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...folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) of Zimbabwean Dumisani Maraire to the brooding White Man Sleeps of South African-born Kevin Volans, and resounds with the sound of the tar (a drum), the kora (a 21-stringed instrument) and the human voice. Highlight: Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy's Wawshishijay (Our Beginning). No bloodless Euro-niceties here, just a glorious, joyful noise...
When you first pop this debut CD from Chicago'snewest Irish beat band into your player, theenergetic drive of the drum combined with thewhimsical melody of the accordion, flute, and yes,even the fiddle will make you want to get up anddo a funky Irish...
President Bush, however, says that he will permit no such thing. The president travelled to Tennessee Wednesday to drum up support and is beginning to take Buchanan seriously...
Gary Burton Quarter--Kurt Rosenwinkel, guitar; Matt Garrison, bass; and Marty Richard, drum. Charles Hotel, One Bennett St., Cambridge. Thursday, Feb. 6, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m., $9. Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $12. Saturday...
...crossover potential of the new aural hybrids is obvious on Mickey Hart's Planet Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery...