Ecstatic Gaucho

It’s pretty rare to get an incoming link to this site. But, at last, a local, South East London blogzine seems to have spotted us…

Something a little cheerier from India: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star sung in the style of a Carnatic raag, ie in the style of South Indian classical music. The lady then breaks it down Punjabi stylee and her family end up throwing bhangra-shaped shapes.

Top of the pops this week must surely be The Kasai All-Stars, a band of 25 musicians from the Kasaï region of the Congo. The band also feature on the second Congotronics album. If the music itself wasn’t good enough, their album surely has one of the best titles of any album, ever: In the [...]

Sorry for being a bit of an obsessive, but I found these two rather charming Leonard Cohen videos on YouTube. One is an interview with Leonard backstage in the city of Hamilton, Ontario by Macleans Magazine earlier in the summer. The second video is a short excerpt from a documentary called This Beggar’s Description [...]