sounds of Colombia
Kombilesa Mí, live (“I Tando Pa Palenge,” “I A Piyá Bó,” “Kumo Kusa Tá,” “Los Peinados,” “Asina Gue,” “Ma Nduse,” “Ata Uto Begá”), published yesterday
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Colombia
ChocQuibTown, live (“Somos Pacífico,” “De Donde Vengo Yo,” “Pa Olvidarte,” “Qué Lástima,” “Lo Que Quieras Tú,” “Cuando Te Veo”), published 4/25/21
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York and Medellín
J Balvin, live (“Vestido,” “Que Locura,” “OTRO FILI,” “F40,” “In Da Getto”), New York, published 9/16/21
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Colombia and Canada
Lido Pimienta, “Coming Thru” (L. Pimienta), published 3/9/21
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
sounds of Colombia
Ela Minus, live (studio), Colombia (Bogota), published 9/10/20
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
On the street corner
the blind musician dances,
fan held high overhead—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
sounds of Yemen, and Uganda, and Colombia, and Cambodia
The Real Hip-Hop, 2015
sounds of Colombia
Bomba Estéreo, live (studio performance), Seattle, 2013
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Route 12, Wisconsin, 1963
serendipity
Last night, while I was doing some law work, these guys—I’d never heard of them before—jumped out of the radio.*
Los Pirañas, “Bambo Ha Muerto Devorado Por El Pecado (Version Alterna),” live, Colombia (Bogotá), 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
I am not poor, I am not rich, nothing’s here but nothing’s lacking, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower.
—Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
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*Give the Drummer Some (WFMU-FM [Give the Drummer Radio Stream] Tues., 6-7 p.m.; Fri., 9 a.m.-noon [EST]).
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