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Music rags: Rumours of Shambhala
My friendship with one of my favourite people in the world, all-around cool dude Hingle McCringleberry (alias), began with a shared love of music — hip hop and reggae to be exact. Almost no one else in my life dug these genres like I did at the time, and while there...Blackberry Wood brings gipsy-circus style to Ska Fest
The road to Ska Fest part three, listening primer, here: https://martlet.ca/2013/06/ska-fest-2013-listening-primer/ Watching a Blackberry Wood show is an exhilarating, slightly jarring experience. You don’t know when or where they came from. You don’t know how...Murray, Murray, Macy and me
Admittedly I don’t know a lot about jazz. I’ve listened to important records like Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Sonny Rollins’ Saxophone Colossus; I’ve even seen a few fantastic jazz shows. The thing that has stood out most to me in my limited experience is the...A way in to African music
I have a confession: I don’t know much about African music. Sure, I’m not completely in the dark — I know the obvious ones like Fela Kuti and Ladysmith Black Mambazo — but much of the genre is so foreign to me that I have been too intimidated to find a real entrance....Our Digital Print Issue
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