Listen yesterday; go today. Burkina Faso: Life & Music in West Africa (2007) ********** lagniappe According to the guidebook, Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, but in our experience its people seemed confident and proud of their culture in this 50th anniversary of independence from French colonial rule. Deep red [...]
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Saturday, 2/19/11
02/19/2011Friday, 2/18/11
02/18/2011We are all from everywhere . . . —Mai Lingani Burkina Electric (with Mai Lingani, vocals; Wende K. Blass, guitar; Pyrolator [Kurt Dahlke], electronics; Lukas Ligeti [son of composer Gyorgy Ligeti], electronics, drums) Live, Middletown, Connecticut (Wesleyan University), 2010 #1 *** #2 More? Here.
Monday, 2/22/10
02/22/2010Digital Africa is here . . . —DJ Spooky Burkina Electric (Mai Lingani, vocals; Wende K. Blass, guitar, vocals; Lukas Ligeti [son of composer Gyorgy Ligeti], electronics, drums; Pyrolator [Kurt Dahlke], electronics), “Sankar Yaare” Take 1: DJ Spooky Remix *** Take 2: Mapstation Remix ********** lagniappe Marilyn Monroe, DJ Andy Warhol Remix
