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via Suburban Guerrilla … makes a lotta sense to ME
On the clarinet account
via The Klezmer Shack:
and Hillborg’s Clarinet Concerto “Peacock Tales”, with Martin Frost, clarinet:
links for 2008-07-03
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Negm and Cheikh Imam: Sharaft ya Nixon Baba via WFMU, one of my long-time favorites
links for 2008-07-02
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fine mashup with SIMILE
Sez Brad,
“anybody can play 12-bar”:
links for 2008-07-01
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from CogDog, points to “an interface that creates a tag list for a given flickr account, which, as text, can be put into Wordle…”
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don’t miss this one, QUITE unlike anything you’ll have ever seen/heard
Still plentiful chops
Ton Van Bergeyk was a guitar hero of mine in the 1970s, an agile fingerpicker with a fine ragtimey repertoire. I’m delighted to discover via Keep Swinging that he’s still playing. Here’s one video:
and it turns out there are a dozen more too!
Spoons
Laço Tayfa is a favorite of mine anyway, but the virtuosity of the first couple of minutes opens new frontiers:
This one will melt your little heart
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, via Crooked Timber
Toumane Diabate makes it look easy
From 1:20 he demonstrates the elements of kora playing, and at 4:45 it’s jaw-droppingly gobsmacking: