Jan Svankmajer- Darkness/Light/Darkness

or tma/svelto/tma in its untranslated version. My second non-music post in a row!!! Strange days my friends... Here is a 1989 short film by renowned Czech filmaker/animator/surrealist Jan Svankmajer. Enjoy!

Juan Enriquez on the economy and the future of technology

I've been challenged to post something not music related so here it goes.... Juan Enriquez makes a well supported, concise, and humorously delivered impression of what the economic and technological future may hold. From the always fascinating TED Lectures.

Ali Farka Toure

I've already expressed my love for African guitarist and few have been better than Mali musician Ali Farka Toure

Taraf De Haidouks - Turceasca

Romainian Roma music (gyspy) featuring two accordions, two violins, double bass, and cymbalum...

Orchestra Baobab Live

Something about good African guitar players just kills me... add in a heavy Cuban a influence and the result is undeniable:

The kings of western swing- Bob Wills and Spade Cooley

and for a different kind of swing... one of the more hotly contested musical titles of this century :)
Also two amazing steel players, Leon McAuliffe with Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys and Joaquin Murphey with the Spade Cooley group (btw- Bob Wills is still king!)

Duke Ellington- C Jam Blues 1942

Camaron- Volando Voy

My friend Chirss Sutherland just released a beautiful album called "Worried Love." He does a great cover of "Volando Voy" along with his own inspired originals in English and Spanish. Here is the original by gypsy flamenco singer Camaron De la Isla:

Buddy Rich solo

so my requisite super cheesy drumer joke:

A jazz trumpeter of some renown dies and goes to heaven. As he approaches St. Peter at the gate he hears the most amazing drumming coming from near by. The trumpeter turns to St. Peter and asks: "wow, is that Buddy Rich." St. Peter simply sighs and says: "no that's God, he just thinks he's Buddy Rich

Bireli Lagrene and Philip Catherine