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21st Annual San Diego Brazil Carnival Mardi Gras, (San Diego, CA)
21st Annual San Diego Brazil Carnival Mardi Gras on Saturday, February 9th, 2013 at The San Diego Museum of Art Sculpture Court in Balboa Park.
Release Of Masters Of The World, Geopolitical Simulator 3
Eversim is announcing the mid-February release of Masters of the World, the third version of Geopolitical Simulator for PC and Mac.
Road Less Traveled | Christmas Island
Where is Christmas Island? Is it any fun? How can you get there? and more…
Fun as Hell: Matuto’s Seductive Philosophical Trip through Brazilian Beats and Southern Roots on The Devil and The Diamond
Press Release: It’s Carnival in Recife. It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And watch out: That just may be the Devil spinning through the drunken, dancing crowd, trying to get friendly with the saint in disguise, with the diamond in the rough. The rolling drums and quicksilver accordion licks, the earthy vibe and thoughtful reflections mingle on Matuto’s latest refinement of their Appalachia-gone-Afro-Brazilian sound, The Devil and The Diamond (Motema Music; release: May 14, 2013).
The African Folk Soul of Bongos Ikwue: Beloved Nigerian Singer-Songwriter’s First U.S. Release
The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae. In Nigeria, an extraordinarily diverse and dynamic cultural scene yielded not only Fela’s Afrobeat and juju’s peak with Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey but also myriad rock and funk groups such as BLO and The Funkees. One of the most popular singers on the Nigeria scene at that time was Bongos Ikwue, whose personalized style of African folk and American soul music made him completely unique