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Blitz the Ambassador live at WOMEX
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Blitz and his band the Embassy Ensemble turned in a high energy set at WOMEX 2011 that had the crowd really going. Here they perform "Akwaaba" from Blitz's latest release,...
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Kiran Ahluwalia at DROM
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Some truly wonderful world music fusions have come from the melding of the South Asian vocal tradition with western influence (or vice versa). It's been going on for years,...
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Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Persian Drum Master
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Mortazavi is not just a fine player, he is an innovator. In this performance on Tombak, captured at WOMEX 2011, he demonstrates many of the techniques he has perfected to e...
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Talilema; a gift from Madagascar
michalshapiro
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I met this lovely duo in Samarkand where they competed for a prize at the Sharq Taronalari festival. They invited me to videotape their rehearsal, which turned out to be lu...
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Striking Sounds from Siberia
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This is one of the bands that really impressed me at WOMEX. The most often heard comment was "that could have been an experimental classical music concert!"
Truly the music...
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Garikayi Tirikoti, Mbira innovator
michalshapiro
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Garikayi Tirikoti plays and explains the Mbira, a beautiful sounding instrument for Zimbabwe, used to contact the ancestral spirits.
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Yemin Blues performs "Um Min Al Yaman" at Le Poisson Rouge
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There's been quite a frisson running through the world music community about this band. And I have to call it a BIG band, since it comprises viola, cello, flute, trumpet an...
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Aboubacar "Badian" Diabate: Malian Guitar Master
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(For more of Michal's original world music videos visit her site at http://inter-muse.com)
This video has been a long time coming. The back story: I've known guitarist/wri...
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Up the Spout/ Occupy Wall Street
michalshapiro
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11/176/11: Zuccotti Park is dead. Long live Occupy Wall St.
Being unemployed is a bummer. God bless Occupy Wall Street. They may not be slick and focused, but at least ...
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Claudia Acuna gives "Cigaritto" a Jazz Infusion
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Although we associate Victor Jara with the protest songs of the Nuevo Cancion movement that arose in Chile in the 1970's, "Cigaritto" does not make any outright protests, ...
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