I’ve had fun compiling a list of my fave tracks from Ireland
Tag Archives: music
Music review: South African late 20th century classics
Miriam Makeba by Miriam Makeba (1960) I couldn’t spend a month ‘in’ South Africa without listening to some South African music, and this album by Miriam Makeba (who to this point I only knew for ‘Pata Pata’) features in the 1001 albums list, which describes it thus: “traditional Xhosa wedding songs swing into airy African …
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Music of Afghanistan
Some notes on music in Afghanistan
Turkish music
I listened to some Turkish music and bands, from psychedelia to rap.
Turkey month
An introduction to my end of year challenge – coinciding more or less with the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas – it’s Turkey month! Anything for a bad pun…
Prince: Welcome 2 America review and my Top 7 Prince songs (USA)
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN review no 181, by Imogen G I’ve been feeling for a while that it is more or less impossible to pick a “best” US musician, as (along with the UK) the USA has dominated popular music basically for ever, or certainly throughout my lifetime. Then I started listening to Welcome 2 …
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Beninese Superstar Singer Angélique Kidjo
An introduction to the work of Beninese diva extraordinaire Angélique Kidjo
My Bowie Top 10 (UK)
A fangirl post on my fave British musical artist, David Bowie
Review no 145: The Global Dominance of Swedish pop
The mightiness of Swedish pop
Review no 134: Ethiopian ethio-jazz and ‘Sons of Ethiopia’ by Admas
An encounter with ethio-jazz