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...appeal can be described with a story about one of their finest releases, “Guitar Music from the Western Sahara,” by Group Doueh. According to documents about the album, Bishop heard a sample of the band’s innovative guitar arrangements on Moroccan radio. Leads from cassette dealers identified the music as Sahwari from the Western Sahara and Mayet eventually journeyed to Daklha, the Western Sahara’s last settlement, where he tracked down and recorded the music of Baamar Salmou. Doueh, as Salmou is known, had apparently refused recording contracts with major...
...Hebrew (even imported Broadway show tunes); and most of its lyrics were nationalist exhortations to collective endeavor, struggle and sacrifice - amid the ever-present danger of of war with hostile Arab neighbors. Still, teenagers escaped from the folksy drudgery of their local pop scene by dialing up European radio stations to savor tracks off the new Beatles for Sale album and to participate, vicariously, in the first stirrings of a cultural revolution brewing in Europe...
...long claimed that their leader is the victim of a political conspiracy orchestrated by Mbeki, on Saturday it was Mbeki's supporters who decried the party's harsh treatment of the departing leader. "This has been a brutal internal coup, almost," Mbeki biographer William Gumede told a South African radio station...
...cabinet of having improperly intervened to ensure that Zuma was prosecuted. "It's quite clear that the purpose of the decision is to prevent the NPA [National Prosecuting Authority] from prosecuting Zuma," Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy in Johannesburg said in a radio interview on Saturday. But it was also about revenge...
...slower songs are more serious and sinister, but the faster, harder pop songs are surely the album’s strong points. These songs are catchy enough to stick in your head from the first time you hear them until the next time you hear the band on the radio, and judging by the growing popularity of first single “Sequestered in Memphis,” that shouldn’t be very long for anyone. Four albums in, it’s clear that The Hold Steady haven’t succeeded in ushering...