This year’s WOMAD, one of the biggest World Music Festivals, is packed with the very best. One big highlight is Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian musician with a long history of political activism. Gil is one of the main minds behind the Tropicalia musical movement, which was not just about art, but also a witty and […]
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Mick Jagger meets the Queen of the night
September 6, 2012 
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Two different artists with equal talent. Two different styles with equal strength. Here we have Edson Cordeiro, a singer capable of reaching from Baritone to Soprano notes creating an explosive fusion with rock-roll star Cassia Eller. In this justaposition of Mozart’s Queen of the Night from the Opera The Magic Flute with Mick Jagger’s Satisfaction, […]
Continue readingAfunaka’s Rorogwela: Sweet Lullaby from the Solomon Island sold as Pygmy music
September 2, 2012 2 Comments
Although Rorogwella gained popularity in 1992, when released by Deep Forest as a techno-dance music, it was first recorded in 1969 by the ethnomusicologist Hugo Zampin as a vocal sample. It was sung by Afunakwa, a Northern Malaita women from the Solomon Islands. In 1973, Rorogwela was released in a LP as part of UNESCO’s […]
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