He is no longer the beautiful young man he once was but the voice can still charm the birds from the trees and the gentle humour of the man can keep them entertained once they are sitting on his shoulders
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Read more "Thievery Corporation – Radio Retaliation"How this slice of pure, good vibes ever slipped through our net, I do not know but the only rainbow band from the rainbow nation of South Africa set their sites on global domination with a slick, punchy and soulful album
Read more "Freshly Ground – Ma’cheri"Another little gem from ESP Disk. The Levitts are in fact a musical family about whom not a great deal has been written it would seem. Perhaps their habit of jumping from one genre to another was too much for audiences to build loyalty at the end of the sixties
Read more "Levitts – We Are The Levitts"Miriam was one of the 20th Century’s most extraordinary women. A musical giant, a campaigner and someone whose life was inextricably linked to the fight against Apartheid and for the civil rights movement and African liberation
Read more "Miriam Makeba – Mama Africa Dies"Jazz Ninja Chris Bowden delivers a sinuous and enjoyable album of familiar tunes in original treatments
Read more "Chris Bowden’s The Tomorrow Band – 2 To Get Set"The world’s least likely superstars are back with an album that takes the winning formula of Dimanche a Bamako to the next level. More guests, more meddling with their sound, more English and well why not, a bit of Damon Albarn
Read more "Amadou et Mariam – Welcome to Mali"Before Obama, Tiger Woods and even Martin Luther-King was an African American hero whose stature is undiminished sixty years later. Bird may have been an alcoholic junkie in and out of pawn shops for most of his too short life but he was also the musical lightning rod of black America, a man whose influence […]
Read more "Charlie Parker – Bird in Time 1940 – 1947"Her last album was one of the finest releases of the year, so how could she follow that?
Read more "Lila Downs – Shake Away"There are few musicians around more polished than Khaled but if you have ever wanted to peel away the sophistication and the years to reveal the raw, young heart of north African rock and roll, this is your moment
Read more "V/A – 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground"
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