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...skinny on Bardo Pond, you might want to look up some of their terminology. Among the band's releases are albums entitled Bufo Alvarus and Aminata, words for hallucinogenic frogs and magic mushrooms, respectively. Their individual songs tend to focus on subjects such as Tibet, Buddha and outer space...
...name is Abbey Lincoln, but she also answers to Aminata Moseka when the spirit moves her. She started out as Anna Marie Wooldridge, then became Gaby Lee and, for a time, Mrs. Max Roach. If all these shifts in appellation suggest a life that has gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something...
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