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Make Yer Own - GEETAR!

...Build your own 3-string, electrified cigar box guitar and make some sweet sounds say MakeMagazine in this their latest weekend project...

Obama on the Defensive

Barack Obama has come out defending himself against what he says are outlandish claims!
by those larouche youth.

Whatever Happened to the Chilean Flu?

...just been catching up on the latest "Likely Lads" episode from youtube channel 897384 and just had to share it here due to it's flu-related plot device...

RiP - a Remix Manifesto

Girl Talk and Director Brett Gaylor aim to re-define Fair Use in the music industry by arguing that remix culture is a matter of creativity over legality. Available for one week only or at Disinformation.

Nina Simone - Live 1961-1962

Nina Simone has always been hard to classify. The "High Priestess of Soul" was trained as a classical pianist, but branched out early into pop, gospel, jazz and blues, playing and singing everyone's compositions and writing many of her own. At 28 years old, she had already been seen in many clubs and had recorded several LPs when in 1961-62 she agreed to be filmed, without audience, in a New York City studio.
On the1961 date, Nina Simone, on piano and vocals is accompanied by Bobby Hamilton (percussion), Chris White (bass) and Al Schackman (guitar). This is the same group that had backed her at the Newport Jazz Festival the year before.In 1962 she headed back to the studio and performs with Montego Joe (congas), Lisle Atkinson (bass), Paul Palmieri (guitar), and Warren Smith (percussion). At that time, she was playing with this group of musicians at the New York City jazz venue The Village Gate. Selections include: Sunday in Savannah, I'll Look Around, When I Was in My Prime, Zungo (a Nigerian chain gang song taught her by the great drummer Babatunde Olatunji), For All We Know, Strawberry Woman, Crab Man..., I Loves You, Porgy (from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess) and some jazz improvisation.These are two rare performances, captured live, that every Nina Simone fan will treasure

Drums of Passion

Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji enjoyed a rich musical legacy during his lifetime. He is credited as being one of the first musicians to bring genuine African music to Western ears en masse, having burst on the scene in 1959 with his debut, Drums of Passion. Here he is warming up for the Deadin 1986.

It was the first known album of traditional West African drumming and chants to be recorded in the United States (Olatunji moved to Atlanta in 1950 before relocating permanently to New York City), and was released during a high tide of political and cultural change-- including appearing alongside epochal jazz recordings by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and Ornette Coleman. As listeners were exposed to different styles and the collective interest in world music and jazz continued to grow in popularity, Olatunji helped turn people's attention away from the corny melodies that dominated the exotica genre fad by offering authentic, captivating songs from his native homeland.

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...THIS is a DUDE! for the REAL DEAL on Babatunde Olatunji go HERE, and download his drum tuition video. Listen to his philosophy as he guides you through the first stages of talking with the voices of the drums. Then go HERE and raise your spirits along with the master - "The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on," Olatunji once explained to an interviewer. "It does something to you from the inside out. It hits people in so many different ways, but the feeling is one that is satisfying and joyful."...