"De veelzijdige Welsh harpiste Catrin Finch kennen we de laatste vijftien jaar vooral van de duoalbums die ze maakte met de Senegalese koraspeler Seckou Keita en met de lerse violiste Aoife Ní Bhriain. Op "Notes To Self" horen we haar voor het eerst in tien jaar weer eens solo met stukken die ze componeerde voor haarzelf als dertienjarige. Het levert een wonderschoon soort autobiografie op, waarbij ze op haar chromatische harp terugkijkt op alles wat ze zoal heeft meegemaakt in de veertig jaar die verstreken zijn, en dan met name op alle emoties, kwetsbaarheden, onvoorspelbaarheden en avonturen die zij beleefd heeft. Gevat in tien composities op de grens van klassiek en folk, zijn we getuige van wat ze beleefd heeft als moeder, dochter, zus, lesbienne en vrouw die kanker overwon. Je moet je eigen inlevingsvermogen gebruiken om dit soort zaken in de composities terug te horen, maar zelfs als dat niet lukt, kost het geen enkele moeite om je te laten betoveren door Finch' magische spel en liederen." (Heaven)
" If ever there was a Grande Dame of World music, it would have to be Miriam Makeba. Beyond the long career, crossover success, and international appeal is the dignified image, a symbol and a person fighting for women’s rights, human rights, and racial equality. Albums were developed with trademark consistency; many South African traditional numbers, a song from another African country, a calypso or two, a blues, a romantic European number, something from Brazil and almost always a lullaby. This is a compilation album with songs from 1977 and 1974. (arcmusic -muziekbank)|
" Kapela is a band of itinerant musicians who have gleaned from their tours a repertory of traditional music and song from the four corners of Europe and Scandinavia.This disk presents pieces of music of multiple origins which have been selected for their beauty and purity. While each piece is unique and has its own historical tradition, all bear similar messages of joy or inner communion. These songs, these melodies..we have captured them along the road of our journeys, encountered them as we crossed paths with other friends and musicians.They carry with them the imprint of all who have played them and who have carried them all the way to us. Originating from Sardenia, Italy Occitania, Ukraine, Finland, Norway, from the Russian or Hungarian gypsies, they have traversed centuries and frontiers. (bandcamp) We have delicately enclosed them in this box, at least long enough for you to listen to them, but it won?t take them long to escape and be on their way again, off to delight the ears of other wayfarers. ?|
If ever there was a Grande Dame of World music, it would have to be Miriam Makeba. Beyond the long career, crossover success, and international appeal is the dignified image, a symbol and a person fighting for women?s rights, human rights, and racial equality. Having fled South Africa for freedom in America, she was soon forced to leave America as that same freedom was denied her.Live Au Palais Du Peuple De Conakry Released in 1974 a moving Live Record by Miriam Makeba playing in the People?s Palace of Conakry. A sense of overturning Colonialism fuels this performance culminating in Malcolm X a song written by her daughter Bongi. There is a traceable presence of pan-african optimism and enthusiasm in the air and Makeba lived and sang long enough to see the Apartheid regime defeated. (allmusic.com)|
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