Happy New Year to everyone.. I listen to a lot of World Music and loved the definition I read of it here recently. I'm writing this in Heathrow during a flight delay and except for Travelogue, I don't know what my best cds of 2002 were. So I'm going to nominate the ones I have in my bag.
Langley Schools Music Project This is a collection of cover versions recorded by school children in British Columbia. The sound of the eleven year old singing Desperado is very beautiful. The version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft is very strange indeed. 90 Degrees South - A Distant Memory Of Home This music was composed in tribute to an interesting piece of Antarctic history - an adele penguin which is on display in Cheltenham Museum. The story is that the adele penguin was brought to England as a stuffed specimen from Captain Scott's first expedition and for many years it stood on a window ledge in Shurdington Village School. The music was composed as part of a weekend of celebrations when the penguin revisited the village in June 2000. I was reading a biography of unsung explorers of the Antarctic and this cd provided me with a perfect soundtrack. Ruisort - Acapulco Now ! This is one I borrowed from one of my housemates who is a dj. It is perfect music to melt away the winter blues and bring forth images of warm Mexican beaches. Tara
