The Cork Board, World Music

Album Review: Tamikrest “Chatma”

What has gone before under-pins what comes next. It shapes what is acceptable and what is beyond us. The Acceptable New, if our search is for something different, generally contains some aspect of what has gone before. It has some relativity. Somewhere in the overlap of this Venn diagram of searching for new music, is… Continue reading Album Review: Tamikrest “Chatma”

The Cork Board, World Music

Lay back with Tinariwen………….

Two World Music posts coming up. Firstly........... Since the collaboration between Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure blossomed onto the music scene with “Talking Timbuktu” I have had a fascination with exploring World Music, and in particular, what the continent of Africa has to offer ( and from there my explorations wandered Eastwards, as you’ll… Continue reading Lay back with Tinariwen………….