Monday, March 19, 2007

Around the world in 80 tunes..

I've had a day's holiday today for San José (Spanish fathers' day) and enjoyed doing some housework and listening to my latest discovery, calabash music, which is a great way of finding obscure artists from around the world. Great! Try looking up the likes of Miriam Makeba and listen to the 1 min tracks you get to sample her music.

2 comments:

ruth said...

miriam makeba my fave. seen her live three times!

Pete Merrow-Smith said...

Oohh, er! If jealousy were not already in the English dictionary I'd have to consider getting Clive to put it in. 3 times! I guess she was pretty fantastic each time. My favourite track of hers is with the Skylarks singing Holilili Tula Baba Lullaby...simply sublime.

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