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Taiko… and jazz?
I play a form of Japanese drumming called taiko. It’s been a huge part of my life for nearly 8 years now so you know I’m gonna mention it in a blog about music at some point! Kodo is one of the most...
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Ethio jazz meets… hip hop?
One of my favourite artists of all time is the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, Mulatu Astatke, and this 10″ Soundway record of a few old re-releases of the funkier side of his music is one of my favourite...
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Miles Cleret African DJ Mix
Upon visiting the Soundway Records website in order to grab the link for my previous entry, I stumbled across this mix by Miles Cleret (he runs Soundway). Check out the selections.. those first 3...
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Kyen Kyen Bi Adi Mawu…
The first time I ever heard this track, I was completely and utterly floored. A seriously killer Ghanaian highlife track, it was apparently a big hit in Ghana back when it was first released: Kyen Kyen...
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Africa: Beyond Afrobeat, ya!
I like my music obsessed friends. I love sharing new tracks, artists and musical styles with others because I always learn something new. When I met MissRuckus in late 2007, I was just skimming the...
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Get outside
Istolethesoul posted a link to an amazing, eclectic Turkish jazz mix by Onur Engin which got me wondering about the existence of Vietnamese jazz (the muthaland, yo). Did not come across any jazz but...
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MissRuckus' Top 25 Albums, 2000-2009
How have 10 years gone by so fast? Wasn’t it just last week that we were stashing away emergency rations in our basements, getting all ready for the apocalypse (aka Y2K)? This past decade was an...
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Dusty haul from Cuba
I was in Cuba very recently where I randomly (and happily!) stumbled across dusty old records displayed in a store window on Calle Neptuno in Centro Habana one day. At the back of the store was a...
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Taiko movements
Late last summer, I wrote about the connection between taiko (a form of Japanese drumming) and jazz, and vaguely alluded to the history of taiko in North America and how it was connected to political...
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Go Ghana!
Those that know me well know that I’m rooting for the geopolitical underdogs to win the FIFA World Cup (I can’t shed politics, yo! And how thrilling would it be to see a European nation get their...
View ArticleHOT SAUCE 13 by urbansteve: Indie and Tings 02
Indie and Tings 02 01:09:48 Panda Bear – You Can Count On Me – 00:01 Tame Impala – It Is Not Meant To Be – 02:29 PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose – 06:39 Florence and The Machine – You’ve Got the Love...
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Hot Sauce 20: The Outernational – Session One
31 African flavours spanning a wide gamut of eclectic styles from my record collection. Fuzzy psychedelic zamrock from Zambia, colourful Ghanian highlife, Nigerian disco thumpers, super charged...
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