Upcoming Events Okayplayer News Pitchfork NewsHey peoples, hope you caught today’s edition of Sound Travels, another great set, another live edition. Today, it was Milwaukee’s own Urbanites in the studio for Sound Travels giving the global direction I present every Friday at noon, a bit of local flavor for the day.
The set was potent, and a pure pleasure to see [...]
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As You know we had a very special guest on Sound Travels today, one that made me call an an audible as I had planned to kick out another set of Brazilian music. But when you get a call from Alverno’s David Ravel asking if you have a moment for an interview with an artist [...]
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Thank you all, as ever, for checking out the vibe here with Sound Travels. This week I was feeling the cold to my bones as the weather took a natural turn toward that special Wisconsin degree so I chose to treat this dread I tend to get as winter rolls in, with some music from [...]
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Hey y’all, today’s Sound Travels was live wasn’t it? Of course, by live I really mean live as we went all 414 Music on ya’ with a live performance from Yaya Kambaye. Yaya was great in the studio, rocked us with live kora music from his homeland Dakar, Senegal, on the Western coast of Africa. [...]
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Now many of you are already wondering what ‘desi’ means but dig the dance. Today’s Sound Travels has been all about the Indian subcontinent and the sounds that it has inspired. Being that Diwali was only last week, I thought it only apropos to play something with a sitar or a dhol drum or a [...]
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I know that you all ain’t fools, so the idea that world music is exceptionally rudimentary or primitive, probably ain’t your assumption. And if it were, today’s Sound Travels ought dispell your illusion. The world has gone digital indeed. And that’s not referring simply to techniques to record, it also means techniques for making music. [...]
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Welcome back to the weekly whetting of the appetite for international music– a.k.a Sound Travels. A short week for me this week as I only returned from a brief spot of vacation. Though I stayed close to the crib and chilled on the Eastside aways, I did manage to make a journey however; mixed up [...]
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As you know by now, the time is coming for Milwaukee’s premier world music festival; Alverno Presents Global Union on September 13th & 14th from noon to 7pm in Humboldt Park (3000 S Howell Ave). You may also know, I have been to each of the Global Union events, and this time will be no [...]
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This week’s Sound Travels a bit different than in the past as I have a playlist that, rather than homing in on a particular pair of styles or a certain region of the world, is more in the flow and global in it’s go go. Got to get away from the analysis this week as [...]
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