I posted this without comment at first for the New Years surprise. But I think most of my few readers were out partying for New Years at the time when they might normally look at this blog, so they’re going to see it late anyway. Oh, well. I do think this is just the perfect [...]
Also found via Pull Up The People… This is M.I.A.’s “World Town” set to Bollywood (and Kollywood) film clips. This is fantastic!
There’s a sort of M.I.A. fan site that I’ve been visiting now and then for the past year and a half, which I think I’ve mentioned before, called Pull Up The People, or Missing In Acton (depending on where you look for the title)… I’ve enjoyed going there not only to get news about M.I.A.s latest [...]
Sometimes I post items about music originating from a certain place to coincide with world events. Certainly, this was the case when I delved into Bangla music as Bangladesh was trying to recover from the cyclone. However, when I posted the latest item, about a singer who was born in the North-West Frontier of Pakistan, [...]
A couple of months back, I wrote a post on Nazia Iqbal, a singer from the North-West Frontier of Pakistan who is very popular in that area and in Afghanistan. That was a more traditional example of Pashto music (if I’m not mistaken), and this is something a bit different. Personally, I think it’s great [...]
Thank you to the individual who informed me (well, actually informed a bunch of people) that December 24 is Mohammed Rafi’s birthday (born December 24, 1924). I think Rafi must be everybody’s farvorite male Bollywood playback singer ever. Looking at messages from people who are really involved in Indian music (and/or grew up on it), I see that some [...]
Rachel Brice, a famous Tribal Fusion belly dancer, dancing to Bassnectar & Kraddy.
From the Bassnectar site (above):
Fusing elements of midtempo breakbeats, big beat, old school hip hop and dub, DnB, glitch, IDM, electronica, death metal, grindcore, punk rock, alternative, folk, swing, and jazz; and sampling anything from the human history of sound and music, Bassnectar might be [...]
