https://vimeo.com/306721071/ There was a definite frisson at this year's WOMEX for Toko Telo, a Malagasy Trio with two acknowledged stars. For me, that frisson was mostly due to guitarist D’Gary. Of all the world music in my collection, Dama and D’Gary’s “The Long Way Home” is the only disk that my guitarist partner seems to enjoy hearing. That’s actually quite reasonable, … [Read more...]
Ranky Tanky at WOMEX 2018
https://vimeo.com/298769078 Ranky Tanky is one of those bands I had heard good things about but never seemed to catch here in NYC, but there they were at WOMEX in the Canary Islands, so I made it a point to check in on them. That’s the irony; sometimes you don’t see the domestic bands till you go overseas! They were playing in one of the larger venues, which was packed … [Read more...]