Category: ngoma

bremer beat generation

Ein liebenswerter Artikel von Gerhard Augustin über…sich selbst…der heute auf der einestages website erschienen ist. einestages möchte das “kollektive Gedächtnis unserer Gesellschaft” sein – für mein Verständnis die Neon-Erweiterung des SPON mit ebenfalls moderierten Beiträgen.

Ich finde es auch immer wieder sehr schön zu sehen, welche Meilensteine der deutschen Kulturlandschaft zumindest zuerst bei RadioBremen gefördert wurden. Aus Deutschlands kleinstem Bundesland kamen zumindest öfter mal gute Impulse, auch wenn GA in einem taz-Interview selber sagt: “Der Prinz, der Bremen wirklich wachküsst, muss erst noch geboren werden.”? Tja.

Sato in Mannheim?

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How far is Mannheim from Frankfurt?

The Programm

21:30 Einlass/Entry

22:00 –23:30 Music-Mix-Entertainment/Food-Serving/Chilling/Dancers

23:30 Helen-T/Ebo Live Act 30 Minutes

0:00 National Anthem

0:05-1:00 Live Act K-Nel

1:00-1:30 Live Act Nonini

1:30-2:00 Nonini-Pause Helen T/Ebo Shakoor

2:00 –2:30 Live Act Nonini

2:30 till Dawn The Dj’s Take Over

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(i’m getting too old for such parties – si till dawn… :-)

basement trouvaille

Earlier last week, I found an old guitar in the basement of my current landlord:

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“What’s the story on this one?”, I asked the couple that owns this house full of interesting stuff. “Aaahh….we got it some 15 years ago, inherited it from an aunt who loved playing it and since no one’s playing guitar in our family, we just kept it in the basement for no particular reason. Actually, we already wanted to throw it away…”. – “Well, I do play guitar..”, I replied, “is it ok if I have a closer look at it and, uhm, maybe refurbish it?” – “Yeah, sure, go ahead..” – “Coooool…”

So I rescued it from the moisture downstairs and completely dismantled it, cleaned it with some basic tools and tried to repair it by stapling the crack on the back and adding a new bridge + 1 new bridge pin.
[guitar owners & luthier – pls look away now :-)]

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Lot’s of fun for just EUR 7,20 and, best of all: a working guitar with a superb sound that helps me enjoying those particular moments when I just feel the urge of playing along to my most favourite tunes…

Awesome Tapes from Africa

For those of you who love this particular tape culture from the continent, pls head over to “Awesome Tapes from Africa“, activate your delicious playtagger javascript bookmark/Browser button and tune into lots of fine songs.

Thank you, Brian!

It really makes me happy to see how blogs have actually caught up and started providing it’s readers & listeners with some fine mp3 which otherwise would have been forgotten as these tunes from the continent from ~1950 – 1990 are a bit lost sometimes. Musicblogs and pop-archives such as youtube that cover this era are some of the sweetest things for me on the internet.

[via Andreas]

rumba…

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Steve already received his copy the other day, and since I found a perfect deal to secure mine for only 10,- EUR, I just couldn’t resist…

For more literature on contemporary music from the continent, here’s an interesting PDF (~0,2 MB) from the Depatment of Anthropolgy and African Studies @ the University of Mainz in Germany.

Next book on my wishlist is Gerhard Kubik’s “Africa and the Blues”.