From the category archives:

Latin

Today’s Vegetable:
Swedish Girls!

May 5, 2010

Garotes Suecas – Codinome Dinamite available on a 7″ from American Dust http://www.myspace.com/garotassuecas

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Today’s Vegetable:
Ba-Ba Ba Ba-Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba

April 27, 2010

I heard today’s Vedge on a Fabric podcast done by Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden). I think I’ve recommended this podcast before — Fabric’s a London nightclub, and the podcast hosts usually are DJs or electronic musicians, but the music they play comes from all genres. These folks are serious music lovers, and you can [...]

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Straight Outta Dakar

June 9, 2008

So Orchestra Baobab just came through town, and I read a review that was so over the moon about the show that I had to investigate. And hey guess what! Great band! As you know, my chi is weak when it comes to non-Western music, but I’m starting to climb the ladder. The bottom rung [...]

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El Rebelde Del Acordeón

April 10, 2008

I wish I knew more about Latin music, because there’s a whole world of beauty to discover, and I can’t tell a conjunta from whatever kind of sounds like one. I’ve really got to get to work on this. Tips welcome. T-Bizzy slid me some Celso Piña a while back and it’s about time I [...]

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I Can Tell You That “Rio Seco” Means “Dry River,” But That’s About It

January 11, 2008

Juana Molina is from Argentina, and she makes good music that sounds like this. Juana Molina – Rio Seco from Son

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Peaceful Sheep On Clovered Hills

August 17, 2007

It’s probably more of a pop-jazzy-bossa-samba-thing tune than a “Latin” tune, but because categorizing music can get sticky, I just use whatever the AllMusic Guide says. That’s why I have an “R&B” category, but I don’t think I’ve ever described a song as “R&B” in my life. Anyways, this song rules. Marcos & his wife [...]

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