internet radio royalties, in a way that mere mortals can actually understand what they're saying.
Steve Hochman over at Spinner.com is always great for a thoughtful interview, and this time around, he's talking with Miles Copeland, whose music, which features both Arabic and Western pop musicians, has recently been featured in a PBS documentary. You don't read a lot of stories which feature Donald Rumsfeld, Sting, and Courtney Cox... it's definitely worth a gander!
And right here at About.com, my friend Kim Ruehl (our intrepid guide to Folk Music), has a fun little piece about what I call the frottoir, but is also called a rub board or washboard... it's one of those scary instruments that makes sheer magic in good hands, and just makes horrible top-volume noise in less capable hands. I, unfortunately, fall into the latter category.
Read any good world music blogs lately? Leave a comment and let us know!
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