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    Veneno: A Treasure From the '70s Andalusian Underground Unearthed
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    Veneno: A Treasure From the '70s Andalusian Underground Unearthed

    • Posted on Feb 9th 2010 2:00PM by Steve Hochman
    It's said that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground's debut album when it was first released in 1967 -- but every one of them started a band. Veneno may be the Andalusian Velvet Underground, at least in that regard. Coming a decade later, Veneno's lone album didn't bear much musical relation to the VU, but it marked a similar ...

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    Razia's Prodigal Return to the Imperiled Madagascar

    • Posted on Feb 2nd 2010 2:00PM by Steve Hochman
    The word prodigal is hardly enough to capture Razia Said's winding journey to the making of her new album, "Zebu Nation," which celebrates her rediscovery of both the cultural diversity and biodiversity of her native Madagascar. And nor does rich life seem enough to convey the experiences accumulated along the way, with stops in France, Italy, ...

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    Everything Clicks for Benin-Born Guitarist Lionel Loueke

    • Posted on Jan 26th 2010 2:00PM by Steve Hochman
    Like many artists who have explored and embraced music from across cultures, guitarist Lionel Loueke is wary about bringing exotic, unfamiliar sounds to mainstream audiences. Of course, in his case the audience in question is in Benin, where Loueke was born and raised. And the sounds are those of the modern jazz he embraced as a music student in ...

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    Ghost Voices Come to Life on 'Dengue Fever Presents Electric Cambodia'

    • Posted on Jan 19th 2010 2:00PM by Steve Hochman
    Chhom Nimol remembers hearing a song on the radio in the '80s when she was a child in Cambodia. "It was very sad, slow romantic," she says. "Sounded like a ghost voice." She's not sure, but it may have been the insinuating 'Flowers in the Pond,' by singer Ros Sereysothea, or perhaps something else by the Cambodian star. Ros Sereysothea, ...

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    The Voice of Hungary: Marta Sebestyen Finds Even Deeper Meaning in Her Heritage

    • Posted on Jan 12th 2010 2:00PM by Steve Hochman
    Márta Sebestyen is straining to hear a little as she gets on the phone from her Budapest home. Her young son, she explains, is "doing horrible music next door." Seems he's a DJ/producer wannabe who crafts his own mixes and mix tapes but has no interest in traditions stretching back more than a few, oh, minutes. "The child of a folk ...

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    Will the Savoy Family Hog the Cajun/Zydeco Grammy?

    • Posted on Jan 5th 2010 2:30PM by Steve Hochman
    A big pig has been freshly butchered. The constituent parts are divvied up to the various specialists in and out of the newly constructed barnlike dance hall just outside the town of Eunice, in the heart of Louisiana Cajun country. Over here, someone's making backbone stew. Over there, meat is being ground and mixed with rice and seasonings to be ...

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    'Music Voyager' TV Series Serves Jacob Edgar's Voracious Appetite

    • Posted on Dec 29th 2009 2:30PM by Steve Hochman
    Jacob Edgar was in Buddha Jayanti Park in New Delhi, filming a segment for his upcoming TV series, 'Music Voyager.' It's a locale in which young couples come to (as he put it) canoodle -- rather innocent hand-holding and kissing, but still a breach of the general Indian cultural prohibitions of public displays of affection. This, though, is where ...

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