Monday, September 29, 2008
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Kasey Chambers / NY Times review
“This is kind of what it’s like at home for us,” Kasey Chambers said at the Highline Ballroom on Tuesday night. She was onstage with her husband, Shane Nicholson, and her father, Bill Chambers, all of them seated with stringed instruments. The air of casual intimacy threw some weight behind her claim, even if home was a rather distant proposition. Ms. Chambers, who hails from Australia, had designs on a warm familiarity. (continue at nytimes.com)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Pics and reviews up on brooklynvegan.comTuesday, September 9, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Tidawt
Tidawt (playing the Highline Ballroom Sept 22 along with a screening of the film Amanei, Touareg Entre Dunes et Montagnes) is a compelling Tuareg guitar band from Niger in West Africa led by Hasso Akotey. Akotey and his bandmates came together as they fought in the 90s Tuareg rebellion in Niger. The New York unit of TIdawt is a stripped-down version of the band, just guitars and percussion, but very similar in style and intensity to, for example, Tinariwen, the Tuareg band that has toured extensively in the US. Tidawt recently finished recording a new cd Amawal (Tantrum Records) in California, to be released soonListen to their broadcast on WFMU here
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