In the Mozambique Channel, the island of Mayotte (or Maore in the local Shimaore language) hosts a diverse local music scene that blends Arabic, French, and African influences into sounds both smooth and powerful…
Blocktreat’s New Ventures
Great pal Brandon Hoffman, also one of the most creative musicians I know, is set to release his Exciting New Ventures in Fucking Up in a couple weeks..
If you didn’t catch it, here’s a recent episode featuring Blocktreat Hoffman himself – premiering new tracks, performing live on-air, and sampling his first grasshoppers. A juicy and crunchy ol’ time!
Mngwa goes to Mexico
A few months ago, I traveled to Mexico with my band Mngwa for our first international tour. After shows in Mexico City, Tepoztlan, and Oaxaca City, here is a document of that journey set to our new single, Que Mngwa Llegó:
Clearer skies ahead
If you are a regular online listener of this show, you probably noticed that all of the soundcloud links on this page suddenly stopped working. Qué pena! On CJSF radio’s soundcloud (where I was posting my podcasts), we received a warning from the cloud police that are were infringing on copyright laws by posting music shows online. This was a bummer, because as an independent radio station we exist to promote emerging artists and give their work some much-needed exposure – not to profit from their work (we are a community station, and all DJs are volunteers). But rules are rules, even in the wild west of the web.
So to be brief, Wandering Rhythms has migrated from one cloud to another. All soundcloud links are currently extinct and new shows will now be uploaded to mixcloud, and then to this here website. Mixcloud is more geared towards radio shows and podcasts anyway, and claims to pay royalties to artists. Long live the proud little cloud.
Pioneering Women in Music
In all styles, in all places, there are strong women who craft songs just as well as the fellas. In celebration of International Women’s Day 2016, we present a playlist of great female composers and performers – from the big band era to the present – who breached the status quo to share their art, and in the process have divined a more equal world:
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