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The Power Of The Protest Song -- iTunes Banned In China

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2008-08-21 15:00:48 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...music store has been blocked in China -- because some athletes had downloaded protest music. Specifically, a compilation called Songs For Tibet , featuring music performed by Sting, John Mayer, Ben Harper, Moby, Alanis Morrisette and others According to a report in The Guardian ( China Blocks iTunes Music Store ) the organization behind the...
 
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A Knack For Cracking The Musical Code

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2008-08-21 08:00:00 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...music, blues, rock and funk, is one of the excellent guitar players involved in the much lauded African Guitar Summit . What he's all about as a solo musician is nicely summed up in this quote from Michael Clifton, percussionist and critic, in the Music Africa newsletter, a few years back Donné has a knack for cracking the code; for taking...
 
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Fugues And Preludes Inspired By Gould

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2008-08-21 01:00:02 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...musicians and otherwise -- inspired by Glenn Gould are vast. But of course it's the musicians who translate that influence in the way Gould knew best, through music Last autumn ten Canadian composers wrote preludes and fugues inspired by Glenn Gould -- and ten pianists performed them. Appropriately enough, it was called So You Want To Write A...
 
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Tonight's Tonic Mix

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2008-08-20 22:34:20 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...music from Latin jazz group Zapato Negro tonight on Tonic (6 p.m.), along with tunes from Michael Bublé , Nu Braz (think "nu bossa") and Quebec vocalist Myreille Bédard Plus, she has a live set from saxophonist Cory Weeds, recorded at the The Cellar in Vancouver. Here's the backstory on that Cellar Live is the Vancouver-based record label...
 
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How To Make It In The Music Biz

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2008-08-20 19:00:40 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...music to the listening public wasn't enough for you, check out this list at TimesOnline, How To Make It As A Musician Today The entire world (or at least those in it who pay attention to the ever shifting and sometimes desperate industry surrounding music) knows that an entrepreneurial spirit is required. Either that or a creative spirit...
 
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Phoning It In

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2008-08-20 15:45:35 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
 
...music made with phones, or in response to phones, has become something of a growing/going concern One example of the former: "Telephone Piano," owing a debt of gratitude to Mozart And of the latter (if you can stomach the melodic line), the "Nokia Fugue Brings new shades of meaning to the notion of "phoning it in," don't you think
 
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Los Lobos On Canada Live

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2008-08-20 08:00:00 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...Music Festival . If not, you can hear them Wednesday night on Canada Live (8 p.m.) with their usual Los Lobos blend of blues, rock, various Mexican and Tex-Mex styles Apparently their next album is covers of songs associated with Walt Disney flicks -- could this really be true? I can hear them doing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah . I think The Wolves...
 
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Into The Wild(erness)

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2008-08-20 02:00:12 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...musical tour of wilderness destinations on The Signal (10 p.m.) tonight, according to the Team Signal. They tell me that this evening "GrannyArk starts you at Home; then Absent Sound takes you on a Highway in Canada. En route, youll experience Life in a Day by No Man's Land, and let yourself be Sundrenched by The North Atlantic Explorers...
 
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How To Honour Oscar Peterson

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2008-08-19 22:00:48 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...music by the Oliver Jones Trio on this evening's programme, a bright tune called Scrambled This put me in mind of Jones, who was in the news yesterday for being named to a committee which will determine how the late Oscar Peterson's memory should best be publicly honoured. The two pianists were long time friends, and Jones was involved in...
 
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Dorival Caymmi

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2008-08-19 19:04:01 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
 
...musicians. (And one of which has been credited with launching Carmen Miranda's Hollywood career, his 1939 hit What does the Bahiana Have The Washington Post has an obit about Caymmi ( Dorival Caymmi, 94; Noted Brazilian Composer, Singer ), as does our own CBC. ca ( Brazilian Bossa Nova Singer Dorival Caymmi Dies At 94. ) I suspect if you can...
 
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