Originally posted by Heather
I'll have to look up some of the youtube stuff when I get home from work...none of that available here on campus (although I'm sure my students can
get around it!).
I like the African stuff, too...Tuku music; Olvier Mtukudzi, Fela Kuti to name a couple. I always see what they're playing at the SD Zoo or Wild
Animal Park and look for that!
I have a few CD's of Putumayo disc. It's World Music with different collections; Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Latin, etc., etc.
Also love Ozomatli, Carlos Vives, Mana, and my all time #1 Pato Banton.
Great message in the reggae...DK, you sound like my students, but it's not all about the ganja!
Thomas has a Song called Juanita. I cannot post a free link to it. Amazon MP3 sells it. From the Gwindingi Rine Shumba album. It is a poor
recording quality, but has an unbelieveable beat.
I was listening to it in my vehicle in a parking lot by the beach and was asked to turn it up by some African women. They went absolutely nuts
dancing and drew quite an audience. Wish I took Video. The cops came, and waited till the song was over before asking me to turn it down.
How could we forget Jim Morison and the Doors too. Seems like most of their desert tripping songs were made with Baja in mind.
When you cross the border and travel into the Baja, it is through one of the biggest, coolest and instant "doorways" I can think of. (According to
some of the books on them, The Doors band name is a metaphor for such "Doors") -
Just a taste, but:
all the Marleys
Alpha Blondy
Don Carlos
Tomorrow's Bad Seeds
Forgotten Youth
Steel Pulse
Gov't Mule
Lucinda Williams
Fortunate Youth
Gentleman (from Germany!!!)
Twinkle Brothers
Inner Circle
Collie Buddz
Sublime
Israel Vibrations
Michka
of course Tosh and Cliff
Non reggea has to include
Chris Issak
The Blue Hawaiians
Izz
Gypsy Kings
Los Lonley Boys
Los Lobos
Mana
Led Kaapana
Carlos Nakai (especially in the Midriff)
Mas Hacendados
If you want to try some new Reggae/Funk pull up "Indubious" on your computer. They are a local So. Oregon band that is on their way up, they just
started playing them on about 60 radio stations across the U.S. and they are one of the top requested bands for "World Music". They just finished the
first leg of a west coast tour and the next leg takes them all through Cali including San Diego. Definitly worth seeing.
Check out Alcyon Massive on your computer also. Last trip down Baja we were listening to both Indubious and Alcyon Massive and our mexican friends
LOVED them both, I ended up giving away my extra copies.
last trip down the ipod regurgitated an old U2 song, "one tree hill" that had me dancing around the fire, i rewound it 5 times until i could sing the
song. something about the desert brings it out of me.
the beauty of the ipod is you never have to hear the same song twice, unless "that certain song" pops up that just fits your mood.
or Santana's "Hold On" always gets me groovin. especially after a day of mostly empty waves, with muscles aching from catching dozens of waves under
the blazing sun. and then put his tune on while watching the sun set on another glorious day....
Don't rush me just this once
I want to make this moment last
Slow down the pace, there's no hurry
I can't let another pass me by again
Let me be the one to say when I've had enough
Just let me close my eyes, memorize
The way things are this minute
So when you're gone I can go on
If memory can hold on within it what I'm feeling
Should time try fading or stealing something away
CHORUS:
Hold on, nothing's the same
Tell me why I feel this way
Life wouldn't be worth living without you
All along I've been the pretender
But now that's gone forever
Nobody's ever loved me like you do
Nobody's broken through
Got to concentrate, file away
Every last detail
Don't want to lose what's going down
I want to remember everything I'm feeling
Should time try fading or stealing something away
Originally posted by eetdrt88
check out Slightly Stoopid,theyre from san diego...theyr always on my baja sound track...even though i dont listen to mexican radio much up in the
states,i always end up listening to it in baja especially after a few shots of herradurra
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
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