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Comment on Idan Raichel - Live @ WOMAD - Interview by Shane Bertou

Shane Bertou — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:41:05 +0000

I just saw them perform in Rochester, NY yesterday. Absolutely fantastic!

Comment on David D’or - Live @ WOMAD - Performance by carmella fichman

carmella fichman — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:10:07 +0000

One in a million. The best singer of the century.
I will to listen to him and feel I am in heaven.
Love him.

Comment on Podcast Performances by podcast

podcast — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:29:38 +0000

podcast…

Well said…

Comment on Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill - Live @ WOMAD - Performance by Emi

Emi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:45:15 +0000

Thank you very much for wonderful music !
Martin is really excellent and he is the best Irish fiddler in the world, I believe it !
I will really look forward to see Martin & Dennis next time !

Thank you,

Emi

Comment on Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill - Live @ WOMAD - Performance by jonathanandrewbrown

jonathanandrewbrown — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:56:25 +0000

Whoops - I got it right in the rest of the post - Thanks for pointing that out - must’ve have had an old school friend (by the name of DANIEL Cahill!) in my head when doing the tags on this post!
Thanks again!

Comment on Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill - Live @ WOMAD - Performance by Amy Garvey

Amy Garvey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:37:26 +0000

Please get Dennis’ name right - it’s DENNIS

Comment on Sarah Blasko - Live @ WOMAD - Interview and Performance by mseyfang

mseyfang — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:50 +0000

Jonathan? (dude in photo on this post) - if you are the dude I was talking to at bonython hall tonight (recording research tuesday for uofa), here is the syntax for getting RSS feed from any wordpress category:

http://.wordpress.com/category//feed/

Cheers & thanks for the tip off to this awesome set of podcasts.

Fang - Mike Seyfang

Comment on Mista Savona - Live @ WOMAD - Interview + Performance by Dizzy Dee

Dizzy Dee — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:01:27 +0000

Respect Mista Savona & MC’s Jornick, Vida Sunshyne & Mantra..big ups to the whole band..keep up the good work Jules!!!!

Comment on Black and White Arms Band Together by Margauxkr

Margauxkr — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:10:55 +0000

thanks much, dude

Comment on Podcast Performances by dave

dave — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:06:49 +0000

thanks for this ,great to hear some of the sets online it would be nice if this wonderful service was better known as radio national seems loath to broadcast much from womad anymore, I always miss the live broadcast as I am at the festival .

Comment on Kong Nay and Ouch Savy Workshop by Podcast performances « ComRadWomad

Podcast performances « ComRadWomad — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:37:57 +0000

[...] I also highly suggest you get involved Roger Holdsworth’s discussion on the westernisation of world music: http://serendipsy.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/kong-nay-and-ouch-savy-workshop/ [...]

Comment on Kong Nay and Ouch Savy Workshop by Vinnie the Skip

Vinnie the Skip — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:08:21 +0000

I reckon you can see it the other way too, Roger - calling it ‘Cambodian blues’ gives respect to that culture and a framework for under-educated folks like me to quickly understand. It’s not unconscious racism: racism is denigrating someone, not allying or linking them with the landmark musical waypoints of American music. If someone were to write ‘a Cambodian attempt at blues’ then we’re getting in to bigotry/snobbery; if you tell a dumb honkey like me ‘it’s the Cambodian blues, they call it chapei’ then you acknowledge I’m a whitey who’s lost with Khmer terminology, but next time I hear the word I’ll know what it means. You’re not diminishing it or making it a subset - you’re speaking in a language I understand. Until we’re all talking Esperanto or Halliburton rebuilds the Tower of Babel, this is all we’ve got!

Comment on Promos for Broadcast by christine brown

christine brown — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:30:14 +0000

comrad sat will never be the same after this comrad womad congrats to all the team the brilliance of womadelaide beaming bigger and better than… ever

Comment on Kong Nay and Ouch Savy Workshop by Ann

Ann — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:30:54 +0000

What an excellent point. I live in Cambodia and I tend to fall into those descriptive traps just because (I hope) I am trying to define styles of music so new to most people who have never heard them, but yes, I suppose I am drawing it back to our own collective cultural understanding as foreigners from a certain background when I speak with other foreigners.
I don’t have to do that with my Khmer partner, however, so I don’t.
Not sure how you get around it if you are trying to introduce such a rare and profound style of music as Master Kong Nay’s to a Western audience - pariticularly via mainstream media. How would you explain it? It certainly has elements evocative of Blues, scat, and even musical standup improv. It’s an amazing artform, however you try to explain it. The words and the wit of the artist are as vital as the music for it to really work.
On another note, the fact there are women learning this art now is absolutely fascinating. I would love to speak to them!