if people are posting about the bloody smiths this blog deserves a mention:
http://permanentcondition.blogspot.com/
out of print or simply not available modern African and related music.
check out this Haitian master Coupé Cloué:
http://permanentcondition.blogspot.com/2005/08/coup-clou-et-lensemble-select-sciss.html
I've downloaded EVERYTHING on this site and just going through it... amazing stuff. my trouble with Fela has always been the freak-out aspect - too loud, too fast - a lot of these artists are more mellow, psychedelic without knowing it, more melodically inventive and more... pop (for lack of better).
entire area I knew nothing about until I met this girl last week who told me about Kompa, a form of Haitian / Caribean music, and a few days later I stumble upon this blog. synchronic!
http://permanentcondition.blogspot.com/
out of print or simply not available modern African and related music.
check out this Haitian master Coupé Cloué:
http://permanentcondition.blogspot.com/2005/08/coup-clou-et-lensemble-select-sciss.html
I've downloaded EVERYTHING on this site and just going through it... amazing stuff. my trouble with Fela has always been the freak-out aspect - too loud, too fast - a lot of these artists are more mellow, psychedelic without knowing it, more melodically inventive and more... pop (for lack of better).
entire area I knew nothing about until I met this girl last week who told me about Kompa, a form of Haitian / Caribean music, and a few days later I stumble upon this blog. synchronic!