My final earworm and another Cuban track. This is the title track from ¡Dundunbanza!, the first album Sierra Maestra recorded for World Circuit Records. It has been included on many compilation albums including fRoots #4 the free CD given away with fRoots magazine fR 139/140. Sierra Maestra, for long years renowned as one of Cuba’s [...]
Can earworms be slow and laid back? If so then this could easily be an earworm, Buena Vista Social Club’s Chan Chan. It is the opening track to the original Buena Vista Social Club album, the CD that relaunched the careers of innumerable aged Cuban musicians. Chan Chan is the signature song of Compay Segundo [...]
Lots of pictures and big writing for this week’s homework blogpost. I’ve been away for the weekend celebrating my sister’s 60 and nephew’s 28th birthdays, so a quick post is required. We have rock music for this week’s earworm! There is not much of it in my collection but I do have a Steely Dan [...]
I’m late posting this week. Apologies for that. Family visitations and some heavy lifting in the garden (heavy pruning and heavy clearing away actually) meant that time and energy were in short supply. But better late than never, eh? And I’ve got all in a muddle about this week’s choice of music too. Earlier in [...]
It’s finals weekend. Holland play Spain for the honour of being champions of the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa. We’ll be there – there being in the comfort of our own home, in front of the tv. My prediction for this is a win for Spain, and though I’m a neutral I’d quite like [...]
You can’t really have a sequence of South African music without a track from Ladysmith Black Mambazo, can you? I think not and so this week I’m posting Shosholoza, one of south Africa’s most recorded songs. Joe Mogotsi of the Manhattan Brothers claimed that his group was the very first to record the song. Other [...]
I arrived back from a great week in Dorset just in time to watch a dismal England World Cup performance. They lost 4-1 against Germany and thus booking their flights home instead of a place in the quarter finals. So now I’m off to drown my sorrows with a glass or two of South African [...]
This week has conspired against me and instead of writing one post and preparing another to be super organised before my holiday, I’m scribbling this post and don’t have much hope for a great literary effort for next week’s one. This week at least the music is going to have to do the talking. I’m [...]
Your 2010 FIFA World Cup starts here! The plan is, for the next 6 weeks, to celebrate South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup, I shall be posting South African music. Then, after the final, I shall post a track from the winning country. Don’t worry, it’s all organised. I’ve a fair amount of South [...]
After a month of sitar (apart from my little cheat – sssh don’t tell anyone!) I’m up for a bit of variety before my next themed month. As it’s May Day today I’m posting the May Day Carol by Magpie Lane. Magpie Lane are an Oxford based group who “perform traditional English music and song”. [...]