Category Archives: Music

His name is Emmanuel Uwechue, but he’s known and addressed as Hao Ge in China. HT AIAC

This is her website, where she is described as a ‘female kora virtuoso’.

Actually for Egypt, on Zeit Online.

Rachid Taha‘s Barra Barra.

I haven’t been able to stop listening to this since this morning. From Wikipedia: Konono Nº1 is a Grammy nominated musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembé (a traditional instrument similar to the mbira) with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard. The group’s amplification… Read More »

R. Kelly and One8. H/T to Sonja