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 […]
Continue readingMick 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, […]
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September 4, 2012 0 Comments
“World Music” is such a misnomer. What is “World Music” after all? Could not every music be considered as “World Music”? From the perspective of big record companies based in the United States and United Kingdom, “World Music” is everything that is not American or British. It is another synonymous for “Exotic”. Something played in […]
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