Since I don’t have anything in particular I feel like picking, I’ll let iTunes shuffle through my collection of tunes and if there’s a Youtube link or similar I can throw in to match it, I’ll throw it in. Three tunes, just to make it interesting.
The song just finishing – Guantanamera done by Afrocubism.
AfroCubism is the long-awaited collaboration between Cuban and Malian musicians meant to take place when the Buena Vista Social Club was born, a “collaboration well worth the wait,” says The New Yorker. The New York Times describes it as “a rich yet subtle fusion of African and Cuban sounds.” The Guardian calls it “an elegant, gently exquisite album”; the Observer says it’s “a delight.” Includes the exclusive Nonesuch Store bonus track “Keme Bourama.”
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It’s lyrical and relaxing and makes me sway and hum along, as I’ve heard the song a few times by other people but they put such an interesting melodical extra level into it and make it really nice.
Briggs’ Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe – Carolina Chocolate Drops
I’ve been playing my ukulele a lot lately. There’s a meet-up in town that I’m going to check out and meet some other players. One I know already, which is how I found out about the group. I’d loaned the Little Man’s ukulele to a different friend from work (with his permission) for her daughter to try. She let me know about Yousician which I hadn’t heard of. The iTunes version has ukulele lessons, guitar, bass and piano was on it. Long story. The Man has a bass he’s been wanting to learn so I think he’ll have to give it a try, too. He’s also said that he’d be interested in a banjo. They’re pretty pricey but maybe it’s possible to try renting one first. He has a lot of little percussion things, too, but none of those clickety stick things used in this song.
In early 2012, Grammy award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops released their studio album Leaving Eden (Nonesuch Records) produced by Buddy Miller. The traditional African-American string band’s album was recorded in Nashville…
With their 2010 Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig—which garnered a Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy—the Carolina Chocolate Drops proved that the old-time, fiddle and banjo-based music they’d so scrupulously researched and passionately performed could be a living, breathing, ever-evolving sound. Starting with material culled from the Piedmont region of the Carolinas, they sought to freshly interpret this work, not merely recreate it, highlighting the central role African-Americans played in shaping our nation’s popular music from its beginnings more than a century ago.
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— then an interlude track from Prefuse 73’s Extinguished Outtakes [EP] which I will quote but won’t count as a song:
But, but, uh, uh
We made a dance and it was an
I mean the the thing was really
It was, it was like a, uh, uhCultural, uh, orgasm
You know that’s what it was
Culturalorgasm
You know and uh and uh…
One from the Man’s collection — “Multi-genre specialist who releases music under the aliases Prefuse 73, Delarosa & Asora, Ahmad Szabo, and Piano Overlord, and is also part of the groups Savath y Savalas, Risil, Diamond Watch Wrists, and Sons Of The Morning.” (via)
Last of the series — Mike Plume Band: Simplify from their Song and Dance, Man album. I’m not finding it on Youtube but many other songs are there and I’m very excited to learn now that they’re coming to Saskatoon in July!!! Hot Damn! That ukulele friend from work put me onto him some years ago; she lent me her entire collection and I was glad of it. I really like everything I’ve heard. He’s so Canadian.
(Which I’ll dedicate now to the memory of Gordie Howe. Goodbye, Mr. Hockey.)
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