Yesterday I read that British dance duo Groove Armada were bringing out their last album (interview in Dutch). They clarified that they would continue to publish new music but only in single or EP formats.
“The album has no future. [...]
People mostly only buy singles online [...]
Writing 12 songs shouldn’t be such a big deal, but
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Life in Kingston, Jamaica was sometimes like living in a war zone: occasional bursts of excitement — driving after dark through a ghetto zone, boarding up the windows as a hurricane approached — interspersed with long periods of boredom, for the city does not offer much in the way of amusement for a young family of
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I got a chunky translation job last month, 61 pages of sobering and inspiring information about childhood in Senegal: sobering to read that children’s charity X allows a maximum grant of US$5 per month; inspiring when I think of the hundreds of people freely offering their time and experience to help others less fortunate than themselves.
My
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Part II of my downtown tour should be loading below. It took a little longer to finish than I’d hoped, partly because I wanted to make it look better than my previous clip, and partly because uploading it to YouTube is very very slow.
As I’ve recommended previously, if your bandwidth is as bad as mine,
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The best debut album I can think of is The Kick Inside, by Kate Bush. But the rest of her albums are very good, too, as she never had any tapering off or falling down.
Always nice to have one’s good taste confirmed by an expert.
I bought the Jorge Ben LP in 1963 in a music store in Santos Brasil. The good old mono days! If you like a copy let me know. You may also like Avanco (cannot find the spanish c) by the Tamba Trio.
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