Archive for March, 2007
Coming from a noble line of traditional Khassonké griots, Habib Koité assimilates rock and jazz influences into his classical guitar training. Having played with Bonnie Raitt and The Art Ensemble of Chicago, he came to WOMAD with his seasoned West African band Bamada.
At the beginning of 2007, I created an online edition of the VCA student union’s magazine, Spark. Ever since, I’ve been editing and contributing articles and photos along with others. Click here to see some of the photos I took for Spark at WOMAD…
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Michael Winterbottom is becoming one of those filmmakers whose very eclecticism is enough to keep even the mild fan scurrying to the cinema to see what the heck he’s going to do next. This is ostensibly a mockumentary film about a film, but is more like a film about filmmaking. Winterbottom, like Soderbergh, references the […]
Ensemble Shanbehzadeh appeared at WOMAD as a father-son duo of impeccable talent. Hailing from the southern Iranian town of Boushehr, they play a brand of music that alloys the polyrhythms of Africa to the instrumentation of Persia and the transcendental drones of India. On the edge of the Persian Gulf, Boushehr has thrived as a […]
Bill Cobham is a legendary drummer who has played with the likes of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson over the course of his 30 year career. This month, he comes to Australia to play the WOMAD festival in Adelaide so I spoke to him about his long life in music and the path […]
Melbourne has a habit of reminding itself that it’s the second largest city in Australia but often forgets that it’s also the third largest Greek city in the world. From tzatziki to saganaki, Hellenic culinary traditions have successfully permeated the Anglo-derived mainstream over the decades with the result that everyone knows olives are for more […]