Pickup Truck Music 14

 

Bagedai - Bagedai, album review

Exuberant

From China's Ximeng county, a remote area of the Wa people (using information online), this is a delightful collection of musical tracks made especially exuberant by the joyous singing of five leading female singers. There is a wonderful merging here of traditional and modern music traditions, the latter a recurring, reggae infused highlight. To also highlight the vibrant performers:

Line up

    Li Chunlong (Guitar)
    Li Weiwei (Percussions, Winds, traditional folk instruments)
    Na Hong (Vocalist)
    Na Hongjing (Vocalist)
    Na Long (Vocalist)
    Nido (Keyboard)
    Tang Zhongwei (Guitar)
    Wang Jidong (Bass)
    Yang Zijie (Drums)
    Ye Wu (Vocalist)
    Yue Haotian (Trumpet)
    Zhou Lifang (Vocalist)

No Face Music 66

 

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness, album review

continuously beautiful / continuously relaxing 

 

No Face Music 65

 

On this Donovan Day

Donovan's Sunshine

On this day in 1966, Donovan hits #1 with Sunshine Superman

 

An Experiment

swordfishtrombones: the 'experimental' phase

On this day in 1983, Island Records released Swordfishtrombones, the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits, this his first self-produced effort and beginning a more experimental phase