Greece
My hyper-superficial imaginary music tour of the Med. continues. We are in Greece this time....
Podcast: Stuart Bailie – Trouble Songs
Music journalist Stuart Bailie’s new book Trouble Songs will be officially published in May, but it’s already starting to stir conversations and commentary. He takes...
Podcast: Oh Yeah music centre
On this episode the story of the Oh Yeah music centre with Charlotte Dryden and Paul Kane. There's music from Hand Models, Reevah, Strange New...
Albania
The search continues. Undeterred by almost total failure to find music worth listening to in Montenegro we cross the border into what was post 1945...
Montenegro
Gentle reader, I have failed. Aside from some rather cheesy (to my ears/eyes, anyway) “folk” videos and a few Eurovision entries, I can find no music...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
It is more than a month since my last post. It is more than seasonal torpidity that has kept me back. But it is largely....
Croatia
After several days searching, I thought was going to get nowhere with Croatia. This tour began as an exploration of the coasts of the countries...
Slovenia
So far … so good, but time to review the rules. To this point, the Mediterranean make-believe expedition has concentrated on coastal towns and...
Best Albums #1 – Gibralter to Trieste
Time for a breather and look back on the last few months’ music collecting. We started our journey in Gibralter, and I am pausing...
All the way to Venice (and Trieste)
Almost the last part of the of the Italian leg (sorry!) of this imaginary Mediterranean journey. Leaving Apulia and moving north, the plan now is to...
Italy – Toe to heal
To the deep south of Italy to discover some of the most exciting and invigorating music that I have heard for years, all the more...
Western Italy – Rome, Florence and Naples
Finding music and literature from Rome, Naples and Florence on an imaginary journey around the Meditteranean....
Eventually, Southern Italy, but not just now
It's always the same. When I get excited about music I want to share it immediately. Even though, on this invented trip around the Med.,...
Italy – North West – Nord Ovest
Leaving Monaco with an Italian novel in my hand (set in Monaco) heading for North West Italy and music from Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Milan and Bologna....
Mediterranean France
My imaginary Mediterranean music tour continues. It was music from this region that twanged my interest in the search-the-Med-for-music trip. I have no idea how...
Adéu a Catalunya, Adiós España
I have tried very hard to trim down the playlists from Mediterranean Spain. I was aiming for 20. The final list has 50 and there...
Mediterranean Music – Catalonia
Catalonia, do you have a lot of music; and even more diversity than I was expecting, and a lot of protest which I suppose...
Mediterranean Music – Valencia
So far the best discovery of all the music in Valencia is the preservation and performance of early Spanish Music. The key figures seem to...
Mediterranean Music – Murcia
The next stop on my make-believe music of the Mediterranean tour is Murcia. Aside from one discovery – Cuadrillas - the search is disappointing....
Mediterranean Music – Andalusia (or Andalucía) Part 2
The next part of my imaginary journey around the Mediterranean -
music from Andalucía. If, when you think of Spain you see images of flamenco...
Mediterranean Music – Andalusia Part 1
In the last post my imaginary journey was a walk through the border between Gibraltar and Spain. My intention was first to travel east exploring...
Mediterranean Music – Gibraltar
The beginning of the journey and the beginning of the project. The search for interesting and challenging music around the Mediterranean starting in Gibraltar....
Exploring the music of the Mediterranean
This will be a tour I would love to take in real time; I doubt if I ever will. Our starting point and finish line...
Now I’m listening to … Dikanda
Then I discovered the "Related Artists" link on Spotify. (As I write incidentally I am listening to this.) A few years ago I lamented on...
Music walk around old town Ljubljana
I was in Ljubljana on a Saturday morning to record some of the sounds of the streets. Particularly the street music and the other music...
Music: Jupiter Okwess
Three years ago, when he released his international debut album Hotel Univers, it seemed that Jupiter Bokondji would be the new hero of the African...
Music: Gaye Su Akyol: Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu
Gaye Su Akyol's influences, she says, include the veteran, highly political Turkish folk singer Selda Bağcan along with Nick Cave and Grace Slick, and the...
Music: Amira Medunjanin
Amira Medunjanin is the finest exponent of sevdah, the melancholy and emotional folk music of Bosnia, and is remarkable not just for her clear, pained...
Dej še’n litro
Dej še’n litro – the name does not translate well in Bing or Google translators. Actually it translates as nonsense, which is probably appropriate. At...
The Bottom Line and Across The Line at 30
There is a playlist that goes with this posting – please feel free to add to it. In April 1986 I left Downtown Radio. I...